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Topic: New Councillors & new Lead Members
Posted by: Andy Murray
Date/Time: 10/10/14 15:27:00

The difference is this case was that Ed Mayne was made a Lead Member as a novice Councillor, and in becoming so, in theory had the power to make unilateral decisions. In practice, no-one expects a Lead Member to make decisions on local CPZs, which were, and remain, the province of local Area Forums, for good or ill, and no-one with any sense would do so without expecting to be severely criticised. The only reason that the Council's Constitution didn't forbid him from taking the liberties that he did, is that the Constitution's authors couldn't conceive that any Lead Member would be so irresponsible.

The fact that this was the first time ever that a Lead Member had chosen to decide on a CPZ was bad enough, but that the Lead Member should also ignore the unanimous decision of the local Councillors, forget a petition of 2,101 names that he himself had signed off on, not show up to his own call-in, and (it was subsequently revealed) to have had meetings and much correspondence with interested parties, none of them in public, then ignore the most objections ever received to a scheme that he created without any empirical data, (while never submitting what he did use to public scrutiny), is an absolute scandal.

And he wasn't even a local Councillor, representing instead a ward in Isleworth, so the voters affected by his decision have never had a chance to endorse or criticise his actions via the ballot box.  

So it's not about the parking, it's about the abuse of process, which, as we see, continues.    


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CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 10:29:00 Dan Murphy
   Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 13:01:00 Janine Jarvis
      Re:Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 13:05:00 Trudie Fuller
         Re:Re:Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 15:33:00 Richard Greenhough
            Re:Re:Re:Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 16:26:00 Trudie Fuller
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 16:54:00 Russell Pearson
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:CPZ - a final thought on this shameful episode07/10/14 17:05:00 Dan Murphy
   Ombudsman07/10/14 23:27:00 Robin Cox
      Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 00:17:00 Patrick N OConnor
         Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 06:13:00 Dan Murphy
      Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 06:15:00 Dan Murphy
         Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 13:50:00 David Chivers
            Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 14:08:00 Paul Allen
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 16:58:00 Marjan Lee
            Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 14:09:00 Trudie Fuller
            Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 14:43:00 Dan Murphy
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 14:44:00 Madeleine Hazard
            Re:Re:Re:Ombudsman08/10/14 15:08:00 Richard Greenhough
               Be fair to David Chivers08/10/14 15:35:00 Andy Murray
                  Re:Be fair to David Chivers08/10/14 16:35:00 Dan Murphy
                     Be truthful about David Chivers08/10/14 17:57:00 Andy Murray
                        Re:Be truthful about David Chivers09/10/14 07:15:00 Dan Murphy
                           Re:Re:Be truthful about David Chivers09/10/14 09:52:00 Sam Hearn
                              Call to arms....09/10/14 10:06:00 Stuart Kerr
                              Re:Re:Re:Be truthful about David Chivers09/10/14 11:34:00 Dan Murphy
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Be truthful about David Chivers09/10/14 12:23:00 Russell Pearson
                                    Be nice about Ed Mayne's parents09/10/14 13:13:00 Andy Murray
                                       Re:Be nice about Ed Mayne's parents09/10/14 13:45:00 Richard Greenhough
                                       Re:Be nice about Ed Mayne's parents09/10/14 14:09:00 Dan Murphy
                                          Re:Re:Be nice about Ed Mayne's parents09/10/14 16:06:00 David Chivers
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Be truthful about David Chivers09/10/14 15:56:00 Vanessa Smith
                                    The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase09/10/14 16:29:00 Andy Murray
                                       Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase09/10/14 16:43:00 Russell Pearson
                                          Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 05:25:00 Dan Murphy
                                             Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 08:45:00 Maggie Dodge
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 08:49:00 Madeleine Hazard
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 10:31:00 Dan Murphy
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 10:39:00 Richard Greenhough
                                       Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 11:51:00 Vanessa Smith
                                          Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 11:59:00 Dan Murphy
                                             Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 12:31:00 Vanessa Smith
                                          Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 13:13:00 Richard Greenhough
                                             Re:Re:Re:The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase10/10/14 14:34:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                New Councillors & new Lead Members10/10/14 15:27:00 Andy Murray
                                                   Re:New Councillors & new Lead Members11/10/14 14:32:00 Vanessa Smith

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