Tag Archives: Councillor Phil Davies

Liverpool Echo claims Councillor Moira McLaughlin is as clean as a whistle. WE KNOW DIFFERENT. #DisabilityDiscrimination

Link to a few historical tweets: Who was covering up the disability discrimination? Resigning Councillor Moira McLaughlin, member for the corrupted Social Services. Watchdog accuses Wirral Council of discrimination against disabled people https://t.co/jJ8NuTgAiQ — Wirral In It Together (@Wirral_In_It) October … Continue reading

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Wirral’s Hard Right Labour getting a taste of democracy as The Matron resigns from the party

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party… Or maybe not?  Maybe now is the time for all hard right enablers of disability discrimination – who’ve outstayed their welcome – to bail … Continue reading

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So Phil, You Still Have a BIG Reputation to Defend? jOGon.com

25th November 2016 On 1st July 2013, the date of the above media statement, Wirral Council leader Phil Davies and then Chief Executive Graham Burgess knew it would have been dishonest to claim that only one business had gone under from the now declared total … Continue reading

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UPDATED – “Bold, unsubstantiated … defamatory … harassment” but now proven beyond doubt – James Griffiths was right

but 22nd November 2016 Three years and seven months ago Surjit Tour, the “Monitoring” Officer at Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council threatened a libel action against James Griffiths, a whistleblower working for Council contractor Enterprise Solutions, for claiming that Wirral Council’s … Continue reading

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Council leader sells off strategic green space, claims he’s rescued it for us …but what happened next?

2nd July 2015 See this recent article in the Liverpool Echo: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/anger-after-birkenhead-grassland-left-9371231 Map of the site in question: Proximity to downtown Birkenhead: So, as we can see,  it would be a very short walk back to the Chelsea tractor for shoppers loaded … Continue reading

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Hopeless. A distracted journo and a mayor with a dodgy history – in the clear

I was tweeting tonight.  Nothing unusual about that on a Sunday – or any other day that ends in a ‘y’. Anyway, somebody popped onto my timeline with the following: It’s safe ground, for a journo or anyone else to have … Continue reading

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The Wirral Council leader’s register of gifts and hospitality – looks suspect

Back in January 2013, shameless, unapologetic, inveterate liar (see here, here, here, here, here, and here.) Council leader Phil Davies was offered a ticket for an Everton match, along with a free slap up meal – by Trinity Mirror Newspapers, owners of The Wirral News. As … Continue reading

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As a Council Leader, would YOU get up and walk out of a Landmark Meeting, never to return?

On Friday 15th November 2013, there was a landmark meeting at Wallasey Town Hall between the Wirral Council “Improvement” Board, CEO Graham “Mistakes” Burgess, shameless, unapologetic, inveterate liar (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) Council leader Phil Davies and the public (about 50 of … Continue reading

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15 months on, an answer is in for my FoI request about former CEO Jim Wilkie

Like previous favoured ex-employees, former Chief executive Jim Wilkie is having his personal information AND privacy jealously guarded by his former employer, Wirral Council.  In fact they’ve gone way beyond the extra mile once again. Remember when it took over a YEAR to … Continue reading

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Openness? Transparency? Public dialogue? Democracy in Action? Look no further…

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