There are on occasions round robin emails that are sent to all councillors. Most are not worthy of a comment and just get deleted. Over the past couple of days however there has been a interesting conversation brewing with one of two councillors getting a little bit hot and bothered.
There has been some refurbishment works happening at the Civic Centre to replace some old windows. It transpires that the glazers have put in standard glass when frosted glass should have been installed.
Sensing a passing bandwagon Shoeburyness ward Independent Party councillor Mike Assenheim decided that the Conservative administration was wasting money by now deciding to have frosted glass. Without checking the facts and establishing that the installers had made a error and that there were no extra additional costs, Cllr Assenheim was quickly rounded upon.
What seems strange is that all of a sudden Cllr Assenheim has now become the defender of taxpayers money. It is intresting that prior to becoming a councillor Mike Assenheim wasted nearly £4,000 of taxpayers money refering six Shoeburyness Councillors to the Standards Board of England on a pathetic claim that 'we had hurt his feelings'.
Maybe Cllr Assenheim should have developed some feelings when over a £1,000 of that total was spent on reporting a Shoeburyness councillor to the Standards Board when he had terminal cancer and then appealed the decision when he only had days to live and died having this claim on his mind during his final hours.
I will certainly remember this when Mike calls for personal attacks to be kept out of politics because he is a poor little 'Independent'.
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