Rutland Resident
c/o Catch 22, George Orwell Way, Feudal Rutland
Ian Hislop Esq
The Editor
Letters Page
80 Bond Street
London W1S 1SB
Sir,
You report that Helen
Briggs CEO of Rutland County Council (“Rotten Boroughs” Eyes
passim 1329 & 1332) appears to be so traumatised by three Rutland
Anti-Corruption Group Councillors’ 22 FOI questions, since May
2011, that she has been authorised to complain to Leicestershire
police and a slush fund of £90,000 put aside to seek an injunction
to stop democratically elected Councillors asking future questions.
Since the local papers merely print regurgitated Rutland County
Council press releases would you mind asking:
Why has Rutland County
Council’s CEO, Helen Briggs elected to be the Rutland
Anti-Corruption Councillors’ “single point of contact” for all
future questions? Is she a glutton for punishment? Does she enjoy
being harassed? Or should she reconsider her position as Chief
Executive and hand over to someone who understands democratic
processes and that questions deserve answers, especially if asked by
those elected to public office?
Yours in deep
admiration and gratitude,
Rutland Resident
P.S. Without Private
Eye these three Councillors, who do an excellent job in holding the
recalcitrant and overly taciturn ruling party to account, would have
been silenced. Alan Duncan MP received front page coverage in the
local papers (17/18 January) when he castigated them and asked them
to resign. He said he’d prefer to have Socialists elected instead!
The only Socialist remains in the closet fearing to publicise his
allegiance, he speaks against the Ruling Tories and almost always
votes with them. The climate of secrecy is endemic in the gold fish
bowl of Rutland. Thank you a thousand times.
