Friday 22 April 2011

Cabinet creaking under the strain?

Was it really such a good idea for Cornwall Council's 10-member Cabinet, so over-worked and hard-pressed that it needs to appoint additional-payroll Cabinet Support Members, to have cancelled its next meeting? Not enough to talk about? On the back benches the prospect of taxpayers having to fund more interesting jobs for Conservative/Independent councillors is viewed with some disdain. Incidentally, the Localism Bill, currently trundling through Parliament, will allow local authorities to scrap Cabinets and return to the old "committee structure" of decision-making. Which would at least give Cornwall's 123 councillors something to talk about.

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