Peter Black talks a good fight on devolution and trust over at WalesHome and it would be all the more credible if he was:
(a) ever likely to be in a position of influence so as to actually deliver the changes he describes
and
(b) practised some of the accountability he espouses from time to time in his own back yard.
Since attaining power, the Lib Dem controlled regime at Swansea has evaded accountability to the extent that near enough 25% of the executive decisions are taken behind closed doors. When this endemic secrecy has recently challenged, the reaction by the council leadership was been to report 32 opposition members to the Ombudsman for their impertinence.
For someone who describes himself as an instinctive democrat and who usually has no problems in expressing an opinion, he is strangely silent on this heavy-handed approach which is so clearly at odds with Liberal thinking.
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Good points. Black seems to think that he can distance himself from the appalling centralist control that his colleagues allow to operate in Swansea.
As ever, Blackie speaks with forked tongue. This isn't just local government; it's Lib Dem run local government elected by STV but diluted through over-dependence on reactionary crypto-rightwing nutters to sustain a majority.
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