*sighs heavily
I know I've said this before but since it's come up again I thought it important to reiterate.
I do not, and will not, make it my business to engage with biased, er, people who spout nonsense.
I speak as myself on this forum, not as a formal representative of anyone else. That's my place.
Is that even possible?, you are an elected member of the local council and when you pass comment on anything related to the council, its policies or actions, you are, by definition passing comment as Councillor Dave Wood, elected representative of Eastcott ward.
For you to deny this is arrogant in the extreme and I personally think you are now verging on bringing your office into disrepute.
Your arrogance is further demonstrated by this statement:
I could spend all my time justifying myself to a small number of people on here, but I've already been told by Tory councillor posters here that that's a waste of time.
I was about to demonstrate attendant irony, and rank hypocrisy contained within the above quote by supplying various quotes from the
'blog' section of the Swindon Liberal Democrat website.
Unfortunately the relevant section of Councillor Woods public information orifice is no longer public, and is now displaying the message
"This blog is open to invited readers only".
Previous to the Liberal Democrats taking this curiously illiberal move to restrict access to their site, it would have been the work of moments to illustrate how Councillor Woods versions of recent events differs radically from everyone elses. Put bluntly, most of the 'facts' contained in his his blog are 'questionable', several more just don't tally with verifiable and recorded data.
Perhaps it's not surprising that access to his blog has been restricted to 'invited readers only'. If it ever does become publicly available again you can rest assured its content will have been thoroughly checked and edited.
Peach touched on an interesting point when he/she said:
For some of us, this forum is the only contact our councillors make so it would be a shame if they few that do stopped posting. (I'm not including reading about them kerb crawling, or driving without the correct documentation in the adver as contact).
So why are the Liberal Democrats restricting access to the very part of their site which allows residents of Eastcott the opportunity to read about their councillors activities?, is this behaviour Liberal or democratic?.
I think not.
Grow up Councillor Wood, and start living up to the responsibiity of your elected position and learn to deal with the everyday knocks that other Councillors take for granted.
If you are unable to stop yourself veering between Councillor one minute, and member of the public the next, and seeing tories behind every every piece of received criticism, you should admit you're not up to the job, stop letting your residents down and resign.
Being elected a councillor didn't imbibe you with superhero powers and you can't just return to public anonymity as and when it suits you.
You are not a Clark Kent type figure, able to flit between personas. You are an elected councillor. Start behaving like one.