Writing last week in the isle of Thanet Gazette, Clive Hart made a couple extraordinary comments one suggesting that Manston airport had the support of TDC whenever and wherever, really?
To back that up this statement followed " I was delighted when KLM launched its regular service to Schiphol and was very pleased to attend the launch event.
Pity that at the time of the launch event he rather uncharacteristically refused to discuss his enthusiasm when invited to talk to BBC RADIO KENT.
Come off it Clive, refresh your memory click here and read how you didn't support Manston.
Wasn't it breakfast rather than launch Clive was so impressed
ReplyDeleteI understand your (perpetual) personal dismay with the Labour Party. What are the official and detailed positions of the Liberal Democrat and UK Independence Parties on the airport, and the deal that some are trying to put together to save it. Should public money be invested?
ReplyDelete11:18, the position of other parties is irrelevant. Clive Hart is currently leader of our local council and has consistently displayed a negative attitude to the airport and avoided opportunities to publicly show his support.
ReplyDeleteI do not think public money being spent on the airport is an issue at this time. It is all about whether someone else is prepared to run it and neither central or local government are in the frame to do that.
I agree, 20.54, that there is no prospect of either central or local government running the airport, but that doesn't mean that public money might not be invested directly or indirectly. I recall KCC providing pump-priming funds for Manston in the past. Asking how different parties would feel about that - at least - is entirely relevant.
ReplyDeleteI wonder about the real significance of the attitude allegedly displayed by TDC. Local Councils often adopt a stance of outright opposition to planned developments by private companies - there are many examples locally - but those companies proceed anyway, often appealing and prompting public enquiries. This is little different, TDC's powers are quite limited. But whatever, I'm surprised you think it unfair to ask a Liberal Democrat spokesman what his party - and his adopted party (UKIP) - would do. Surely better to set out positive ideas than simply continue to condemn Hart and co.?
It's simples 11 18 is trying to stand by Clive Hart, side tracking my observation that he has been rather less supportive than he now claims toward Manston..
ReplyDeleteOf course no labour leader wants to confront their role in hard working people losing their livelihood.
Maybe a point to make also is the limited or non response by master Will Scobie.
Nowhere have I challenged your opinion of Hart and the Labour Group, Tony, nor of course your right to express it. I am not "stand[ing] by Clive Hart", to whom I have no allegiance whatsoever. I have merely invited you to present a positive slant - what YOUR parties believe and, in detail, would do - rather than dwell on the failings of a party you hate.
DeleteWill Scobie has given many responses to this on twitter... unlike the Lib-Dems!
ReplyDeleteAnd not one of them supportive of the airport, 13:41. He just toes the party line, laments the loss of jobs, but is doing nothing to save them.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Len McCluskey is considering setting up a real workers party rather than the joke Labour have become. Even the Tories are more job conscious now than Labour.
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ReplyDeleteTony it is my opinion TDC no matter who is in charge do anything to help anything but are full of ideas after the event. The council in the thirty years I have lived here only ever act after the event never help ANY business but go out of their way to be as unhelpful as is legally possible. Clive Hart is just keeping to a long held transition.
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