A Greenwich councillor told a standards hearing that she is “not viewed as an equal” after a complaint was made about her conduct at a training session with young people who had been in council care. Ann-Marie Cousins, a Labour representative for Abbey Wood and deputy chief whip, complained that she was being victimised at […]
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Extinction Rebellion hold ‘build back better’ protest in Woolwich
A small number of Extinction Rebellion demonstrators held a socially-distanced protest outside outside the Greenwich Council’s headquarters in Woolwich to tell it to “build back better” after the coronavirus emergency has passed. The 14 demonstrators, with masks and placards, each stood two metres apart on the steps of the Woolwich Centre in Wellington Street for […]
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Greenwich Council refusing to say who was invited to £50-per-head mayor’s junket
Greenwich Council is refusing to reveal who attended last month’s invite-only private mayor-making ceremony, despite spending nearly £50 per head on the bash. Leader Danny Thorpe used this spring’s event – which has played host to property developers and other businesspeople in the past – to announce that it would be the last to be […]
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The Dear Leader returns: Greenwich councillors to consider honour for Chris Roberts
Greenwich councillors are to consider awarding the rarely-awarded freedom of the borough to former leader Chris Roberts next week – despite the politician-turned-developers’ consultant being embroiled in a series of bullying accusations before he stood down 18 months ago. Roberts ran the council for 14 years but stepped down as a councillor at May 2014’s […]
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Greenwich Council bullying: Was there a probe into ‘thick skull’ voicemail whistleblower?
Update, 26 March: Greenwich Council has denied the leak referred to in this story was about the leaked Chris Roberts voicemail. See the end of the second video in this story. Greenwich Council used public resources to track down the whistleblower who leaked ex-leader Chris Roberts’ abusive voicemail to a cabinet member to the media, […]
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Greenwich Council bullying: Who’s out to get Labour’s John Fahy?
An anonymous hoax emailer has been posing as Greenwich councillor John Fahy in an attempt to get incriminating information about whether or not he leaked a bullying voicemail left by council leader Chris Roberts, this website can reveal. Fahy was at the centre of controversy last year when Roberts left a foul-mouthed message on his […]
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Greenwich’s whitewash Christmas – council leader gets off
So, get this through your f***ing thick skulls – Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts has been let off a telling-off for threatening and abusing one of his cabinet members in a sweary voicemail. A standards committee meeting on Friday decided Roberts should face no further action over the voicemail, in which he threatened to strip […]
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Greenwich councillor’s bullying document kept secret
March 2015: The document in question is now in the public domain. A document drawn up by a Greenwich councillor to deal with bullying at the authority is being withheld from the public – because it was sent as an attachment to an email. Two Labour councillors – Alex Grant and Hayley Fletcher – are […]
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