Thursday, 21 March 2019

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?


Tuesday, 5 March 2019

The Siege of Hexham 2019



Designed by Tories, Delivered by Tories, with the Full Help of a Tory Government
Today is a day to go down in history, when a Town that believes it sits in the heart of the UK becomes fully dependent on Chris Graylings expensive rail travel as its Tory MP, Tory Council and Tory Government have had it cut off by road from the rest of society.

Its often been said that the Tory’s in Northumberland couldn’t organise a P**$ up and today is proof that those soothsayers are correct in their judgements, as the A69 is blocked with traffic from Brockbushes roundabout to Haydon Bridge, cutting off the Abbey town of Hexham to both commerce and visitors alike and will be like that until the middle of the summer.

This latest ‘road improvement’ scheme has been planned for a number of years, with Highways England being its prime sponsor. The Local MP Guy Opperman has waxed lyrical on many occasions as to the benefits this laughable ‘road improvement’ scheme will bring to the Hexham area.

But the nub of the problem may be that lack of control or is it ability to organise a prime scheme anywhere in the County, which lies with the Leader of Council, Peter Jackson and his portfolio holder for highways and local services Cllr Glenn Sanderson, both rich farmers who must have a great knowledge of engineering on a major highway.

Glenn may have a bit of an excuse as his master, the Council Leader is trying to cut the terms and conditions of his staff. Its been said by wags that its in order to bank more cash to design an even greater number of road improvement schemes to go wrong. He should consider his position after this debacle.

Well if your sitting in the traffic on the A69 over the next few months remember that once the staffs pay gets cut you may be asked to donate to food banks in Hexham as the cost of rail transport to the heart of all England to feed a population under siege will be much higher than if they had left this highway alone in the first place.


Monday, 25 February 2019

Tories attempting to Mainstream Fake News Team

With the Tories ‘Secret Council’ exposed on television this week by the outgoing Leader of Northumberland Labour Group Grant Davey, over them holding what they describe in the report as an ‘informal cabinet’ where the Tories agreed to slash the terms and conditions of their workforce, kill off the single status agreement and remove the Trade Unions and their members from national pay bargaining.

This almost ‘STAZI’ like activity took place whilst at the same time putting huge wage hikes into their budget for top staff, raising top staff pay levels well above those the Tory Leader of Council, Peter Jackson, complained about in 2015 in his half famous ‘footballers wages’ speech.

To cover over this ‘secret activity’ and to direct staff minds away from the dreadful cuts they are facing, we expect the Council to spin out ever more fake news surrounding ARCH in the next few weeks. As usual they will pump it through Georgina Hills ‘Toxic’ audit committee probably justifying it with a report from the man described in a recent bullying tribunal case as the Councils ‘Hired Gun’ Steve Crosland of Crosland Consulting who in an attempt to mainstream his activities has been made a Director of the Councils arms length company Active Northumberland. He reports directly to the Deputy Chief Executive of the Council Kelly Angus, number two in the STAZI and HR Director of the Council responsible for staff pay and conditions.

In order to ensure that the Council can support the ‘Wayne Daley’ plan to ‘gift £80M of public money to schools who have left the Council education system and academised themselves on into the private sector’; The workforce will be made to pay to cover up the Tories messy budget and medium term financial plan along with paying the massive legal bills the Council is running up to protect its Chief Executive and others from exposure to the myriad of bullying cases the Council is locked into. The Council employs more than 6500 staff covered by the single status agreement and the terms and conditions cuts will permeate through into lower spend in the local economy over the next two years, making businesses also suffer the consequences of these dreadful and possibly unlawful decisions by Northumberland Conservatives.




Sunday, 24 February 2019

Is Northumberland County Council 2019/20 Budget Lawful?

On Wednesday 20th February 2019 Northumberland County Council went through its annual budget process.

The full Council in Northumberland, a Tory led local authority sat in front of the very bad tempered on the day Chairperson, Councillor Richard Dodd, who bragged about his constitutional knowledge to everyone sat in front of him with the Councils chief executive sat beside him, Mrs Dalit Lally CBE. (Its on you tube link below)

At the meeting, Northumberland Labour Group pushed forward a number of amendments to safeguard the poor, protect the disabled and halt the attacks on their heartlands of Blyth and Ashington, whose fragile economies will be hacked downwards by the Tories scarification of deprived families incomes who dare to claim Council tax benefit, extending the Tories national attacks on the poor into Northumberland’s most deprived communities.

A number of Labour’s amendments were ruled out of order with the reason that Mrs Lally’s Officers hadn’t had time to crucify them and add them to the spiked haemorrhoid of unacceptable to her and her political allies, the Tories policies.

Labour amendments and motions were designed to improve people’s lives in Northumberland, they failed to make the political cut in the Tory mantra they were designed to do through the application of constitutional process by the chair and his political advisers blanketing him on the day.

Two of Labours motions had to be heard, even the twisty use of the rules of debate couldn’t halt them and in front of those who seem to know and brag that they do, the constitution and the law surrounding local government, inside out, the Leader of Council, the millionaire farmer, Councillor Peter Jackson said the council should put two amendments together and vote on them.

That process took place and the Tories and their Bedlington Independent allies voted the joint motion which was not composited by the motions movers from the Labour Group down. They then accepted a motion from one of their own team as an amendment and moved to vote on the substantive motion.

Ugh ugh. That process is completely outside of the Councils constitution and should not have occurred. The Councils chief executive, chairperson, legal advisor and section 151 officer allowed this flawed process to take place, all amendments have to heard individually.

So it’s now down to the Councils External Auditor EY to rule on this anomaly and tell the public and the Council taxpayers of Northumberland if their budget is lawful or if the Leader of Council and chief executive should resign over this debacle?



#callanotherbudgetcouncil

#stopthebullies














Thursday, 14 February 2019

Sunday Times ran a short article on how ‘dirty money


On 10/02/2019 the Sunday Times ran a short article on how ‘dirty money’ from Russian and Eastern European oligarchs cash is being paid into Tory Central Office.

Its long been known that its then distributed through the veins of the Tory ‘hole in the wall’ system by regional chairmen and out to Branches and beyond to pay for the fight against ‘socialism’.

n Northumberland in particular is closely linked with the Berwick MP Anne Marie Trevelyan exposed by the Labour Party in North Northumberland and the cudgel taken up by the local press. https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/mp-responds-to-50-000-election-donation-claims-1-9124219  She denied any involvement of course.

The well known bullying Tories in Northumberland seem to have lost some of the close links they traditionally had with Conservatives on the ground who religiously supported them both financially and physically. As that support has dwindled through the permanent attacks and vitriol poured out on social media by the likes of the Northumberland Murky Blogspot and other sites, the right wing masters of spin have now become ever more reliant on running with the political big boys who will want payment back.

The Chairman of the North East Conservatives is one Richard Wearmouth a leading Northumberland Councillor and an energy trader, owning a large number of companies in that field. He is also the Chairman of ex-ARCH company Advance Northumberland the developer of the massive Energy Central business park which is wrapped around the river Blyth in Northumberland and is expected to be the panacea that drives up employment in one of Britains worst unemployment blackspots. It was a brilliant Labour Party idea that took off in the eyes of regional businessmen and led to a cable being laid from Norway into the Blyth Estuary to power up the region. This 2016 video explains some of whats going on. https://youtu.be/6tg8ULvctOE unfortunately the idea is now stolen by the bully boy Tories with whom payback arrangements from those who’ve made an investment will have to be arranged.

Energy trader Councillor Wearmouth wearing one of his other hats as Chairman of the NE Conservatives and his distribution, or is it doling of funds is well documented. It comes in from Central Office and he then looks after his many tentacles by honouring them with a regular shower of cash. Berwick seems to be a popular place to offload the moolah, now we wonder which Murky person gets his support from that neck of the dark woods?









Sunday, 10 February 2019

Northumberland’s Hidden Directors Where are they?

As Northumberland with its partners City of Newcastle and North Tyneside’s populations move towards electing a mayor, we thought it was probably time to check out who’s steering the ship across the County, the North of Tyne’s largest partner, in the absence of a number of top officers rumoured to be in hiding from harassment by the current Tory administration

Its been brought to our attention that the top director from Northumberland Geoff Paul, the man who did all of the slog to ensure that the North of Tyne mayoral combined authority got off the ground, has been bullied out of his post and is taking a tribunal case against the Council. He's just one of several we know of.

The Northumberland rumour mill grinds on with whispers that the Deputy CEX of Northumberland finds himself in the same plight, the Finance Director Barry Scarr is off work with depression following a very commonly known (even among roadworkers and gardeners) argument with the centre of Northumberland’s messy steerage, part time very well paid CEX Mrs Daljit Lally.

Further more as rumour millers know there’s even more strange news, that Mrs Lally Daughter has secured a good job with a car in the department which last year her mum received a £34K bonus for travelling abroad for, the hidden from view ‘International Department’. Are these stories linked in some way?

There may be a simple explanation; her daughter may have been the best at interview. But then again I suppose you can’t climb the ladder of success if you keep your hands in your pockets.


Sunday, 2 December 2018

Is it a UK pandemic or a ‘silent war’?

Gordon Brown, probably Britain’s best ever Chancellor, has written a number of articles about the ‘May’ effect. Although he doesn’t preach unrealistic socialism, his actions as this nations former leading political expert on finance and treasury matters illustrate his true colours. When we look at the policy changes he made to equalise society both post Tory and pre Tory particularly when following on from Thatcher and her continuing cohorts, who sold Britain and offshored the well paid jobs of millions, began the loads-a-money society fuelled by massive interest payments being made by those who were persuaded renting was bad and home ownership was an aspiration you must turn into reality even if your family suffered. The secret cover up was of course the beginnings of a social eugenic program backed up by The Daily Mail and the Sun who spewed out dogma on a daily basis which went on eventually powering the anti migrant clamor that drove the Brexit result.

The transfer of Britain’s wealth to the then top 7% who were to become the mega rich was the playing field Gordon Brown stepped onto. He rolled up his sleeves and got to work; overhauled the welfare state, protecting the most exposed and vulnerable which in turn protected local businesses that had survived the nations super-drive and reliance on market forces. Pensioners were protected through the ‘triple lock’, young people enjoyed the educational maintenance allowance. Families weren’t confined to only being able to feed two children receiving child support for each and every child, along with the protection of the disabled through a fully open scheme managing the disability living allowance.

Almost a decade on, ‘May’s’ Tories are waging war on the civil rights of families, young people, the disabled, pensioners and children under the cover of Brexit, fully supported by the local Conservative branches, drawing in on their wider support mechanisms, with organisations such as the WI who once helped those in need, now being seen as the Commandos of the political right. The BBC a public corporation is currently consulting on behalf of May's Government on the removal of the elderly persons free tv license.

In Northumberland the ‘Secret Tory Council’ are dealing with the prime fundamental from their right wing core, how to keep up the pretence of being a caring organisation whilst politically supporting Duncan Smiths war on the poor.

The answer of course is to hand the poor over to the Citizens Advice Bureau and then it’s not their fault.

At a recent West area council meeting CAB revealed they have been swamped by people from Prudhoe who are suffering financial problems and that’s before the roll out of Universal Credit and the further degradation of business on our high streets who rely on any surplus cash from local people being put through their tills.

The Tories of course are making a definite attempt to draw in more people into their controlled society in rural areas by two-tiering education against the wishes of their prime support. Is this an experiment in eugenics to see if society who feel helpless and alone will doff their caps and carry on regardless or will they organise a fightback and dismiss their controllers?.

The secret council have of course replaced up to date information on the council's web site regarding deprivation with info from 2015 to cover their tracks.

In 2017, Gordon Brown in the run up to the snap election, predicted Mays deprivation figures that were criticised by the United Nations recently.

I hope those who read this take notice and don’t remain silent.

Notes to editors:

Thanks to Mr Hudspeth for this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1iIYUouS4E&t=9s

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