Local political activist Brian Lewis has objected to poorly disguised campaign literature shoved through his front door by than none other than Jo Burton herself, one of his local councillors in Anston.
Perhaps it was the fact that some of his taxes had paid for printing of said document (don’t forget some of our tax dollars go to the local labour party via the allowances paid to ward councillors).
Maybe he’s still bitter at having the Police called when he dared to shout out at Dominic Beck?
Or maybe he’d just had enough BS for one week, we’re not sure but it led him to issue an ultimatum to Cllr Burton, remove the literature or pay a weekly storage fee!
It’s an interesting move and Mr Lewis’s legal team (the regulars who hand around outside the Parish Hall afterwards) were not altogether sure of success should it go to the courts.
This didn’t stop Mr Lewis though (nothing does really, let’s face it) and he is totting up the fee week by week.
“The one positive thing is when I hung it on the mantelpiece it kept the kids away from the fire” said Mr Lewis, failing to explain why he has the fire on in August…!
More on this as further news reaches us…
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Hi Lewis
I came to your meeting last night at 7pm and there was nobody there!
Have you a copy of Brians’s fly poster, because I haven’t had any rubbish like that through my letter box.
I have just sent another letter to the Guardian, following a dig at me from Jo Burton. I suspect Jo is trying to make the Anston public aware of all the good work she does for the village. I did say that the Parish clerk should attend the office at least 50% of the week and that the Anston Parish meetings were a waste of time, the reason for me going public.
All the best
Tim
Can anybody tell me what each ward councillor on Anston claims each year? This information should be available as per MP’s.
I do have some info actually, I’ll get something organised.
Interesting article here. http://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/the-annual-greed-parade/ Darren Hughes claimed 21K in expenses, Joe Burton and Julie Dalton about 13K. I notice a letter from Stuart Thornton to the Rotherham advertiser, saying that some of their expenses is donated to the Labour party and the other is used for publicity to get elected. Expenses should only be used for allowing them to do the job, anything else and it is a criminal offence as far as I am concerned. I wonder how we get a break down of their annual expenses claim, but would this give us a true reflection of exactly what the money was spent on.