Rose Coloured Specs
Well friends and readers while this community continues to be engulfed by the sleazy revelations coming out of the private Waterfront club,where exactly does the community stand several years into this development. The promise of inclusion is now just seen for what it was,a bad joke. The promise of local employment has vanished,that is of course if anyone ever believed it in the first place. The vision of social and affordable housing was more a mirage than a vision,and the person who is conveniently getting the blame has left for pastures new in Jersey.
So what now for the future of this non inclusive development. Are we to get more false dawns and promises as past dubious parctices come to light, Pilton Sucks is convinced more sleaze is still to come as there are a number of unanswered questions to be addressed,in particular why was this board[WEL] allowed to operate in secrecy,and if this extravagent spending was proper why was it kept a secret? The former chair tells us she knew little of what was going on,nobody seriously believes her,even her dwindling number of hangers on would find that hard to believe.
No friends and readers we where all lead a merry dance while a handful helped themselves and are now trying to body swerve their way out of it. There should be a full public enquirey into the running and chairmanship of this board and a detailed investigation into those that benifited personaly from their membership of this discredited board.
Never in this community’s history have so few conned so many and then tried to justify their mal-practice. All trust is now gone and the former chair is isolated however much she tries to shift blame. There is an air of panic in behaviour like that,instead of owning up to what went on,the plan of denial and blame shifting is in full flow. Many in this community feel badly let down and cheated.
This development should have been a beacon of hope and renewal for this community,instead it has been a windfall for a favoured few,and the community has been sold down the drain on the back of greed and deceit. We hear the new CEO talking about local jobs and traditional housing,Pilton Sucks would like to remind him that was the original idea,but it went missing somewhere on the back of what is there now, slums of the future,overly expensive slums but slums never the less.
For the comrades of the fomer chair they to must now look at their own position in the community and realise there is no place for them either. The times are a changing,and not before time,it may well be that some of these well,some might say overly funded local projects will be closely looked at and some interesting questions may arise, as to how these large sums where arrived at. Still that’s for another day not to far away,in the meantime the community needs to be included in any future plans,and never again can a chairperson be allowed to hold court on the backs of the people.