Is Cllr Commin really prepared to resign?

[Ccider]

Mr Commin,

On BBC SCR this morning you quoted the web poll on the Sussex Express as justification for your claim to have the majority of Lewes residents in support of your mis-guided action against the ODPM decision on Falmer.

At the time of your statement the poll was registering 86% AGAINST LDC's action.

In your use of the figure of 58% for - did you think of asking how many people had actually voted? It could have been as low as 50 and there is no guarantee of the respondents being Lewes residents.

Unlike the 5165 that signed the petition presented to you yesterday. More, I understand, than voted for Cllr Vecchi at the last election.

There is also no way you can support your claim to cap the expenditure to £25000. What do you do? Pull out of the appeal the moment it exceeds this sum? And how will you gauge the government's costs you will have to pay when you loose?

I look forward to your promised resignation when this happens.

Yours

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

he's not THAT into his council job as he has a few others, he is also a man of his word, so if he says he will then i'd presume he would

 

[mona]

He is in favour of Lewes DC's war against the Albion so he is an enemy of our club. I hope that any Albion supporting students at BHASVIC remind him that he might be supporting the wealthy nimby element in his ward but that his stance is both illiberal and undemocratic.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i tried for a whole year but with no success

his views are largely based on the stereotypical image of football fans

 

[mona]

i tried for a whole year but with no success

his views are largely based on the stereotypical image of football fans

And his boss at Lewes DC is shacked up with a bloke called Freeman who goes around threatening to cut people's bollox off. Commin sounds like a right wing tory and a complete t*sser.

 

[The Large One]

And his boss at Lewes DC is shacked up with a bloke called Freeman who goes around threatening to cut people's bollox off. Commin sounds like a right wing tory and a complete t*sser.

Are there any other sorts of Tory then?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

commin is left of centre, and is an avid lib dem

 

[mona]

commin is left of centre, and is an avid lib dem

And what do the Lewes LibDems stand for? Protecting the property rights of an affluent minority and deliberately ignoring the less wealthy people in places like Newhaven who are in favour of the stadium. The environmental arguments are bogus as the area has been damaged by university sprawl and ecologically the site is a sterile cereal field. A few years back I hated having to play a cricket match at Falmer because of the distraction of the constant traffic roar.
With due respect, if Commin taught you politics he can't have done that good a job if you consider him to be left of centre. Sorry I don't wish to be rude.
Look at it this way, many of the best teachers are in effect good conmen. They simplify complex arguments and they delude pupils into believing that they are interested in them as individuals. How many students does a teacher work with in a five year stint ?
Commin is an avid enemy of BHAFC.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

thank you for that insult


commin IS left of centre, i know that because i know him and know his values

yes, this act by LDC is right wing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that commin is himself, right wing

there is likely to be a spectrum of political stances within LDC

 

[Ccider]

Commin is goin'

 

[sullyupthewing]

if he dont we will make sure he does

 

[vauxhallexile]

thank you for that insult


commin IS left of centre, i know that because i know him and know his values

yes, this act by LDC is right wing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that commin is himself, right wing

there is likely to be a spectrum of political stances within LDC

I don't think opposing Falmer is Right Wing. Opposing Falmer is simply wrong!

The motives LDC are putting forward aren't right wing ones, they are principled people who I think can generally be described as left of centre (I know three cabinet members myself and their views on various issues); on this occasion they just happen to be wrong.

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

I don't think opposing Falmer is Right Wing. Opposing Falmer is simply wrong!

The motives LDC are putting forward aren't right wing ones, they are principled people who I think can generally be described as left of centre (I know three cabinet members myself and their views on various issues); on this occasion they just happen to be wrong.

Agreed to an extent but if you were told that a politician was siding with a bunch of middle class tory voting snobs with no care about the wider community against the development of one of the most deprived wards in the whole of the south, how would you expect them to be described?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Libdems are a left of centre party now occupying some of the ground vacated by Labour who have drifted , along with the Tories to the right. Twenty years ago our fears of heading towards a police and nanny state under Thatcher are now coming to fruition but under the guise of Blair. The decision by LDC is wrong and politicians are once again only looking after a select group rather than representing all of the people. If the residents of Falmer lived on a council estate instead of posh houses the outcome would be different - along the lines of "we've exhausted all possible channels etc". Saw Norman Baker on BBC News 24 this morning (smarmy git?) talking in response to the Tories setting up a group looking at environment issues and I suddenly twigged why he is anti stadium - He is the Libdem spokesman on the environment !!!!.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It's a long time since the people of Falmer (and the surrounding villages in Lewes District) elected a Tory councillor.

If you are looking for an ulterior motive for Lib Dem politicians being anti-stadium, look no further than the fact that the locals in Falmer simply got to their elected councillor quicker than any Albion supporters did.

This then rolled forward, once the local councillor managed to persuade all of his colleagues on Lewes Council to back his "judgement".

The fact that they ALL misjudged the views of the wider electorate across the whole district is something that they've only just woken up to.

 

[mona]

This then rolled forward, once the local councillor managed to persuade all of his colleagues on Lewes Council to back his "judgement".

The fact that they ALL misjudged the views of the wider electorate across the whole district is something that they've only just woken up to.

Are the locals in your village particularly anti-stadium? To somebody from Firle/Glynde way, I would have thought Falmer is integral to the Brighton conurbation. This is why I still can't understand the behaviour of Lewes DC throughout the whole business.
Why do they hate us so much?
The environmental arguments are specious and the LibDem/Green/Downsmen cabal allowed the building of a Marriott Hotel on TOP of the Downs at Goodwood without a murmur.
There seems to be a subconscious detestation of local working class people that runs through the whole anti-stadium movement. I suspect Commin's liberal principles are purely theoretical. Why are they gambling their political future in trying to destroy a stadium that will benefit the whole of Sussex? It makes no sense.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Are the locals in your village particularly anti-stadium? To somebody from Firle/Glynde way, I would have thought Falmer is integral to the Brighton conurbation. This is why I still can't understand the behaviour of Lewes DC throughout the whole business.

Out our way, most people are pro-stadium.

Councillor Andy Small managed to get 50 signatures on his petition forms - in one evening - more or less without leaving Glynde... just to give him the opportunity to speak on a "ward issue" at the Council meeting (which was otherwise denied to all councillors except the Cabinet member who had nominated himself to deal with the public questions). He used exactly the same wording as "our" petition.

Even a fair number of pro-AONB / National Park people (and I'm one myself) support the stadium, as do a number of downland farmers who are season ticket holders.

Falmer, of course, is much more suburban than countryside, like what we peasants are out here.

 

[mona]

Even a fair number of pro-AONB / National Park people (and I'm one myself) support the stadium, as do a number of downland farmers who are season ticket holders.

Falmer, of course, is much more suburban than countryside, like what we peasants are out here.

My thoughts entirely. The South Downs are beautiful and should be protected. I suppose I am so angered by Baker, De Vecchi, Commin and the rest of the jokers because they are so ignorant about the Downs.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

My conspiracy theory is that the Libdems want vengeance because we revealed what a complete and utter arsehole Bellotti is ( he didn't need any help from us ).

 

[mona]

My conspiracy theory is that the Libdems want vengeance because we revealed what a complete and utter arsehole Bellotti is ( he didn't need any help from us ).

It does make you think doesn't it !
The LibDems seem to attract an odd mixture of people. Although the Sussex Tories are full of feudal fruitcakes. For that matter there are weirdo councillors of all persuasions.
De Vecchi and her cronies are waging war against the Albion and I just can't see what is in it for them. Is a cereal field beside a busy road with grim 60s buildings a worthy cause when LDC downland sites have been damaged by quarrying in recent years?They must hate us and football with a vengeance. That parasite Norman Baker hovers above this whole affair like a bloodsucking insect and he is a more powerful man than his old mate Bellotti.