Feeling suitably recovered after the marathon 6 hour budget full council on Thursday night which ended in the early hours of Friday morning I will touch on proceedings in a series of posts.
One incident which may not receive much headlines or column inches in the local press next week was the appearance of semi-naked members of the Saxon King in Priory Park (SKIPP) group in the public gallery.
At first glance, it seemed like another one of their potty stunts rivalling squatting in a graveyard claiming to speak for the 99%. It would appear that they were forced to remove clothing if they wanted to enter the public gallery to watch proceedings, as they had the slogan 'sack the cabinet' emblazoned on t-shirts.
If this was the case, then it is wrong, plain wrong. As a member of the cabinet am I offended, no, I am not. Was it offensive, no, it wasn't. Whilst as a general rule of thumb everything SKIPP stand for I am opposed to, they still had that right to protest in the manor that they wanted to.
I have written to the Chief Executive asking him to conduct a full investigation as a slogan so trivial should not have lead to members of the public having to be forced to remove items of clothing to watch democracy in action.
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