Despite having predetermined himself on a grand scale, preventing him from taking part in the activity he was elected to do, Richard Kingstone has taken to complaining online about the houses on the college site being approved. Public representation means exactly that, representation, doing what the public elected you to do which is have a voice for them on meetings or committee’s of the Council. Not to sit behind a keyboard and complain about decisions being made that you purposely excluded yourself from being part of thanks to your incessant need for self publicity.
If Kingstone had kept his mouth shut, he’d have been able to voice his concerns in the meeting, having them put on the record, not to mention ask pointed questions about the issue at hand. Instead he criticises the rest of the Councillors who did turn up for not saying a word against a perfectly legal application. Of course Kingstone knows the planning application was always going to get passed, if he had any legal valid reasons why it couldn’t be then he’d have been able to say that in the meeting and have it stopped. Unfortunately his desire for self gratification and the love of his Facebook group were more important, again, as usual.
We don’t disagree that Tamworths’ road network is going to struggle even more with more houses built. What we do know is that problem would eventually get resolved one way or another. It might not be immediate, but you cannot just spend an absolute fortune of taxpayers money on a problem that has not yet manifested itself. You could argue that the traffic reduction from the college moving could well negate the traffic from the housing estate substantially. It’s a side of the argument you don’t get to hear when certain politicians are trying to make their point.
It’s quite possible at some point that the proposed Tamworth ring road, or at least one that picks up from the back of Amington Fields across the river into the town centre might be resurrected. It’s not however going to happen by complaining on Facebook.
