Council website reveals whistleblower's secret identity (From Wirral Globe)

The people responsible for this actually have jobs?.
It's like the the Public Interest Disclosure Act doesn't exist!.
Please no more apologies and empty rhetoric about "mistakes" and "lessons learned".
These are peoples lives being messed up here.
Enough.

Incredible.

Just when you think they can't get any worse, they pull out all the stops to trash yet another person.

Well... isn't this just an astonishing fail of epic proportions!?

Hah! The Wirral Cabalic Council Clique fire a warning shot across the bows of any vessel piloted by a current or future whistleblower!!!

In one,plasticjock.

What an absolute disgrace.

This is no accident this has been done by the powers that be to get rid of Mr Downey. The council still have hidden many of the names from the DASS report but when its a whistleblower it is straight out the bag.

No doubt this will be another payoff for Mr Downey but its yet again the councils fault so we must all pay again.

Wirral council have yet again proved that they are stupid and cannot follow policy or basic rules and Wirralgate continues.

They protect their senior offices and the people who have made mistakes.

They out the whistleblowers on purpose.

Bad form, Really bad form!

Just when one might have thought they had reached bedrock and the morass of sludge they, as a sub species appear to thrive in, they can find an immeasurabley lower level in which to steep themselves.
To Mr Downey I say congratulations for having the courage to expose these individuals and also having the integrity to do so.
They are too arrogant to hang their heads in shame, but you can hold yours high for having done absolutely the RIGHT thing.

Mr Downey should seek legal advice and sue whoever is responsible.

The people who run the council website and the person who revealed the name should be sacked. This is against all those human rights the WBC are forever spouting off about.

Are you listening Mr.Field?.If you want to do right.DO IT RIGHT.
This was no incompetence and never was.
Premeditated and planned - these Council Officers know exactly what they're doing - as long as it benefits them.

It is now the major task for WBC to actually employ the likes of Martin Morton, Gary Downey and other whistle blowers in a seperate department. This soecial department with full acess to all council documentation and information.
Guaranteed immunity to exspose and provide all the evidence required to root out the miscreants that have plagued Wirral Council for years, with lies, deceit, mismanagement, poor judgement, and mis information, so that once and for all we can expect some proper honest management and use of the vast amount of public money.
They have displayed a degree of integrity and high value honesty that seems to escape the senior executive and upper management levels in the Council employ.

Hands up whose surprised. None, thought so! Nothing this God awful Council does surprises anyone anymore! Why should Gary Downey lose his job? He should be promoted. Just another tactic to muddy the waters. Absolute shambolic!

"The offending letter was removed from the council's website following the Globe's inquiries."

So is the Globe going to remove the whistleblower's name from this article now?

sandals-wearer - Are you familiar with the concept of choice? or the anonymity rights enshrined in the Public Interest Disclosure Act?.
If Mr.Downey chooses to go public, its up to him its not at the behest of a council officer ,whose motives are known only to themselves to circumvent "due process".
Would it be OK if Wirral Globe put your real name on this post without your say so?.
Exactly.

That's three whistleblowers removed from their jobs... and counting. And nil accountability for senior abusers.

3-0

Of course, senior officers who were legally gagged and rendered unable to talk about the circumstances which led to their departure are now safely protected. If they talk, any breach of contract terms would require them to return the pay off - a handsome sum of our public money - which is a helluva disincentive.

So these can't be counted as "casualties" can they? Or as some sort of "reckoning", because any foul deeds are hidden and protected by the law.

And we can't claim accountability has spoken for people now at liberty to abuse disabled people after receiving a "clean bill of health" - thanks to a now departed and similarly paid off CEO.

If they're in a position to be unwittingly employed in good faith by another public body which itself is entrusted with the PROTECTION of disabled people then that's another MASSIVE failure.

Is this the NEXT forseeable and avoidable scandal to come knocking on Wirral's door?

When did Wirral ever let their own policies dictate their actions. If anyone believes this action was 'inadvertant' they have either never dealt with Wirral or they are a fool.This smacks of a deliberate spiteful act to get rid of someone who has been effective in bringing them to account. Whoever was responsible should be named and face serious consequences. But in Wirral when does that ever happened and until it does it will be the same old.

You couldnt make it up could you,the sooner the government take over the running of wbc and do a proper and full inquiry into all the failures that are making the place look a joke.

and thats after Panorama and various other investigative programes do an expose.

Wirral Council will protect your identity if you are a senior manager accused of wrong doing. In fact they will do their utmost to conceal and cover up your wrong doing as far as they are able. It's like a gentleman's club with an 'I scratch your back, you scratch mine' culture of the senior managers looking out for each other along the food chain. If they do finally get caught out they're well looked after with handsome pay - offs out of public money and 'honorable' made up excuses made for their departure. Why is it that the only whistle blowers seem to come from lower ranks in the council, who are less privy to the workings of the council, than senior managers are. And why is it that those whistle blowers are treated abysmally (by senior officials) in relation to the corrupt senior officials they expose?

Wirral Council will protect your identity if you are a senior manager accused of wrong doing. In fact they will do their utmost to conceal and cover up your wrong doing as far as they are able. It's like a gentleman's club with an 'I scratch your back, you scratch mine' culture of the senior managers looking out for each other along the food chain. If they do finally get caught out they're well looked after with handsome pay - offs out of public money and 'honorable' made up excuses made for their departure. Why is it that the only whistle blowers seem to come from lower ranks in the council, who are less privy to the workings of the council, than senior managers are. And why is it that those whistle blowers are treated abysmally (by senior officials) in relation to the corrupt senior officials they expose?

Remarkable. You just couldn't make this stuff up.

****-up or conspiracy? My nature leans me towards '****-up', but events at Wirral Borough Council over the past few years are so sinister that 'conspiracy' would perhaps be a more logical conclusion.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to notice that within all the reports commissioned by the council and subsequently published (redacted or otherwise), not a single councillor has been named as failing in his or her job to scrutinise the work of officers.

Accountability is a two-way street. We hold councillors to account every time they seek re-election. In return, we expect them to hold officers to account but clearly this role seems to be beyond our elected representatives.

With the recent change of leadership and a the stability of single party (of no matter which colour) now in firm control for a good two years, I'd sort of parked my call for intervention by local government commissioners to run our affairs. Perhaps the time is near to check the oil and fill up the tank of that particular motor again.

Shock Horror, hold the front page: WBC clowns don their red noses, big flappy shoes and curly wigs once more, and provide more proof that custard- pie throwing as an art form is alive and well, and that the manic laughter of self serving buffoons continues to echo from woodworm-infested offices along the corridors of Wallasey Town Hall.

What an absolute disgrace councillors do not hold,Chief Execs, Directors and senior managers to account, yet this disgraceful premeditated act has wrecked the life of someone who dared to attempt to get poor and unacceptable practices out into the open. Poitive radical action is required NOW, the sooner the government puts commissioners into Wirral BC the better as current senior staff throughout the authority have demonstrated that they are totally unwilling and unable to act in a professional honest and transparent way. They have no integrity and no credibility.

Ben Beaconsfield wrote:
Remarkable. You just couldn't make this stuff up.

****-up or conspiracy? My nature leans me towards '****-up', but events at Wirral Borough Council over the past few years are so sinister that 'conspiracy' would perhaps be a more logical conclusion.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to notice that within all the reports commissioned by the council and subsequently published (redacted or otherwise), not a single councillor has been named as failing in his or her job to scrutinise the work of officers.

Accountability is a two-way street. We hold councillors to account every time they seek re-election. In return, we expect them to hold officers to account but clearly this role seems to be beyond our elected representatives.

With the recent change of leadership and a the stability of single party (of no matter which colour) now in firm control for a good two years, I'd sort of parked my call for intervention by local government commissioners to run our affairs. Perhaps the time is near to check the oil and fill up the tank of that particular motor again.

Here's some oil for your engine Ben, re: c0ck-up V conspiracy

I thought I'd check for any similar mean-spirited behaviour going back through recent years. And here, lo and behold is a letter from the LGA to Wirral Council dated 11/11/11, describing Martin Morton's departure from the council as a "dismissal".

Dear oh dear. He was NEVER dismissed. Who in the corridors of power decided to tell the LGA that he was dismissed? What sort of message does this send out with the LGA coming onboard to "build bridges in good faith" and to put things right?

So right at the outset, the offending Council seems to have been deliberately hitting out, trying to queer the pitch, force its opinions and undermine any well-intentioned process.

But that's what tightly knit abusers do don't they? They get into a rut, a settled modus operandi, where such tawdry behaviour is seen as "normal" but is in fact "abnormal" and destructive to all around them ~ as confirmed by independent investigator Anna Klonowski.

Was describing a courageous whistleblower as "dismissed" accidental?

Was serious and compounded impropriety in a Highways Contract which haemorrhaged £millions accidental?

Was the leaking of a whistleblower's name into the public domain accidental?

They can't be. Just too many accidents, and I'm confident the above list isn't exhaustive.

The letter was addressed to Jim Wilkie and Steve Foulkes and, like the revelation of Gary Downey's name, has since been removed from pride of place on the council's public website. But it was referred to separately here:

http://democracy.wir
ral.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx
?ID=15091

See the empty bullet point at the bottom of the page.

How's the engine running, Ben?

What I want to know is who will pay for this? Council Senior officers? No? Councilor's? No? Council tax payer's? YES!!!
This is an absolute disgrace! I am paying my council tax for senior officers to be suspended (Holiday). I think we should revolt against the system? Let's face it these "Senior Officers" make the rules up as they go along! Also how many innocent people will lose there jobs? Cut backs will be inevitable with the money that are council are paying on 4 Senior Officers Suspensions also 4 Interim Officers!
My recommendations Mr G.Downey new director of tech services!

Dirty work at the crossroads eh?

Also who paid for Capita Simmons?
Tax payer to save money?
Well i'd like to know how much money's been saved?
Answer..... To be brushed under the carpet as per usual!
Only problem is there not that good at cleaning up?

This is now way beyond a joke. We need action from central government to clean up this mess.

Sign the epetition

http://epetitions.di
rect.gov.uk/petition
s/32504

I see Ian Coleman's name is still on letters being sent out this week by the Finance Department and Bill Norman's name appears in this weeks Wirral Globe making applications in the Public Notices. If their departments haven't noticed they have been suspended what does that say about them?

Basil Faulty and Frank Spenser show! oh Betty oh that's nice! W.B.C

Good Man Mr Downey. Now take them all down! Lead your boys to victory!

The Forces wont beat this Man!

This Dark Knight Rises!

water1lily wrote:
I see Ian Coleman's name is still on letters being sent out this week by the Finance Department and Bill Norman's name appears in this weeks Wirral Globe making applications in the Public Notices. If their departments haven't noticed they have been suspended what does that say about them?

The reason their names are still on them is because they're still in post. Suspension means you're still employed you see. No names have to change at the moment... Their names would only come off if they left the employment of Wirral Council.

Will we ever know the truth of any WBC underhand dealings?

I sense not!

PaulCa wrote:

Ben Beaconsfield wrote:
Remarkable. You just couldn't make this stuff up.

****-up or conspiracy? My nature leans me towards '****-up', but events at Wirral Borough Council over the past few years are so sinister that 'conspiracy' would perhaps be a more logical conclusion.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to notice that within all the reports commissioned by the council and subsequently published (redacted or otherwise), not a single councillor has been named as failing in his or her job to scrutinise the work of officers.

Accountability is a two-way street. We hold councillors to account every time they seek re-election. In return, we expect them to hold officers to account but clearly this role seems to be beyond our elected representatives.

With the recent change of leadership and a the stability of single party (of no matter which colour) now in firm control for a good two years, I'd sort of parked my call for intervention by local government commissioners to run our affairs. Perhaps the time is near to check the oil and fill up the tank of that particular motor again.

Here's some oil for your engine Ben, re: c0ck-up V conspiracy

I thought I'd check for any similar mean-spirited behaviour going back through recent years. And here, lo and behold is a letter from the LGA to Wirral Council dated 11/11/11, describing Martin Morton's departure from the council as a "dismissal".

Dear oh dear. He was NEVER dismissed. Who in the corridors of power decided to tell the LGA that he was dismissed? What sort of message does this send out with the LGA coming onboard to "build bridges in good faith" and to put things right?

So right at the outset, the offending Council seems to have been deliberately hitting out, trying to queer the pitch, force its opinions and undermine any well-intentioned process.

But that's what tightly knit abusers do don't they? They get into a rut, a settled modus operandi, where such tawdry behaviour is seen as "normal" but is in fact "abnormal" and destructive to all around them ~ as confirmed by independent investigator Anna Klonowski.

Was describing a courageous whistleblower as "dismissed" accidental?

Was serious and compounded impropriety in a Highways Contract which haemorrhaged £millions accidental?

Was the leaking of a whistleblower's name into the public domain accidental?

They can't be. Just too many accidents, and I'm confident the above list isn't exhaustive.

The letter was addressed to Jim Wilkie and Steve Foulkes and, like the revelation of Gary Downey's name, has since been removed from pride of place on the council's public website. But it was referred to separately here:

http://democracy.wir

ral.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx

?ID=15091

See the empty bullet point at the bottom of the page.

How's the engine running, Ben?

Err I made that letter public here http://johnbrace.com
/2012/01/03/letter-t
o-cllr-steve-foulkes
-from-local-governme
nt-association-11112
011/

as it showed what was going on behind the scenes on a matter of public interest.

The engine is ticking over just fine, PaulCa. I'm just off to buy some mints for the journey.

Carlsberg don't do corrupt, incompetent councils; but if they did, they'd make Wirral Council.

johnbrace wrote:

PaulCa wrote:

Ben Beaconsfield wrote:
Remarkable. You just couldn't make this stuff up.

****-up or conspiracy? My nature leans me towards '****-up', but events at Wirral Borough Council over the past few years are so sinister that 'conspiracy' would perhaps be a more logical conclusion.

I'm sure I'm not the only person to notice that within all the reports commissioned by the council and subsequently published (redacted or otherwise), not a single councillor has been named as failing in his or her job to scrutinise the work of officers.

Accountability is a two-way street. We hold councillors to account every time they seek re-election. In return, we expect them to hold officers to account but clearly this role seems to be beyond our elected representatives.

With the recent change of leadership and a the stability of single party (of no matter which colour) now in firm control for a good two years, I'd sort of parked my call for intervention by local government commissioners to run our affairs. Perhaps the time is near to check the oil and fill up the tank of that particular motor again.

Here's some oil for your engine Ben, re: c0ck-up V conspiracy

I thought I'd check for any similar mean-spirited behaviour going back through recent years. And here, lo and behold is a letter from the LGA to Wirral Council dated 11/11/11, describing Martin Morton's departure from the council as a "dismissal".

Dear oh dear. He was NEVER dismissed. Who in the corridors of power decided to tell the LGA that he was dismissed? What sort of message does this send out with the LGA coming onboard to "build bridges in good faith" and to put things right?

So right at the outset, the offending Council seems to have been deliberately hitting out, trying to queer the pitch, force its opinions and undermine any well-intentioned process.

But that's what tightly knit abusers do don't they? They get into a rut, a settled modus operandi, where such tawdry behaviour is seen as "normal" but is in fact "abnormal" and destructive to all around them ~ as confirmed by independent investigator Anna Klonowski.

Was describing a courageous whistleblower as "dismissed" accidental?

Was serious and compounded impropriety in a Highways Contract which haemorrhaged £millions accidental?

Was the leaking of a whistleblower's name into the public domain accidental?

They can't be. Just too many accidents, and I'm confident the above list isn't exhaustive.

The letter was addressed to Jim Wilkie and Steve Foulkes and, like the revelation of Gary Downey's name, has since been removed from pride of place on the council's public website. But it was referred to separately here:

http://democracy.wir


ral.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx


?ID=15091

See the empty bullet point at the bottom of the page.

How's the engine running, Ben?

Err I made that letter public here http://johnbrace.com

/2012/01/03/letter-t

o-cllr-steve-foulkes

-from-local-governme

nt-association-11112

011/

as it showed what was going on behind the scenes on a matter of public interest.

Stirling work Mr Brace. I couldn't get that link to work, but have shortened and reproduced it below to satisfy the growing public interest:

http://tinyurl.com/c
a4b2qw

The electorate must realise the local council reflects the standard set in the Houses of Commons and the Lords
The Bureu of Investigative Journalisam
claims UK financial services spent 19 million lobbying the houses of parliament

How much did it cost to emasculate the Parliamentary enquiry?
Only when we have sorted ethical problems in The palace of WESTMINSTER CAN WE ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS AT LOCAL LEVEL

Well done Mr Downey. I also see as everyone else can that Mr Coleman holds a position in NAAPS on the board, could this be counted as a conflict of interests, I don't know I am not up on these things.