The department which
is headed up by an interesting character who flits between the NHS, Arch and
the Council picking up huge swathes of public cash from NHS, Arch and the
Council. She's called Allison Joynson. Some of you may remember her from her
role as 'chief' of the Tory campaign to make sure middle class parents kept
their children's travel perks otherwise known as post 16 transport. Her
prominent role in that highly partisan attack on the county council obviously
brought her to the attention of Tory talent spotters Peter and Daljit. Or as
they are now know 'the co-defendants'.
Allison can be seen
here
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/post-16-transport-row-continues-after-7686644
It's a good job Labour
didn't persecute people for their political views isn't it dear reader?
So back to Allison.
She's known as a bit of an 'Arch privatiser' in NHS circles as you can see here
https://www.events.trade.gov.uk/health-and-care-innovation-expo-2016/expert/allison-joynson/
She's keen to export the NHS to China but a little less keen to keep doctors surgeries open in Blyth like the Collingwood surgery.
Alison was drafted in
to 'oversee Arch' (all the while working for the council and the NHS) and we
don't know where she found the time to set up three very expensive
investigations into Arch.
We presume she was
helped by her BFF, Ms Lally, another NHS 'entrepreneur' who seems to like to
chase the 'dollar across the world' with her dual NHS/NCC hat on.
Maybe both of them
want to tell the public how much their 'travels around the world cost'?
Alison (and Daljit)
drafted in private investigators who have carried out 'exhaustive'
investigations in Arch and across the council into individuals and, what seems
like imagined political opponents of Chair of Arch, Cllr 'Mouth of Wear'.
All we can find of the
private investigator's work is ……… NOTHING. Despite questions we can find no
evidence of any work carried out. We wonder who on the Board of Arch has seen
anything produced through this 'secretive contract' awarded under 'secretive
circumstances'?
Maybe the 'Queen of
Transparency' at Audit could have a look at that contract?
Back to Allison (who
is also listed as Deputy CEO at NCC) and her role at Arch. It's shrouded in
secrecy but a basic company check shows some interesting questions which she
may wish to answer about her interests outside ARCH/NHS/NCC.
She was a director in
her husbands company, Associate Designs which lists 'development of building
projects and construction of commercial buildings'
She resigned from the
business officially on 16 April 2017, three whole weeks before the election
that saw the 'co-defendants' and Cllr 'Mouth of Wear' take the reins of council
and Arch.
Even though she
resigned from the company, we wonder whether she declared her husbands
interests in a company which was involved in the same construction arena as
Arch?
Maybe she declared it,
maybe she didn't but it's another reasonable question given the controversy she
orchestrated, along with Cllr 'Mouth of Wear', her Chair and fellow
entrepreneur, her BFF, Ms Lally and the other 'co-defendant', Cllr Jackson, the
'Member for the Isle of Man'.
Maybe she declared it
in the same way as Cllr 'Mouth of Wear' declared his property development
interests in North Tyneside where he stopped Arch from developing a project
which would have netted over £4m for the Northumberland tax payer in Howdon?
We agree the governance
problems at Arch are worth looking at very closely indeed particularly since 4
May 2017.
So, dear reader, we'd
like you to have a look at this picture and see if you can get NCC to explain
how much cash will flow back to the council tax payer from a deal with Chinese
property developers. Or to put it another way, why would property developers
from China be interested in Northumberland without a core strategy and no power
for neighbourhood plans?
We'll finish with an extract from Allison's own words when she was fronting 'Parents Against Decision to Scrap the Post-16 School Transport action group when she said she 'would be making a formal complaint to the council and the Local Government Ombudsman over misleading information'.
We wonder if she'll
now consider the irony of her threats to the council when she heads a 'ghost
department' which the council refuses to confirm exists, overseeing 3 'secret
investigations' in Arch costing a huge amount (we'd know how much if the
council would release the Arch accounts for the first full year of Tory
trading), jetting around the world while orchestrating a campaign against Arch
and it's justified business generating trips to Cannes and other MIPIM events
and we wonder if she'll be thinking of that old chestnut from right wing poster
boy George Osbourne 'we're all in it together'?
This is an open
question from the newly formed 'VOTERS AGAINST DECISIONS TO WASTE MILLIONS ON
TORY PARTY POLITICAL ATTACKS' -
When do we get the
'independent enquiry into the decisions taken by the 'co-defendants' since May
2017?
A guide and nicknames
of those mentioned
Allison Joynson -
Alison Joynson
Daljit Lally -
co-defendant - she's being sued for misfeasance in public office.
Peter Jackson -
co-defendant - He'll be in the same court room.
Richard 'Mouth
of Wear' Wearmouth - self explanatory but he really does like Sunderland
City Council.
Georgina 'the Queen of
Transparency' Hill - she's also known as the 'co-conspirator' and the woman who
refused £19m for Berwick
Not mentioned in this
article but also part of the 'co-conspirator clan'
Nick Oliver - Cabinet
member for Corporate Affairs - 'the last man in the bunker' or the man who put
the bent into Bentley
The rest of the Tory
group - 'the useful idiots' or 'the lemmings' or the 'poor man's version of the
Titanic orchestra.
Bedlington
Independents - see above plus 'we've sold out our town, what are we going to do
to deflect' or 'Robbo's 'raiders'
