| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Trimmer Hall a listed building | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 24/05/16 15:40:00 |
| I disagree with you Phil because I'm not for a minute saying every single council officer is whiter than white, there's always going to be the odd 'bag egg'. And I can say that having had the balls to stand up to a Director, having gone through the whole suspension/employment hearing malarkey and come out the other side of it relatively unscathed - although at the same time the experience definitely made me realise I'd had enough of the public sector. And perhaps it's because of that I do get rather sick of reading, time after time, whenever a planning decision is approved, some-one inevitably pops up with either a direct or an implied accusation that the council officers involved are taking backhanders. Such accusations are made far more often, 99.9% without a shred of evidence, and as I have said before I would be delighted if one day legal action is taken against such a poster to make people either think twice or actually get the evidence before posting. Equally I do know where you're coming from because I've first hand experience of attempts being made to 'lean' on me by certain then Councillors about how I had to help a constituent because they were a major financial contributor to their party, or how I'd be asked to write a 'gentle' committee report. All of which never bothered me in the slightest, I came to accept that it came with the territory and I was always able to simply disregard such leaning (there is a whole file of blue sheets recording such events somewhere in the Civic Centre as it was a mandatory requirement to fill in such a sheet everytime you met with a Councillor) but it did used to make me wonder how someone more naive/weak/vulnerable might find it harder to deal with. |