Advice spurned

Facebook has introduced a feature which publishes 'Status' comments made one year previously. Today the following came up:

From 27 August 2010: The Tory Cabinet controlling Tunbridge Wells Borough Council gives the impression of being intent on upsetting the citizens of the Borough. Is it hubris or a death-wish? Much of the population's ire currently focuses on the future of the Town Hall and adjacent properties. The Cabinet should keep the comment of Dennis Healey in mind: when in a hole stop digging. 

My advice was spurned.  The then Leader of the Council, Roy Bullock, has since  been removed as Leader, de-selected as a borough councillor and was later suspended by the Conservative Party.

Tracy Moore, the then cabinet portfolio holder for economic development  lost her cabinet position when the new Leader appointed his cabinet. She is standing down at the elections in May 2012 and informed the local press that she is disappointed that the Conservative Association will not allow her to stand in the ward where she now lives (Park).  Currently she is a councillor for St John's.

The problem was that instead of stopping digging they brought in more excavation equipment.