If you look at our right sidebar you’ll see that we’ve added links to 10 other poliical websites and facebook pages from Essex. They are:
Councilbust – Southend Non-Party
John Mason – Hawkwell Residents Councillor
Jon Whitehouse – Epping Lib Dem
Julian Ware-Lane – Castle Point Labour
Karen Chilvers – Brentwood Lib Dem Councillor
Nick Barlow – Colchester Lib Dem
Peter Welch – Southend Lib Dem
Stephen Robinson – Chelmsford Lib Dem
Karen Chilvers’s blog is particularly interesting at the moment. Like us, she’s a Lib Dem councillor on a Conservative-run council. Also like us she’s writing about gritting problems. More than that though, she makes some biting comments about the dire state of Brentwood Borough Council, and how boorish some of the Tory Councillors there are. Despite our disagreements in Rochford, the Tories here have never sunk so low as to call us “names:
“That morning, an Audit Commission report named Brentwood as the WORST council in Essex – the only one with a ?1? rating. This, following hot on the heels of our accounts not being signed off by the auditor, misplacing ?633K of our money, paying a temporary accountant ?144K pa whilst trying to tell us we?ve saved ?100K by sharing a Chief Executive all whilst trying to blame the Liberal Democrats even though they have been in charge of this town for six years just demonstrates what we?ve been telling you…..
….. Oh, and during the course of the debate I was called ?silly? for asking the question. I?m getting rather used to this after being called ?thick? and ?stupid? by Cllrs Joan Holmes and Lionel Lee two weeks ago during another ?hedgegate? debate. For information, I?ve never felt the need to hurl insults at fellow councillors.