Cornish Conservatives clearly do things differently as Lib Dem Cllr Alex Folkes has reported:
[Council leader] Cllr Robertson and Council Chief Executive Kevin Lavery held a press conference to announce the proposed budget. Lib Dem Group Leader Doris Ansari went along to hear what they had to say, only to be thrown out of the event because apparently:
“Press conferences are private meetings”
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4 Comments
It’s probably a bit semantic – had they called it a ‘press briefing’, I don’t think it would sound quite so strange.
It doesn’t matter what you call it.
A public body should be completely open. If you can tell the press why can’t you tell a member of the public including a member of the council.
This is utterly bizarre behaviour.
George Orwell, you should be living at this hour!