IF YOU REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH IT BECOMES THE TRUTH!

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State”

Background

Deloitte produced the report featured in this article in 2013 for the Labour Group’s management period of the Councils partner companies. Once accepted by Council in early 2014, the Head of the Internal Audit Partnership, Allison Mitchell, managed the processes for the full group of companies and the Council..

Process
The process in line with the featured report meant that ARCH’s audit committee team, Councillors, Peter Jackson, Jeff Reid and Grant Davey were guided through the agreed process by the Head of the Internal Audit Partnership, for almost four years.

Assurance
The report being put to the Councils Audit Committee led by the Berwick Terrier Georgina Hill, has singled out a number of happenings and events that have been poisonously denigrated on social media and run out by the Tory edited Times Newspaper, nothing new is being put out by the Head of the Internal Audit Partnership.  

Were sure that the ARCH Audit Committee members are at this moment in time asking why did she not tell them if she thought the processes were wrong and as none of the actions by the board of ARCH are unlawful why write a report that is so damaging to her own reputation and let people who have no shame or self control manage the report in public?

Comment

The head of the internal audit partnership is the internal auditor for the Council and its Groups of Companies and had adequate opportunity to comment and have those comments published with the annual accounts of ARCH and Advance, that opportunity wasn’t taken.

Councillors are democratically elected to follow the guidance of officers in making democratic decisions. As their decisions weren’t challenged by the professionals running the service one has to ask why wait almost two years to inform the public?