Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Sshh - Abuse In Telford.
Re the outcry over the child abuse scandal in #Telford and those calling
for an Independent Inquiry into those who failed the children....
Gwynedd Council - who were closed down after they failed the county's children in their own sexual abuse scandal of the 90's - have twice sanitised a recent 'Independent Report' into their Social Services department.
The abuse of children in Gwynedd and Clywd was only allowed to continue by those in authority maintaining a 'wall of silence' for decades.
Gwynedd Council, for whatever reason, chose to turn a blind eye and the whistleblower, Alison Davies - was actually sacked by the council for raising concerns.
It has become apparent that a 'wall of silence' still remains in Gwynedd with no-one willing or able to confront unprofessional and bad behaviour by senior managers within the council.
Sshh no criticism allowed.
The abuse of children in Telford began just after the creation of the New Town in the early 70's.
Just as in North Wales, the authorities at the then Wrekin Council and the local Police turned a blind eye. In fact, the local CID used to hunt down and return those 'children in care' who had fled from the abuse they were no doubt suffering in the council run homes in Wellington.
Sshh.
The authorities in North Wales sat on the Jillings Report into the abuse of children for 20 years - on the orders of the council's insurers - now Zurich International.
There was an Asian gang operating in Telford in the 70's as were White Gangs. There were also huge problems with #Unemployment #Racism and #Heroin. Too many unexplained deaths and mysterious 'suicides'.
The old Wrekin Council have questions to answer along with the now defunct Telford Youth Council, local Churches and the Police.
An Independent Inquiry into the abuse of children in Telford will fail just as in North Wales, Rotherham, Islington etc etc. No-one will be held to account.
An Independent Inquiry is too easily sanitised and the truth covered up - a Public Inquiry would stand a better chance at getting to the truth and the abusers and those who profited from the abuse punished.
But be in no doubt....the abuse of children and vulnerable people continues.
Sshh.....
More on Gwynedd council - https://gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.co.uk/
Gwynedd Council - who were closed down after they failed the county's children in their own sexual abuse scandal of the 90's - have twice sanitised a recent 'Independent Report' into their Social Services department.
The abuse of children in Gwynedd and Clywd was only allowed to continue by those in authority maintaining a 'wall of silence' for decades.
Gwynedd Council, for whatever reason, chose to turn a blind eye and the whistleblower, Alison Davies - was actually sacked by the council for raising concerns.
It has become apparent that a 'wall of silence' still remains in Gwynedd with no-one willing or able to confront unprofessional and bad behaviour by senior managers within the council.
Sshh no criticism allowed.
The abuse of children in Telford began just after the creation of the New Town in the early 70's.
Just as in North Wales, the authorities at the then Wrekin Council and the local Police turned a blind eye. In fact, the local CID used to hunt down and return those 'children in care' who had fled from the abuse they were no doubt suffering in the council run homes in Wellington.
Sshh.
The authorities in North Wales sat on the Jillings Report into the abuse of children for 20 years - on the orders of the council's insurers - now Zurich International.
There was an Asian gang operating in Telford in the 70's as were White Gangs. There were also huge problems with #Unemployment #Racism and #Heroin. Too many unexplained deaths and mysterious 'suicides'.
The old Wrekin Council have questions to answer along with the now defunct Telford Youth Council, local Churches and the Police.
An Independent Inquiry into the abuse of children in Telford will fail just as in North Wales, Rotherham, Islington etc etc. No-one will be held to account.
An Independent Inquiry is too easily sanitised and the truth covered up - a Public Inquiry would stand a better chance at getting to the truth and the abusers and those who profited from the abuse punished.
But be in no doubt....the abuse of children and vulnerable people continues.
Sshh.....
More on Gwynedd council - https://gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.co.uk/
Thursday, March 08, 2018
People First: Plaid's Poison Chalice -The Leadership of Carmar...
New Dawn in the Garden of Wales or just Old Hat?
As Plaid Cymru in Carmarthenshire launch their campaign for the 2017 May
elections you would believe that they have turned around a dodgy
council and have an exemplary record of governance.The Truth is not so
glossy. Privately some Plaid Cymru Councillors admit that they are
hamstrung by the Coalition agreement in which they gave the much smaller
Affiliated Independent Group equal power in numbers on the Council's
Executive and therefore in decision making.The AI group have been the
driving force in every administration since the Council was formed,
Although Emlyn Dole has the title of Leader, and the Leader's large
salary, he clearly does not have the power. Neither did the Labour party
who "led " the previous administration. The affiliated independents
somehow manage to retain their power and continue to gift public money,
land and opportunity to their "friends", The local equivalent of a
Sicilian Cartel, as it has been described.
It was an AI led executive board that decided to fund a libel action
against local blogger Jacqui Thompson. A "Labour led" executive board
then endorsed the policy and a Plaid one has changed its previous stance
to also support this project. Mrs Thompson has recently received a
letter giving her a court date to recover libel damages owned to
Carmarthenshire County Council's Chief Executive Mr Mark James. The only
way she can produce the damages is by the sale of her half of the
family home in Llanwrda. This is all perfectly legal. Mr James has been
financed in a libel action by the Council and was awarded the damages
in the high court after being criticised in Mrs Thompson's blog.
The Council's Monitoring Officer, Linda Rees Jones has apparently told
the major Council Political Groups that any Councillor who attempts to
interfere with the process of Mr James extracting his damages, eg. by
suggesting he takes the payment in modest instalments instead of forcing
the sale of her home, risks that such action would be contempt of
court. However, I am sceptical of this advice as Mr James clearly
undertook to donate any damages to the Council to cover his legal costs,
which the Council have already paid in full.
As an elected member of said Council I feel I have an interest in not
making a family homeless in order just to provide funds more quickly for
this council. I have asked Mr James whether or not he intends to give
the money to the Council as promised and he has declined to reply. I
shall therefore assume that the undertakings listed in the minutes of
the Executive board meeting of 23rd January 2012 stand, and the money
from the damages is being collected to give back to the Council. If
this is not the plan then Mr Mark James has questions to answer about
his own integrity.
I have yet to meet a local voter who holds that the Thompson family should lose their home
in order to recover a debt to the Council immediately rather than in instalments.
All this results from the decision of the County Council's Executive
Board to fund Mr James to fight this libel action .A further charge of
£190,000 for legal costs has been put on Mrs Thompson's half of the
house by the County Council. Both sums cannot be recovered, There is
still a mortgage to pay on the property and it has an agricultural
tie.,The judge in this second case firmly advised the Council to not
spend further public money on the project of extracting cash from
someone who does not have it. Mr James still seems to want his pound of
flesh and is stubbornly not revealing whether or not his deal with his
sponsors, the Council, still holds.
Mr James has priority on any proceeds from the sale and he has, in
theory, the legal right to apply to make the family homeless, just as
the County Council could well be forced to re-home them at considerable
expense,
Many councils have rather negative blog posts written about them. I've
done a good few personally and its hardly something out of the ordinary.
Usually, if someone objects to what is written the blogger will remove
it, especially on the threat of legal action. Unfortunately Mr James did
not read Mrs Thompson's blog .Only when it was examined retrospectively
after Mrs Thompson started a case against the Council initiated by Mr
James' comments on another blog, were the libellous mentions of
"Pinocchio" and "slush fund" noted.
Mr James has been perfectly legally awarded damages on the grounds of
persecution by Mrs Thompson. Councillor Emlyn Dole has reminded me of
this and also that although the Wales Audit Office considered the
funding of Mr James' case against her "unlawful", he does not agree with
this WAO judgement, as it has not been tested in a court of law. In
opposition he did not have these doubts. As Council leader, he has
changed his mind.
In Carmarthenshire County Council there seems a general policy that
decisions are not open to variation or interpretation despite events or
new information. The Council is governed by the decrees of the Executive
board and even these are often secret. The discreet extra pension
payments to Mark James are a case in point. Only being stopped on the
instruction of the WAO and would still be being paid if an eagle eyed
member of the public had not spotted an unexplained increase in the
already generous salary of our chief executive and reported it. The
AI/Labour exec board of the time knew all about it and didn't even tell
their own back benchers. The minutes of that meeting were deliberately
misleading to hide that action.
All Governments are said to be a balance of legitimacy and coercion. We
accept a government of any sort, monarchy, democracy, dictatorship etc.
because we believe it is socially appropriate and legitimate. The
coercion is various rules, laws, threats and punishments .Many
governments find it useful to inflict exemplary discipline on dissidents
as an attempt to discourage others. In this case it was originally
Labour and Independent Councillors who decided to punish a blogger who
dared to ask for filming of public meetings, using a quarter of a
million pounds of public money just to save face. Are they ashamed? Of
course not, this is Carmarthenshire and they believe they were
completely justified.
Pity poor Emlyn Dole who has to play the well scripted end game of this
sad saga in return for his "leadership" of Carmarthenshire Council
Council. His motivation is not clear. I honestly don't know.
Plaid have the largest number of County Councillors in Carmarthenshire,
but somehow numerical advantage has only been used to support another
party and the status quo.
However, as County Council Elections often relate to the position of the
National Parties and not the performance of individual Councillors and
Leaders, Plaid may still end up the largest group. Tragically they may
take this result as an endorsement on how well they have "run" the
council and remain the puppets of others.
Siân Caiach
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| Carmarthenshire Council Leader Emlyn Dole, Did he read the coalition agreement before signing it? |
UPDATE:
Following a letter from Councillor Dole clarifying the facts I have
removed a sentence from the blog above. Councillor Dole wishes it to be
known that neither he or his wife have ever applied for any public
funding as rumoured. His retrospective planning permission did pass with
support from the Affiliated Independents, but he wishes to make it
clear that he has never attempted to fix any planning committee's
decision.
More -
https://web.archive.org/web/20190826061210/https://www.peoplefirstwales.org.uk/2017/02/plaids-poison-chalice-leadership-of.html
Thursday, March 01, 2018
In The Public Domain?: Oh Dear - Costigan Forgot Her Private Emails!
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