What do you call 100 drowned politicians?*

So where does Councillor Hakewell's "decree" that we cannot build a new ground in conjunction with an out of town supermarket leave us? If it was down to him and his ilk - dead. Politicians, eh?

Let's see if we have this clear....

Kettering Town Football Club have asked our Council for NO MONEY.

Kettering Town Football Club have asked our Council for NO LAND.

The land and finance were sourced elsewhere. All we need is permission to build on land the council doesn't own, in an area they don't want.

It would cost Councillor Hakewell and his cohorts ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to ensure this Club survives, and yet this man has the audacity to say "No". By what right?

This man who doesn't even live in Kettering seems to think he has the right to determine if OUR football club lives or dies. This is a man who claims to care for the needs of the wider community beyond the "few" of the town's citizens who support the Poppies. What he neglects to say, however, that his mandate to speak for the whole of Kettering was the whopping 1049 votes he received in the 2007 Borough elections. That's right, based on a smaller number of votes than we'd get supporters for a midweek fixture in January he can determine whether the Poppies live or die. Less people could be bothered to sign an "X" next to this man's name than would pay good money to stand around and watch the Poppies in the rain and sleet.

He managed a crummy 1049 votes in a wealthy middle class area! Is this democracy? Should this give him the authority to kill the only institution that projects the good name of Kettering beyond the borders of the town?

The alleged news that the deal the Club had worked out with the supermarket chain may have been hijacked by various councillors in order for them to get new offices and amenities built is outrageous. If true of course. Are politicians as bad as the tabloids tell us they are? As sleazy? We cannot believe that one of them would have the gall to meet the representative of a supermarket chain and say something like -

"We won't give permission for a new supermarket, football ground, and community facilities, BUT, if you build US a new council chamber and offices along with a new swimming pool we may we'd look favourably on the application".

This sounds too preposterous for words. Surely? How crooked would this be? How illegal?

We feel that the Kettering Borough Councillors, have the right to refute such an obvious falsehood. To that end, PATGOD will be emailing each and every Borough Councillor and offer them the chance to confirm that they not only wouldn't had made such an offer, but to condone such a discussion if it had occurred.

It will be interesting to see who does and who doesn't reply. We'll keep you informed.

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* Some might say, "A start".