Quote ="victarmeldrew"Where are the elected members in all this '"
Cowering in the shadows and totally afraid to do anything. Box has total control over every councillor in the labour party
and everyone of them is too afraid to stand up to him.
There are 63 councillors in WMDC out of which 2 are UKIP and 6 Tories, the rest are labour. So even the opposition is
so tiny it has no influence whatsoever.
Further to that, the fact that a councillor appears to have any say in how things are run is a sham. This council works
with a cabinet system of 7 members. It is only the cabinet that can make decisions or influence anything.
Guess who has 100% control of who is in the cabinet and if they do not dance to his tune he can just as easily remove them.
Cabinet members also get paid much more than normal councillors so they are queuing up to get on. Once on, they will look
after their own selfish interest to stay there. Box realises that and that is how he wields total control.
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