Response to Preston Parish Council 2.

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2. Non Response of Preston Parish Council.

We had a postcard sized notice in the local post office advertising our blog so people could read it if they wished, it was half concealed among many others between the shopping shelves where relatively few people would have seen it. In their wisdom the council decided to demand the notice be removed, for whatever reason. Actually the poster is still in its original position so the council failed in their first objective, not a good start!

The council wanted to remove the poster because it allegedly had “untruths” in it. The alleged untruth was “There are calls for a petition to be presented to ERYC to settle the issue of dishonest Councillors”. There is absolutely nothing untruthful in that. If the phrase is so offensive to the council it should petition the Westminster Government to remove the same phrase from their web site (http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52966) first and, stop bullying and intimidating a hardworking shopkeeper who is trying to earn an honest living simply to cover up their own misdeeds.

We’re sure such action would invite questions from the Government which the council cannot respond to without perjuring themselves, so the council certainly won’t take that step.

The action the parish council should take is join us in our call for an independent investigation and clear the matter up once and for all.

The council then post our details on the World Wide Web for the whole planet to read, along with local residents and our wider local community, thereby increasing the readers of our blog. Is anyone able to explain the logic in this because we fail to see any logic at all?

So far the council have,

1.Harrased a local business without good legal cause,

2. Demanded the removal of an inoffensive advert lawfully displayed,

3. Abdicated from dealing with the allegations themselves by putting a poster out that tells   residents how they should deal with the allegations and,

 4. advertised the people making the allegations on the internet.

In effect the council haven’t changed it's original policy of ignoring the allegations, they have abdicated from their responsibility and passed it to residents. While at the same time they have increased the number of people reading the allegations, which is the very outcome they apparently most wanted to avoid, the council should very seriously begin to question the validity and value of the advice they are being given.

The best advise the council could have been given would have been to talk to their detractors (whoever they may be) and come to some mutual agreement, thereby ending open hostility and protecting the council reputation, the poorest advise the council could be given would be, ignore your detractors for as long as possible and if that doesn’t work promote and advertise your detractors cause for them. Who gave them that advice?

The council’s overriding achievement by their action has been to fail in every objective that may have been set (if they had a devised strategy, we strongly suspect not) and promote the very thing they are so adamantly against and didn’t want people to read!

Could we suggest to the council that if they wish to make this blog disappear they are approaching it entirely the wrong way?

Have the council managed to ‘respond’ to this blog…    absolutely not!

Next Post. Parish Council Poster.

If there are any residents with similar experience of the council do please contact us by comment or email. If you wish we will post on your experience without your identity being released, or not post anything if you simply want to share your experience it’s entirely up to you. We would love to hear your story, your not alone, there are a number of us, let us compare notes and grow as a group.