tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post6924751738508051010..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Kenton Conservatives confirmed as official opposition on Brent CouncilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-12457213252639604972015-05-27T19:13:11.204+01:002015-05-27T19:13:11.204+01:00Including the so-called "Kilburn rebels"...Including the so-called "Kilburn rebels"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-53307790338917197762015-05-27T19:06:26.847+01:002015-05-27T19:06:26.847+01:00... and the way that Labour Councillors were whipp...... and the way that Labour Councillors were whipped to vote was to chose the "official opposition" that has not actually opposed them, rather than the three Conservatives who have tried to hold them to account. <br /><br />You would have thought that with 56 of the 63 Council seats, Cllr. Butt and his silent majority would not need to resort to such cowardly behaviour.<br /><br />Philip Grant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-62588019529976110432015-05-27T16:26:54.557+01:002015-05-27T16:26:54.557+01:00What I cannot understand is why Labour Councillors...What I cannot understand is why Labour Councillors voted on which group of Tories should be the "official opposition". They should have sat on their hands and told the Tories to sort themselves out. What makes that farcical is that not only did the Labour Councillors vote, but they were whipped to all vote the same way!Pete Firminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-12106569426920580472015-05-27T10:05:09.723+01:002015-05-27T10:05:09.723+01:00As I know from experience over the Full Council me...As I know from experience over the Full Council meeting on 2 March*, a request to have a matter heard as "any other urgent business" can be made at any time before the start of a meeting. However, the person chairing the meeting decides whether the matter is "urgent business".<br /><br />The Chair of the General Purposes Committee is Cllr. Muhammed Butt, so even if the Brondesbury Park Conservatives (or Brent Conservative Group, as they now claim to be) were to ask that the matter be raised as "urgent business", I can't see Cllr. Butt agreeing to have the question of who is the official opposition raised at item 8 on the agenda.<br /><br />Philip Grant.<br /><br />*P.S. - I had suggested that Cllr. Butt should be given the opportunity to answer the two important questions (arising from the Rosemarie Clarke Employment Tribunal case) I had put to him publicly in February 2015 under "any other urgent business" at the Full Council meeting on 2 March. Cllr. Butt did not act on this suggestion, but Cllr. Warren did ask the Mayor, as Chair of that meeting, to allow the questions to be put, and Cllr. Butt to answer them, under "any other urgent business". The Mayor used his discretion to decide that the matter could not be raised under this item.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com