Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
Vic - why on earth do you insist in making a fool of yourself over this? It really is completely pointless and just shows you up. Sue, as you well know, is the Vice-Chairman of the Council and by your rather petty behaviour it is only you who comes out badly.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
You would say that Barry she is in your party.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
- Posts: 241
From the DDC Website, clearly states that Sue is Vice-Chairman.
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The Chairman of Dover District Council is the First Citizen in the District of Dover, Deal and Sandwich and takes precedence over all others including the Town Mayors, but excluding royalty and Her Majesty's deputy, the Lord Lieutenant of Kent. The Chairman is elected annually by fellow Councillors.
The Chairman chairs meetings of full Council, hosts civic events, receives official visitors, represents the District at ceremonial occasions and attends a wide range of events and presentations.
The current Chairman of the Council for 2010-11 is Councillor Bernard W Butcher. His Vice-Chairman is Councillor Sylvia R Nicholas.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Vic, your last few postings are an example of why I could never vote for you regardless of what you think you can do for the area.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Thank you Barry as we know you and I have not always seen eye to eye across the Council Chamber but you have respect thank you also Ken for your posting and the last sentence goes on to say in the absence of the Chairman the Vice Chairman takes precence over all but excluding royalty etc .
Not many know that .So a little more respect Cllr Matcham
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
you are still the stand -in Chairperson of the D.D.C as for the chairman of the D.D.C. he is very good,but there again he is a member of my family.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
I think Cllr Matcham's comments on a public forum deserve a report to the Standards Board.
He is continually being disrespectful to the district councillor for his parish, currently the holder of the post of Vice Chairman of the District Council, and to that post itself, not good for someone intending to stand for election to that council.
He should look at the reports in the local press last week about what has happened to a parish councillor from Eythorne.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
vic
you are being a bit out of order here, can you please drop the stand in bit?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
and the 'person' bit.... the role is vice-chairman and is nothing to do with gender.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Sorry take it as done Howard, I have no more to add to it anyway,sorry to the other members on the forum.It will not happen again.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
I think it entirely laudable for one to act as gadfly to keep the common herd astir and good too for the public to know that their officials, in a democracy, rely on the electorate for their position.
All well and good that HRH this and Lord that know their place is also reliant on the will of the people. The soft underbelly of the democracy-beast is not best guarded by complacency or feigned impervious by reference to the feudal past.
It is nevertheless a pity Vic that you cannot goad some of your UKIP retinue to stand here and there in your stead.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Mr Austin ,
I love your logo are you a Lord by anychance ?
Back to your post .If you look over the past election results you will see I never take the electorate for granted .I earn every vote .Im a very down to earth person and i work at knowing the people I represent .I dont sit at my computer all day looking at the Forum.I just happen this morning to be dealing with six issuies raised by residents in the last 24 hours Swithching into the forum for a break
This is involving telephone calls and emails .
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
Dear Sue,
[Lord,no]
Please do not infer that I have the least intent in goading one or other participant in any local fray.
It was however mine own desire for greater voter participation that drew me to the Dover-forum, among others, in the run-up to the recent election. Why I remain is far more the vigour and vibrancy of interest shown by yourself and others to all things political and social than any desire on my part to oil anybody's personal scourge. [it is, after all, nobody's business how one whiles away ones time in the privacy of one's own home. PC or no]
I wish you all-speed and every success with your constituency duties today and any other day.
Joe Public, what would one do without them? "Aye, there's the rub."
Oh! And humour. We must keep a sense of perspective.
All the best to you for the up-coming election.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
P.S.
The picture, my avatar, is of Samuel Hahnemann. The father of Homeopathy. 1755-1843.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
- Posts: 513
There are several references to Vic as a Councillor,have I missed something? As for Councillor Nicholas threatening to report him to The Standards Board for showing an alleged lack of respect, what a load of rubbish, but then she does have the experience of the threat of being reported to official bodies, though not the Standards Board as far as I am aware.
Vic, ignore all those that criticise you as I am sure you will, choose your own path to getting elected, it may not be successful but at least it is your way and thats why you are the Vic we all know.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
ken
vic is a parish councillor at river, i agree the talk about standards board is over the top.
i thought it was being abolished anyway.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
Tom, thanks for the info, I guess his homeopathy didn't extend to a treatment for baldness
Ken, Vic is parish councillor for River, uncontested by-election in December. Whatever Sue might or might not have done in the past has no bearing on what he has posted on here right up to this morning.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Re my post 39 i did not say i would take anyone to The Standards Board .There others on here who could do so .
Re the last poster I understand you are standing for the Conservatives in May ??Surely we should sing from the same Hymn Sheet
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
quite right susan it was ray that raised the spectre of the standards board.
i heard that about ken standing for the blues in may, i am trying to think of a local politico that has stayerd the course in one party.
bit of an exaggeration, but you know what i mean.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
Credit where credit's due Howard, your little word at #48 achieved an apology in a very effective way.