Might there be some political motivation behind this though? Internal audit could take a couple of months to examine this. If they had concerns and referred it elsewhere (as mentioned, the Audit Commssion) then any conclusions from them would probably be delayed by the embargo on politically sensitive announcements before an election.
Well, observers
have commented on the enthusiastic way Cll'r Dickinson leapt into the fray and declared "I'll refer this to the audit committee!" at the last council meeting, the one where Wods WiFi was such a hot topic everyone went home late and probably missed supper.
Perhaps he's keen to make his mark as an effective chairman, perhaps he's keen to show he's worth the extra few thousand pounds he gets for his 'special responsibilities' now that he's on the cabinet payroll.
Perhaps he's set his sights on one of the big chairs at the top table, perhaps he's been promised one if he's a good and loyal soldier. Who really knows? (if they do know and want to spill the beans, drop a note to
The Talkswindon Leakline 
What I do know is that Rod 'n' Rikki's WiFiasco really
has put Swindon on the map, for all the wrong reasons. The WiFiasco is now in danger of becoming a side-show as attention focuses more on the way the council is being led by a secretive cabinet-within-a-cabinet. Other cabinet members are now starting to admit that they had no idea what was going on or that other cabinet members were taking it upon themselves to take such major decisions without the whole cabinet being involved. Democracy at work eh?
Anyway, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that political wonkery to delay/stop/hinder an internal audit was anticipated by people with a
genuine interest in actually seeing that the right thing is done, and that the matter has already been already been raised with the audit commission directly.
It's unfortunate really, it would be nice to think that we really could trust all of our elected representatives to do the right thing but, for the ones that climb, slash and hack their way to the top of the pile, all we can really trust them to do is to be politicians.
As I've said before and will doubtless say again, party politics buggers up far more than it ever solves in the Borough and when it starts
looking like the wonks are bending the rules to suit themselves and their party, and they try to obstruct other interested people from seeing what
is actually going on, someone is going to win the Golden Dodo.
I don't know what 'Call me Dave' Cameron will think of this episode, but I can't see that he'll be keen to be associated with such wonkery so close to a general election.