Caught on YouTube ‘Candid
Camera’
Which is worse? The Bullying and Insults, or staring at the
ceiling trying to ignore it?
Open Letter to Parish Councillors
Dear Councillors,
When I resumed filming
your council meetings last January after a lengthy break, I thought I was
watching two old stags locking antlers.
In February, I dismissed Chairman Strelczenie’s haranguing of Councillor
Chilvers as a passing abnormality. After
none of you intervened, I penned a mildly favourable blog post about his role
of leading an elected group of vegetables.
After recording you in March and April, I believed I was watching a
calculated, bullying campaign and you were scared to intervene at the meetings
or even behind the scenes.
Bullying and insulting
colleagues are unacceptable. When they
happen in formal Parish Council meetings, in front of the public, they are
shameful. The perpetrator displays an
utter disregard for rules and consequences when knowingly captured on
film.
Looking at your papers,
the ceiling or your fingernails during such behaviour betrays your scant
knowledge of or contempt for the national Councillors Code of Conduct and the
Hemingbrough Parish Council Standing Orders.
They require you to take action: read them now!
Your failure to do your
duty also brings Hemingbrough Parish Council into disrepute.
Overleaf is an open
letter to your Chairman, Councillor Strelczenie.
Honour your election pledges, get informed and take
action at next week’s Annual General Meeting in the Methodist Church Hall, 18
May 2017 at 6:30pm.
Open
Letter to Councillor Strelczenie
I allege your frequent
remarks to and about Councillor Roland Chilvers, captured on my webcam at
Hemingbrough Parish Council meetings, constitute bullying in the workplace* in
contravention of the Councillors Code of Conduct and the Council’s Standing Orders.
“You’re
a Councillor; you’re supposed to do these things, Roland (Councillor
Chilvers). All you seem to do is pass
the buck on to somebody else. You just
don’t want to do anything. You just tell
everybody else what to do.”
“This
is something that Roland’s (Councillor Chilvers) asked for again. ….. I find
this hard to understand he’s been a Councillor for thirty odd years and he
doesn’t know how to put an item forward for ‘agenda”
“Just
hold it there! Can somebody tell me what
he’s (Councillor Chilvers) talking about?
Can somebody please tell me what’s he talking about?”
“Roland,
you have been in’t Parish Council for thirty years, and you’ve done nothing
about it. Why? (Chilvers - Because I
only got these documents recently.) You’ve only just got it recently? Well, you need to ungot (sic) it, then”
You must apologise to him fully, in front of his
peers and the public and cease your disreputable behaviour that brings the
Council into disrepute.
Residents did not vote for the behaviour that marks
you as unfit to lead the Council.
* Workplace Bullying is repeated, abusive,
belligerent, humiliating conduct by one or more people.
