Welcome to fixmycouncil.com, inspired by failures of governance at Bristol city council and the West of England Combined Authority. I have been a journalist for more than 40 years, starting at the Bristol Evening Post, a newspaper editor in Hong Kong and a senior business editor at The Sunday Times for a dozen years, and what I see makes me weep. We have millions of pounds of public money being overseen by people (OK, usually men) who can’t lie straight in bed. This blog will continue until I see some hope on the horizon, win the lottery or expire…
– Andrew Lynch
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Amnesia is catching at the top of the West of England Combined Authority
I have been having a wee stooshie with WECA after its CEO misled the scrutiny committee by pretending he had not heard of the report that is damning about the soon-to-be-no-longer mayor Dan Norris. It turns out that…
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Norris’s swansong: it’s all about me …
Did I ever mention that I was a minister? At the West of England mayor’s last meeting he stuck to his self-obsessed playbook
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In between taking calls, Norris channels his inner Trump
It’s the mayor’s last Q&A before councillors on the scrutiny committee
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Just what did the chief executive of the West of England Combined Authority say?
It’s quite clear on the video here that West of England Combined Authority chief executive Stephen Peacock said he didn’t know what the Grant Thornton report (new readers: a critical document into behaviours under Mayor Dan Norris) was.…