Friday, 23 April 2010

Candidates get their cards marked

Swansea councillors who are standing as general election candidates or serving as agents have recently received a long list of proscribed actions from the chief executive. The guidelines, which were allegedly drawn up by the authority's ex-legal boss as a parting gift, prohibit the use of council materials, facilities, civic chains and what not.

There is nothing new about this sort of thing, but the near-exhaustive nature of the list and the serious warnings about what will happen to transgressors has prompted speculation that the notice might be aimed in particular at one nameless candidate who has a nice scam going on by purchasing ‘industrial quantities’ of paper from the local authority, at discount rates, for his personal printing press.

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