tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post595797007219977194..comments2024-03-29T14:51:09.514+00:00Comments on FTHN: From the Hornets Nest: WHOSE SIDE IS THE COUNCIL ON? A RESIDENT CHALLENGES THE DAMEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-11836708171239195562015-11-22T12:13:17.452+00:002015-11-22T12:13:17.452+00:00She has been toxic for a very long time.
She groo...She has been toxic for a very long time.<br /><br />She grooms residents on council estates to vote and do special favours for her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-50718925021846153932015-11-22T07:18:13.520+00:002015-11-22T07:18:13.520+00:00Simmonds has become very toxic for the Tory Party....Simmonds has become very toxic for the Tory Party. She might resign. Miaghread Handlebarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-5204993711874137732015-11-21T16:50:13.767+00:002015-11-21T16:50:13.767+00:00Special eating places where she is favoured. Those...Special eating places where she is favoured. Those canvassing for her. Officers are told not to implement table and chair licences, electrical inspections, etc, etc,<br /><br />Those residents which canvass for her are afforded special favours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-1239057992555978422015-11-21T16:40:49.438+00:002015-11-21T16:40:49.438+00:00Please tell us more about Simmonds and the protect...Please tell us more about Simmonds and the protection afforded to her special friends. There is no point insinuating. We need it out in the open if Simmonds is to get the bird at the next election. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-527968664365106212015-11-21T09:14:07.575+00:002015-11-21T09:14:07.575+00:00.
. I have heard about Condon....<br />. I have heard about Condon Simmonds, please tell us what . . . she has doneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-23487835888245682462015-11-21T09:10:25.693+00:002015-11-21T09:10:25.693+00:00I live in Stanley Ward where Pooter languished for...I live in Stanley Ward where Pooter languished for god knows how long picking up allowances which he would not have been able to earn in the labour market. I did not see hide nor hair of him during the election campaign nor any of his Hammersmith helpers. Pooter Watchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-81478261509226738922015-11-21T02:43:54.593+00:002015-11-21T02:43:54.593+00:00It's been put across a few threadsIt's been put across a few threadsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-56834248746087399352015-11-20T16:10:25.558+00:002015-11-20T16:10:25.558+00:00The Dame agrees and will feature it. An excellent ...The Dame agrees and will feature it. An excellent comment.HornetsNesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03986293957148642699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-8328762060756348112015-11-20T15:27:58.903+00:002015-11-20T15:27:58.903+00:00It is helpful to address matters to Hammersmith an...It is helpful to address matters to Hammersmith and Fulham officers who are not under the thumb of our councillors.<br /><br />Cllr. Maighread Simmonds has been known to put pressure on excellent RBKC officers to ignore complaints by residents in order to protect her special friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-69204510279879311622015-11-20T14:46:07.277+00:002015-11-20T14:46:07.277+00:00This is an excellent post, but is on the wrong thr...This is an excellent post, but is on the wrong thread.North Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-14621203664593361872015-11-20T14:32:47.204+00:002015-11-20T14:32:47.204+00:00It is helpful to address matters to officers in Ha...It is helpful to address matters to officers in Hammersmith and Fulham who are not under the thumb of our councillors. <br /><br />Cllr. Maighread Simmonds has been known to put pressure on honest officers to turn a blind eye to complaints from residents with regard to her friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-71696168898237341342015-11-20T14:00:03.327+00:002015-11-20T14:00:03.327+00:00Alan Brown built his reputation at Schroders on go...Alan Brown built his reputation at Schroders on good governance in the companies they invested in. Did he realise when he joined the Westway Trust board that Angela McConville wouldn’t know what good governance was if she saw it? <br /><br />Did Alan know that Ang put through the alteration in the objects of WT last year when it decided to stop using the land it was given to provide amenities for the local community as originally intended and to become a property development business with no regard for local needs? Not only was there no public consultation beforehand, but they didn’t even hold the community engagement event that they had told the RBKC they’d hold! I expect they held some little private event as a fig leaf but I know they never told the community about it, let alone engaged with the community to explain their intentions. <br /><br />The meeting at the Tab would have been the first real community engagement event by the WT executive and it was disgraceful that Ang said she’d come then pulled out on a spurious reason. (Alan Brown will soon realise she has a track record of agreeing to things when it suits her and then doing a U-turn a few days later….) What a lost opportunity!!!<br /><br />If Alan Brown is going to come away from his time with the WT with his reputation intact, he needs to stand up and act now, introducing transparency and proper governance from today. He needs to make contact with the North Kensington community immediately to agree a way forward that includes reinstating the amenities Ang has closed or is closing down and improving the 23 acres in partnership with them (everyone agrees the area needs improvement, just it doesn’t want the good things there swept away and replaced with Ang’s sterile vision). Another meeting at the Tab would be a good start. Meanwhile, he should scrap the “Destination Westway” idea which offers nothing to meet North Kensington’s needs, and (in the views of professional property developers, as opposed to the WT jokers) will not succeed so close to Westfield (currently being extended) and the Old Oak Common development. <br /><br />How about it, Alan?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-37678088514149068342015-11-20T11:44:32.496+00:002015-11-20T11:44:32.496+00:00Perhaps things are being cleaned up a bit now as f...Perhaps things are being cleaned up a bit now as far as H&F councillors are concerned, but their officers are even more bent and incompetent than the home grown specimens. It's only bi-borough anyway. WCC wisely keeps it's distance. Senior H&F officers have taken over previously reasonably well run RBKC departments and ruined them. Money grabbing and bullying of existing staff are the priorities. Needless to say, not a penny has been saved. As everyone knew would happen, the whole thing is a shambles, with some officers pocketing double dosh. Gnatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-80304376950685455582015-11-20T10:30:46.893+00:002015-11-20T10:30:46.893+00:00But Tri-borough has not actually saved any money; ...But Tri-borough has not actually saved any money; it has added costs that are concealed from view. It was a vanity project to push Cockell's peerage. It failed on all counts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-78820596576929296562015-11-20T10:24:46.780+00:002015-11-20T10:24:46.780+00:00The Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council has f...The Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council has forbidden officers and Labour councillors from taking any kind of hospitality from developers, potential or actual. This edict arose from experience during the last Administration (pre 2014) when Conservative councillors were wined, dined and treated by developers. An obvious invitation and one which should have been avoided.<br /><br />Cllr Stephen Cowan has also obtained over an extra £50mill from developers since the Council elections of 2014 – money which would otherwise have stayed in developers’ pockets. How did he do it? He called in developers and asked for it. <br /><br />I should say that I do not vote Labour.<br /><br />I understand that you think the tri-borough arrangement is a waste of time and money. I do not think so. Kensington and Chelsea Council can learn a good deal from Hammersmith and Fulham.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-6376465912433388602015-11-20T09:51:52.571+00:002015-11-20T09:51:52.571+00:00I wholeheartedly agree with all the above. Rather...I wholeheartedly agree with all the above. Rather nice letter, I say...SadBadgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348733771308984062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-60200987814968509502015-11-20T05:15:18.625+00:002015-11-20T05:15:18.625+00:00It was always thus.It was always thus.Lord Kensingtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-80952773530275883602015-11-19T23:39:46.880+00:002015-11-19T23:39:46.880+00:00The majority of residents continue to ignore the c...The majority of residents continue to ignore the connection between the council and the developers who are destroying the borough. It's the homes of the poor that are being destroyed, to build empty flats for money launderers. Meanwhile the rich largely sit in their comfortable houses, working out the profit they'll make when they eventually sell up and move to the Cotswolds or Tuscany. Residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-42513593977339046662015-11-19T21:24:14.527+00:002015-11-19T21:24:14.527+00:00We feel betrayed.We feel betrayed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-11874271905702131892015-11-19T21:09:53.431+00:002015-11-19T21:09:53.431+00:00How could we continue to vote Conservative when th...How could we continue to vote Conservative when they demolish our homes for profit ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-77022364853510514592015-11-19T18:59:27.335+00:002015-11-19T18:59:27.335+00:00Well said, none of the officer live in K&C so ...Well said, none of the officer live in K&C so have little aligned interest with residents,EX TORYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1690720220183337557.post-76717477018580025182015-11-19T18:25:41.979+00:002015-11-19T18:25:41.979+00:00RBKC is corrupt because despite their complaints, ...RBKC is corrupt because despite their complaints, resident vote Tory on autopilot, or these days stay home. In most wards anyone wearing a blue rosette is elected. One able young Tory councillor was unable to tolerate a system in which Tory planning committee members are told how to vote before the PAC meetings. He kept his mouth shut and quietly resigned. This is unfortunate. He should have shared his concerns with his fellow residents. <br /><br />The number of people voting Conservative locally is rapidly shrinking. The once great local party now has only a rump of elderly members. There are no young volunteers to pound the streets. To ensure Pooter's seat at the last local election, young Hammersmith Tories were sent to his ward. As a result, Hammersmith & Fulham went Labour. RBKC is an empty shell, lacking the confidence of residents because it represents developers rather than the community. Blueberrynoreply@blogger.com