Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council seeks £37m bailout due to funding emergency
This news item caught my eye:
London council declares 'funding emergency' as it applies for £37mi...
Is this due to "ever-growing demands due to rising costs, a growing population and ‘more than a decade of government austerity’", as described in the article and by Council Leader, Peray Ahmet?
Or is this an opportunistic move to make up for past excesses (and corruption?) while there's a potentially sympathetic Labour government at the Centre?
Or a bit of both?
I'm not suggesting the current government is actually sympathetic, or even taking a moral position for or against a bailout; just assuming that a Labour run council would be more optimistic about receiving an emergency bailout under a Labour government than a Conservative government.
Also please don't assume that this post is motivated by any particular political ideology, or construe it as insinuating anything about acts or omissions by any particular individual(s).
In other words, I'm more interested in understanding what's actually happening at the Council, than in a debate about the merits or demerits of specific political parties.
Please try and back up any assertions :)
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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THE investigation into property deals authorised by the present leader was, at great length, finally published on the council's website.
The council can truthfully claim (just) that the report is in the public domain, but they publish no links to it and have buried it as deeply as possible on their Web Server.
For the cognoscente, the 46-page pdf Buss Report is here.
One of the many remarkable aspects of the Buss Report is that it is not redacted. However, the version for public consumption has been filleted and pre-redacted, with the full version sent to the Police. Although the public version is sanitised, it still makes for sobering reading.
The losses on several bizarre, irregular or suspicious property deals runs into untold millions but would be equivalent to a significant proportion of the £37,000,000 bailout money sought.
No one has been held responsible or accountable. Most or all of those involved in the deals have been given plenty of time to quietly leave either the Council or its employ. This is the traditional Haringey approach in these circumstances.
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NO one at the council talks about the huge losses on property deals under the previous leader.
There has been a denial that they are a "terrible, badly-run council using money inappropriately".
Such an impression could be given by the external Auditor's Audit Opinion.
There are four grades of Audit Opinion and regrettably, our Council was given the worst one possible: Disclaimer of Opinion. For three years running.
Such is the lack of knowledge and challenge, this has received little attention.
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