The Facebook site is run with a few of our Councillors on the admin team. Cllr Steve van de Kerkhove (District Councillor and Town Councillor) and Julia Hayward (Town Councillor and leader of the majority Liberal Democrats on SNTC).
Whilst I don't mind a good argument, this shouldn't be based on lie and untruths. Yet many of the lies and untruths go unchallenged by the administrators. Lies and untruths such as these:
The highest charge is £1.50 for 4 to 23 hours. Where the £5 comes from I have no idea.
By removing all our facilities - but HDC hasn't. Another lie!
The are a number of calls to send this e-mail from the savestneots.org.uk. Below is the e-mail that you are asked to send.
This e-mail is littered with inaccuracies, untruths and lies. By sending this e-mail it shows you agree with the lies. The same e-mail is sent from the scraphdc.org.uk website - another dubious website.
Our Councillors should know what is going on here. Yet they allow these lies, untruths and inaccuracies to go unchallenged on their Facebook site. They also allow links to these two site of doubtful repute, whilst saying they are NOT responsible for the content.
In the end, they still allow links to these sites.
Mary Lee's comments must have been embarrassing to the admin councillors as the bus stop was not provided HDC. At least they informed her that she was wrong.
There are the rants. Here is one:
As ever the rant has less to with fact than just letting out anger. As the estimates say, the installation costs should be recovered within a year. No figures given by Nev Bear. Now calling the people in Pathfinder House tyrants is wrong. They are not tyrants. The real reason for these charges is the £4.7 million budget deficit as HDC has not been charging the full amount of Council Tax it should do.
All in all this Facebook page is littered with lies, inaccuracies and untruths all seen as true by many of the contributors. What I find bad is Cllrs van de Kerkhove and Hayward, as administrators, aren't countering many of these falsehoods and allow linking to dubious websites.
All this is a political pantomime. Deep cuts are coming and rather than talk about what should be cut, the Liberal Democrat opposition whines on about the imposition of a 20 pence rise. It seems it is easier to allow lies and untruths to be spread than it is to tell the truth.
As it says on the front of the book "Effective Opposition" - be wicked; - act shamelessly; - stir endlessly and EXAGGERATE.
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