Your Manor FOCUS team recently reported on the Council’s Chief Executive’s apology with regards to the response to December’s snow fall. We further commented on how Labour were avoiding the ‘blame game’ and trying to take the politics out of the abysmal response to the snow fall and gritting issues that followed. However, no such apology has come from the man in charge politically. In fact, far from it, Bootle Labour Councillor and the man in charge of Sefton’s gritting, Cllr John Fairclough (pictured), is avoiding the issue let alone apologising.
Mr. Fairclough was invited to answer local people’s concerns at the Southport Area Committee and the Crosby Area Committee. He directed those who wanted to know if he would attend to his comments in the Crosby Herald. This is not a personal attack on Mr. Fairclough, as claimed by Labour, but it is purely a comment about his audacity and the lack of accountability, whilst he abuses his position of greater responsibility (and the additional allowances he receives for this privilege). As my colleagues in Southport have commented, perhaps the more bizarre factor to come out is the response of the Tory Leader Mrs Parry. Now you would have thought she would have been the champion of her government's policy of local unaccountability, but no. Instead she said:
“…the attendance at Area Committees of Chief Executive Margaret Carney, and top Council officers Jerry McConkey and Peter Moore was sufficient.”
This continuing saga reminds me of one of the main reasons I joined the Liberal Democrat Party: safe seats and the lack of accountability within both the Labour and Conservative camps.
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