Letters to the Editor

Friday, 11 July 2008

Letters to the Editor
For a while now I have looked forward to reading the letters by Councillor Muriel Green in the local newspaper. Quite often they are, I suggest, difficult to read due in part to the healthy dollop of 'spin' that is often added. Considering that at present the good ship S.S.New Labour is so low in the polls that it could easily be a submarine,and would, I further suggest, be a danger to shipping, an eye for a lifebelt might be a wiser choice...A letter from Cllr Green in the News Guardian (3rd July) exudes,I suggest, the properties of a very long excuse, and considering the local election results clearly indicate that Mayor Harrison after May 2009 Mayoral elections could well be spending more time with his family, would it not be wiser to address the very real concerns of the residents?. We have for example, the spectre of Mayor Harrison wishing to privatise (?) what remains of local leisure facilities such as the lighthouse, to make 'savings' of £500,000. No mention of the mayor parting company with his legion of 'policy advisor's' (they cost the same amount in annual wages). No mention of the advertising and marketing company employed by Mayor Harrison's administration (nearly £500,000 spent on them so far). No mention of the endlessly delayed and virtually non-existent regeneration of the coast.

The residents of Cullercoats have now placed a petition before a full Council meeting for a proposed ban of alcohol on the beaches, resulting in a very luke warm reception to the proposed ban by a Council official aired on local television. If Cllr. Green, in her capacity as leader of the Labour Group, wishes to retain any credibility I suggest that it would be prudent for her to have a word with our financial guru Mayor, and get him to support this ban.