Invercargill council

I FIND it interesting that Richard Thomson, appointed as a independent evaluator of the Invercargill City Council woes, has found that Mayor Tim Shadbolt is suffering from memory loss. Isn’t this the same Richard Thomson that was sacked as chairman of the Otago District Health Board due to his failure to identify a $16.9 million theft by one of his senior staff members?

It’s obvious to most people that the council issues go well beyond Tim’s failing memory, yet all the media focus goes on him. I wonder if former mayor Eve Poole suffered similar bullying before dying of ill health while in office in 1992.

Bruce Forrester

Invercargill