New Cabinet members named for Thanet council

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1. Do any of these have the backbone to stand up to the TDC Officers?

   • I totally agree with your comment it doesn’t seem to be any of the councillors that can stand up to them TDC

2. Surprised Councillor Lesley Game is not in the cabinet line-up. She is well respected and has a strong voice and following. I think it’s a real shame. We also have two very very young Cllr in the cabinet in this conservative lineup the officers will run rings around them.

   • She resigned her TDC seat to concentrate on KCC

   • She resigned her seat in shame for getting caught flytipping

3. Isn’t that Father Brown?

4. Mr Bayford more street cleaning and cleaners in Ramsgate please.

5. Most of the disastrous decisions made by TDC were Members’ decisions made against the advice of the Officers.
   It’s good to know that mostly our professional, qualified civil servants have the backbone to stand up against the hopelessly ill informed decisions of some of the councillors.

   • ..and too often advice given and decisions made by officers hasn’t been much better – so we don’t have much hope with this lot, no matter how we rearrange (recycle?) the deck chairs.

     • The officers give the advice, based on the law, rules and regulations and their informed professional opinion.
       It is the councillors’ job to make the decisions, based on the advice given by the officers.
       Similar to SAGE and the Government: Professor Whitty can offer advice, but the PM in the end decides to herd or reject it.

       • “heed”!

6. But will any of them have the guts to stand up to and confront what is the ever increasing money pit called Dreamland.

7. I think we’ve got to give them a chance , there’s some experienced people on that list , hopefully they’ll sort things out !
   Fingers crossed !

8. So we have a pro-manston (polluting cargo hub) person in charge of climate change? The irony is off the scale. We’re done for. #noplanetb

   • The council have made no real changes after their attention seeking climate emergency declaration. Not considered in the deals it enters into and no revision of policies in respect of listed buildings. Being two examples. Doesn’t matter on the colour of the rosette , the district is skint, suffering from decades of poor financial decision making and each new council tries to curry favour with the interest group of theday rather than set about dealing with the basics and getting us back on a sound financial footing from which point the “luxuries” become affordable. That just about all the 22million goes to private enterprises / charities because the council can’t come up with matched funding surely speaks volumes.

9. Watch out Bob’s about

10. Good Cabinet, old team – with a fresh new team. The old team know what’s what, the new fresh team might gain respect from younger voters…. eventually.
    I wish them luck, old & new.

    • All Tories? Not much hope for improvement then.

      • Just as the last appointments were all labour, what did you expect? Not that it’ll make a jot of difference overall the new lot will have their pet projects that get pushed forward , financed on the back of pie in the sky projections and estimates, knowing full well they’ll be long gone when the brown smelly stuff hits the fan, just another repetition of years gone by. And thats before all the previous back room deals and wayward thinking brings moremissues to be dealt with.
        The borough is skint, and there’s no way around it. Its got to the point that investing in euromillions tickets is about as good a move as any and the only way of turning the area around in the short to medium term. The current “all in “ gamble on the arts and creativity is a similar longshot, whilst many of those coming to margate are wealthy by local standards they are not wealthy enough to turn the place round, ( there’s a huge gulf between incomers able to buy a home outright and happy to live on 40k a year harping on about the failure of the council,landlords, tories et al expecting the lchanges they want to be funded by others, the local unemployable happy to live on benefits and petty crime and those with sufficient resources to effect real change by themselves , but who are very thin on the ground and careful where they invest)plus being largely well left of centre there’s a refusal to accept where some issues lie and instead just keep hollering about where they want the problems to be rooted.
        The whole debacle around the seafront, dreamland, nayland rock, arlington house is going to be the biggest factor in margates future as we are now beholden to a faceless “investor” with no regard to anything but their own enrichment.