REPORTING BACK
■ Your Conservative Councillors in Brondesbury were elected to advocate for you, our residents, and hold the Labour-run administration in Brent to account.
Since May, we have been greatly alarmed at the complete breakdown in scrutiny and accountability that has occurred under the leadership of Cllr Butt and Cllr Pavey. They seem to think that they can walk on water, and do whatever they like with no regard for the wishes of hard-working Brent residents.
Our Conservative Group in Brondesbury do not accept the way that this administration is acting. We have spoken up on behalf of our Jewish residents who felt victimised by the offensive way in which Cllr Butt supported the boycott of the Jewish Film Festival by the Tricycle Theatre. We have also raised our serious concerns at Cllr Butt’s dangerous decision to limit debate and scrutiny of decisions made by his administration.
Now, we see yet more evidence of this dictatorial culture permeating through to Brent Council employees; one employee is dismissed and successfully sues for racial discrimination; several employees speak of a culture of fear and bullying, yet Cllr Butt’s response to this is to brush it under the carpet with a laughable “root and branch” enquiry under the leadership of his loyal deputy Cllr Pavey!
We have requested that this investigation into such worrying allegations should be handled by an independent body, but again the Labour-run administration have completely dismissed this suggestion.
First the Jewish community, now the Black community; who will this administration alienate next?
We will continue to do whatever we can to provide proper scrutiny of this arrogant, bloated and incompetent Labour administration, and we urge all concerned residents to send us their complaints about Brent Labour, which we promise to act on.
Cllrs Joel Davidson, Cllr Carol Shaw and Cllr John Warren,
Your local Brent Councillors for Brondesbury Park Ward