Cllr Gordon Gillick (UKIP, Waldersey) told Cambridgeshire County Council on the 25th of March 2014, which was debating filming council meetings, that as a member of Equity he would need to be paid if he was to be filmed as well as claiming councillors would need lights, make-up, multiple cameras and professional camera operators.
Cllr Gillick went on to vote against live streaming council meetings on the internet, and against publishing councillors’ voting records online.
4 responses to “Lights, Make-up and Extra Pay Required if Councillors to Be Filmed”
So brilliant to watch this chap claim you’d need four cameras, and lighting (“for certain”) in front of, er, one camera, without lights. And to watch it so perfectly clearly.
Still, at least these people aren’t making important decisions which concern us all.
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As a new but active UKIP member all I would say is that the sooner UKIP get decent personality profiling in the better. So embarrassing.
Does this guy not believe in open and transparent processes ?
Apparently he considers children in care as “takers from society”. I would suggest he looks at his own record having produced 10 children thus irresponsibly over-populating the country. The Victorians had excuses – high child mortality, no pensions, and no contraceptives. I wonder whathis excuse was.
Presumably it didn’t take 4 cameramen, a lighting or make-up crew to film Cllr Gillick in this instance? The point of the change in law is that members of the public may film however they like, as long as it doesn’t disrupt proceedings – he seems to miss that point completely. We’ve had a situation only slightly less ridiculous in Portsmouth, where it was attempted twice to stop members of the public tweeting commentary during full council meetings – happily, drawing the City Solicitor’s attention to the changes in DCLG guidance and the law has sorted this nonsense out.
Cllr Gillick (UKIP, Waldersey) approached me in the public seating just before the Cambridgeshire County Council highways committee on the 14th of March 2017; he told me he would bill me for filming him and that filming him takes his soul away: