Tag Archives: Mike Smith

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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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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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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Anna Klonowski leaves her commission at Wirral Council – and Michael Frater’s departure

I received an email this morning from Local Government Consultant and external investigator Anna Klonowski, in response to an email I sent last night regarding years of disability discrimination at Wirral Council – as discovered by Mike Smith of the … Continue reading

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Is this ‘death by bureaucracy’? Exposing Disability Discrimination at Wirral Council

Two years ago, back in 2010, I approached my MP, Angela Eagle, with concerns that there had been systematic disability discrimination at Wirral Council.  She contacted the Equality and Human Rights Commission in order to pass on these concerns.  In … Continue reading

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