CATCH UP, MR STALLWOOD-TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Mr. Stallwood, our employee, is paid a considerable amount of money by council taxpayers.
We provide him with a platinum-plated pension-the stuff of envy by those working in the risk-prone private sector.
Why does the Dame raise this?

Simply because Mr. Stallwood seems to have forgotten that we employ him....not some dodgy developer in China.

The case in point is the ghastly Holiday Inn plan.
Mr. Phillip Elliott was the officer responsible for giving pre-planning advice to the Chinese. 
This must have involved many hours of meetings. 

The weird thing is that none of us have a clue as to what was discussed. 
It is not good enough. 

Every meeting should have been minuted and available to residents. 

Even stranger is that Mr. Stallwood allowed Elliott to then become the case officer; it all seems to use that ghastly modernism- 'inappropriate'.

The Dame is getting the sense that our leader is beginning to shift things so that residents are treated as partners.
Mr. Stallwood and team needs to understand and 'get with the programme' as her errant nephew, Ludo says.
Stallwood and team are out of step.....and out of sync.