Second full Town Council last night. During Public Participation a redoubtable retired chap called Ray smilingly asked the one newly-elected Tory cllr:
"Could you tell me your opinion of Mr Bill Wiggin?"
"Why, I support Mr Wiggin 100%" he smiled back.
"Then you sir" said Ray "are morally corrupt"
Do we think those actual words will find their way into the minutes?
Because some words seem to slip down the back of the minute-taker's filing cabinet, such as these - regarding a local quango called Leominster Area Regeneration Company that handles £2.8 million of public funds - which I said at the last council meeting:
"I wrote, as a council taxpayer, to LARC's Chairman Bill Jackson pointing out that he had signed Bill Wiggin's nomination papers at the election vouching for Mr Wiggin's good name. Since Mr Wiggin has subsequently admitted publicly to misappropriating thousands of pounds of public money, I asked Mr Jackson if he wished to publicly distance himself from Mr Wiggin's misappropriation or alternatively to stand down as Chairman of this body handling public funds. Mr Jackson did not even reply which shows the unaccountable arrogance and contempt for council taxpayers of this organisation".
..but which were strangely missing from the minutes presented last night.
Socialist Mayor Eddie Clark tried to pass the minutes anyway until I protested that it is a criminal offence to publish false minutes.
I've no idea if it is, but clearly neither does Red Ed 'cause he withdrew the minutes to be rewritten.
Next item on t'Agenda - last year's Accounts which revealed the Minutes Clerk received a whopping 20% increase in salary!
Maybe Bills Jackson & Wiggin chipped in with a few bob?
'AN EXPENSES ACCOUNT' Jim Miller's adventures in the banana republic of Nth Herefordshire leominsterindependent@live.co.uk
