FOOT AND MOUTH LATEST: Staff and council services suffer

Council staff from One Stop Shops are being diverted to Liverpool Direct to handle the DEFRA foot and mouth calls.

The rottweiller McElhinney is ordering them to do this within their normal working time, instead of overtime.

Readers will remember that the dirty, blonde-loving doctor, got round protests from councillors last time over the bird flu calls, by insisting council staff were collecting overtime.

This time there is no such deal.

This is illegal of course.

Council staff are doing work for someone else which they are not actually officially contracted to do.

But the Lib Dems are powerless to do anything about this breach of the terms and conditions for council staff.

And UNISON officials of course are in McElhinney's pocket so they will also stay schtum.

McElhinney is already infamous for treating staff like cattle, farming them out around the city and treating them with contempt.

This is his management style as an evil cabalist.

The result of him nicking council staff to do private work for LDL is that the One Stop Shops are short of staff.

The Dingle office had just five staff the other day to deal with more than 200 people.

So council services suffer while McElhinney prospers. No change there then.

Dr David McElhinney

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN'T GET MUCH WORSE....

YOU would have thought that new Premier Gordon Brown would have enough problems - Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush, terror attacks, global warming, floods, the support of the Daily Mail, Ruth Kelly in his Cabinet, etc, etc, etc.


Then foot and mouth disease strikes again.


Can it get any worse? Gordon must have been asking himself.


Well yes, it can, Gord.


Unfortunately, your Government department in charge of the outbreak, DEFRA, has cocked up again.


It has given responsibility for handling phone calls about the crisis to the rottweiller McElhinney!


That's right - Liverpool Direct has been handed the lucrative contract by DEFRA.



Like putting a paedophile in charge of an orphanage.


No wonder you look a bit down in the mouth, Gordon.



Pity the poor farmers who phone up expecting some sympathetic response from the dirty Doc.


He will probably accuse them of plotting the outbreak amongst themselves to get some compensation.


Or worse - he might even insist on asking them for their natural hair colour before ordering his minions to reply.


This new contract follows McElhinney's past successes with Bernard Mathews and bird flu.


What is this connection between McElhinney and sick animals?


What any of this has to do with providing a decent service to the people of Liverpool, who pay the evil, dirty little doctor's astronomical wages, is a complete mystery.


After all, it's not as if the city of Liverpool has been hit by foot and mouth disease.


(Just you wait until 2008! eds)


So Gordon, you have been warned...

Dr David McElhinney

STOP THIEF! MCELHINNEY AND THE JOINT VENTURE

HENSHAW'S rottweiller - Dr David McElhinney - is responsible for the systematic theft of public money from Liverpool for the last FIVE YEARS, it is now clear.

Millions of pounds were involved according to the city council's new chief executive, Colin Hilton.
Yet no action will be taken against McElhinney who continues to abuse his position as a public servant by installing a shower for his own personal use in his office.
It is also clear that the sensational allegations made against McElhinney on Tony Parrish's liverpoolevilcabal blog about the culture one stop shop, The 08 PLace and his friend, millionaire pop promoter Chas Cole, were just the tip of the iceberg.
They pale into insignificance compared to what has been uncovered by independent auditors, KPMG who have made 37 separate recommendations about the future conduct of council contracts with Liverpool Direct Limited, which is run by McElhinney.
The council contracts with LDL are worth an astonishing £520 million and cover services such as all staffing matters for the city council's 19,500 employees, car parking, revenues and benefits, grants and IT.
As chief exec of LDL, McElhinney is now in charge of all these, after quickly jumping ship from the city council when former Leader Mike Storey handed over a dossier of evidence against him.
Although the council are refusing to make their independent report public and have only come clean about the recommendations, it is now possible to piece together what was going on under the hated McElhinney.

• Services provided by LDL were vastly more expensive than when they were provided by the council.
  
• In some cases, the difference in costs between the two organisations was "substantial".
• McElhinney's LDL deliberately inflated the cost of providing some services.
  
• There were no regular reviews of services to check that the city council was getting value for money.
• Services provided by LDL were not subject to the same rules as council services, which are designed to prevent corruption.
  
• There was a growing informal relationship between the city council and LDL, which led to eyebrows being raised and prompted questions about integrity and propriety.

The report also calls for independent officials to be brought in to monitor the relationship between the council and LDL.
There is also bad news for chief executive Colin 'Cover Up' Hilton (left) who allowed McElhinney to escape to LDL in March, as his boss Henshaw left.
The report says staff should not be able to transfer to LDL within six months of leaving the council - a clear slap in the face for Hilton's mishandling of the McElhinney scandal.
It is now clear that McEhinney has been robbing the people of Liverpool blind to feather his own nest at LDL ever since it was set up as a joint venture with BT in 2000.
And he must have had the support of former chief executive Henshaw and the smiling assassin Halsall, who is supposed to keep an eye on taxpayers money.
Either both members of the evil cabal were grossly incompetent - or they colluded in the theft of council taxpayers money.
The city council should now be taking action against both over the missing millions.
Meanwhile BT Chairman Sir Ian Bland is also under pressure to take action against McElhinney and to repay the money robbed from Liverpool by the joint venture.
Editor's note: BT is worth £23.2 billion and last week announced half-year profits of £665million - an increase of 12 per cent.

COMING SOON: More on the thief McElhinney and the LDL joint venture with BT.

Dr David McElhinney