Saturday, 8th November, 2014
Minder
As the dust settles on the chief executive’s protracted departure, many questions remain. One is how the package Bryn Parry-Jones eventually fled the authority for was different to the one which 29 councillors pushed through the council chamber on 16th O... Read more →
Friday, 31st October, 2014
Legal challenge in pipeline to halt revised CEO pay-off
UPDATE: The court injunction to prevent the revised pay-off from going ahead has failed. The papers were formally lodged at the eleventh hour by Cllr. Paul Mill...
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Wednesday, 29th October, 2014
WALES AUDIT OFFICE BLOCKS GOLDEN HANDSHAKE
The appointed auditor to Pembrokeshire County Council, Anthony Barrett, has this afternoon issued a formal notice to halt the controversial third of a million p...
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Tuesday, 28th October, 2014
Other people’s money
Shortly after the costly vote by a narrow margin to pay-off the council’s chief executive, I wondered how long it might take the councillors who supported...
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• Chief exec shown the door with diamond-encrusted gold-plated package
• Ruling party’s councillors push through three-pronged deal worth £332k
• Formal disciplinary inquiry into gross misconduct allegations bypassed
• Outgoing CEO’s long-awaited last day will be Halloween
Thursday, 16th October, 2014
Bryn Parry-Jones pay-off voting list
This afternoon every single member present from the council’s ruling party, the IPPG, voted to approve a pay-off for the authority’s under-fire chie...
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Sunday, 12th October, 2014
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Last Saturday I published a post on my blog called ‘The party’s over’ concerning Cllr. Bob Kilmister’s shock announcement that he, as leader of the county council’s Pembrokeshire Alliance party, had, in his own words: “enter... Read more →
They say a week is a long time in politics, and for the Pembrokeshire Alliance last weekend alone must’ve seemed like its ‘annus horribilis.’ ...
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Saturday, 4th October, 2014
The party’s over
Any shred of credibility the Pembrokeshire Alliance had left was obliterated in spectacular form yesterday. The top brass of the county’s newest political movement which dubs itself as the ‘alternative’ to the corrupt ruling IPPG, revealed so... Read more →
Wednesday, 1st October, 2014
Merger scourge
He’s been in a changeable mood of late has the council leader, Cllr. Jamie Adams. Who could forget the way he dumped his trenchant support for chief executive Bryn Parry-Jones at the door of the council chamber a few weeks back at the extraordinary counc... Read more →
