Tonight was toff night at Full Council, aka Annual Council (see previous April posts).
Lots of Members missing (about 12) and you can't blame them for this one ! Lots of backslapping, funny costumes, celebrity gardeners, and I assume sword-swallowing. New Chairman of the Council elected (Taylor) with the Lady Pigot - who wasn't a 'Lady' on the ballot paper 3 years ago - appointed as Vice Chairman. The Leader was reappointed.
All the committee chairs (Scrutuny , Audit, etc) were re-appointed , and the Council also agreed to rush headlong into appointing another Chief Exec by July, probably because they like spending what I claimed was £1 million every two years on the position (that figure includes the salary with on-costs, headhunters fees and pension commitments, and is a conservative estimate). Labour, the LDs and the two defector/rebel Tories present were the only ones against these decisions. We all argued for deferral until after next year's elections, perhaps with Dave Burbage asked to continue as Interim CX until then.
After an early finish, I then left County Hall whilst many of the rest of them and various toffs went to the traditional new Chairman's drinks reception.
NB Can you recognise toffs 2 & 8 in the picture ?
4 comments:
I suppose if no.8 doesn't get the job that he's after in London, his friends on the Island could always offer him the vacant Chief Exec position.
We could do with a bit of light relief.
I didn't know Cameron and Johnson had been members of Spandau Ballet.
OK then class warrior, let's see what happens in the forthcoming local elections across the country. I await the results with interest.
Happy St George's Day.
Labour will be wiped out nationwide on May 1st. Some good people will lose. No-one votes for a troubled government that's so obviously lost its way and its discipline.
Perhaps most importantly all of us are feeling the pinch, the less well off in particular. Optimism is in short supply. Labour has no control over inflation, the great Bank of England experiment has failed, the once prudent Gordon now drifts ruderless on a sea of apathy. He's a terrible failure.
Ken will hand over power to Boris in London but will be about as gracious in defeat as Robert Mugabe is my guess!
These are my predictions.
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