attila
1997 Club
Spoke to Dick and Martin just now.
The view from the club is that LDC are wasting their electors' money on a pointless exercise and that as far as the Albion is concerned it is business as usual. The Albion's advisors have told them that there is no chance of such a review being successful.
Be that as it may, they would like as many people as possible, especially Lewes residents, to write to the District Auditor asking this question (copied to Lewes District Council and the leader Ann De Vecchi - Lord Bracknell, can you supply the relevant e and snail mail addresses?)
- Does Lewes District Council have the power to risk vast sums of electors' money (anything up to £2,000,000 apparently)on this review without having taken it to full commitee? Is their decision not 'ultra vires' ? (the legal term)
Further from that, we agreed that in the short term the aim must be to make as many Lewes residents as possible - whatever their views on the stadium - aware of the sums of their money being risked.
I said that a demonstration outside Council at the next meeting, and/or a picket of the council leader's home, was an ideal way of doing this, and that such actions would be hugely popular among Albion fans.
To my immense disappointment Martin and Dick are both against a demonstration, saying it would be counter productive and play into the hands of the council (who, along with their claims that football is a 'minority sport', that we 'only have 7,000 fans' and that the Albion 'is a club for Brighton residents only' also state that they are 'protecting local residents' by opposing the stadium - protecting them from US!!!) I guess Dick and Martin are worried that if several hundred of us descend on the council chamber in full voice the lily-livered Lib Dem tree huggers will have a collective heart attack, or something like that.
Their general feeling is that we play it down (though both found a Forfar's boycott amusing)
Thoughts please?
The view from the club is that LDC are wasting their electors' money on a pointless exercise and that as far as the Albion is concerned it is business as usual. The Albion's advisors have told them that there is no chance of such a review being successful.
Be that as it may, they would like as many people as possible, especially Lewes residents, to write to the District Auditor asking this question (copied to Lewes District Council and the leader Ann De Vecchi - Lord Bracknell, can you supply the relevant e and snail mail addresses?)
- Does Lewes District Council have the power to risk vast sums of electors' money (anything up to £2,000,000 apparently)on this review without having taken it to full commitee? Is their decision not 'ultra vires' ? (the legal term)
Further from that, we agreed that in the short term the aim must be to make as many Lewes residents as possible - whatever their views on the stadium - aware of the sums of their money being risked.
I said that a demonstration outside Council at the next meeting, and/or a picket of the council leader's home, was an ideal way of doing this, and that such actions would be hugely popular among Albion fans.
To my immense disappointment Martin and Dick are both against a demonstration, saying it would be counter productive and play into the hands of the council (who, along with their claims that football is a 'minority sport', that we 'only have 7,000 fans' and that the Albion 'is a club for Brighton residents only' also state that they are 'protecting local residents' by opposing the stadium - protecting them from US!!!) I guess Dick and Martin are worried that if several hundred of us descend on the council chamber in full voice the lily-livered Lib Dem tree huggers will have a collective heart attack, or something like that.
Their general feeling is that we play it down (though both found a Forfar's boycott amusing)
Thoughts please?
