Coming soon to a blog near you....

We'd just like to assure our readers that we intend fully to go through all the questions that were asked and answered in writing at the Council over the coming weeks. You will all have to bear with us of course because there are so many of them.

We should also add that whilst we were not directly mentioned in the Chamber, there was a tacit implication towards us and so-called "negative" stories. This is most likely due to our recent serialisation of the Council's cuts to services.

Apparently these are not cuts though, they're efficiency savings. Doubleplusgood we say.

It's like the "People's Republic of Greenwichgrad"

Well it seems that the "Glorious Leader" of the Council, Chris Roberts, is certainly chuckling to himself this morning at the way he closed down the ability of any opposition questions last night at the full Council meeting.

Through the use of an obscure procedural rule, Robert's puppet, Mayor Harry Singh, apparently moved all the Councillors questions to the end of the meeting and then closed the meeting before questions could be discussed citing standing order rules relating to the length of a Council meeting.

The word on the street is that the Lib Dems and Tories were apoplectic at what's been described to us as a "stitch up". One of our other Town Hall snitches said the political manoeuvring was reminiscent of the Politburo controlling the Dumas under Brezhnev. The words "People's Republic of Greenwichgrad" even crossed their lips.

To be perfectly honest we're not at all surprised by this. The Council, and specifically the ruling Labour Group, has already cancelled two Council meetings in the last few months. The fact that they would refuse to engage in something so distasteful as democratic accountability isn't particularly shocking in that respect.

Sadly, we get what we vote for.