Kington Councillors Unsuspended - Sort Of

Kington welcomes Jokers - At the Festival - but NOT on the Town Council.




What HAS been going on at OUR Council?
Crisis Hit Council
Tells it pretty well in the Mid-Wales Journal. Jan 9th 2009

Lets Suspend three of the Moderate Sensible Councillors, that will upset the balance of Common Sense nicely: Suspensions!

One small step forward: report of Mayor's Resignation.

Mid-Wales Journal

Hereford Times

A Petition


So to Monday 16/2/09.....................

Living in la-la land is all very well, a serial farce, two episodes per month, with such imaginative scriptwriters, but why do we, who have no say in the affairs have to pay for this charade?

Who decides which letters to the Council are referred to in letters received at full Council, and which are binned electronically with the immortal Word "Noted" where the contents are too difficult to answer?

So we have a Dysfunctional Dyslexic Deceiving Council in Crisis , that edits mischievously, unadopted draft advice, from a secretive society (SLCC), that wont talk or explain their alleged advice to those that pay their collective dues (Us, the poor Charge-Payers), supporting members making inventive unsubstantiated personally advantageous grievances, with neither Hearing nor the Procedural niceties of compliance with any rules or adopted policy being served on unsuspecting, uninformed, victims of a grossly mismanaged stage show for their own amusement.

FIRSTLY, The junta's ('Old Regime' in Lloydspeak) spokesperson Lloyd ushers unceremoniously, whilst the shenanigans (1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception) are enacted, the victims to be disposed of to a dark corner of the Car Park, expelling them from the meeting 15/12/08, in accordance with their prior scheming; colloquially called a 'set-up'. Even suspended they could, and should have been allowed to return to the meeting enjoying(?) the same rights as the public, but no, sent home in "disgrace", Mayor Lloyd returning to exclaim, holier than thou "My Gawd". Explanation or apology for the Councillor's absences? No, No, this is Kington Council! Just another way to twist the knife!

SECOND Exciting Episode: the three Suspended attend, but do not participate.

They write saying in affect the 'Suspensions' were blatantly unlawful, if they think there has been any compliance with the law of the land, speak up. If they are allowed to accede to their seats, that being an admission of the unlawfulness of the Council's actions.

A vitriolic retort comes forth from Clerk conforming their version, apparently from Cllr Newman, that in 'la-la land' they were indeed still fully suspended "to protect the Clerk" (or his interests?)

THIRDLY, astoundingly, in surreal accepting silence by the Council three suspended Councillors take their seats, just as if nothing has happened, as one said subsequently their gasted was flabbere'd.

• Clerk, Chair and Council meekly accepting their wrongdoing?
• Launching a charm offensive in the shadow of Thursdays Public Meeting?
• Fear of vilification by the Standards Board?
• Or simply detached from reality?

What am I supposed to make of this wanton waste of the £50,000 precept? How could I explain this in believable terms on Thursday 19/2/09 at 7.30pm at Burton Hotel Kington ?

Surely he who pays the piper should call the tune? Hopefully with 15 good men and women willing to stand, as well as the few dud dudes perhaps, desperate to cling to power when all realism has long gone. The Clerk will no doubt be considering his short term career prospects, and depleted Reference score.

10 Councillors resigning in recent years! 9, soon 10 Clerks, in 10 years. Something is very, very wrong, was Lloyd the Catalyst for Crisis? Not alone, Cllr Newman and Cllr Trumper and the not unconnected frequently complaining vexatious member of the public may have the ability to alter the course of Governance in Kington.