COUNTY council chairman Tim Hallchurch was on fine form at Tuesday’s full council meeting.

Councillors must have left wondering if there was anything which went right after the meeting collapsed into shambles at several points.

First, Mr Hallchurch checked 18 fictitious pages of minutes from a previous meeting, asking councillors to sign off on 28 when there were only 10.

Then he proceeded to overlook councillors as they made desperate bids to speak at the meeting, with protestations heard from Lib Dem Zoe Patrick, Tory Neil Owen and fellow Conservative Catherine Fulljames, who has herself been chairman before.

If this performance is repeated at future meetings, we can expect the councillors to start making up their own rules... and carnage will ensue.

IN the same meeting, discussions about whether councillors should continue to be CRB checked got very weird.

Kieron Mallon joked about CRB checks not having a big impact because “it only matters if you get caught”.

The council clearly didn’t have a problem with what his CRB check must have thrown up after every election since 2001, when he was convicted of assaulting two teenagers.

Many of us will remember when Mr Mallon pleaded self-defence after he punched one of the boys and forced the other to the ground.

Mr Mallon claimed they had made rude gestures and thrown a snowball at his house.

He survived as a councillor, but the ordeal came back to bite him last year when it forced him out of the race to be the Thames Valley’s first Police and Crime Commissioner.

NO ONE was as surprised as we were when Labour and the Tories joined forces to back a motion at County Hall on Tuesday.

Veteran councillor Charles Mathew forced the issue of home to school transport back onto the table with the motion, which also called on the council to review “all expenditure” in its bid to find £60m of extra savings.

Forgive us for being a bit naive, but isn’t that what the council does every year in its budget-setting progress? Maybe Labour backed the motion because they noticed it stated the bleedin’ obvious, or maybe they backed it because they have admitted they don’t actually oppose the principle of charging for school transport, and didn’t want to risk being seen to be flip-flopping?

AND Witney MP and PM David Cameron has enjoyed yet another Blair moment. Not only was he hailed as Tony Mark Two in his bid to bomb Syria, but now he’s got the glasses to match.

Many remember the questions about our former PM’s health when he first wore glasses to Prime Minister’s Questions in 2000.

Mr C is already a divisive figure but let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope he doesn’t repeat any of Mr Blair’s more serious mistakes.