How can they spend £750k on this during a recession? (From Bucks Free Press)

How can they spend £750k on this during a recession?

12:14pm Friday 27th August 2010 in

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COUNCILLOR Jean Teesdale, at a recent Lane End Parish Council meeting, was reported to have asked parishioners to make their feelings heard on the proposed new stadium for Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps, which would replace Adams Park as it was too small and had no exit road.

What a breath of fresh air you are councillor Jean to ask parishioners what they want or don’t want.

As a parishioner of Hazlemere on the electorate list, may I address you councillor as I don’t have email?

As a great grandfather of two, a boy and a girl, aged five and three years of age, I am councillor writing on their behalf for the future. I shall be 83 years-old shortly, born in Temple End, High Wycombe, and my root stock was sprouting in this area long before the Plague and the Great Fire of London.

How on earth councillor, in the worst recession since the 1930s which I lived through, can this country and council survive by spending £750,000 on a core strategy to fund a multi-millionaire’s dream?

Steve Hayes [owner of Wanderers and Wasps] wants to call it a sport village. To the electorate of WDC, it’s a red herring with no advantages to the general public.

I have expressed my concerns to councillors and the BFP since it was first mooted.

Do you know councillors: Parker Knoll and Glenisters, of Temple End, closed, with Broom Wade (Compair) and Harrison of Coates Lane closed in 2003?

Thousands of good paying jobs are gone forever. My repeated suggestions to those running the council, that we should employ a first class consultant to travel the world to encourage high-tech and industry to settle in Wycombe, fell on stony ground and deaf ears.

What a different High Wycombe. We endured in the recession of the 1930s good employment to those who moved home and settled her and stayed.

This council is not on the same wave-length as our Prime Minister David Cameron.

He has vision for a new society to share in the riches of a new Great Britain, when industry and manufacturing motors on, putting the great back into Great Britain – a “Britain open for business” to invest in our future.

Have you children or grandchildren?

I don’t suppose so.

My grandchildren ask: ‘On my money and prospects, how will I be able to afford to live, run a home, run a car, get married and afford to bring up children?”

I tell them, you won’t. Grandad is working on it, to get society to accept its responsibility to its own. I tell them this Conservative council is selfish – spending this £750,000 for a rich man’s dream, instead on the next generation’s dreams of security, when it’s their turn to hold the reins to steer the country forward.

Thank goodness we have fresh ideas. No reliance of the financial markets which let us down.

For 31 years, 1979-2010, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, believed in the free market, market forces prevailing, no subsidy, only the fittest survive, the financial markets will carry us through.

A dream that’s turned into a nightmare. Let’s wait for Eric Pickles’ review on council spending in September 2010.

Perhaps it will bring some sense and sanity to this council’s thinking on priorities to the electorate’s well-being first, rather than one man, Steve Hayes. A multi-millionaire.

Rex G Pawley, Chestnut Lane, Hazlemere