Next time Walsall Council leader Mike ‘Blofeld’ Bird or his two-hundred thousand pounds per year Chief Executive Paul Sheehan appear in the media preaching about hard times, corporate governance and their worth to the citizens of Walsall, reflect on this. The story linked below is an abridged version of a story in the Walsall Express & Star, of Wednesday, 8th December 2010. Whilst charmless Councillor Bird grimly warns us of the need to close our libraries, leisure centres and limit access to social care, the authority he leads has failed to wrap up a simple commercial contract worth a lot of money, whilst misplacing valuable works of art from a nationally important collection.
This is incompetence on a huge scale. If our civic leaders showed any sign of competence, we might be more amenable to their pleas of hardship; as it is, they look like monkeys, badly led by a hyena.
Walsall Art Gallery blunder A coffee chain that opened a branch in The New Art Gallery Walsall got away without paying rent and utilities for years…
Read more at the Express & Star…
