Just announced…
From the council that…
- Sent its senior people on costly, pie-in-the-sky jollies to the other side of the world…
- Used our council tax to purchase tickets for all councillors to attend the Open Golf…
- Installed an unnecessary £850,000 fire escape in the Town Hall…
- Spent many, many £thousands refurbishing the Town Hall…
- Planned to install executive showering facilities for the top brass in the Town Hall…
- Installed a plush new stair carpet in the Town hall, costing a fortune…
- Was duped out of £46,000 when it paid fraudsters posing as a care provider
- Paid £260,000 (five times the agreed amount) to contractor helping to sack staff
- Paid an unidentified senior officer £48,000, then covered its tracks by spending an as yet undeclared sum in many, many £thousands appointing a costly barrister in a hideously misconceived attempt to defend itself and help cover it all up
- Stole £736,756.97 from learning disabled tenants’ bank accounts over a 9 year period…
- Gave special accreditation to “care companies” involved in Serious Organised Crime…
- Is closing Lyndale Special School…(update: they closed it last night)
- Has gotten rid of hundreds upon hundreds of staff, gagged them at a cost of £62,500, ……………………………………………then deliberately not recorded the gags
- Concealed £millions upon £millions in uncollected toxic debt going back over a decade…
- STILL has NO external investigations policy
- Whitewashed, vindicated & paid over £1 million to dozens of abusive senior officers…
Let’s work out an annual figure for this:
So that’s an extra £130 per year my mum, aged 81, will have to find from an already stretched budget. Can she manage to stump up the cash and stop the council from taking enforcement measures?
My mum lost both her parents during the war and became orphaned, aged 12, in 1944. Happily married in 1957, she and my dad set up home in Wallasey, Cheshire, which was also the beginning of a long-standing relationship as rate payers to the local council.
My dad died in 1985. This council though, are still here.
Fast forward to today… this piece of Cheshire has become Merseyside, and apart from a deluded and godforsaken journey up a cul-de-sac known as the poll tax, the old rates have become known as the Council Tax.
What I would like to know is this…
Without even working out exactly what colossal sum of money my mum has willingly handed over to Wirral Council over the last 60 years, if I ring up young feller-me-lad Director of Social Services Graham Hodkinson, I’ll want to enquire…
“When my mum’s difficult life, her current circumstances, and her long history of uninterrupted payments are taken into account …will you have it in your heart to accept this in mitigation?”
4th October 2014
A few tweets…
https://twitter.com/Wirral_In_It/status/518286744178147328
https://twitter.com/Wirral_In_It/status/518318214376615936
I also tweeted Dr Maurice Smith, below, chair of the More Independent (Mi) board, and executive lead for Integrated Care at NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group. He was kind enough to respond very quickly.
It seems Liverpool City Council don’t charge if you qualify under their Social Care Rules. Which is how I think it USED to be done at Wirral, until some uncharitable bright spark came up with a way of clobbering senior citizens.
https://twitter.com/Wirral_In_It/status/518288282485264384
Okay, living confidently, independently and healthily sounds great, all very desirable, and may come at a price for those who can afford it… but what about subsisting and being SAFE in your home through the minimum level of assistive technology?
Why should struggling people who’ve propped the council up all of their lives, and paid to keep axe-wielding bureaucrats in comfortable high-paying jobs and plush, refurbished offices be forced to pay for their own safety and peace of mind?
20th February 2016
RIP my mum, Margaret Cardin, who died today, aged 83.
xxx
Wirral In It Together 
Let’s face it, Wirral Council don’t expect issues involving disabled people to either:
(a) kick up a fuss or have political connections,
(b) have the money or access to lawyers to legally challenge such policy changes
(c) reported on by the mainstream media
Your thoughts?
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Oh and the usual stock answer from Wirral Council is that this is what disabled people are paid benefits for, so some of that money can go to Wirral Council to provide services related to their disability… however… I’m a little sick and tired of the multiple attacks Wirral Council is currently making on the disabled recently…
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Lyndale School! Well, I would imagine that for the children, the parents and the carers this little place is a tiny piece of heaven on earth. My Grandaughter is a pupil at Blackmarston Special Needs School in Hereford and I know the impact it would have upon my family if ever this School became the target of the Council and those who like to ‘cut’.
What these fools never take into account is the very thing that makes these wonderful educational places stand out. It’s a safe haven for the little ones and their families. Take my Grandaughter out of her School and it would destroy her, confuse her, make her sad and turn all our lives upside down and so I fully realize what the children of Lyndale are now going to go through.
Unhappiness, uncertainty and a feeling of bewilderment. The very things that children with special needs are particularly susceptible to, and with the stroke of a pen, a few words from the great and the good and the little ones are thrown into disarray.
I’d like to give the great and the good a disability. Even if it were for a short time. I’d happily hurtle toward them, produce my three pound wooden mallet and smash their toes flat howling, ‘see how you feel managing that you slimey heartless barstard.’ That’d make them think. That’d get them to spend more time deliberating on whether its worth destroying something that is entirely good rather than address the true target of who and where should be subjected to the cutting. Bloody them! The hierarchy of all these Councils who ride the gravey train promoting their unique thinking of self promotion, huge pay rises and an ability to spend our funds on all the bloody stuff that we couldn’t care less about.
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They went after my mums house to pay for her care even though her care was funded. They are criminals, supported by the police and courts.
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