April was a dramatic month for Barnet Borough Council after the authority was likened to a soap opera.

The leader of Barnet’s Labour group claimed one Tory councillor was “not fit for office” after it was revealed he made derogatory comments about “benefit claiming scum”, lesbians, black people and disabled people on Facebook.

Councillor Tom Davey made the statements on the social networking site in 2008 and 2009, but they came to light in the month before the election.

Labour leader Councillor Alison Moore said the comments were “totally unacceptable”.

On her own side of the council chamber, Labour Councillor Kath McGuirk was reported to the police over accusations she voted “inappropriately” in a budget meeting.

Cllr McGuirk was accused of breaching the Local Government and Finance Act as she was in council tax arrears – although this was later found to be a misunderstanding.

In Mill Hill, campaigners vowed to block plans to build a giant mausoleum on a patch of green belt land near a rural village road.

Proposals to build the country’s first multi-faith mausoleum next to the Westminster Cemetery in Mielspit Hill, were submitted to Barnet Borough Council.

But at the end of the month, GLA member for Barnet Andrew Dismore, who had been campaigning against the mausoleum, announced they had been scrapped at the eleventh hour.

After the announcement, campaigners vowed to fight for every scrap of greenbelt left.

Also this month, campaigners carried out a survey in the hope it would prove once and for all that there was demand for a bus route to take patients to the door of Finchley Memorial Hospital.

The Finchley Society and the Friends of Finchley Memorial Hospital asked patients how they travelled to the Granville Road Hospital and whether they would benefit for a bus route to take them directly to the entrance.