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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Not even a surprise to find BCP Council in @PrivateEyeNews these days. I just turn to "Rotten Boroughs" and think "Oh yeah, I was there for that one"

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Alex McKinstry

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1 year

I've just read the report into the cleaning-for-votes scam at BCP Council - truly shocking stuff. This is the independent investigator's report. The whole of Mellor's Cabinet were in on this scam, including Poole Engage members. 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

THE HISTORY OF SOUTHBOURNE BEACH - a thread ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Think I'll turn up at Drew Mellor's cabinet this morning, and just sit there reading @PrivateEyeNews . BCP's seventh appearance in 'Rotten Boroughs' since April, and the most embarrassing yet #CloudCuckooRegime

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

8 months

I'd far rather the Council balance its books by privatising the air show or switching off Christmas lights, as opposed to illegal schemes, like selling its beach huts to a sham company. Or pulling "transformation savings" out of thin air.

Tobias Ellwood MP

@Tobias_Ellwood

8 months

👇 This is so shortsighted and damaging to our local economy. Our appeal, for visitors and those living here, is the exceptional family experience we offer that gives the town a sense of pride & identity. First the air show. Then the Xmas lights. What will they cancel next?

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Alex McKinstry

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2 years

MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN CLLR DREW MELLOR (LEADER, BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH & POOLE COUNCIL), 10 MAY 2022 - A THREAD ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

BREAKING NEWS at BCP Council - Cllr Mark Anderson, holder of the Environment portfolio, breached the Council's Code of Conduct on three grounds, an independent investigator has found ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

This is the Echo's third 20mph piece in less than a week, but still no room for Cllr Dove's comment - "When children are hit at 30mph they don't die. I've seen children hit by a bus and they've bounced back and asked for a milkshake"

Taxi drivers rubbish 20mph speed limits - warning fares could go up

TAXI drivers in Bournemouth have hit out at BCP Council over its “ridiculous” proposal for default 20mph speed limits across the conurbation.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Drew Mellor, leader of BCP Council, breached BCP's code of conduct; "was less transparent than he should have been" over last year's budget policy; withheld crucial information on an imminent change in the law; & must apologise for "misleading statements". 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

FIFTH consecutive appearance of BCP Council in @PrivateEyeNews - needless to say it's the beach hut antics

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Welcome to BCP COUNCIL - THE POST-TORY YEARS!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 months

I've been swotting up on Bristol City Council - you would not believe the SUBTERFUGE and MALADMINISTRATION going on there! For one thing, BCC ran a "code of conduct complaints process" between 2016 and 2023 that was totally unlawful. 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

It's here @Bournemouthecho at 2:06.45 if you'd like to report it. It's kind of relevant because Dove chairs the Children's Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Overview and Scrutiny Board 26 February 2024, 6.00pm | BCP Council

A meeting of the BCP Council Overview and Scrutiny Board Agenda, reports and other documents are available from: https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/ieListDo...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Sweet holy boats of Jesus, take a look at this headline

BCP Council 'immoral' beach hut sale halted by minister

BCP council had hoped to raise more than £50m by selling beach huts to itself.

www.bbc.com

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

Wow - @Bournemouthecho have stepped up to the plate and reported Cllr Dove's remarks about kids not being killed by 30mph vehicles. Massive kudos to @AlexSmithEcho for covering this.

Councillor 'has seen children hit by a bus, bounce up and ask for a milkshake'

She also claimed that 20mph speed limits do not increase safety

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

10 months

So here's Sean Clark, chief finance officer for the MASSIVELY insolvent Thurrock Council, behaving like a man with nothing to hide ...

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

@TBIJ

10 months

"Do you not think the people of Thurrock deserve an answer?" Watch @munro_bronagh get her running shoes on as she asks a former Thurrock council employee about why he made deals with a rogue businessman Head to BBC One now to see our joint story with @BBCPanorama 📺

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Drew Mellor, leader of BCP Council, leaves tonight's scrutiny meeting - MIDWAY THROUGH being asked if he'll apologise to the meeting, after breaking the Code of Conduct.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

21 days

Pour yourself something POTABLE, and SAVOUR this despatch from @mikefcox , BCP Council's finance supremo, to Tobias Ellwood MP, re the recent misleading of Parliament

Cllr Adrian Chapmanlaw 🔶

@adechapmanlaw

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Hey @Tobias_Ellwood

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

4 months

A reminder that when the Tories finally got round to planning a deep-clean, it was part of an election-rigging scam that cost Cllr Mark Anderson his job.

Bournemouth Echo

@Bournemouthecho

4 months

BCP Council won't deep clean Bournemouth town centre

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

10 months

Seeing Broadhead AND Beesley owned in the same week has been quite something.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

7 months

Good to see Drew Mellor's legacy chronicled in @PrivateEyeNews - including the final rent payment to Mellor's company from FuturePlaces (£32K), plus the £115,656 due diligence on Barclays House, where the basement had been flooding since the 1990s.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council and THE DEATH OF SCRUTINY - a thread ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Might just be coincidence, but I notice a BCP councillor has resigned from the Tories on the exact second anniversary of Drew Mellor's power grab! Happy anniversary, Drew

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

7 months

Stunning finale to BCP Council's Audit and Governance meeting: Cllr Connolly asks if the renting of certain offices by FuturePlaces will feature in next year's counter-fraud report. Head of Audit confirms that it will!

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@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

@MichaeljTarling Shocking but entirely believable. I heard back in January that Mellor had spaffed everything but was banking on a regeneration scheme which turned out to be illegal. This is why the CEO alerted the external auditors. CFO threatened to issue a Sect 114 notice

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

8 months

BCP Council leader Vikki Slade just confirmed every word of this is true - FuturePlaces HQ ("The View", 2 Bourne Gardens, Exeter Park Road) is owned by HINTON ROAD INVESTMENT LTD, of which Drew Mellor has been a director since 5/5/23

Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

9 months

Bombshell from Cllr Sue Aitkenhead - says FuturePlaces rents an office from an ex-BCP cllr! (Cllr Slade confirms this is DREW MELLOR - FuturePlaces have been PAYING RENT TO MELLOR'S COMPANY, which bought the property when Mellor was still technically a Cllr)

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

6 months

Air show debate at BCP Cabinet this morning: no Tories turned up to voice an opinion. @Tobias_Ellwood hadn't submitted his air show petition either! Cllr A Martin: "Mr Ellwood's been getting some very poor local advice - I don't know who's giving it to him."

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Meanwhile, BCP Council have confirmed that Nigel Brooks, so-called "Independent" candidate for Highcliffe & Walkford, has submitted nothing to indicate that he's resigning from the Conservative group ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Drew Mellor is an egregious liar. This is from @Scullyp 's letter to him today - published in the B'mth Echo. The letter Mellor described as 'hugely supportive'. Mellor blatantly misrepresented the Minister for Local Government at tonight's scrutiny meeting.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Today's @PrivateEyeNews sheds a bit more light on the Mark Anderson story (BCP's fourth appearance in 'Private Eye' this year) ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

BCP Council's Tory group leader Philip Broadhead absent from tonight's Scrutiny meeting - he's now missed every Council and Charter Trust meeting he's been due to attend since May, with the exception of 23 May's full Council.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

4 months

I have a theory that these "Bournemouth's a dump" letters are being cooked up by Conservative Association members, that the Echo's more than aware of this, & that it's being co-ordinated by their favourite local politician.

'What has happened to Bournemouth?'

ON a visit to the town centre yesterday, I was sitting on a bench and a squirrel ran past on the pavement but behind was two very large rats chasing…

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

Love how Tobias Ellwood sets up a FB page for reporting potholes, and then doesn't report potholes ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

5 months

Superb speech from @ajjolley re #SafetyValve - "This is little more than a transfer of historic debt away from local government, onto our most vulnerable children and their educators - and will affect them for decades to come."

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

10 months

I've never seen Adam Richens, BCP Council's chief finance officer, more angry than he was with Broadhead in Cabinet just now. "That is NOT TRUE!" he shouted - calling out Broadhead's attempt to rewrite financial history. Broadhead still red in the face ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

9 months

BREAKING NEWS - BCP FuturePlaces likely to be junked. Report comes before the Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee next Wednesday ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

20 days

NO questions remain about the sale of WESSEX FIELDS. The site's being sold at its red book value, determined by independent surveyors working to RICS standards. As confirmed by @vikkislade72 , @BCPCouncil , and UHD NHS Trust chair @RobWhiteman (CEO of CIPFA).

Tobias Ellwood MP

@Tobias_Ellwood

20 days

Big questions remain about the sale of WESSEX FIELDS. I’ve asked the Secretary of State to investigate. The sale should be paused until all the facts are in the public domain. I’ve now raised the matter in Parliament.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Tory carnage at the BIC - just introduced @adechapmanlaw to Anne Filer's husband, Michael Filer (Mayor of Bournemouth 1983-4). Said "This is Alderman Filer, who OPENED this building!" & Filer replied "I rather feel like closing it now ..."

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

5 months

Eight Labour members in tonight at BCP Council - only seven Tory councillors have turned up. (Poole Engage members nowhere to be seen.) Labour tonight are the main Opposition

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Besides Anderson, three relics of Mellor's Cabinet are due to apologise to Council next week: Mellor himself, for dishonesty; Dunlop (abusive tweets); and Dove (insulting the public). The real spring-clean starts on 4 May ... /ENDS

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Alex McKinstry

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2 years

So it's Wednesday, which can only mean one thing - an appearance (the *sixth*) by BCP Council in @PrivateEyeNews ! This week it's Mellor's lies regarding the beach hut scheme; and the appalling waste of money that is FuturePlaces.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

@TanglewoodSteve Just saw this, and it might explain Mr Baker's sudden bout of integrity! ⬇️⬇️

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

URGENT, GUYS - we've got until 23:59 tonight to save WOODLAND WALK in Boscombe. PLEASE RT ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

So - notes from the front line. I've been delivering these badboys for long-standing local resident & main man DANIEL ROY PARKIN, to get him elected to the BCP chamber ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

WHO'S WHO ON BCP COUNCIL COMMITTEES - list's just gone up on BCP website. 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

8 months

Broadhead and Dove watching my account even though they've ostensibly blocked me

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Did Mellor know what Mark Anderson was up to? Something for Standards to consider on the 28th, perhaps. But it's a sign of his woeful leadership that such antics could been contemplated by a senior Cabinet member. This has been a rotten administration. /ENDS

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@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

The Bayside story's made it into @PrivateEyeNews - first appearance by BCP Council this year! Wait till they hear @Katie_Echo 's scoop about the fitfully-existent business case ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Nothing but contempt for his own Council's code of standards, nothing but searing disregard for BCP residents. (Wish I'd got a shot two minutes later, when he came back to get his coat!)

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

That Telegraph piece in full. Greg Clark to write to all LAs on Monday in excoriating terms: "Some councils have attempted to abuse a loophole to do dodgy deals ..." (Thanks to @AnnableMargaret @DanielRoyParkin @andym_echoes )

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

4 months

Usual sequence of events - Bournemouth Echo disables (& removes) comments on a piece, this time the Highmoor Farm planning debacle, after readers start highlighting the Tories' (including Broadhead's) involvement. Here's my take for posterity ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

Broadhead's face a picture just now when his speech was effectively cancelled by the monitoring officer - "You've spoken already." A voice from the floor: "Send it to the Echo!"

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Mellor kicking downwards right to the very end. Despicable.

Tristan Pascoe

@TristanPascoe

1 year

Breaking. BCP leader Drew Mellor resigns with immediate effect. In an extraordinary statement he blames local government ministers and BCP’s own finance officers for accepting a 4.99% council tax rise. @BBCRadioSolent @BBCSouthNews @JasonDailyEcho

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

3 Towns Alliance appoints two Cabinet assistants to BCP Council (whereas the Tories had six) - good appointments too. Mark Howell to lead on regeneration, Margaret Phipps on Local Plan delivery

Council leader brings new faces into her leadership team

COUNCIL leader Vikki Slade has announced further appointments to her new leadership team.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Such is the verdict of BCP's Standards Committee, following my complaint of 25 September. I wasn't going to tweet this until after I'd heard Mellor's apology, but I can see history repeating itself, so this is worth flagging up. 2/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Enjoyed my trip to the Pokesdown laundrette this morning #JustLikeLA

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

11 months

Hark back, BCP residents, to 21 March, when Cllr Broadhead insulted the public at full Council, individually & en masse, & implied they should apologise for complaining about councillors. All those remarks have been omitted from the draft Council minutes. 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

11 months

I've been looking at the Inland Homes development at Hamworthy - currently stalled - to which BCP's contributed £15 million so far. This was raised at last week's full Council (47.07) ... 1/

Full Council 11 July 2023, 7.00pm | BCP Council (Backup Recording)

A meeting of the BCP Council. Agenda, reports and other documents are available from:https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=284&MId=538...

www.youtube.com

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Ah look - Internet abuser @BCPConservative 's gone the way of 3,500 other fake accounts.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

4 months

This site was approved for sale by a Tory Cabinet - John Beesley's - on 26 April 2017, but we didn't hear a dickie bird out of the MP back then.

Fears car park development on clifftop ‘could cause landslips’

Southbourne Crossroads car park development: “This is a dangerous game we're playing.”

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

10 months

Cllr Rampton: "There's been a lot of criticism of the previous administration this morning, and it's getting boring" Cllr Slade: "Thank you Cllr Rampton. I'm not bored."

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 months

Hats off to the incredible residents of Bristol who pressed for answers to these matters via FOIs & Council meetings. Mind out that the Council doesn't start restricting public Qs, which is how BCP's then-Tory council retaliated to public scrutiny in 2022-3!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

9 months

BREAKING - FuturePlaces has been paying rent under a lease to a company owned by Drew Mellor ....

Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

9 months

Bombshell from Cllr Sue Aitkenhead - says FuturePlaces rents an office from an ex-BCP cllr! (Cllr Slade confirms this is DREW MELLOR - FuturePlaces have been PAYING RENT TO MELLOR'S COMPANY, which bought the property when Mellor was still technically a Cllr)

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Alex McKinstry

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4 months

The "Let me know if there are any near you" line gives it all away - this is being done for data-harvesting purposes ahead of the GE. There's nothing community-minded about it at all.

Tobias Ellwood MP

@Tobias_Ellwood

4 months

POTHOLE WATCH continues! More road repairs passed onto the Council. Please let me know if are any near you.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Round of applause from the sidelines when Cllr Slade asks if Mellor will resign!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

So ... Live from the balcony, BCP Council, EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Disappearing for the night now, but that was a stunning, BRAVURA delivery from @George4Labour towards the end - getting Mellor's Code of Conduct breach, & serial failures to apologise, onto the official record.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

This, from the Echo this morning, is absolutely on the money. Drew Mellor lied to the BCP Cabinet on 27 July ("it's all down to changes at Westminster") and to the audit committee the following night ("it's all absolutely within the rules")

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

7 months

The National Front at the Cenotaph: I've submitted an FOI to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to try and establish how this was allowed to take place

Remembrance Sunday, Whitehall Cenotaph - National Front wreath-laying and march-past - a Freedom of...

Please can you provide me with a copy of any request you may have received from the National Front to lay a wreath / engage in the march-past at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, as part of today's National...

www.whatdotheyknow.com

Nick Lowles

@lowles_nick

7 months

.⁦ @hopenothate ⁩ 👉 The National Front, for so long led by Holocaust deniers, antisemites and racists, lay a wreath at the Cenotaph today. They once marched under the banner of “No More Brothers War”. This is the true defiling of Remembrance Sunday

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1 year

WEST SOUTHBOURNE - woman outside Immanuel Church is taking polling card numbers and when I said "Do I have to give it to you," she replied "Yes." Checked with polling station staff inside & this is a FUCKING LIE. Very glad I voted Labour!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Can't see any disadvantage to this whatsoever.

Farrukh

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1 year

Lord Peter Cruddas, "If Labour wins they will reduce the voting age, abolish voter ID, and introduce Proportional Representation making it impossible for the Conservative party to win an outright majority in the future." Conservative Democratic Organisation

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Alex McKinstry

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2 years

THE NORMAN DECENT I KNEW - a thread on BCP Council's long-distance member for Kinson ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

11 months

Many congratulations to Sara Armstrong, ward councillor for East Cliff and Springbourne 👍👍👍

BCP Council

@BCPCouncil

11 months

📣 EAST CLIFF AND SPRINGBOURNE WARD BY-ELECTION RESULT ANNOUNCED Sara Louise Armstrong – Green Party 817 ELECTED David Anthony Kelsey – The Conservative Party Candidate 614 Paul Radcliffe – Liberal Democrat 108 Declan Stones – Labour Party 590 Sara Louise Armstrong is elected.

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Alex McKinstry

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7 months

And so to the steps of the BCP Civic Centre Annexe, where tonight's BCP COUNCIL AUDIT AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING will be taking place (not on the steps) ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

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1 year

... Hoping for some transparent answers. /ENDS

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Alex McKinstry

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1 year

I've put this on record because it's clear history is repeating itself right now & Mellor shouldn't be anywhere near a local government finance portfolio. Once again, we have a dodgy budget ("alternative proposal") in the wings, info being withheld ... 12/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

@fartycat Love to meet this McKinstry bloke

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

3 months

@Bournemouthecho I note there's another story about this councillor that you're not reporting.

Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

7 months

Been studying the papers for tomorrow night's BCP Council meeting. Councillor Bobbie Dove (Con, Littledown & Iford) is named as a BULLY in the agenda papers, having treated colleagues with disrespect & brought the Council into disrepute. 1/

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Alex McKinstry

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2 years

Desperate distraction attempt from Mellor here - we should just flood it with questions on the beach hut scam ...

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@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Steve Bartlett GOLD - "The amendment's not canceling the air show. It's looking to make a reduction of £200K. You can do that by not setting up an expensive beach restaurant"

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9 months

Bombshell from Cllr Sue Aitkenhead - says FuturePlaces rents an office from an ex-BCP cllr! (Cllr Slade confirms this is DREW MELLOR - FuturePlaces have been PAYING RENT TO MELLOR'S COMPANY, which bought the property when Mellor was still technically a Cllr)

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

10 months

Drew Mellor didn't cooperate with the external review into BCP's governance, or even reply to the assessor

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

... And here's the report on his non-apology from today's @BournemouthEcho . Other residents submitted complaints against Mellor so no way was this a crazed vendetta by a solitary middle-aged local historian.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

11 months

Cllr Mike Cox: "The previous administration drained the Council of £60 million of reserves as well as leaving us with £10 million of unidentified, mythical savings. We're now left with a £45 million MTFP funding gap"

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

BCP "Place" scrutiny meeting - Andy Hadley just revealed the premium paid to FuturePlaces for the full business case "dwarfs" all the other related costs, "and that's a common feature across each of these five schemes".

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

BCP budget papers now up - plus an extraordinary letter from the U/Sec at DLUHC: "As part of its budget plans, the Council is considering further commercial opportunities ... It is for you to ensure any budget proposal fully complies with statutory guidance"

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@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Very sad to hear the great Roger West has died - Lib Dem councillor for Redhill & Northbourne, 1999-2015. Incredibly brave, he campaigned to the very end: he was at full Council on 8/11, asking questions via the voice synthesizer he latterly deployed. 1/3

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

BCP Council's hugely controversial beach-hut sale now national news:

Bournemouth council accused of ‘casino capitalism’ over beach hut sale

Holidaymakers are worried about plans by council bosses to cash in by selling the huts – to boost their budget with a £54m windfall

www.theguardian.com

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Why is Bournemouth Square slippery? A thread ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Such an account, whatever its redemptive limits, would at least comport with the NOLAN PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC LIFE, which have been hard to discern in the BCP administration lately: openness, transparency, and above all, leadership. /ENDS

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

Why did none of the Tories blow the whistle on this - not the Chair or Vice-Chair of Standards, not even the Chair of Audit & Governance, that bastion of higher probity John Beesley? 18/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

This tells you all you need to know about transparency and accountability at BCP Council - they won't reveal who banned the public from standing in the gallery, as my motive is to cause "harassment and distress ... to staff".

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 month

So get this - @Bournemouthecho has removed the line about Wessex Fields being sold "at £4m below the red book value" - but only after that "inaccuracy" went all the way round BCP, the Preserve Talbot Heath group, & other SM accounts...

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Drew Mellor, BCP Council leader's, been caught out - he told @mikefcox & others at a scrutiny meeting, 2 September, that withholding KPMG reports from Cllrs (re beach hut sales etc) was nothing to do with him ... 1/

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

So; BCP Council - THE GRAND FINALE! No sign of anyone from Cabinet so far!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

This Poole Engage party shouldn't be legal IMO. Two are lead members in Broadhead's Cabinet; all voted with the Tories, or WERE Tories, until recently. Note how they played around with the name too (Poole Engage/Poole Local) to abduct votes from Poole People

Steve Tallamy - 🇺🇦 💚 #SaveOurNHS 💙

@TanglewoodSteve

1 year

Meanwhile on the Creekmoor Residents 'non-political' FB page #PooleEngage have gone all political 🤦

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 years

Also in the Bournemouth Echo, this is interesting - Cllr Edwards' statement makes it pretty clear that a whip's been being used on Scrutiny, contravening BCP's Constitution AND statutory guidance.

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

2 months

Massive corruption here from Marvin Rees, outgoing Mayor of Bristol - he lied to get the Safety Valve scheme imposed (pretending it was "under embargo"), while statutory officers went along with these lies. Just the tip of the iceberg at Bristol City Council.

Chopsy Bristol

@ChopsyBristol

2 months

I've just got my FOI from the DFE. Marvin Rees lied. Asher Craig lied. Senior Bristol City Council staff lied. There was no embargo for the Safety Valve. They lied and they lied and they lied. This council and Labour Cabinet spied. They lied. And they have got away with it

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

1 year

MOTION DEFEATED!!! Those against incl both Butts, J Bagwell, A Jones, S Bartlett, J Edwards. Plus all LDs & CIs. Di Butler & 5 others abstained. Farewell then to a VERY expensive Tory housing proposal for Surrey Road, Westbourne!

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Alex McKinstry

@AlexMcKinstry1

6 months

Great to see no references whatsoever to "city regions" or "iconic cityscapes" in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole draft local plan, which is here, p 137 onwards:

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