The ward for Tydlesley has about 12000 voters and I believe that this petition has got about 129 people from with in the Ward.
However, at last night Council meeting Labour put a motion to Full Council for him accessing porn sites. First of all I wonder I would question why doesn't Labour have a problem with the Councillor calling up premium rate numbers and other numbers for personal calls to the tune of £2400? Surely if they have a problem it is over both issues but Labour seem to only worry about the porn sites.
Cllr Bleakley has always said the media coverage and the issue of trying to get him to resign was a witch hunt.
At last night's meeting I was going to table an amendment that the Council would ask ALL Cllrs to resign their seats if they were found to have porn on any Council equipment and also if they misused taxpayers money in claiming allowances or expenses. I was told by the Legal Dept that that amendment would not be competent because it would change the original motion, however they advised if I said, "This Council calls for any and all Cllrs that have or found to have, in the future, porn on any Council Equipment", then that would be competent and so I put this ammendment to the Council meeting last night. This way the Council would send out a clear message that we as a Council would not tolerate porn on Council equipment like their , laptops, Blackberry's or iPads.
Surprisingly Labour voted against this but yet vote to ask Cllr Bleakley to resign. Why would they do that ? Surely if they have an issue with Cllr Bleakley accessing porn on his Council Laptop they would have the same approach for all Cllrs on all Council equipment. But here we have them voting against my motion and I can only draw the conclusion that Labour are not bothered about their Cllrs that have porn on their Laptops. That is disgusting and now Labour have let Standards continue to be in the gutter by voting against motion. It seems to me that Labour don't mind their Cllrs to mis use their Council Equipment for accessing porn otherwise they would have voted with my motion!
How on earth can Labour seriously ask this Cllr Bleakley to resign his seat but not all Cllrs. It doesn't make sense they have now lost legitimacy on the issue. They are all the same!
ReplyDeleteLabour councillors do as they are told by smith the rubber necked dictator. You aren't labour, your face doesn't fit. Sooner he resigns or dies the better for the community
ReplyDeleteDoes not surprise me . one rule for the labour councillors, another rule for the rest of us....
ReplyDeleteAnd we trust them in managing millions of our hard earned money ?
ReplyDeleteWell they've managed to 'lose' 96k of our money. The mind boggles.
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I seem to recall around the year 2000, three or four Wigan labour Councillors being caught with porn downloaded onto their Council computers. Labour didn't make such a song and dance at the time funnily enough. In fact, didn't Wigan Labour then go and vote one of them in to be a school Governor ? ! Shocking.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd been a Labour Councillor tabling that amendment, they'd have voted it through no bother. The Labour group are a childish, nasty and vindictive lot. I hope a large percentage of them get unceremoniously kicked out at the next Local Elections (and they will), it's no more than they deserve.
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