My colleague Cllr Janice Long uncovered a striking example of how useless Brent Council's current Liberal Democrat / Conservative administration is. I have blogged before about the difficulty of getting the Council to consider this. To avoid the political flak, Cllr Lorber put forward a motion for the Council to develop a mechanism for submitting proposals under the Act. Several dozen authorities have already managed this, but Brent Council wasn't up to the job.
The motion was passed unaminously, before the first deadline for receiving suggestions. The administration leapt into action by forming a working group which had its first meeting in ..... October.
The answer given to Janice by the Liberal Democrat Lead Member for these things in January this year explains that they only started to think about a mechanism in October. By this stage, it was too late to submit any proposals, so they gave up.
What is the point of Brent Council voting for a motion at Full Council without a single vote against if the passed motion is then ignored by the very Liberal Democrat councillors who voted for it? Why did Paul Lorber put the motion forward if he is happy to see it come to nothing?
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