Your regular correspondent, Ian Stevenson, questions the excessive expenditure of TCC in recent times, giving 4 examples.
The ‘anonymous' reply from TCC staff is that ‘as usual the allegations this correspondent makes are incorrect'. From their anonymity, staff makes no attempt to refute the allegations or give the ‘correct' information!
This is a bureaucratic ploy known as ‘attack the messenger – not the message', and is typical of the arrogant, self-righteous attitude of those who consider they are better than the rest of us.
TCC staff's reply also invites Mr Stevenson to appear before Council to present his case.
Problem is – many people are so busy earning a living, keeping their heads above water, and keeping pace with ever increasing and outrageous rate demands, that they don't have the time to attend protracted, politicised Council meetings.
Recordings of Council meetings and decisions are no doubt edited and sanitised for public consumption.
If we are to learn anything from the recent Wikileaks/Assange revelations it is that those in authority – even local authority – don't want the peasants to know the truth!
R Jordan, Merivale.