John Gilbey got out of the wrong side of bed Part 1
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Our Precious Leader didn't have a good start to Saturday by the looks of it. Someone or something, or possibly everything, had him riled and the solution was to let rip on his very own website and Facebook page.
It may be that he was displeased with the public reaction to his support for the proposed one-way system in Whitstable - some churlish ingrates have drawn unfavourable parallels with the Westgate Towers fiasco, er, trial. It may be that the Barham by-election result irked him.
Whatever the cause, the following tirade was the result. In my mind's eye, I see it being accompanied by quite a lot of finger jabbing.
Westgate
Cllr John Gilbey making a point
Sadly I have to re-open this issue to fully counter accusations made recently about the traffic trial but everyone should be aware that activists and opposition councillors are still distorting the facts and being economical with the truth.
Remember the trial had the full support of both councils and many others and was a joint operation between the two councils.
Remember the decision to close showed exactly who was the dominant partner - as they should be as it is their responsibility.
Remember there were so many positive aspects to the trial and further work around Canterbury would have given us the much better traffic movement we sought.
Remember we could not introduce these additional features because we were in a trial phase.
For the record, we were given no option but to remove Councillor Hirst from the Conservative Group because of his behaviour. He persisted in working as a county councillor to the great detriment of the City and his duties to the City. We could not persuade him that he had also been elected as a City Councillor. He was never, as widely reported, removed because of his opposition to the Westgate Trial, the issues were historic prior to this event.
With the Chairman of the North Thanet Conservative association, we spent six hours in three meetings trying to keep him in the fold. Sadly we failed, but it was never within my power to expel him from the Party.
There was no great dismissal as portrayed in the media and he was given ample opportunity to return to the party and resolve any issues he had. I have seen his written resignation letter to the Party. He was a Conservative on Friday and joined another party on Monday, yet despite many accusations, I have never once smeared this individual in the press or anywhere else. You must judge!
The recent by election saw this continuing accusatory behaviour. No Policies from the opposition, just lies, distortions and negativity. What a world we now live in! What happened to serving the community and the electorate?
News Release - Saturday 15th March 2014, from John Gilbey's website, and on Facebook
Jolly good question, that last sentence. I've been asking myself the self-same thing.
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