CARBOOTSCORNWALL; copy email for your information correspondence between ourselves and St Newlyn Parish Council.
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Subject: RE: MITCHELL CAR BOOT SALE
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:57:29 +0000
Dear Madam,

I must report to you the details of a visit to our Car Boot Sale on Saturday of a person whom I now know to be Councillor Chris Tankard from St Newlyn East Parish Council who apparently was carrying out a traffic survey on behalf of the Council. May I complain in the strongest terms at the way in which Councillor Tankard carried out his alleged survey and the grossly offensive language he used against myself resulting in my saying to him; ‘COUNCILLOR you are using offensive language towards me and I am not prepared to discuss anything further with you’ as I walked away from him he shouted ‘What the fuck do you do for Mitchell anyway’ In part of his torrent of abuse he claimed the Landlord of Mitchell had told him that I was a complete idiot and ‘effing useless’ which conversation was emphatically denied by Mr Leggo.

Prior to my speaking with Mr Tankard I had received 2 complaints from members of my team that Mr Tankard had told them they were not doing their jobs properly and he told my Manageress that she had no rights to direct traffic at the entrance gates to the Car Boot Sale, this amounts to interference in the running of my Car Boot Sales as NO person/s outside of my management team has any authority to tell or instruct any of my staff.

I then went to speak with him to ask why he was interfering in the way in which I run my Car Boot Sales pointing out that we have NEVER had any complaints at any of our 8 other locations nor from the Police he then accused me of talking ‘a load of bollocks’ with that it was the end of the conversation.

Now then Kathryn you will see from the copy below that I accepted there was a problem the previous week when there was some build up of traffic to the Car Boot mainly due to an unprecedented increase in business due to the fine weather which I tried to explain to Mr Tankard to no avail. This man is most offensive in his manner and appearance and I will refuse to accept him at any of my Car Boot Sales therefore he is BARRED from any further communications with neither my team nor myself.

For the record we have NEVER had any complaints from the POLICE at any of our venues, they accept we are running public and COMMUNITY events and they leave our teams to do our jobs to the best of our ability and yes we have had compliments from the Police at Mitchell as recently as the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay!

What do we do for Mitchell? We provide the greatest COMMUNITY Car Boot Sale for the benefit of thousands of people throughout the season widely supported by the MITCHELL residents; customers of ours over the years have frequented the local pub for bar lunches indeed we have done promotions with the management of The Plume of Feathers. Scores of our customers over many years have supported the 4 Winds Garage in Mitchell and they have given our customers exceptional service. More of our customers go to the Cornish Rose Company in Mitchell as part of their visit to our Car Boots so yes we do bring money into Mitchell which amounts to contributing to the local COMMUNITY! Oh and by the way two of our customers recently bought property in Mitchell.
I am not sure Mr Tankard was doing too much for the local community after hearing some of the adverse comments towards him from local residents as they witnessed him sitting on the railings spying on the car boot sale ‘He looks a proper Humpty Dumpty’ said one local whilst others leaving the Car Boot told staff ‘that man is always causing trouble of some sort or other in our village’ and that was from a lady who has lived in Mitchell for over 50 years!

I must conclude with a reminder about the WORLD FAMOUS Royal Cornwall Show which is due to start next week, the organisers are targeting over 130,000 people and there will be the longest queues of cars stretching miles and miles throughout the many roads leading to WADEBRIDGE and yet no-one complains. May I respectfully suggest that Mr Tankard is severely reprimanded for his offensive attitude particularly as he alleges he was acting ‘on behalf of St Newlyn East Parish Council’ which truthfully has the shades of victimisation towards my business and my thousands of customers and I am minded to seek legal advice.

May I ask for your response please,

Respectfully,

Geoff Camden Wiles

Further copies;
4 WINDS Garage
The Plume of Feathers
Cornish Rose Company
Geoff Says
Louise Camden Wiles
Rachel Steadman
Becky Steadman
ARLIN

Dear Kathryn,

Further to my email of yesterday I have now had time to interview two of my staff who advised me of the confrontation caused by Mr Tankard the previous week when he insisted at shouting and swearing at my staff about he did not want all the traffic because he lives in Mitchell but deliberately holding up the queue of traffic by refusing to move his car from the entrance to the Car Boot Sales by up to 3 minutes which obviously had an adverse affect of the traffic flow causing the queue of traffic on the slip road.

The management staffs is perfectly reliable and would be prepared to talk to yourself to tell you of their experiences with Mr Tankard and of the offensive attitude and language in his attempt to thwart our progress in dealing with our Community Car Boot Sale traffic.

Regards,

Geoff
28th May 2013