Response to Preston Debate Page.

Response to Preston Village Debate Page.

We would like to reply to a comment on Preston Debate page by Carol Osgerby who seems to think we are asking for a “public enquiry” (that should be 'inquiry') and want Preston council taxpayers to pay for it!! Either you haven’t managed to grasp what we’re about or your maliciously putting forward misinformation in order to help the council by generating ill feeling towards our members.

You are the first person that has mentioned a public enquiry, where did you think that one up from, we have never mentioned a public enquiry. If you’re going to comment please read our material first and carefully to ensure you understand it and please don’t add emotive and expensive words like “public enquiry”, Preston doesn’t have the financial means to cover the cost of a public enquiry so let us not start making silly and scurrilous statements attributing them to people who have never said them.

It would be a good starting point to read your own Debate Page rules because your comment breaks a number of them, you may be in danger of having to remove yourself from your own page. The rules we think you breach are attributing such statements to people who haven’t said them is dishonest and may be interpreted as libelous, no persistent attacks on individuals who cannot defend themselves on your debate page, be kind, polite and honest.

So you cannot misunderstand, we have asked for an “Independent Investigation” into Parish Councillors submitting false statements to the Standards Committee, that we presume would be carried out by the Monitoring Officer of East Riding Council on behalf of the Standards Committee, the financial cost to Preston council taxpayers……Nil!

If we were simply trying to cost Preston money we would complain about councillors spending public funds on planning permissions without council approval, which would cost Preston a few thousand pounds. One of our main platforms is that we are against any public money being wasted on such exercises, especially money from the council taxpayers of Preston.

You begin your comment by quite gleefully stating “Still only 6 signatures on that petition”, just so there can be no misunderstanding on your part. It makes no difference to us how many signatures the petition generates whether its 6 or 60 or 600. The petition could have been posted for 12 months, if you would care to read it you will see we posted the petition for only 6 months, if we were interested in getting as many signatures as possible we would have posted it for the full 12 months.

Can we also note that you posted your comment a mere 4 days after your initial link to the petition, you really shouldn’t be quite so keen to belittle those who do not always agree with you. If we recall correctly your the person who believes we should display “generosity of spirit”, you would appear to have little yourself!

It is entirely possible that a number of people who have read your comment do not read this blog, maybe you would like to post a link to this response in the interests of balance and fairness?