Archive for October 2024

Tall stories

Tall storiesIn my previous post, I gave an account of Pembrokeshire County Council’s governance and audit committee meeting on 10 September 2024 during which its new chairman, Dr Norma Barry, prevented Cllr Jacob Williams and myself from questioning the officers and members the committee had called before it to give evidence. That meant that a series... Read More »

Under doctor’s orders

If you want to understand how the establishment engineer their trademark cover-ups, you won’t find a better tutorial than the webcast of the extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s governance and audit committee on September 10 2024. Weeks earlier, at its May 8 extraordinary meeting, the committee resolved to exercise one of its more potent... Read More »

Second thoughts

Second thoughtsThere was an interesting little spat at last week’s full council meeting when Leader, Cllr Jon Harvey, attacked Cllr Huw Murphy for his about face on the second homes council tax. The Leader reminded Cllr Murphy that, the last time this matter had been debated, he had proposed a 200% premium and now here he... Read More »

The cover-up continues

Way back in February 2014, Pembrokeshire County Council handed Dyfed-Powys Police (DPP) a thick dossier of evidence detailing various apparently fraudulent transactions in the Pembroke Dock Commercial Property Grants Scheme (CPGS) where large amounts of grant money had been paid out for work that wasn’t eligible for grant aid, or, in many cases, simply hadn’t... Read More »