Cllr Patrick Heesom and I have something in common

We both take issue with senior officers of Flintshire County Council. In my case the way they hide information and block FOIE's illegally.
Anyway the Local Government Chronicle says the following which was not reported by local newspapers ( I think)
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Flintshire County Council ’s executive took the unusual step of issuing a statement to deny that the council was in either “chaos or fracture”, following the referral of executive member for housing strategy Patrick Heesom (Ind) to Wales’ standards ombudsman.

This move followed a statement from chief executive Colin Everett and other senior managers, which said the corporate management team had referred Cllr Heesom for “alleged multiple breaches of the code of conduct”.

It continued: “The council has exhausted all other solutions in this case and the referral has been made as a last resort.”

A subsequent statement from the team said Cllr Heesom had made “unfounded and contentious comments about the governance of the county council and the behaviour and performance of senior management and several identifiable individual senior officers” during a press interview.

Cllr Heesom told LGC: “Officers have disregarded members’ political wishes. Members’ support for me has been almost universal.” He predicted the ombudsman would refuse to take up the case and expressed dismay that mediation had not been instigated.

Link Local Government Chronicle