Thursday 26 April 2012

Marton going against Conservatives? Blackpool local elections

Rumours are abound that the Conservative candidate to replace the awful and lauded Saint Jim, Peter Collins MBE, has not touched the right note with the luminaries of the defunct Conservative Association of Marton (membership of none?).  One has to wonder if he does get elected will he be able to unravel the £60k funds in a bank account belonging to the FEsLC.  Not that he is a member of that sinecure, but too many former regulars are not allowed into the secret society and councillors don't give a hoot about people who have genuinely served their country.
It may be of note, but no-one has been able to find the Mayor's Fund with the missing £5K, which was established during WWII for "volunteers  from Blackpool, who served in the War and returned to Blackpool but find themselves in financial difficulty..."  £5.000 may not seem like a lot of money today, but with interest and careful nurturing could have accumulated considerably over the 20 years it has mysterious disappeared into the Fylde Ex-Service's coffers.
Just for interest to local political sages and observers, there are still local elderly persons who qualify for assistance from that fund and to deny them access it tantamount to theft.  
Not that the FEsLC is wholly trustworthy.  The major consideration for any person going and seeking assistance from any and every charitable institute is that their private position is kept so.  That is to say that a caseworker will only give details to a select few who are in a position to advise and distribute funds.  The minutes of meetings of the FEsLC names distressed person or persons which is against every protocol of charitable work.  It was the dichotomy that separated Ssafa caseworkers and the RBL local management teams of the past, I.E., the RBL ran on a committee basis and cases were handled through a group, whereas Ssafa trusted the caseworkers integrity and hard work so that each caseworker went directly to the paying charities on the clients behalf.  Which raises the question of legality and ownership of the funds that the Heroic Major had or gained through his directorship of the Charity Shop on Bank hey Street, now under the umbrella of the FEsLC?
Oh! what webs they weaved....

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  1. Heard in a local political Institute in B'Pool. "I'm so excited about getting on the council I have gone out and lost my virginity." That great Joe, sit down and tell me all about it."
    "I'd love to but my bottom's still sore."

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