Cafe Sunshine opens on Twickenham Riverside (From Richmond and Twickenham Times)

I really love the photo of wicked Cllr Carr delighting in the redundancies her and her colleagues have forced upon a highly capable staff at Arthur's cafe, I am sure the local people will always remember this as Arthur's Cafe, run by Tony and Adrienne, and staffed by Marcin and Kirsti, along with Danielle and Sammy, and for all of that mass of kids' events they organised for the community.

I don't suppose the community will care to support this divisive vindictive politically motivated attack on a very much loved local community business, nor the illegal café with no planning permission, nor what it has actually has become.

Afterall it is Cllr Carr who is one of the three Ward Councilors for Twickenham Riverside, at present that made this decision at Cabinet to close, it, the hint is the detail is in the fine-print!

Let us also not forget that Cllr Carr rattles off bullet-points like a Gatlin gun at anyone who dare try to have a reasoned debate with her, her well-rehearsed routine she has learnt well from Cllr Lourie, putting up a smoke-screen of emotiveness, never any really fact behind it, just pure self-interested belief that close to 100% of local residents are really that taken in by this irrational thinking and weirdness has become endemic in the leader's parlour, virtually 100% means ALL, maybe you should check a dictionary as to the meaning of LOSER.

This situation reminds me of a lovely children’s story, we all remember, the one called 'the Kings clothes are missing'. Cllrs Carr and Trigg will make an odd-looking couple walking 'naked' down the Church Street back to their Fortress York House, bare of of facts and truths, bare of the ability to use the listening powers they supposedly came armed with as Councillors need to be equipped to do the job. Does 93.5% of the local electorate who decided to vote against the Twickenham Riverside sell-off actually mean anything to you, what amazing self-delusion!

A lot of gasps of shock are going around the Richmond Borough, not just Twickenham, despite this being a local environmental and Twickenham Town survival issue the lies and deceit and spin grow daily.

This is more than bearing a resemblance to the highly odd Ice-rink sell-off, with £20m not reaching the electorate, and more importantly the lack of a replacement ice-rink; as the with much attention gained through Private Eye in Rotten boroughs, back there again in this June/July 2009 edition, this is a massive issue. If something is this over-complicated, this is a sign that there is something fundamentally flawed in it's construction. On this occasion it is very simple, just as before. The people of Twickenham demonstrably care about their beautiful Twickenham, and actually understand the real grass-roots as we are actually river and town users, and live and breathe the Environment and ‘Sustainable’, not just pose and use pretty words.

Cllrs Carr, Trigg, Wilson and Lourie, understand this, the people of Twickenham have asked politely through a referendum, like our recent one adjudicated by Cllr Jaegar on the £1m youth amenity giveaway; strangely when it is the council doing it, you respect the opinion of the people, and despite being asked to hold a referendum twice, now you don't want to respect the local masses.

Stop any further waste of fees, and withdraw this hated scheme today. Vine Cable, you are part of it, so please put a stop to it tomorrow, you may save yourself losing a very large vote!

I wish the Sunshine Cafe staff success but feel to sad that they have been used as pawns in the sick political game that this appalling "Liberal Dictator" Administration is playing with peoples' lives. How Denise Carr can pose for this photograph is beyond me. This is the woman who told the owners of Arthur's Cafe that they would be given first refusal on extending their lease but the next communication they received was a termination notice. This is the woman who takes home £20,000 of Council Tax Payers money as a reward for calling herself a "Twickenham Riverside Ward Councillor". This is the woman who ignored the voices of the elderly and decided she knew best and they should be given frozen dinners instead of hot meals. This is the woman who told residents of the Ward she is supposed to represent that she wasn't interested in their views. This is the woman who turned her back on practically an entire road of residents in "her" Ward and ignores the views of anyone who doesn't share her dictatorial warped views.

I wonder what would have happened if she had fallen down the steps of the cafe as she left, as I understand it is currently operating illegally.

Cllr Carr
Has anyone ever told you how much your picture puts people off you.
That smug grin when you think you have won.

The truth being that the grin will disappear when not only will you not receive Cllr Lourie role,or even find yourself without
a pot to tinkle in come May 2009.

Wave good by to the Riverside Ward.
Your famous statement " I wish to be judged in the ballot box" will haunt you very very soon.


regards

a very honest man