My intention was to start winding down this blog, spend more time with my wife, grand-children, books, Malbec . . . but things keep cropping up. That said, it’s very unlikely I shall undertake major new investigations. Diolch yn fawr.
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The previous post was a cri de coeur from someone who by chance had learnt that she is to have a wind farm plonked on her doorstep. Which is often how people find out.
Because in the early stages of wind farm projects those pushing them like to tread carefully, and operate in the shadows. Which encourages skulduggery and often results in what can only be described as corruption.
Yes, I know, that will shock and surprise many of you. But it happens, even here, in planet-saving, refugee-welcoming, men-with-cervixes accepting Wales; where self-absorbed nobodies flit about the Bay out-mwahing each other as they await the next ishoo over which to drool and became instantly knowledgeable.
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BACKGROUND
I must begin with a sizeable recap, because if you don’t understand what has gone before then you’ll have difficulty making sense of what’s happening now. And what is likely to happen in the future.
About three years ago I was contacted by people in central Powys who were fighting against the imposition of a wind farm. What resulted from that approach was Corruption in the wind? in November 2018.
This was followed up in August 2020 with, Corruption in the wind 2, Labour snouts in the trough.
The story began with the strange case of Hendy Wind Farm, not far from Llandrindod. To cut a long story short . . .
Planning permission was refused by Powys County Council in April 2017, at a meeting where there occurred an episode worth recounting. (And here I lift a section from my November 2018 offering.)
‘Back in 2017, on April 27 to be exact, there was a curious scene played out at a meeting of Powys County Council’s planning committee. At a point in the meeting after the committee had refused planning permission for Hendy and was about to discuss further conditions for Bryn Blaen, a woman who had been sitting with the developers tried to hand a note to one of the committee members.
The woman had to be forcefully ushered away. She was recognised as a lobbyist, working for Invicta Public Affairs, a company based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . . .
It was Anna McMorrin, who had been recruited by Invicta in October 2016 for no reason other than she was a Labour Party insider, having joined the party when she was a student, and as a result of her subsequent career she knew exactly who to approach to get things done.
While she was working for Alun Davies they began an affair which resulted in both leaving their long-term partners. They now live together.
In the general election of June 2017 Anna McMorrin was elected Labour MP for Cardiff North.’
When McMorrin became an MP her profile obviously increased, and she could hardly be expected to raise the hopes of elderly councillors by slipping them billets-doux during planning committee meetings.
A replacement would have to be found.
Inevitably, the Hendy developers appealed against the council’s decision but the appeal was dismissed by a planning inspector in May, 2018. Then, just five months later, Lesley Griffiths, Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs Secretary for the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ over-ruled the planning inspector.
Here’s the letter Lesley Griffiths sent to Keith McKinney of Aaron and Partners LLP, a firm of Chester solicitors acting for the developers Hendy Wind Farm Ltd. Which is directly owned by DS Renewables LLP and ultimately owned by U + I Group Plc.
You’ll note that Griffiths says the justification for her overruling the planning inspector is that Hendy Wind Farm is a Development of National Significance (DNS).
Yet Wales already produces roughly twice as much electricity as we consume, with the extra going to England for no remuneration. So Hendy and all the other developments planned cannot be in the Welsh national interest. Which means they must be in the national interest of England or the UK.
Suggesting that Wales is being lumbered with an unfair and disproportionate number of the UK’s wind farms. Take Scotland out of the calculation and it becomes even more obvious that Wales is suffering an excessive number of wind turbines in order to protect English landscapes.
But it’s OK, because this exploitation is presented as little old Wales saving the planet.
It’s unusual for a minister to overrule the Planning Inspectorate. And because the Planning Inspectorate plays by the same DNS rule-book Griffiths’ decision made a number of people suspect that other factors or influences might have been at play.
And then . . . it was noticed that Labour insider David James Taylor had slipped on to the stage. Was he the replacement for Anna McMorrin?
In this website – put up I assume by objectors – Taylor’s company Moblake is named as working for the developers. Though as I’ll explain in a minute, there are two Moblake companies. And Taylor’s connection to those developers goes beyond Moblake.
Taylor is described in this piece as a ‘Former Labour spin doctor’. To give you some more information I shall shamelessly lift a section from last year’s piece:
‘Back in the early part of 2009 a bright lad in the Labour Party launched a website attacking his party’s political opponents. The site’s name cleverly linking the names of Labour icon Aneurin Bevan and national hero Owain Glyndŵr. As background music it even employed Tom Jones’s Delilah.
How we laughed!
But it all came unstuck and caused the bruvvers considerable embarrassment. First Minister Rhodri Morgan was particularly irked because Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones had been portrayed as a clown. In normal circumstances this wouldn’t have mattered, but Labour was in coalition with Plaid Cymru at the time.
The website itself has long disappeared into the ether, but this old blog will give you a flavour. Though the Aneurin Glyndŵr Twitter account lives on.
The photo below shows Taylor canvassing for Lesley Griffiths in the 2016 Assembly elections along with some kids shipped in from England.
Around the same time he stood as the Labour candidate for the North Wales PCC post, but lost. Which would have left him looking for a suitably remunerative position.
Taylor had worked as a spad for Peter Hain when the Sage of the Serengeti was Secretary of State for Wales, and has also served as head cook and bottlewasher to former Labour Assembly Member Leighton Andrews.
Taylor joined the party while still in nappies and chaired his local constituency association before leaving kindergarten. In short, he is Labour through and through, and is very well connected in the Welsh branch of the UK Labour Party.
Additionally, he’s from the north east, and knows Lesley Griffiths personally.
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WHAT A BUTE!
There is something of a changing of the guard in 2017/18. Not only do we see Taylor taking over from McMorrin as the Labour Party / lobbyist presence but those originally behind Hendy wind farm are overshadowed by new players.
The linkage between the new and the old can be found in the company originally named Windward Generation Ltd, then Bute Energy Ltd, and finally, RSCO 3750 Ltd.
The first two directors were Oliver James Millican and Lawson Douglas Steele, both using the address of the Edinburgh Solicitors’ Property Centre at 90a George Street. They were joined 6 days later by Steven John Radford of Hendy Wind Farm Ltd.
Radford left in December 2019 and in the same month Stuart Allan George joined. Millican, Steele, and George will dominate this narrative from now on through a galaxy of companies under the Bute Energy umbrella.
To help you make sense of it I offer this table, with working links, that shows the various companies involved at the outset of the Hendy scenario and how, since they appeared on the scene, Millican, Steele, and George seem to be planning wind farms – now renamed ‘energy parks’ – all over Wales.
Since April 2020 there have been 20 new companies. Most of them location specific. See how many you can identify.
Earlier I mentioned David Taylor’s two companies called Moblake. These are Moblake Ltd (formerly Moblake Wind Ventures Ltd), and Moblake Associates Ltd. Despite the suggestion in the name of the second, Taylor is the sole director of both.
The latest unaudited financial statement for Moblake Ltd (not to be confused with audited accounts) show a healthy balance of £765,000. The ‘Nature of business (SIC)’ says that this company deals in ‘specialised construction activities’.
The Moblake companies were formed a week before Lesley Griffiths wrote to the developers’ solicitor advising that the Hendy Wind Farm was going ahead. What a coincidence!
Which I find curious. For Taylor has neither qualifications nor experience in the field of construction. I’ve read somewhere that he took time out from being a political fixer to study cyber security in the USA.
To further the pretence of Welsh involvement in or benefit from these projects Bute has recruited or appointed a Welsh Advisory Board headed by former Labour MEP Derek Vaughan.
UPDATE 15.10.2021: We now learn from her entry on the Register of Interests that senior Labour MS Jenny Rathbone‘s partner is a member of the Advisory Board.
This is John Uden.
What expertise does he bring? Or is his real benefit that he’s the partner of a Senedd Member who sits on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee?
Having touched on Taylor’s background, it’s worth adding that Millican, Steele, and George have never driven a digger for Wimpey either. Their expertise is in real estate and equities.
Which raises a number of possibilities.
Until he discovered an interest in wind turbines Millican was a director of companies under the Parabola label. Companies such as Parabola Estate Holdings Ltd, operating out of the same London address as his more recent wind farm ventures.
A director of this and many other companies is 72-year-old Peter John Millican, who I assume to be the father of 40-year-old Oliver Millican.
Given that Millican junior is in ultimate control of all the wind farm companies I can’t help wondering whether he has really branched out on his own or whether he’s still working for daddy. Or perhaps fronting for someone else.
To summarise, we have the three musketeers from Caeredin, and their man on the ground in Wales, David Taylor, none of whom has any obvious background in engineering or renewables. Nor are they believed to be card-carrying members of the Greta Thunberg Fan Club.
Which suggests to me that they’re just in it for the money. With that money assured through being able to influence the ‘Welsh Government’.
For it wasn’t Taylor’s sparkling repartee that persuaded the Bute gang to make him a member of Grayling Capital LLP, and a shareholder in Windward Enterprises.
All of which leads me to wonder if this lot will erect a single wind turbine.
Because having apparently secured the rights to so many sites all they need do on each is spend a few thousand for a planning application and, once that’s secured, each site becomes worth millions.
And we are talking tens of millions of pounds, possibly nine figures, for a total outlay of less than a million pounds, and without having to do any real work.
Not far from Hendy Wind Farm, nearer to Llangurig, we find Bryn Blaen. A modest affair of 6 turbines with a tip height of 100m and a potential output of just 14.1MW. This too was launched by Steven John Radford, the man behind the Hendy project.
The latest accounts (to 30 September, 2020) show ‘Tangible assets’ of £35,567,344. And this figure has been reduced by the estimated cost of removing the turbines when their days are done, and restoring the site.
Though I predict it will be a hard job getting those responsible to restore wind farm sites. We might see companies locating offshore, as we saw with those seeking to avoid cleaning up opencast coal sites. A famous example being Celtic Energy.
Incidentally, Celtic Energy was advised by M & A Solicitors, which changed its name to Acuity Law and then advised Stan ‘The Pies’ Thomas on his notorious acquisition of public land.
I wrote about it back in the early part of 2016, with Pies, Planes & Property Development, soon followed by Pies, Planes & Property Development 2. ‘Planes’ refers to Stan and his brother Peter selling Cardiff airport to the ‘Welsh Government’ for a ludicrously high price.
When dealing with the ‘Welsh Government’ the Thomas brothers adhere to the old maxim, ‘Sell high, buy low’. With which the ‘Welsh Government, apparently, agrees.
Acuity Law still does a lot of work for Whatshisname and his gang. God help us!
Let’s conclude this section with a bit more information on Bryn Blaen. Radford and other directors left the company in February 2020. They were replaced by Stephen Richard Daniels, Edward William Mole, Benjamin Alexander Phillips, and Roger Skeldon.
Together, the three for whom I’ve provided links, hold 1,647 directorships, and a hell of a lot of the companies are dissolved.
It might be worth keeping an eye on Bryn Blaen.
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IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT
Consider this: We have a ‘Welsh Government’, and it wants to fight climate change by covering Wales in wind turbines.
The obvious course to have taken would have been to build up a Welsh renewables industry. Welsh companies could have been formed, could have grown and prospered; created jobs, built up local skills, and put wealth into local economies.
Had this been done we could today have Welsh companies erecting wind turbines around the world. Using highly-skilled Welsh technicians and engineers. Bringing money back to Wales.
But no.
Instead, our colonial elite behaved like procurers, offering Wales up to foreign investors and companies for them to do with as they wished. The former sometimes based in tax havens, the latter often state owned, such as Sweden’s Vattenfall, which owns our largest wind farm, Pen-y-Cymoedd.
But it will get worse before it gets better. Because in some ways Bute Energy’s plans may represent the last hurrah for increasingly discredited onshore wind.
The next scam is tree planting. Which is why . . .
When independence is seen to approach the first priority must be to seal off Corruption Bay and block all escape routes. Then flood the place. Have gangs of likely lads at each exit to mercilessly deal with anyone trying to get out.
Because . . . can you imagine giving more power, and more money, to those we find in that nest of vermin? The jumped-up councillor politicians, their spads, and other hangers-on; the third sector parasites dreaming up new ‘problems’ they can use to bleed us dry; the (unregistered) lobbyists; the civil servants taking orders from London; the enviroshysters and other ‘influencers’ directing ‘Welsh Government’ policy.
They must all be swept away.
If independence offers nothing but devolution on steroids, then here’s one lifelong nationalist who will reject it. My independence, whilst being free of ideological pre-conditions, demands a fresh start, with a different model, and in a new place.
A new system that works for the Welsh people, not against us.
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MSM seem very concerned about how much loot rich Russians are lobbing into Tory and other political coffers. Would be interesting to know how much dark money from all sources is flowing into things like “energy farms” especially as they are so fashionable among the orthodox globalist groupthinkers that no bugger’s going to look too closely at any of it. Except the Honourable Jac, or more correctly Yr Anrhydeddus !.
A key figure is Derek Vaughan ex Welsh Labour MEP and council leader now operating via Kerligan Consultants Ltd. and chairing Bute Energy “advisory board”.
Vaughan is a key figure in “Swansea mafia” now running Welsh Labour – Carolyn Harris, Jeremy Miles, Peter Hain, Lee Waters and… Climate Change, Planning and Energy Minister Julie James !
David Taylor as you say a former Hain adviser, made his money shilling for corrupt foreign governments which is how he is a shareholder/investor in Bute and will have recruited Vaughan.
If Welsh Labour is indeed run by a Swansea mafia then I’m as much concerned by its sheer incompetence as anything else in view of the way the area has become increasingly impoverished since devolution. We now have tumbleweed blowing through the city centre and the only cranes on the skyline are delivering yet more student accommodation. Presumably they must avert their eyes whilst passing through. We’ll need Zil lanes for them next.
Thank you so much for your excellent post Jac. You wrote: “In this website – put up I assume by objectors – Taylor’s company Moblake is named as working for the developers.” That website is actually the one which Njord Energy i.e. Steven Radford and the original Njord/Hendy Wind Farm directors from U and I Plc created to promote Hendy Wind Farm. The addition of Moblake to Hendy Wind Farm’s website appears to be the only update to the website since it was created to promote Hendy Wind Farm in 2013. “The truthful information concerning the Hendy Wind Farm can be found on this website, along with details of how you can get involved”: http://hendywindfarm.com/
There were originally four Moblake companies which were incorporated by Taylor on the 17th and 18th of October 2018 just before the official granting of planning permission for Hendy Wind Farm by Lesley Griffiths by way of her letter to Keith McKinney dated 25 October 2018. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Moblake
Moblake was allegedly appointed by Hendy Wind Farm Limited to be the community liaison. From what I am aware, only three people out of many who have written to Moblake ever received a reply, the last time being in February 2019. Despite the lack of community liaison stipulated by the planning conditions attached to the planning permission granted by Lesley Griffiths, there has been no community liaison by Hendy Wind Farm including for the recent delivery of the AILs with turbine parts. Although Hendy had planned to begin delivery of the AILs in July, there were problems with the related planning documents and they were subsequently slated for delivery commencing 1st September. Yet, lo and behold the first load was delivered 31st August without any warning to the local community and others affected along the route from Ellesmere Port to Llandegley Rhos Common including the school at Crossgates. Please note that the turbine parts which have been delivered to Hendy Wind Farm appear to be used and are allegedly from an old wind farm in Denmark, so someone was told.
Returning back to the complete lack of community liaison, Hendy Wind Farm Condition 28 states in part:
p) proposals to liaise with all relevant stakeholders (including the relevant highway and planing authorities, Police, members of the public and local communities, hauliers, and landowners prior to the submission of notifications for AIL deliveries and applications for special orders for AIL deliveries.
We have been informed that people in Newtown and Welshpool received a circular to let them know about the pending delivery of the Hendy AILs and resulting traffic disruptions, yet the local residents along with the Penybont and District Community Council, which includes Llandegley never received notification when they are the most affected.
This breach of planning permission is one of a long list of pre-commencement conditions which Hendy Wind Farm has breached. Despite people writing to complain about these multiple breaches of planning permission and conditions, Powys County Council Planning has done nothing apparently because it is not “expedient”, a word much favoured and overused in order to obfuscate and seemingly enable an unlawful development. As a result it has become clearly evident to us that there is apparently a two-tired planning system operating in Powys.
I think I must have got the websites mixed up, due to the very similar layout. Going back to the Njord site, there is no mention of Moblake.
Of the four Moblake companies, one was obviously a typo, and quickly replaced by a company with the name spelt correctly. However, I have gone back to the factsheet, and drawn attention to Taylor’s Moblake companies being formed just a week before Griffiths’ announcement. This looks more and more like corruption. Using political influence or insider knowledge for personal gain.
I suppose the question now is: Did Taylor have advance warning of Griffiths’ decision and just took advantage of it, or did he (and others) pressure her into making the decision? Though another question must be, when and how did Taylor become involved with The Bute boys?
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Thank you Jac. If you go to the contact page on Hendy’s website there is the number for a community information line which no one ever answers and also this: “Contacting us by email at hendy@moblake.com” There has been no community liaison by Hendy Wind Farm with the local community and residents since Steven Radford gave his sales pitch at the Penybont Community Centre in 2014.
I would like to correct my comment above in that the Hendy Wind Farm website appears to have been created in 2013 but until the Moblake contact information was added in November or December 2018, the only update appears to have been from July 2014 in the “Latest News” sidebar with regard to their submission of a planning application to Powys County Council.
With regard to the change of directorship at Bryn Blaen in February 2020, that was when its sale was apparently finalised.
Speaking of for sale signs, U+I Plc declared a financial before tax loss of £86.7million in their Annual Report dated May 2021. Hendy Wind Farm is listed at page 50 of the report as part of “𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.”
Given that David Taylor campaigned for Griffiths in 2016 and that Griffiths, Taylor and Daran Hill (formerly of Positif) were all friends with Carl Sargeant and gave evidence at the inquest into the death, I would be surprised if Taylor didn’t have advance warning of Griffiths decision. As you say, “the question must be, when and how did Taylor become involved with The Bute boys?”
Has anyone done research into the new owners of Hendy? A quick shufty turned up lots and lots of dissolved companies, making me wonder if that’s the fate lined up for Hendy.
I’m convinced Taylor had advance notice of Griffiths’ decision. And I’m also convinced that a number of other people knew. Wasn’t machinery turning up at the site before the announcement was made?
The Moblake companies were formed in mid-October 2018. The 2-page Filleted Accounts for Moblake Ltd for y/e 30.04.2019 show assets of £427,113. So the money was already coming in. Presumably from the Bute boys.
Less than a month before the Moblake companies were formed Oliver Millican and Lawson Steele formed Windward Generation Ltd, with Radford joining 6 days later. Then, just 5 days before the birth of the Moblake quads, the name was changed to Bute Energy Ltd. (Now it’s RSCO 34750 Ltd.) That was the first appearance of the Bute name.
Which means that in less than two weeks we see the change of name to Bute Energy, Moblake company formations, and Griffiths’ announcement. The three are definitely linked.
Given that wind turbines have a life expectancy of 15 – 20 years, if second-hand parts have been delivered to Hendy then does this suggest the project is a short-term thing? Before folding? And who cleans up?
Or are these second-hand parts there to meet certain obligations, and create an impression, while waiting for new turbines?
What has all this got to do with refugees, as in your opening comments. The U.K. is taking 20,000 over 5 years and you feel threatened enough to bring it up with every irrelevant topic. Why not join Farage where I am sure you will feel at home – plucky Blighty bombing civilians and the moaning when they want to flee the terror.
This has nothing to do with me feeling ‘threatened’ at all. I was alluding to virtue-signalling wankers in Corruption Bay, not really taking a pop at refugees at all. Am I too subtle for you?
You are a petulant little twat aren’t you. The intro of Jac’s piece is very clearly a dig not at refugees but at the political class that treats refugees in the same cynical posturing manner as they approach most matters. These are people who are totally absorbed by the processes and behaviours of posturing. The green gospel and its subsequent morphing into an absurd distorted blashemy is a classic case in point. The fact that refugees are taken into ordinary people’s communities and welcomed but seldom appear where these privileged posh twats reside is evidence of their double standards. The gross twisting of the science of human biology is just the latest in this catalogue of fantasist “truths”. All these beliefs appear at the core of our political decision makers and it’s not just a Cardiff thing as evidenced by last week’s hand wringing over the “male cervix” in Brighton .
Identifying all this as a Faragist stance is a gross insult and an attempt to divert the discussion from its main course. Now you may have just got out of bed on the wrong side this morning in which case your head may be in a better place this afternoon and you may see fit to issue an apology to Jac later today and I would amend my view of you as “petulant”. On the other hand you may be one of those people who thinks he’s seeing “Fash” round every corner in which case there are no grounds for me amending my perception of you other than to perhaps see you as an even bigger twat than I first imagined.
Dafydd is your surname Oroco or Lewis by any chance? If not, you’ve got a rival for levels of sarcasm.
I was expecting him back sooner with some exquisite repartee. Sadly he seems to prefer the echo chamber of wokish delusion where men with cervixes can interact happily with members of some self appointed elitist groups slagging off those who have failed to fall for the latest fashionable fib.
Well I did not think you were waiting with bated breath for my reply. Flattering. But must be a sad life you lead. Jacothenorth had adequately responded in his usual articulate way, so not sure he needed or wanted your input. You were wondering about my family name. Are you working for someone? Or building up a list of non-desirables? Am I even male, cross gender or even human? Now I am wokish so logically you are asleepish. It is probably best to concentrate on the real scandal that is being reported about in the article, and for me it, is the continuing parasitic life of Positif people who even years ago were a paradigm of money for failure.
Many of us are sufficiently wide awake to spot a tosser trying to derail the focus of the discussion. Nuff said.
Well said Dafis. It’s an important subject, well researched by Jac.
But he’s never been sued has he? Twat. ? If the cap fits, wear it
You say that it’s a mystery why ex-Inspector John Uden of the Metropolitan Police is on the Welsh Advisory Board of Bute Energy. His other job, since retiring as a top London cop, is concurrent roles as a Facilities Manager for two commercial property companies.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/john-uden-51a3b58a
Lambert Smith Hampton and Propertyserve (UK) Ltd are companies that install stuff like palisade fencing around commercial land and property, evict squatters and procure the manning of on-site security. These companies are the go-to people to protect empty buildings, usually office blocks, but their most lucrative contract of late is to secure the landholdings used in the construction of HS2.
Bloody hell! So the Bute boys think they need security?
There now appears to be a new consideration in the sites you have highlighted.
The major windfarm development like Cefn Croes, Penycymoedd and Mynyddygwair have been on land owned or managed by the Welsh Government, and besides planning the only public access issues have been covenants on the title such as commoners rights to grazing and public access. The key to these sites was an eager landowner prepared to let the site go for a snip.
These new sites encompass large agricultural holdings, which if acquired for reason of windfarm development, besides the wind turbines, the land would most likely monitised in carbon offset tree planting, but the farmhouses and any associated agricultural buildings will then serve no economic of native purpose. They will need to be made secure during the windfarm construction stage, and preserved or enhanced for disposal into the holiday home market or chalet theme park type developments.
This is a significant change in the security consideration. A bit like those houses and farms that get bought up to build a new road or a high speed rail line. The Welsh landscape is so saturated with wind turbines, developing these additional sites would need stuff like compulsory purchase and evictions.
You seem to be suggesting a whole new way of doing things. And yet, it makes sense, because the three directors of Bute Energy all have backgrounds in real estate. This is why their venture in wind turbines seemed so odd. If what you are suggesting is right – and it certainly explains the involvement of the ex-cop specialising in securing property – then this is a whole new ball game.
An update may be called for.
You overlooked to mention the John Davies that appears on the Welsh Advisory Board mugshots. John has at various times served on Pembrokeshire County Council including a term as Leader. Also “served the community” sitting at various times on WLGA, Dyfed Powys Police Authority, S4C and Royal Welsh Agri Society. Also did a turn on the Electricity Council as rural and farming rep( nominated by FUW or NFU ?). Splendidly networked cove just right to help a set of City wide boys in their quest for easy loot while earning a nice set of fees and bonuses for himself.
Heres’s alink to one of his less than fine moments :
https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/10995625.former-pembrokeshire-county-council-leader-admits-mistakes-over-chief-execs-pension-scandal/
A familiarity with ways of “innocently” pissing away public funds always helps.
They certainly needed it at Hendy when the protests kicked off. Big police and security presence, and some pretty rough tackles going on.
I recall that, I think I wrote about it. But Uden’s expertise seems to be in security for commercial property and empty buildings, something that strikes me as being entirely different.