Friday 6 March 2020

The enemy of my enemy is my fiend.....

 I found this blog this morning. It's fascinating

 https://wereasmadashell.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/starting-small-when-councillors-go-bad/?fbclid=IwAR20Bk0CCF3-nW19_vWaBfLZbFoTpDbxWNQdgh61PHhefqJJ7s49qOinNAY

 

Starting small. When councillors go bad.

The Welsh government was the first to declare a climate emergency. Individual councils followed suit but Neath Port Talbot has held back. Everybody has heard of climate change so I won’t labour the point here, I’ll just use one example. The United Nations Secretary-General described it as an “existential threat to humanity”.
I started out concerned then the more hard science I read, then more terrified and angry I became so I joined Extinction Rebellion. There are a couple of hundred thousand of us in the UK and we don’t all go around standing on top of trains. Far from it. Our local group started small and we wanted to reach out to the local community. Where better to start than the largest local online community Facebook group “Neath Constituency Voice For Everyone” which has over 11,000 members and is solely run by ‘independent’ councillor Stephen Karl Hunt.
Mr. Hunt has certain duties and obligations as a councillor e.g. the promotion of equality; accountability and openness; selflessness; objectivity, propriety and integrity. He must not conduct himself in a manner which could reasonably be regarded as bringing his office or authority into disrepute. 
The Neath Voice For Everyone group has enormous reach and influence within the community, especially when run by a single partisan moderator who can choose exactly which direction it takes, which posts are deemed ‘too political’, ‘too contentious’ or labelled as advertising etc. Basically anything Mr. Stephen Karl Hunt doesn’t like. This hardly represents his duty as a councillor to have integrity or to be selfless or objective under the code of conduct. Indeed, I contend that Mr. Hunt uses it as a medium to progress his own personal agenda, whatever that may be on a day to day basis.
One thing Mr. Hunt doesn’t like is discussion of the climate and ecological emergency, the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. He bans those who post about it and certainly anyone who posts about local climate activist meetings or fundraisers.
He also ignored my requests to rejoin the group to ask for help and recommendations for tradesman following the recent flooding across Wales. Something I was badly affected by personally. There’s no irony here. First he dismisses discussion of climate change, then he refuses to let one of his electorate ask for help following flooding due to the increasingly severe weather we are seeing.
Here’s my own personal experience with him. You can judge for yourself.
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