STOP PRESS…
This says it all, doesn’t it? And it confirms what we’d suspected all along.
Wirral’s hard right Labour councillors seem to be all mouth and no trousers / skirt / Father Christmas costume.
The above information was prised out of Wirral Council by determined FOI requester Michael Dixon. Here’s a link to the excellent www.whatdotheyknow.com website where the request was originally placed back on 15th March this year…
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/submissions_to_councillornet_by
As we can see, the council bizzarely attempted to claim that they couldn’t produce and provide a brief, two-column listing of councillor caseloads without this work exceeding 18 hours charged at £25 per hour. This was a lie of course.
The 18 hour rule is the Section 12 costs exemption, whereby the data controller can slam the shutters down if the work involved in gathering the info, collating it and supplying it is expected to exceed a cost of £450. The FOI Act very unwisely has determined that the data controller can be relied upon to make such assessments.
The problem comes when the same data controller happens to be terminally bent, politically biased, occupying the gutter, and in possession of highly embarrassing shit, that they will do their utmost to conceal.
Shit like this.
Fair play to Mr Dixon, who stuck to his task, requested an internal review and eventually came out on top, with the council rolling over, and the information coming through two days ago on 25th April 2018.
We’d like to send our warmest congratulations to him if he’s reading this.
Now let’s have a look at the sordid details…
Councillor Performance Index (CPI) – highest to lowest performer
TOTAL = 183 
GREEN PARTY = 1st place
TOTAL = 54 
TORY PARTY = 2nd place
TOTAL = 51 
TORY PARTY = 3rd place
Mentioned in dispatches…
TOTAL = 38
Close, but no cigar. For comparison, Councillor Cleary of the Green Party ploughed through practically FIVE times as much, working in the same very busy ward of Birkenhead and Tranmere.
It seems Phil liar (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) Davies failed to rise to and meet the SAME demand.
The hard right Council Leader has also let himself down several times in the past by being an unrepentent, inveterate liar. See here, here, here, here and here.
TOTAL = 31
TOTAL = 30
TOTAL = 26
The also rans… (names and totals only)
Alan Brighouse (LIB DEM)
Geoffrey Watt (TORY)
Tracey Pilgrim (TORY)
TOTAL = 21
Jean Stapleton (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 16
Stuart Whittingham (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 12
Matthew Daniel (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 11
Christopher Carubia (LIB DEM)
Lesley Rennie (TORY)
Warren Ward (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 9
Anita Leech (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Phil Gilchrist (LIB DEM)
TOTAL = 8
Steve Foulkes (ULTRA HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Stuart Kelly (LIB DEM)
TOTAL = 7
Moira McLaughlin (ULTRA HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Ron Abbey (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 6
Dave Mitchell (LIB DEM)
Paul Hayes (TORY)
Paul Stuart (HARD RIGHT LABOUR, FEIGNING LOVE FOR CORBYN AT ELECTION TIME)
TOTAL = 5
Jeff Green (TORY)
Pat Williams (LIB DEM)
Pat Hackett (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Thomas Usher (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 4
Brian Kenny (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Steve Williams (TORY)
TOTAL = 3
Tom Anderson (TORY)
Treena Johnson (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 2
Adam Sykes (TORY)
Irene Williams (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Joe Walsh (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
John Hale – retired – (TORY)
Julie McManus (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Louise Reecejones (NEVER OPPOSED AUSTERITY / CUTS = HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Phillip Brightmore (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
Les Rowlands (TORY)
Walter Smith – deceased – (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = 1
If you’ve got this far, you may be thinking, hmmm, that’s not everyone is it?
You’d be correct. There are only 43 councillors listed above, one of whom is retired and the other who is dead, both of whom still managed to undertake more work than those in the list below.
Yes, readers, here come the dregs, featuring the 25 councillors who did the sum total of nothing for their constituents despite collecting a total of at least £184,000 in allowances for occasionally turning up in 2017 …when they felt like it.
These people may be unusually active of late, and knocking on your door over the next week or so, keen to receive the promise of your vote in time for the local elections on May 3rd.
Your unwitting endorsement will enable the obscene gravy train to rev up and continue on track, swelling their bank balances …and for very little in return !
Except if you live in Birkenhead & Tranmere where – there’s no denying – the one and only Green Party Councillor is certainly putting a shift in !
Far be it from us to recommend who you vote for, but we DO urge you to put two and two together, weigh it all up, and vote in accordance with your conscience AND the evidence that Michael Dixon has prised out of the council and that we’ve reproduced here.
AND FINALLY… here it is, it’s Zero hours / Zero effort contracts all round for the following roll call of Wirral Council deadbeats…
HALL OF SHAME 2017
NO CASELOAD = ZERO TIME INVESTED ON BEHALF OF CONSTITUENTS
George Davies, Deputy Leader, alleged racist (ULTRA HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Bill Davies (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Paul Doughty (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Adrian Jones (ULTRA HARD RIGHT LABOUR, feigning love for Corbyn at election time)
TOTAL = ZERO
Christine Jones (HARD RIGHT LABOUR, feigning love for Corbyn at election time)
TOTAL = ZERO
Tony Jones (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Ann McLachlan (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Chris Meaden (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Bernie Mooney (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Christina Muspratt (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Tony Norbury (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Matthew Patrick (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Denise Realey (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Tony Smith (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Christine Spriggs (HARD RIGHT LABOUR, but still keen to have a UKIP candidate banjaxed)
TOTAL = ZERO
Michael Sullivan (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Jerry Williams (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
Gillian Wood (HARD RIGHT LABOUR)
TOTAL = ZERO
SUB-TOTAL HARD RIGHT LABOUR DEADBEAT COUNT = 18
Eddie Boult (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
David Burgess-Joyce (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
David Elderton (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
Gerry Ellis (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
Andrew Hodson (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
Kathy Hodson (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
Cherry Povall (TORY)
TOTAL = ZERO
SUB-TOTAL TORY DEADBEAT COUNT = 7
LIB DEM DEADBEAT COUNT = 0
GREEN DEADBEAT COUNT = 0
OVERALL DEADBEAT COUNT = 25 Wirral councillors, over three quarters of whom answer to hard right Labour. Therefore hard right Labour dominate and win the deadbeat count hands down, as expected.
MIND HOW YOU VOTE !!
Toodle Pip !
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