Isn’t it strange that Geoff Mitchell, in his letter (CCN 463), is whingeing about a coalition forming to “run the council to the disenfranchisement of 50 per cent of Coast…blah, blah”.
Looking at the make-up of the group he refers to, it is patently obvious that it is a vastly better combination of talent, skill and vision than the majority group that ran the most dysfunctional council ever to be foisted on the Central Coast.
The 2017 election produced a majority coalition of six Labor councillors and the two new Independents, Louise Greenaway and Jane Smith.
This majority allowed them to (block) every motion that did not meet their ideological agenda, including the Central Coast Airport debacle.
That coalition made the chaos, we paid dearly for it, and the people voted in 2024 to not let it happen again.
If this new “coalition” produces constructive economic, social and material outcomes for the Central Coast, with the know-how to achieve those aims within a sensible budget, then we should support them, and cheer them on.
But nothing will stop the Central Coast Whingeing Society from finding fault.
Email, Nov 7
Geoff Robertson, The Entrance