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David Whalley re-elected county council leader
David Whalley has been re-elected as the leader of Cornwall county council.
At this week's meeting of the full council Mr Whalley, the councillor for Bude, Stratton, was proposed as council leader by Ann Kerridge, councillor for Bodmin, St Mary's.
His nomination was seconded by George Edwards, the councillor for Newquay central, who told councillors that Mr Whalley had done an excellent job as the leader of the council.
Mr Whalley said: "Being the leader of Cornwall county council during the past year has certainly been an interesting experience. I am looking forward to working with staff and councillors over the coming year."
Also at the meeting Doris Ansari, the county councillor for Truro East, was unanimously re-elected as the chairman of the county council.
She was nominated by Bryan Preston, councillor for Saltash, who said that Mrs Ansari was in the unique position of being both the first woman to chair the county council and the last chairman the council would have, before the formation of the new unitary authority in April 2009.
Thanking Mrs Ansari for the way she had represented the council for the past three years, he paid tribute to her "great sense of irony and wicked sense of humour", and said she always made everyone welcome and put people at their ease.
Accepting her nomination, Mrs Ansari thanked councillors for putting their faith in her, and said it was an honour to be elected as the chairman of the council.
Collin Brewer, the councillor for Wadebridge and St Minver, was re-elected as the vice-chairman of the council.
12:04pm Monday 19th May 2008
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CommentPosted by: Starry Dave, Kernow on 9:45am Tue 20 May 08
Hurray, the hypocritical libdems have re-elected their emmet leader who cares not one bit for cornwall, but for their own self aggrandisement. The local libdems have traded on their histroy for too long it is time that we kicked these hypocrits out, I say hypocrits as they have not stood by any of their election promises and have forced the incinerator, unitary authority, etc, upon the cornish people against any popular mandate.
Whilst the people of kernow continue to elect emmets and self serving gombeen men, we deserve to be improvished compared to our english neighbours and kowtow to them at every opportunity.
Cornish people who cote libdem are voting on past history not current politics. Personally, I don't care if you vote Tory, Nu Lab, MK, UKIP, independent or monster raving loony, any of these has more interst in the cornish people than the libdems.
Hurray, the hypocritical libdems have re-elected their emmet leader who cares not one bit for cornwall, but for their own self aggrandisement. The local libdems have traded on their histroy for too long it is time that we kicked these hypocrits out, I say hypocrits as they have not stood by any of their election promises and have forced the incinerator, unitary authority, etc, upon the cornish people against any popular mandate.
Whilst the people of kernow continue to elect emmets and self serving gombeen men, we deserve to be improvished compared to our english neighbours and kowtow to them at every opportunity.
Cornish people who cote libdem are voting on past history not current politics. Personally, I don't care if you vote Tory, Nu Lab, MK, UKIP, independent or monster raving loony, any of these has more interst in the cornish people than the libdems.
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