The Evening Post more or less reports today on the huge waste of public involved in ‘investigating’ thirty two Swansea councillors for deciding to walk out in protest when they were refused the chance to discuss the mishandling of a controversial e-government scheme in public.
Whilst it is understandable that the Ombudsman would not wish to put anything on record at this stage, it does seem rather odd that council leader Chris Holley and the ubiquitous local authority spokesman were apparently not contacted for their comments. Equally strange is the absence of any defence by Peter Black among the website views accompanying the story.
Update: Rockin' Rene gives another perspective on this debacle - and claims that PB is unhappy at the grassing up of councillors. Hmmm. We seem to remember that it was Black who shopped a Kingsbridge councillor to the Ombudsman for revealing how the officer in charge of the old leisure centre was given a handsome pay-off to go quietly. He also, if memory serves, put in a lengthy and successful appeal when the local government watchdog declined to investigate the complant the first time around.
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