Time to stand down, Cllr McAfee says voter

SIR - GENERALLY speaking, I feel that our local Councillors do a very good job and I, for one, had no problems with the trip by some Ballymoney councillors to South Africa to celebrate Dervock’s great Olympic athlete, Kennedy Kane McArthur.

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Nov 2012, 11:45 BST

Indeed, I thought it was an excellent opportunity not only to promote McArthur himself but to forge and develop closer ties between Porchefstroom (where McArthur lived) and Ballymoney.

I am therefore disgusted by Councillor Roma McAfee’s belated whinging and churlish reaction to this trip. Apparently, she could see no problem with the trip when it was raised at a Council meeting, but then she went home and had a miraculous conversion. Suddenly, it seems, the trip to which she raised no objection was now to be condemned as a waste of money.

The Bible says that a person who is double-minded is unstable in all his ways, and I fail to see how Mrs McAfee can continue to fullfil the role of Councillor after this fiasco.

Yours No vote for McAfee

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