Removal of Leader of the Council - Cllr. J Aberley
Full council, 4 May 2022: a named vote, carried.
For 33, Against 18, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (33)
- Alan Hulme (Conservative)
- Brian Johnson (Conservative)
- Edwin Wain (Conservative)
- Elsie Fallows (Conservative)
- Gill Heath (Conservative)
- Hayley Plimley (Conservative)
- Ian Herdman (Conservative)
- James Aberley (Conservative)
- Joe Porter (Conservative)
- Keith Flunder (Conservative)
- Mark Deaville (Conservative)
- Michael Worthington (Conservative)
- Norma Hawkins (Conservative)
- Paul Roberts (Conservative)
- Ross Ward (Conservative)
- Sav Scalise (Conservative)
- Stephen Ellis (Conservative)
- Bill Cawley (Labour)
- Connor Brady (Labour)
- Darren Price (Labour)
- Jill Salt (Labour)
- Keith Hoptroff (Labour)
- Kevin J Jackson (Labour)
- Lyn Swindlehurst (Labour)
- Lytton Page (Labour)
- Mike Gledhill (Labour)
- Nigel Yates (Labour)
- Phil Taylor (Labour)
- Sue Coleman (Labour)
- Gary Bentley (Independent)
- Pam Wood (Independent)
- Phil Routledge (Independent)
- Atkins (not matched to a member)
Against (18)
- Andrew Hart (Independent)
- Hilda Sheldon MBE (Independent)
- Ian Plant (Independent)
- Jim Davies (Independent)
- John Jones (Independent)
- Kate Mills (Independent)
- Michael Bowen (Independent)
- Peter Wilkinson (Independent)
- Tony D Hall (Independent)
- Barbara Hughes (Conservative)
- Ben Emery (Conservative)
- David Shaw (Conservative)
- Geoff Bond (Conservative)
- Ian S Lawson (Conservative)
- Linda Lea (Conservative)
- Sybil Ralphs MBE (Conservative)
- Teresa Riley (Conservative)
- John Redfern (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (1)
- Tony Holmes (Conservative)
From the minutes
“That the Full Council of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council removes the current leader of the Council from post.” A named vote having being called the result was as follows: Those voting FOR: Councillors: Aberley, Atkins, Bentley, Brady, Cawley, Coleman, Deaville, Ellis, Fallows, Flunder, Gledhill, Hawkins, Heath, Herdman, Hoptroff, Hulme, K. Jackson, Johnson, Page, Plimley, Porter, Price, Roberts, Routledge, Salt, Scalise, Swindlehurst, Taylor, Wain, Ward, Wood, Worthington and Yates. (33) Those voting AGAINST: Councillors: Bond, Bowen, Davies, Emery, Hall, Hart, Hughes, Jones, Lawson, Lea, Mills, Plant, Ralphs, Redfern, Riley, Shaw, Sheldon and Wilkinson. (18) ABSTENTIONS: Councillor Holmes. The MOTION was CARRIED.
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.