The Empowering Islanders group has criticised the conduct of the Council Leader during last week’s Cabinet meeting, during which a councillor was rudely prevented from asking challenging questions. Councillor Peter Spink – who represents Yarmouth and Freshwater North – asked whether high-quality agricultural land would be excluded from allocated sites in the proposed Island Planning Strategy. However, the simple question did not get a simple response, with the Empowering Islanders group stating that the answer contained ‘frequently used waffle’ on policy and considerations. Cllr Spink sought to bring the response back to the question asked, whereupon the Leader of the Isle of Wight Council, Councillor Phil Jordan, ‘lost his rag’ and repeatedly tried to prevent Cllr Spink from speaking. Then, Cllr Jordan ‘angrily and repeatedly’ ordered Cllr Spink to leave the meeting, standing and shouting at the same time whilst pointing his finger. Cllr Spink refused to leave before Cllr Jordan attempted to summon security officers to forcibly remove the Yarmouth and Freshwater North representative. A vote was then held that agreed Cllr Spink would ‘no longer be heard’, preventing him from speaking further and asking his remaining, challenging questions. A spokesperson for Empowering Islanders has said:
“There are those who presume to take undue advantage of their position but thankfully there are those who can correct them and others that are prepared to call them out. Cllr Spink, although silenced, remained for the entirety of the meeting as is his right, frustrating to Cllr Jordan’s frightening tantrum and angry declarations. “Disappointingly therefore, Cllr Spink’s important question was never answered in the meeting and a written response is now awaited”.
https://youtu.be/SgMjPGVlKG8?si=bGQTS7ixI8s8RxOo&t=671
Omg acting like a furious sergeant major ( it ain’t half hot mum ) springs to mind. How did this law breaker ever become leader of the muppet show ….oh sorry I was getting mixed up with our useless council !!!
No democracy at all,and acting like a child,and this pilchard is council leader?
the whole lot need the boot!
nursery kids could do a better job!
This will happen when you have convicted criminals in charge of the council
Well someone is power pi$$ed sat at the top! Very rude chairperson.
Toys and Pram spring to mind!
They threw him because he asked a question the head of council Phil Jordan didn’t like,What I want to know is how a convicted criminal ( drink driving) is allowed to be on the council let alone the leader .!!!
let’s not forget we have had a former prime minister and the current one who are convicted criminals. It all starts at the top.
No they ain’t as not imprisonable offences and spent once fine paid, like saying parents who take kids on holiday or outstaying parking etc ,but Jordan is and clearly from video is not fit to hold seat and security should of removed him and drug/alcohol tested. But look at Trump – one dangerous man!.
Good to see the right to free speech and the right to representation is not only repressed by central government, but also local authorities. Clownceller Jordan, that well known law abiding pillar of our community, showing exactly why he’s not fit to lead!
Classic behaviour of someone who can’t cope.
Perfectly legitimate response to deliberately obstreperous Tory questioning.
What are you talking about, god help anyone who disagrees with you then, and judging by your comments on here that will be almost everyone.
I’m talking about the fact that the question had been answered to the best of the answerers ability, the rest of the answer would be put in writing once the details had been perused. Jordan had asked if the answerer could do that, he’d said yes and the Chair had given a ruling. Once that has happened, he asked if there was a second question and the Ind/Tory (who is often divisive) went back to the first. After a show of hands of the others there, a decision was taken to discount any further input or remove him. The Chair’s say is final, in ALL committees. What part of that do you not understand? Moreover, why should I be concerned with the agreement or not of some people who don’t know their arse from their elbows?
Chair or not his attitude stank and does yours.
His attitude was about not holding his emotions in check. His reasoning though was sound, as was his conclusion. My ‘attitude’ is just a different opinion, my emotional reaction is completely in check and my conclusion is also sound. Talking over people who are busy giving an answer in order to create a fuss though….a wholly different scenario and why they voted to strike his further comments and ignore him. Just because he didn’t shout while talking over and interrupting Jordan doesn’t make him any more right than Jordan who did shout. HOWEVER, them’s the rules of engagement…the judges decision is final in such cases.
The question is of the utmost importance and needs answering. If high quality agricultural land is not protected from development, we might as well give up and hand the island over to these scumbag developers. Seeley got an amendment to the planning requirements that should have led to changes in the island development plan but these clowns on the council just ignored it. There is no need for all of these houses on the island based on an irrelevant quota system because we have a contracting population whereas parts of the mainland have a rapidly expanding population. This is all about back handers from developers. Pigs with their noses deep in the trough.
you are a control freak though karen – it comes across fully in your messages on this site – you insist on attempting to control the narrative by laying out a perception that you are looking down on everyone, from the moral high ground. You really do need to realise that trying to steer the conversation into your narrow opinion corridor will only result in you being in an echo chamber – and that stifles the valid views and expressions of others.
jordan shut the conversation down because he found it too difficult to answer and as such, showed his weakness by standing up,pointing and shouting.
The point is that although AN answer was given, it wasn’t the answer to the question.
child like behaviour from an elected public servant, maybe banishment to the naughty step until the elections where we can vote in an adult…
Better than Playschool!
Amateur Pantomime time … and Jordan showing his true colours again ..
What a bunch of children
What do we pay these idiots for?!
The Council Leader acted appallingly and should stand down immediately.
At last Jerk Jordan shows his true colours on a live feed, at approx 11 minutes, wow what a nasty piece of work he is. There is no way he or any of this lot should be entrusted with our money or running the island. Jordans power was diminished in this meeting as he never got the councillor removed did he.
So unprofessional from the chairman
Bordering on bullying to peter spink
The jumped up little shite has lost the plot. Obviously, that is no way for a leader of the council to behave. You can see the pent up anger in him with the repeated leg movements and then he explodes. He has clearly got away with bullying for far too long and needs to go. Send him on his way with a crate of booze.
What an embarrassment this lot are.
So much for local democracy. Jordan and his chums are only interested in their gold plated pensions.
Councillors don’t get pensions
They get brown envelopes in lieu!
What disgraceful unprofessional behaviour, not fit to hold ofice
They are far too old. Look at the state of this retirement home.
That is a great point – where is the new blood? They cannot relate to most people they are meant to working for.
The behaviour of the playground. These are elected representatives but some seem to behave as if they are there by divine right! Such conduct brings the Council into disrepute and the Leader should apologise to the public on his individual and their several behalf. As voters and taxpayers we deserve better.
Utter bunch of clowns, the lot of them. How can people vote these idiots into office to run the island? Fresh blood is desperately needed to run an effective and useful council, preferably of no political persuasion whatsoever.
Has someone got a secret plan. Thought any person elected by residents has the right to question anything which needs Clarification. Surely this sort of bullying conduct needs close examination
Very poor behaviour, this lot running our Island? cant even tolerate an opposing view or to questioned. I wonder if they have actually seen themselves and how they appear to the general public. Maybe they just don’t care??
it concerns me that Clir Jordan is an tyrannically bully boy … and a child… what should concern us all is this is our council cabinet … I wouldn’t trust these self serving individuals to run a car boot sale let alone our island ….there is a tiny minority here that want to do the right thing and ask the correct questions … and seek validity in the answers given …. But being silenced and threaten with explosion is typical of a corrupt regime where facts and disclosures are hidden from the public eye … personally I would love to see all there personal and business finances audited as the finding maybe very surprising …..
Is concerns me a great deal as well, but unlike much of the country we have no council elections this year (cheaper that way, everybody wants democracy on the cheap and this is the result) so we are stuck with this oaf for another year. And then the good people of Ryde North West will probably vote him back in again. It’s hard to be optimistic about the future.
One village idiot, and it ain’t the one from the village.
What a bunch of little boys and girls
What a jumped up little man, what an embarrassment. What is it with this man? Seems to want it his way or no way.
Children, how pathetic. Grow up.
Video from 9:12 for a couple of minutes, if you want to see this farce…
Let’s vote this whole lot out and start again. The island is a mess with this lot running is !
Just how can people like this have any power whatsoever, it is frightening that these people are making decisions that affect all our lives and they act like toddlers having a tantrum!
Disempowering Islanders. That’s an interesting slant on how democracy works.
commie dictator jordan is finished – perhaps he should arrange his leaving drinks party and a taxi home – close the door on the way out jordan, you are done – we, the islanders have lost trust and faith in your ability to remain impartial and ensure that all opinions are heard and answered.
Agree entirely, but how do we get rid of him ? Reality is most people are not interested in local politics (unfortunately politics is interested in them !) they often vote on name recognition, which is why we will almost certainly have the same people who have failed the people of the IOW for the past decade taking their seats again after next years council elections. What is it they same about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome ?
This is exactly what the “Save Westridge Farm” campaign is all about, the bullying undemocratic and lying behaviour. Just a pity more people don’t get behind it, never has there been a better chance to publicly show up this Council, and their buddy Councillors.
Perhaps someone on the Council might benefit from a backhander if prime agricultural land is zoned for development by a company such as Captiva….just wondering.
What an absolute disgrace Mr. P Jordan is! Like my Dad used to say “he who looses his temper looses the argument”. Not fit for office.
Your Dad was right. Deliberately argumentative after being given a perfectly good response given the parameters of time constraints in that instance was also not a good look though. It denotes sly, manipulative and not conducive to collaborative workings but a self-serving agenda only.
It’s down to us to vote him out. This can’t be allowed to continue.
I bet Jordan needed a drink after that oscar winning performance!
Maybe the echo could ask for a statement from Jordan about his complete loss of his temper and being totally out of order.
Apart from the behaviour may I suggest your writers check the origin of the phrase “lost his rag” not nice and should not be written in reporting
Sorry’ but you might have to educate us thickies. “Rag” was Georgian slang for money/bank notes. There’s an obscure Scottish slang word, “Radge” which apparently means a person who is often crazy or angry. That might fit !
Maybe do your research first Paul.
In the phrase ‘lose your rag’, rag is most likely an old slang term for the tongue developed from the original sense of rag and from the 18th century verb to rag meaning to scold, which is also the source of the student rag or prank from the early 19th century, and the alternative verb meaning ‘to tease or play a joke on’.
how can anyone take this Council seriously when 6 of them are extremely overweight no wonder they need more money to pay there high food bill they need to bring in a weight limit no wonder County Hall’s got cracks in it it’s all that weight
And them being overweight affects their ability to do their job how exactly? That’s all that should matter, in this instance. I’m overweight but I’m extremely good at my job.
IWC also known as Clownland ..
The lunatic running the asylum.
Watching the video clip – and I have to say I know nothing about Council procedures etc – these two seem as bad as each other.
One wouldn’t shut up, and the other got on his high-horse telling him to shut up.
It was a bit like watching two overgrown children having an argument.
I have no idea what parties, if any, they represent and have got no other interest in it, so I’ve got no axe to grind, but they both need to act more responsibly in public office.
It definitely seems like there’s something happened between them previously, and this is a bit of ‘afters’.
But, my god, how boring are these meetings!
I would have ‘thumbs upped’ that 10 times over, if it was allowed!