Something stinks at the Civic Centre.
At the time of the budget publication, we were told that the city council had managed to land itself with a £45 million shortfall for the following years budget, after excessive spending by unnamed council departments.
Then we're told that the city council has to find £30 million in cuts over three years, then it was £30 million per year, now it's £33 million per year.
In
2008 we had £93 million in cash investments, £13 million was on call, so that left £80 million.Then the city council decided to invest all your money with the Debt Management Office, a government account in which the government get all the interest. A Freedom of Information request shows that there is now just £25.25 million left in that account, that's from £80 million!
3 fraud squad investigations, including one initiated by us. 6 council officers suspended, one arrested and charged with theft and fraud. £26 million of your money put through the exemption rule of the councils contract regulations, meaning specific companies could be offered contracts without having to tender for them! How bloody crooked is that?!
Closing pensioners bowling clubs, stopping the mobile libraries, shutting swimming pools, all in the hunt for savings, but then there was £36,000 spent on Common Purpose training and meetings, free parking for council employees which costs "700,000 per year, £500,000 spent by the man hired to get council spending under control, on tarting up his office in the Civic Centre!
Most of the senior council officers don't live in Stoke-on-Trent, which means the obscene sums they pilfer as salary doesn't get spent in Stoke's local economy. More and more city councillors are moving out of the city to the leafy suburbs, doubtless paid for by public funds.
It should be this simple; IF YOU DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY, YOU CAN'T REPRESENT THE CITY!!
Money spent on big contracts with outside companies should have been spent with local companies, helping to kickstart the local economy and provide jobs for native Stokies, a group completely ignored by the establishment as it panders to immigrants. In particular, the fraud squad should take a close look at the contract given to Kier, a company prosecuted by the Office of Fair Trading for price fixing and BUNGING!!
Help get these chisellers and third rate liars, thieves, and incompetents out of office so we can get this city back on track for the people of this city!
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Why no criminal charges or sackings at Stoke-on-Trent city council?
According to the Sentinel, £26 million of contracts were handed out by the city council outside of the usual regulations.
S106 money from planning applications has been removed illegally, and placed in savings accounts where the interest could be creamed off by the city council.
6 council officers have been suspended, a 7th arrested and charged with contractual fraud and theft.
The city council is now undergoing its THIRD fraud investigation!
Joyhn van der Laarschot was brought in to the city council on an obscene salary of £200,000, to clean it up and get it back on track, yet for all the public money he's taking out of the city, things are getting worse, not better!
What the hell are we paying this man so much money for when he clearly isn't achieving what it was he was supposed to have achieved?
Why have none of these fiddling officers been sacked?
Why have none these incompetent officers been sacked?
Why have the police not investigated the missing money from the NSREC?
Why is this criminal and criminally incompetent behaviour been allowed to continue with no punishment?
Our city council, both officers and councillors, are not doing the jobs that they are paid to do, as is clear by the never ending list of financial bungles committed by this group of third rate thieves, cheats, unqualified idiots.
£26 million awarded in contracts without having to go through the tendering process. Planning applications granted on the say so of a single planning officer, deals done behind closed doors with iffy local businessmen and religious groups, and the covering up of financial irregularities by a city council supposed to be looking out for your best interests.
We should change the name of the Civic Centre to Wormwood Scrubs, the number of crooks it is home to!
This behaviour, this lack of respect to the people of this city, is not acceptable in any form, but you voters are the only ones that can change the system!
On polling day in May, vote out the Labourites, the Tories, and the Lib Dems, vote out the so called independents like Brian Ward, a man on a mission to line his own pockets, vote out all those who represent greed, selfishness, dishonesty, and let's give this city a shot at the prosperity it should be enjoying.
contact us at; efpstoke@gmail.com
S106 money from planning applications has been removed illegally, and placed in savings accounts where the interest could be creamed off by the city council.
6 council officers have been suspended, a 7th arrested and charged with contractual fraud and theft.
The city council is now undergoing its THIRD fraud investigation!
Joyhn van der Laarschot was brought in to the city council on an obscene salary of £200,000, to clean it up and get it back on track, yet for all the public money he's taking out of the city, things are getting worse, not better!
What the hell are we paying this man so much money for when he clearly isn't achieving what it was he was supposed to have achieved?
Why have none of these fiddling officers been sacked?
Why have none these incompetent officers been sacked?
Why have the police not investigated the missing money from the NSREC?
Why is this criminal and criminally incompetent behaviour been allowed to continue with no punishment?
Our city council, both officers and councillors, are not doing the jobs that they are paid to do, as is clear by the never ending list of financial bungles committed by this group of third rate thieves, cheats, unqualified idiots.
£26 million awarded in contracts without having to go through the tendering process. Planning applications granted on the say so of a single planning officer, deals done behind closed doors with iffy local businessmen and religious groups, and the covering up of financial irregularities by a city council supposed to be looking out for your best interests.
We should change the name of the Civic Centre to Wormwood Scrubs, the number of crooks it is home to!
This behaviour, this lack of respect to the people of this city, is not acceptable in any form, but you voters are the only ones that can change the system!
On polling day in May, vote out the Labourites, the Tories, and the Lib Dems, vote out the so called independents like Brian Ward, a man on a mission to line his own pockets, vote out all those who represent greed, selfishness, dishonesty, and let's give this city a shot at the prosperity it should be enjoying.
contact us at; efpstoke@gmail.com
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