Ranting Ray told to shut up

 Standish Tory Cllr Ray Whittingham has been told to shut up by the Mayor of Wigan Council. Could it be described as an outreach by him in that singular issue? No. But when we look at the wider issues then you see why this is showing that he is losing it and as one Labour Cllr who told me about him and to watch the video you can see why they are all laughing at him.

When a Cllr myself I was never told to shut up by the mayor but if things where done wrong then I would regularly bring point of orders etc and use the correct procedure. But with Ranting Ray he has now been described and compared to Buffoon Bob Brierley, who regularly disrupts meetings - rightly or wrongly.

But what are the issues here? Well Tory Cllr Ray Whittingham  is wanting all Cllrs to have their votes recorded. This is often done to try and embarrass other Cllrs of other political persuasions. But again when I was a Cllr I would often ask for this but the rules are very clear - you need 9 other Cllrs to support your request. The Tory's even voted to have this as a requirement. So when we see Cllr Ray Whittingham ranting at does it matter not having 10? well yes because his party supported the requirement to have 10 Cllrs agree to this. So why is he ranting now after his lot agreed to this? Seems very odd.

As the Tories have had a beating in the polls and only have 2 Cllrs out of 75 and three other independent groups have 9 between them you can see that the Tories will be down to one Cllr next yr and the following local election they will be eradicated altogether in the council chamber. 

Have a look at ranting ray complain about does it matter, when his lot agreed to this requirement and then the Mayor letting him to shut up.  

The matter that was being discussed was to amend the constitution and Cllr Whittingham is the leader of the Conservatives on the Council and he was invited to the committee meeting to discuss the change even before it came to this full council meeting and he failed to turn up, put his comments into it and even send his apologies. What a joke, what a waste of space. Complaining of things he could have had spoken about and possibly change. This just evidences he is not bothered about trying to change things just rant at Council meetings.

Conservative Cllr Ray Whittingham AWOL

So a number of residents have contacted me about the waste of space Cllr Ray Whittingham. With the Cricket Club trying to sell some land for development to help save the club for a while and also help fund a new club house. On those two issues I will come back to that later.

Development an emotive issue and then add into the mix losing the cricket ground, or part off, then you can get residents up set at it. So they asked Conservative Cllr Ray Whittingham for a public meeting and his help as one of their local Cllrs. 

His response left residents speechless. I have seen the messages and I too cannot believe he has not even thought these thoughts but also can't believe he said it.

He has said he is not in charge and there is nothing he can do and not coming to a public meeting and nothing he can do. He also says he's only the messenger so basically shut up! Can you believe it? 

So he thinks that it is ok for him to collect his £14,000 a year Cllr's salary to be a messenger only and not help or represent residents. What a disgrace. 

I will help residents all I can and got some ideas and if Tory Cllr Ray Whittingham has gone AWOL on residents then I will be happy to help. 

Labour Party send candidate from Bryn

STANDISH RESIDENTS BEWARE OF LABOUR'S TRICK 

So with the local elections soon to get in full swing parties are choosing their candidates. This year you will have a chose of 3 candidates to choose as all 75 Cllrs are out and have to start again because the ward boundaries have been changed - due to Standish becoming so damn big with all the new houses the Labour control council and Tory Government have imposed on us. 

So labour cannot find 3 people in the ward or neighbouring wards and had to bring one of their councillors from Bryn as he is due to get kicked out spectacularly because the independents will win all three seats there as this lad as done nothing but take his money and run. he is over 12 miles away from Standish. What can he do? He has done nothing for Bryn as many residents say. One Bryn resident said, Good riddance to him, what a waste of space!" 

So who is he?

Sam Flemming a lad that goes to university, so not does he not live in Standish nor anywhere near here he is at Uni. In the past when Labour have done this kind of trick with a lad call Murphy ( can't remember his name) and a bloke from Beech Hill standish residents send a responding message to Labour - Get lost! 

Why are Labour doing this?

They believe the Tory's are so unpopular nationally they can parachute anyone one in with a red rosette in.

The Standish Independents will only field local candidates and you will not find us doing what Labour are doing bring someone in from bryn. what a disgrace and desperate state of affairs for Labour to have to do this.

Labour finally realise they have let children and residents down.

 Last week 2 cars where involved in an accident and one ended up in a front garden near to a primary school in Standish. Naturally, speed is presumed as ending up in a garden doesn't happen at low speeds. 

For years, Standish Independents have called for safety measures including a crossing at St Maries primary school. So not doing much the labour Cllr and the 2 other candidates have now started the despicable tactic of campaigning at a primary school gate 

The first thing myself and others thought of is safeguarding. I have asked the Labour Party if they do DRB checks on their candidates prior or at selection? I await their reply to date no response.

The thing is I am glad they no agree with us that there is an issue but here is the thing. Wigan Council is controlled by Labour so if a Labour Cllr for Standish can't simply ask for something and has to resort to things like us, the opposition, have to do it begs the question what are they doing? Do they have any say in their party? 

Also, when opposition Candidates, Cllrs and political parties do petitions Labour say they do not count. So If we go off what Labour say about petitions why is their Labour Cllr doing one? Political stunt to try and get re-elected just before the local elections? Seems to be the case to me. 

But the real, and to be fair the only question, is why has Labour allowed this position ro come about and will they put a safety measure in place? 

Bryn residents be warned!

Bryn residents need to be on their guard for  a charleton. This is Gary Wilkes. This guy used to be a Cllr for Bryn and fell out of grace with residents when their fought to stop major development in the area only to find out their Local Cllr Gary Wilkes was not only voting for the houses but fighting for them too.

When I asked Gary what on earth he was doing? His replied I want me kids to have these houses! Where are they going to live? He was only thinking of himself and not the residents at large.

Gary used to be a member of the highly popular independent group - Community Action Party. Then internal fall out meant a number left, Gary being one of them. Then he went and joined with a Cllr who was kicked out/ left the Labour Party and who had set up Independent Network. This wasn't Independent at all it was Labour that were not wanted.

Gary Wilkes has said he is going to stand as an independent but if elected he will jump over to the kicked out Labour supporting Independent Network. If he wants to be one of them why not just stand that way at the local elections in May? Reason he wants to try and hoood wink residents in Bryn that he is someway connected to the highly popular truly independent Cllr Steve Jones. 

In fact independent Cllr Steve Jones is working hard behind the schemes to stop a road that would for a development that Gary Wilkes voted for. Shocking! In fact when he was a Cllr he voted with Labour the vast majority of times. If you want a Labour Cllr just vote Labour. If you want an Independent Cllr that looks after the ward don't vote for the 

So people in Bryn should not be tricked or hood winked and don't vote for the charleton that is Gary " I am in it just for myself" Wilkes. 

Labour Cllr's sell out Standish residents

So Labour are meant to be for the working man and look after local residents. If true then that would be ok. Then we have a local charity called Standish Charity, which is meant to be for the benefit of Standish Residents. Got to be a good thing.

So this charity, Standish Charity has a former Labour Cllr that lives in Shevington running it. He has nothing to do with Standish. Bit odd but then he was always a control dictator when he was a Cllr before being voted out. He has nothing to do with Standish and when he was the chair of the planning committee on Wigan Council he would vote for more houses for Standish. Then there are two more Labour Cllrs on this charity trustee board. Labour .Cllr Debbie Parkinson and Labour Cllr Mike Crosby

Former Labour Shevington Cllr John O'Neil signed off the deal to allow Standish residents to be ripped off

Standish Labour Cllr selling Standish residents out why did she allow this? Why did she not stand up for Standish Residents

This charity owned a number of freehold for a large number of houses in Standish and would collect the ground rent for them. Nothing wrong there so far. But then they have sold these leases to an investment company for about £30 each. This investment company are asking for residents of these houses to pay up to £750 or higher I hear for the resident s to buy them for their own houses. 

Why did these Labour Cllr's sell these leases to an investment company? Why if they wanted to sell them , which would be fine, why did they not offer the Standish residents for the £30? Why did they sell them knowing that this investment company would do what they always do put a profit on for them? If this charity is meant to be for Standish residents why did they do this to Standish Residents? This shows they don't care about Standish residents.

On another note I have asked for the last 6 years account for this charity and they did provide them to me and when I look through them they have only helped 1 person. Strange, very strange.

So here we have proof that the local Labour Cllrs do not care about residents and doing deals like this to sell Standish resident s out. - Shocking and disgraceful!

Shevington Labour Cllr Mike Crosby co-signed the deal off completing the sell off to investment company 

Greater Manchester Police settle civil case before court hearing.

 

Last November I reported how former Cllr Robert Bleakley, who was taking GMP to court for false arrest, won his case. That story is here. He was one of 4 arrested by GMP on false allegations by former Donna Hall - Chief Executive of Wigan Council. She was sacked by Wigan Council after she cost Wigan Council hundreds of thousands of pounds and being lambasted by a high court judge for calling an unlawful election which was stopped just hours before the polls opened. Unprecedented. The Council allowed her to say she retired - bless. but she was told go or we sack you. That in my books is being sacked! That blog post is here.  

It has been reported this week that yet another Cllr - Cllr Bob Brierley - has settled his civil case against GMP when again under false allegations - I will come to in a bit about these - GMP arrested him unlawfully. Whilst GMP has not admitted liability they have paid out taxpayers money to settle. It has been reported that he was released from Police investigation because Donna Hall retracted her allegations against him and others. That is a lie. Why do I say this? Well I was one of four that was arrested and detained - unlawfully and when after over a year there was not one bit of evidence GMP told her that we were going to be released from police investigation. She was devastated and when she had to accept that the police had not found one bit of evidence and dropping it she had to try and save face again and retract the allegations. The Police investigation cost nearly one million pounds on her lies.

It is great news that another person has beat Donna Hall's mates - GMP and took on the corrupt police force. Well done Cllr Brierley.

So that leaves former Cllr Franzen who case goes to court soon and then my case. Hopefully we get one case to court and the public get to see and hear all the corruption. 

Higher in this post I talk about false allegations by Donna Hall, these inc that someone had damaged her car in the council car park, there is CCTV but no footage was every presented to GMP to show any one around her car. Then she says someone went through her bins.....lol..... no evidence of that but her rubbish was a communeral one so it would be impossible for any one to see her rubbish in with everyone else. Then - listen to this one - someone had cut her car tyre just enough to explode on the motorway when it was doing 70 mph. Whilst if anyone cut a tyre the technical numerical mathematics sum required to work out the exact depth and length of a cut so that it would explode at 70 mph would be impossible. 

Another issue in all of this is the number of these false allegation took place in lancashire - where she lived- so why was GMP involved? Because she had a very good and close friend high up in GMP. One that would do favours for her. Infact previously this officer had called round to threatened Cllr Bob Brierley. He had done this in uniform and GMP had to discuss his conduct in that matter and he should not have done it and do not do it again.    

Let us hope that these unlawful actions of Donna Hall and or Wigan Council using GMP as a private police force ends now. We can live in hope and good luck to Peter Franzen the next to have a court date on this matter. Let the truth out is what I say.