PARISH CAPERS

At a recent Erewash Council meeting the Tory "Leader" ran away from a debate on the money given by the Borough to Parish Councils. To cries of "chicken" by Labour Councillors Cllr Chris Corbett used, not for the first time, a procedural motion to avoid proper debate on this important issue. I told him "you can run but you can't hide". The issue will not go away so easily and we intend to run them to earth. Some Parish Councils receive an extraordinary amount of money just to fund a Parish Clerk mostly paid for by the Borough for which there is no accountability or transparency.

What is more disturbing is that more than half of the Tory Group are Parish Councillors. Is that why they don't want proper accountability?