Oakham Town Council, Lack of Openness, Democracy, Co-option, election

Oakham Town Council, Lack of Openness, Democracy, Co-option

This Wednesday Oakham Town Council will decide who they will co-opt
onto the council filling two vacant seats one has been vacant since 2010

For some reason according to the agenda they are to consider carrying out
this process in secret by excluding the public and press.

They have never done this before.

The chairman of the Council Adam Lowe said the reason is because
its a bit like a job interview and we don't want the public to know the
details of the four interested parties made public.

It also seems they no longer want the public to know about or witness
the election process.

I have put my name forward for both wards.

Maybe that is why they don't want the public present?

They would not want the public to hear why at least three members
should declare an interest and not vote.

It would not be good for the public to hear that

Cllr Joyce Lucas has made two or more stupid attempts to shut me up
by having me arrested by her friends at Oakham Police station twice, only
to have her cases thrown at by the CPS.

Then there is the councillor I can't name, who has lied to the police many times.
After I attempted to expose his arrest in January for his filthy conduct
towards me I was arrested and charge with stalking and harassing him.
The CPS have decided to not charge the serving councillor
who lies and publishes residents private correspondence on-line.

All this will of course become public knowledge at my trail later this month were I am falsely accused
of stalking and harassing him, along with a police officer (for re-tweeting and complaining about his tweets) A a member of staff from Rutland county council who does not like a few of my many thousands of
blog posts

I photographed the town councillor and ask him if he had been arrested. Then I am arrested!
I wonder if he will still be smirking and making snide comments after he is exposed in court.

Last year he was exposed along with his friend Paul Beech former
Mayor, after they both lied to police claiming I had stalked him in Tesco, CCTV is a wonderful tool.

It amazes me a person who holds a public office can no longer be held accountable
for their disgusting prolific conduct.

Chairman Cllr Adam Lowe said no one needs to declare an interest.

In 2007 Former  Mayor Paul Beech resigned due to his strong objection of co-option

Co-option is not the answer and the law needs to be changed to remove the need for
residents to acquire ten signatures to call a by election in their parish.

If it was automatically called like County Elections, then I am sure this would remove the need
for the controversial  co-option process.

If your to lazy to go out and get 10 signatures a  simple task, then maybe you are not even good enough to
be a Town Councillor. 

No John Peck Rubbish Here, Newark and sherwood Homes Nottinghamshire, Threaten to evict tenants for displaying anti Labour Posters attack on freedom and democracy.

No John Peck Rubbish Here thank you

Council tenants banned from displaying anti Labour election poster

There is a council byelection on Thursday in the Rufford division for Nottinghamshire Council Council. Some voters have put up posters in their windows saying: "No John Peck rubbish here thank you." A disobliging reference to the Labour candidate. Others have displayed posters in support of Mr Peck. So far that all sounds familiar to an election campaign - at least one where apathy is not completely triumphant.
What is unusual about this election is that Council tenants displaying posters attacking Mr Peck have been ordered to remove them.

A housing officer from Newark and Sherwood Homes, the Council's housing almo, decided that posters attacking Mr Peck were in breach of the tenancy agreement - on the grounds it was likely to cause offence. However it was decided that posters in support of Mr Peck were quite in order as they would not cause offence. So rather than getting on with tackling genuinely anti social behaviour we see Newark and Sherwood Homes launching the most astonishing attack on freedom and democracy.

More details are on the Blue Guerilla blog.

The matter was raised Communities and Local Government questions in the House of Commons yesterday:

Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con): Is the Secretary of State aware thatNewark and Sherwood Homes in my constituency is threatening its tenants with eviction for displaying a poster requesting not to have election literature delivered? Is it not unprecedented for a housing authority to step into the democratic process like that, and will he talk with the Electoral Commission about the matter?

Mr Pickles: That seems to me to be treating tenants as some 19th century mill owner might have treated his workers. It is entirely inappropriate that tenants should be refused their democratic right to display a poster. I urge the returning officer to look into the injustice immediately.

Tyranny comes not silently like a thief in the night but openly, and in broad daylight, boldly declaring its intention.

text form that other political party that produces rubbish