How can Huw Jakeway and the Fire Service escape their predicament?

Striking a pose does not work for Blaina Huw, now man up and admit you are wrong

With time running out in our campaign to save Blaina Fire Station, I was trying to prioritise in my mind, the articles that needed to be written before the Fire Service CFO, Huw Jakeway meets with the council in Ebbw Vale on Monday and those articles that would need to be written after the meeting should the Fire Service proposal not be rejected.

I then thought about how Huw Jakeway could extricate the Fire Service and himself from a battle that they cannot win, without appearing to do a rapid U-Turn and without too much egg on their faces, and of course the solution is so easy and the one I would use were I in Huw's shoes.

Huw Jakeway is fully aware that the proposal that he was armed with by unknown bean counters is badly flawed and full of inaccuracies.  These inaccuracies have been pointed out to him in correspondence sent to him by the likes of Councillor Lisa Winnett and the solution to his problems is so simple.

So simple in fact, that Huw does not even have to face the council.  He simply has to announce that due to mistakes discovered in the proposals that make it worthless, the Fire Service is now withdrawing the proposal, will review the information and a new proposal submitted, if necessary at some indeterminate date in the future.

This action by Huw on behalf of the Fire Service would show that they do listen to the public and do take note of information that is provided to them.

Then we would say, that they are all jolly good fellows and give them a slap on the back, rather than the kick in the butt they will receive if they continue to threaten the lives of the people of Blaina and the jobs of the Local Heroes who defend us.

Regards to the protest.  Can those of you with printers print out a page giving details of the protest on Monday and put it in your windows.  In fact print out a few and give them to your friends, neighbours and local shops.

Make no bones about it - the Fire Service will be watching to see what level of support there is from the people of the valley.  Show them we mean business.