It's A Bit Sordid (But It'll All Be OK In The End)

Following my earlier article, it now appears that Penny Thompson's hand was not actually on the chopper at the time of her self-decapitation.

Word on the street is that Whitehall allegedly offered Julian Pipeshaft the choice of himself or the Chief Executive to exit the room sans tête and, being the gentleman that he is, Julian gallantly decided to allow Ms. Thompson to go first. Tim Shields takes over temporarily. Of course this is all speculation and not the sort of thing that we ordinary Councillors would know anything about. We never hear anything to do with budget underspends, budget overspends, housing benefit fraud, election manipulation, illegal sackings, corrupt planning decisions, nepotistic appointments or anything like that. We are just nice, sweet, hard-working servants of the electorate. I can't speak for the officers, but I'm sure they are just as innocent as we are.

So everything will be just fine from now on, then. I can get back to writing about the important things in Hackney life, such as the French elections, the Australian elections and the death of Boris Yeltsin.