Where It Happened. But are UKIP & Labour Just Wyevale Wankers? |
Not that I’m
detracting from the seriousness of alleged theft and assault, but it beggars
belief that up until just last week UKIP and Labour councillors were united in turning a blind
eye to other extremely serious issues related to the two councillors with hardly a
murmur of criticism, let alone forcing their removal from office when the door
was wide open to do so at the Council
meeting on 31 March.
The question
must be asked why UKIP and Labour councillors
worked together to allow former Kippers Collins
and Smith an extended leave absence after they had both failed to attend a
single council meeting in six months. Surely,
depriving Northwood Ward’s 4,800 voters of their democratic rights to have a
functioning voice on Thanet Council is just as important a matter as allegations of theft and assault at
Ramsgate’s Wyevale Garden Centre? Yet
UKIP and Labour chose to do fuck all to tackle this outrage. In fact by forming
this unholy alliance to protect Collins and Smith from expulsion from the
council UKIP and Labour have condemned the residents of Northwood to endure 9
months of being denied their right to
have 3 elected councillors. So much for
their hypocritical protestation about supporting democracy , or the Corbyinstas
meaningless mantra of doing new politics.
The fact is that a democratic deficit is wrong and those people, left or right,
who support and extend such a deficit are worthless, unprincipled fuckers.
Next, despite Thanet Council having signed the Armed Forces Covenant which pledges support to those brave women and men who have put themselves in harm’s way for their county, why did UKIP and Labour councillors fail to take the opportunity at the Council meeting on 31 March to remove Collins from the Council for allegedly making false claims about his military service and his military and civil decorations and possibly bringing dishonour on the Covenant? I would have expected, at the very least, that the Labour Councillors responsible for securing TDCs approval of the Armed Forces Covenant in 2012 – Iris Johnston, Jenny Matteface, Michelle Fenner and Peter Campbell to have had the courage of their convictions to have spoken out at the Council meeting on this important matter. In fact the qualified privilege attached to Council meetings would allowed them the legal protection to have been very frank in what they said about alleged falsification of military records and honours without fear of libel actions. But did they? Course fucking not. Their normally articulate gobs remained tightly closed for once.
Next, despite Thanet Council having signed the Armed Forces Covenant which pledges support to those brave women and men who have put themselves in harm’s way for their county, why did UKIP and Labour councillors fail to take the opportunity at the Council meeting on 31 March to remove Collins from the Council for allegedly making false claims about his military service and his military and civil decorations and possibly bringing dishonour on the Covenant? I would have expected, at the very least, that the Labour Councillors responsible for securing TDCs approval of the Armed Forces Covenant in 2012 – Iris Johnston, Jenny Matteface, Michelle Fenner and Peter Campbell to have had the courage of their convictions to have spoken out at the Council meeting on this important matter. In fact the qualified privilege attached to Council meetings would allowed them the legal protection to have been very frank in what they said about alleged falsification of military records and honours without fear of libel actions. But did they? Course fucking not. Their normally articulate gobs remained tightly closed for once.
The truth is that both UKIP and Labour chose to keep Collins and Smith on the Council so as
to avoid a by-election in Northwood Ward which would have been likely to have taken place on the same day as the
EU referendum on 23 June. Why? Because UKIP
didn’t want to risk losing more seats and possibly its Council majority. Because pro-EU
Labour didn’t want to risk contesting an election on a day when anti-EU
feeling in Northwood was likely to be running high
With these cynical self-interested calculations in mind UKIP and Labour
councillors were more than happy to prevent the people of Northwood from having their full entitlement of
functioning councillors for at least 9
months. And the possible of dishonouring of the Armed Forces Covenant by an
alleged Walter Mitty-esque councillor has been allowed by UKIP and Labour to continue.
Thanet Gazette Collins and Smith Allegedly stolen goods from Wyevale? |
It was only when further damaging
allegations about Collins and Smith emerged in last weeks’ Gazette, coupled
with the growing public anger against Thanet’s political establishment for covering their
arses, that these self-serving scum-bags decided call for resignations. Which reminds a lot of Prime
Minister David Cameron’s evasive and misleading efforts of last week to defend his
indefensible Panamanian Payola until he realised just how angry the public were
with him.
But sending out press releases demanding resignations achieve nothing apart
from deflecting criticism and covering
your arse. If
UKIP and Labour have even a Higgs-Bosun particle of honesty left, then they should
follow up their calls for Collins and Smith’s resignation with an Emergency
Council meeting at which the leave of absence granted two weeks ago is rescinded.
Or will they , as I suspect will
be the case, sit on the garden centre
fence like the bunch of WyeVale Wankers they are