Lord Mayor investigation held in secret (From thisisoxfordshire)
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Lord Mayor investigation held in secret
10:27am Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News By Ellie Simmonds
THE PRESS and public have this morning been banned from a hearing into alleged inappropriate comments made by Oxford's Lord Mayor Alan Armitage.
The standards investigation is now being held at Oxford Town Hall in secret.
An investigation was launched last July after complaints were made to the county council about alleged comments Mr Armitage made to a schoolgirl in June.
Lib Dem councillors Gwynneth Royce and Mike Gotch, along with Green councillor Dick Wolff and Labour’s James Fry voted in favour of holding the meeting in private.
Labour councillors Gill Sanders, Susanna Pressel and Val Smith did not vote.
Comments(12)
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe
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2:33pm Wed 16 Jan 13
EMBOX2 wrote:Goes without saying. Why did the three councillors not vote on this issue, in fact why was it even put to a vote these are public servants representing us and so should not be allowed to hide behind closed doors.
Why? What are they trying to hide?
Grunden Skip
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4:24pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe wrote:So is David Cameron and his cabinet, but all their meetings go on behind closed doors and nobody seems to complain.
EMBOX2 wrote:Goes without saying. Why did the three councillors not vote on this issue, in fact why was it even put to a vote these are public servants representing us and so should not be allowed to hide behind closed doors.
Why? What are they trying to hide?
A Scroat
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4:26pm Wed 16 Jan 13
pcollins
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4:38pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Grunden Skip
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4:49pm Wed 16 Jan 13
pcollins wrote:No smoke or fire I am afraid, if there was the police would be involved, especially in these times of child protection of inappropriate comments from old men.
Well!!!! from all this claok and dagger stuff all i can assume is there is no smoke without fire.
Isawyoucoming
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5:18pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Grunden Skip
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5:21pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Isawyoucoming wrote:Haven't seen Suzy in Jericho since The Raddy got rid of their Pool Table. (apart from election time)
never seen susanna pressel down our street, saw colin cook once !!!
Andrew:Oxford
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8:00pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Yet it doesn't appear to have hit "twitter" or one of the usual "net-outraged" sites. None of the involved, including parents, have made a definitive statement to any paper concerning the content.
So what were the alleged words?
A Scroat
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8:05pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Isawyoucoming wrote:Probably no photographers about !
never seen susanna pressel down our street, saw colin cook once !!!
Reynaldo Throckmorton, Duke of Botley
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4:47am Thu 17 Jan 13
That's because Councillor Pressel chooses to travel around Oxford via a network of secret underground tunnels.
A Scroat
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8:41am Thu 17 Jan 13
Reynaldo Throckmorton, Duke of Botley wrote:I knew it, she's a badger. Is culling an Olympic sport yet?
Isawyoucoming wrote: "never seen susanna pressel down our street…!!"
That's because Councillor Pressel chooses to travel around Oxford via a network of secret underground tunnels.
EMBOX2 says...
1:31pm Wed 16 Jan 13