Rotherham Council mass resignation.....

Rotherham Council mass resignation.....

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TTmonkey

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20,911 posts

246 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Just listening to Eric Pickles jabbering on in the House.

He doesn't yet seem to know that the whole council has resigned.....

blindswelledrat

25,257 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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And neither do the rest of us. Link?

longblackcoat

5,047 posts

182 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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It's absolutely right that they resigned. Pity they didn't do it earlier.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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According to that link it's the cabinet, not the whole council and it reads, "...is to resign..." so has it happened yet?

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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I would prefer to see them jailed for conspiracy.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Jasandjules said:
I would prefer to see them jailed for conspiracy.
I think the public need to keep pushing. It doesn't end with the Council Cabinet quitting:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/roth...


Interesting to see that it's being made about Labour and not a certain political 'charity'.

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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longblackcoat said:
It's absolutely right that they resigned. Pity they didn't do it earlier.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750
Resignation is a cop out. The modern trend seems to suggest that as long as you've resigned, that's an end to it. If they have been criminally negligent, or worse, then they should be investigated, and if there's sufficient evidence, punished.


Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Derek Smith said:
Resignation is a cop out. The modern trend seems to suggest that as long as you've resigned, that's an end to it. If they have been criminally negligent, or worse, then they should be investigated, and if there's sufficient evidence, punished.
Hear hear. I would also like to know how and why so many of the resignees of such posts manage to receive generous payouts, this despite being found severely wanting in their respective roles. Who writes these contracts?

ETA I see the twisters still have their insider, Vaz in there, trying to interfere.

As others say, it would be apt to see the name Common Purpose dragged into the frame too.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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and what about the council officers/staff?


Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Scuffers said:
and what about the council officers/staff?
...the local authority was "repeatedly told" by its own youth service what was happening. It chose, she said "not only to not act, but to close that service down."

Seems like the officers tried to blow the whistle but their political master chose to ignore them and cover it up. Lots more to come out on this story.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Riley Blue said:
Scuffers said:
and what about the council officers/staff?
...the local authority was "repeatedly told" by its own youth service what was happening. It chose, she said "not only to not act, but to close that service down."

Seems like the officers tried to blow the whistle but their political master chose to ignore them and cover it up. Lots more to come out on this story.
blimey, missed that!

so what was the chief exec doing in all this? how can councilors shut down a service without the chief exec on-board?

jogon

2,971 posts

157 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Good effort Pickles now when are you going to take a look at Birmingham, Manchester and every other place this is happening?

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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sadly you are right: Rotherham almost certainly isn't the only town where this has been going on

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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JPJPJP said:
sadly you are right: Rotherham almost certainly isn't the only town where this has been going on
Solicitor for some of the victims on tv news just said as much.

Apparently, the police are still ignoring the issues, all over the country.

number 46

1,019 posts

247 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Someone on C4 News has just discribed Rotherham council as a bunch of gangsters in suits !!! Of course one could describe most local councils that way!!!

FiF

43,964 posts

250 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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As Derek says, resignation should not be the end of it, chase these people where the evidence leads and prosecute without fear or favour. Then do it all over again in other cities. If it's like this in a small one horse town like Rotherham, what's it like in London, Birmingham, and so on?




https://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2015/02/04...

jogon

2,971 posts

157 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Police have started an investigation according to the mail..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939129/Tw...

17 years too late unfortunately. Scum the lot of them.

don4l

10,058 posts

175 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Scuffers said:
Apparently, the police are still ignoring the issues, all over the country.
This is what really astonishes me.

When this story first broke, I expected lots of arrests.

There are not tens of witnesses. There are not hundreds of witnesses.

There are thousands of witnesses.

We need to see senior politicians sent to prison. We also need to see senior police officers sent to prison, and we need to see far more of the abusers sent down.

I think that we also need to see a proper investigation into the activities of Common Purpose.



Mermaid

21,492 posts

170 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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"A serving Rotherham councillor suggested teenage victims were to blame for their own exploitation because their 'modern dress' and make-up 'fooled' Asian men.

According to the report, the unnamed councillor - who still sits on Rotherham Council - said the girls tricked their abusers into thinking they were adults by 'the way they make up"


rolleyes

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Mermaid said:
"A serving Rotherham councillor suggested teenage victims were to blame for their own exploitation because their 'modern dress' and make-up 'fooled' Asian men.

According to the report, the unnamed councillor - who still sits on Rotherham Council - said the girls tricked their abusers into thinking they were adults by 'the way they make up"


rolleyes
That is utterly, utterly staggering.