Dear Dame
Thank you for allowing me the freedom of
your columns to give my thoughts on the news that the Chelsea Independents
intend to oust Cllrs Cockell, Warrick and Pascall.
In years gone by an Independent faction on
any council was seen as a ‘good thing’. The over politicization of local politics
has gone too far and nowhere is this more apparent than within RBK&C.
In his years as leader Merrick Cockell
prove to be a disaster.
With no external income he clung to power
in an undignified and unscrupulous way.
His use of £40,0000 a year Special
Responsibility Allowance to cement his leadership smacked of the worst excess
of a kind of associated with Tammany Hall /pork barrel politics.
Leaving aside his abuse of the expenses
system to fund his love of First Class air travel, luxury hotel suites and £600
discreet dinners for two there is the question of his (at one time)
£120,000 a year taxpayer funded allowance.
It is right that the Chelsea Independent
candidates seek to rid the council of Merrick Cockell and his two fellow councilors,
Warrick and Pascall. The trio has no interest in residents and is never
available to help us when in need.
I will take great pleasure in seeing these
three replaced by Ian Henderson, Heinz Schumi and Andrew Barshall: all three
are deeply committed to Chelsea and its residents.
Cockell’s only commitment was to his self-interest.
Yours sincerely
J. Bagley
Telling it like it is. Good luck to the Independents.
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ReplyDeletePerhaps the Independents can put a stop to the unfair treatment of Council Officers being forced to relocate to Hammersmith and Fulham. They are to be replaced with - wait for it - officers from Hammersmith and Fulham being moved to the Royal Borough.How mad is that? This is simply an unnecessary expense to the taxpayer. The Pembroke Road Offices will doubtless have another costly facelift whilst loyal hardworking staff are put to the expense and inconvenience of working in a new location whilst doing the same job as they are doing now. This has to stop.
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