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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: therealjr on March 25, 2015, 08:09:29 PM

Title: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on March 25, 2015, 08:09:29 PM

We've had a bit of a tongue in cheek go on here about someone in another place who moans about Chesterfield but doesn't actually live here.
But is that any worse than a council chief executive charged with the responsibility of selling Chesterfield as a great place to live and invest in and earning a six figure salary in the process who lives 25 miles away?

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Fly on March 25, 2015, 08:20:40 PM

I can't see any difference this and with the people who design the road junctions, taxi ranks etc.
Most of them don't live in Chesterfield and don't have a clue.
Or is that 6 figure salary part of it. They are supposed to know ??

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Old Cruser on March 25, 2015, 08:39:15 PM

If the council chief is supposedly 'selling Chesterfield as a great place to live' then maybe he/she should be promoting that by living in Chesterfield.

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on March 26, 2015, 06:15:52 PM

If someone already lived within an easy commute before getting the job, probably with children at school, wouldn't expect them to move. Councillors are the policy makers and they have to live (or work or own property) in the borough they represent

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Pete on March 26, 2015, 06:18:27 PM

TBH if the person is good at their job, I don't think living outside the town is a problem, unless they live a stupid distance away.

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Big Dave 2 on March 27, 2015, 10:16:20 AM

Doesn't the CEO of NEDDC live in Doncaster?

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Scimitar on March 27, 2015, 04:36:10 PM

The person who makes the final decision regarding the proposed Gas extraction in Calow lives in Bristol!

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on March 27, 2015, 07:15:54 PM

Who has the right to dictate where a paid employee lives (unless it's a live-in job)? They are not accountable to the electorate.
Supposing I got a job with High Peak BC? I couldn't live in both my workplace and my ward.

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on March 27, 2015, 08:54:40 PM

There's a huge difference between a 'job' and being the main man

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on March 28, 2015, 09:25:35 AM

Burrows is the main man.

At school our headmaster lived at Ashford and I don't believe that was an issue

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on March 30, 2015, 03:54:12 PM

Quote from: Pete on March 26, 2015, 06:18:27 PM

TBH if the person is good at their job, I don't think living outside the town is a problem, unless they live a stupid distance away.

Ha there would be those who say Mr Bowen fails that criteria as well !!!

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Pete on March 30, 2015, 05:19:43 PM

OK, I'll pretend I'm interested... Who the f*** is Mr Bowen?

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on March 30, 2015, 05:33:32 PM

Err would you believe Chesterfield's CE? Huw Bowen known more commonly by some at the Town Hall as a Who Bowen on the grounds he's never there

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on March 30, 2015, 06:15:56 PM

Do you hold a grudge?

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on March 30, 2015, 07:26:11 PM

Nope David Shaw was still in charge and Bowen hadn't been there long. The only grudge I might hold would be how he has treated some of my former colleagues.

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on April 01, 2015, 06:47:47 AM

Perhaps not for a public forum

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on April 02, 2015, 05:14:59 PM

Councillor if you wish to absent yourself from the thread feel free.

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: Slacker on April 02, 2015, 07:29:11 PM

I meant any problems between individual employees isn't a matter for a public forum

Title: Re: Hypocrisy or irrelevant?
Post by: therealjr on April 02, 2015, 10:08:52 PM

I meant groups