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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 30, 2018 16:27:52 GMT
Does this fit in here? From Private Eye 20 April - 3 May 2018:
Tory-run Northamptonshire county council effectively went bankrupt earlier this year - the first council to go bust under austerity and financially the worst-performing council for more than 20 years.
While it floundered, however, top executives were doing very nicely. Chief executive Paul Blantern received a £95,000 pay-off when he quit in October as pressure began to build over the council's financial issues. The lump sum was on top of salary and pension contributions. The council said it was paid "in order to secure a quick transition in the interests of the council".
Then the GMB union discovered through a freedom of information request that consultant Damon Lawrenson's company, DDL Consultancy, had been paid almost £1m for his stints at the council as assistant chief executive, commercial director, interim director and finally as interim chief executive (after lantern quit) on £1,000 a day.
The attitude of Blantern and Lawrenson has been criticised in a number of reports, with one noting that Blantern was on holiday in Bali in 2015 when his council was being inspected by the Local Government Association. Another pointed out that Lawrenson was on a plane to Dubai in February when the council had to issue a section 114 notice, effectively announcing it was bankrupt.
Still, it's onwards and upwards for the duo. Lawrenson continues as a consultant, and two months ago Blantern set up his own consultancy, Paul Blantern Enterprises. It describes its work as "management consultancy activities" but then adds "other than financial management". Thank goodness for that!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 17:19:12 GMT
Follow the money.
Google Northampton Town Football Club loan. David Cardoza. David Mackintosh, Howard Grossman, 1st land LTD.
On top of that 1 Angel square makes interesting reading.
Meanwhile the pips are squeaked and the vanity project goes on.
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Post by twbm2 on Apr 30, 2018 20:28:51 GMT
On another note, there seem to be six locks in the plan. Is there a water supply at the top end?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 21:08:41 GMT
On another note, there seem to be six locks in the plan. Is there a water supply at the top end? A half handy garden tap I Should imagine. Perhaps this chap was an advisor to Daventry Council.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 30, 2018 22:01:42 GMT
On another note, there seem to be six locks in the plan. Is there a water supply at the top end? Perhaps this chap was an advisor to Daventry Council. Oddly Gazza, when I was in York I visited the Rail Museum (not that in itself that was odd ) but I spotted in a dusty cabinet in the back store room section a wonderful working model of a monorail from the early part of the 20th century. Absolutely fascinating you could simply lay a wire rope on the ground, put the train on it and away it went. Bridging was simple you just stretched a single steel cable over the gap and the thing would just trundle over it. You could see why it didn't catch on, it might have worked fine but it looked incredibly unstable !!! www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/brennan/brennan.htm
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