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| Ex-EDDC Conservative Councillor Tony Howard |
Tony Howard seems to reside in the West Hill part of East Devon which is
also where Claire Wright lives. Tony is a member of the West Hill Conservatives
which have a nice notice board that some of the members liked to use to post updates
about what Claire Wright was doing that annoyed them.
Who can forget the anonymous posting on the West Hill Conservative
notice board last November that read “Clr
Claire Wright has today been reported to the authorities for allowing the
publishing of offensive and threatening comment (sic) towards the Conservative
Party councillors of East Devon District Council”? Come on Tony, own up! It was your posting! it has all the same hallmarks of the ungrammatical language that you have displayed!
This related to the
Conservative Chief Whip Phil (getting them in a) Twiss on EDDC referring Claire
Wright to the Devon and Cornwall Police for an innocuous, and now infamous, political
“cull” comment which the police told “Oliver” Twiss to find something more
important to bother them about as they were too busy and overstretched due to
Tory cuts looking for real villains. Hat tip to Devon and Cornwall Police – try
looking in at EX10 1SG!
Zorro likes to wander around the various parts of East Devon
observing what is happening and my curiosity took me back to the West Hill
Conservatives’ notice board the other day. Blow me, if there wasn’t another interesting
piece of information posted there. This time it was a missive posted by
ex-Councillor Tony Howard. Perhaps “rant” is a more accurate description of what
he had placed there. But Zorro will
let readers be the judge of that – have a look at the posting that is set out
below in two parts.
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| Tony Howard's posting - page 1 |
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| Tony Howard's posting - page 2 |
Apart from the whole posting being a bit grammatically
challenging Tony seems to be a bit miffed at the EDA having the temerity to put
up a challenge to East Devon’s natural born rulers the Conservatives.
Tony then claims that the EDA Councillors
are “driven to punish” the
Conservatives. Come on Tony “disrupt” “punish”.
What you really mean is “hold to
account”.
Tony then changes tact and argues that the
EDA Councillors having been “duly elected”
“have a right to express their individual arguments”. How gracious of Tony
to recognise the blindingly obvious but it appears Tony doesn’t accept that the
EDA Councillors have a right to voice their collective arguments, just their
individual ones! Perhaps Tony that’s what you really meant but couldn’t quite articulate
it!
Tony really goes for the EDA by bemoaning
the loss of so many “experienced”
Councillors which to his mind will lead to “chaos”.
Zorro apologies as momentarily I
mixed Tony Howard up with Hugo Swire when referring to “chaos”. That's an easy mistake to make mind you.
Tony claims that the sad loss of these “experienced” Councillors, which is a
subtext for “Conservative” Councillors,
will “likely damage the business and
financial prospects of EDDC”. Zorro offers
Tony Howard space in this blog to justify that claim.
Tony then turns his attention to the
shortcomings of the local press and the press apparatchiks at EDDC. Between
them they “allowed the misunderstanding
of events (at EDDC) to fester and attract wild speculation”.
So there we have it. Conservative EDDC Councillors
– good. Local press and associated
journalists, and bloggers and Tweeters – bad. Electors - just plain stupid.
Tony clearly doesn’t have a high regard for
his majority Conservative Group colleagues on EDDC as he is “fearful that East Devon residents will
suffer a retrograde performance from the newly formed council as a learning
curve is played out, together with a “Punishing” objective from EDA members”.
Zorro
now has a vision of hordes of EDA
Councillors and their rent-a-mob middle Englander compardres from across East
Devon running a mock both during EDDC meetings and through their brain washing
vindictive that an ever compliant local press will publish with glee!
Tony adds a post script to his posting by
saying that his “fears may become a
reality” because some Councillors had the gall to call a special Council
meeting to seek to overturn the proposed move from, and sale of, the Knowle.
Err...Tony; some Councillors were elected with that objective in their
manifestos. Err....Tony; that’s called democracy!
Zorro asks one of Tony’s friends or neighbours to make sure
that he now goes and has a lie down in a darkened room as I fear that he will
not be able to cope with the next four years. Unless that is the EDA Councillors
see sense and, in Tony’s inestimable words begin “acting in a constructive team spirit and not as individuals out for
revenge and damage to EDDC with the inherent adverse cost levels”.
In other words Tony wants the EDA to stop
doing what they were elected to do and to just do what the Conservative Group
wants. As the advert says “simples”. This
frankly, is how dear Tony Howard comes across.
Finally, Zorro repeats his genuine offer to Tony to give a reasoned and
detailed summation of all of invective and alarmist comments that his posting
has made. If Tony does that, then Zorro
will do what the EDA lackies on the Ottery Herald and Express failed to do –
reproduce his words in their full unedited glory!
Over to you Tony!
It’s still time for challenge!
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