| Topic: | Ealing Planning Controversy - Dr Onkar Sahota Responds | |
| Posted by: | MIchael Cass | |
| Date/Time: | 18/07/13 20:08:00 |
| Sahota's response is very telling. He responds by stating incomplete facts, introducing diversion tactics, and by playing the victim. He states that 'no planning officers were present'. That may be true, but people who were far more influential and further up the food chain in the planning process were. Who needs the lowly planning offices. You can't go any higher than Cllr Bell who Sahota claims 'made introductions'. The big question is .. why? Doesn't Bell have better things to do than get involved in a single planning process? Who else gets this privilege? One can only come to their own conclusions why the leader of Ealing council was there. Astonishingly, Sahota said that the reason he did this was that as a local politician, that he 'wanted to engage early with the council.' As a local politician common sense would say that is why NOT to engage the council at any point outside of the process that us plebs need to deal with Ealing Council. What was he thinking? To be seen to be playing by the rules, you would run a mile from involving anyone from the council outside of the normal procedures. Certainly not contacting senior members. Perhaps he thought that this the sort of treatment he deserves, or is used to. This time others have found out. Which brings me to my next point. He is screaming that others (meaning those who hold our politicians to account) are using this to political advantage. And most of us would say 'so they should.' Sahota using the last resort of playing the victim says it all. He has been caught with his pants down, and hopefully we will get to the bottom of this. No pun intended. But as it is Labour-run Brent council investigating, I won't hold my breath. This is just 'business as usual' for our council. |