His Speech to a Flintshire County Council committee
Yesterday and today Richard Penney, Jon Merrick, Dave Kay and I spent 10 and a half backbreaking hours starting the creation of new turf cricket pitches at Hawarden High School.
We are doing this voluntarily over the next six months because the shameful legacy that this Council has left is that no inter school cricket was played in Flintshire last year.
This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because they know the many and varied benefits that sport brings to people's lives.
In 2007, I started the only female cricket team in North Wales. It involved coaching at schools, setting up an inter school competition, forming a squad and then running the team, which still plays today in the Cheshire League.
This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because it is the right thing to do.
This Council gets off very lightly financially when it comes to sport and leisure because of the huge contribution of mugs like me.
Council's investment in this vital area is pathetic.
It's record at Hope Sports Centre is an embarrassment.
At the end of my four-year term, I will be able to point to millions of pounds worth of new community assets that I have brought to Hope at no cost to Flintshire Council.
I will also be able to point to hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra income that I have helped Hope generate for the Council.
The least that the people of Hope should expect in return is for its Sports Centre to have increased investment in it. The formula is simple, if you invest in a Sports Centre, more people will use it. If you don't invest, fewer people will use it and then some narrow-minded bean-counter will call for its closure.
Give me unfettered access in County Hall and I'll identify £609,364 in waste inside a week.
Attack sport and you attack me. Attack Hope and you attack me. This is a war that should not have been started.
If we are to be driven entirely by profit – then I fail to see why we have a Head of Leisure Services or an Executive Member for Leisure, because I don't see either of those positions turning a profit. All I see is a diminishing service.
Mr Chairman, let us not waste any more time on this insult to our intelligence. Let us take the vote now to consign this wafer-thin, bean-counting document to the recycling depot where it can be transformed into toilet paper.
Cllr Tim Newhouse
Yesterday and today Richard Penney, Jon Merrick, Dave Kay and I spent 10 and a half backbreaking hours starting the creation of new turf cricket pitches at Hawarden High School.
We are doing this voluntarily over the next six months because the shameful legacy that this Council has left is that no inter school cricket was played in Flintshire last year.
This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because they know the many and varied benefits that sport brings to people's lives.
In 2007, I started the only female cricket team in North Wales. It involved coaching at schools, setting up an inter school competition, forming a squad and then running the team, which still plays today in the Cheshire League.
This is the type of project that councils in Australia do – because it is the right thing to do.
This Council gets off very lightly financially when it comes to sport and leisure because of the huge contribution of mugs like me.
Council's investment in this vital area is pathetic.
It's record at Hope Sports Centre is an embarrassment.
At the end of my four-year term, I will be able to point to millions of pounds worth of new community assets that I have brought to Hope at no cost to Flintshire Council.
I will also be able to point to hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra income that I have helped Hope generate for the Council.
The least that the people of Hope should expect in return is for its Sports Centre to have increased investment in it. The formula is simple, if you invest in a Sports Centre, more people will use it. If you don't invest, fewer people will use it and then some narrow-minded bean-counter will call for its closure.
Give me unfettered access in County Hall and I'll identify £609,364 in waste inside a week.
Attack sport and you attack me. Attack Hope and you attack me. This is a war that should not have been started.
If we are to be driven entirely by profit – then I fail to see why we have a Head of Leisure Services or an Executive Member for Leisure, because I don't see either of those positions turning a profit. All I see is a diminishing service.
Mr Chairman, let us not waste any more time on this insult to our intelligence. Let us take the vote now to consign this wafer-thin, bean-counting document to the recycling depot where it can be transformed into toilet paper.
Cllr Tim Newhouse
Member of the Lifelong Learning Overview & Scrutiny Committee
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It is hoped that Penyffordd Councillors will back Cllr Tim Newhouse whatever their political persuasion. Sport is a vital pathway to channel youth energy in a positive manner for Flintshire society. As you can see Tim is on a war path. Flintshire could do with more cllrs like Tim.
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