“It is not uncommon for Councillors to be interrupted and heckled during speeches. During my own contribution to the meeting, I was interrupted at various times” reports Cllr David Perry, leader of the Labour group on the council, after the council meeting on 23rd October 2024. But “following the meeting, I received verbal complaints from three past Mayors of Harrow who raised the disrespectful and inappropriate behaviour of the Deputy Mayor during proceedings by heckling and banging the Mayor’s gavel on the bench” Cllr Perry said. From 2.40.51 to 2.41.09 the timeline of the council meeting shows the deputy mayor’s disrespect and an overreaching of her duties, undermining the mayor’s role. There is nothing to suggest that Cllr Anjana Patel was cautioned for her out-of-order conduct by the mayor sitting next to her. Civic responsibility like the deputy mayor of the Harrow council is a respectable role to be carried out in a dignified manner, where the deputy only has a civic and legal status in the absence of the Mayor. “I hope the Deputy Mayor will reflect on this behaviour and ensure in future the position she holds is held to the highest standards in public meetings” Cllr Perry said. Councillor Anjana Patel, deputy mayor selected by the Conservative group for the year 2024-25, is likely to progress to become the mayor the following year, and could do with good training for respecting her office and all in the borough, given her previous conduct:
How does such repeated display of uncivilised, crass & low standards of behaviour which is being continually displayed by the “Deputy Mayor” who is unfit for Public Office of any kind be tolerated by Harrow Council & allows it to continue unless it serves the purposes of Harrow Council to have such an individual to run around loose unashamedly & for convenient Photo Shoots for personal publicity purposes with certain “individuals” in various venues around the Borough for dubious reasons & which does not Benefit Harrow or it’s Residents in any way! Ridiculous.
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How does such repeated display of uncivilised, crass & low standards of behaviour which is being continually displayed by the “Deputy Mayor” who is unfit for Public Office of any kind be tolerated by Harrow Council & allows it to continue unless it serves the purposes of Harrow Council to have such an individual to run around loose unashamedly & for convenient Photo Shoots for personal publicity purposes with certain “individuals” in various venues around the Borough for dubious reasons & which does not Benefit Harrow or it’s Residents in any way! Ridiculous.
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