Despite only being in office for a month councillor Tonii Wilson has wasted no time in settling into the Newham way of doing things.
In the register of interests she declares that she has no ‘employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain’:
Yet, according to Companies House, she is director of a company called Virgen Limited:
The utter disregard shown by councillors – and the mayor – for openness, honesty and just straightforward accuracy in recording their interests is shocking. But it is still disappointing to see a new councillor treat their obligation for transparency with such contempt.
Perhaps a formal complaint to the council would wake her up?.