“It’s a junket on the taxpayers and people don’t want to see highly paid council officials swanning around the French Riviera.”
Trebles all-round! Council official Jo Negrini at last year’s MIPIM conference in the south of France. She’ll be back for more in a week’s time
Or a “Booze and Hookerfest”, as it was described by Private Eye magazine this week.
In 2016, and Newman is now the council leader. Yet for the second year in succession he is presiding over the spending of thousands of pounds of public money to pay for senior Croydon Council staff to attend the four-day developers’ conference.
The Eye says that, “the world’s richest property moguls and their investment advisers will attend” MIPIM and that they arrive on the Riviera for a bit of spring sunshine “in private jets and on luxury yachts”.
Doubtless, the vast quantities of champagne that will be quaffed and canapes that are to be scoffed aboard the aforementioned yachts are diarised by humble London council employees and their accompanying PR staffers, such as Croydon’s ever-present Grey Label, as being part of their “very busy schedule” of important “meetings” with the schmoozers and speculators.
