“he is nothing but a common thief and con artist.”

“West Wales Spy or West Wales suck up?”

“Councillor John Jenkins opinion that county council meetings are "stuffy" seriously brings into question his suitability to represent the constituents of Elli ward; not only has his attendance of 15 meetings in the past year cost nearly £1000 per visit, but on 13th May he failed to attend a crucial monthly meeting discussing the East Gate Development - Llanelli town's regeneration project. Why did he stand for council if he was not prepared to give up other employment in order to fulfil his basic role as councillor? He should stand down!”

“reject nimys llanelli

i would disagree, how can you say that attending meetings can do nothing to improve your ward? take a look at the county council minutes for 13th may 2009


item 21 the full council discussed the regeneration of the llanelli town centre, and guess what there was no sign of john jenkins at that meeting

surely as a llanelli town councillor and mayor of councillor he should have been there to represent the people of the town and ward, there was a recorded vote of the decision and john's name doesn't appear in the minutes”

“People are elected to represent their ward and do right by them. Anyone who knows how council's work would see that attending much of the meetings does nothing to improve your ward. You cannot also compare backbench councillors to executive board members who attend huge numbers of meetings because it comes with the turf. Perhaps the councils in order to encourage more candidates who work rather than old fogies who live to attend meetings, should consider changing the times of meetings so that people who work can get there. Let's have some common sense and allow our representative to get evening meetings. I'm sure the attendance would improve then...but of course all the people are retired, it would interrupt their days.”

“This story is not a slur but the plain Truth, this councillor is only looking after his own interest , he is claiming what he can from us the tax payers. for not doing what he was voted in for, to look after us in attending council meetings, Not just 15. So the Papers are right to print this story.”

“J.J- West wales Spy...? Llanelli , what a load of Rubbish. if this councillor is so good why his he never in council meetings and yet has the cheek to say he is hard working , The only hardest-working councillor we have in Llanelli is getting his name /photo in the Local press. there are 10 county councillors for the Town. but since he works near the press office , he gets a lot of write ups .Full Stop”

“I wonder how many local authority workers receive less than this for a full years work?”

“This is a classic case of 'spinning a story' to have a pop at a hard-working town and county councillor. The 'media' get all shirty at what they perceive as council spin. But they are quite happy to take a few statistics and spin their own misleading web. This story is a slur on one of the hardest-working councillors we have in Llanelli. His constituents know what a genuine guy he is. We could do without this mud-slinging style of reporting.”

“Councillor Jenkins did not claim any travelling or subsistence expenses - Well how can this person say that. He is not attending meetings to claim any Travel or food allowance's,”