Voting Against The Public - To Keep Them Quiet
Here is an article from Ventnor Blog who attended the Full Council meeting in March:-
“The most telling and we think, shameful vote conducted at the schools reform debate last Wednesday was in reaction to when Cllr Deborah Gardiner suggested that the public question time should be increased, as so many people in the public gallery were keen to raise points concerning the future of their children’s education.
After the chairman, Roger Mazillius, asked her to quantify how much longer it should be, Cllr Gardiner made the suggestion of a total 30 minutes - 15 minutes longer than the time normally set aside for public questions.
When it went to the vote, the councillors responsible for voting it down — ie. stopping the public from having their full say — were all from the Tory party.
Let’s not forget, that all that was being asked for was an extra 15 minutes for public questions.
No explanation is required when a vote is taken, so quite why the ruling Tory party decided to vote against the public having sufficient time to express their views and concerns on a matter like the future of their children’s education, remains a mystery.
The behaviour that the Tories displayed, in our minds, shows a high level of arrogance, indeed of such a high level, that it’s led them to forget who voted them into the position of power that they currently hold.
It’s not rocket science to understand that when the public feel that they’re not represented by the people they elected, they’re highly likely not to vote them into that position again.
Why would you?”
Courtesy of VentnorBlog.com
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April 1st, 2008 at 6:31 am
I attended the meeting when the Tory party voted against the extended question time. I can only assume it is because they don’t know the answer to many questions and would have looked stupid if they couldn’t answer any questions that were not submitted earlier.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:21 am
I think you could be right Anonymous but it is also my opinion that the reason they did not want the public question time extended because their huge ego’s could not care a jot what the public think and least of all they do not want to hear it.
Why on earth would they want the time extended when some of them apparently could not be bothered to reply to their emails.
It is my own personal opinion that the only time they want to talk to us or pay lip service to what we say is when they are bothering us on our doorsteps and want our vote.
In less than a year, they will be canvassing for our vote, I will firmly shut the door when i open it and see them on my doorstep and I sincerely hope that the majority will do the same. Many, many people in my ward have said that they will NEVER vote Conservative again, and many have also stated that they will show their displeasure by not voting in again a Tory MP. I think this is a shame but what has happened could severely damage our MP, through no fault of his own.
I also know of another ward which has a very safe conservative seat and many of the residents who voted for a Conservative for many years, say they will never do so again.
I think people have learnt a lesson the hard way and TRUST has gone out of the window.