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Count the Balfour Beatty Bodge Jobs!
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| It's a roller coaster ride! |
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Wheel rim smashing
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| Tyre wrecking, Daughter felling, Scooter damaging |
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| ONE DUCK PER POTHOLE! |
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| Ducks in the gutter Photos: Southampton Independents (AP) |
Get your ducks in a row!
A pothole horror show!
Scooter wrecking
Child injuring
Mother worrying
Wheel smashing
Yet another
Council no show!
Which dangerous road is this in Southampton?
Clue: It's another one in Millbrook Ward, like many of the others we have done with Guess the Pothole on reddit. See the r/Southampton Subreddit to play there.
A resident, there with her daughter told us:
"My daughter on her foot scooter has gone over more than once. She has gone over on kerb, road and pavement. She was grazed and scarred."
Andrew Pope of the Independent Network says:
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| Andrew Pope Inventor of Guess the Pothole in Rownhams Road, Redbridge Ward Photo: Southampton Independents (AP) |
"I have written to the Council to demand that they CANCEL the Balfour Beatty roads contract! I've investigated Labour's highway robbery and reported it here on this website.
If it wasn't for my investigation, which I told the Daily Echo about in mid-February and the Councillor for scrutiny, Lib Dem Richard Blackman, nobody would have known the £60 million figure apart from Council officers and the Labour councillors that approved it.
I am pleased that the Daily Echo has finally reported it, but not happy that they did not quote me or even ask me for a quote. They claim that they did their own investigation - a claim which I find hard to believe when I gave them the story six weeks ago.
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| Southampton Labour's Highway Robbery |
Instead of cancelling the highways contract, the Labour councillors actually extended it, with little fanfare and no publicity. And with very little democratic accountability, hiding it amongst lots of other documents and "delegated authority" to Council officers.
Councillors should have spotted it - there are 51 of them! But they didn't. I did, and I'm not currently a councillor. I found them out through my hard work and investigative skills.
Labour have bunged Balfour Beatty another £60 MILLION, as exposed by my investigation over the past two months. I have the evidence of my investigation, in writing.
And how can they give Balfour Beatty any contract when they have admitted that they blacklisted? I have checked with Council officers. The anti-blacklisting procurement rules that I myself put in place, are still in place.
So not only should the contract be cancelled because it's a failure, it should be cancelled immediately because Balfour Beatty blacklisted. They shouldn't be rewarded for failure, and shouldn't be rewarded for blacklisting.
What does it say about the lack of local democracy that this can happen, despite residents knowing that the contract has been a failure for SIXTEEN YEARS!
If you need another example of Labour or Tory, same old story, here it is. It's a horror show and it's gory.
If I can do this without even being a councillor, imagine what I can find out if I am elected onto the Council again, with more powers to compel officers to answer.
I have been campaigning on safety for Southampton people for years - road safety, tower block fire safety and Saints fan safety. I ask you to please, therefore to...
Vote Andrew Pope Independent Network on 7th May!"
