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Sally Perry·

Members of the Isle of Wight full council will be gathering at County Hall from 6pm for their monthly meeting tonight (Wednesday).

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retired hack
21, September 2016 7:04 pm

Why has the chairman not called the loutish Cllr Whitehouse to order (1900hrs)?

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retired hack
Reply to  retired hack
21, September 2016 7:14 pm

Is he just answering a call of nature, or is that it from him for tonight? I repeat my previous suggestion that, to qualify for the green tick on the website, councillors should be required to sign out at the end of meetings, as well as in at the beginning. And preferably behave themselves while they’re there.

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Sally Perry
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Reply to  retired hack
21, September 2016 8:14 pm

He didn’t return

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Steephill Jack
Reply to  retired hack
22, September 2016 8:16 pm

Cllr Whitehouse has previously explained that he suffers from mental health problems.

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Stewart Blackmore
21, September 2016 7:08 pm

The sound system is completely inadequate in County Hall.

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billyburgess
21, September 2016 8:01 pm

Are we now allowed to criticise Cllr Whitehouse given he claims to have recovered from his self-publicised health problems?

I felt that the self-declaration of his problems a few months back made it more difficult for him to face scrutiny for his obnoxious behaviour, in case it was looked like we were kicking a vulnerable member of society.

Is he now fair game? I hope so.

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nico
Reply to  billyburgess
21, September 2016 8:28 pm

He decided he’s fit to stand again, having previously promised to stand down next year.

I think that makes him fair game, (we can’t have political leaders being excused necessary behaviours and duties, can we …?). Even more so if the revelation of mental illness was a nettle grasped as his only way out at the time.

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billyburgess
Reply to  nico
21, September 2016 9:20 pm

Nico, is that not a bit harsh?

Are you suggesting he played the mental health card in an opportunist public manner to neuter valid criticism which was coming his way?

I suppose it is a possibility. He is a PR man after all.

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retired hack
Reply to  nico
21, September 2016 9:35 pm

Most unlike the man not to trumpet that piece of “news”. And I haven’t detected any such recent trumpeting…??

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okayanyway
Reply to  nico
22, September 2016 12:07 pm

No Councillor it certainly does not make him or anyone else fair game who may have in the past, present or future suffered mental health issues.

You should be very careful what you say given your position in the council and unwise words can have a devastating effect on the vulnerable.

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Ali Hayden.
21, September 2016 8:42 pm

The biggest shock of the meeting was seeing our Island MP Andrew Turner there!
Not once in three + a half years have I ever seen him attend.
Miracles do happen!

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retired hack
Reply to  Ali Hayden.
21, September 2016 9:31 pm

What on earth was he doing there? As far as I can make out the only matter decided was Geoff Lumley’s motion on pensions, and I don’t see that as being high on AT’s list of priorities. So that leaves two possibilities. Either he thought the increasingly erratic Cllr Whitehouse was going to move his vote of no confidence (rather than make a fool of himself, again);… Read more »

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VentnorLad
Reply to  Ali Hayden.
21, September 2016 9:32 pm

He’d probably got a bit lost and wandered in looking for a milky drink and his carers.

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disgusting
Reply to  VentnorLad
22, September 2016 6:56 am

The bloke has many shortcomings and I would never vote for him, but have a little respect. Or at least cut out the sarcasm. It makes you look like an utter idiot.

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Steephill Jack
Reply to  Ali Hayden.
22, September 2016 8:21 pm

Turner is part of the Conservative plot to join with Hampshire CC and gain control of the Island. People who belong to political parties always put the party first.

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Geoff Lumley
22, September 2016 9:48 am

Thanks to the 23 Councillors still present last night who unanimously approved this important motion for many island women. Shame on Cllrs Dave Stewart and Ray Bloomfield who walked out despite being advised they had no prejudicial interest by the Council’s Monitoring Officer. Ignoring advice to avoid having to take a position being a favoured Tory tactic. Also shame on Cllrs Chris Whitehouse and Bob Blezzard who… Read more »

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steve stubbings
22, September 2016 10:12 am

Cllr Whitehouse’s no confidence motion was noticeably absent from all proceedings. His bluff having been well and truly called, he needed to find something else to pontificate about. The ‘hospital ball’ question he threw at his own group leader was, to say the least, bizarre.

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okayanyway
Reply to  steve stubbings
22, September 2016 10:57 am

Very Boring nico, very boring..

You have wrung every drop out of that story move on please.

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