COVENTRY council leaders’ ‘performance’ at Tuesday’s Extraordinary General Meeting – about the city centre 60,000 parking fines debacle – was local politics at its ugliest.
The Labour cabinet wants to improve the city and we’ve joined in celebrating the good things, but this was one of the worst displays seen here in three decades.
The EGM was called by opposition councillors on a serious issue in the public interest – after months of council distortion and evasion.
The respected national tribunal experts had highlighted how fined motorists have for years been “misled” and “confused” by the sparsely signed Restricted Parking Zone, which removed yellow lines.
Ruling Labour councillors’ response – despite previously calling EGMs themselves on lesser matters – was to smear and personally attack individual councillors, including for calling the meeting – a tactic bizarrely and naively swallowed by other media headlines.
No apologies or admission of serious errors amid the playground-style diversion tactics – despite quietly sending council workers out to erect 101 new signs.
