The latest uproar is apparently a result of a refusal by Swansea council leader Chris Holley and his creature, presiding officer Wendy Fitzgerald, to allow written questions onto this week’s council agenda because they were put in a day late – something to do with Bank Holidays we understand. Anyway, the block is being enforced politically despite the submission getting the nod from senior council officers including the chief executive.
Needless to say, the Labour leadership is portraying the episode as something resembling the end of the cosmos whilst the Lib Dem line is to take a gleeful snipe at the Labour group machine which usually prides itself on operating like a well-oiled bedpan.
But for all the political squabbling, the opinion quietly expressed among the officer corps, especially those who fancy the idea of getting home before midnight, is that the appearance of three contentious notices of motion at the end of the agenda ensured that the administration were advised of their rights in the matter – and also that no-one tipped off the opposition about their bad timing.
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Openness and transparency were the first casulaties when the Lib Dems and their indepedent cronies took office. Now it is council jobs and services that are getting eroded by inept politicians who are only interested in power.
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