City Council Leadership Seeks To Further Weaponise Its Standards Regime With The Introduction Of Confidential Reporting Of Low-Level Behavioural Issues

Since it was created 9 years ago, this blog has been reporting on the way the City of London council leadership weaponises standards. For the entire time we’ve been covering our local authority’s standards regime establishment supporters have been free to flout the rules, and those who oppose that establishment have been persecuted for alleged standards violations despite adhering to the rules. Indeed the vigilantism of the City council’s old Standards Committee was so extreme that it had to be abolished because it was causing such reputational damage (scroll down here). The Standards Committee was replaced by ‘independent persons’ who have consistently acted as proxies for the council leadership and continued their predecessors’ practice of establishment bias and wreaking reputational damage on our local authority. Therefore few who follow local politics in the square mile will be surprised by the Guildhall establishment’s latest attempt at further weaponising standards as revealed…