Archive for standards board
Jason Kitcat: update on the councillor facing censure for using YouTube
A quick update on my post about Brighton Green councillor Jason Kitcat, who is facing disciplinary action over putting footage of a council meeting up on YouTube. He’s posted the latest news over on his blog, and it is good to see that he is getting support from across the political spectrum: ConservativeHome’s local government [...]
Councillor faces standards censure for posting council meeting footage on YouTube
Brighton & Hove City Council webcasts many of its meetings and makes the footage available for people to watch again afterwards. Cllr Jason Kitcat (Green) extracted from the footage examples of himself asking questions, put the footage on YouTube and blogged about the questions on his own site. He only used footage the council has [...]
Peter Chegwyn wins High Court appeal against Standards Board
Last summer we reported that Peter Chegwyn, Lib Dem leader on Gosport Council, had been banned from being a councillor on both Gosport Council and Hampshire County Council for two years in a dispute over a local music festival.
However, Peter Chegwyn has taken that Standards Board ruling to the Hight Court and this week won a [...]
“Tory councillor expelled after rape remarks” – but why involve the standards committee?
The Press Association reports:
A city councillor has been expelled from the Conservative Party after making offensive remarks about rape at a meeting.
Eddie Wake, 56, a Tory councillor at Sunderland City Council, is alleged to have made the remarks at a meeting of the authority and left one woman in tears.
Conservative party chiefs said comments by [...]
