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1. Oh dear what problems a spell at EDDC seems to create for some people when it comes to knowing who and what they are.
   Here we have ex EDDC Cllr Brown, who appears to have given everyone the impression that he was a farmer (Lives on a farm, described himself as a farmer, claimed to represent the NFU when advising EDDC on planning matters, applied for planning permissions related to farming, claimed EC farming subsidies etc) but now says no, he ain’t no Farmer Brown.
   Along similar lines, according to EDDC, we have a private consultant who is not a private consultant but the equivalent of an EDDC employee. This despite the fact that said consultant’s employers were the ones to win an EDDC contract to provide certain services, despite the fact that all his wages are paid direct by his employer and not EDDC, despite his laptop and mobile being provided by his employers and not EDDC- and a host of other employment terms and condition factors fitting only the employee of a consultancy firm profile.
   What do these two men have in common? Answer- If their claims are accepted, they both result in benefitting from exemptions in law.
   If you believe the first, he can in future lawfully occupy, as a non-farmer, a property that was exempted from certain planning conditions because it was approved only for occupation in connection with agricultural purposes.
   If you accept the argument that the consultant counts as an EDDC employee, and not the independent consultant he was once welcomed as, then he and EDDC can hide certain reports on the Knowle relocation project from the public.
   Remind me some (anyone?) , why did EDDC drop the tag line ‘Open and Honest’?

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