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ON November 2019 I tried to bring something to the attention of Councillor Blundell using his Rochdale MBC e-mail address John.Blundell@Rochdale.gov.uk. Back came the response:
'This email is checked periodically due to lack of suitable access.'
Though it struck me as rather strange that a (supposedly) active councillor who, even if he did not have internet access at home, could certainly access e-mails from his Council office, should be using this as an excuse for not responding, I did not pursue the matter further at the time,
Quite by chance someone mentioned in a recent telephone conversation that they had received an identical e-mail within the last few days when they had tried to bring something to the attention of Councillor Blundell. Which struck me as rather odd.
Odd, because there hasn’t been any face to face Council meetings for some time and I think we must assume that Council business meetings are being transacted via an Internet based tool like Zoom. Which raises some interesting questions.
Is Councillor Blundell still drawing his full allowance whilst not being able to transact any Council business due to ‘a lack of suitable access’? Or is he taking part in these virtual meetings and his response to people who try to contact him using his Council e-mail is in the realms of being a bit of a ‘Porky Pie’, intended to shield him from having to answer any potentially embarrassing questions?
Over to you Councillor Blundell?
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Councillor Blundell appears to have the digital means to continue to contribute written articles to ' Confidentials ' so I'd be tempted to think he has a connection but simply cant be bothered responding to questions from the Electorate .
Here's the link for his output for 'Confidentials ':
https://confidentials.com/manchester/search-results?q=John+Blundell
He's also miraculously managed to cobble together a sufficiently functional digital connection to be present , though late , at a number of online Council Zoom Meetings
( though probably only so he can claim his attendance expenses !)
If Blundell has a smart phone ( which he does ) he will be able to reply to emails if he wants to .
It is truly staggering that our local Councillors feel they can act with total impunity and believe they can continue to get away with acting as though they that they have have no moral or statutory obligation to respond to emails from members of the public.
This is classic Institutional dysfunctionality and clearly the by-product of a toxic & corrupt anti-democratic culture
This alone renders them unfit for public office. In the May elections voters should make it crystal clear that any Councillor who does not sign up to a pledge of Councillor Roles & Responsibilities will not get their votes.
It really is time the tail stopped wagging the dog in this town and our mostly idle councillor class were brought to heel or voted out en masse
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