Southport Labour's latest rubbish - clearing group is of course nothing new.
https://www.otsnews.co.uk/ainsdale-beach-clean-see-team-action/
Many residents have asked the question: Are litter-picking groups led by political activists actually concerned about excessive rubbish or are they simply after our votes?
On OTS Facebook Cllr Tony Dawson stated - and we quote the paragraph as it was written.
“This appears to be a direct copy of the Tory'A' team. They also refused to join the non-political rubbish clearing groups, beleiveing that rubbish clearing requres political purity. They posed for some photos. Lost some elections. And completely disappeared. If only that happened to the rubbish!”
It is true that the Tories did indeed start a litter-picking pre-election group called ‘Love Ainsdale’. Yet following successive defeats this outfit appeared to vanish. Was this the same fleeting Tory group that Cllr Dawson mentioned above?
Before the Labour and Tory groups kicked off the Lib Dems had their 'Rubbish Friends' group.
Above the Rubbish Friends team directed by local councillors.
Before all of this activity the Ainsdale Tories had initiated a troubled eco-group, WWP, (Woodvale Woodland Project) led by an Ainsdale councillor,Ted Hartill. Hartill had really hit the nail on the head, when it came to marking the ‘real agenda’ behind such groups...
A Southport news site reported (14/3/2016) that Hartill had used Facebook to ‘tell the world’ that he disagreed with Cameron over leaving the EU and that he also agreed with the Lib Dems on leaving Sefton. The same news item also underlined the fact that Cllr Terry Jones, Hartill’s Tory chief, had attacked Hartill for wanting “mass publicity.”
Above the Rubbish Friends team directed by local councillors.
Before all of this activity the Ainsdale Tories had initiated a troubled eco-group, WWP, (Woodvale Woodland Project) led by an Ainsdale councillor,Ted Hartill. Hartill had really hit the nail on the head, when it came to marking the ‘real agenda’ behind such groups...
Apparent naivety over “close friends” may also be a noteworthy point when we see how Hartill’s purportedly close friend, Jones, told others about his “mass publicity” efforts, regarding the Woodvale Woodland Project (WWP) etc.
It seems that Cllr Jones was not too happy that the “papers were catching on" to Hartill’s “self publicity.”
Hartill’s actions indicated that he’d used the WWP situation to promote his political agenda and had even bragged about it to others. Hartill eventually resigned his Tory councillor role for various reasons...
Public volunteers who'd worked hard for the WWP over 9 months were banned from the group by Sefton Council after whistleblowing on the questionable activities within.
Whether or not all politically - led public eco-groups carry such hidden agendas remains to be seen.
Yes, it's great to see rubbish cleared up but it has to be done for the right reasons and not just for private or political gain.
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