Quentin Marshall is up before the inquiry and seems to be blundering around all over the shop.
One minute suggesting tenants were impudent and demanding: the next that there was 'humanity deficit'.
The Dame thinks Marshall really rather useless as a ward councillor.
She does recall one amusing interaction.
At a ward meeting Quentin was hugely chuffed to have got along Rifkind and Pooter Cockell.
Tongue in cheek and displaying suitable faux humility the Dame asked a very pleased with himself Quentin how she should address Pooter.
Looking very solemn, Quentin declaimed, "he should be called 'Leader'.
The old Dame split her sides laughing at the pretentiousness of it all!
Like our departed friend ex Cllr hallucinatory Mellen (Rock to his friends) it is also a mystery how Cllr boy Marshall was ever selected to stand as a Councillor and even more mystifying why he was the beneficiary of so much patronage from the Tory Leaders Cockell, Paget-Brown and Campbell. The story is still to be revealed by the Dame.
ReplyDeletePretty boys (in their time)
DeleteThe Public Gallery of the Council Chamber provides a great insight to the priorities of certain Councillors. Has beens Mathew Palmer and Moylan transfixed by their laptops during debates and working on their investment portfolios. The "Grand Cru" (Paget-Brown, Moylan, Phelps) fluttering around the back seats during the debates to engage with the fragrants (Marshall, Mellen and Mosley)
DeleteThe Dame sorted Philphy Phelps
DeleteThe Grenfell inquiry is laying bare the Tory honchos. What a load of tossers.
ReplyDeleteIs QM still chair of RBKC Planning Committee?
ReplyDeleteWhen the Mayor of London called in the Nottinghil Gate planning decision, Cllr Marshall presented the RBKC case at City Hall.
DeleteHe was chewed up by Khan. Absolutely chewed up. No political judgement, poor brief, posturing like a schoolboy. The world outside Hornton Street is very different from the accustomed "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" in RBKC
Marshall must go. He knew the TMO was a mess and he contributed to that mess. He goes on making messes. He tried to see off Grenfell residents a few years before the fire. He cannot do a decent job for his Tory chums on planning disputes.
DeleteWhat became of that other oddity and defender of the racist Viscount St Davids, Rinker The Stinker?
ReplyDeleteHow dare you? I am proud to be a friend of this aristocrat. I resent the inference that I am a social climber. My family are an old Louisiana family of De Rinker
ReplyDeleteI thought Rinker was the dog that Jeremy Thorpe had shot!
DeleteDoes anyone know what that scumbag Pooter is up to?
ReplyDeleteNot much
DeleteHe's still pining for the House of Lords but he won't be getting there any time soon, indeed after the Grenfell Inquiry reports he will not be getting there ever.
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