WECA

The auditors are presenting their annual interim report to the audit committee of the calamitous Weca. In January Stephen Peacock suffered a moment of forgetfulness about last year’s hugely critical report – as did the monitoring officer and the scrutiny chair – no worries about that this year!

A word-by-word analysis of Peacock’s surprise admission that he mishandled recruiting chums from Bristol city council on mega-pay and showing how he tried to blame everyone but himself – and the team that ran the process  

A whistleblower has put a cat among the Redcliff pigeons. It turns out that scrutiny chair Jerome Thomas could not be bothered to reply to the whistleblower despite fears that he and two other former officers were being subjected to a vendetta by then mayor Dan Norris

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 the officers and the chair were just very forgetful that day. Watergate revisited! Here is my reply to chair Jerome Thomas’s defence. New readers should see earlier posts. 

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

It’s the mayor’s last Q&A before councillors on the scrutiny committee

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. Of course he does. It’s the most important report on the authority in its history. One might…