Login / Register
D
o
v
e
r
.uk.com
News
Forums
Dover Forum
General Discussion Forum
Politics Forum
Archive Updates
Channel Swimming Forum
Doverforum.com: Sea News
Channel Swimming
History Archive
Calendar
Channel Traffic
If this post contains material that is offensive, inappropriate, illegal, or is a personal attack towards yourself, please report it using the form at the end of this page.
All reported posts will be reviewed by a moderator.
The post you are reporting:
Keith what is it you don't understand? I have never accused Labour of being fully co-opted, unelected, or anything like that. My motivations for standing as an Independent were twofold:
1. There was no elected opposition to Labour at DTC level.
2. The DTC body at that time was preparing to waste £10,000 of taxpayers money on a clock. No provision for futre maintenance had been made. Plus, a huge amount of tax payers money, about £140k as I recall, had been spent on "entertaining". The Labour group at DDc had spent over £100k of tax payers money on "bus shelters" for the district, again with no provision for ongoing maintenance.
So, those were my motivators. I don't blame Labour councilors for having no opposition, as I said earlier, it's not the councillors fault if no-one stands against them. I just determined to try and do something about it.
I failed to get elected but at least I tried and like to think I was of some help to the other independants who came forward to have go as well.
Report Post
Your Name
Reason
end link