Post by Bartonite on Apr 14, 2015 10:22:20 GMT
I posted the comment at the bottom of this page on Gloucester Labour Facebook page yesterday. As is made clear to anyone reading it (go on, give it a try), it's a recreation from memory of something posted a day or two earlier, and as the text immediately below shows, it was also deleted. At any rate, it's not there anymore, and I have been given no reason for this. It's bad enough that Richard Graham has banned comments on his blog without Labour following suit, perhaps at the instigation of Kate Haigh, who does seem to be a serial avoider of engagement with the public.
From a few minutes ago:
If you're going to delete my comment (*again*, about your missing candidate), can you at least give a reason, here or by personal message?
I thought more of you than this, Barry, and see Labour as the only choice for keeping the insufferable Richard Graham out, but give me even the *slightest* reason to think Sophy Gardner would be any better, if you can't stomach open discussion.
At this rate, you could even lose my wife's vote.
From yesterday:
I'm not infallible, by any means, so I try to go out of my way to give people the benefit of the doubt when it seems that a post/comment of mine has gone missing, because it could just be that I'm looking in the wrong place, or I only *thought* I posted the comment, and actually never got round to hitting 'Send', and then the page crashed while I was distracted with something else.
That being so, I'll reprise my thoughts, posted or otherwise, from yesterday, which were that you no longer seem to have a candidate for city councillor, and may have thus, in effect, handed the seat back to Saj Patel, which residents would appreciate (that last part would have been sarcasm).
I think I might have finished up with a comment about how useless all our local cllrs have been, or perhaps that was posted elsewhere.
Wait, now I remember. I finished by suggesting that next time, it might be a good idea to select a candidate who wasn't in the pocket of the Gymnasian 'charity' (I remember using the quote marks, because 'charity' status is given to a lot of shady outfits these days, which is why the new restrictions on political lobbying aren't quite as outrageous as they might otherwise seem).
Am I being challenged about my assertion that Ismail Ali was/is a member of the Friendship Café/Gymnation (formerly Gymnasian), who have become far more influential (and financially secure) than the neighbourhood partnership in Barton & Tredworth?
From a few minutes ago:
If you're going to delete my comment (*again*, about your missing candidate), can you at least give a reason, here or by personal message?
I thought more of you than this, Barry, and see Labour as the only choice for keeping the insufferable Richard Graham out, but give me even the *slightest* reason to think Sophy Gardner would be any better, if you can't stomach open discussion.
At this rate, you could even lose my wife's vote.
From yesterday:
I'm not infallible, by any means, so I try to go out of my way to give people the benefit of the doubt when it seems that a post/comment of mine has gone missing, because it could just be that I'm looking in the wrong place, or I only *thought* I posted the comment, and actually never got round to hitting 'Send', and then the page crashed while I was distracted with something else.
That being so, I'll reprise my thoughts, posted or otherwise, from yesterday, which were that you no longer seem to have a candidate for city councillor, and may have thus, in effect, handed the seat back to Saj Patel, which residents would appreciate (that last part would have been sarcasm).
I think I might have finished up with a comment about how useless all our local cllrs have been, or perhaps that was posted elsewhere.
Wait, now I remember. I finished by suggesting that next time, it might be a good idea to select a candidate who wasn't in the pocket of the Gymnasian 'charity' (I remember using the quote marks, because 'charity' status is given to a lot of shady outfits these days, which is why the new restrictions on political lobbying aren't quite as outrageous as they might otherwise seem).
Am I being challenged about my assertion that Ismail Ali was/is a member of the Friendship Café/Gymnation (formerly Gymnasian), who have become far more influential (and financially secure) than the neighbourhood partnership in Barton & Tredworth?
