Jo Keeling, Candidate for Branksome and Talbot Woods By-Election publically thanks BCP & Dorset Motorist Group for helping promote her campaign. That's quite alright Jo, its our pleasure. We know that the Motorist's Voice is at the heart of your effort to restore sanity and democracy to BCP council....Not only that we will continue to do so. Good Luck!
We've been working hard behind the scenes on various projects, This is one. Thank you to Carl Bunter and his group Speed Cameras Dorset, We are both focussed on Making Roads Safer and Ending the War on Motorists.
Going forward this will add a lot of weight to our voice when engaging with both Dorset and BCP Councils, especially when we reach the local Elections. The Voice of the Motorsit will be heard.
A warm welcome goes out to all in Speed Camera Group and look forward seeing you on our facebook page.
Their page is here Link
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Further to questions a few days ago regarding the Group’s approach to the Bi-election in Phil Broadhead’s ward , where we concluded a strong Pro Motorist candidate would come forward …
Jo Keeling, one of our campaign’s supportive members has :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1381319375879876/permalink/1718908548787622/
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As BCP council push ahead with an increased fine trial. There are a couple of sneaky things you should know.
As part of the trial, BCP must prove they have enough suitable car parking to meet parking demand.
I would argue they don’t, head to any of the chines or down south borne on a busy summer day and you know full well that they are overwhelmed.
So how do you get around this and how do you meet the requirement for enough parking space…. well, just include car parks that aren’t actually for the seafront.#
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As previously posted I recently wrote to Cllrs Hadley and K Salmon asking about how our recent petition was being considered by the Local transport Plan ( LTP4 ) Working Group after it was referred to them at the full BCP Council Meeting on 3rd June.
Having received a response from Cllr Hadley… I have just sent him this note. I hope it is self explanatory. Sadly, as we feared. It looks like the petition was not taken seriously by the BCP Council Administration and is safely buried.
“Cllr Hadley ,
Thank you for the response.
However, I note from it that you are do not confirm how our petition was “ referred” or if the document was circulated to working group members. On that basis we assume it was not.
You did confirm that our petition did not appear on the WG agenda as a specific item. Which is very disappointing and will be of concern to our 2000 group members. I do not think “ being in the minds” of WG members will quite cut it with them as an adequate response.
On that basis, sadly with the exception of the support from Councillor Dower, it appears that as we feared , the views of 3281 people expressed in the petition will be safely sidelined in pursuit of the usual Active Travel Policies and Priorities. We shall report that back to our members accordingly. They will no doubt feel let down even if they expected it.
I would though agree that anything that could be done to reduce the number of HGV’s from the A350 would be beneficial and improvements to the A31 are really desperately needed. We shall see if they ever materialise.”
Steve Moody
Steering Lead - BCP and Dorset Motorists Group
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Another milestone ticked off, the 1900 member was.....Keith Antony Reynolds ! Welcome Keith!!!!
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Following the news the Cllr Phil Broadhead is likely to be leaving BCP Council and moving abroad with his family… we have been asked several times today about whether the BCP And Dorset Motorists Group would be putting forward a Candidate for his ward of Branksome and Talbot Woods should a council by election take place.
I am sure that my colleagues on the Motorists Steering Group would agree with me when I say certainly not in this case. For two reasons, Firstly I am sure the local Conservative Party will find or already have a strong candidate. Secondly, as a group we have no interest in putting up candidates against political parties who share and support Motorists interests. As we have seen from their leaflet published TW, we share common ground with them on many motorist issues.
I and other members of the SG have recently been approached on several occasions by two different political parties to ask if we would be prepared to stand as Town or BCP Council candidates.
Our position remains unchanged. As a group we will support any political party of any colour that supports and protects the interests of Motorists, the elderly and the less mobile. As it stands it does not take a genius to work out that currently, that it is very unlikely that will be the car hating Liberal Democrat’s, The Poole People or The Green Party.
From a practical, organisational and funding POV it will clearly be much better for our Motorists group to get behind a support an appropriate manifesto from an existing political party. Hopefully one that delivers on the commitments we seek rather than any of us stand as isolated Motorists Candidates.
That said we might need to!! And if so we will. In several specially selected wards. It is an option we have under active and ongoing consideration.
Not with any real hope of actually winning any Council Seats ( because of our limited group numbers ) but with a real prospect of being disruptors to the administration incumbents.
Some BCP Administration Cllr’s have majorities of less than 200… incl the current Council Leader. A Motorist candidate standing receiving even as few as 100 votes in our chosen wards could make a big difference and see the end of some of the Car Hating 3 Town Alliance Councillors.
And to be clear the BCP Council Wards we would consider targeting with our Motorist candidates if we needed to are…In priority order:
Newton and Heathlands
Alderney and Bourne Valley
Poole Town
Wallisdown and Winton west
Broadstone
Creekmoor( We would work in partnership and not oppose the very successful current independent ward Cllr)
Bearwood and Merley
Oakdale
You can look up the current councillors for these wards on the BCP Council website. These reason for us selecting these will become obvious!!
It’s all going to be about May 2027. We currently have nearly 2000 FB Group Members by then we hope to have nearer 5000. We do need your help sharing our message and encouraging people to join in what we are trying to do.
We must end this shambolic, chaotic, deaf and arrogant BCP Council Administration. Thanks for reading!
Cheers Steve
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Update on Cllr Earl and the 20% Pay award to BCP Councillors:
From her:
Steve Moody Are the Labour Party going to justify taking it despite not voting for it? Could really do with it to pay for the increase in NICs along with every other organisation and business that's been screwed over by this government.
From me:
Councillor Millie Earl Err?? 20% pay award to BCP Councillors is going to pay for NIC’s?? And since you put it so elegantly… BCP Residents are fed up with being “ screwed over” by your Administration. We are all looking forward to the results of the TC Consultation and to see if Residents buy into the latest Lib Dem Tax Grab!
I was hoping for an explanation from Cllr Earl why the 3TA and Green Cllr’s who all voted for this massive pay award to themselves need it to pay NICs??? Cllr Earl responded with a laughing emoji.
Enough said.
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RE: Our BCP and Dorset Motorists Group petition which was referrred by BCP Council to the LTP4 working group.
We have recently received a very helpful update from Cllr Michelle Dower ( Covered in a seperate post) on this process .
However, I have just sent this to Cllrs Andy Hadley and Kate Salmon. As AH is the chair of the WG and KS was the member who proposed the motion. I feel it is only right we recieve a response from them on the following. We are determined to hold them to account and not just be brushed off.
“Dear Cllr’s Hadley and Salmon,
I am contacting you on behalf of our 1900 group members in connection our recent change.org petition which BCP council voted to move to the LTP4 working group for consideration. Please see below.
“ RESOLVED that the petition be referred to the LTP4 working group, in accordance with article 13.22.9 of the constitution, for it to be considered by that body as a piece of evidence to be fed into the continued development of LTP4”
This week we have again received a very helpful and supportive update on the process from Cllr Michelle Dower which we very much appreciate.
However, our members regard the matter of how our petition was considered and debated during the process of developing the LTP4 plans as matter of public interest and that as such the working group have an obligation to explain in detail the following aspects.
1) How was our petition “referred” and how was our document circulated? ( written or verbally ) Was our petition formally included on any WG agenda?
2) If our petition was considered , what process did that involve? Was it on a one off or ongoing basis ? And how has it shaped any of the fundamental proposals that are going to be put forward for public consultation later this year?
It is very important that we can prove to our members and the 3281 people who signed the petition that it was taken seriously by the LTP4 WG and not just buried in the long grass.
I look forward to receiving clarification from you on the above points as your earliest connivence.
Thank you”
Steve Moody
Steering Group Lead - BCP and Dorset Motorists Group
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A little more focus on membership, as we reach a wider audience our numbers continue to grow more and more local people are flocking to us as they become disillusioned with both BCP and Dorset Councils Anti Motorist agenda. This has enabled us to attain 1800 members as of 10t July.
Milestone Reached, Well Done Keep It Up!
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