Stockport Council News

15 July 2009 19:18

Leader <leader@stockport.gov.uk>; Chief.Constable@gmp.police.uk <Chief.Constable@gmp.police.uk>; John Schultz <chief.executive@stockport.gov.uk>
Cllr Mark Weldon <cllr.mark.weldon@stockport.gov.uk>; Cllr David White <cllr.david.white@stockport.gov.uk>; MICHAEL PARNELL <mickysara@btinternet.com>; alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk <alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk>

Dear Sirs

I had to sit through a community police report at
tonight’s council meeting wherein it was explained that the local police were
unable to deal with the current level of crime, whilst outside Mr. Parnell had
the police called to him for the 87th time for his peaceful protest. I assume
he was arrested yet again for the 11th time.

Also, I said to Councillor White I would be
exercising my legal right to stand outside polling stations showing people who
approached me the Harcourt Street School contamination documents, and the
policeman said tonight the police would have to man all the polling stations in
North Reddish because of some threat. Do the police mean my right to exercise
my legal duty to stand on the pavement, not approaching anyone and showing
interested parties documents was a threat to the elections necessitating police
presence at every polling station all day? If so, then no wonder we have no
police free to deal with crime – they are being tied up doing the futile
bidding of Stockport Council.

You really couldn’t make it up.

Yours

Sheila

11 July 2009 07:04

Dear Mr Khan

You know what a gentle man Mr. Parnell is because
you spoke to him at length. I will have you for what has gone on here. You
should lose your job for this and I will do my utmost to see that you
do.

Please let me know whether Mr. Parnell is allowed
to enter polling stations under the terms of his ridiculous CRASBO.

You remain my humble servant

Sheila

23 May 2009 09:45

Chief.Constable@gmp.police.uk

Dear Chief Constable

I have now had a stalling reply from Stockport’s
police commander. If an effort is being made to make out that Mr Parnell is mad
– and I can assure you he isn’t – then I must point out the case of the lady who
jumped off the Humber Bridge with her 9-year-old autistic son. Stockport
Council issued an-after-the-event report pointing out that she was mad. I doubt
it, somehow, but driven to suicide by Stockport Council is a definite
possibility. I am trying to establish the facts in that case and the issue is
with the Information Commission currently. I have to point out that any
inference on behalf of the police that Mr. Parnell is in any way mentally
unstable will be vehemently disputed.

What an utter waste of police time this has all
been – especially the incident of calling the police when he made one comment
from the public gallery at a full council meeting and not one council officer
would remain to explain to the police why they had been called. That would seem
to me to be a criminal offence of wasting police time.

We will get to the bottom of all this however long
it takes.

May I respectfully suggest that the Council are
told to sort out this gentleman’s problems with regards to his human rights and
his adopted daughters’ human rights and stop wasting police and court
time.

I shall cc this to the local press and the Editor
of the Guardian for their information.

Kind regards

Sheila

Mr Parnell was acquitted in a 3 day, £10,000 per day Crown Court Appeal of the ludicrious offence of an assault with a sneeze and this is the CCTV the police, the Council, the CPS and the courts had of the non-offence. I smell Masonic corruption.

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/smbc-cctv-evidence.html

This email was copied to Nick Clegg

02 May 2009 07:21

Dear Councillor White

There was no spitting incident as I understand it
and no evidence of mucus on the security guard. We shall see how the court
case pans out and get the transcript under the FOI if possible. If the Council
drops it again further wasting police and court time, I assume there will be no
doubt it was all lies and compensation payments will large.

You seem to treat political opponents, whom I
assume don’t agree with you, with contempt in the local newspaper.

Can you justify the police having been called 64
times to Mr. Parnell, once I believe in response to his making a comment from
the public gallery at a full council meeting that Councillor Derbyshire had
sneezed and should be arrested? No-one from the Council would even wait after
the meeting for the police arrive and Mr. Parnell had to wait alone outside for
the police to come to explain why they had been called, so as not to further
waste police time.

I think as an Executive Councillor of a Council
which has been unreasonably harassing a peaceful protester and who was informed
twice at public meetings what was going on, then, of course, you are
involved.

I hope to obtain evidence from the police and the
courts under the FOIA of this utter and malicious waste of police and court
time, and will hopefully expose this in the press.

As further evidence of this rotten borough council,
when it was pointed out at the last full council meeting that the names,
addresses and signatures of questioners had been up on the Council’s website for
months, no action was taken to correct that Data Protection abuse and remove
those details till the following Monday afternoon, and even then this was only
done because a council taxpayer affected contacted the police and the
Information Commission. At that meeting were all the senior council officers,
executive councillors – even one who worked in a senior position at the Data
Protection arm of the Information Commission, yet no-one took anything seriously
because basically no-one senior at the Council ever listens to the
public.

I think the contempt I feel for LibDem councillors
and MPs, always spouting their concern for the environment yet simultaneously
wanting to put a £1billion bypass through the Goyt Valley, is very
justified.

With warmest best wishes

Sheila

—– Original Message —–

From: David White

To: Sheila Oliver

Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:54 AM

Subject: RE: Mr Parnell

Sheila,

Having
heard the Security Guards view of the event I am disgusted by this “inflicting
and a cold”, my description would be very different and Council staff should not
be subjected to this.

Spitting
on someone is not a “gentle, peaceful” act.

If
he has been arrested, I have neither been involved or partaken in the event.
Let justice take its course.

Like
yourself you are entitled to your opinion but you treat people who don’t agree
with you with contempt and never listen to them.

Dave

David
White

5
Harry Road

Stockport

SK5
6TX

0161-474-3379
(Work)

0161-443-1090
(Home)

07891-949266
(Mobile)

Dear Councillor White.

How can they lack one thing among many?

I sent you masses of evidence over Harcourt Street
– I don’t suppose you bothered to read any of it.

I asked at the Executive meeting twice about him.
Maybe you had nodded off. I gave all Executive councillors the chance to
condemn what was being done to him. Not one did.

He has had the police called to him 64 times. He
is in court on May 14th charged with assault with a sneeze with intent to
inflict a council employee with a cold. He has been taken to court before by
the Council only to have the case dropped on the day it was to be heard. He is
a gentle, peaceful man. I don’t suppose you have ever taken the trouble to
actually talk to him. A High Court judge has ruled that he mustn’t have his
case heard by magistrates, as they won’t be impartial. So his case is to be
heard by a judge.

Suicide is a possibility for him and his daughters
– the compensation costs would be massive, never mind the toll of human
misery.

Take the trouble to find out – I pay you
enough.

Yours

Sheila

—– Original Message —–

From: David White

To: Sheila Oliver

Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:21 PM

Subject: RE: Mr Parnell

Sheila,

Your
emails always just lack one thing, among many.

I
don’t know about Mr Parnell, my only dealings with him have been his appearing
at my Area Committee asking a public question.

Evidence!

Dave

David
White

5
Harry Road

Stockport

SK5
6TX

0161-474-3379
(Work)

0161-443-1090
(Home)

07891-949266
(Mobile)

01 May 2009 19:10

Cllr Dave Goddard <cllr.dave.goddard@stockport.gov.uk>; Cllr Mark Weldon <cllr.mark.weldon@stockport.gov.uk>; David White <dwhite1972@btinternet.com>; cllr.sue.derbyshire@stockport.gov.uk <cllr.sue.derbyshire@stockport.gov.uk>; cllr.shan.alexander@stockport.gov.uk <cllr.shan.alexander@stockport.gov.uk>; cllr.stuart.bodsworth@stockport.gov.uk <cllr.stuart.bodsworth@stockport.gov.uk>; martin.candler@stockport.gov.uk <martin.candler@stockport.gov.uk>; cllr.john.pantall@stockport.gov.uk <cllr.john.pantall@stockport.gov.uk>

Dear Executive Councillors

I have twice in the past drawn your attention to
what is happening regarding Mr. Parnell. All of you refused to express any
concern whatsoever.

Please see the attached. I would appear there is a
legal right to peaceful protest. I think the damages the Council will have to
pay Mr. Parnell will be huge for the 64 times the police were called and his
repeated stay in police cells. I assume your insurers won’t cover this illegal
activity, as they have financial problems of their own, and that this
compensation will have to come from council taxpayers’ money.

What a shame none of you acted to stop this abuse
within reasonable timescales.

I hope neither Mr Parnell nor his daughters commit
suicide, which is a possibility; in that tragic eventuality the Council will
have to pay out tens of millions of pounds.

Yours in disgust at what you allow to continue in
this rotten borough.

Sheila

Mr Parnell had written and written over the preceding decade without any outcome. Smith just suggests he keeps writing, and to pointless Andrew Stunell too.

11 February 2009 20:31

Dear Councillor Smith

The local MP is Andrew Stunell, ’nuff said,
chocolate teapot. Mr. Parnell waited all day in the Greater Manchester Police
Headquarters to see the Chief Constable (but it might have been the dead one)
without success. He has written too, as far as I am aware.

It may not be a satisfactory state of affairs that
organisations funded by the LA don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them, but
it would appear to be the case.

I don’t think Mike button-holes people – he may do
to councillors or council officials but they are paid to serve. I don’t think he
does it to members of the public anyway. He just wanted some support with
regards to counselling for his troubled daughters. Because of a foul-up on
behalf of SMBC they are not registered anywhere. I know how troubled teenagers
can be a handful and how a small amount of intervention can help – and his
daughters suffered a lot at the hands of their birth parents and the
authorities. It wasn’t much to ask for over a decade ago, was it? Especially
as in taking two troubled children, he must have saved SMBC a fortune as they
would have otherwise been in care.

Did you read the letter from the parent of the
disabled child in the Express – yet another one. They Council doesn’t
listen.

Next time I see Mike I will ask him to write to you
and to keep it simple. Many thanks for your offer of an ear, at
least.

With regards to my financial question I have been
asking for a year, which Tiddles promised me an answer to at the Dec 4th full
council meeting and again on 5th Feb. I have just got yet another slapped legs
letter from Barry Khan refusing to answer. Oh well, off I go again to the
Information Commission. I usually win, but the IC are so busy it will probably
take another year before they are forced to own up to the dodgy goings on
regarding several millions of pounds.

Kind regards

Sheila

—– Original Message —–

From: Cllr Ann Smith

To: Sheila Oliver

Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:26
PM

Subject: RE: Mr Parnell

Dear Sheila

I have to say that I am more than a little
surprised that the Ombudsman has not responded with a judgement. I assume Mr
Parnell has pursued this with the Ombudsman. If he is not satisfied with the
service then he really needs to approach his MP.

The local CAB would be astonished to
hear that because a proportion of their funding may come from the Local
Authority, this would prevent them from giving clear, unbiased and objective
advice and the same goes for the police. I don’t know how we would manage to
have a local police force or a thriving voluntary sector if there was no public
funding. Where on earth is funding supposed to come from? If Mr Parnell wants to
speak to a police officer then he should try making an appointment rather than
buttonholing them on the way out of a meeting. Mr Parnell does that a lot and
while it doesn’t necessarily bother me, it may bother others. Much better to
write to individuals if there is a problem.

I have asked a few questions about the problems of
Mr Parnell and have not gleaned much information. I was told that there was a
problem with him claiming some benefits because he was a foster parent and
thus, was above the income threshold for whatever benefit it was. If this is so
then this is another problem for an MP. The local council don’t make the rules
about welfare benefits, just try to administer some of them and if someone is
refused benefit there is an appeal process. Welfare Rights presumably have
advised Mr Parnell of his rights.

If he wants to write to me telling me simply and
briefly what his problem is then I may have a clue as to where I may be able to
refer him. I cannot however make any promises. I know that people have tried to
provide assistance and have failed.

On the whole, I have always found the Council to
be very anxious to listen to people’s complaints and to be supportive and
conciliatory. I am surprised that this matter continues to go on and on whatever
it may be.

Ann Smith

Dear Councillor Smith

I don’t know if you know, I didn’t, that Local
Ombudsmen are usually former senior council officials with an interest in not
rocking the boat. I used to work for the Chief Executive of Manchester City
Council and the Lord Mayor – I was just a temp but stayed for years as an
afternoon job. I know Anne Seex, our Ombudslady, was there when I was there –
maybe 1996ish. I don’t think she was an outstanding employee and there were
some amazing people there at the time – Euro 96, the Manchester bomb,
preparing for the Commonwealth Games etc. Yes,
Mr. Parnell’s case has been with the Ombudsman for many years, as has our school
on the toxic waste site one, without any progress being made.

Mr. Parnell does not claim any benefits and
therefore I believe is not entitled to any Legal Aid. Indeed, he is having to
represent himself in the court case (as you know, after the 50 now arrests he is
charged with assaulting a council employee with a sneeze with intent to inflict
him with a cold – what a waste of taxpayers’ money!) The council has told him
they will not allow him to speak to any council officer without a legal
representative present. How could he afford one? He has lost his job due to
what has happened to him over the last 10 years. The CAB is funded by the
Council, as are the local police. He tried to speak to the Chief Constable as
he left this week’s full council meeting but a council heavy prevented him from
doing so. Maybe the Law Centre in Longsight (presumably not funded by SMBC
might be an idea) – thanks for that I will tell Mr. Parnell.

I read the comments of Ms Shoesmith and also felt
some sympathy for her. My feeling is we should not all retract into our shells
when things go wrong but learn from the mistakes, try not to attach blame and
try to make things better next time

The knitted Cllr Goddard, or Listening Dave as we should more correctly
call him, would be very cuddly.

I too am not a very good knitter. I stay with scarves basically. I am a
bit better at crochet, but am still capable of producing items which cause me
great embarrassment.

Yes, I think it would be wiser not to knit in
council meetings but to gaze up with rapt attention at Tiddles, Cllr Weldon,
Cllr Derbyshire et al and bask in their loving benevolence as they steer the
Stockport ship of state ever upwards and onwards to even higher levels of
greatness.

Lots of love

Sheila

—–

From: Cllr Ann Smith

To: Sheila Oliver

Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:37
PM

Subject: RE: Mr Parnell

I hank it was only the Children and
Young People’s Division at Haringey that was judged as being OK and I do take
your point about Baby P. That point has been raised in various meetings that I
have attended. I listened to part of the interview with the ex Director at
Haringey yesterday I think her name is Ms Shoesmith, and was interested to hear
an alternative point of view from her. In my experience, these matters are never
as cut and dried as the media/politicians would like to make out. I think most
people who have any responsibility in whatever way for Children’s services
experience great worry and concern that something may go wrong with their
service. I know I do.

Can I ask whether Mr Parnell has been to the
Ombudsman or elsewhere with his complaints? And has he ever asked for legal
advice regarding his situation. I realise that legal advice is expensive but
there is CAB and the Law Centre in Longsight where they don’t
charge.

To me this would seem like the obvious route to
take but maybe he already has.

I am trying to imagine a knitted David Goddard.
What a scream. I challenge you to do it. I’m sure you could find sufficient
stuffing it you tried.

I used to knit a lot although was never very good
at it. I have been considering taking it up again recently but it does take up a
fair bit of time and I think these days would be expensive. Haven’t completely
given up on the idea but I think I wouldn’t be doing it at Council meetings. I
think that would go down like a lead balloon both with Members of the Council
and with Members of the Public. I can just imagine the story in the local
rag.