Donna Hall snubs Court Order

OK some people will be saying another blog post on Donna Hall. Hell yes! What this woman has done to us tax payers, the only person EVER to have made a make a judge say that they have to use EXCEPTIONAL circumstances because of her behaviour in hundreds of years worth of elections. I mean ther ONLY one ever to make a judge stop an illegal eelction.

But it doesn't stop there. Yes there will be always cases where people may not agree how their Local Council's spend tax payers money but that doesn't mean it is illegal. However, below in this blog post is the court order signed by Mr Justice Spencer and it is clear that he ordered Donna Hall to pay for all the legal costs. It is cystal clear! But yet I have confirmation from Wigan Council that she didn't and it was them that paid the bill.

Therefore, Donna Hall has snubed a High Court Judge that sits on the Queens bench and ignore his order where he - correctly - said she had to pay the bill.

Now that she has paid the bill using Wigan Taxpayers money she is incontempt of a High Court Order. I have therefore asked the Leader of Wigan Council and their head of Legal Services to confirm that they will getting the money back of her? If they do not I will make the High Court and the Police that she has ignored a High Court order.

I guess if someone else wanted to pay her liability that would be OK, so long as it is THEIR money to pay with. Wigan Council had no right to use our money for her illegal actions.

Below is the court order and underneath that is the guyide to a fit and proper person needs to be and do as a returning officer. Haave a look at the bottom of page 3 and page 4 where it says the returing officer is personally resonsable. This for me shows contempt of court by her. Also who at the Council authorised the illegal payments her?

Also it shows that yet again she lied. She always said once the election had been called it could not be stopped unless it was done by the Court. At the bottom of Page 3 it says she is allowed under legislation that if she makes a mistake then she is allowed to correct it. So she could have stopped it without even being taken to court.

Once I get  a response from the Council I will update the blog. If I don't get a response I will make the courts and police aware.

Donna Hall to go early....here's why....

Many will know I have said that when it was announced that Donna Hall would be retiring next summer I said that she probably wouldn't make it that far. I had a number of reasons why I said that.

One thing that some, not many knew, was if Donna Hall had stayed on till Summer she would have been the returning officer for the Local elections next year.  But there was no way I was going to let that happen. Paul Maiden, the successful candidate for Hindley Green, said there was discrepancies in his election - which he has evidence off, but given he won why chase it? Also with the mess of the illegal action earlier in the year against Cllr Steve Jones I have been working on whether, and Labour and the Council were aware of this, we could challenge her position as returning officer?

There is a also a number of legislation to cover what they call, "fit and proper" person test. The case where Cllr Steve Jones took the Council and Donna Hall to the High Court, the judge ordered the costs against the Returning Officer. Wigan Council paid the cost, meaning the taxpayers did, which is wrong! They are also meant to have insurance. Therefore, for instances like this case the insurance company would pay the liability and not the taxpayers.

Statue law says," As RO you are subject to breach of official duty provisions. This means that if you or your appointed deputies are, without reasonable cause, guilty of any act or omission in breach of official duty you (and/or your deputies) are liable on summary conviction to an unlimited fine (Section 63 (1) and (3)(b) Representation of the People Act 1983."

Therefore I have said to Wigan Council she has broken the criminal law.

Also the law says, "Your duties as Returning Officer are separate from your duties as a local government officer. As Returning officer you are not responsible to the council but are directly accountable to the courts as an independent statutory office holder. While you can appoint one or more persons to discharge any or all of your functions, you cannot delegate your personal responsibility for delivering the election (Section 35(4), 63(1) and (3) (b) Representation of the People Act 1983 refers)."

So with all this mounting up Wigan Council decided that enough is enough and to dump her quick because if they allowed her to be the returning officer next March when the Local  elections are called and then I took her to court as not as a fit and proper person under legislation mentioned above then that would put a question mark over all the local elections in Wigan. So Labour have decided to get rid of her now, well February next year, just before the local elections are called and have a new returning officer.      

Even though she is going sooner I am still pushing the fact that taxpayers in Wigan do not pay the bill for her illegal actions as the law states - we shouldn't - the returning officer should!

Northern Rail leave disabled man stranded

No you are not getting off the damn train

Many that may follow me on Twitter how much I hate Northern, the rail franchise that run the train service in the North of the UK. Trust me I am neither in the minority nor on my own thousands hate them too. No, let me correct myself there – ten of thousands hate them.

The cock up on a monumental scale each day and then say well we are sorry. Then do the same thing again the day after. For me that makes them not sorry. And all the while that they cock up they are taking millions out of the public service for their German Government owners.

So I wanted to let people know of the most hideous cock up last Friday. The 6.48am from Wigan to Alderley Edge last Friday a lady got on the train at Wigan in a wheelchair. He was put on at Wigan with a pushchair via a ramp they put on between the platform and the train. He is at the mercy of the staff to put the same ramp out at Manchester, so he can get off.

 Anyway last Friday they didn’t do this and he was left on the train to Stockport. Half an hour extra. Then the train was delayed there and a passenger went for the guard. They then had to take him off move him to another platform and get a train back to Manchester Piccadilly. He was over an hour late for work.

Sorry for the language at this point – but what a fuck up! Really leaving a disabled person on the damn train.

If this was an isolated incident you may say damn what a cock up, but these types of things happen all the time including the cancelled, delayed, short forming trains every day. I have read online where people are now getting sacked due to the continuous delays and cancellations as well.

The simple answer is that they should not be allowed to take the millions out of the public service if they run it in this way. We are paying for failure, I am sure the phrase is pay for success – therefore the law needs to be amended.

Taking Wigan Council back to court for mis use of powers

A number of you will have heard that yet again Wigan Council has brought illegal sanctions and misused their powers this last week. This is because a Labour candidate Gina Merrett, who stood for Hindley Green Ward unsuccessfully, claimed that Cllr Bob Brierley broke the law by sending a leaflet out with the independent Candidate Paul Maiden to support him over the Labour Candidate.

It is clear as day that Labour and this woman are spitting their dummy out. First they ran to the police – who said that they are not getting involved as he hadn’t done anything wrong. The Labour Candidate then ran to the Electoral Commission claiming foul play. Yet again they told her to sling her hook. She must have thought where do I turn now? I know let’s get the Labour control Council investigate him for a breach of code of conduct.

For many this means nothing. In a nutshell it means when Bob Brierley sent this letter to support the independents candidate was he acting in his official capacity as a Cllr or as a Private citizen? Anyone with one ounce of sense knows that he was doing it as a Cllr. There are a number if cases that have proven things like this are in fact being done as a private person, including the Former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone who made a nazi slur to a reporter and he was going to be banned for 3 moths from public office. He took the then standards board of England to the high court and won easily.

I am not a big fan of Bob Brierley, in fact I am not a fan of his in any ways but I despise the fact that Labour are using mine and your tax payers money for political slurs on opposition Cllrs they don’t like. Over a million quid so far with all these slurs. Add that on to the half a million quid for the attempt at trying to meddle with democracy by trying to illegally sack Steve Jones. Enough is enough!

So with that I, along with others are going to form a new group that will take Wigan Council back to the high court and ask for a judicial review and ask if the Council has over stepped it’s power. We believe it is easily evident that it has.

First, we have already written to Wigan Council legal dept to put them on notice and ask them to sort this mess out and if they don’t we will not hesitate to go to the high court.

Should you want to get involved with the new group let us know. There is an email address at the side of the blog to email me. It is one thing to have political differences but it is another to bully, intimidate and misuse powers for their own political end.