Allhallows Brimp Fiasco

It is not often this blogger ventures onto the Peninsula unless its for a walk or to see some of the most inspirational views of anywhere in Medway. It is truly beautiful on a sunny day in August.

Alas today the trip was strictly business which was good because it was very wet

Allhallows are suffering a double-whammy on the Peninsula currently. They are suffering from a stale and tired parish council which has decided to stitch up a local youth service and the Brimp site. They are also suffering because the Medway Tories are cutting youth service budgets and have ratcheted up tuition fees so making it very difficult for young people to get a job or attend university.

The issue of the Brimp has received significant commentary from the local media and Alan Watkins who has correctly highlighted the total farce of a situation that is occurring in the location.

Medway Conservatives have apparently, according to sources, been playing both sides. Warm words to the young people in the area whilst engaging in conversations with the anti-youth side.

Sometimes having someone from outside who has no vestige interest whatsoever to take a look at the site is what is required.

This is a case in point, and Medway Council needs to step in.

It is clear the community is fizzing with rage at what is happening, including over some quite clear inconsistencies, over asbestos and other such issues. It stinks and it needs someone with some gravitas to push heads together and quickly.

Ordinarily this should be the job of the Medway Councillors for the area. However with the games over Peninsula selection and the knifing of the Bamber's it is clear that the Medway Conservatives are largely distancing themselves from the issue, instead trying to claim this is nothing more than an All Hallows Parish Council issue.

Except it is not. All Hallows Parish Council is given its funding by a Council tax precept and it is absolutely the responsibility of Medway Tories to stand up for local residents against yes, there own colleagues, on the Parish Council.

So what are your local Peninsula Conservatives talking about. The blog for the area reveals that the World War 2 Anti-tank obstacles remain an interest point. Simply baffling.

Youth Services and funding thereof is a Medway Council matter and the Council has a responsibility for youth provision across all of Medway and ensuring these issues are resolved.

I do not live on the Peninsula, and it is not for me to suggest an outcome except to suggest that there is real lack of responsibility from the glut of local politicians and newbie wannabe's and from the comments I received today on the doorstep, there is a genuine anger that this is not being dealt with at all.

There is a total lack of trust with the blue-rinse brigade who run this area like a fiefdom and the younger generation, like those in the rest of Medway, are fed up with it.

Tories on the Peninsula need to get a grip and bang heads together.

p.s. Thanks to a very friendly couple on Binney Road even provided hot mugs of coffee for a collection of very wet canvassers. Thank you