Cardiff Council is having major problems and there have been calls for the sacking of their Leader. One councillor said.
“… in an explosive leaked email, Coun Cook told the embattled council leader the cabinet should have paid more attention to the views of its backbenchers.
The email added: “I am surprised that you seem unable to appreciate that if you kick a big dog enough times and ignore its growls of displeasure, it will eventually rip the aggressor’s throat out.
You and your Cabinet (and the Group Officers) have signally failed to heed our warnings, some of you have completely failed to understand and live up to your responsibilities and collectively the entire Cabinet as well as the Group Officers have failed to convince me that any of you have the ability to take this Group and Council forward out of the hole into which you have lead us.
“The call from beyond the Labour Group is for you to stand down, privately I support that call.”
Contrast this with Conservative East Devon District Council where their own backbenchers do as they are told by block voting with the Leader (whilst insisting they are not whipped).
Less barks from a big kicked dog, more like little squeaks from a tiny, ignored chihuahua frantically licking the Leader’s … throat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-31690755
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