Stormrider, personally I'd remove your last as being a bit too close to slander
A statement is only slander if untrue.
So I wouldn't worry too much.
The great Mike Robertson (Trago Mills) wrote about Restormel Council frequently in terms much more explicit and perjorative than in this thread, in a paragraph at the top of Trago's full-page adverts. We miss his missives deeply. His bete noir was the Restormel Planning Department which was notoriously corrupt, and probably still is. Somehow they never thought a case against him would be worthwhile; see the sentence above, ending "if untrue". Mike knew where the skeletons were buried, and the Council knew he knew.
In contrast, Cornwall CC is probably simply totally incompetent rather than crooked, ignoring the daily, endemic minor corruption in all Local Authorities, and has joined a large number of Councils in finding out that paying huge salaries, bonuses and, eventually of course large pay-offs for failure, to recycled time-servers in senior positions from other Local Authorities achieves nothing except a waste of shed-loads of ratepayers' funds.