The 2022 Pembrokeshire County Council election is already notable for its high number of uncontested seats. Nineteen of sixty councillors – your author included – have been returned without any opposition, meaning the 2022-2027 council is more than... Read more →
Tuesday, 29th March, 2022
Holding back?
There’s a week to go until nominations for Pembrokeshire County Council’s 2022 election close. One thing most council-watchers seem to agree on is j...
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Monday, 28th February, 2022
Grumpy’s return
And so, we reach the last day of February. In 2022 this turns out to be a particularly notable date, but not because it’s a leap day. Old Grumpy, the auth...
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Monday, 17th January, 2022
Pay-off probes go public
Even those with only a passing interest in local politics have wondered why the investigation by Audit Wales into the unlawful £95k pay-off to Pembrokeshire County Council’s former chief executive, Ian Westley, as signed off in 2020 by the authorityR... Read more →
• Audit Wales report finally finished • Confidential draft shown to PCC’s new CEO only • Will be made public soon – but possibly as late as February, 2022 • Claim has been made that full council was deliberately bypassed as a red line in pa... Read more →
Sunday, 14th November, 2021
‘Settlement Agreement’ decision deferred
Monday’s extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council (November 8th) was convened to consider a secret report titled “Settlement Agreement.” This seven-page document was presented only to councillors. The public are prevented from se... Read more →
Pembrokeshire’s county councillors have this afternoon been put on notice of a second extraordinary council meeting in relation to the former chief exec&#...
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Tuesday, 12th October, 2021
‘Holding position’ in pay-off saga
Pembrokeshire councillors have decided to “defer any decision” in the former chief executive’s £95k pay-off saga. Yesterday’s extraordi...
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Thursday, 7th October, 2021
Westley pay-off deemed unlawful
Last year’s £95k pay-off to Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive, Ian Westley, has been deemed unlawful in the first formal reports into the scandal. The claim is set out in papers published for the authority’s hotly-anticipated Oc... Read more →
Monday’s extraordinary Pembrokeshire County Council meeting (see previous blogpost) has been postponed. Councillors are told that a new date for the Septe...
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