Big news!
Strange that there's been nothing in the Post about this but it seems that Cllr Emma Dewinton has resigned the Labour whip and now sits as an independent.
I just noticed this now in a report to full council about the resultant rejigs to committee membership. Cllr Michael Edwards made a mention of it on his own blog about 3 weeks ago but I'm not a regular reader so I missed it. Here's his version of her reasons for resigning -
"The gist being the Labour party nationally had not got enough detailed
policy and we needed to go into more detail at the council.
And that the scrutiny of detail is being undermined by Labour having too large a majority on the council."
Re that last bit; it's not the large majority in itself that undermines scrutiny, it's the willingness of certain high-ups to exploit that majority to cover things up. Like dodgy council house deals...
Wonder if she'll be joining the Nottingham Independence Party?
Tuesday 8 July 2014
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