Cuckoo throws others out of the nest

It seems that the Boston Bypass Independent Party can't let a council meeting go by without a brawl with their with opposition colleagues as they ride roughshod over them.
Earlier in the week we mentioned the planned generosity to the good burghers of Wyberton - who are honoured to have Council Leader Richard Austin as one of their two borough councillors - in the form of a £25,000 cash gift to turn the controversial plot known as Cuckoo Land into allotments. This large sum of money is apparently necessary to knock the land into shape before the grow-it-yourselfers of Wyberton can dirty their stainless steel forks on it.
The decision was pushed through regardless of calls for it go before the borough's Scrutiny Committee so that the appropriateness of such a major grant in these straitened times could be more properly examined.
Not only that, but the council meeting heard that even more largesse is planned for Councillor Austin's electorate, all of which has angered one observer, who writes:
"The BBI Party (leader Richard Austin) were unwilling, as they demonstrated in their coordinated voting at the full council meeting on January 18th, to allow for a Scrutiny Committee to discuss plans for Boston Borough Council to inject £25,000 capital into new infrastructure 'needed' to provide allotments on Cuckoo Land at Wyberton.
"The solid vote in council by the BBI Party (leader Richard Austin) has also cut across the possibility of the Scrutiny Committee examining plans for the Borough to inject further funds into the provision of fencing, hedging and landscaping on the same site.
"It would seem from the report before the council that any income from the letting of allotments on the site will be gifted to a yet-to-be-formed Cuckoo Land tenants' association to take care of the future of the site maintenance.
"BUT in the same report, one reads that maybe some aspects of maintenance of wildlife features on the site may have to be met from the Council's Allotments' maintenance budget.
"So that could be tough luck on allotment holders on other borough sites when they come looking for maintenance investment from Boston Borough Council.
"One must wonder a little bit if the BBI (leader Richard Austin) had thought of this before so solidly voting away the opportunity to discuss such matters at a Scrutiny Committee.
"One should also wonder - more than a little bit - why the BBI party (leader Richard Austin) have decided to push this report through in this manner.
Explanation anyone?"
Someone else demanding answers is Conservative Councillor Raymond Singleton-McGuire, who is particularly scathing of the Cuckoo Land decision on his blog, which you can read by clicking here.
Needless to say, our local newspapers, whilst reporting the decision, have noted none of the opposition demands to scrutinise it.
Ironically when asked, the BBI still insists that it is a group of independents linked solely by a common dream of a bypass for Boston - and that on all other matters members are free to vote as they wish. The reality is that the BBI membership is a bunch of slavish sycophants who do precisely as they are told by their leadership.
What they've clearly failed to take on board this time is that a gift of £25,000 plus to Wyberton substantially reduces the funds available to help other wards such as their own.

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