David Williams Election May 2008

Click on David's sheet to read.

Since David will not give me an election sheet here is one I found on the road.

David says if you want somebody to represent you who will attend meetings, sit on sub committees etc, he is not your man.
Just to familiarize the reader who may not know the local government system. It is a smaller model of our national government. We have a local government and we have a local opposition. They compete to run Flintshire County.

We currently have a majority to Labour on Flintshire County Council so the Labour Group run the show.

Labour hold all the executive positions. They have something like a two seat majority over the non labours.

The Local Opposition is made up non Labour. Our Cllr Colin Bithell is Deputy Leader of the Local Opposition which is why he gets £16,000 a year instead of £12,500 which is what every county councillor gets plus expenses. Colin gets the extra as he has to spend a lot of time at Shire Hall which may even be on a daily basis.

So David who has attended 3 out of 15 meetings has not supported the Independents at all.
David must ask the question of why would the local opposition as a group do anything to help Penyffordd with his total lack of turning up and reliability. He doesn't even apologise for not turning up.

So David what did we get for your £12,500 last year.
I know a resident who rang you up about a problem and you told them to put it in writing.
Why the extra hoop to jump through.
Not really what you get the £12,500 for David.

Community Councillors get no money in fact there is a negative, my election literature cost £160 and there in no certainty of me getting on the Penyffordd Community Council. My investment is there because I have had 14 months of getting not too far.

On the back of David's election sheet one of David's aims is to raise the profile of Penyffordd at Shire Hall and with councillors. - How can you do that if you do not go too meetings and support the Independents?

David feels that with another 4 years he can make further progress in improving the quality of life in our village.

So you have known about 100's of cars flying through our village each morning on a major route to school for 14 months.

What is the progress on this daily trashing of our village. Not much.

David has mates in the village who can't see the trouble with doing 50 mph passed the Post Office.

Post Script. Cllr Colin Bithell has done his best to ignore the speeding.