John Kelly Schools Update

It looks like the Lib Dem / Tory coalition in charge of Brent Council are determined to go ahead with the John Kelly Schools rebuild on the existing site. That will mean that the next forty years worth of education will take place on a cramped site with completely inadequate transport and sports facilities.

I was particularly disappointed by the inadequate performance of the Lib Dem councillors at the last meeting of the Forward Plan Committee that discussed this. Three Lib Dem councillors attended. One, Valerie Brown, stayed completely silent. The second, Emily Lawson Tancred, asked no questions of the officers or the Executive member that the Committee is supposed to hold to account, but simply addressed questions to Ralph Fox, who was another member of the Committee. Anthony Dunn combined a lengthy speech in favour of the Lib Dems with his usual standard of personally abusive behaviour (trying to talk over other members etc.)

Really, it makes me wonder why any of these people wanted to be councillors in the first place.