Beware the claw, Greenham Parish banana Council at it again! Options

[Andy Capp]

According to the NWN, it would seem the possibility of a claw-back of the grant for the control tower is conditional! It might not come as much of a surprise to see Julian Swift-Hook citing 'legal professional privilege' as the reason why the meeting to discuss the apparent discrepancy in the wording of the council's press release and SIB's letter was made private.

[Simon Kirby]

Cllr Billy Drummond is claiming in a newsletter that GPC will be saving the tax-payer money by moving the parish office into the Tower of Control and paying rent to the third-party operating company. I'm wondering though whether there will be any saving here as I wasn't aware that GPC currently rented a parish office anywhere else, and it's hardly a saving if they pay rent on a room in the ToC when they already own it. What it looks like is a cynical ploy to help the ToC look solvent on paper by subsidising it on the sly.

[Cognosco]

Cllr Billy Drummond is claiming in a newsletter that GPC will be saving the tax-payer money by moving the parish office into the Tower of Control and paying rent to the third-party operating company. I'm wondering though whether there will be any saving here as I wasn't aware that GPC currently rented a parish office anywhere else, and it's hardly a saving if they pay rent on a room in the ToC when they already own it. What it looks like is a cynical ploy to help the ToC look solvent on paper by subsidising it on the sly.

Spin, smoke and mirrors from a very minor parish council? This has the prints of Swift Half all over it.

[Simon Kirby]

Spin, smoke and mirrors from a very minor parish council? This has the prints of Swift Half all over it.

Yes, I thought I could see his little cloven hooves too.