Tag Archives: Martin Morton

Wirral’s Far Right Labour getting a taste of democracy as The Far Right 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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A strange, defensive move from Graham Burgess, Wirral Council’s Chief Executive

16th July 2013 (The first three hyperlinks below go to three sections of video.  Thanks go to John Brace). Here’s a strange development.  This occurred at last night’s full Wirral Council meeting, where I bailed out early in disgust.  In … Continue reading

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Saints and Sinners

Martin Morton exposes the ongoing criminal negligence of his local parliamentary candidate Frank Field. AND the local council’s long term trashing of its statutory obligation in law to protect and defend vulnerable people within its own jurisdiction. Powerful stuff…

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A tale of two thefts

Theft number #1 http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Suspicious-son-uses-hidden-camera-catch-carer/story-24457071-detail/story.html Person responsible = Joanna Inch, carer Amount of money involved = £15, following the discovery of money going missing Number of persons targeted = 1 OAP Number of arrests = 1 Number of court cases = 1 Number … Continue reading

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Wirral Council Wins at Tribunal. Vulnerable People Lose.

9th June 2014 Below is a report from Local Government Lawyer, explaining a recent First Tier Information Tribunal ruling in favour of Wirral Council: Local Government Lawyer report on ruling …from which the inconvenient phrase ‘disability discrimination’ has been omitted. And … 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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#FoI Act – Arguing against ‘Confidentiality’ and ‘Commercial Confidence’ exemptions

Wirral Council’s disability discrimination ~ found in 2010 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission First ICO Decision Notice Second ICO Decision Notice The following requests were sent to Wirral Council almost a year ago, but were never answered.  It has taken … Continue reading

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The Saga of DLA Piper – can the truth finally be allowed to emerge? Er, not yet…

Regular readers of the blog will be well aware of this one, and the depressing depths to which senior officers and councillors of Wirral Council have plummeted in order to draw a concealing veil across disability discrimination – as found by … 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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Wirral Council’s facilitation of whistleblowers

Attention all whistleblowers!! An “approachable” Wirral councillor stands tall as the person to go to directly.   I hear this person is “yer man”, and his record speaks for itself.  If you’re a fledgling whistleblower, slightly unsure, but determined to make an … Continue reading

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