I've not posted here for a while and to be honest probably will not do so again. I do still blog you can read my musings at The Thanet Star where I write about Thanet in general but I've given up with TDC to be honest. Getting beaten up by TDC builders and then harassed by a cop not liking my reporting him to the police complaints commission (over the aforementioned assault's (lack of) investigation), took that spark right out of what should have been a blog about doing basic gardening (because the council can not maintain even a featureless yard). I never got an answer out of the council over any of these issues and all three councillors failed to even stand for this area when the elections came around. That's not to say that they did not stand. (No one much felt like cleaning up the mess the council had made when it was clear that helping earns you a ride in an ambulance).

I have started to talk about green issues again at The Green Moral and I have been talking about geek stuff and my general opinions like how much I loath the council and their workers when they are not up to the job (talking about that hello to the chap who serviced my boiler thanks for the advice that was dead handy). Anyway things of the geeky and opinionated nature are found at the oddly-named Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek. Don't forget if you liked this blog come and see The Thanet Star - I think you might love it.

What follows is an archive of neglect that is officialy denied by TDC.

Monday, March 21, 2005

Thanet District Council - The high price for dropping votes.

Going by the figures on this site the cost of the (cowboy set) cladding is at least £30,000 plus the other costs. I would expect a lot more for my money than the crap job being done by these people.

The outfit of monkeys set to paint the door couldn't even muster the strength to use sandpaper nor the ability to paint without missing bits.

I would further like to know if Thanet District Council bothered to register this project with the INCA of whom it would seem connaught are assosiate (not full) members.

"Members of INCA are bound under the Association Code of Professional Practice to investigate any customer complaint, take any appropriate remedial action, and agree to Association arbitration should this be required."

It would supprise me to discover that connaught are actually aware that:

CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 1987: Provides for approved safety standards to enable compliance with general safety requirements.

HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ETC ACT 1974: Among other things controls the classification, carriage and storage of dangerous substances.

(Not to mention: Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1984)

It would further supprise me if insurence claims have not already been made this year against connaught due in some part or totality to negligence.

Given thier campaign of "miss-truths" about locals, assults, and vebal agression it has become increasingly difficult for people who live here to feel safe. It is probable that a number of us could take action under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and perhaps even compel Thanet Council to hire some-one else. I for one am not intimidated by their hired thugs, swearing, threats and agressive behavour - I am sure the fat foreman and other head monkeys enjoys thier regualr "chats" with the local police.

Thanet might well be a very unsafe place to live but I have found it is an equal oppertunities form of "unsafe". I mentioned in my last post that I hoped that there would be a bunch of angry bikers come to "pay back" and while this is, in truth, a little unlikely (most bikers of that type grew up and setteled down to raise families years ago) it is still likely that fate will step in sooner or later. I just hope I'm arround to "appriciate" it when/if it does.

While connaught and other hired thugs of Thanet distric Council are unlikely to win new friends or customers for themselves (quite the opposite I'd say) they may have at least done one good turn. Opinion on the ground has very much turned against the current council which, one can hope, should mean fresh faces come this years local elections. This in tern should mean that connaught may at beast have less than a years work left before those fresh faces actually hire a company capable of doing the job properly.

connaught: also known to locals as "...those thugs that threaten children". (and you can be sure that is the clean version).

This has been a documentation of the impact of District Council (TDC) contracting and sub-contracting standards.
posted by Matt the Hat at 3/21/2005 09:42:00 am 0 comments

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