Councillor Malcolm Buckley showed his true colours in his response to the discovery of orchids on Basildon Golf Course, (May 13). And council leader Tony Ball must have had a chuckle when he made Mr Buckley cabinet member for the environment.
Putting the fox in charge of the hen house and other well-known sayings spring to mind.
When Mr Buckley was council leader, a colony of great crested newts was discovered on the golf course.
His response was to promote a plan to dump almost half a million tonnes of landfill on it.
Now the orchids are public knowledge, Mr Buckley is threatening to turn it into a housing estate.
Let’s hope giant pandas aren’t discovered there.
What would Mr Buckley threaten us with then? A nuclear waste plant?
Mick Toomer
Friends of Basildon Golf Course
Ravensdale
Basildon
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