Nick’s back! wearing another ‘cheap watch’

 

Councillor Nick Oliver was Northumberland’s finance portfolio holder and cabinet member for all things financial at Northumberland County Council from 2017- 2021.

His antics including accusations of looking after his family businesses at the Council Taxpayers expense are well documented and this blog asked on a number of occasions why he as the finance bod for the Council was allowed to sit in at every audit committee meeting when it was his department that was being scrutinised and about him writing his own reports, presenting them to the audit committee for ratification and then using those false reports to attack opposition councillors on a regular and ongoing basis.

But his most recent spin is galling to say the least, he has come out in Conservative Home with a tale that is beyond belief even for him regarding the anomalies of the International s
ection of the Council and its trusted partner Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust after it has been subject to scrutiny by a Government Commissioner acting as a consultant to Northumberland Tories to tell the world 'It's got nothing to do with me mister it was all those other’s honest’.

Unbelievable and the MP for Blyth, Oliver’s new boss, Ian Levy should have this story investigated in its own right as it looks to us that it's certainly a ‘cheap watch’ tale from a man whose history is packed with them.

We urge all of our readers to click on the link below and ask yourself ‘how can the portfolio holder of a council not be watching the work of partnerships signed off by his own team of which he was a top bod and managed by the Chief Officer his Group employed in that position?”

We can smell it from here!

https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2022/06/harry-fone-a-warning-from-northumberland-of-the-lack-of-spending-transparency.html