Full Council tonight and it was like one of those fifties zombie movies ! The public gallery was stuffed with failed and largely unlamented ex-Liberal councillors - all there to see the appointment (by the Tories, as no one else was consulted) of one of their own as the new Chairman of the Council. It was a real 'rogue's gallery' - reinforcing why they had their electoral debacle last year. Still at least the rump of them left recently got their act together at last and formed a proper group; with good old Henry as leader...Most of the meeting was pretty tedious, though there was a Cabinet re-shuffle of sorts announced by the Council leader - with the care and child protection elements of Children's Services moved from Patrick Joyce to Dawn Cousins (contradicting the government's Every Child Matters philosophy), and a thunderous looking Tim Hunter-Henderson dumped with much of Jilly Wood's previous portfolio on top of all the rest he holds, so that she can mess around with parish councils.
I was re-appointed as Chair of Scrutiny for another year and consequently went home at the end to work on finishing off our Wightcare scrutiny enquiry report, whilst the 'zombies' joined most councillors at a 'reception'.
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