Monday 5th March, 2018
A civil question deserves a civil answer
When councillors table a question or notice of motion (NoM) to full council meetings we’re all emailed as and when they are approved. Before this rule cam...
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Sunday 4th March, 2018
Just a minute!
I was told of a comical turn in PCC’s latest debacle last week evoking images of drawers and filing cabinets being rooted through in desperation. To sum i...
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Public interest in Pembrokeshire County Council’s latest legal scandal shows no sign of abating. As the authority’s lawyers went further out on their limb with the suggestion that members’ seminars count as full council meetings, the odds of ... Read more →
Some significant updates, today, on Pembrokeshire County Council’s latest debacle. This relates to the authority’s legal duty, delegated by the council to chief executive Ian Westley, to declare the Pembroke St. Mary North seat vacant in order to h... Read more →
My previous blogpost sets out why Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive is now duty-bound to declare the authority’s Pembroke St. Mary North electoral division vacant. This is because the ward’s previously-elected councillor, Dai Bos... Read more →
• PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCILLOR RELINQUISHES SEAT
• FAILS TO ATTEND SINGLE COUNCIL MEETING IN SIX MONTHS
• BY-ELECTION LOOMS FOR PEMBROKE ST. MARY NORTH
• BUT LEGAL BLUNDER CREATES INTERESTING TWIST…
Read more →Sunday 28th January, 2018
Blue-sky thinking
Quite a few of you were interested by last month’s Western Telegraph story on Bluestone’s board of directors approving the formation of an employee benefit trust. In what we’re told is the “first scheme of its kind in the UK leisure ind... Read more →
Tuesday 19th December, 2017
Turkey shoot
Crisp and tender. That’s surely how Cllr. Jamie Adams felt on his drive home from Thursday’s full council meeting. Ousted as Pembrokeshire County Council’s leader following his ‘independent’ party’s ballot box drubbing at th... Read more →
Wednesday 22nd November, 2017
Millions down the drain
Cherries may be out of season as we approach Christmas but the following concerns a costly punt, not punnet. This is Pembrokeshire County Council’s large Cherry Grove office complex, which has so far swallowed up £3m of your hard-earned cash – and... Read more →
Tuesday 31st October, 2017
Draft dodgers
Local government law requires the committee appointments of us councillors who aren’t affiliated to any political group to be made by full council. The un...
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COUNCIL LEGAL CHIEF'S 'PLONKER' SLUR (16)
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“Jacob, as the carpet between Ian Westley's and Claire Incledon's...”
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Chair and chair alike (7)
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“Perhaps all council and committee meetings should choose their chairs...”
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Inside man (or woman?) (7)
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“Pembs. Exile, nothing to report I'm afraid, however the corporate...”
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It's all going on... (20)
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“Re the Ocky White call in, it is worth looking...”
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Old dogs, new tricks (18)
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“Mr Calver, having checked the 2017 county council election results...”
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Inviting suspicion (23)
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“John, I questioned this particular amendment, as proposed by the...”
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