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Councillor Andrew Johnson, the Leader of the Council, and the Chairman of Cabinet, has offered disgraced councillor, Ross McWilliams his “strong support”. This despite Cllr McWilliams being found guilty of “bringing his role and local authority into disrepute”. Cllr Johnson’s spin is to misrepresent the findings of the standards panel by deliberately confusing the verdict […]

This afternoon, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have notified us that Councillor Ross McWilliams (Conservative, Cox Green) has been found guilty of “bringing his role and local authority into disrepute”. The panel was made up of one of his fellow Conservative councillors, one independent councillor and an independent non-elected person. It was unanimous […]

by Simon Bond The investment managers of the council’s pension fund have announced a commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The pension fund is part of the Berkshire Local Government Pension Fund. The investment managers also look after Lancashire Pension Fund and the London Pension Fund Authority. This means their commitment covers […]

by Simon Bond This quarter’s meeting of the committee that oversees the council’s pension fund was a classic case of steps forward and steps backward. On the positive side was consideration of policies on responsible investment and voting at company AGMs. For me the major disappointment was that the responsible investment policy presented was second-hand […]

This is a budget which contains eight pages of cuts, some of which may benefit the environment and some of which may lessen the borough’s capacity to address the climate emergency, yet there is no sense that either of these outcomes are central to their planning.  We are rapidly approaching two years since we unanimously declared […]