The most recent Liberal Focus included an article on the Swimming Pool Fiasco. Bizarrely, there has been no progress towards a collaborative all party focus on new facilities - even though all parties have agreed a need and desire to service the demands of the massive number of supporters. In the meanwhile my wife is forced to take my daughter to Romford and others travel to an oversubscribed, crowded and rather anachronistic facility at Fullwell Cross, Barkingside.The Liberals failed to highlight that the cost of consultation was in excess of £1.5m pounds that was squandered on the proposed swimming pool choosing to descale the image of the profligacy (wastefulness) of our cabinet by labelling the cost as hundreds of thousands.
Cllr Gary state has not provided any evidence of how he derived a figure of £8m for a new facility, however, I remember in a recent article in the Ilford Recorder, Chris Connelly from Take action for Seven Kings, threw a gauntlet to the Council to allow him to run the former pool for a purchase of £5.00 - he intended to fund the running cost via creation of a charitable organisation and submission of funding applications. What a shame he was not allowed to fulfill that challenge as he may well have been successful in his singleminded focus on a restoration of the pool. Such drive is what we need from the Councillors, rather than the continued rhetoric and failed promises! Its time for change!!!
Besides in recent times I have noticed the Liberals have added to their number reported in their Focus Team (Helen Duffet and Jesse Boucher), yet we hear little, of any tangible effort towards the improvement of our ward....?! All we get is the waffle in that dastardly FOCUS!
you may do well to look up the correct meaning of Anachronistic too.
ReplyDeleteHere is an extract from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
ReplyDeleteMain Entry: anach·ro·nism
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈna-krə-ˌni-zəm\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from Middle Greek anachronismos, from anachronizesthai to be an anachronism, from Late Greek anachronizein to be late, from Greek ana- + chronos time
Date: 1617
1 : an error in chronology; especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
2 : a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
3 : the state or condition of being chronologically out of place.
If you read definition 2.... anything that is chronologically out of place and this can be something out of date - can be termed anachronistic. Much like the trousers I have recently viewed in someone's recent picture!