LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Council leader must be open and honest about Forge Island funding

C Peters is kind enough to acknowledge others who have raised similar concerns, along with the continued shabby treatment of the public in failing to respond to these concerns by the Labour leader.

He goes on to highlight additional current project failures attributable to this administration and I would to add to this fly-tipping, the rat infestations and the continued fire at the tip in Kiveton.

It’s no good blaming the Environment Agency, we all know they are hopeless and leaderless anyway.

My question on this matter is where is Cllr Beck? Conspicuous by his absence, he has much to say about rats in premises in Masbrough, but nothing to say about the tip in Kiverton?

What should seriously worry us all is that this lot think we should trust them to manage the proposed re-opened tip in Kimberworth. The potential risk to the public if something goes wrong here and, it probably will, could dwarf the disaster currently happening.

Of course the current failures are merely an extension of the past.

We must never forget that CSE happened under Labour; young people were thrown under a bus and no one was held responsible.

In this professed era of openness and transparency, the leader must tell us why the private sector have pulled out, why he thinks this is a good use of public money, why he believes he can do what they cannot, and precisely what sensitivity analysis and rigorous financial analysis has been undertaken to ensure tax payers’ money is not being placed at unnecessary risk at a time when the preponderance of economic and social data suggests otherwise.

This is relevant when the national party are telling us how fiscally responsible they are, yet the local party appear to be precisely the opposite.

I sincerely hope the residents of Kepple ward will remain cognisant of all these facts when the local by-election takes place in the near future, due to the resignation of Cllr Paul Hague, and Labour come knocking at the door.

May I suggest residents take a long look at your town and remember who is responsible for the state of it?

I should also like to thank C Peters for referring to the usual written diarrhoea we see in the paper from the trio of weary old besoms, Foulstone, Platts and Phillips on national rather than local issues.

For information purposes, the majority of readers I speak to regularly concerning letters in the paper, is that if they see these names they simply don’t bother to read any further and move on.        Name and address supplied