MADAM - This discussion with Gerald Hartley is getting a bit futile. I would like to answer some points he made and then leave the subject.
1. He says as chairman of the overview and management scrutiny committee in Shire Hall I “would have been given the opportunity to comment on the case officers proposed” for the incinerator appeal on behalf of the county council, and he says I should share the written response I made.
This is most definitely not the case.
I have not been asked to comment on appropriate officers, nor would I expect to be, and I have made no written response.
2. He says the three councillors who co-wrote the last letter to the SNJ signed the letter with their full titles.
No, we did not.
We simply signed our names.
I assume the SNJ put our titles in.
3. He continues to talk about our “secret dealings” with the Tories.
He is wrong once again and I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but here goes.
There was no deal to prop up the Tories as he asserted before. Gerald Hartley has a remarkable knack of assuming something has happened simply because he believes it has.
May I suggest to him that he talks with me about the Labour group in Shire Hall and settle the matter once and for all.
I feel Labour and the Greens have much in common and I am puzzled by his relentless attacks on us without any foundation.
Brian Oosthuysen
Kingscourt
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