Wednesday 23rd January, 2019
Questionable antics
The depths to which some elements at County Hall will stoop to avoid admitting mistakes and culpability are well documented. Many episodes have taken on legenda...
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Monday 31st December, 2018
Full disclosure?
Following on from yesterday’s article (Terrible with names), this is the other blogpost I never got round to publishing this year. The conviction and leng...
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Sunday 30th December, 2018
Terrible with names
As December nears its end I imagine most bloggers, like me, annually revisit posts they never got round to publishing. Only two failed to escape my drafts folde...
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Wednesday 5th December, 2018
COUNCIL LEGAL CHIEF’S ‘PLONKER’ SLUR
• COUNTY HALL LEGAL CHIEF BRANDS MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ‘A PLONKER’
• SECRET INTERNAL MEMO EXPOSES STRATEGY TO MANIPULATE ELECTED-MEMBER SCRUTINY
• TOP OFFICERS CHANGED COUNCIL RULES TO AVOID ADMITTING SCHOOLBOY ERRORS
Monday 26th November, 2018
Chair and chair alike
Pembrokeshire County Council committee meetings with a 2pm start are something of a rarity at County Hall these days. But tomorrow sees an exception to the usua...
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Wednesday 31st October, 2018
Inside man (or woman?)
Those paying attention to Pembrokeshire County Council’s full council meeting earlier this month will have been rewarded with a juicy revelation. Finance ...
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Thursday 13th September, 2018
It’s all going on…
And so the long wait is over for the residents of Pembroke’s St. Mary North ward, who today go to the polls in their long-anticipated by-election. Essenti...
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The roster of by-election candidates for the Pembrokeshire County Council seat vacated by the now jailed paedophile David Boswell (Tory) is quite interesting to say the least. Among the eight wannabes are three former county councillors – two who lost th... Read more →
Tuesday 10th July, 2018
Inviting suspicion
It’s amazing what you can piece together if you just soak in the information that emerges during some Pembrokeshire County Council committee meetings. Som...
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Saturday 30th June, 2018
The Dai is cast
With the multiple convictions earlier this month of serious historic child sex offences, town councillor, county councillor and Pembroke mayor David ‘Dai’ Boswell’s fall from grace has been quite the story. Where better to begin than the coun... Read more →
One for the road (2)
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“As one of the "Hundleton Eight", who were roundly defeated...”
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“I wonder if you could find the eight asssentors for...”
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Hundleton by-election (6)
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“Been looking high and low for platforms on Shirley Margaret...”
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“Mike, the local rumour is that Steve Alderman was approached...”
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Pearls before swine (5)
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“Jacob I think I understand how with only 59 councillors...”
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“When I look at the goings on at PCC all...”
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Lost in the reshuffle (12)
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“Malcolm raises the question of a more rigorous party system...”
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“Henry points out that the responsible officers in County Hall...”
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POLICE LETTER IN FULL: No further action in grant fraud claims (26)
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“As a person who spent all of his working life...”
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“I find it incredulous that the council claim that vital...”
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Carwyn's comedown! (13)
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“I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about...”
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“"Bayard, firstly, I don’t think it’s true" How about the...”
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