Gilly Keeps Bad Company in Claughton

Pic courtesy of Wirral Globe : We’ve edited the innocent party on the left (if there is such a thing)

Decorum – admittedly not our strong point – prevents us from commenting on the previous incumbent as councillor for Claughton but as you can see from the gormless picture above (‘Thumbs up everyone!’) Gillian Wood is the newly elected third councillor for Claughton after a spectacularly underwhelming 30% voting turnout.

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/15267875.Labour_keeps_control_of_Claughton_in_by_election/

Jolly Gilly , all perky in polka dots , finds herself flanked by the two other councillors for Claughton who we regard to be the two most dishonest and disreputable politicians at Wirral Council (well, now that Jim Crabtree has finally been found out) . Cllr George Davies and Cllr Steve Foulkes  (for it is they) then find themselves flanked by the two politicians who have scandalously sustained them in their positions of power. So it’s a thumbs down from us for council leader Cllr Phil ‘Power Boy Pip’ Davies and Birkenhead MP Frank Field as we find ‘The Crafty Foxes’ all present and incorrect in the same corny photo-op.

Did Power Boy  Pip suspend Cllr George Davies when he heard the tape where he heard his namesake racially abuse a senior officer of Wirral Council and offered a ‘sweetheart deal’ to a favoured group of complainants ? Of course he didn’t – Frankenfield was having none of it. Gorgeous George is his political agent and Pip is weak.

Did Power Boy Pip persuade Cllr Steve Foulkes to stand down when Foulkesy received his mayoral nomination in an attempt to prevent bringing the local Labour Party into further disrepute. Of course he didn’t – Foulkesy was having none of it. He’s shameless and hardfaced and Pip is weak.

Does Gilly know what’s she’s letting herself in for , does she care or will she succumb to the lure of ‘scroundrelism’?

Wirral Council Scoundrels : Five Years On

Meanwhile Her Ladyship asks the pertinent question as to why Frankenfield looks like a vintage municipal binman? Could it be the poverty tourist and virtue -signalling gesturist is going for some retro street-cred?

The Crafty Foxes

We’re grateful for those people who send us interesting pictures of Leaks favourites that they come across on social media. Although it has to be said that when it comes to Cllr Steve Foulkes we have a gift that just keeps on giving.

Here is our least favourite Wirral Council fucker -upper after apparently having a drink in a pub called ‘The Poachers’ (!) . As you can see , a relaxed and casually-attired Foulkesy poses next to a barge called ‘The Crafty Foxes’ . Now we can’t work out if this picture means Foulkesy is all-knowing or knows nothing at all.  But what we do know that if Frank Field, Cllr Phil ‘Power Boy Pip’ Davies and Cllr George Davies were in the picture it would make perfect sense. In fact it would be so self-referential it could be called ‘meta’.

We say this as we have recently discovered yet more about the ‘Wirralgate’ scandal and in particular the involvement of pathological liar Foulkesy. So having lied incessantly in the first Wirralgate investigation conducted by a seemingly gullible and negligent consultant Patricia Thynne, Thynne was called back in to earn another £17K wedge for cleaning up her own mess. This is astonishing when you consider the world and her husband knew Foulkesy had transparently lied during her first investigation. Although those who could actually do something about it just sat on their hands, shut their mouths, and/or kept cashing the cheques.

Thynne put it more diplomatically than we would by stating in her 2nd report: “I am not persuaded by the evidence of Cllr Foulkes ……..I found it difficult to get Cllr Foulkes to be precise or detailed . His responses were vague,inclined to be evasive and I found them ‘economical with the truth’ and unconvincing”

WIRRALGATE! – ‘Foulkesy the Fibber’

Or as we’d say – he’s a big fat fucking liar.

Let’s rewind : If you remember Wirralgate concerns a cover up involving all of ‘The Crafty Foxes’ named above.  It all started off with Frankenfield telling some wingebag wanting to scam some money off the Council because him and his mates claim to be ‘whistleblowers’  (yeah right!) to stop causing trouble and threatening staff at Wallasey Town Hall and to expect a call from his political agent  Cllr George Davies .

Davies duly calls ( unawares that he is being recorded) and goes on to tell the bogus ‘whistleblower’ that Foulkesy is still having grief for being a monumental failure and in the game of whistleblowing political football they need an equalizer to get at (equally appalling) Tory leader Jeff Green and he needs to  forget about due legal process and calls Wirral Council’s Head of Law Surjit Tour  ‘a bloody useless Chink’ (like you do!)  and promises to sort him and his guys out if they provide him with a document that Foulkesy remembered reading years before in former Head of Law Bill Norman’s files.  The ‘whistleblowers’ obligingly hand over the document and subsequently Foulkesy hands over the document to the former political editor of Liverpool Echo Liam Murphy (like you do!). As we know from Thynne ‘s second report Murphy went on to make a covert recording of the Wirralgate covert recording and played it to Wirral Council’s Head of Communications (like you do!). Liam Murphy is no longer the political editor of Liverpool Echo (go figure!)

All of this will be familiar to regular Leaks readers but here’s the thing :

THAT DOCUMENT THAT FOULKESY CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN IN BILL NORMAN’S FILES WAS NEVER THERE – IT WAS WRITTEN ON DEMAND BY ONE OF THE ‘WHISTLEBLOWERS’

So more lies from Foulkesy and more evidence that the ‘Wirralgate’ complainants are no more than opportunistic scam merchants and an explanation of why they will never do the right thing and expose REAL Wirral Council corruption – because they’re up to their necks in it and only interested in the money. And yet the two most prominent politicians on Wirral – Pip and Frankenfield – are willing to indulge them with bespoke inquiries into their overblown claims for compensation. Even Pip said they were using the recording of Cllr George Davies to extract money out of Wirral Council and yet is seemingly willing to go along with it!

Funny that isn’t it?

Unfortunately the joke’s on us – as it’s us who has to pay highly paid public servants to protect a corrupt political elite. Shame on them all but particularly ‘The Crafty Foxes’ !