After coming under heavy attack in the by-election for Stoodley for procuring a luxury BMW on the NHS mobility scheme he made a farcical attempt to have myself and another member of the public banned from Town Hall meetings. At the start of November’s meeting of the Amenities Committee he announced that the police had advised him to leave if I was permitted to stay. By a vote of 4-1 (3 Labour and 1 Independent) with four abstentions his pathetic attempt to have us chucked out was defeated, and a humiliated Coun. Baksa put his coat on and stormed out.
After licking his wounds he returned, two weeks later, at Full Council. I pressed the Council for clarification of the right of the public to be at Town Council meetings, which was confirmed. The response by Champagne Chris was to place a set of restrictions on the agenda of January’s General Purposes Committee with the obvious intention of preventing anybody from asking questions that may cause him embarrassment. This was unanimously voted down.
That evening Coun. Margaretta Holmstedt (Liberal, Stoodley) said, “When I read all this I thought it was April Fool’s Day.
Coun. David Tattersall (Labour, Cornholme) was even more scathing. He slammed the Liberals saying, “During the Cornholme by-election I was told that Rez had said that ‘I was to the Labour Party what AIDS is to the gay community’, I think the Lib-Dems should put their own house in order before criticising anybody else.”
Champagne Chris is indeed a glutton for punishment. One day the penny may drop that the more he maintains this ridiculous behaviour the more I am going to make fun of hum for it. Sadly his party’s attitude is a more serious matter.
When I stated in my 2012 Calderdale Council election address that I would vote against the placing of Traveller Sites near Todmorden. The Lib-Dem’s local Chief “Slick Mick” Taylor had me arrested on a Race Hate complaint. Yet because Baksa happens to be Taylor’s shabbos goy he can say remarks just like mine and get away with it.
One thing is for definite. The Liberal Democrats have no right to criticise me for anything again. Your move Chris, let’s hope it will be a resignation.