Another councillor gets away with disgraceful behaviour

In other walks of life they might well have lost their jobs but in local government the bad behaviour appears to have little effect – unless “grovelling” counts as punishment:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-tory-forced-grovel-after-5037897

Which committee will scrutinise the fiasco of the Draft Local Plan?

Seems Overview and Scrutiny are loathe to overview and scrutinise anything, especially now the elections are looming. Audit and Governance don’t seem too concerned. about it, now they have been panicked into dealing with the relocation scandal. The Development Management Committee seems content to spend all its time dogging their hats to developers large and small and so has no time or interest, relying in “updates” that update nothing.

No guards and therefore no-one guarding the guards.

Lamentable AND shocking.