Tag Archives: David Green

The Rock ‘n Troll years. Today, we journey back to 2012… EPIC

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

This brief encounter with our first and only internet troll started way back in May 2012.  “eVirtual_Assist’ is our former Twitter user name.  We’d been up on Twitter for a while, doing what we do, exposing the neverending scandal and … Continue reading →

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Scandal-torn Wirral Council, has no “External Investigations Policy”.

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

4th October 2013 Some unsettling news arrived today, tucked away in an email from the Information Commissioner’s Office.  This revelation concerns a Freedom of Information request placed 16 months ago, way back in May 2012.  Wirral Council and the ICO have corresponded on it recently… PROTECT … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

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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How much of the £1 million plus pay-off money did Wirral’s Council leader sanction?

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

4th August 2013 On 21st June 2013, I noticed that Wirral’s Council shameless, unapologetic, inveterate liar (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) leader Phil Davies had started his own blog. The title of his very first post seemed quite promising: “Bringing Council Services … Continue reading →

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Wirral Council has just haemorrhaged an extra £455,500… #austerity

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

12th July 2013 I’ve had a response today to a recent Freedom of Information request, lodged on 15th June 2013.  This is a remarkably quick response time for  this council.  I’m also mightily relieved that despite the theme of the request … Continue reading →

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Dispatches ~ Wirral Council’s alleged Contract Impropriety and Subsequent Whitewash

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

17th June 2013 Wirral Council appears in Channel Four Dispatches programme about “How Councils Waste Our Money”.  Link to Wirral section here: What wasn’t mentioned here is that two of the suspended officers, David Green and David Taylor Smith, have … Continue reading →

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UPDATED – Former suspended officers David Green and David Taylor Smith are ££Paid off

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

26th February 2014 More information here, including dates of departure for pastures new. 14th June 2013 Former Director of Wirral Highways, David Green, the senior officer who…. brought bogus “bullying” charges against me in 2003, but with no comeback; forced … Continue reading →

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Public Servants With Attitudes (not nice ones, yikes!)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

7th June 2013 Whitewash news… The investigator into, “Why a senior Wirral Council Officer failed to declare an interest”, er…… fails to declare an interest https://t.co/alygqdiFlZ — Wirral In It 2gether (@Wirral_In_It) June 19, 2013 Today, I discovered my local … Continue reading →

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How Wirral Council disposed of me in 2003

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Some history Back around April 2003, David Green, former Director of the Technical Services Department (Highways) suspended me, when I was an Assistant Engineer, working for Highways.  I’d been employed within the Street Lighting section at the Council since 1996 and had found the … Continue reading →

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Wirral Council’s external ‘independent’ investigator Richard Penn. Whose side is he on?

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Make up your own mind here. The links below are by no means exhaustive and represent a quick selection taken from the net in a short time. Much more compelling stuff on Richard Penn’s increasingly questionable contribution is here ↓ … Continue reading →

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