The group has already succeeded in defeating the council on many issues on behalf of the community, including planning, but this exhausting work does not stop the council wasting your money on expensive court action. The Fareham Independent Group means that you can have a voice and an opportunity to determine Fareham’s future, but this requires everyone to participate. If you wait for other people
to do something, nothing will change. If the residents are in control of the council, we can decide the future of our town and where the money is spent. There will be no more favours between councillors, no more conflicts of interests or party politics, just working together for the common good. People can no longer say that there is no one to vote for, there is you, the people of Fareham. We believe that front-line council employees do a magnificent job and are hard-working, but the self-interest at councillor and executive level is failing all of us and the front line front-line staff. This was seen in the recent Hampshire County Council guilty finding against the Leader of Fareham Council for multiple breaches of the ‘Code of Conduct’ when processing grants for another councillor. This was our money that was being misused. Thankfully member of the group bravely took action to expose and then stop this. We are all tired of ‘mismanagement’ at all levels of government, we now have the opportunity to end it, by the residents taking back control of power and having a true independent democracy. The group has been inspired by Frome Town Council, where all 17 councillors are members of the Frome Independent Group and the residents have an independent council. Since Frome Independent Group took control of Frome it has won awards for being the ‘best place to live’. The Times stated that it was selected for it’s ‘attractive, creative and energetic community’.
