The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it was “considering” whether to launch a full investigation into claims about his time as leader of Hammersmith & Fulham council.
Mr Greenhalgh, who runs the Met Police, has been accused of sanctioning “unlawful and improper inducements” to council residents. The deputy mayor, who earns £127,784 a year, dismissed allegations that people were offered new homes if they agreed their estates could be demolished.
He told The Standard: “I am immensely proud of my record as council leader. These baseless allegations are politically motivated.”
In a separate development, the council called in Deloitte’s to examine claims that councillors and housing officers offered places on a “VIP housing list” if residents agreed to the demolition of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates to make way for an £8 billion redevelopment of Earl’s Court.
City Hall sources said Mr Greenhalgh had Mr Johnson’s “full support”
In this case it can truly be said that you could't make it up.
ReplyDeleteThis guy is fast becoming a liability. At this stage of politics, right or wrong is now irrelevant. The perception is that he is damaged goods, and the police no doubt scent a drowning man. They will show no sympathy - just like Andrew Mitchell.
ReplyDeleteSteve is dust. He should move on quietly
LEE JASPER - WHAT DID HE DO WRONG, WHILE ON THE PAY OF KING NEWT?
ReplyDeleteClot....we are not talking about the appalling Lee Grasper and his weird boss....so stop trying to justify one set of bad behaviour by reference to another. It just makes you look daft
ReplyDeleteConservative Home has come out in defence of Grennhalgh. It is all a police stitch up - including his hand on the bottom of a young employee in the GLA lift. This is going to be interesting
DeleteAll that hard work in Hammersmith blown to smithereens. Labour will be back in power. What a clot - but then like Pooter, these guys just cannot help themselves
ReplyDeleteOh dear, another close associate of Boris in trouble. Boris really needs to pick his friends far more carefully!
ReplyDeleteRight from the start Greenhalgh has been making mistakes. First he tried to hang on to the job in Hammersmith AND do the police job at the GLA. Then he screwed up at his first police hearing which really pissed off the Met. From that day he was a marked man. Then the little indiscretion in the lift - a gift from heaven to the Met. And now this stuff comes tumbling out.
ReplyDeleteCllr Harry Phibbs of Hammersmith has mounted a sterling defence of his ex boss in Conservative Home - but dear Harry forgets that in politics perception is everything. And the current perception of Greenhalgh is terminal
I think Cllr Phibbs has a selective memory regarding Greenhalgh as many of the residents regarded him as a buffoon. In fact a cheer went up when he moved on thereby stopping him making any more crazy decisions in H&F.
DeleteIt seems that Hammersmith is now firmly in the Dame's beady eye. How stupid of the bureaucrats in King Street to try and censor the Hornet
ReplyDeleteThe Dame tells it like it is. No fluff. No snow. No cloud. Just the business
DeleteConservative Home is pathetic. Third rate Tory mouthpiece
DeleteHORNET IS A LABOUR BLOG
DeleteAll this shouting 10:14....sounds like the Dame is getting you into a fright old tizz!!!
DeleteThere is a long correspondence in which Mr. Myers stoutly defends Mr. Greenhalgh of any alleged wrong-doing.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting. Mr Myers also wrote a stout defence of Cllr Cockell after he was caught using the Mayors Bentley around town and charging up dinner (to council tax payers) for "friends" at luxury restaurants in New York on a Saturday night. Mr Myers wrote that he "authorised the use of the Bentley to save taxi fares" and he "approved the expense claims in New York". When residents made a fuss about Cockle's First Class trips by Virgin to New York, San Farancisco and Boston Mr Myers changed the expenses rules of K&C retrospectively so that let Pooter off the hook. H&F needs to celebrate....
DeleteNow we know why Myers has banned H&F councillors from viewing the Hornet. He was preparing the ground for the hapless defence of the hapless Greenhalgh. Labour councillors in H&F need to wade in and make one hell of a fuss about this
DeleteGood old Myers - he was the one who 'rescued' Cockell from the flack over his foreign 'holidays'.
DeleteLabour councillors in H&F may like to note that Mr Myers has very little political judgement. The new expenses rules for K&C that authorised First Class travel for councillors were introduced in the same week that Generals and Air Force Marshalls were forced to travel second in order to save money during the recession
DeleteDoes that not cast doubt on Myers being allowed to make any decisions .If he is so arrogant to think that he has the right to make any statement without proof then the sooner he goes the better.
DeleteThank heavens for the Dame and her ever vigilant network of democrats
ReplyDeleteA rerun of K&C history. What fun. Different place, same story, same Tories
ReplyDeletePathetic Labour comment. What about Cllr O'Neil, Labour N Kensington, who lives in a Council house and rents out several of his own properties. Pots should not call kettles to account
DeleteLow life persons in Hammersmith. Certainly not top drawer Tories like K&C. As for the Labour lot - the pits
ReplyDeleteI agree.... top drawer people....Lamont convicted pedophile....Phelps thrown off for dirty emails....and Moylan....less said
Deleteand Moylan what? just more smears from the Hornet
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