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Twitter / shadowombudsman
Twitter updates from Todd Thomas / shadowombudsman.

shadowombudsman: London Borough of Lewisham read about the LGO ignoring counc...

shadowombudsman: London Borough of Lewisham read about the LGO ignoring council officer's lies. http://is.gd/aeaAV


shadowombudsman: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea visit Ombudsman Watc...

shadowombudsman: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea visit Ombudsman Watchers wesbites. http://is.gd/7egCF


shadowombudsman: Sheffield and Lincolnshire failures. http://is.gd/aaymE

shadowombudsman: Sheffield and Lincolnshire failures. http://is.gd/aaymE


shadowombudsman: Labour MP Harry Cohen investigated by the police over his ex...

shadowombudsman: Labour MP Harry Cohen investigated by the police over his expenses. http://is.gd/aaxlS


shadowombudsman: Nottingham police is worst force in figures released on new ...

shadowombudsman: Nottingham police is worst force in figures released on new website. http://is.gd/aapwh


shadowombudsman: Scottish ICO finds that public authorities broke the law in ...

shadowombudsman: Scottish ICO finds that public authorities broke the law in 66% of the appeals made to him. http://is.gd/9Xl80

Twitter / lgowatcher
Twitter updates from Trevor Nunn / lgowatcher.

lgowatcher: NHS: Fleeced in the car park, now fleeced in bed! http://bit.ly/b...

lgowatcher: NHS: Fleeced in the car park, now fleeced in bed! http://bit.ly/bDNsMg


lgowatcher: What about infections brought into maternity wards by sales reps ...

lgowatcher: What about infections brought into maternity wards by sales reps and photographers?


lgowatcher: Hospitals colluding with commercial companies. http://www.timeson...

lgowatcher: Hospitals colluding with commercial companies. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article7059119.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084


lgowatcher: Maternity wards should be a protected space. http://www.timesonli...

lgowatcher: Maternity wards should be a protected space. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7059258.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084


lgowatcher: Politicians tell court they are not guilty on expenses. Well they...

lgowatcher: Politicians tell court they are not guilty on expenses. Well they would wouldn't they! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8561359.stm


lgowatcher: MPs expenses: the criminal charges. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...

lgowatcher: MPs expenses: the criminal charges. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7058365.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084

Twitter / melee678
Twitter updates from Tracy Morgan / melee678.

melee678: @lgowatcher Makes one wonder how many people in senior positions in...

melee678: @lgowatcher Makes one wonder how many people in senior positions in local/central government are 'open to blackmail'?


melee678: @lgowatcher Local government and their cronies in the LGO are above...

melee678: @lgowatcher Local government and their cronies in the LGO are above the law?


melee678: Camden Council haven't signed off their accounts - when will the Au...

melee678: Camden Council haven't signed off their accounts - when will the Audit Commission publish a Public Interest Report?


melee678: Are political sub-divisions (councils) to blame for decreasing mora...

melee678: Are political sub-divisions (councils) to blame for decreasing moral standards within their areas?


melee678: What role does the Local Government Association play in ensuring th...

melee678: What role does the Local Government Association play in ensuring their member councils act lawfully?


melee678: Department for Communities and Local Government reluctant to releas...

melee678: Department for Communities and Local Government reluctant to release information on volume of complaints about the LGO

Twitter / caebrwyn
Twitter updates from caebrwyn / caebrwyn.

caebrwyn: RT @HouseofTwits: RT @paulwaugh: Great drama re 3 Lab MPs in court ...

caebrwyn: RT @HouseofTwits: RT @paulwaugh: Great drama re 3 Lab MPs in court over exes. Refusing to go in the dock, declaring Parliamentary privil ...


caebrwyn: RT @OGarethHughes: The nationals are having a go at S4C programme r...

caebrwyn: RT @OGarethHughes: The nationals are having a go at S4C programme ratings. Even editorial in #Telegraph. Only time we read about ourselv ...


caebrwyn: RT @konamacphee: Seen on the side of a van this morning: "BEST SCO...

caebrwyn: RT @konamacphee: Seen on the side of a van this morning: "BEST SCOTCH BEEF / FROM WALES". That'll be popular up here in Scotland...


caebrwyn: RT @SouthWalesNews: £11m land clear-out by Swansea Council branded ...

caebrwyn: RT @SouthWalesNews: £11m land clear-out by Swansea Council branded a fire sale: SWANSEA Council is planning to make around £11 millio... ...


caebrwyn: RT @IndyPolitics: Three Labour MPs deny fraud charges http://bit.ly...

caebrwyn: RT @IndyPolitics: Three Labour MPs deny fraud charges http://bit.ly/aSEUAd


caebrwyn: RT @Indoncensorship: #libelreform petition hits 40,000 signatures! ...

caebrwyn: RT @Indoncensorship: #libelreform petition hits 40,000 signatures! http://libelreform.org/pledge-wall

Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) Watcher [York office]
Exposing the unfair, biased, unaccountable and corrupt system of administrative justice in England.

York Local Government Ombudsman office again!

Another complainant dissatisfied with the York office of the Local Government Ombudsman has started a new blog on which to publish their experience. I have extracted some quotes that parallel my ex...


Fact: Council officers can and do lie with impunity to Local Government Ombud...

A recent article by Neil Herron has highlighted an important difference between Local Government Ombudsmen and a Tribunal.

In the case reported the complainant concerned managed to obtain documentar...


LGO: One way or another their staff are liars

Following a recent Freedom of Information request to identify why some of the estate roads in the vicinity of my property were not adopted earlier I was contacted by the Information Commissioners o...


The LGO and their misuse of Section 44 of the FOI Act.

On the 18th September 2009 I submitted the following Freedom of Information request to the Local Government Ombudsman.

'Over the last five years how many certified offences has each LGO brought to t...


Tweet and Retweet now added to my blog

I have recently started to twitter about the Local Government Ombudsman and the Administrative Justice System in general as part of that process I noticed that another blogger who blogs about prob...


LGO: Systemic Failure

"If ombudsmen are to have a greater impact on ?getting decision-making right first time.' their focus should shift from the resolution of all individual complaints to a more strategic focus conc...

Local Government Ombudsman Corruption & Cover Ups
Exposing how the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) deliberately cover up council maladministration, disregard their own published guidance on good administrative practice, condone council malpractice, conceal documented evidence of maladministration, and wilfully misrepresent facts to favour councils with the intent of perverting the course of justice. Exposing the blunders of inept, incompetent council officers, and the shenanigans they use to cover up maladministration and corruption.

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Local Government Ombudsman bias, deceit, corruption, and cover ups revealedHow the Ombudsman will deal with your complaint - Local Government Ombudsman deceit uncoveredGuidance on...


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Planning officer grants residential development on land a developer covenanted to gift to council as public open space

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The evidence the LGO conceal, the council maladminist...


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Planning officers turn blind eye to football pitch destroyed by developer
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Protected trees unlawfully felled - Tree Preservation Order shamPage ContentsWhat happened
The evidence the LGO conceal, the council maladministration the LGO condone, and the council officer's lies...


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Council officers fail to enforce landscape planning conditions
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CORRUPT CAMDEN COUNCIL
?It goes to show how meaningless the awards that have been heaped on Camden are" (quote by Camden Council Leader Cllr Keith Moffitt)

Camden Council Caring for your safety?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRIFNOwZ64Q




"This electricity box had been left unlocked and most often wide open right next to a kiddies playground and despite the fact i had reported it i was told ...


Funny emails

Sometimes I receive 'funny' emails sent to the commentabout@yahoo.co.uk email address by people I suspect are connected to Camden council and the Camden Association of Street Properties (CASP), and...


Members Payments

The council has recently released on the councils website HERE their version of members 'payments' for the financial year 1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009. Its now Feb 2010 - I wonder why the delay?

The...


Camden Council Charged over toddlers death

http://www.camdengazette.co.uk/

Council to face trial over boy's wall death
nlnews@archant.co.uk
24 February 2010
CAMDEN Council pleaded not guilty when it appeared in court over the death of a two-y...


Hollie Greig

Hollie Greig who has downs syndrome and her mother Anne first reported to the Scottish police in 2000 that Hollies father Denis Charles Mackie had been sexually abusing Hollie from the age of 6.

Hol...


MI5

MI5 - the governments security service responsible for protecting the UK from threats to national security have been in the news recently in relation to the Iraq inquiry HERE , have also been activ...