Councillor quits over ‘sniping’
Thursday 14th May 2009, 11:29AM BST.
Newport’s longest serving town councillor has quit the authority saying she had become sick of “sniping” by other members against her.
Brenda Flowers unexpectedly handed in her resignation at last night’s town council meeting after losing out to Daniel Ashley in a vote for deputy mayor.
She said the vote had prompted her decision to quit. Members looked shocked as the Liberal Democrat councillor walked out of the room.
Today the mother-of-three, who has been on the town council for about 16 years, said: “I think it confirmed how I felt I was perceived by certain members of the council, so I thought get out.
“I put up with it for two years because I wanted to serve the people of Newport.”
She said: “I just didn’t like the way it is. Previously we all got on and all worked together. Party politics didn’t come into it. We went for a drink together.”
The former town mayor, of Springfield Avenue, said: “I got sick of sniping against me as a person.”
She said: “I have been openly accused of not caring for the environment, not having the best for the town, for Newport people in mind. There were several accusations by particular councillors. It made me feel angry. Last night I felt devalued.”
Councillor Flowers said she would miss working with Councillors Sian Walker, Glyn Gratton, Tony Forrester and Bob Unwin, in particular, as well as the new mayor Roy Scammell.
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