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Post by Bartonite on Apr 18, 2015 8:55:32 GMT
Yes, if only more people got to know Barry...
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 18, 2015 10:23:29 GMT
By the way, since the titles refers to party sites, plural, I should say something about how the others are doing. The Gloucester Conservatives Facebook page has seen no activity since November 2014, when I posted about Richard Graham's pre-emptive censorship. He was refusing to approve any comments, and justified this afterwards by claiming the comments that were coming in were 'mostly abusive', as he would describe it. The fact is, though, that the only comment that had ever been been allowed was one of mine, and a mild one it was, a few years earlier, when he started the blog. One would have thought that a few more reasonable posts would have been sent and approved before the more opprobrious ones led to a change of policy. And I would have expected a politician to make use of objectionable behaviour, if it was really happening, by showing the public the kind of conduct his opponents resorted to, without divulging real names, if provided. As he didn't, I would conclude he was telling pork pies, to justify a block on comments that could be extremely advantageous in the run-up to the election. But to re-cap, no activity on the Tory's page, which others may not be avble to read, as it's a closed group. I asked to join the page above, as I did the Liberal Democrats', but the latter is the only one I have been banned from even viewing, thanks to the erratic behaviour of the person in charge of it, Andy Williams (no, that one). He started off being very short with me about wanting to be a member if I wasn't also a Lib Dem, but I explained that I wanted to be a member of all the major parties' pages, to monitor them. He didn't object, but it became clear that he didn't like my attitude when I did post comments. I posted one which included the word 'crap', in a neutral context, and he deleted it, citing 'objectionable language' in a PM. Then a little while later, he sends me another PM saying that if I post 'any more of your crap', he'll ban me. I pointed out his double standards and guess what? He banned me. So the Lib Dems are a waste of space. I have tried to seek out a Green party page, and it's not that there aren't any, from what I recall, it's just hard to pin down a Gloucester specific one. Of course, there is a UKIP one for Gloucester. While it's annoying that they sometimes report hustings (well, one, at Chequers) after they have taken place, it's a damn sight more active than the first two, and probably, if I could view it, the third. And they have advertised a hustings at Brunswick Baptist Church on Southgate Street, at 7pm on April 24th. I'll take another look for the Greens... Okay, there's this one now, the Gloucester Green Party Facebook page, which has been around since February 2013, so maybe after my last search. Still worrying about crowbarring climate change into the debate, which I think puts off people who are more worried about their livelihoods. They could win big in Barton & Tredworth if they thought smaller, thought local, and educated residents about their refuse...
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Post by MM on Apr 18, 2015 20:41:25 GMT
I would be giving that berk from the Liberals a peace of my mind if he ever communicated like that with me. Richard always takes the time to listen and is very polite. He likes his rugby and is a proper Gloucester boy. Have you ever met Richy G in person, he's a bit like Barry.
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 19, 2015 9:03:40 GMT
I would be giving that berk from the Liberals a peace of my mind if he ever communicated like that with me. You don't have much experience of dealing with such people, then. That 'peace' of your mind would instantly be labelled as abuse, and acted upon. I've met him at least three times. The first was when he strode across the grass at the St James Fair before the last election to shake my hand. I'd never had any kind of communications with him, as I recall, don't even know how he knew my face. I guess, like Tarren Randle before him, he though I might be useful to him because of my activism in the community. The second time I met him was at one of the very few surgeries he has held, It was at Parry Hall. Saj Patel was with him, too. I wanted help with getting the Charles St corner, which cyclist cross to get access to Asda, made safer, as DYLs had been removed, making it a blind spot for cars coming around the corner. I also wanted help finding out why a mobile library that used to visit Barton & Tredworth regularly had stopped coming round. In the first instance, Patel suggested I should just be very careful at that corner. My suggestion that motorists should be careful as well, and that a sign put up before the corner warning drivers of the possibility of bikes crossing from the left would be a cheap and reasonable solution was ignored. In the second, it was left to one of Graham's appprentices, a fella called Tom Skinner, I think, to chase up the library issue. That went nowhere, besides the city council tying themselves up in knots trying to find excuses for the mobile's absence. Graham has also said that our joke of a failing neighbourhood partnership is nothing to do with him, and Patel doesn't attend their meetings, either. But why don't you tell me how he has helped you, as you have the benefit of anonymity? Admittedly, it won't mean much, when you could easily make it up, but I have asked Graham what kind of cases he deals with in vain, to get an idea of what he does regard as 'relevant' to his role as an MP, as none of the things I've raised seem to. But if no-one else posts here anonymously to say how he has failed them, the Graham camp will be one up, at least...
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Post by MM on Apr 19, 2015 9:40:13 GMT
It's confidential, Not really sure how I ended here, only posted here because it allows me to post anonymously as a guest. I'd expect better from Saj I will mention it to Richard next time he comes to the rugby hopefully he will give this Saj a rollicking for his response towards you.
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Post by Tredworthy on Apr 19, 2015 16:00:35 GMT
In what way is Richard Graham "a proper Gloucester boy"? I've looked at his online biography (on Wikipedia) and he didn't seem to have any connection to Gloucester till just before he was the chosen candidate for the 2010 general election. He probably pretends to be loyal to whichever country or city he is living in.
My particular hatred of him dates back to late 2010 or early 2011 - soon after he'd been elected - when he decided to support his Tory pals at the county council and declare that Matson Library was in the wrong place, doing the wrong job and being run by the wrong people. He knew sod all about the library, but he was still more than willing to slag it off and try to get it shut. What an absolute bastard. I was one of the people who campaigned vociferously to keep the library open and run by the county council. We won the High Court battle, and the judge said that the county council was guilty of bad government for the way that it had behaved.
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Post by MM on Apr 20, 2015 8:47:25 GMT
He comes to the rugby club and always talks about the rugby. Once I met him in a pub he asked how I was, I started to explain and he cut me off and said email me. I thought that was very good of him.
I am starting to see a different Richard then the one I thought I knew but you could be lying to me to put me off voting For him. Thinking back to the whole email me story I'm remembering it took me a while to find his email then when I did he didn't reply but did tell me eventually there was some kind of system failure.
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 20, 2015 19:53:36 GMT
It's confidential, Not really sure how I ended here, only posted here because it allows me to post anonymously as a guest. I'd expect better from Saj I will mention it to Richard next time he comes to the rugby hopefully he will give this Saj a rollicking for his response towards you. well, as I said, Richard was there too, at the very same table, so I think if you bring it up, he will have a different take on it, so just ask him straight if he thinks that the answer to a corner that's dangerous for cyclists is for cyclists to be solely responsible for their own safety (perhaps in the same way that women should be responsible for the behaviour of men towards them by how they dress?).
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 20, 2015 19:54:44 GMT
And I really don't need to lie, but you have to decide for yourself...
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Post by Tredworthy on Apr 20, 2015 20:55:42 GMT
The lies he told about Matson Library were recorded in Hansard because he told them in Parliament. Look at Hansard for 28th February 2011 around 9pm (in the debate on the Big Society).
Now he's been caught trying to use the Zac Evans tragedy for his own ends - see the Citizen story about it. He'd previously got lots of kudos for getting the trial moved from Bristol to Gloucester, supposedly for Zac's friends and family; I thought that that was a really bad idea, not least because Gloucester's Crown Court is tiny compared to Bristol's, so how many of his friends and family will be able to squeeze in there?
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Post by MM on Apr 21, 2015 7:20:08 GMT
I was sickened to the core about his recent actions I'm going to have to make a decision. I really don't see any other option for Gloucester but I don't like hearing these stories.
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 22, 2015 10:58:16 GMT
Go with what your heart tells you. Or your head? What would Nick do..?
I really think that Graham's antics aren't breaking news to most people.
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Post by MM on Apr 22, 2015 21:33:50 GMT
Arrogant twit is not answering my emails I'm getting angry now and sophy is being just as arrogant, that idiot from the lib dems Jason hilltop is as much use as a chocolate oven glove where are the others how do I contact them?
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Post by Bartonite on Apr 23, 2015 8:16:08 GMT
This page isn't really helpful (except in showing you how little TUSC are interested in hearing from the public), but a bit of Googling reveals... ...actually, that clicking on the individual names in the link above gives you email addresses, except for TUSC. OK, fairly helpful. No phone numbers, but I prefer to have a record of both sides of a conversation, anyway.
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Post by MM on Apr 24, 2015 7:15:48 GMT
I'm in contact with Richard Ford wouldn't of thought I'd be saying this but I'm seriously considering voting for him. Still nothing back from the other Richard, I feel a bit stupid to have thought so highly of him.
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