Author: Whistle Blower

Not to be outdone for being an abysmal representative for her constituents in the Highlands, Maree Todd has continued to take her “friend” along to various freebies at taxpayer expense. Possibly the same “friend” who stays in her Edinburgh flat that is paid for by the taxpayer perhaps?? Who knows? Probably just a coincidence right?? Do feel free to let her know how you feel about this gross abuse of her position to her email:- Maree.Todd.msp@parliament.scot Nobody is shocked. But everybody will remember her abject failure as their MSP next election won’t they?The SNPaedo gravy train is coming to a…

You heard it right folks. Highland Council have been directly supporting the genocide in Yemen and Palestine, read all about it! https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/highland-council-quizzed-over-scandalous-pension-fund-investments-in-arms-companies?fbclid=IwY2xjawHOLtJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUaPTUbhFBUQuWfukENQi7RKom3EgWb5Wrl6-tx2PwGsp07vV4yRGXX96Q_aem_FIOTg9NCUZOQ_Ds9oVsJLA Nobody is surprised though are they?? Just the sort of standards you’d expect from the sanctimonious convenor who doesn’t respond to emails but has plenty of time to spout garbage on Facebook. Imagine how much he is being paid every year for this diatribe? All whilst he oversees genocide investment with HC employee money. Staggering!

https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/chef-giving-up-on-wick-boutique-hotel-plans-after-being-ign-363900 Following a year of investment, local couple pulls the plug on planning application for change of use on historic building into a much needed top end boutique hotel and restaurant following inaction and incompetence and malfeasance by Craig Wilson (Head of planning North), Pamela King (head of Planning South) Raymond Bremner (HC Convenor) Willie Mackay (Wick Councillor) and all Senior management within HC @ Glenurquhart Road, Inverness… Despite agreeing that HC Planning had “wrongly advised” them in their initial application and given “assurances” of help, Craig Wilson lied and did not do as he had promised. They were left…

Despite there being very clear guidance on use of Social Media by Highland Council employees, it seems the convenor himself is incapable of following them. He regularly breaches GDPR and thinks likes and hi5s on facebook is an acceptable replacement for actually helping local people or replying to emails from his own official email account. As both a local councillor and leader of the council he is paid to represent and help local people. Not boost his fragile ego with facebook likes. His particular behaviour online is most questionable, much like his search history, you’d not want it read back…

Billion Pound Budget Black Hole! Worst performing council in the country! Last of 29!! I don’t know about you, but if there was a budget black hole to fill at my job I’d be expecting sackings, resignations, cut backs and promises to fix things with a new team of people…Doesn’t appear to happen at the Highland Council. A few heads of department sign NDAs and get payoffs and early retirement for covering up colossal fraud and widespread mismanagement of public money, also referred to as malfeasance (In public office). If I was £20 short in my accounts at the end…

Each year, HC establish a roads budget for each region to cover the cost of maintenance, pothole repair (Not a joke, promise!) resurfacing and also clearing of snow and gritting over the winter. The budget must be spread across the year and as such with winter being quite the unknown quantity there tends to be an underspend from the start of the tax year through the winter. Then in late winter, early spring there is a mad budget spend before the end of the tax year. Naturally if budgets are not spent then they are cut in subsequent years… See…

If you want to know where your elusive councillors will be attending meetings for the upcoming months, check out this handy calendar. If you need to see what boards your corrupt councillor sits on then search highland.gov for the councillor’s name and it will tell you where they should be according to the above timetable. Take RB for example his info is found on this link:- https://www.highland.gov.uk/councillors/8/raymond_bremner Worth noting RB has no declared gifts on the register.So it would be interesting to know where his Warden of Thrumster payment should appear, or that of his father. Or where the community…

https://www.thistleexcursions.co.uk If we were to copy a blue badge or use it inappropriately then we would lose that privilige. But it’s OK as long as you are a HC emplpoyee paid to represent the public’s interests. Whilst serving only your own and having your tour buses inappropriately use said blue badges to allow them to park up and take Cruise ship visitors on excursions and proactively stifling local competition. All you have to do is be a senior SNP member, local bully and all round wage thief and the CPS will not prosecute because of no good reason. If you…

Have you had planning problems? The primary issue with HC planning is one of incomptence. It’s an unwieldy beast that can’t be tamed nor controlled, and clearly at a cost of £2.2m per annum it represents abysmal value for taxpayer cash in the Highlands. We are unsure as to the structure of control within planning but we know of at least 3 “senior planners” 2 of whom have repeatedly ignored requests for help. One of them blackmailed a local person on the promise of assistance (AKA doing their job) and then ignored them and didn’t respond to multiple emails. No…

Who knew the HC would break the law?All taxpayers one can assume… Highland Council has been accused of “fraud” and behaving like a “dictatorship” after members voted to ban private vehicles from Academy Street. Altogether the £800,000 revamp of has stirred controversy as the local authority wants to bid for government cash for improvements to the city centre. But businesses feel it was agreed without full consultation and the local authority’s reputation with businesses in the city seems to have hit an all time low. Councillors insisted there had been a consultation however the proposal to remove all but blue…