Here are Conservatives talking about the actions of the Labour majority in Plymouth. It really doesn’t matter what the subject is (in this case provision for travellers sites) and it is spooky how the amount of money spent by the majority party (Labour) is so similar to that spent on relocation so far here in Tory East Devon.
What matters most, it seems, is that it seems the party in power likes secrets, the party that isn’t in power doesn’t and there seems to be nothing to choose between them!
“… Labour voted to call the meeting into secret, evicting the public and the Press, after accusing Cllr Beer (Con) of releasing “commercially sensitive” information about a travellers site being considered in the north of Plymouth.
Council leader Tudor Evans (Lab) told the monitoring officer he wanted to hold the rest of the debate in private, saying he couldn’t be sure the Tories “could be trusted” not to mention privileged information again.
Labour councillors supported the call, upon which Tory councillors walked out en masse.
Tory leader Cllr Ian Bowyer, speaking outside the chamber, said Labour had “completely overreacted”.
“It is undemocratic to exclude the public from this debate and they should be ashamed of themselves,” he said.
“We won’t be party to that debate if it is not in public.
“There is no point in debating in secret about things that residents are concerned about.
“They [Labour] have been happy to spend £750,000 on clean-ups since they came to power three years ago, but our argument is that enough is enough and that tax payers have the right for their money to be spent wisely.”
Exactly the argument used against TORY secrecy in East Devon!
East Devon Watch 