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Originally Posted by garinda
Thanks Bernard.
You're right. in the press he said he'd 'served' the council for thirty years. Though presumably for the twenty odd years he was employed by them, he was paid a wage.
Isn't the role of Mayor supposed to go to the longest serving councillor? Which I don't think is him.
Explains why he was so keen to jump ship, if the mayorship, and all the fancy trappings, were promised to him, in exchange for support.
The whole thing has a particularly unpleasant whiff about it.
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Malcolm's 8 years does make him one of the longest serving Councillors who haven't been the Mayor. There are others particularly in the Tory group who have much longer service than Malcolm, but presumably don't want the job.
Incidentally, I have no principle objection to Malcolm being the Mayor. And if that's the decision of the Council then fine. But there are other Councillors with a similar length of service who also would like to be considered for the position of Mayor this year.