There is little more embarrassing than a party leader taking the moral high ground with worthy tosh about “value for money” and “tightening belts” when his own party are possibly the worst offenders.
As I waited for my Chinese I chanced upon this article in the Sun, apparently David Cameron has pledged to “out” town hall fat cats “I’ll shame £60K council fat cats” and I couldn’t help but think what a load of Bull , does this bloke ever ask around before spouting.
I’m not going into detail but Peter Gilroy KCC’s retiring Chief Exec has been trousering around £200,000 plus (even I understand selling back his holidays), in addition he will be bagging an additional £200,000 bonus for doing his job and working up to retirement age.
Clearly council staff are not stupid and KCC have made similar Gilroy type payments to senior officers, for just doing the job their paid to do, last year creating another embarrassment when it was revealed that top bods had been getting bonus payments for god knows what, since I don’t think we were told.
Paul Carter leader of Kent’s ruling group seems out of step with thinking at the top of the Tory party, isn’t it time he just stepped down and stopped giving away our money and wasting it on rubbish projects like Kent TV & Health watch.
If Cameron does win the election it will be interesting to see if he does sort out fat cats, my feeling is it will be business as usual
Shame really but they dont live in the real world. Golden hello's golden handshakes protected pensions the list goes on.Its not just the MP's the whole system is corrupt. A private company would have gone bust yonks ago but the local government in any part of the country wastes money like it is a necessity too.
ReplyDeleteThe corporations are in control and completely officer led; councillors just tag along for the ride and expenses of course !
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree the whole systems is corrupt and NOT set-up for the best interests of the public !
Staff at children's services department of Kent County Council face redundancy
ReplyDeleteThe jobs of 260 children’s services staff at County Hall are to be axed in a major shake-up of the authority’s biggest department.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2010/february/24/kcc_staff_face_redundancy.aspx
CHILD STEALING BY THE STATE CONFERENCE
Conference : Lawful Rebellion – Fighting Child Stealing by the State
Duration : All Day
Date : 10th april 2010
Location: Stafford Rangers Football Club, Stafford , West Midlands
Speakers: Brian Gerrish ,Key activists and parents, including oversea’s speakers.
Anticipated support – MPs, local councillors, Police, Social Services, Charities and Quango’s: None
Background: We now know that thousands of children are being taken from parents by the State using lies, false accusation, false evidence, perjury, intimidation, harassment and secret courts.
Those involved include some MPs, Judges, Police, NHS ( including Doctors, Psychiatrists and Paediatricians) Social Services and Charities.
We recognise that most people are good but that does not allow callous criminal activity to be covered up.
We understand that child-stealing is perpetrated by the State to break up families and leave the children to be claimed for nefarious purposes. The act of stealing is a template which is replicated across UK and in Countries overseas.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to know what connections David Cameron and the chief executive have with the charity known as Common Purpose ?
ReplyDeleteCommon Purpose, a charity. To whose benefit is this charity directed. Is it to the benefit of all? no it does not appear so ,it is an international organisation that seeks out those with potential or existing leadership rolls in society, such as the chief executive who is a well known speaker at these events.
There is simply too much about this organisation that smacks of a Fabian agenda. Chatham House rules apply I understand from their gatherings.
Smacks of subversive brainwashing & venues for collusion & conspiracy to me.
Given the state of this nation, I want less secrecy, not more, especially when I am finding graduates of Common Purpose are in effect aware of each other, whilst the general public is kept in ignorance as to how this network operates.
The design of this networking charity is one that can readily be seen to hold the potential for increasing corruption in all areas of our society.
I would also like to know how much public money has been given to this body, along with who has attended.
Is this what is paying all these fat cat salaries including old rosy cheeks at KCC ?
ReplyDeleteDoes Cameron know what is Tory councils get up too, of course he does, this is happening in Kent , right now. Nobody is doing a thing about it, where's the opposition councillors/MP's, or are they just out for themselves too ?
http://thevoiceofinjustice.wordpress.com/
Is this what we can expect from the Conservative party and Tory run council's - cover-ups ?
ReplyDeleteThank heavens for Labour MP Neill Gerrard having some back-bone and raising this in The Commons.
http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/articles/comments/times-article-1994-wandsworth-council-blocks-rape-inquiry/
Times - Article 1994 - Wandsworth Council blocks rape inquiry
By Admin | 3rd Mar 2010 | in Kendall House Child Abuse News
Sunday Times :
Edition 1SUN 09 OCT 1994, Page 1/5 Council blocks rape inquiry BY LIZ LIGHTFOOT, LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT HOME NEWS
POLICE have accused Wandsworth council, the flagship Conservative borough in south London, of preventing the prosecution of an alleged rapist. Detectives believe the authority has hindered the inquiry because it fears disclosures about the brutal treatment of children in its care. The council, which failed to inform police immediately of the 16-year-old girl’s allegations, has repeatedly refused to allow police access to social work files, its internal inquiry or the girl’s medical reports.
This has led Kent police to suspend their inquiries. The alleged rapist is still fostering children for Wandsworth.
``I am troubled that a public service such as Wandsworth social services is not open to external scrutiny,’’ said Detective Inspector David Pryde, heading the investigation. ``The fact that they appear able to hinder and undermine a current criminal inquiry is most unsatisfactory.’’ Pryde believes Wandsworth is trying to prevent details of its oppressive child care emerging.
``From the documents that have come into the possession of the inquiry team, I can see why Wandsworth social services do not wish these files to be open to external scrutiny,’’ he said. The girl was sent by Wandsworth to a children’s home in Gravesend, Kent, owned by the Church of England but independently managed and since closed. Records obtained by the victim show she was frequently locked in a small room with just a bed and a wash basin once for 163 days and subjected to a ``pin-down’’ regime, in which she was stripped and injected with strong tranquillisers from the age of 13.
The two alleged rapes occurred shortly after the girl turned 16 and had been fostered out to a couple in Herne Bay, Kent.
Her sister alerted Wandsworth social workers, who were sceptical. No medical examinations were carried out to test her claims. The social workers did hold a meeting to discuss her case with officials at the children’s home. However, the minutes reveal that the foster father accused of rape was present but not the girl. They record that the girl had been interviewed by a social worker but had refused to withdraw her allegations. The girl was forced to confront the alleged rapist and his wife to repeat the allegation at a meeting, in contravention of good social work practice.
She was not given the support of a social worker during the confrontation. It was also alleged in reports that the girl was having sexual relations with men before the alleged rape, a claim she was not told of at the time and now vehemently denies.
Although the alleged rape happened 10 years ago, the girl, now a woman of 26 with her own children, contacted the police in September last year when she learned the man was still fostering for Wandsworth council.
ReplyDelete``The social workers brushed it all under the carpet. They tried to get me to retract but I wouldn’t so they contacted Kent police, but the inquiry never got anywhere at the time,’’ she said this weekend.
``I never got over what happened. It has affected my health and my relationships with men ever since.
The way I was treated by the social workers was wrong. It has spoilt my life.’’ Behind the legal tangle is a tragic story of a young girl taken into care by Wandsworth because of family difficulties. Her mother suffered from schizophrenia and her father from alcoholism. Though close to her father, the council sent her to Kendall House, a children’s home in Gravesend, 30 miles away. After an attempt to run away to see her father, the home began to drug her. ``I didn’t want them to and struggled, so they used to pin me down, two male staff and two female, stripping off my knickers to give me the injections,’’ she said. Files show she was given powerful doses of Valium and other tranquillisers, along with drugs used to treat schizophrenia.
The case will be raised in the Commons next week by Neil Gerrard, Labour MP for Walthamstow. He said: ``I will be calling for an urgent debate. It is all the more urgent that we get to the truth because the man accused is now fostering people with learning difficulties.’’ At the time of the alleged incident Wandsworth council was led by Paul Beresford, since knighted, elected to parliament and made a junior environment minister.
A council spokesman said it was not releasing the files on the advice of its insurers but had offered to meet Kent police to answer specific requests for information. He said no medical examination was made when the claims were raised because the alleged rape had occurred some time earlier.
Comments
· On 3rd Mar 2010 at 08:19 PM Yvonne Stewart-Taylor said...
The same crap was done by police when SS allowed my second cousins to be sodomised in care, on more than one occasion. They also held children in unlawful housing sharing a room, mixed sexes. the police were reluctant to even investigate. They all protect each other in corrupt practices and fail to protect vulnerable children who are removed on bogus evidence in the first place. Evil to the core, cover up follows cover up. The truth will still come out.
· On 5th Mar 2010 at 01:50 PM Melizza Moore said..
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I remember telling my then sw how terrified I was being in my foster family as I had been hit by the foster father and his eldest son used to physically hurt me. It was a weird atmosphere to be in. But it all seemed so normal. But I was very scared to be in the same room as their son who was six years older than I. That social worker left me there. Years later after many “bad dreams” of repeated sexual things by unknown people.(1998) I was told that the eldest son had confessed to sexual abuses. But I was made to look like a liar by others. Including school teachers. Its in my psychiatric records too.
Although the alleged rape happened 10 years ago, the girl, now a woman of 26 with her own children, contacted the police in September last year when she learned the man was still fostering for Wandsworth council.
ReplyDelete``The social workers brushed it all under the carpet. They tried to get me to retract but I wouldn’t so they contacted Kent police, but the inquiry never got anywhere at the time,’’ she said this weekend.
``I never got over what happened. It has affected my health and my relationships with men ever since.
The way I was treated by the social workers was wrong. It has spoilt my life.’’ Behind the legal tangle is a tragic story of a young girl taken into care by Wandsworth because of family difficulties. Her mother suffered from schizophrenia and her father from alcoholism. Though close to her father, the council sent her to Kendall House, a children’s home in Gravesend, 30 miles away. After an attempt to run away to see her father, the home began to drug her. ``I didn’t want them to and struggled, so they used to pin me down, two male staff and two female, stripping off my knickers to give me the injections,’’ she said. Files show she was given powerful doses of Valium and other tranquillisers, along with drugs used to treat schizophrenia.
The case will be raised in the Commons next week by Neil Gerrard, Labour MP for Walthamstow. He said: ``I will be calling for an urgent debate. It is all the more urgent that we get to the truth because the man accused is now fostering people with learning difficulties.’’ At the time of the alleged incident Wandsworth council was led by Paul Beresford, since knighted, elected to parliament and made a junior environment minister.
A council spokesman said it was not releasing the files on the advice of its insurers but had offered to meet Kent police to answer specific requests for information. He said no medical examination was made when the claims were raised because the alleged rape had occurred some time earlier.
Comments
· On 3rd Mar 2010 at 08:19 PM Yvonne Stewart-Taylor said...
The same crap was done by police when SS allowed my second cousins to be sodomised in care, on more than one occasion. They also held children in unlawful housing sharing a room, mixed sexes. the police were reluctant to even investigate. They all protect each other in corrupt practices and fail to protect vulnerable children who are removed on bogus evidence in the first place. Evil to the core, cover up follows cover up. The truth will still come out.
· On 5th Mar 2010 at 01:50 PM Melizza Moore said..
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I remember telling my then sw how terrified I was being in my foster family as I had been hit by the foster father and his eldest son used to physically hurt me. It was a weird atmosphere to be in. But it all seemed so normal. But I was very scared to be in the same room as their son who was six years older than I. That social worker left me there. Years later after many “bad dreams” of repeated sexual things by unknown people.(1998) I was told that the eldest son had confessed to sexual abuses. But I was made to look like a liar by others. Including school teachers. Its in my psychiatric records too.
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