Here are some facts!

Some influential senior/committee members of a local amenity society, who are and have been actively being consulted by the Council on the best way forward on the Pools as part of the due process appear to have been proactive in disrupting the process by using effectively privileged knowledge and information gained from meetings to wilfully pre empt the process, to pre empt Council action and to inform third parties of such information with a view to disrupting the same.

Is that a fact or is that not a fact? Please note I'll happily stand up and say I'm completely wrong if I am!

Under the circumstances would you not say that their continued position in respect of the Council consultation is now somewhat untenable?

Speaking purely as a local long standing resident, and tax payer, I would expect my local council to define and involve stakeholders in accordance with their relevance to the local area and issue in hand, and likelihood of being even slightly representative of local people, not just by association. Hence I become very frustrated when I see non elected and not always directly relevant organisations disrupting the democratic process.

Smiler,yes, Councillors may represent people outside of their ward, but at least they are democratically elected , and are responsible for budgetary control and meeting performance targets of that authority.