We have been asked to place this response to whoever it was who made the comment about Jo Chesterton leaving the council, and the comment went further to allege that the council is near bankrupt.
A very senior member of the Labour Group has asked that we state that Jo Chesterton chose to leave for his own personal reasons.
And as for the councils finances they are in good shape, Barking & Dagenham is a 4* council one of only 26 in the country. You don't get that kind of acknowledgement if you are bankrupt.
Seems to me as if the North Street mafia made the mistake of thinking that the old ways would still work, in that what happened inside the party stayed in the party.
ReplyDeleteBut they have come unstuck, you and the local newspapers are bringing it out into the light, and they dont know how to handle it. They thought those who had been treated badly would just go off quietly, well it looks as though their supporters are not going to let that happen.
Congratulations and keep up the good work.
Barking member