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He is the youngest and least experienced Cabinet member.
Yet, with all the arrogance of youth, he has decided that he should be leader of our council!
The Dame hears that he has been put up to this by a clique of young councillors led by the quite hopeless Quentin Marshall-a councillor who spends much of his time playing polo in Argentina.
Their raison d'etre for attempting to foist this boy on long suffering residents and officers is that he would be able to vanquish the 'Old Guard'.
Rock Feilding Mellen has done nothing in his short life to justify any councillor putting their trust in his leadership abilities.
At this juncture the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea needs and deserves a leader with vision, experience and charisma.
Feilding Mellen has none of these qualities. A vote for him would be a slap in the face for residents.
This has to be a joke
ReplyDeleteAnother person the hornet does not like
ReplyDeletelets hear something positive please
Dear 9.13. We are in shock. Lets snuff out this manic idea before it gathers momentum
DeleteThe Dame has made very clear, over past months, who she feels would acquit themselves well as leader. When a candidate emerges who she believes to be ill equipped she is bound to say so. It is not a question of like or dislike:merely a question of who is up to the job.
DeleteThis is an important central London Borough which needs mature Leadership. "Rocky" is a pretty boy but that is about it. And if there is any further doubt then Councillors should consider a family that drills holes in their heads and a polo playing proposer. A very bad joke
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ReplyDeleteThis newish member of Cabinet still requires lots of coaching
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DeleteThe first drink on offer from the owner of Harrods and Cllr Marshall is off in a flash, leaving his residents to fend for themselves. Not the sort of Kingmaker I want around me
ReplyDeleteWe need to see their manifestos. What do they pledge with regard to:
ReplyDelete* Holland Park Opera
* Basements
* Tri Borough
* Resident Artist
* Civil Society
AND housing developments in Peterborough!
DeleteWHAT IS CLLR MARSHALL SMOKING???
DeleteThe three Brompton Ward councillors have allowed the once elegant Beauchamp Place to degenerate into a sleazy and stinking Edgware Road clone. They are three of the most useless cllrs.
ReplyDeleteAt least Phelps cleaned up Earls Ct Rd: this lot do nothing. They have one thing in common....they are children doing men's work
The Boy Brigade in Brompton Ward have been long on promise and short on delivery. Cllr Bark Without the Bite Horder promised in his election manifesto to rid Brompton residents of the Arab racers who propel their noisy cars around Knightsbridge at high speed. Of course nothing has been achieved. And Bark did nothing to moderate the excess of the Iranian Embassy.
DeleteWHAT IS MARSHALL SMOKING??
ReplyDeleteThe voters in St. Charles ward disposed of Feilding-Mellen in 2010 and he was hastily brought back to Holland Ward when Lady Hanham stood down. But he was not the first choice for that safe seat. His former St. Charles colleague, Dominic Johnson, was approached first but he opted to spend more time with his family. What a pity. Johnson would have made a good candidate for leadership. This one just doesn't.
ReplyDeleteRock FM is often very rude and a bully, particularly when people don't agree with him. He has no tools to cope with dissent, none whatever. He is an intellectual lightweight, and as some have intimated, too much of a 'party boy'.
ReplyDeleteHe also talks through his nose, which is extremely annoying.
Please, NO.
Cllr Marshall deserves credit for recognising that a break with the past is necessary. And for having the courage to do something about it. The younger group of Councillors have been fed up for some time and two (including ex Cllr James Cecil) already quit in disgust at the Leadership style of Cockell and the old guard. Cllr Fielding-Mellen is a Cabinet Member already and so he is the obvious candidate for this bid for power. Rallying the young vote in this way is clever. Depending on the line up for the Leaders job, it could be a powerful swing vote to deliver at the end of the day. Using the simple mechanism of Cllr Fielding-Mellen withdrawing his application and the young guard throwing in their support in return for "undertakings". Cllr Marshall might even end up in Cabinet himself.
ReplyDeleteThis is politics and Cllr Marshall knows the form and has stayed the course. He fought a North Kensington seat (which he only just lost), has been a Ward Chairman and now represents Brompton Ward.
He is utterly useless as a ward cllr
Deletelosing is not winning....it is failure
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ReplyDeleteSorry PFWTS, you need to dig a bit about Marshall. He is incompetent and not entirely honest, as well as being a serious....... Just look at his work record; pitiful. Without family money he would be a nobody.
I'm not stirring, he is genuinely dodgy, senior Tories know this but are keeping it all quiet to save yet more embarrassment.
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If any of you are faltering on Rock FM, be strong, look at the patronising clap-trap he is disseminating, it will put you off utterly and permanently:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sociallyconsciouscapital.co.uk/
Goodness, I'd quite forgotten about that 'socially conscious' drivel. What an embarrassment. Hasn't made a penny either!
ReplyDeleteCllr Marshall holds down a job in Private Wealth Management. Not a push over.
ReplyDeleteHe also rides a scooter. So what?
DeleteThat's a job for people who can't do corporate finance. In any case his company is falling apart
DeleteHoho 12.50, have you looked at his work record lately? He was 'in it' up to his ears at his previous job through sheer incompetence and was unceremoniously dumped.
DeleteYup, he has a scooter. He also drives an extremely flashy Ferrari, so vulgar!
We are where we are and have to work with what we have. A change of Leadership is one of the rare opportunities when a new direction can be taken. A chance to refresh the Borough. Give democracy a chance (lets have an election and not a done deal) and see where it takes us. All it needs is for a small group of Conservative Councillors to put self interest aside and vote for what they think is right
DeleteChallengers with a clean pair of hands (eg Borwick, Mills, Husband) should be very encouraged and emboldened by the possibility of the "Marshall vote" becoming available. There could, after all, be a democratic election with some serious hustings about to happen. The old fogies (Coleridge, Ahern and Lightfoot) must be feeling rather uncomfortable.
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