Saddington Produce, Food Fayre, Saddington, Leicester, UK

Saddington Produce and Food Fayre

Sunday 11th September 2011

12-00pm - 5.00pm

Saddington Village

Contact: Mandy Sanders 0116 2402139

Roger Begy Rutland County Council Some Where Over The Rainbow

Reading the local papers today Roger Begy Leader of Rutland County Council is clearly not popular!

No he does not shop in Oakham in answer to one letter writers question.
At a planning meeting he told us all he jumps into his shiny silver Jag and drives to Stamford Lidl.

We are treated to a large amount of letters: One writer said what many and I have been saying for some time, the current economic climate is not effecting councillors like him and he a his Tory Bullies who are serving the elite minority.

Another writer in his column in today's Rutland Mercury suggested Councillors like him and others from Lincolnshire are living in cloud cook coo land. 

I prefer to say he lives over the Rainbow with the Wicked Witch played by the Chief Executive Helen Briggs.

I spotted a Rainbow today, I like to think Roger Begy lives somewhere over the rainbow, it is said all rainbows lead to a pot of gold this one today seemed to end at Rutland County Council Offices, Roger and his Tory mob certainly enjoying dipping into the pot of gold there. £22,000 + in allowances and expenses each year is normal amount for him.

Well done to the Rutland Times and Mercury for printing all the letters from angry voters.

The Mercury column writer said Councillor like Roger Begy are serving the minority, I would not disagree with that. He went on to say Roger shot himself in the foot over the BBC Supermarket issue and relies on voter apathy.

He and his five Conservative cabinet members are only serving themselves, so I guess that could be the minority the writer refers to. I watched our local elections and spoke to people in Greetham and there is certainly apathy. How do we end that apathy if all these angry people stood at the next election we would really have a good choice at the poll.

It very clear now the cabinet is making some very important decisions without any input from the full council.
 Last week it was taking money hundreds of thousand of pounds away from the little build. Oakham Church of England Primary School.

This week out of 12 Tenders for the Parks School site the Cabinet decided this week to ignore the applications from 3 supermarkets and chose two applications from two home builders.

Going back to the letters, another letter writer says "when will Mr Begy and his like realise that they are supposed to be representing the majority view of those he purports to represent, rather than that of the privileged minority? At the next elections, I hope".

Mrs Briggs and the Tory mob reading this weeks local papers will I am sure be thinking how can we shut them down, carefully noting the names of all the letter writers for future reference.

This week I was contacted by three Radio Four Radio Journalist who were interested in interviewing me about unemployment in Rutland and the Work Programme after reading my blog. I understand one of them spoke to Rutland County Council and then at the last moment they were too busy to meet and discuss an interview. Rutland County Council are very good at squashing peoples freedom of speech. We all have to listen to the rubbish that comes from them but they don't want to hear from anyone else. I was disappointed to lose the chance to help the unemployed of Rutland in a small way. Rutland County Council can not attempt to quash peoples freedom of expression for ever can they?
I understand the judge at my tribunal is directing the tribunal to advise Rutland County Council and Oakham Town Council about its breaches of Article 10 of the Human Rights Act.

We Are Macmillan Cancer, Boots Pharmacy, Oakham, Rutland, Charity Support, Photographs

Macmillan Cancer, Boots Pharmacy, Oakham, Rutland, Charity Support, Photographs

 Oakham Manager John

The Oakham branch of Boots today supported Boots Charity for this year Macmillan Cancer.

As well as fund raising instore there was a sponsored walked at Rutland Water. The walkers were 

cheered by staff on their return to the store.

 Click on logos above for Boots - Macmillan Page

 Walkers Returning

 

 

Click on PIG to DONATE

Councillor Terry King Deputy Leader Rutland County Council Standards

You will see from the email from Geoff Pook at Rutland County Council that the Sub Committee of Rutland County Standard is not taking any action regarding my complaint raised against Cllr King Deputy Leader.

This is a clear indication of how corrupt Rutland County Council is. It will refer any complaint it receives about me from Councillors and ex Councillors, but when the Deputy leader sends me a series of insulting e-mails its ok. They give him, Roger Begy Leader and Helen Briggs consent to carry on bullying. I ignore Mr Pooks request not to publish his email because it shows clearly he failed in his duty as monitoring officer I requested all Mr Kings emails were presented as evidence to support my complaint.

I have since made a new complaint against Mr King after a local business man who has read the e-mails on my blog said the email amount to a string of evidence of bullying and disrespect. The disrespect is very clear as Mr King confirms that in his own words.

I have also raised a complaint against Roger Begy who publicly called me a idiot at the last planning meeting.

I have also raised a complaint against the Chief Executive Helen Briggs for Bullying and supporting bullying by Roger Begy and Terry King and ex Councillor all Conservative thugs....

I think my case over the past two year shows clearly the system of self regulation does not work and there is a serious need for independent regulation of Councils

In the mean time it appears all Councillor in Rutland can bully anyone, send them email threatening them anything is acceptable to Rutland County Council Standards.

To Martin Brookes 

From: Geoffrey Pook

01/09/11

Hello Mr Brookes.

Please do not publish this e-mail as the matter is not for the public domain at present.

The Assessment Sub-Committee resolved to take no action on your complaint.  The formal decision notice will be issued when I return from leave on 21 Sept  and you will have the opportunity to request a formal review by a different Sub-Committee if you wish.

Essentially members concluded that in terms of the complaint itself there was insufficient substance to raise a possible breach of the Code.  I should say that I provided members with the e-mail exchanges between you and Mr King which led up to the incident the subject of your complaint.  I did not go back over a longer period because that was not directly relevant to the actual allegation.  Members also had sight of an unsolicited e-mail from Mr Gale about the incident.

Regards

Geoff Pook