where's the video?

[steveL]

9 days later and we're still waiting for the video of the last full council meeting. Now I wonder why that is . . .

[fred c]

Just as well you managed to get a Still Piccy

[steveL]

Must be over a fortnight now and we're still waiting for this. Doesn't take a lot of working out why; in fact, there are 31 reasons.

It's a good example of how the administration, it's PR Department and the CABAL all work closely together to limit the damage.

Meanwhile, Trish Lawton has been busy making a bit of a prat of herself on FB telling everyone how against the 31% rise she was but we all know that, if she had been present, she would not have voted against it but abstained like her fellow cowards Hunter, Harrison and McCloughlin.....though I suppose that's not as bad as Richardson, Thomas and Clark who voted FOR the increase and then tried to back-track after all the public outrage (and, of course, the realisation that all three were up for re-election next May  )

Lindridge scores an even higher contempt rating for arrogantly boasting that he doesn't need the money but still voted to receive it anyway.

The most contemptuous prick of all though is the Poison Dwarf who, in theory anyway, represents the party who, for 7 years, has imposed a punitive pay cap on the public sector. No shame or admission of hypocrisy from RMW as he obediently delivered his 3 votes to the CABAL on cue and pocketed his own 31%.

Not a principle in sight.

[Inspector Knacker]

Did it get filmed in not do glorious 'PORKYVISION' ?

[craig finton]

will they try the 'technical error' excuse again?

[marky]

My money would be on xxxxx 'being on holiday'. Maybe we should run a sweep?

[fred c]

Now we know why they face the front...after the contemptible decision by this shower to accept the money they wouldn't be able to look working people in the eye  :-

[Inspector Knacker]

My money would be on xxxxx 'being on holiday'. Maybe we should run a sweep?

It's hardly Star Wars, although the bar scenes in the film look familiar.

[steveL]

There is an obvious question here. There is a second camera at the front which serves the TV screens so why not use that camera to record the footage? At least then we'd be able to see faces.

[DRiddle]

I wouldn't worry too much about the missing video to be honest. For those of you who didn't get the chance to attend the meeting, allow me to summarize it.

Paul Beck took to the role of chair with all the passion and gusto of a sloth that'd just drank its third Horlicks, washed down with a valium chaser. He was ably supported by Barclay, whose posture and expression in the Deputy Mayor's chair was not dis-similar to that of a stillborn bulldog.

We then had to endure about 50 minutes' worth of debate in which the leader of the Labour Party and his merry band of acolytes attempted to justify a monetary rise of 31%, as Nurses queue at foodbanks.

Lindridge weighed in and in terms of sensitivity to those who elected him, he may as well have set fire to a £50 note in front of a tramp, before offering that very same tramp a small bite of his Mars Bar.

Somewhere in the middle of all of this Alan Clark managed not to talk about steel, but instead opted to try to talk about non-Labour councillors encouraging people not to vote for Labour?? He seemed surprised we'd opted to do this. I'm not sure whether he expected Paul Thompson and I to be driving around Owton Manor on general election day belting out all the verses of the Red Flag on a mobile karaoke system, but whatever he was about to say he ultimately decided against it.

Having said all of that, the interesting thing for me was observing the facial expression of Cllr Dave Hunter throughout the meeting.

As the months tick by since his election to Hartlepool Borough Council, it's becoming very evident he's waking up to the dawning realization of what he's now a part of.

To me, he seems like a good bloke, a true socialist who, in joining the Hartlepool Labour group, probably assumed he would be surrounded by like-minded people.

He now knows the truth is very far from that. His eyes gave away what he was really thinking in that meeting.

He now looks like a bloke who's been handed a Findus lasagna and then tasked with teaching it dressage.

Interesting times.

[kevplumb]

jeez I wish I had been there
unfortunately I was underpinning on cross rail at the time must earn a crust etc

[admin]

I wouldn't worry too much about the missing video to be honest. For those of you who didn't get the chance to attend the meeting, allow me to summarize it.

Paul Beck took to the role of chair with all the passion and gusto of a sloth that'd just drank its third Horlicks, washed down with a valium chaser. He was ably supported by Barclay, whose posture and expression in the Deputy Mayor's chair was not dis-similar to that of a stillborn bulldog.

We then had to endure about 50 minutes' worth of debate in which the leader of the Labour Party and his merry band of acolytes attempted to justify a monetary rise of 31%, as Nurses queue at foodbanks.

Lindridge weighed in and in terms of sensitivity to those who elected him, he may as well have set fire to a £50 note in front of a tramp, before offering that very same tramp a small bite of his Mars Bar.

Somewhere in the middle of all of this Alan Clark managed not to talk about steel, but instead opted to try to talk about non-Labour councillors encouraging people not to vote for Labour?? He seemed surprised we'd opted to do this. I'm not sure whether he expected Paul Thompson and I to be driving around Owton Manor on general election day belting out all the verses of the Red Flag on a mobile karaoke system, but whatever he was about to say he ultimately decided against it.

Having said all of that, the interesting thing for me was observing the facial expression of Cllr Dave Hunter throughout the meeting.

As the months tick by since his election to Hartlepool Borough Council, it's becoming very evident he's waking up to the dawning realization of what he's now a part of.

To me, he seems like a good bloke, a true socialist who, in joining the Hartlepool Labour group, probably assumed he would be surrounded by like-minded people.

He now knows the truth is very far from that. His eyes gave away what he was really thinking in that meeting.

He now looks like a bloke who's been handed a Findus lasagna and then tasked with teaching it dressage.

Interesting times.

I have so many weird images in my head now I just know I'm going to struggle to sleep.

[kevplumb]

 

[marky]

I make it 3 weeks tomorrow

[steveL]

4 weeks tomorrow now . . . it's not as if they're even subtle about it. I'm told Devlin said that it would appear a week gone last Monday which tells us much about Peter Devlin as a Monitoring Officer with all the backbone of a jellied eel.