Full Council meeting - me filming and police called

[1billyrhys]

I know as an outside observer that carmarthenshire county council are a joke of an organisation. good on you.

[greghill00]

I agree, you should re-title this with a 'Private Eye' tag to get these jumped-up little nobodies the attention they deserve.

[lleifior2]

I followed the item in "Rotten Boroughs" to find this clip. It needs a broader audience and needs to be re-titled maybe ? (only so that its easier to find)

[Monumentum616]

Thumbs up if Private Eye sent you here!

Sorry for that, bad Youtube habits! This is an enlightening piece of footage, of which we are seeing more and more instances of. Fair play to thee. 

[4sallya]

Great coverage in Private Eye giving Carmarthenshire Council a richly deserved place in the Rotten Boroughs column.

Jacqui Thompson was not charged with any offence because she hadn't committed any offence.

[davebikes]

Disgraceful shambles of welsh councillors bigoted money wasters. They should be left in there chamber to rot! you silly old barstards.Make better use of Police resources.

[faffnyr]

I can't wait for Anonymous to get hold of this

[luckywood]

What's the chairman's name?

[EastFrontier89]

Ive had plenty of experience of South west wales councillors, utter bigoted provincial small minded reactionary scum, the lowest of the low

why though didnt you just place your camera on the banister instead of being so blatant that you were filming?

[gowernews]

UK Parliament broadcast live and devolved Assemblies broadcast live: (see BBC Democracy Live). Given the possible impracticality and cost to the local tax payer, members of the public - especially 'citizen-journalists' - should be entitled, encouraged even, to video public council meetings as a way of helping to create a transparent local democracy. Members of the public should take every opportunity to turn up to public meetings within their local council areas and report on them

[OakesOmar]

I'm an accredited journalist and even I was stopped from taking photos or filming at a council meeting last week

Go to Wimbledon Guardian.co.uk and search "reporter evicted from public meeting"

[pdagnan]

Well done, they work for you!

[express375]

There's no logic in saying you couldn't film.

Another one of those made up rules.

If they film the house of commons,then why not a council meeting?

Very brave of you,they obviously don't want folks seeing how they waste their money.

[johnloony]

What an idiot.

[dominictemple]

Good on you, disgraceful behaviour by both the Council and police.

[fyshh]

fair play to you for doing this. why should it be so private, what do they want to hide? it should be available for the public.. well done.x

[dennymeta]

Eric Pickles issued explicit guidance that councils should allow filming. Search on Google for 'councils should allow public meetings to be filmed' and you'll find several articles on the subject.

[HarryHayfield]

In the end I was able to take the picture, but had to promise that I would not put it online until after the local elections (which I did). Some councils are much more private than others

[HarryHayfield]

When I wanted to take a photograph of the council chamber in Carmarthenshire in 2008 (when the chamber was empty), I had to ask the receptionist on duty, who in turn asked the chief executive, who in turn had to ask the mayor, who in turn had to ask the leader of the council who ended up having to ask the receptionist.