Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#1
Where oh where to begin...
Eye read...
Thanet council, owners and runners of the port of Ramsgate, entered into a secret deal with TransEuropa Ferries. A deal to forego fees in order to save ten jobs at the port.
This is said to have cost the taxpayers £3.4m
The Chief Executive (on about £114,000) has refused to resign. The fact that the then Tory council leader and the incoming Labour leader both acceded to the arrangement helps her case.
Over to Norfolk...
The taxpayers there are largely against the building of a large waste incinerator, the deal was signed, the council changed hands and the present triumvirate; UKIP, New Labour and Lib-Dems, are seeking for the cheapest way out.
The council officers have so far refused to show the councillors the contract documentation in full, only redacted excepts.
However it is said that a withdrawal from the contract would lead to a compensation payout of £90m...
"The Eye has seen one interesting clause in the contract. It stipulates that compensation would have to be paid even if the deal was scrapped because officers had been, er, bribed!"
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#2
Yes, Tom, Democracy and what the local people think in regards to decisions made by their council is in dire threat of being stamped out.
The "compensation costs" for refusing to go ahead with a "deal" could be the ultimate piece of "official" blackmail.