Henshaw's threat to Storey's job forces the council leader to call a meeting of his school's governors who give him their complete support, he reveals.
"There then followed a very difficult period when David Henshaw withdrew sending me his diary and his correspondence...I felt very isolated in all this...I contacted the chief executive of another authority and asked for advice...He was shocked and said that 'really you should suspend David Henshaw for behaving in this way'. I felt that would be inappropriate."
Story continued to lack the killer instinct even though he pursued the idea of taking disciplinary action against his renegade chief executive.
Storey tells how he met representatives from the Employers Association in Nottingham.
"A team of their staff, after several hours of discussion, got together a proposal in which they considered that David Henshaw's activities were of a serious nature. And that this should be a disciplinary matter. They made the point jokingly, that it was easier to get rid of Her Majesty the Queen than it was a chief executive."
The Employers Association advised the council leader to set up a special disciplinary committee to 'try' Henshaw.
"It could then consider suspending David Henshaw while the matter was being investigated. They also said that if he was suspended, there would have to be a report put together on David Henshaw's activities. They were happy to send a team up to Liverpool to put that report together."
But Storey faltered.
Weakly, he preferred the option of mediation to try and bring peace to the civil war.
In looking for a way to avoid a further bloody conflict, Storey let down his loyal supporters, democracy and the people of Liverpool.
It was to be his last chance to take strong and decisive action against Henshaw, but he fluffed it.
Amazingly, the arrogant Henshaw at first refused Storey's offer of mediation, believing he had the council leader on the run.
Then the evil cabal swung into action.
City solicitor Graeme Creer, who had been appointed by Henshaw, privately told the renegade chief executive of the Lib Dem group's confidential plans to set up a disciplinary committee to prosecute him.
Henshaw then moved quickly to avoid humiliation and agree mediation, with Sir Michael Lyons brought in to act as referee.
It sealed Storey's fate.
5 comments:
Storey was a complete Wet Nelly he did let us all down by bottling it
Its as well that he's not leader anymore if he cant cut the mustard
But worryingly it seems that Bradley is a bottler too becuase he is letting his electorate down by trying to help Cover up Cover it up
The voters will no doubt be sending Bottler Bradley and the Wet Nellies the right message for this next May though
What a coward, I cannot believe he thought that Henshaw would "make friends"!
We need real people with gusto and pride and respect running the City not the wet nellies club!
Warren Bradley is just as bad, get out and vote for the raving looney party in May, oh sorry they are already in power!
The councillors are really living up to the wet nelly club rules!
My tortoise could do a better job.
Storey certainly lives up to the colour of his Party, YELLOW!
To think he could have got rid of them all in one fell swoop!
Bradley is just a figure head for Storey and he is just as bad as the rest of the Lib Dems corrupt and useless.
GET RID OF THEM ALL
Just how long are we supposed to take all this crap?
Get out in May PLEASE and vote these idiots out.
the wet nellies are a disgrace and should not be allowed out in public!
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