Dr Robin Gwynn seems to have embarked on a campaign to destabilize the Napier City Council.
This wealthy academic, who was voted off the council at the last election, has set himself up as judge and jury in terms of councillors’ performance. He has decided who is doing a good job and who is not and strangely enough, he has decided in each ward where there are two councillors, only one is shaping up and in the other wards, no one is shaping up.
How does he know – is there a spy with a predetermined agenda in our midst.
Frankly, Dr Gwynn who retains an unhealthy access to the Napier Mail is wrong. There are twelve Napier City Councillors who all work hard for the City in their own way. “Maybe they don’t have the ability to produce, or access to, pages of statistics Dr Gwynn,” but they are all working in a way they feel best benefits the City.
And statistics that show that there are no decile one or two citizens – that’s the best off – in Westshore simply beggar belief.
Dr Gwynn’s backing of just two of the 6 ward councillors could well be like presenting the poisoned chalice to those councillors.
The Napier City Councillors are a good team. There is none of the internal bickering that characterised previous councils – we certainly disagree at times but we get on and make decisions that we believe are in the best interests of all Napier citizens.
Dr Gwynn’s actions smack of the old subversive divide and rule theory. He doesn’t want a good team working for all of Napier, he appears to want to revert to an adversarial system where a bunch of individual councillors are fighting and scrapping for perks for their own patch.
Dr Gwynn, who was the only sitting councillor to fight for the partial ward system and then didn’t even support the system by standing in a ward – he stood on a city wide basis – paid the price at the last election. Surely this was an indication to him that Napier doesn’t want to go back to the sort of behaviour he would be well aware of.
Napier is in good heart and has a good team guiding it through these very difficult times.
Why can’t Robin just accept that?
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