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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Greenwich Council leader to scrap Painted Hall mayor-making junkets
New Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has pledged to stop having mayor-making ceremonies at the Old Royal Naval College and plans to move them back to Woolwich Town Hall. While most councils make do with modest events at their own town halls, but since 2006 Greenwich has regularly blown a five-figure sum on a lavish […]
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Greenwich councillors spent £20,000 on toasting new mayor
Greenwich Council spent nearly £20,000 on an invite-only function celebrating the inauguration of its new mayor at the Old Royal Naval College last month. The event came less than three weeks before Labour councillors met to discuss the prospect of future government budget squeezes, which are likely to see services cut further over the next […]
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Greenwich Council gets set for the next mayor’s booze-up
It’s that time of year. News has emerged from Woolwich Town Hall that, once again, Greenwich Council is planning to celebrate the inauguration of another new mayor with another lavish bash at the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall. The event’s scheduled for 22 May. Like most boroughs, Greenwich’s mayor is elected by councillors to […]
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Mayor-making: Greenwich councillor calls criticism ‘boring’
I spent last night in Walthamstow, as local campaigners won an important victory in their battle to stop the disused EMD cinema from being turned into a church. Sat outside a Hoe Street pub, I watched as E17 residents, from lifelong locals to recent arrivals, celebrated, still not quite believing what they had achieved. New […]
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Demonstrators target Greenwich Council mayor’s party
Council staff and anti-cuts campaigners are planning to picket Greenwich’s controversial mayor-making ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College next week. The Greenwich Save Our Services group says it will demonstrate outside the event on 25 May, which the council is going ahead with despite cutting £48m from this year’s budget, including cuts to funding […]
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