ACCORDING TO a well-respected town hall source the chief executive of Blackpool Council, Steve Weaver, has packed his trunk and is set to say goodbye to the circus after he had the offer of his resignation accepted by new council leader Simon Blackburn.
There is not expected to be any kind of severance package.
The former town planner, who spent 28 years at Blackburn with Darwen council, was appointed as chief executive under Labour and has served since April 2002. Recent figures state that he was being paid a package totalling £169,000 per year.
One has to credit Weaver and his team for securing large quantities of cash to be spent on regeneration, however one has to also question the spending of this money. We must also question why some council departments have been allowed to continually overspend their budget.
The lack of foresight that resulted in many town hall jobs having to be lost at once also demonstrates a lack of touch with reality; we all knew the cuts were coming, but seemingly Blackpool Council did not. Former council leader Peter Callow was blamed, but really the failure to assess staff levels before then suggests naivety on the part of senior council box-tickers.
Auditors PriceWaterhouseCoopers were called in to evaluate savings in one council department, and for a fee of £60,000, they were able to identify savings of £1m per year. This suggests that the council is not running efficiently at all and Steve Weaver must harbour some of the blame for this.
There will now be a vacuum at the top of the town hall. If Simon Blackburn wanted to do the right thing, he would share a chief executive with somewhere else. He would also cut the salary of this job, and use that saving to prop up the libraries that faced cuts and run a library awareness campaign to encourage their use.
Any left over cash can contribute to the Illuminations which would rectify the myth that he wants to cut them.
All in all, another good day for the town.
4 down 2 to go and we may pick up some stragglers along the way….delighted is an understatement. Thats the 2nd bit of good news I have had today.
Yeah. Finally Blackburn’s grown a pair and accepted Weaver’s resignation.
Kate, did you fall off your chair at this news as you seem to make a habit of it?
No when I got the call I was in a garden centre jumping for joy I am not one for drawing attention to myself but I can always make allowances, and this is one of those occassions.
I hear she was spotted dancing around a Christmas tree
Ha ha ha lol
From my experience of Helen France she certainly has to go. I have never experienced such a duplicitous, arrogant, self serving, compacent and blinkered individual. For that she costs all of the good people of Blackpool nearly 140 grand per annum. I think that there may be a lot more to Weaver’s departure than meets the eye when persons like Helen France are in highly responsible and vital positions. A lot more may now be going to come out of the woodwork now that the Shallow-Calow shield has gone. A large part of this will be down to this blog. Well fuckin done all!!!!
She’s on the list but should part with the other name just yet.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Champange!!!
Praise the lord!!!
and he does work in mysterious ways!!!
a dream realised!
This is down to Phils site,this site has brought in people like Dave Plamer who in turn exposed Ian Fowler,this site exposed Callow, who is now out and as a result Weaver is out.
Hurrah for Philtheone!
Phil for CEO!
Dodgy deals exposed
Unscrupulous characters ousted
Villans vanquished
The names BOND, Phil Bond, licensed to cut the boots from under you… no messing
Daves back today, should make for a pleasant surprise at the end of a good break, BEFORE WE START AGAIN. This is by NO means finished, no stone unturned and all that. There are 2 more main ones accountable, but if we pick up a few more stragglers on the way, no harm done.
which others Kate?
kateburns8@sky.com am caring for mum and aunt right now so contact me on laptop I will send privately
if they are forwarned they can tamper with evidence, not likely.
Very good news indeed, makes up to the lousy weather I have returned to, lets hope he takes a few other’s with him, like Helen France who continues to want to hide things from the electorate by not answering awkward questions, makes me more suspicious the longer she continues with this line, it also shows lack of transparency if you ask me, something that Simon Blackburn needs to address if he wants the electorate behind him. Lets not also forget our friends who run the highways department who I would not trust to build me a Scalextric track. Mind you they did help Labour win the local election with there ignorance towards motorist’s. I only hope that Simon takes them to task and gets someone in the driving seat who is both qualified and experienced to give the motorist a fairer deal.
welcome back there are people willing to sign statements if needed that no for sale signs were up on Crystal Road and the main man said proof of demolition will be obvious by the buildings absence.
Thanks Kate
I have asked Helen France if the Fowlers approached the council to buy the property or vice versa but as per usual she has failed to answer this question,I have also asked her why she informed the Fowlers by email early November 2009 that the council were going ahead with the acquisition of this property despite not been in receipt of the written valuation report until later in November, again she has failed to answer this, I have now left a message for Simon Blackburn to contact me, so that I can have a meeting with him to discuss this and show him the email and discuss other property that the council have bought and the lack of transparency in these dealings, hopefully he will soon get in touch. There is also the purchase of the land that the Saville hotel was on, before it burned down and the council had to take action to demolish the rest of the property, as I was led to believe that it was not insured, again there valuer put a price of £275,000 for this vacant land with no planning permission on Tylsley road, they even mentioned in the valuation that the vendor was in legal litigation with the council about the charge they had put on the land, was has that got to do with an independent Valuer. It seems that the council bought there way out of legal proceedings using tax payers money for there incompetence. I have sent the info on this to Phil so hopefully he may do something on it in the future.
Thanks for the reminder!
And Helen France has continually dodged questions about the “inside job” £135,000 theft on the tramway.The biggest theft in the history of Fleetwood and probably Blackpool that the public didn’t know or were told about until it had all been “nicked”. For fucks sake you can do better than that you civic morons. Somebody at Blackpool Transport/Blackpool Council made a good fast buck out of that jolly jape. Money that belonged to you good people. Helen France has also overseen lies to us via FOI and basically has stuck two big fat fingers up at us when we proved it to her. These lot are rotten to the core and made the big mistake that they consider everyone to be just like them. However regarding people as being thick as a whale fuckin omelette, as they all do, has started to catch them up. Their trouble is that they cannot acquaint anybody with decency, integrity and ethics because they’ve never heard of the fuckin words. Excellent news with more surely to follow.
The Gagzette has yet to feature the story,lol!
Its on, at last but Philtheone was first, so fuck you Gazette!
The Gazette has had the evidence for months. The Gazette has had evidence of lies from the Council for months. The truth will out eventually because even in “France” 135 grand is a lot to go walkies and the Council does sweet fuck all about it apart from ignoring evidence and bona fide concerns. I am firmly of the mind that the Gazette knows full well that something suspiciously corrupt was ongoing surrounding the thefts so assisted their chums in burying it. It stinks worse than the fuckin double smelly United Utilities sewage farm than WBC foisted on us twelve yeasrs ago and lied, lied and lied again.A sewage farm that involved the Gazette swallowing every item of facile bullshit that WBC fed it for years. They really treat us like we all live in La La Land. However thanks to Phil, Heg and the guys I think the worm is starting to turn.
Astonboy I am happy to see you hate WBC as much as me, I see an ally,I hate that bastard gary payne,bringer of congestion.
Helen France as Chief Exec ? Surely never!! -a proven liar and well practised incompetent.
I recently came across her LBTB “Destination Management Plan 2009-2010″ on NWDA site. (co presenter ,M.Callow) The list of “major tourist investment proposals “caught my eye because it includes ,as part of the” Masterplan”, two BPB items…..
Area Rejuvenation 2009- £4.1 mill for rejuvenation of Ice Rink.
Nickland 2010-£6.8 mill for new,themed family attraction.
I have no idea about the ££, but the section on jobs creation is noteworthy -i.e. Nickland ,new jobs = 0 ,which is about 200+ short of the 200+ new jobs that Callow used as justification for the infamous £5 mill loan ,as I recall.
A typo in 2008 or was there a distortion of facts to cover up last year’s loan fiasco?
And, as for the lies,misery and contempt HF has heaped upon Blackpool residents in the implementation of Council- led (nb NOT Cycling England ) cycle routes etc.- Do Not Get Me Started.
Dave
I am reliably informed that she cannot hold these documents back, and if she does, it is suggested an investigation into the legality of the criteria for the purchase of that particular property is in order. Then the documents should be handed over for transparency reasons. When you get them as you will one way or another, and it clearly shows this was a done deal by the dates, and the evidence by the neighbours on Crystal Road she should resign if not then she should be sacked. If we get the other stuff in the mean time well no brainer really.
Oh! go on, go on, go on, its started, newsfromnowhere you are a star, this is what we want proof that this was all a con, “new jobs = 0 ,which is about 200+ short of the 200+ new jobs that Callow used as justification for the infamous £5 mill loan”.
A proper audit of Blackpool accounts must be done to prove taxpayers/ council tax money has been wasted on false promises.
Hopefully we can now have some sanity brought to the level of alterations for “cycling” , maybe even get some changed back. Totally agree that the HIGHWAYS DEPT needs to be brought under control as they are clearly OUT OF CONTROL
It has to be said so far the new council seem to be doing what is expected of them. Everyone clap hands.
Yes, I was originally told that they didnt think he would get rid of Weaver, I said he should have been going for what I saw so was very disappointed to hear that originally. So a big thank you to Simon Blackburn for ridding the town of an overpaid miscredent following his own indoctrination of believeth in me for I know all, or follow me as I know best, and if you dont your out doctrine. I do hope these ridiculous wages will now be cut as not one of these on the gravy train are worth the amount they are getting paid after all the is not the country they are running just a town.
At this rate, there will be noone left for me to abuse!
I am just about to open a bottle of wine (rare for me) hope this story is true, hope the nine thousand leaflets I put out in Ingthorpe (saying the Council bosses should go) had a small influence.
Better be true or how can I justify having wine with Monday tea???
Collective effort Steven; crack it open!
I’d say Highways need looking at but would probably need a lawyer present if I went into detail…
Nemesis, Spill the beans, send it to me at davepalme@msn.com, I will get the legal bit sorted before going to press.
Just had a thought how many properties do the council own on our behalf, and what happens if we find out that the said land is then given away as part of and enducement for the developers to build on said land… wonder how many times this might have happened. I take it this is part of the freedom of informmation act too.
sorry typo
If its juicy and true fess up, see even I am getting into the lingo on here ha ha
I wonder which local authority is going to inherit Weaver. He’s firmly on board the council gravy train come merry-go-round that recycles gross incompetence and that unwelcome predisposition to be good old bent. I for one will try to forewarn the people who may, unfortunately, inherit him via the outrageous civic nepotism that causes these people to never, ever have to improve or learn.
Ha!
I wonder if he made the same offer he made to Callow – only Blackburn called his bluff?
Credit to Blackburn, if that was the case. Credit to Weaver himself, even, if he did the honourable thing and was willing to fall on his sword (even if it was a bluff). He’s not as indisposable as Callow thought he was.
Indisposable? I think I meant ‘indispensable’.
lol he’s disposable all right, pull the chain now,lol.
Oh Harold you wouldn’t flush him would you? I thought he was your favourite turd
Fowler was actually, still hoping he will be investigated for his malfeasence,either way, at this rate there will be noone left for me to abuse!
Christ HEG, there’s always YOURSELF 3:-)
:-O
Good idea NARG,chains and whips at the ready!
It has been said that Weaver has actually retired, i.e., resigned but presumably won’t be inflicting himself on any other local authority.
I would have thought given that “we are so lucky to have” these public sector managers who “can earn so much more money in the private sector”, Weaver will move on to triple his salary working for some company or other.
Phil if the cunt has actually retired, what will this fuckers pension be? what about a handshake?
If he gets a golden goodbye, it will be one that was written into his original contract under the previous Labour administration.
Correct me if I am wrong but isnt a golden shower in order, I have just found out what that means and thats as crude as it gets from me… just to be inkeeping with some of the other comments on the site
The Council’s website says he’s retiring, which puts a whole different spin on it. He’s 61, so still under the compulsory age (which will have been abolished by the time he reached it). He might not be getting a golden handshake, but will his retirement contributions be ‘topped up’, as other local authorities have done with exiting chief execs? I think you mentioned he was already getting a £23K annual pension contribution from taxpayers, Phil?
Are we taking odds on his successor yet? I’m tempted to put Helen France forward as a favourite (unless she gets tarred too closely to certain individuals in the previous administration), but this £60K cap keeps being bandied about in The Gasjet’s comments section – astroturf territory for Blackburn.
It says in the print version of the Gasjet that he has retired… from the council, but “will be exploring other positions outside the authority”. (I just saved you 50p there!)
In my opinion they are substituting the word retired in when it should really be resigned. Leaving through choice. Perhaps this was a stipulation of the council spin machine so as not to give the impression that he couldn’t work with Simon Blackburn or vice versa.
I see in the Gaggedzette that Blackburn has been patting Weaver on the back with some nice comments.
It would have been far better to come clean and let people in on the ‘traditional’ resignation offer that is made to new council leaders and that it was accepted by Labour. Simon Blackburn could have said that the town clearly wanted change by virtue of the way it voted, and that whilst Weaver was a capable man, we wanted to reshuffle to keep the boardroom fresh and on the ball.
I fear you may be right about Helen France, but she has no credentials to lead the town. She would be more of the same, and she was slated by her previous council for running her department down. She would be a disaster.
If it has to be an inside job, I would rather it were someone like Russ Weaver propelled up there from his assistant directorship, but ideally it would be someone with private sector experience so that they appreciate the value of money.
I normally find myself agreeing with your comments but where on earth did you come up with the idea of Russ Weaver for Chief Exec. God forbid. I would be interested to hear what talents or skills or experience you believe he might be able to bring to the role, especially as he has zero experience of anything in the Private Sector. If he is the best that there is on offer it is little wonder we are in the mess we are in. He is a nice bloke but has nothing to offer at all. Having said that,if it were a toss up between France and Russ Weaver I would choose the latter.
Best of a bad bunch is not good enough there, is always Julian.
Point taken, though I wasn’t suggesting him directly. He was, probably because of his surname, just the first subordinate director that came to mind.
And yes, he was benefiting from a £23k pension contribution per year.
I guess this isn’t the same for all council workers (or maybe it is) but the directors at the council all receive 16.2% of their salary paid into a pension fund.
No wonder the country’s run out of money!
Phil if the directors get 16.2% what about the workers?
5%
I hope Phil that you will start removing comments with FOUL LANGUAGE as this doesn’t make it suitable for introducing the site to most others. Certainly doesn’t enhance respect.
Piss off you twat!
If I did that, there wouldn’t be many comments left. I also think in some cases they provide greater context to the rage behind the comment. I agree in some cases it is rather gratuitous but my approach here is hands off; I hope that the comments are self moderating in that readers will see your objections and perhaps tone it down a little.
I really don’t have time to scrutinise every comment!
I am playing with a few word filters too, so obscenities may get replaced, i.e. fuck -> cluck. I like stupid things like that, and certainly in HEG’s case it might end up creating some rather fun sentences.
bollox!
Land of hope when I first came on this site I did feel HEG was a bit to ripe but in time you realise he is making some valid points (although 90% are wrong), after all what are words “a rose by any other name….”yawn.
HEG, will you PLEASE marry my wife. She’s a foul mouthed bitch and I lover her – —to leave
I took her to a wife swapping party in honour of her mother’s regiment Waffen ZZ and she won Cllr Heap but she reckoned he had a little one. One what? What the Hell she seldom talked to me.
Well done Phil. A little adult inter reaction is brilliant and could get us all into Formula One, Lords and backwards into the Commons
lol no probs, I like the idea of the Waffen SS as well, they could be used to clean out some of the zanulabour created creatures, starting with the Pollitts!
Yep, just the sort of language you want seen when getting trying to get media people interested in a good story on the site.
I came on here knowing it was man’s site, if I can turn a deaf ear to some of the comments and read past the language so can anyone else. Besides some of the comments are quite humorous. The people on her are more intelligent than those on the gasjet so I am happy here. Its the content that attracted me they are passionate about the town, and they want to see fairness and change and you dont get that pussy footing around individuals of a delicate nature. You need to be factual state your case and be prepared to put up or shut up. The more people who can produce evidence of wrong doing by individuals who are lining their own pockets at our expense the better. We and I say that as an individual who is prepared to assist in the cause of justice want rid of certain members of the old guard ( exec group and their cronies ) for good reason I may add, we just need sight of a couple more documents to nail another 2 people. So if you have any info dont hold back some of the group are a dab hand at helping those in need just contact them privately with your info and lets rid the town of a few more parasites.
Land of Hope if you are looking for a politically correct site that is dull,uninforming and squeaky clean, may I suggest the labour party?
Swearing is part of life,Get the fuck over it.
No HEG I do look at this site for the interesting stories the Gazette water down or don’t want to touch , just suggesting more people might comment and also help make this site a stronger force than a mere blog for garbage coming from just a regular few motor mouth dick heads, I don’t remember Dave Palmer needing to resort to such crap.
Land of Hope please get over yourself, I as well as many others come on this site to read about the truth with what is happening in this town and I also look forward to the humour, be it smutty or riddled with foul language, it is after all aimed at adults ie over the age of 18, may I make a suggestion, if you find it offensive maybe you should not read it!
“Yep, just the sort of language you want seen when getting trying to get media people interested in a good story on the site”
“regular few motor mouth dick heads”
land of no hope,at least have the strength of character to stand by your requests,if you dont like bad language, why use it yourself?? Or is that only applicable to others except yourself?
Its called freedom of speech, it doesnt undermine the validity of the points raised,in fact the gasjet doesnt make anything like the number valid points raised on here and it doesnt use’ bad’ language, I know which I prefer.
THE FUCKING TRUTH.
Have A FUCKIN NICE DAY!
I agree there’s more truth and info on here, but there are bigger fish in the media than the Gazette and they’re not likely to give much creedence or time to a good story on this the website if it is full of such nice language, THAT WAS THE POINT
For somemone who wishes to converse with motormouth dickheads,your views are highly amusing.
land of hope, this site has creedence becuase of the points made,regardless of the language, as local mps/councillors and public sector jobsworths have discovered.
You have made your point and contradicted yourself as well,if you dont like the fuckin swearing you are free to choose another site, or better still produce an article???
The former DieterHowlow. WhiteRiver = BlackBurn, geddit ? Only temporary til I can come up with something better !
Good start, now just to get rid of the prat in charge of highways and I’ll be very happy.
Think I’ll apply for Chief Exec, no experience or suitable qualifications but that doesn’t seem to matter anyway, after all you just go along with the advice from the ‘experts’ in charge of the other departments. Plus I’ll do the job for £60k a year.
Completely unrelated, but I was walking through town on Monday and noticed that the ‘big’ wheel appeared to be being dismantled.
What has happened to Eileen Ormand’s monument to town centre prosperity and regeneration?
looks like the the big wheel has come off the gravy train, lol.
They are talking about bringing it back later in the season, that area used to be a burial ground, It is not wise to keep disturbing the ground in and around that area.
Whooooooooooooooo – I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!
Oh well maybe it’ll give me a new hobby. I’ll have to climb down off the wardrobe to exchange my spiderman outfit for some ghostbusters overalls, stick the dyson in a rucksack on my back and hey presto! Who y’gonna call? LOL
The BID supremo, Ms Ormand, stated with a great fanfare, when the coming of the wheel was reported, that it was only due to her contacts that she had managed to bring such a fantastic attraction to the town. Well we have all seen what a draw this has been. I must have passed at the wrong times but I have yet to see anyone on the thing.
That apart it looks like a monstrosity. I suggest she puts whatever contacts she might have to better use. This has been a disgrace.
With any luck, the operator might now have second thoughts about putting the wheel up again later in the season as first announced.
Get the square open again to through traffic – and quickly. We might still have visitors wanting to come to ‘Grid-lock’ city.
It might not have been Ms Ormand’s idea to put the wheel up, but she is responsible. It does beg the question, what does she do to earn her fat salary?
Promotes the council at every opportunity. It’s time this BID thing was scrapped; the way it was voted in was a farce and the way it appears to operate is also a farce. Out of all the money from businesses that the BID taxes, the two biggest things it spends it on are Eileen Ormand and her deputy Donna Jones. Total per year circa £100,000.
So what is the fucking point in it?
Totally agree with your comments about the wheel as well; I have also been wondering if I have passed by it at the wrong time or whether nobody actually went on it.
On a more serious point. Why do have we a big wheel in the town centre when there is one on central pier and there are funfairs all over the place?
If there is going to be some sort of happening outside St John’s then lets have a music festival and by a music festival I mean a proper one not some amateur x-factor type dogshit.
I’ve recently returned from Kaunas in Lithuania, I was there to check out the Jazz Festival. The main stage was bang in the centre of the city and free for all to watch. In between acts people were buying food and drink and shopping. There was an audience from all over Europe and beyond. At night the bars and clubs were heaving and parts of the festival were pay-on-the-door in clubs after the evenings entertainment in square was over but well worth the cover price.
If correctly organised, ie by somebody with experience and not by some of the current council officer numpties, a weekend summer festival in St John’s would boost the business in the town centre massively.
The so-called business experts in Blackpool originally scaremongered and looked down their noses at The Rebellion Punk Festival when it first came to Blackpool. Now they are clamouring to win the business of the more than 5000 people it attracts from all over Europe and elsewhere. Music tourism actually contributes a significant portion of the UK’s GDP – FACT!
So my question is: Why are our overpaid council tourism numpties still flogging the 1950s working-class seaside resort or the Hen/Stag party model of tourism?
Phil the missus told me SB was on the radio,(do u know of this?)hes adopting a back to basics approach,no fancy bullshit,untested ideas,just getting the basics right,like rubbish,roads etc,all the things that were negelcted.
Get RID of the BID cos its run by a fucked-up FLID, who has the mentallity of a KID,playing on a shit SKID,using her bra as a LID,
lol
Harold, that was more or less his manifesto, so I am not surprised! I haven’t heard it myself though.
Harold, I thought that I was crackers lol.
lol
Tang they will lift you for sure, as a Terrorist. Ghost buster in deed, I’m not even putting any thought to what you are doing on the wardrobe, what you do in your private life and all that…Phil do you vet these guys before you let them on the site ha ha
Who needs narcotics when you have PTSD – its like living on a diet of magic mushroom soup chased down by vodka lol
Ah Katherine. I take it you’re not interested in running off with me to Peru to raise llamas? Lightweight!!!
Dont throw the gaunlet down if your not prepared to pick it up, Peru? stuff that Seychelles…now whos the light weight. ha ha
No llamas in the Seychelles but I suppose Kate in a bikini will be better than llamas lol!
Helen France is gone, no more, told to clear her desk last week, expect massive changes at BBC, whole empires dismantled, you read it here first
Hooray!!!
More good work from SB he does appear to be shaping into what Blackpool needed a leader with a clear idea of what to do.
Thats easy to explain, its because he reads Philtheone;the oracle of local politics.
Only one more to go now, but a few they moulded woudnt go amiss either, but hey I am happy. Well done Simon, it could be a matter of Simon says from now on that will be a turn up for the books.
let me guess, Peter Cross? Cavill? Lund?
5 down 1 to go…he he he that’s 3 guess’s Harold though only one is correct.
has to be cross, hes a designer of congestion, that twat couldnt design a straight line with a pen and ruler!,lol
HEG – you are so right. Has been said many many times on here. What I can’t understand is why nobody in the council can see what his department is doing to this town. The Talbot Square changes that he tried to sneak through very recently are another example of his gross incompetence. Thankfully these changes are now being reviewed. Let us hope that some common sense now prevails. Even better if he and his cronies got the bullet.
I would give Cross a gas chamber along with Gary Payne,lol
Cannot wait to hear the full story on this one. Will she be walking with immediate effect? Any payoffs?
about time!
Lund will be the de facto CE, but in name only all power with SB, expect Cavel to go and a whole host of senior managers at Places, Shirley Young will be taking over most of it, a woman known for her ruthless streak! Places has been a division in crisis for a long time, all other divisions have cut to teh bone, Places did not, France did not have the guts to cut! Now she is paying the price, this will get bloody!
Hmmm I am saying nothing ( for a change );o) though really not sure Chanel Shirley is the right choice. Like I said the Town Hall will be an interesting place this year..plenty to write about. Could be 6 down and no major players to go, wey hey. Some underlings will be removed but then thats not a bad thing.
Some major players are going Kate, namely the senior managers in places! Like I said it will get bloody, I agree about Shirley Young promoted beyond her abilities or so they say, but what many are not realising is that a major coup has taken place, power has shifted back to the elected, before the council was officer run, and was constructed so as to represent the best interests of the senior officers, the joke doing the rounds is that Directors can not fart without the permission of the Leader
I must say that Simon Blackburn appears to have taken the bull by the horns. IF what we are hearing is correct, he is to be congratulated for having the guts to take power from the unelected council officers and take personal responsibility. After all it will be him and his party who are blamed if things do not go well, as Callow and Co have discovered. They let the animals run the farm with no accountability, up to now.
This is all good news, that is long overdue. It is a fact that SB can not do any worse than those who have previously been paid a fortune to deliver. What will make my day is if Peter Cross and his crew get their marching orders too.Well done SB – and I am not Labour supporter but credit where it is due.
I have a feeling about you….hmm not saying on line, I am very discreet when needs be.
Sounds very ominous there, but I must be missing something. Please feel free to email – tramstop@talktalk.net
sorry tramstop it hit the wrong person in reply
Insider, no mention of Chanel Shirley then? you called it right well done. I wonder what the thought was behind Cavill? taking the positon.
By the way major announcement this week
Two very recent decision notices on the ICO website tell starkly what the Councils are like around here as regards people who challenge their incompetence, corruption and worse (FS50325638 and FS50324562). Wyre Borough Council attacked my fiance and me with relish because we had the audacity to ask them relevant questions; WBC lost both strands fuckin big style. And WBC have just made Gary Payne CEO ffs???? There is one still to come about Blackpool Council in the next few days that is the work of my brother (FS50310644). This decision indicates some rather strange decision making and “facts” as disclosed by BBC to the ICO. I put a lot of the attitudes at WBC and BBC down to rank arrogance and a fair amount of stupidity. Sites like this one are the only real oposition to these wankers. Good old “monkey” in South Tyneside. He must be getting right down their corrupt throats.
any links astonboy?
All here mate. I hate them Wyre Borough twats. Looks like certain local Councillors of a very repulsive nature have been lying about us as well. One of them is the Labour leader and he hasn’t got the fuckin bottle to respond to us. The BBC notice should be on next week.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2011/fs_50324562.ashx
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/decisionnotices/2011/fs_50325638.ashx
cheesr astonboy, any links on gary payne becoming ceo??, god i hate that cunt,hope he gets cancer.
Harold, told you once about that sort of comment!
sorry hope he gets Anal Shingles then.
Harold you are a tonic but I have to say what you wish on someone else you get back ten fold..send them all love and slate them all on line but then just add the comment cancel that thought and you will be fine. I teach manifestation your thoughts are powerful if you know how to create reality in your demands…I do havent been wrong so far, but I have to say I only use this technique when pissed off, but I have to have a serious reason to do it.
cheers kate but I love abusing these people;its one of me favourite hobbies lol.
gary payne is the bastard child of ian brady and myra hindley
I get great pleasure from scorning politicians et al, especially after 10 pints,lol!
Bless you, I know where you are coming from given the playing field we are working with. I will do my bit to cover your ass karmically.
Thanks Kate,I need a guardian Angel! (even nutters like me,lol)
I read it in The Gazette, so it must be true*!
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/top_jobs_go_at_blackpool_council_1_3433340
*Tongue firmly in-cheek with that comment.
Good news about Helen France, but I’m completely mystified about replacing her with Alan Cavill. One useless mandarin is being replaced with an even more useless mandarin. Mind you, Cavill has history with Labour, whereas France is now history because of the last one
I think SB has done more for Blackpool in a week than that cretin Callow in 5 years,never again must that wanker be allowed to run Blackpool, Well done Simon Blackburn, onward and upward.
The structure tree they published today looks rather odd, not complaining but the council still wants putting back together again, for the good of Blackpool rather than the good of Senior Officers
Fantastic news about Helen France, I was getting rather fed up with her evasive answers, I always CC Calow and Simon Blackburn into the questions I was asking her in the hope that they would see her for what she is, there was no chance of transparency with her at the helm, I only hope that she is not getting a massive pay off at the tax payers expense. I hope that Simon now takes highways to task and drafts someone in capable of getting Blackpool moving again as the current bunch are not capable of building a scalextric track. I was in the process of complaining to the freedom of information commissioner over the lack of answers I had recently received from her, perhaps I no longer need to go down this route now. I have a meeting with Simon Blackburn on the 9th June, hopefully he can get me some answers to some of the questions I have put to her.