Plumbing new depths - is Cllr Holdcroft losing all sense of propriety?

I do wonder about the Leader of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. Cllr Nigel Holdcroft has a track record when comes to ill-judged posts on his blog, but the latest really has me worried.

I accept that it can be read in more than one way, which makes it ambiguous at best. However, it is entitled “A tale of 2 cycle paths!” and yet is about one proposed path; the only other object of this post in Belfairs councillor, Cllr Stephen Aylen.

It is an old joke, pun perhaps, that conflates ‘cycle paths’ and ‘psychopaths’, and so to me it is clear what Cllr Holdcroft means in his post title. Rude does not cover it, it is beyond rude.

Cllr Stephen Aylen was originally elected as a Conservative before he was deselected last year. He decided to stand as an Independent, and won. There is no love lost between Cllr Aylen and some of his former colleagues.

I admit to finding some of his ideas a bit odd, but that could also be said of his former party. However, Cllr Aylen is no psychopath, and to suggest otherwise is a mean slur.

The image here is of the post, and it can be read here http://nigel-holdcroft.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-tale-of-2-cycle-paths.html

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