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Friends and readers. We still await a public appology from PEP for the threats made to a member of the FSF funding panal at the recent Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meeting.

As this Community moves forward with much needed change a pocket of resistance to change still remains,now resorting to threats and intimidation.

Pilton Sucks would be the first to speak up if these changes were not fair and above board,but in our opinion they are and very much needed,if we are not to remain in the dark ages.

We are as reported the only Neighbourhood Parnership that has all 5 action groups Community lead,and that’s got to be good news regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on.

As a Community whose history is steeped in one of campaigning,we should use that experience to make the argument for change not to replying to it.

What started as the Pilton Community Association has grown in stature,knowledge and experience,but the big failing was it’s inability to cross political divides,remaining firmly in the Labour Party pocket.

Many of our residents who may have wanted to get involved in their Community structures were put off by this mentality,and our Community suffered for it.

By firmly siding with a single political party this allowed tactics of an unsavoury nature to be used at will,using the blanket cover of democracy as an excuse for overall control of anything that moved.

Thankfully we have moved on a bit,but more is needed if we are to truely become a mature thinking Community with minds of our own willing to sit at the table of discussion,instead of trying to kick it over.

No-one whoever they are and whatever beliefs or opinions they hold should be subjected to threats and intimidation,that is just shameful and a disgrace.

So let us be fair,if the person who made the threats cares to appologise to the panal member along with the organisation he so clearly is a part of,then that will be that.

If that is not deemed suitable then it’s out of our hands and has to go to the next stage.

When oh when will we learn,nothing gets done if we threaten to try and bring the house down upon our heads,that way can only end in tears,let us learn from our mistakes,we can only be the better for it. 

G-Mcfall- Pilton Sucks.Com    

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