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This resignation clearly shows concerns about bullying. The Clerk is an employee. What is the overviewing District Council doing about this? If the District Council cannot resolve this situation and the other ongoing problems (see other threads on this website over the last few years) then there is something very wrong with the governance system in this country. The voluntary Councillors' Code of Conduct does not work in this case. Perhaps it is time that the local MP addressed this failure in the governance system as no doubt we will not be the only ones going through this.

The discussion on this website about recent EDP articles sum up this untenable and ridiculous situation we find ourselves in as a community  https://spoonerrow.activeboard.com/t69873561/row-over-spooner-row-website-leaves-parish-council-in-chaos-/

Dear Mal,

Thank you for your post and kind words of support.

Regarding the anonymous post feature on this message board. Many forums include the option to remain anonymous. Twitter, for example, uses handles that do not require real-name use, email verification, or identity authentication, therefore participants can use Twitter anonymously if they choose. This message board is similar in that it believes that people can express their views and opinions with the option to be in control of their privacy. Users of this site have the option to use their real name, a username, or just use the anonymous default. This site is moderated and abusive comments are deleted or edited. 

Ps. Do you want to post your resignation letter?

I appreciate your post, Mal.

I attended the meetings where you spoke and I considered you to be a valuable asset to the Committee. Your knowledge with website design would have been of help with the new website that the council is hoping to setup.
Your not being on the committee is a loss to the council and to our community, but I understand your reasons for leaving.

Stephen Ward resigned at our last meeting. He had already resigned as council member but was continuing on as voluntary financial officer.
He gave his time entirely freely to assist us and was clearly a very educated and knowledgeable man in the financial field. I was amazed by his presentation to the new members of how the finances were organised.
He's gone now. Another asset to our council and community leaves for exactly the sames reasons you gave.

The next video I intend to post in the next few days will feature his resignation and reasons for doing so, but it will not be posted to this board.

I will not write any more on here. Instead, I intend to continue to post uneditted recordings/videos of council meetings on my YouTube channel to show the public exactly what is going on.
I do this because I feel that the minutes provided do not give the full picture of what councillors are having to deal with.
No matter what side you are on in this argument, you can form your own opinion by hearing what is being said.

Christian Shadlock

No issues.

Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/@SpoonerRow69

Christian Shadlock

Thankyou Christian for posting, I have also just listened to your second video,it’s very clear Robert Foster argues for the sake of arguing when he doesn’t get his own way! 
To make it clear, we as a family do not want OUR money spent on gym equipment!

we want a path that people can safely use to get to the bus stop at the top of the road.

we have the funds , let’s not have people wallowing in glory because we have gym equipment, that people won’t use! 

Ask your community what they want.?

Dear ANON, I wonder who I’m addressing.😃 .Anyhow,  all I ever see is people walking their dogs on the field. Children using their play area.No one ever using tabletennis table .And sometimes people using the goals.
If Robert foster has his way,then we will be seeing a glorified shed on the field portrayed as a pavilion.what use is that? 

I don’t care if SNDC are in charge of footpaths! 
we need to be speaking to them about the path issue.offering to help pay for it.

imagine if someone gets killed ? How awful will that be? 

Christian Shadlock - you could also help by keeping this from being what it seems like - your mission to bring the council down. Or at least trying to get one councillor to resign - that’s most unlikely to happen. 
yes there’s lots of issues but what you are going is nothing more than aggravating matters. Let’s leave the council to work it out between them . They are all grown ups and I don’t think your posts are helping - in fact rather the opposite. You are right we don’t want to go back to Wymondham as it will not be a benefit to any of us.

time to give it a test don’t you think ? 

This kind of message of support  is what encourages gossips like Mr Shadlock who himself ran for council but did not secure enough votes to win a seat. He now seems to enjoy being a trouble maker. 
It looks like we were lucky. 

Perhaps this is Mr Shadlocks attempt to make himself popular ready for the next election?

He will not be getting my vote.

Isn’t it time that the council were left to sort things out without people stirring? 

We are a laughing stock. 

Does all this media attention really achieve anything?

Christian isn’t gossiping, he’s proving recordings of the council meetings, it’s good for us as a community to hear these. If Robert wasn’t on the council we would likely still have a full council including an RFO and they would probably be able to crack on and do some good for the community rather than arguing for half an hour that he doesn’t like the word exemplary then at the end saying he wouldn't be arguing this if he got the gym equipment!! Robert needs to do the right thing and stand down so the council can do what they are meant to be doing for the community taxpayers. 

What's is wrong with you people?

I am absolutely gobsmacked by all this.

All these petty arguments by so called adults, you are all behaving like a bunch of children.

You have taken responsibility to represent the interests of the local community to make our lives better and reading this forum I am shocked and embarrassed by what I read.

This is local politics, not Parliament and if any of our council think they are above all this, which this forum clearly demonstrates, then please resign.

It seems there is a complete lack of integrity and absolutely no team cohesion for the good of our community which you have chosen to represent.

Noone is forcing you to do it so if your interests are self serving and not for the good of the community then please resign.

Clearly this council has utterly failed to find commonality and seem completely unable to do so, therefore it should be dissolved and reelections take place and start again with members who's only interest is serving the community.

Oh, and by the way. It is insulting that this council is referred to as Spooner Row council and that everything is so SpoonerRowcentric. This is supposed to be about 3 communities, not just 1 and, with the state of this council, I can't see the point to all this.

Gym equipment for Spooner Row. Footpath for Spooner Row. New kitchen for Spooner Row., table tennis for Spooner Row. Goals for Spooner Row. Pavillion for Spooner Row.

What about the rest of us second class citizens.........

The community council made the EDP today for all the wrong reasons again!!

I think the EDP gives an accurate account of the situation on the community council and the question is why so many councillors joined to leave soon afterwards. What is the common reason?

The Chair and the Clerk need to be applauded for holding it together for this long.

I agree (regarding the Clerk and Chair being good people and working despite abuse and antagonism they recieve).
The vast majority of people in the village know what's going on and which individual is responsible.
Enough people have spelled it out for it to be blindingly obvious.