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If officers are misleading councillors then frankly that's pretty easy to deal with if there is evidence and the willingness to confront it. Senior Officers have exited many councils in the past because when they have lost the confidence of the administration (although not necessarily sacked...)...

What advantage are officers working the system for? Unless it is corruption I'm struggling to see what they personally have to gain (excepting job preservation) from something like failed planning applications. If councillors are weak then we have no one to blame but ourselves. The lack of...

Well if councillors are not going to do the job they were elected to do and are easily overwhelmed and manipulated then officers will wield more influence. In the absence of direction officers have to make reccomendations since the budget will not balance itself + the last thing any officer...

Not sure I agree: all significant decisions are made by councillor votes at committees - the most powerful of which is the Policy and Resources Committee chaired by the Leader of the Council. Officers advise and present recommendations to these committees and obviously take political soundings /...

It surely can't be a concidence that cityclean divers have deliberately defected all their vehicles because they were told by the green council that their pay was not not going up? GREENS doing what previous administrations have not done and making a stand with Cityclean.