Richard - good question, I am sure the names will be released very soon. Heavy rumour that labour will put up Coun Moffatt and Coun Bob Wright - one very much into figures and process while the other is more driven to consider ethics and behaviours.
The Conservatives are rumoured to favour Coun Ford and Coun Hurley - whether that's to ensure the issue is kicked in to the long grass is yet to be seen. I suppose it was too much to expect a Coun Ellis type figure!!
More important will be to see and understand the role and scope of the sub committee, what's the bet that Coun Bluh and Coun Perkins will want a narrow remit to be applied with no room for awkward questions
I've also heard that Cllr's Moffat and Wright will form the Labour side - I like and respect both of them. Bob Wright was present in Anne Snelgroves constituency office on the day I wandered in and, despite having given both of them a rough time for the previous couple of years, asked them to put that aside and listen to what I had to say about Rod Bluh's WiFi plans. Both of them did so and that meeting played a small part in helping Anne
bring the WiFi'asco to the attention of ParliamentThe administrations plan will be, I'm sure, to achieve either a cross-party whitewash, a cross-party spreading of blame, heap the blame onto Rikki Hunts shoulders alone or possibly have
another pop at blaming Swindon's arm chair scrutineers...... but what I hope the participants will consider is that there are people truly independent of either political party who
already know what the right answers are and who won't hesitate to very publicly correct deliberate attempts to re-write history or massage the public record.
Another point to consider is that we might see two 'Clevers' being appointed to the Conservative half. I do hope so, because our experience has thusfar been that the cleverer local politicians try to be when evading and explaining-away fairly simple acts in a deliberately complex manner, the harder they fall on their arses. See:
The Housing Transfer Debacle for some shining examples of utter stupidity.
Any attempt to whitewash or sweep the WiFi'asco under the civic carpet will probably cause more problems for all involved in it than a genuine attempt at truth and reconciliation yet I fear the leaders of the three parties in council all want WiFi to go away. There is only one way to do that sensibly. It will hurt all of them, but some more so than others. This is the way of such things when done honestly.
The truth
will out, I can pretty much guarantee it
