How Corrupt is your local authority/council?

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It is beggars belief in my county (Pembrokeshire) just how bent and selfserving the council leaders are.

Scandal after scandal lately and still the head honcho is still in power and this is a bloke who earns £225,000 a year which is more than the prime minister.

They swept under the carpet complaints and suspicions of a council worker abusing children and behaving inapropriately (i.e. taking pictures of boys in changing rooms) to protect their image, this bloke then went on to abuse a boy. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28330763" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28330763</a>

The leader then also allowed himself to avoid taking council pension payments (unlawfully) and take them as cash payments to avoid tax to the sum of £50k, and despite this being deemed unlawful council board voted down a vote of no confidence (masonry handshakes and a fear of losing their overpaid jobs no doubt) in him along with voting down a motion for this bloke to repay these illegal payments..... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wale.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wale..</a>.


It is unbelievable what these people get away with! so what i'm asking is how corrupt is your local authority and has anyone had any expereince of taking the fight from the people to the council? (main fight i can think of would be to withold council tax payments in a vote of no confidence from the public)
 
My council isn't corrupt.

It is just wasteful with cash.

It is always bleating about how short of money it is while is still has the cash to pay people to do none-jobs and to pay fantastic pensions to all its staff.
 
Not as much as Ashton Under Lyne CID were when my dad had boozers in the 70's and 80's,when his license was coming up for renewal out would come the brown envelopes.
I would name and shame those cunts but I doubt it would do any good.
 
To be fair our local councillor is pretty decent.

And shes a fucking Lib Dem
 
We have one at present who is at least making it public who voted to back the council leader in his illegal money pocketing and those again who have voted to not pursue him for the money back.

I hazard to guess there is a stern masonic backing involved there, have wrote to my local councilor (who voted to back the council leader) why they deemed illegal activity not worthy of being in the public eye and why she voted to A) keep it private and b) see it as something not worthy of punishment or at least a return of the 'stolen' money.
 
urmston said:
My council isn't corrupt.

It is just wasteful with cash.

It is always bleating about how short of money it is while is still has the cash to pay people to do none-jobs and to pay fantastic pensions to all its staff.
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But what perks do the councillors provide for themselves? What sort of money is just frittered away by councillors for their own advantage?

Politician = self-serving bastard. How many local councillor mice are desperate to be members of Parliament rats?
 
another generation said:
Rochdale. Don't think anything untoward has ever happened there...
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I think your tongue was firmly in your cheek there Mel.

144 complaints about Cyril Smith abusing kids in Rochdale and nothing came to light until after his death.

A report in 1991 about the abuse in Knowl View with kids as young as 8 being prostitutes was suppressed and never saw the light of day.

I hope some of the cunts that made these stories go away are still alive.
 
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