Wednesday, January 04, 2012

KENT WATCH " a strong organisation that knows where it is going!"

So says Paul Carter Conservative Leader of KCC, as he muses on Kent Council's coming year, in fact so confident is he,  as a new year dawns he himself is off on some motor rally throughout January, and of course, as we all know, Paul Carter also decided, from what can be gleaned from the murky and secretive world of the council, that at great cost to the public, it no longer to needs a senior professional officer to head up the organisation.

The word anarchy springs to my mind, but then I haven't just said goodbye to many, many thousands of pounds, by removing, a previously valued manager of the council, mid contract for reasons. which haven't been explained or discussed adequately.

As I see it,      it's (KCC) like a ship with no one at the helm and no flippin rudder til sometime in February. 

Read the briefing for yourself, what I found interesting, are those things that are not really mentioned such as, how did KCC children services become so run down and in such a dire state by the start of last year, also the controversial removal of Katherine Kerswell, was it really a cost saving exercise or something else, anyhow perhaps the most revealing thing about Cllr Paul Carter, is this comment referring I guess obliquely the Katherine Kerswell issue "On another note, my New Year’s resolution for next year must be to improve our relationship with the local press.  It has felt in recent weeks that some stories have been particularly biased against KCC.

Well here is news for Cllr Carter he might also wish to improve his relationship with his own Conservative backbench colleagues some of whom I understand were a bit miffed to have, had the run around, on the Kerswell issue, particularly egregious, since he'd suggested during a leadership challenge that he'd consult members outside his cabinet colleagues more.

An interesting and more educated analysis of Paul Carters briefing is available just here, from Kent Messengers Political Editor Paul Francis, in which Cllr Carters suggestion of media bias is addressed, to round this up, lets hope Kent does not experience any crisis during January because it seems, there is nobody with the clear authority to take charge of the council till February.

I hope this year Kent County Conservatives learn to live with a democratic society which allows for a free press and objects to political parties manipulating local authority media resources to their advantage.

36 comments:

  1. The weeds grow bigger and so do the bank accounts of our fat middle aged councillors with beards

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  2. My dear Anon, 11;08, just how do you live with you wit. More to the point, how does anyone else?

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  3. Just because you know where you're going doesn't mean it's in the right direction - let's hope it's not down the pan. Also have they got the right vehicle now to get there or will there have to be even more big payoffs?

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  4. You will be please to know that KCC and Paul Carter in particular make the Private Eye 2011 Rotten Borough Awards. Not just the one reward but two!

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  5. Of course it doesn't matter if Mr Carter is there, hardly sorely missed, it beats me why anyone is still paying for any of these parasites.


    Council Taxation is robbery. I can't say it any simpler. You are threatened with violence to hand over your money. That's called threat, coercion & extortion. Government is a criminal mafia protection racket.


    Does anyone remember signing a contract signed by both parties and where does all this money really go ? jollies & car racing rallies maybe ?

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  6. Forced to pay in advance for services with no previous agreement or contract in place. When you vote you are actually giving your rights and voice away which is why your complaints fall on deaf ears and they can just ignore you.

    Many could be classed as in default of their public duties as instigators colluders an should agree to resign; pecuniary deception of community funds for breach of trustee duties and criminal offences.

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  7. Sorry Tom Clarke I meant to say extremely fat councillors with beards spending all our council tax money on cream cakes...

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  8. 'how did KCC children services become so run down and in such a dire state' ...

    quite easily by the looks of it, spending over £100,000 for 3 children to be (trafficked) oops adopted to America

    1) KCC have paid for 3 air fares, which consist of 2 flights back and
    forth from the USA to UK for prospective adoptive parents. The 3rd flight
    was to take the children to America.


    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/foreign_adoptive_parents_airfare#incoming-240143


    Costs paid to Prospective Adoptive Parents
    2010/11
    Apr- Sep 2011
    Description
    Air Flights
    3,175.53
    5,700.34
    Car Hire
    3,003.36
    3,003.36
    Other Travel
    6,204.20
    5,964.88
    Accommodation
    6,720.34
    4,410.00
    Settling in Fee
    22,491.72
    8,598.44
    Shipping Costs
    651.73
    Legal Fees
    350.00
    16,598.00
    Loss of Income
    7,200.00
    5,800.00
    Other Adoption
    4,876.80
    Related Costs
    Total
    49,145.15
    55,603.55

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  9. I am baffled. Why would KCC be sending 3 children to the USA to be adoped by USA citizens at a cost of £100k when there is a waiting list in Kent and the UK for children?

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  10. Well I suppose it is no worse than delivering newsletters and going for a swim having had a bad back for years.

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  11. See the boring old farts are out in force.

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  12. anon 6.43

    Exactly and why no mention of America in the July 2011 FOI

    What are they trying to hide ....not child trafficking ?

    I wonder who these children really belong with and why they were kept hidden, what fate does KCC have in mind for them ? who could have possibly upset them ?


    Intercountry Adoption April 2010 - April 2011

    34 enquiries
    5 initial visits relating to Nigeria, Colombia, Russia, China and India
    1 assessment of change of approval from China to UK
    6 assessments linked to Pakistan, Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone
    3 approvals linked to Russia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan
    3 placements 1 female child from Sierra Leone and 2 female children from
    China
    4 post placement reports for China
    6 Annual reviews 5 linked with China and 1 linked with Thailand


    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/foreign_potential_adoptive_paren#incoming-200116

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  13. Boring old farts? Well we are not bored when it comes to the welfare of our sons and daughters and other peoples. If the state is trafficking children to foreign nationals and paying their air fares from tax payers money this is a matter of concern to all us boring old farts, especially when those children have been stolen by a corrupt state in secret star chamber courts in a completely unlawful manner. "The Lost and stolen Children"!! History continues to repeat itself in the most horrendous way. Kent in particular have filthy hands when it comes to corruption and child trafficking.

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  14. My friends comments were here a minute ago and now gone what is happening here?

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  15. Maybe someone does want the truth to come out !

    No mention of America in FOI July 2011


    Intercountry Adoption April 2010 - April 2011

    34 enquiries
    5 initial visits relating to Nigeria, Colombia, Russia, China and India
    1 assessment of change of approval from China to UK
    6 assessments linked to Pakistan, Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone
    3 approvals linked to Russia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan
    3 placements 1 female child from Sierra Leone and 2 female children from
    China
    4 post placement reports for China
    6 Annual reviews 5 linked with China and 1 linked with Thailand


    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/foreign_potential_adoptive_paren#incoming-200116

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  16. They are feeding these children to beast elites and obviously to those to posh to push !

    We have been paying for this corporate abuse no wonder they keep paying off officers probably to stay silent.

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  17. The Duke of Kent, on the future of Freemasonry in his role as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England...


    We do now, for example, encourage people who are Freemasons to be completely open about the fact that they belong to the craft. We don't intend to publish lists of people. I don't think that's in any way necessary, and certainly it is wrong to force people in public office to declare that they are or are not Masons. We object to that, because we regard that as an intrusion on personal privacy, but we do encourage people to be completely open about their membership. The only thing that we seriously regard as secret and the proceedings in our own lodges, as these are entirely private matters which are not the concern of anyone outside. It's a matter of privacy rather than secrecy. What the hell is this double-talk? On one hand he says; “...encourage people who are Freemasons to be completely open about the fact that they belong to the craft.” “...but we do encourage people to be completely open about their membership.

    http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-duke-of-kent-on-the-future-of-freemasonry-in-his-role-as

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  18. Could it be that The freemasons and other secret societies as well as Common Purpose training have anything to do with this child stealing and trafficking in the UK?

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  19. Perhaps the "fat middle aged councillors with beards" have eaten them.

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  20. Thanet's fattest councillors don't have beards and nor are they Tories.

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  21. See Retired is now Jade with all the old common purpose nonsense. Might be worth ignoring KCC, Tony, for it always kicks off these child abduction theories of his and bores the pants of everyone else.

    By the way, see someone else has noticed 'him who ate all the pork pies' as well. I would say on the Labour benches, but I am not sure they make them strong enough.

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  22. Anon 9.17, But what if KCC is engaged in malpractice as far as these children are concerned? Do you want it to be just swept under the carpet or do you want KCC to become open about what is going on?

    KCC cannot be ignored. That is what they would like. They would rather that you didn't know how they are being run and how they are spending out money. They have to be accountable to us.

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  23. Why would Tony want to ignore whats going on within KCC and in Kent. Corruption affects all of us and needs uncovering. Unfortunately we cant always rely on the media to tell us the truth. Especially if it involves child trafficking and money laundering, there must be transparency in all public services. We have a right to know where public money is being spent and why and what our public servants get up to whilst operating as public servants.

    Secret societies that are allowed without recourse to operate within public services are clearly a threat to our national security and must be abolished.


    Interesting stuff here connected to former Chief Constable of Kent and much much more.


    Kent Police Service Cross - Boarder FBI

    http://baroness-scotland-crime-case.blogspot.com/

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  24. If KCC is engaged in malpractice and you have real proof, then expose them. Otherwise all you are doing is boring a handful of people who enjoy exchanges of views on the Thanet blogsites.

    Having been a school governor in Kent for many years as well as a parent with links to five schools in all, I have yet to hear of any child being abducted by the authorities.

    Proof not speculation is the order of the day. Otherwise you actually harm the monitoring process by turning people off.

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  25. No-one said the councillors being labelled "fat with beards" are Tories. Is paranoia now being added to vindictive nastiness?

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  26. Ren Wood


    who do you suggest people should report them to ....the exact same people who are covering up for or carrying out the abuse all are paid out of the public purse ?

    the people who carry out such crimes have a web of protection and believe they are untouchable.... that is until they are exposed and rely on the public remaining ignorant which is why you normally dont find out about anything in the media until they can no longer contain .

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  27. anon 10.58

    This is the link for Kent Police Service - Kent Police Stations Officers Named Case Files - Maryland Trust - Biggest Police Corruption Case

    http://kent-police-theft.blogspot.com/2009/10/kent-police-targeted-crime-syndicate_20.html

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  28. Mike Fuller CPS Inspector - Stolen Treasures Case File Images - Carroll Trust - Kent Police Corruption Case

    http://fuller-theft-cps.blogspot.com/

    hmmm wonder how far anyone would get if they tried to report corruption within the county to these, not very far I bet

    Check out this link it looks like they are all upto their necks in it !!!

    http://ping.sg/user/carrolltrust

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  29. Jade 11.25

    Funny that, they always tell us, if you've not done anything wrong you havent got anything to hide.

    Yet when the boots on the other foot they and KCC definitely dont seem to like it.

    Thank God that many organisations are checking into what they are getting up to.

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  30. 8:34

    How long do you propose to keep this charade going. Everyone else has switched off thanks to your boring nonsense so now you are answering yourself. Pathetic!

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  31. Summary of the Nolan Committee's First Report on Standards in Public Life


    At the request of the Prime Minister, the Nolan Committee has spent six months inquiring into standards in British public life. We have concentrated on Members of Parliament, Ministers and Civil Servants, executive Quangos and NHS bodies.


    "As a result people in public life are not always as clear as they should be about where the boundaries of acceptable conduct lie. This we regard as the principal reason for public disquiet. It calls for urgent remedial action."

    UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR !! !

    http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/parlment/nolan/nolan.htm

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  32. The Nolan Report was heralded as the most important statement of the bleedin obvious that was ever absolutely disregarded in its entirety.


    http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/parlment/nolan/nolan.htm

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  33. Au contraire 8:59, we have not all switched off.

    I love it how these establishment 'hangers-on' claim to speak for all.

    Arrogance is good... it means that they are, in fact, brickin' it.

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  34. Portuguese Government looks for Masons among politicians

    Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, gave the Ministry of Internal Administration (equivalent to MSW) guidelines for the obligations of persons holding high positions in government to disclose whether they belong to Masonic lodges.

    http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11232327/content/88062932-pedro-passos-coelho-prime-minister-of-portugal

    This is exactly what ours should be doing. Wouldn't have to look very far including making the rest at KCC declare.

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  35. Wonder how Catherine or any Kent MP would have reacted, in the positive for exposure, or in the negative for continual cover ups ?

    I know what I think and its not good.


    Are Our Children Safe? An Investigation Of Politics & Suicide Risks - Brian Gerrish

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3hT0ghdRs

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  36. Oh look another well paid job opportunity in KCC

    Director of Specialist Children’s Services

    up to £120,000

    http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4406047/director-of-specialist-children-s-services/?CMP=

    silence does seem to pay very well indeed

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