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 22nd 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?
