I see from the latest issue of 'The Advertizer' free magazine that outgoing Ward 1 Lib Dem Councillor Tom Fyfe is hoping to 'pass the baton' to his friend and Lib Dem colleague John Watson.
I wonder if that means that John is planning to hold the same number of advice surgeries in the next 5 years as Tom has in the last 5? Tom of course has the unenviable record of being the Councillor who held the fewest surgeries in this Council term. Even an SNP Councillor who was off sick for nearly 2 years held more.
I wonder if, like Tom, John is planning not to attend parent council meetings in the next 5 years?
Of course it is not just parent council meetings that he did not attend. His attendance record at community councils and tenants' and residents' associations was not much better.
Such is Tom's lack of profile in the Ward that I and the other two Ward 1 Councillors regularly get emails from people who think there are only three councillors for the Ward.
Mind you one has to ask what the local Liberal Democrat Association and local party members - including John Watson - were doing when Tom was short changing his constituents - to the tune of £18,00 a year - for the past 5 years? Turning a blind eye it would appear.
Why then would we trust them with the baton for another 5 years?
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I do not know Cllr Fyfe, but at least he has had the good grace not to stand again. I think that the real scandal is Cllr Jim Greive who has, over the last two years, picked up over £30,ooo at the expense of the Inverclyde tax payer. The local SNP really need to take a good look at themselves they are doing a disservice to the people of the Eastend of Greenock.
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