Spotlight
Vindictive Potto – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating a particularly vindictive document drafted and signed by Cllr Andrew WILDE, unelected Chair of Potto Parish Council, in another failed attempt to bamboozle the Authorities into believing the Council’s fictitious propaganda. [...]
Stakesby By-Election RESULTS A total of 252 electors of Whitby’s Stakesby Ward (10.48%) may congratulate themselves this evening on having actually elected a Councillor to Whitby Town Council – the first Councillor to be elected by ballot for more years [...]
WTC: STAKESBY WARD BY-ELECTION – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, previewing the by-election for the Casual Vacancy at Whitby Town Council’s Stakesby Ward, to be held on Thursday 20th June 2024. The Polling Station – at Marton [...]
Vexatious Potto 3 (Pt.3) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the dénouement of the dilemma facing Cllr Andrew WILDE, unelected Chair of Potto Parish Council, at the Upper Tribunal. Readers may recall that, in Part 2 of this series, he faced [...]
Vexatious Potto 3 (Pt.2) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating further fall-out from Potto Parish Council’s Upper Tribunal UT13 form, arising from another serious failure of sound Leadership, Governance and Accountability. ~~~~~ Potto Parish Council has [...]
Guido Fawkes on Whitby (?) Candidate Oh, dear. Oh, dear. The Guido Fawkes website (https://order-order.com/2022/05/03/labour-also-run-out-of-local-voter-endorsements/) has unearthed a spot of Labour/ex-Labour hilarity in various forthcoming elections. Former Labour stalwart Asa JONES – the recently-resigned member of Whitby Town Council, who [...]
Vexatious Potto 3 (Pt.1) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating yet another serious collapse of sound Leadership, Governance and Accountability at Potto Parish Council. In an earlier article (“Vexatious Potto 2”), I revealed how Potto Parish [...]
The North Yorks Enquirer feels bound, in the public interest, to reproduce the following Open Letter to NYC Councillor Neil Swannick, from a Whitby elector – the recently co-opted Whitby Town Councillor, Jacqui Layman. The Enquirer will always welcome correspondence [...]
An Error of Omission (WTC) Two Letters to the Editor correcting an error of omission spotted in our recent article “Accountability: NYC & WTC” – the first from Mrs Rachel Henderson, formerly of Whitby and now of County Durham; the [...]
Accountability: NYC & WTC an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the symptoms and causes of declining ethical standards in public life – in particular, amongst elected (and co-opted) Councillors at every level of local government. Plus [...]
