Now its Labour’s Turn to Investigate ARCH.

A leak from the local Labour Party has revealed that they are now beginning an investigation into the costs and findings of Northumberland Conservatives and both its internal and external auditors regarding the former Council owned Company ARCH, following the revelation that Northumbria Police found no evidence at all of criminality at or in the Councils former company ARCH.

The Tory led Council have also capitulated at an industrial tribunal when the true facts regarding ARCH were beginning to come out suddenly paying a former employee a six figure sum for wrongful dismissal which brought the questioning to an end.

Its believed there were some squirmy bottoms in the Conservative ranks when questions were asked at the Industrial Tribunal about the report into ARCH and the release of information to the media being prepared by the same person, rumoured to be the Chairperson of ARCH and the fact that the Leader of Council was unable to answer questions from the claimants legal team stating that they must speak with his solicitor and not him!

Labour’s investigation is to be run by their old sage Councillor Ian Swithenbank CBE. A man well versed in this type of activity being embroiled into investigations of rogue Labour Party members on many occasions.

Kickstarting his investigation at the Councils audit committee on 22^nd May Councillor Swithenbank demanded to see the signed contracts of the Council and ARCH for the employment of the late Graham Harper a person denigrated along with the former Leadership of Northumberland Labour Group by the Chair of Audit Councillor Hill.

She may wish she hadn’t taken on this task of destroying the reputations of fellow Councillors and officers from both ARCH and the Council as her masters in the Conservative Group have no further need for her services now the last Labour leadership has been dissolved and replaced without a stain on their characters following an investigation by Northumbria Police, particularly when she has to reveal the delay letters from the Police which revealed there was no criminality found in ARCH seven months before she took that information to her committee. Its predicted the letters now being sought by all and sundry from the media may not exist in the form she is wholly reliant upon to save her own reputation?