Explanations are needed (From Salisbury Journal)

Explanations are needed

12:11pm Thursday 29th May 2008 in Salisbury Letters

LAST week's Journal was full of political buck passing over some appalling financial decisions and it is time for these politicians to prove the facts.

We, the electorate, are entitled to know the whole truth about the money being squandered.

Meanwhile the Journal's front page reveals the real mess behind the Bourne Hill buildings.

If, as Cllr Westmoreland now explains, signing the Bourne Hill building contract was sheer bad timing, what does he mean?

Was it inevitable and, if so, why?

Surely nothing can be committed until a contract has been signed.

This statement needs explaining, supported by independent evidence.

Clearly, consultants work over a period was chargeable but wide public concern at the nature of the glass new building was plainly evident when the design was published.

Was that not the time to put everything on hold?

Despite the reservations many of us have over the actions of the former administration, it certainly does not excuse the shabby electioneering by the new administration, promising to stop the building despite knowing it could only do so at a colossal price.

The result now is an unsatisfactory compromise solution which is going to cost millions of pounds more.

The means used by the politicians to achieve power was unsavoury and dishonest, charges that have long remained unchallenged.

JOHN ELLIS, Farley