26 September (Part 2) - Jobsworth misses a trick
We left John Adams
telling meeting chairman Cheryl Bacon that I was agitating for a better seat and
challenging her on the audio recording issue; all complete rubbish and possibly the
result of a muddle by Adams, but Lynn Tyler wasn’t to know that and used it to justify
my own illegal exclusion from the reconvened Public Realm meeting.
Adams then relates how he approached Nicholas Dowling (I assume it is Nicholas despite
the initials NK) and Michael Barnbrook who, it is suggested, is waving the Department
for Communities and Local Government guidance at him. I was sitting forward of them
all but naturally looked around to watch an important development. I don’t know where
Michael was supposed to have obtained the DCLG documentation because like the rest of us
he had no idea of Nicholas’s plans for the evening until a minute or two before entering the
building, so he would not have come prepared for it. i.e. carrying the guidance.
A small point but Adams is wrong again.
I checked this out with Mick last night and he confirms he waved nothing and
Bacon and Adams did not address him at all - which is my recollection too.
Much of the remainder of John Adams’ report concerns his activities outside the
council chamber and cannot be challenged but what he says of the events inside continue
to be wrong.
“Everyone accept (sic) the public gallery” did not leave the Council Chamber as
Adams states. One councillor remained and engaged Elwyn Bryant and me in friendly
conversation throughout the 30 minute adjournment. Another of Adam’s numerous
errors, however perhaps his biggest error is one of omission.
Mrs. Tyler (Legal Team Manager) has been given the unenviable task of defending the
indefensible and has resorted to untruths which should bring shame on her profession. If
she had analysed the responses she received surely a half competent legal brain would
have picked up the inconsistencies? But apparently not. The only
way that councillor Cheryl Bacon can be excused her possibly unintentional law breaking is if every
member of the public present on the evening of the 19th June was being
disruptive and this is what Lynn Tyler has had to claim.
You might have expected John Adams to lick his masters’ boots by making it clear
that Cheryl Bacon had words with everyone but his highly detailed report
fails to refer to any warnings to anyone but Nicholas, which is of course
exactly right. More reports will be presented soon. Meanwhile
John Adams’ report in full.