Cuts 'could kill' voluntary sector

“"I chose to spend my own money to go to the conference "

Yet you yourself called it a "jolly" and said "there is nothing at this conference that can't be picked up from the web or read about in the latest edition of Local Government chronicle"?! You'll excuse me if I say that something doesn't quite add up here!”

“I work in a volunteer capacity on a number of community programmes and receive no money for doing so , most of that work is with vulnerable children and their families . I chose to spend my own money to go to the conference . So you are correct NO taxpayers money was used and no one paid for my place .not that this is really any of your business or indeed relevant to this article.”

“Bomberbabe, so NO taxpayers money was used to pay for your place at the conference (e.g. you don't, for example, work for a VCS organisation who paid for your place)?”

“Bomberbabe, so NO taxpayers money was used to pay for your place at the conference (e.g. you don't, for example, work for a VCS organisation who paid for your place)?”

“Sansue, who I work for has nothing to do with you or indeed this article . Unlike councillor Dempster I'm not accountable to you or the taxpayers of leicester , but she is .. We pay her wages . My posts related to CHOICE , I cannot for the life of me fathom why when this council is cutting back on the voluntary sector , when her own department ( and yes I know the government has cut grants ) is facing 11 million worth of cuts , she chooses to go to the seaside . This money would have been better spent on supporting the most needy in this city . All over leicester families are having to make hard choices in the face of hard times and you seek to justify a councillor using some of those needed resources to go to the seaside ! Please ......”

“garyb, why are you always accusing others of your own shortcomings?”

“Bob

Copy/paste again I see - predictable as ever (albeit it is someone else's post this time).

Blah blah Con blah Con over wealthy blah blah

Yawn”

“"Instead to accuse me of being 'extreme right wing' citing previous posts that are still visible.So sansue, give me examples of these posts"

Well, the one that actually shocked me the most (even for you) was this recent sweeping generalisation about people from the Philipines who have settled here:

"So, whilst I am sure that these people are lovely and hard-working and lots of other very nice things they should not be here"

Are you actually denying that you have very strong right wing views? At least have the strength of your convictions for goodness sake.”

“"The difference being of course I used my money to attend not the taxpayers of leicester"

Oh my god, this is getting laughable. And I take it you DON'T work in the VCS?”

“Ah sansue - at last some honesty albeit hidden in your lazy responses.

So, Bomberbabe raises some serious questions about the value of Vi (£30K) Dempster spending at several thousand pounds at a public sector talking shop. Bomberbabe questioned many things but you chose to ignore these valid questions - your focus was whether this conference was solely 'Child' focused or 'Adult & Child' focused. Apparently you proved how misinformed he was but chose to ignore his other points.

Instead to accuse me of being 'extreme right wing' citing previous posts that are still visible.So sansue, give me examples of these posts (plural) if they are so accessible and prove how so very clever you are. Perhaps you could also answer the other criticisms raised by Bomberbabe while you are at it?

And then we find that you used to (I guess that means that you do not do so now) 'lobby at Westminster' - seemingly with limited success. So we can all now understand that we are hardly likely to hear any objective criticism of Vi's actions are we?

Accuse me of whatever you like but at least prove it. Also you could also apologise to Bomberbabe who is clearly much better informed than you - or his he/she extreme right wing because they do not buy what Vi and you are peddling?”