Commissioners looking, but at whom?

According to well informed social media pages and sites from the North and West of Northumberland a Government Commissioner, one Max Caller is in at County Hall in Morpeth but who is he investigating in a Commissioning sense; Officers, dysfunctional Councillors or both?

Commissioner Caller is well quoted in the recent sacking of Ms Josie Wragg the Chief Executive of Labour controlled Slough Borough Council for gross misconduct after the Council missed its targets, failed the public and became completely dysfunctional after her plans to correct matters failed.

His talents of sorting the wheat from the chaff is why he has landed at Loansdean in Morpeth to try to find out why the massive Unitary Conservative led authority is hemorrhaging cash through compensation and lawsuits, lost an internationally renowned external auditor, has a dysfunctional administration split into three distinct Tory groups, lost or paid off a myriad of officers and is paying temporary staff enormous sums, housing them in 5* hotels and paying first class travel and flights to try to bring some sort of democracy and openness into an arena akin to Gladiatorial Rome.

It's become a Council which has not achieved best value for its residents for the last five accounting periods with communications closed and so tightly managed that  Councillors from Tory splinter groups, the Labour opposition group and the very opinionated independent alliance are issued confidential papers at Council meetings in which £millions are spent  and given only ten minutes to absorb the detailed data and then asked to vote on the content. Its not only a sign of dysfunctionality, it may be a method used to cover up corruption.

Mr Caller's commission will have to look at why the Council's Chief Executive is allegedly suing the Council for bullying and why the Conservative administration rewrote the Council's Constitution in 2017, in the name of Councillor Oliver of Corbridge, which halved the number of Council meetings, removed the right to appeal 'Regal' decision making by Council Leaders and Deputies, closed down democratic accountability, left open debate with trade unions at a third tier officer level and allowed Councillors to write their own reports that were then presented as evidence to its audit committee then backed up by official releases to the press.

Therefore we here at murky believe that our first question in this article is correct and we need to know if the Commissioner is here to sack officers or dysfunctional
Councillors?