Labour Cllrs, Charities and your money

So I have been looking at taxpayers money and where it is going. There has been a lot of discussion on Social media about alleged wrongs regarding money which has lent me to look into this matter.

The Deal is Donna Halls brain child and labour have certainly used this well.  I did the first story here on the 20th Nov. Looking further into it it gets worse.

There are a number of Labour Cllrs first and foremost that do not declare that they are directors of businesses.  Wonder why that is? However, some are trustees of Charities too. When we look at minutes of Council and Cabinet meetings we can see that Labour Cllrs have voted for the deal, they have allowed the money to be spent. Then later on their charities/groups have applied for grants of the deal. Just a quick adding up of the figures and you can see that Charities whereby Labour Cllrs run them, or Ex labour Cllrs get vast amounts of money.

Let's look at a Charity called Compassion in Action. A Charity that says helps women that suffer domestic abuse. A Nobel cause. However this is run by a former Labour Cllr.  In the rules of the charity the director and chief executive have to rotate every so many years. This is a practise to stop any one person running it solely. But in this case? This Charity has had a quarter of a million pounds of your money. The Chief Executive is a former Labour Cllr and she gets paid for this role. Also their son is the director of it had gets paid. In fact the income for the charity has dropped over the last year but yet his salary has gone up 25% in just one year. So there we have a former Labour Cllr and son getting your money. We can see what the Director gets paid and asked the charity how much the former the Chief Executive gets? They did not answer.

Next we have a serving Labour Cabinet Labour Cllr Cunliffe, who fails to declare on his interests that he is a Director of a Charity. The Charity Fix It also gets a grants totalling £300,000. Wow this is large sums of money we are talking about. When we see who else is the director of the company there is another Ex Labour Cllr. Would this charity get funding to this sum if had it not been Labour Cllrs running it? Only thsoe charities seem to get these large sums. Wonder why that is?

There are just a dozen charities/ groups that total £615,000 from this one pot of money alone. This is shocking that Labour Cllrs use charities for political reasons and then some of them are getting paid from them. When we add them up to the other story I mention at the beginning of this blog we can see approx £1m of your money is going to Labour and their cronies causes. When we see if the external auditors have mentioned any extra due diligence or if the charities or the council themselves have done this we can see none.

One group on the list that has got funding got taxpayers money via way of a grant and then used 50% of that money for their election leaflets. The Police took no action because they said the Cllrs had paid the money back. O really well one of them is on social media bragging he hasn't.

Some may say keep digging and find out what the true cost of what Labour and their Cheif Executive waste in Wigan. I shudder to think but we can see that it would be well into the millions if this is how they treat your money.