NORTHUMBERLANDS BIGGEST ‘RED RISK’

 Chair of Audit puts up with 31K?

31K, the man who didn’t bother to pay his companies business rates for two years on two different properties in Northumberland then got his mates to write off his debt, his dreadful tactics have now been exposed by the press.

Although he has used the same tactics steadily for almost the last four years since becoming the financial portfolio holder of Northumberland County Council, Councillor Nick Oliver, from Corbridge has centred his concentration solely on technique. This mind convergence shows that his prime interest is in covering his own back which has openly exposed his lack of accountancy skills as he has failed to have the Councils accounts accepted by external auditors for the delivery of Best Value on three occasions and is rapidly moving to a record fourth failure.

Along with his notoriety in local government for hopelessness in business he is of course one of the Councillors involved with the professional investigations into Bullying, Racism, Corruption and dodgy land dealings is also accused outside of these legal and audit investigations of spinning lies via reports written in his own name and not that of Council Officers who wouldn’t touch his stuff through the Councils Audit Committee to fein the truth of their contents and have these damaging fairy tales run out in the press.

The Council in the shape of its legal department should have stopped his antics and as in all other Councils he should not be allowed to attend the Audit Committee, which looks at the process of his department until asked to present his annual report to that committee. 

His antics and tactics at the Audit Committee are abysmal as he is a very vocal politician who spins the subject matter away from anything which detracts from his agenda and we here at Murky fear he is pressuring and bullying the Chair of Audit and officers in charge of the protocol of his work and were sure the investigations will find him out. This Councillor is unprecedented in forcing out at great cost to the ratepayer four financial directors in three years. A disgrace for any Councillor.

At the December meeting of the Councils Audit Committee the local democracy reporter centred his news story on the spin away from the subject at hand by Councillor Oliver and how another member of his Party, Councillor Swinburn tried to bring the debate back on track, but unfortunately the non independent, independent person on the committee halted the return to business.

May 2021 looms shortly and the local government elections should find this man out who is the epitome of his Government in office and their support for the corrupt. He is not only a massive ‘red risk’ to the Council he is a devil incarnate at a local level with access to taxpayers cash.

His attitude is one of the reasons you should never trust a Tory.

 

Northumbria NHS Areas Ready to Administer Oxford Vaccine

Mrs Dajit Lally the understandably under pressure part time Chief Executive of Northumberland County Council where investigations into leaked emails to Councillors and evidence is being sifted through by teams of both lawyers and auditors, has shown her mettle through this period and has the local NHS ready to deliver the about to be approved Oxford vaccine as soon as its available.

She and the team under her control at the other half of her job in the NHS have rounded up a huge number of volunteers and rescheduled work rosters to ensure the vaccine is delivered in record time to the residents of Northumberland and North Tyneside.

We here at Murky have been made aware through our community contacts that Community Centres and Village Halls County wide and across the more urban North Tyneside are being put on standby to be used as centres to deliver the new inoculation's from.

On a wider note on the same subject the NHS are considering extending the time period between the two injections required to ensure the virus is beaten back in an attempt to cover the whole population with a first round inoculation by Easter 2021.

Rumour has it that Northumberland Conservatives are seething at the prospect of Mrs Lally delivering the goods on this program as their infighting at County Hall gets nearer to self destruction as the investigations into their antics hot up and the local government elections 2021 get ever closer.

Conservid 19 The fourth mutation keeping Priti ‘Ahead of the Curve’

 The news that the Tory Party has been challenged to investigate its policy of lying and saying the first thing that comes into your head released by Party activists last week and published in the press proves that numerous Tories are infected with this new virus mutation, now known as Conservid 19.

The actions of the Tory Party since February 2020 has been  confirmed and proven probably by the Home Secretary’s special advisor that the unique virus infecting onlyTories which they have no resistance to giving them delusions of ultimate power and undying belief in controlling the public’s tears through tiers!

So what delusion has Conservid 19 brought to the frontal lobes of the Home Secretary and her friends? Lets look at some of the ahead of the curve matters.

Don’t close down the City of London into tier three or four until the trading floor of the stock exchange has run down for xmas.

Leave the safeguarding of thousands of Lorry Drivers to the Salvation Army and volunteers risking disease outbreaks over and above the pandemic as only one WC has been supplied at the giant lorry park the Conservid 19 sufferers have been boasting about since March 2020.

 U-turn everywhere but on the roads into Kent.

Never listen to Local Council Leaders and Mayors or other member states of the United Kingdom as Conservid 19 causes the brain to thicken to a level where all shame is underwritten by the released Tory party policy of ensuring you lie and back it up by saying the first thing that comes into your head.

Don’t bother combing your hair before appearing in front of millions of TV Viewers is a known secondary by product of the latest virus mutation.

The Conservid 19 infected refuse to take responsibility for bullying your subordinates and those under your care, yet expecting and accepting a pardon from your boss.

Ensure friends are given top jobs during the Pandemic and showing no shame in what is a giant ‘Red Risk’.

Considering those friends interests even when scientists tell you otherwise and ensure the original pandemic virus which can be caught by everyone, is spread nationwide by ensuring the spectacle of Cheltenham raced the pandemic on its way.

Using pals as agents to provide dodgy PPE is a well illustrated symptom of Conservid 19 but the sweaty and temperature raising needs to fill the pockets of your mates with guaranteed cash while trading in stock and shares is slightly more dangerous for their pocket linings is classic among Conservid 19 sufferers.

The little problem we have as non-scientific reporters here at Murky is that locally in Northumberland we can prove that Conservid 19 has been rabid and spreading since May 2017 and every sufferer has the same beliefs as their Home Secretary that they are well “ahead of the curve” (NOT) and only the pockets of other sufferers are looked after to the detriment of those they are meant to serve!

But we are sure that non sufferers of Conservid 19 will through linked comments will list many more items of proof that Conservid 19 is fully alive and kicking.

News that Tories can ‘officially lie’ in the forthcoming election campaigns is leaked by Huffington Post! So everything else was an unofficial lie?

 What a Government and local County Council we have in Northumberland with these Tories in charge.

This week we have the public seeing at last the news we have been pushing through the Real Northumberland Murky for the last couple of years, That the Tories lie on every matter at all times.

Our team has been ever so nice in calling lies, ‘spin’ but were ever so pleased that at last a national public media giant has joined us in condemning the liars at every turn.

In Northumberland their lies have shown up and let down the reputation of the Council and we believe they have made the officers they are supposed to have a duty of care to protect feel completely and utterly let down as do Councillors from other parties and colours who have had stories told about this improvement and that infrastructure project around where they live and when the time comes to deliver they are left with sand in their hands and eyes.

Interestingly the reporter who has released this information is from the North and has done some excellent investigation and reports in the Newcastle Journal and Chronicle, it's certainly worth a read.

 

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/tory-leaflet-fake-news-openly-lie_uk_5fd9f679c5b62f31c201f7dc/?__twitter_impression=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL20uZmFjZWJvb2suY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIzkWAI9PRFKFg75JqO13rPO9r4mkXfPDbmC7BPv6gKQsSmy4ddlaq5QzEVvgY1uFzedWxx9T5a1uSFryVWJV8w5Si9-vNxoTIZhTc3U7CUnshjBG1EvZX8BCRsYIq6pM5ALzPWv7PbIck4WprMZoxZZ6jV3easFOhf7Vmxsv_rI

 

Pull Back from polishing roads to farms Glen and get your manifesto promise to fill all the potholes started!

In the run up to the Local Government elections 2017, the Tories ran a successful campaign regarding the potholes in highways across the County of Northumberland stating on social media it was because Labour were fixated on delivering the ‘Local Transport Plan’ to the detriment of potholes across the County.

Councillor Glen Sanderson the current leader of Council was given the job of portfolio holder for Local Services to deliver this manifesto promise.

After May 2017 following a major shift in emphasis and policy in order to become a top secret organisation, the public were denied access to the reporting list for highways repairs and progress on the delivery of the Local Transport Plan on the Councils website in order that criticism of any failings was reduced.

The residents of the County were slightly slow in noticing the changes but gradually through the process of sickening off your public by ignoring their plight, people turned to the Government sponsored web reporting system, https://www.fixmystreet.com/

in order that they could ensure when enquiring and setting the biggest questions in Local Government of ‘WHY have I waited so long and WHEN’ will my report be dealt with, they have a report that they can access and refer back too.

The secrecy surrounding Northumberland County Council and the alleged bullying of staff who give information or make any comment at all to the public has driven residents to rely on this system as trust in their Council is at an all time low.

At the last budget Council meeting recorded for youtube, Tory Councillors were hee-hawing, laughing and cheering when the future work program was read out as it takes the spend for rural roads over £100m since May 2017. Yet this minority Tory Council bolstered by Bedlington Tory independents held by a string of spin about their never to happen investments to improve their Town, are not delivering the Highways element of the Local Transport Plan and some roads and pavements well past their planned life have been delayed for the last three years and will not be delivered in the near future or may be delivered in bits over a number of years as spend is raided to support polished roads to farms.

Interestingly, on fix my street.com the reports for pothole repairs across the South East of the County and the Rural Coalfield have shot up as workers tarmacing in the countryside instead of delivering the plan has reduced their ability to cope. The Tories who laid so much store in their manifesto about repairing potholes across the County are now stymied for cash through their lavish rural spend and are concentrating on spin and semantics to cover up for ignoring the publics needs.

Does your Parish Council Deliver ‘Value for Money?’

 Auditors say Northumberland County Council Doesn’t

Parish Council’s have a prime role to play in the democracy of the Country being able to pick up the ‘soundings’ from local people and pass them up in reports and minutes to their Unitary or two tier (District and County in some cases) bringing them into full public view for debate. Making Town and Parish Councils an essential part of the structure of local democracy as have a vital role in acting on behalf of the communities they represent.
They:

       give views, on behalf of the community, on planning applications and other proposals that affect the parish

       undertake projects and schemes that benefit local residents

       work in partnership with other bodies to achieve benefits for the parish

       alert relevant authorities to problems that arise or work that needs to be undertaken

       help the other tiers of local government keep in touch with their local communities.

Across the County of Northumberland since 2017 a minority Tory administration runs the Unitary all purpose Council hiding behind the County Council badge to confuse people into thinking they do not have to deliver statutory services and its all somebody else’s fault.

The Unitary County Council has failed over the last three years to deliver ‘Best Value’ on behalf of residents as its accounts have been ‘qualified’ by its external auditors (Qualified means failed in accountancy parlance) due to in the main the lack of good governance and the secrecy which prevails, cutting out the base layer of local government in the Country, the Town and Parish Councils.

According to their auditors, most of Northumberland’s Town and Parish Councils who run clear and precise web sites on behalf of residents do deliver best value and good and honest Governance. In many cases they also support the delivery of services which their residents like to have enhanced to ensure people are proud of the Towns and Parishes they live in.

We here at Murky thought we would take a look at one of the largest Parish Councils in the Country, the Labour led Blyth Town Council who on behalf of its residents deliver masses of enhanced services to keep their Town neat and tidy, well above some of the Unitary Metropolitan and City councils nearby.

Here’s the services Blyth Town Council delivers and the similar services delivered by the County Council, listed to stop future mix ups.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will Councillor Sanderson show some bottle or face being sued and a Judicial Review for not dealing with the scandals at County Hall, Morpeth?

As many avid readers of politics may have noticed, the prime minister is facing being dragged screaming and shouting into court to be sued by the Senior Civil Service Trade Union the FDA over his handling of the Priti Patel bullying of staff under her care scandal and for clearing her of all wrongdoing.

Boris Johnson’s actions of unburdening Ms Patel of wrongdoings caused uproar when he cleared the home secretary of misconduct last month despite a lengthy inquiry finding that her behaviour, which included shouting and swearing at staff, amounted to bullying.

The FDA Lawyers have issued a pre action notice which is the first step on the road to a judicial review.

In Northumberland bullying by top elected Councillors from the administration is just the awful tip of a deplorable iceberg which was revealed in leaked e-mails from the Councils top officer and the tales of woe that followed were published in Asia Sunday the highly regarded media outlet as follows: https://www.asiansunday.co.uk/scandal-in-northumberland-as-chief-executive-placed-on-leave/

Here at Murky were led to believe by those in the know that the Local Government Trade Unions at County Hall are considering similar action to the FDA if the new Council Leader doesn’t react appropriately and dismiss those who have either bullied Officers, written reports that should have been handled only by Officers, forced Officers of the Council to give wrongful advice, used the Audit Committee to legitimise false reports or let ADVANCE Northumberland rack up costs and not follow legitimate instructions from their single shareholder, the Council.

That’s beside the allegations of corruption, dodgy land dealings, racism etc, etc!