Tuesday 21 July 2020

TROUBLE IN PARADISE!

Dear Dame,
In the light of the Housing Scrutiny Committee meeting- chaired for the first time by novice Chair Cllr. Kasim Ali, Tory councillors are scrambling to check the rules to find out if a Chair can be removed for not knowing what scrutiny involves. 
The meeting was dominated by a lecture from an academic chum of Chairman Ali - to the extent that there was no time for the items that Tory members of the committee actually wanted to scrutinise. 
Knows nothing about housing

It was over an hour before the speaker even touched on anything that could generously be described as relevant to the Royal Borough.
THINK has some interesting thoughts on this sorry bunch!





Having speakers intended to glorify the academic connections of the Chair threatens to become a habit for the new Labour Chairs and follows the precedent set by Cllr. 'Doctor' Marwan 
Elnaghi who got a chum from Brunel University to irrelevantly wile away the hours during his first committee as Chair of the Adult Services and Health Committee. (And is now rumoured to be on the look out for another speaker of the same ilk for the next meeting) . 
After all, there is currently so little else to discuss in the areas of Social Services and Health is there?

But one must not blame the ingenue Chairs for their ignorance and inexperience. 
Responsibility for this farce lies solely with the current Labour Group leadership who have determined to organise the group solely on the grounds of loyalty to  Dent Coad/Lari, and who have bought the loyalty of the younger members by flattery and stuffing their mouths with gold from the public purse. 
And who cares that they are clueless about scrutiny? 
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, the ‘old guard.... experienced and competent members sit on the backbenches with nothing to do but plot and despair. 

Yours truly

'one who knows'

19 comments:

  1. More and more there seems to be an aligning please the Hornets Nest and THINK. What's going on? It could be that the combined readership is now around 2000 a day....

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  2. Again flawless incompetence from Labour . If Ali were at the 'crease ' at Lords so to speak , he would be out for a duck on this performance .

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  3. He took about 10 minutes thanking the entire room, it was almost as if he were avoiding any debate of relevance .

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  4. Why would you not discuss Housing at the Housing Committee ?

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  5. A big let down for Grenfell. Why can't they put someone up who knows what they are doing. This is a failure of duty.

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    1. A suitable political home for an upper class woman23 July 2020 at 18:23

      The Labour Party is a BOURGEOIS party not a wrokers' party.

      That is why Emma Dent Coad became a Labour MP.

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    2. Labour politicians are in it for themselves just like the Tories are in it for themselves.

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    3. Emma Dent-Coad is in it for herself. She gave up her Councillors' Allowance with a public declaration that she was doing so. She did not make a similar public declaration when she started claiming it again. She did not reckon on people like me looking at the Register of MP's interests.

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    4. She never gave it up !

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    5. I looked at the Parliamentary Register of Members' Interests shortly after she got in. She declared, in words to the effect, "I receive no payment for my duties as a Councillor." I wouldn't be too concerned about her, she's finished.

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    6. So EDC is "finished." Does anyone know which finishing school Emma went to? I want to put my daughter's name down so that she is "finished" at a good one.

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    7. She's very snobbish. Finished in Switzerland at
      Institut Alpin Videmanette a Rougemont.

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  6. I listened in what a boring man.

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  7. The loneliness of Paradise is where Ali will end up.

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  8. And if you believe this you'll believe anything. I thought the Dame was above fake news.

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