Post by Joe K on Dec 15, 2014 2:06:40 GMT
From the Tredworth Facebook Page:
Now Paul Harries says that he's been 'personally been pushing to reinstate the fayre for years'. That really does put him up there with Walter Mitty, and not the gentle daydreamer of the Thurber original, but the deluded fantasist lazy journalists would have us think Mitty was. I'd love to see evidence of how Harries has been 'pushing'. Something in the partnership minutes that I have as much right to read as any other residents, and have asked for, perhaps?
It is a political stunt, of course, but there's plenty of skullduggery to go around, especially if 'Glevum Girl' really is Pat Hurley, partnership chair, and refusing to admit the fact.
In the run-up to the elections, I'll be raising the Fayre and plenty of other local issues, and candidates, including me (wife permitting) will have to put their views on the record. Eddie has called me a 'liar'. We'll see who's playing loose with the truth in the ward.
In 2011, a disciplinary committee of three people (not the five required by the rules), including Saj Patel, began steps (skipping the initial step, to speak with me informally at the first opportunity) to dismiss me as secretary of the neighbourhood partnership in Barton for not being willing to sign cheques to hold a fair in St. James' Park. I wasn't willing (and wasn't obliged to, especially as others could have done so), because no efforts were being made to bring back Barton Fayre to the street. In truth, the last proper Fayre may have been held in 2007, or 2008 at the latest, since years have been skipped because Alan Myatt had the final, unchallengable say on proceedings.
Over the past couple of years, the partnership, along with local police, have cited cost as prohibiting the street fayre, and failed to explore the willingness of street traders to contribute to this cost, as well as other funding opportunities which always seem to materialise when an event gets the go ahead.
Now, however, Saj Patel has apparently decided he wants to see the Fayre revived next year, and wants to put his £1,000 grant allocation towards it, even though it would clash with Gloucester Day, which Alan Myatt abandoned the Fayre for. Could it be that campaigning for the Fayre's return isn't such a bad thing when he is up for re-election (he hopes, at any rate) next year?
In any case, Tony Ward, vice-chair of TETRA and former partnership chairman, claimed, following my refusal, that the Fayre had 'evolved' onto St. James' Park, so shouldn't Cllr Patel be checking this with him first? Difficult, I know, when he attends neither partnership nor TETRA meetings.
www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Barton-Fayre-revival-cards-time-2010/story-25451275-detail/story.html
Over the past couple of years, the partnership, along with local police, have cited cost as prohibiting the street fayre, and failed to explore the willingness of street traders to contribute to this cost, as well as other funding opportunities which always seem to materialise when an event gets the go ahead.
Now, however, Saj Patel has apparently decided he wants to see the Fayre revived next year, and wants to put his £1,000 grant allocation towards it, even though it would clash with Gloucester Day, which Alan Myatt abandoned the Fayre for. Could it be that campaigning for the Fayre's return isn't such a bad thing when he is up for re-election (he hopes, at any rate) next year?
In any case, Tony Ward, vice-chair of TETRA and former partnership chairman, claimed, following my refusal, that the Fayre had 'evolved' onto St. James' Park, so shouldn't Cllr Patel be checking this with him first? Difficult, I know, when he attends neither partnership nor TETRA meetings.
www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Barton-Fayre-revival-cards-time-2010/story-25451275-detail/story.html
Now Paul Harries says that he's been 'personally been pushing to reinstate the fayre for years'. That really does put him up there with Walter Mitty, and not the gentle daydreamer of the Thurber original, but the deluded fantasist lazy journalists would have us think Mitty was. I'd love to see evidence of how Harries has been 'pushing'. Something in the partnership minutes that I have as much right to read as any other residents, and have asked for, perhaps?
It is a political stunt, of course, but there's plenty of skullduggery to go around, especially if 'Glevum Girl' really is Pat Hurley, partnership chair, and refusing to admit the fact.
In the run-up to the elections, I'll be raising the Fayre and plenty of other local issues, and candidates, including me (wife permitting) will have to put their views on the record. Eddie has called me a 'liar'. We'll see who's playing loose with the truth in the ward.
