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“Well, it’s not a good look, it’s actually a lot worse than a bad look,” Miles said Friday.
Thompson made stunning admissions current affair, saying he could not recall being tried and fined $500 for attempted fraud and forgery in 2008.
“I don’t know anything about it. I’ll be honest,” he said A current affair.
The mayor also blamed his failing memory for misleading voters about his army record – after claiming before the election that he “spent five years in the army in Perth”.
The files now show he completed a two-week recruit course, an army reservist cookery course in 1991 and that he was not in the SAS.
What the mayor was able to remember was the reason he deleted two university degrees from his LinkedIn page – because he never completed them.
Although during the election campaign he claimed to have graduated from business.
The Prime Minister says the mayor should stand down as multiple investigations are underway, including by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
“I think it’s in the best interests of Townsville that they have a mayor who hasn’t lied to them,” Miles said.
However, in a statement released Friday, Troy Thompson said he has “no intention of retiring, as some of the naysayers would like.”
Townsville councilors have also called on him to resign – ensuring the row is far from over.
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