An insight of the delusions of competency still maintained by some of the cronies who make up the controlling regime at Swansea Council can be seen from a recent e-mail sent by Independents@Swansea Wendy Fitzgerald to training officers.
Fitzgerald presided over the social services portfolio in the city during the four year period that it went from a ‘best performing’ category to needing an Assembly team to be sent in to rescue failing children’s services. Her “punishment” at the hands of the limp Lib Dem leadership was to get herself side-shuffled into the post of presiding officer where she proved just as painfully inept. She now holds a planning committee chairmanship and recently allowed a meeting to end up without a quorum, leaving several punters in the public gallery most aggrieved that their applications had gone undecided.
Despite this abysmal record, she remains firmly up herself. When an internal memo asked councillors to identify personal training needs, she rejected any assistance - adding:
“... I would suggest that learning more about the Code of Conduct is pointless as it seems that a recent decision of the Standard’s Committee allows anything to be said in the context of ‘robust political debate’ although this could conflict with the new Equalities legislation. Perhaps we therefore need some training so we can understand how the Code of Conduct relates to the Equalities legislation!”
This refers to a recent decision by her peers to clear tory group leader Rene Kinzett of misconduct after he had “vigorously addressed” the abilities of several councillors and suggested that a large proportion of them were no longer fit for purpose. Fitzgerald had taken personal exception to his comments and reported him to an overzealous Ombudsman. The local committee however did not feel that Kinzett could be censured for merely telling the truth – especially in her case.
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