Wednesday, 2 May 2007

I'M MORE SEXY THAN YOUR MUM

SEXY REXY FREEMAN OF OUR FAIR CITY, WAS SNUBBED RECENTLY BY LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL, AS HE WAS NOT INVITED TO THE GRAND REOPENING OF ST GEORGES HALL BY PRINCE CHARLES. COLIN HILTON'S MUM WENT INSTEAD! WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO MR MAKIN?
who stood up for Matty?




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Rex Makin in new attack over Prince's visit 'snub'

May 1 2007


by Jessica Shaughnessy, Liverpool Daily Post


FREEMAN of Liverpool Rex Makin has criticised council chief executive Colin Hilton for taking his mother to lunch with Prince Charles.

Mr Makin claims he was snubbed during the Royal’s visit to Liverpool last week.

He initially lodged a complaint with organisers the Liverpool Culture Company because he was not put in the line-up of VIPs introduced to the Prince on the St George’s Day visit.

Last night, he revealed he had repeated that complaint and referred it to Mr Hilton, saying he was dis-satisfied with a response from Culture Company chief executive Jason Harborow.

Last night, Mr Hilton refused to comment on Mr Makin’s attack, but a council spokesman insisted the city’s best-known lawyer was not overlooked.

Mr Harborow says the Culture Company adhered to protocol and were asked by Clarence House to be selective on who could meet the Prince and have lunch with him at the St George’s Hall event.

It is understood around 30 people were invited to the lunch, including Mr Hilton, who it is understood took his mother, Mr Harborow and his guest, the Lord Mayor and the Royal party.

Mr Makin complained that not only was he not invited to the VIP lunch, but he was also prevented from sitting with his wife Shirley during the official visit.

Mr Makin said last night: “If they had to be selective, why was the council chief executive’s mother allowed to attend the lunch?”

Meanwhile, last night broadcaster Anne Robinson renewed her support for Mr Makin.

In a letter to the Daily Post, the Weakest Link presenter likened the situation to leaving George Bush off the invitation list if the Queen were to visit Washington.

She highlighted Mr Makin’s charitable contributions to the city, and said: “The irony is that His Royal Highness . . . missed out on being entertained by one of Liverpool's most engaging and colourful citizens.”

In a letter to Mr Hilton yesterday Mr Makin wrote: “I enclose a copy of a letter I sent to Jason Harborow following his inappropriate communication to me in which he does not appear to recognise civic protocol nor what does he write accord with the facts that I know of, including your mother’s luncheon visit.

“I reiterate my complaint. I hope you will deal with this in accordance with the established procedure.”

The high-profile solicitor claims as a Freeman of the city and St George’s Hall trustee he should have been among the first in line to meet the Prince, who delivered one of Liverpool John Moores University’s Roscoe lectures, which Mr Makin founded.

He said last night: “There would have been no lecture for the Prince to deliver had I not founded the Roscoe Lectures.

“At other events in the city, I have been included.”

Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool Culture Company declined to comment further.

jessicashaughnessy@dailypost.co.uk

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've loved these blogs since they started but let's face it, Rex is simply copying the "Self importance" tag associated with the Cabal now. Whilst he did initiate the Roscoe lectures he is coming across as someone more concerned with his own importance. When the history of Liverpool is written, if Sexy Rexy gets a mention, it will probably mention Otterspool and his ego. Sadly, that's all he has become. He is a "letter for hire" and has long since lost any "man in the street" support. Prancing around in a chauffeur driven Rolls is not my idea of a "man of the people".

5 May 2007 at 21:22
Anonymous said...

maybe more a man of the toilet??

24 May 2007 at 06:36

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NADIA GETS TO USE MACCAS GOLDEN SHOWER

NADIA GETS TO USE MACCAS GOLDEN SHOWER

QUOTE OF THE YEAR 2007

Council leader Warren Bradley said that some individual councillors’ behaviour was “appalling” and not fitting of a democratic society.

FULL STORY

BUMBLING BRADLEY

FIREMAN'S INTERVIEW WITH ROGER PHILLIPS, AFTER COUNCIL RANKED THE WORST FINANCIALLY RUN

Roger: This is not a good report for us is it Warren?
Fireman:Well Roger we’ve got to put it into perspective really haven’t we and remember where Liverpool was and that’s not thinking back 10 years. Liverpool has come an awful long way. The people of Liverpool were asking for lower Council Tax and the Liberal Democrats have delivered that and they also wanted better services and you look at the services that are now delivered by Liverpool City Council. If we look at the most vulnerable either elderly or the Children’s Services the social care we are now delivering at a level that Liverpool has never delivered before. We also look at the bread and butter your schools, your sports centres, your libraries, One Stop Shops in communities, our parks, we’ve got 13 green flag parks. It’s like a new home to me when you get an old dilapidated derelict building you’ve got to bring it up to a standard and I think Liverpool City Council under the Liberal Democrats have certainly done that and I am certain if we did a survey of people in the City do you want Liverpool City Council to sit on £20m worth of reserves or do you want the City Council delivering front line services that affect the most vulnerable and people’s lives in the City. I think that they would vote with their feet and say that we support the policies of Liverpool City Council. We’ve got to look at the financial regulations put in by Government and if you want my opinion about this Roger it is purely political.
Roger: Well come on, you know the Audit Commission is not a political body
Fireman: Well with respect Roger and I would beg to differ on that
Roger: Well how can it be a political, it’s an independent organisation?
Fireman: We can say everything is independent to a certain extent but you know you look at what we’ve got at the moment in Liverpool and we’re delivering top quality services.
Roger: But the problem with this is that you’ve got an overall score rating of 2 which was adequate performance into 05, overall score in 06 was 2 which is adequate performance.
This year it is down to 1 below minimum requirements inadequate performance.
Fireman: Based around financial regulations…
Roger: Yes I’m talking about the financial…..
Fireman: Laid down by government. I mean that’s what you’ve got to remember. Don’t try and muddy the waters and say oh this is about Liverpool City Council and their overall performance. It’s not. You look at the issue that we’ve done about achievements. Liverpool scoring 3-4 on achievement at the moment through the Audit Commission.
Roger: I didn’t know that.
(EDs: Pitiful, just pitiful.)
Fireman: And we do seem to always go to the negatives when we’re looking for something like this.
Roger: The District Auditor was pretty negative about you wasn’t he and…
Fireman: No, I have got to say Roger I would love to have £50m in reserves. I would also love not to have to put additions of £7m into adult social care and £2-3m into children’s social care. The facts are we have got to do that because of the pressures that are on Liverpool at the moment.
Roger: So are other Councils….
Fireman: I’m not willing as Leader of this Council to take away care to the most vulnerable to allow it to sit in reserve. I am not willing to do that and I will go to the stake on that the people of the City. Liverpool now is only one of a handful of Councils up and down the country that is providing moderate care to the most vulnerable people in the City. Now to give people an idea of what moderate care is that is home care. These people who’ve got no family to support them and require a visit in the morning or a visit in the evening to make sure they’re ok to help them to take the pills, to make sure that they’ve got the food. Most Councils up and down this country have removed that care. Liverpool City Council is still allowing our most vulnerable people our sort of care. Now is that wrong, is that wrong?
Roger: Now no one would argue that’s wrong but everyone. But many people are affected by housing. Housing is really poor isn’t it. I mean you are so poor you’ve had to hand it over to a different group to run it.
Fireman: Well with respect Roger, with respect, you’ve got to know what the Housing Corporation have done and in partnership with the Government again it’s easy to say it’s the Council, in partnership with the Government we’ve tackled head on through the Pathfinder areas of the inner core of the City some of the housing inefficiencies of the City. That hasn’t happened over the last five years that’s happened over 30 or 40 years. The problems in Norris Green in housing were prevalent 30 or 40 years ago and weren’t tackled. As an Authority we’ve challenged what wasn’t tackled and we’ve challenged it head on and I opened a couple of weeks ago with Flo Clucas and Marilyn Fielding with Cobalt Housing the first phase of Norris Green. We’ve transformed that area and its got houses for sale and social housing in Norris Green that people are seeking to live in now. We’ve got in a core Edge Hill, Kensington, Kirkdale the same issues that have been there for 30 or 40 years that we’re tackling now hand in hand with the Government. I’m not taking the credit for it and the Government isn’t. We’ve got a schools’ programme that is second to none. Liverpool’s young people are now achieving at the national average. I want it higher than national average to give new opportunity but again I’ll say I’m not going to suit accountants’ financial regulations in London and leave £millions sitting in reserve while we have still got the challenges Liverpool has got and I think people you know.
Roger: Do you think it was a mistake to keep Council Tax down or freeze it over the past few years?
Fireman: Well isn’t it ironic Roger how last week John Healey said how Liverpool is charging £101 a head...
Roger: Because its inefficiencies….
Fireman: Well we have taken £150m worth of inefficiencies out of our budget over the last 10 years. We’ve kept Council tax down which is exactly what Government policy is and is exactly what John Healey is saying. Councillor Joe Anderson is saying something completely different to the people of Liverpool that he will put taxes up to build reserves to put in reserve well again this administration this Lib Dem administration is not going to tax for the sake of taxing to leave money sitting in reserve. We will build up the reserves over a period of years and then we will be able to tackle some of the other issues that we’ve got to do. We recognise the health inequalities. To improve health inequalities we’ve got to have a real stable economy offering real opportunity and raising the aspirations in them poorer communities. You cannot do that leaving millions and millions of pounds laying in reserves and this administration will continue the robust financial management that we’ve done. We’ll carry on delivering…
Roger: If it was that robust we wouldn’t have this problem of £20m overdrawn on Capital of Culture.
Fireman: Roger, lets put things into hindsight. We are still delivering front line services. We are still…
Roger: It’s about £20m overall that we’re short this year – now that’s not robust management
Fireman: But Roger we are going through a budget setting process. Every Local Authority up and down the country is in the same process as us. I remember reading about Wirral being £50m short. Other Local Authorities. I meet the core city leaders who are £40-£50m short exactly the same as Liverpool . And let’s not forget I haven’t come on here to knock the Government I’ve come on here to say that I believe we’ve got a robust financial programme in place that is going to deal with the shortfall. We’ve delivered year on year but I’ll say again I am not going to allow millions and millions of pounds to lay in reserve. Cut front line services to the most vulnerable and then say that’s acceptable. Nor as Leader of this Council am I going to allow Council Tax to go through the roof again which will drive the inability to bring further investment into this City. While the Lib Dems have been in control we’ve brought Council Tax down, we’ve brought renewed confidence and we’ve brought real investment that will bring opportunities to the most vulnerable and I think that is the most important and I think the people of this City will stand full square with us on that. I’m proud of what we’ve delivered in this City over the last 10 years and Capital of Culture is part of that."