In an unplanned reaction to the continued financial disintegration at County Hall WC leader Jane Scott has announced her decision to make the chief executive redundant. In a statement to staff released yesterday she says:
Cllr Philip Mynott, Brentwood North, has spoken out about the "progress" on the William Hunter Way development after being barred from speaking on the matter in the council chamber, despite it being in the ward he represents.
Liberal Democrat Party Conference gets underway inBirminghamon Saturday (17th September). Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrat members have succeeded in getting two amendments on secular issues accepted for debate.
At the meeting of Wiltshire Council's Cabinet on Tuesday (Sept13th), the Lib Dems secured a promise from the council's leader that no Wiltshire Youth Centres would close. The question was repeatedly asked by Trowbridge Councillor Helen Osborn, the Lib Dem lead member on Children's Services, who finally secured the pledge.
Brentwood's Liberal Democrat County Councillors, Cllr Barry Aspinell & Cllr David Kendall, have joined the growing demand for a full, independent investigation into the financial affairs of the organisation after Lord Hanningfield (Paul White) was, according to the BBC, arrested for matters relating to fraud at the county council just days after his release from prison after serving nine weeks of a nine month sentence after his conviction for fraud at the House of Lords.
Former Conservative leader Lord Hanningfield has been arrested again, shortly after leaving prison only nine weeks into a nine month sentence for defrauding the taxpayer. Police now want to investigate his time leading Essex County Council. Said Cllr. Tom Smith-Hughes (Liberal Democrat leader at Essex CC): "The Liberal Democrats knew that there were very serious allegations against Lord Hanningfield which had been referred by Essex County Council to the Police. Justice must be done and seen to be done."
