Citizenj

#brokenpolitics 'It’s Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled'.So, if in doubt please retweet

[Citizenj @_citizenj]

@CoDurhamElects @CoDLabour @DurhamTories @CoDurhamGreens @DurhamLibDems Why do you think that your council misinforms councillors of their duty (top venn) & propagates the lie in the bottom venn to cover its tracks?
Why do cllrs ignore these things & put their name to fraud, & betray their residents?
https://t.co/Oa2Zeb8pF7

[Leanne @LeanneSpurs]

10 Downing Street tonight.

[Driftwood @buc97552]

@JeremyClarkson This aged well.

[ANTIGAslighting M@ @Maxastra]

Educated 'til you're deaf and dumb, so you cannot say what has been done.

[Citizenj @_citizenj]

@Maxastra "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

[Citizenj @_citizenj]

Windy today

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@BrexitNe @CCJardineNP @northumbriapol @LabourNorth @UKLabour @PrivateEyeNews @TimMinogue @IainGould Shocking harassment by Northumbria police, aided & abetted by its sham regulators including the PCC.

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@BrexitNe @northumbriapol @UKLabour @LabourNorth @PrivateEyeNews Not sure if "everyone does it" is a valid defence.

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@BrexitNe @northumbriapol @UKLabour @LabourNorth @PrivateEyeNews This reminds me of when I sent a doc proving that Sunderland council ignores the 1999 Local government act, to the police - & my input was totally ignored - not even acknowledged.

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@1GeoffJones But of course that's how sham accountability disguises itself. A contact of mine become a councillor a few month ago, & confirms that the legal duty of a council has not been mentioned to them - & instead that phrases are taken out of context to pull the wool over their eyes.

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@drcmday Part of the role of Judges & their fellow travellers is to legitimise not seeing the wood for the trees. To prove this, ask a lawyer or councillor what the legal duty of a local authority is. Gaslighting rules OK.

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@Maxastra You helped me through a difficult time, thanks. I think that we have come to the same conclusion.

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@Maxastra I don't know but it looks a bit sinister.

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@1GeoffJones @gibbsy70 @cllrglewis @GalsworthyErnie @LisaMytton @CliveJo53798835 @CllrMSymonds A whistleblowing policy (however robust) which ignores a council's duty under the 1999 Local Gov Act duty is an arrangement to secure ignorance of the duty. What if the whistleblower has revealed ignorance of the duty?

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@Maxastra @johnnymup Spam & gaslighting are propagating irrelevant information. By calling out gaslighting, you are doing the opposite of producing spam.

[Citizenj @_citizenj]

@Maxastra @0Calamity It's also that there is a system of gaslighting which all ignores the same thing. E.g. the definition of accountability and governance for local government & its regulators is the sentence which describes the mission of local government, but where is an explanation of it?

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@Maxastra In the discourse propagated by the media, high interest rates are a legitimate way of fighting inflation. From a Marxist perspective, they are what capitalism does for a living

[Citizenj @_citizenj]

Whether this land deal was corrupt is a matter of subjective judgement. That it contravened the Local Gov Act is objectively verifiable, given a relevant framework which explains how to apply the Act to the case. Without such a framework the LG Act is meaningless.

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https://t.co/af7JIz6b3C

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@SarahSpoorUK @Allchanges @1GeoffJones @sra_solicitors @CILEXLawyers @CILExRegulation @cascaidr The sentence from the LG Act defines legitimate activities of local authorities - so it defines accountability, governance & etc. It is ignored by all parties, so only those lower down the pecking order who break particular rules get into trouble.

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@SarahSpoorUK @Allchanges @1GeoffJones @sra_solicitors @SRA @CILEXLawyers @CILExRegulation @cascaidr The issue is not one of interpretation it is one of ignorance / gaslighting. You won't find an interpretation of the sentence, and you will find words from it ("continuous improvement" & "economy, efficiency & effectiveness") taken out of context.

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@SarahSpoorUK @Allchanges @1GeoffJones @sra_solicitors @SRA @CILEXLawyers @CILExRegulation @cascaidr I asked a few councillors if they know what their legal duty is according to the sentence in the LG act which defines it. None of them have a clue. 1 had sat on audit & governance committees for decades and 1 was a lawyer. The training which they receive is misleading.