tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post1542100489478328041..comments2023-11-18T08:59:54.598+00:00Comments on Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more: CPS decision - open email to Police Commissionercaebrwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233902574832152764noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-44420584861164955642021-04-27T02:52:14.535+01:002021-04-27T02:52:14.535+01:00
like a badly written pantomine <br />like a badly written pantomine Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-8267857024059568912021-04-24T14:21:26.471+01:002021-04-24T14:21:26.471+01:00No need for the CEO to be there.
All is decided be...No need for the CEO to be there.<br />All is decided beforehand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-49159750084311616502021-04-24T12:18:19.295+01:002021-04-24T12:18:19.295+01:00
I know swansea is a bigger area with more people ...<br />I know swansea is a bigger area with more people but the recovery initiatives coming from them are numerous <br /><br />I could not find anything in the committee meetings from carms - what i did not notice is a complete absence of the CEO from any meetings ?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-23341859514783858122021-04-24T11:04:23.579+01:002021-04-24T11:04:23.579+01:00What people need to know is that Carmarthen Counci...What people need to know is that Carmarthen Council (Shire bit removed due to the limited area they care for) carry out their duties using the "Farm Priciple".<br /><br />The CEO is the Farmer (with her whistle).<br />Emlyn Dole is the sheepdog (does according to whistlers commands).<br />Plaid Councillors are the Sheep who go where the dog leads them.<br /><br />There is absolutely no control by Councillors, the just play politics.<br /><br />What fun !!!<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-61194456412113938822021-04-24T09:57:59.963+01:002021-04-24T09:57:59.963+01:00Anon 10:17
You would think that local politicians ...Anon 10:17<br />You would think that local politicians might have had something to say when the former CEO, Mark James, was conning the council taxpayers with a fraudulent deal from which he stood to gain millions in bribes. In fact Plaid leader Emlyn Dole positively encouraged him. Adam Price and Jonathan Edwards were both quick to condemn the same corruption and sleaze in Westminster, but not in their own, Plaid-run back yard. Funny that.<br />They, like other senior politicians, might have been glad to see James go but they failed, at numerous crucial junctures over the last few years to stand up to this arrogant and dishonest bully. Some of us will keep fighting, I for one, have no choice.<br /><br />As for what's coming out of County Hall to boost the local economy, a whopping £200k, for instance, was spent on external legal advice for 'procurement matters' in the last couple of years, which is £200k that could have been better spent on actually procuring local goods and services. They've also managed, through years of wasteful vanity projects which now require propping up, to run up a debt of almost half a billion quid, with around £20m paid out in interest each year. <br />They've also managed to preserve the Mark James Slush Fund, with Emlyn Dole and co quite prepared to squander millions in legal fees to silence critics of the regime.<br />That's what's coming out of County Hall.<br />Sadly the democratic deficit also continues, with a cabal of senior officers controlling a puppet and pliant executive board. Backbench councillors still have no real say on policy or decisions and the priority of the executive board is, as usual, for PR puffery and spin. My advice is don't believe a word of it.caebrwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233902574832152764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-21364146331474053252021-04-23T10:17:24.411+01:002021-04-23T10:17:24.411+01:00you mention above -why our politicians aren't ...<br />you mention above -why our politicians aren't raising a stink.<br />its quite striking that the current leadership and shoeing CEO Walters are quite on all things <br />the llanelli swamp project is now funded thru the city deal so millions of pounds will be going there <br />carmarthen looks like a vacant lot with some many shops closed and no clear future for funding to replace the EU programmes <br />is there anything comeing out of County hall ?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-81441123741949693072021-04-15T12:18:44.161+01:002021-04-15T12:18:44.161+01:00@Ken Haylock
Absolutely. One of the things I was t...@Ken Haylock<br />Absolutely. One of the things I was to be prosecuted for was repeating the Private Eye Rotten Borough 'Shit of the Year' award given to Mark James in 2016. Unsurprisingly, he never actually complained to Private Eye.<br />It is remarkable that planning to squirrel away £millions in bribes to offshore trusts fell at the first hurdle of justice.<br />This crook still has, of course, the keys to my home.<br />I'll keep fighting. caebrwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233902574832152764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791817892794754996.post-72591177458986843402021-04-10T20:50:08.436+01:002021-04-10T20:50:08.436+01:00One for Private Eye to look at. The CPS seemed ver...One for Private Eye to look at. The CPS seemed very keen to prosecute _you_ at one point for writing things about Mark James, & that seems like something that should have been cut off at the knees, not taken all the way to the courthouse steps. The decision not to prosecute anybody seems... worth review...<br />Ken Haylockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298100658896511024noreply@blogger.com