UKIP Frozen Out of Planning

[steveL]

Despite having 5 Councillors as opposed to the 3 Tories, UKIP have found themselves completely frozen out of the Planning Committee  while all 3 Tory Councillors have been given seats - a sign of just how important Planning is to Wells.

[for fawkes sake]

Despite having 5 Councillors as opposed to the 3 Tories, UKIP have found themselves completely frozen out of the Planning Committee  while all 3 Tory Councillors have been given seats - a sign of just how important Planning is to Wells.

Yes but it also makes perfectly clear what the basis of the relationship between Labour and the Conservatives is: the three Conservatives support Labour in everything that they do and in return Wells gets all three of his councillors onto the Planning Committee. It's an arrangement not dissimilar to prostitution.

That's not to say that the other two Conservative councillors have anything to add. Their purpose is simply one of denying their two seats to non-coalition Councillors. I'm sure Wells would ideally like 4 seats so that the Planning Committee could be kept as an all-coalition affair.

[marky]

Is it too early to mention the word 'corrupt'?

[Lord Elpus]

Don't expect George Morris to turn up for many.

[for fawkes sake]

Don't expect George Morris to turn up for many.

Now that the dice are set and non-coalition councillors are, bar one, excluded then the attendance of the two other Conservatives is not required.

[Alnwickist]

George Morris, can't remember the last meeting he attended,even then he left half way through.

[Alnwickist]

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