Two topics generate huge volumes of viewings and comment on the Hornet
They are both interconnected....Cllr Condon-Simmonds and the KCTMO.
The performance of both casts great dark shadows over the Council.
It is time Robert Black was replaced at the TMO and Cllr Condon-Simmonds forced to retire.
It speaks volumes. Mention Simmons or Black in a Hornet Blog and residents let fly with information about what a catastrophe these two are.
ReplyDeleteThe Chairman of the Board (eg Leader Paget-Brown) needs to take note and take action. It is what Chairmen re for.
Of course he won't!
Delete"Council complaints procedure has no interest whatsoever about customer"
DeleteIf you want to find out what other people are doing, read something like http://www.name-n-shame.co.uk/local_government.html
Check for yourself but the above says that the local authorities cannot bring libel actions. Good to know though I would only post something that is true rather than spread rumours because you feel spiteful towards the Council.
My neighbour is talking about renting a room for a few hours at The Worlds End Theatre, inviting along all RBKC residents who would like to get involved to meet there and discuss a plan going forward, talking about getting signatures for an EGM, attendance at the AGM etc to make a KCTMO change happen.
ReplyDeleteWould anyone come along?
Nobody will contact you. I've already tried and received no emails. This blog is where people just come to moan. I am even doubting to the point, if this blog is paid by the HQ, pretending to be on the side of residents.
DeleteIf you ever organise a meeting, beware of rats and roaches sent from the HQ.
Oh yes. Hundreds.
ReplyDeleteMaighread Simmons is on the TMO board. When she doesn't succeed in putting pressure pressure on RBKC officers she then bullies TMO officers.
ReplyDeleteShe demands free parking for her special friends. If officers refuse she shouts at them at the local TMO office.
ReplyDeleteWho are the Simmonds woman's special friends nowadays.
DeleteI heard that the TMO had to change the way visitors parking permits are managed to stop her bullying local officers into giving her visitors parking permits for her special friends.
ReplyDelete'Special friends' being those who are not entitled to them !
DeleteOUTRAGEOUS !!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCorruption !!!!
ReplyDeleteNot corruption in the grand sense. Just a small minded person with a little power who is abusing her position for personal gain. The world is full of these rodents. They need to be stamped out.
DeleteMaighread is an insignificant person who would only find recognition in the Kensington and Chelsea TMO like all of its other ne'er do wells.
DeleteThis blog unifies residents against those who abuse their positions at the cost of the public purse.
ReplyDeleteWonderful !!
The residents only post moaning comments and do nothing while tptb laughs. Pointless!!
DeleteThe TMO is extremely powerful.
ReplyDeleteIt manages 153 social housing estates with tens of thousands of constituents. This makes for a dangerous cocktail for a corrupt councillor on the board.
Extremely powerful 07:52?
DeleteThat's because you give your power away to them.
Without our support, they are nothing.
They do what they like regardless of the law (corruption). No compliance is the way to go.
EXTERNAL INVESTIGATION !!!!!
ReplyDeleteIf the council was serious about ensuring that the TMO serves its residents effectively, it would not keep appointing Cllr Simmonds to the TMO Board. It would appoint someone prepared to challenge and act as a critical friend to the TMO. Cllr Simmonds does not do this; she gets drunk at TMO events, visits senior officers for social events in their own homes and, as stated above, gets favours for her friends. The TMO Board have their heads in the sand. For example, the review of events at Grenfell Tower just looked at the paperwork in the TMO office and found that it was all in order. The Board team reviewing matters – which included Cllr Simmonds – did not speak to a single resident of the Tower to gauge the resident experience of the refurbishment programme and the long promised resident survey has vanished. The TMO’s response to all criticism now is aggressive/defensive yet the sheer scale of concerns must alert them to the fact that something is going badly wrong. The poor service from Keepmoat alone is a classic example.
ReplyDeleteMaddison, Jevans and Condon Simmonds should bow out gracefully over the way that they, the TMO, treated Grenfall Tower people.
DeleteI heard that Cllr Blakeman was not allowed to speak at the council committee that got the Grenfell Tower report. So the councillor most closely involved with residents was gagged. Isn’t that censorship? Is the council now running a totalitarian state to protect the TMO?
ReplyDeleteCouncillor Simmons encourages the promotion of officers who undertake special favours for her "special friends". The TMO gardening man comes to mind. Dominic is very helpful.
ReplyDeleteand very good to an old woman, close to Simmonds, who won a prize for gardening when she didn't have a garden. She only had a flower pot.
DeleteResidents who complain or hold the TMO accountable are systematically are accused falsely, have their services witheld and are threatened.
ReplyDeleteThis is the absolute truth.
ReplyDeleteThe TMO sends threats of blocking all emails to residents who hold them accountable !
ReplyDeleteI thought that was the purpose of residents associations...
ReplyDeleteTO HOLD SERVICE PROVIDERS ACCOUNTABLE !
What we should do in Chelsea Riverside is not vote for Councillor Simmonds at the next Council election.
ReplyDeleteThat would weaken her position as a Councillor on the TMO board.
All that she is interested in is her position as Councillor.
ReplyDeleteThe priviledge this position gives her and the social standing she believes she has as a result.
She uses the TMO resources and staff to maintain her position as Councillor.
14.24, now don't forget that Maighread is most interested in the £10, 000 that comes with position of Councillor.
DeleteShe puts pressure on TMO officers to spend money benefiting those that canvass for her, leaflet for her in elections, etc
ReplyDeleteHer main conduit is our very helful gardening man.
ReplyDeleteHas many publicly funded budgets.
ReplyDeleteDominic heads many technical projects despite not having any technical training. Being helpful to our lovely councillor is all he needs...
ReplyDeletelive wiring left hanging in public areas for two weeks, concreting over heating ducts, cutting residents' BT lines, outside walls with no damp courses before painting etc ,etc
ReplyDeleteIsn't he a landscape gardener ?
ReplyDeleteOh yes, but has budgets for technical projects totalling over a million pounds of public money.
ReplyDeleteHis trail of disasters are countless all over the borough.
All he has to do is be at our lovely councillor's beck and call.
ReplyDeleteHe manages Housing regeneration funding, Area Review Board funding, Gardening funding, Cleaning budget, etc, etc
ReplyDeleteAll the front line services.
Quite good for a gardener.
ReplyDeleteEnsures that all of our councillor's special friends are looked after...
ReplyDeleteOh yes her best friend has a private garden with keys. Specially planted with watering facilities. No one else.
ReplyDeleteThe gardening man takes instructions from our lovely councillor.
ReplyDeleteHe is very helpful.
Councillor Simmons makes sure that this funding is directed to people or estates that vote for her.
ReplyDeleteAny community group that challenges this finds that funding and services are withdrawn.
Former Mayor, Councillor Maighread Condon-Simmonds.
ReplyDeleteMaighread has been on the council since 2002. She is a trained psychiatric nurse and loves jazz music, swimming, cycling, hill walking and skiing.
Well done to everyone who has dished the dirt on Maighread.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is about Simmoinds and Black. Let's not forget we need to dish the DIRT on Robert Black too