Well There's Ya' Problem - The Corruption That Is Mt Gambier City Council

Hello to Aotearoa (New Zealand), France, Ukraine, and Germany, and welcome to TMGI...no preamble today, it's just straight into the rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council and the chronic damage that Councils' corruption has caused this City...oh, and dear Google, when these complicitly corrupt clowns come to you screeching 'my lawyer says I can sue Nick Fletcher for defamation', please dear Google, please consider how many times this excuse has already been used in manipulating you to censor the factual truth as written below...ugly, sickly, pro-paedophile realities they may be, but realities none the less...cheers...

Dear Mt Gambier:...here, in the one article (attached below), big as all outdoors, is the rank corruption that has all-but destroyed Mt Gambier...here is exactly what's happening...here's why your Main Street is a grey, dismal, unwelcoming mess of uneven, 3rd rate second-hand concrete pavers...$$$millions spent on that embarrassing joke, $$$millions on the disgraceful Main Corner with all its' related MGC Council corruption, the farcical Rail Lands, $500,000 for pointless lights around the Blue Lake, etc, etc...and to whom has gone the profit?...what do the Mt Gambier Rail Lands and SAs' Electricity supply have in common?...(both are massively expensive and entirely vulnerable to even vaguely bad weather, all as a result of the rank corruption of the elected officials involved?-Ed)...well shebang! not what I actually had in mind Ed, but even better, well done...

Where To Start:...(hows' about at the beginning?-Ed)...fair enough, we'll just start at the start and work our way through it...strewth...okay...it's an article from The Border Watch...(oh dear-Ed)...yeah, with my mate Steve Perryman on the front page again...(oh good gourd, I've had enough already-Ed)...orrr come on!, that's just the title banner and the photo, haven't even got to the meat of the matter...(nah, mate, I can see exactly where this is headed, and I'm just sick of this rank corruption shizzle, and particularly when it involves the rancidly corrupt collusion between some local media and the MGC Council, and most particularly the corruption personified by Steve Perryman-Ed)...you mean the deeply, knowingly complicit and pivotal role that he has played, indeed is still clearly playing, in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?...(well I'd argue that yes, that's probably the worst and foundation plank, but only one in a vast raft of corruption we like to call The Steves' Mayorship-Ed)...well that's the first time I've heard that, but I like it, I'm going to use it in conversation...the Raft of Corruption that is The Steves' Mayorship...sweet...

Paragraph 1:...where "bold" means 'bold-as-brass', as in 'these vested interests are bold-as-brass with their orchestrated, institutionalised corruption, as witnessed with this latest plan to syphon Ratepayers' monies straight into the pockets of MGC Councillors and their Vested Interest mates'...(ummm, in my dictionary it says 'bold' means brave, courageous-Ed)...you've got to read between the lines Ed...(dude, you're writing the lines you're reading between-Ed)...no, I'm writing what I read between those lines as supplied...(ok, fair enough, so you're saying that the 'boldness' of this plan lies not in it's courage, it lies in it's sheer audacity, its' arrogance, and its' bare-faced obviousness?-Ed)...exactly...

P2:...'Tourism Mount Gambier' is a self-appointed group of Vested Interests, people who are largely responsible for the unholy mess that is Mt Gambier...have a good hard look at your City people, it's an embarrassing joke...I note that founding member of TMG and former Member for Mt Gambier, Rory McEwen, my mate Rory, he's just disappeared out of the discussion, but not to fear, there's his little mate Steve Perryman...(ya' know, I still haven't forgotten nor gotten over Stevo mates' Mayoral valedictory speech in 2014, and how casually he thanked Rory for 'introducing me (sic) to the people who made my political career'-Ed)...indeed, and I'd love for Steve to explain exactly who these people are and just exactly what 'making' his political career involved...(well from Steves' end, it involves thuggish pro-paedophile corruption-Ed)...well obviously, but what else?...(setting-up corrupt projects with corrupt Tender processes to drain Ratepayers monies into his own pockets and/or the pockets of his mates?-Ed)...well quite...

I have not seen this 'bold plan', not aware that anyone has, but I guarantee you that 'Tourism Mount Gambier' and its' 'plan' functions in the exact way that Council does, designed and executed to directly profit its' constituent members and their friends...

P3-4:...state that TMG aims to achieve exactly the same goals, eg, visitor numbers, revenue raised, etc, as the SA Tourism Commission, and all at a rate already being achieved...Ratepayers will be paying for a self-appointed group of self-important shonks to supposedly achieve that which the State body is doing anyway...(and paying for one of TMGs' Vested Interest mates to be employed full-time on $115,000pa-Ed)...well that's in P5-6, but yes,exactly...

P5-6:...sorry if I missed this '3 year funding' discussion, but I was only aware of the $160,000 in the 2016/17 budget, but I'm certain that the original 'wage' for this "tourism specialist" was $90,000...(wow, a $25,000pa raise before the position is even created, great work if you can get it-Ed)...and I guarantee you that this massively lucrative position will go to one of the rancidly corrupt and incompetent clowns from this band of Vested Interests...(probably Rory McEwen or Biddie (Tietz) Shearing-Ed)...yep, some chronically corrupt stooge...and thanks for the reminder Ed, that former MGC Councillor Biddie Shearing is currently traipsing about the globe on the Ratepayers/Taxpayers dollar as the Regional Development Australia Tourism Development Officer, having been anointed to that position directly from her leading role in the failure of previous 'tourism groups'...(it's the Grant King Resumé isn't it...be rankly incompetent, sure, but do demonstrate a gross selfishness and a willingness and capacity for rank corruption and running the MGC Council/Labor government line/agenda, and bingo, you're in!-Ed)...indeed, the exact Resumé that saw Grant King simultaneously appointed head of RDA and the Mt Gambier HACS, directly following the rank corruption of the Green Phone collapse...a rankly corrupt stooge doing a corrupt Labor governments' bidding...

P7-14:...again describe how TMG are planning to do exactly what's already being done, with the added insult of dragging in 'indigenous' issues...and Council's already involved, they've already Budgeted $160,000 for this first year 2016/17...and most people/operators I know are rabidly scathing of the people involved in this self-appointed debasco (debacle/fiasco)...(it's why Rory has ducked out of sight for the moment, because his name is dirt in this town-Ed)...absolutely...

P15-16:..."the engagement of a senior specialist"...this is rancidly obvious Job-For-A-Mate, likely to be Rory McEwen, Biddie Shearing, Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...whoevs, whatevs, there'll be a definitive connection to MGC Council and their Vested Interests mates...beyond that, we supposedly/allegedly already have a dedicated Tourism Development Officer as part of Regional Development Australia, and her name is Biddie Shearing...(wow-Ed)...I know...

P17:..."seeking...external grant funding"...means hoovering-up any available State government funds, to the exclusion of others...given the level of complicit corruption that I have witnessed across MGC Council, the Labor Government, the pathetically irrelevant Liberal 'Opposition', SAPol (police), the Crown Solicitor, the Teachers Registration Board, etc, etc, all entirely complicit re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the irrefutable fact that Rory McEwen and Steve Perryman are key players in that cover-up, given all that, I envisage Labor 'grants' being awarded and even some 'funding' potentially established, so that the rankly corrupt can use TMG to receive what are effectively rewards for their corruption...(dude, it's the Regional Development Australia set-up all over again, and the $$$millions of grants handed-out to Labors' mates from that $27m 'Forestry Fund', etc-Ed)...indeed, it's exactly like that, there's a litany of these dodgy 'grants' programs and/or Nepotistic appointments......

I remind availees that Biddie Shearing, in literally her first act as RDA Tourism Development Officer, handed her close personal friends Kent Comley/The Barn a staggering $140,000, money which Kent wittily quipped on ABC Radio would be used for "some shiny new taps" to go in the multi-million dollar expansion they (The Barn) had just done...(wow, handing a veritable truckload of Taxpayers' money to your multi-millionaire mates, doesn't really get much more corrupt than that-Ed)...well actually MGC Council can get way corrupter than that, $140k for ya' millionaire mate is a pittance compared to some of the corrupt, nepotistic activities MGC Council involves itself in...(fair point-Ed)...      

Last P:...and omg, TBW continues its' fine tradition of flying in the face of reality with nonsensical reportage that contradicts what it is they've just reported themselves...Steve Perryman is a MGC Councillor, and is on the Board of Tourism Mount Gambier...it was Steve mate...(maaate-Ed)...who led the charge in MGC Councils' 2016/17 Budget discussions, vociferously pushing for various Council services to be cutback so as to free-up the $160k for his self-appointed group...I remind availees that Stevo did this whilst these 'Special Budget Meetings' were temporarily but officially 'suspended' to allow general discussion, but as soon as the meetings went back into 'official procedure', Stevo suddenly identifies his allegedly "non-pecuniary interest" as a Board member of TMG, and walks out for the official vote...here large as life is Stevos' arrogance, his blatant contempt for the fundamental principles of Conflict Of Interest, carefully manipulating COI provisions in absolute knowledge of exactly what he was doing...

This entire set-up, Tourism Mount Gambier in and of itself, is just a corrupt front for corrupt people to more efficiently avail themselves of Taxpayers'/Ratepayers' money, and as supported by a corrupt Mt Gambier City Council...you people are a bloody disgrace...I also remind availees that TMG has been reported as being a "sub-committee" of the Mt Gambier Chamber of Commerce, who have people on the TMG Board, so it looks like Ratepayers are directly funding the Chamber of Commerce now as well...(wow-Ed)...

Tomorrow: Couldn't Stand The Weather

Not just a fantastic Stevie Ray Vaughn song...(and album-Ed)...indeed, and album, but also the theme track for South Australia's fundamentally rooted Electricity production/supply system...(is it technically correct to describe something so dysfunctional as a "system"?-Ed)...good point...anyhoos, last week we had a fairly full-on storm system move through the state with lottsa' rain and strong winds, lightning strikes, and some minor flooding, lottsa' trees blown-over, etc...it was fairly nasty at times, but it was hardly a cyclone/hurricane/whatevs, yet SA's 'Leccy Network collapsed like a pole-axed, half-pissed panda...(uuurrghhh, what you do that for? that really hurt-HPP)...shut it... a bit of wind, and SA's Electricity System went down like a deck of cards in, well, in the wind...SA, the State so committed to Wind Turbines that it had no power because it was too windy, wow...

Deck Of Cads:...are the dickheads, and there is literally no other descriptor that I can summon, the raft of self-involved, self-satisfied, sanctimonious dickheads who constitute the Rann/Weatherill Labor government...(you sure there's no place for you in the modern Labor Party?-Ed)...hilarious I'm sure...anyhoos, these dickheads what have driven SA right off the cliff of base-load self-supply, and into a fathomless pit of reliance on interstate production, with their (Labor's) nonsensical obsession with Wind Turbines and private Solar Subsidies...(and all this basically to pander to those inner-city Adelaide Greenie halfwits who think they know what's going on but still catch their free buses to their new Adelaide Oval or to this weeks' Festival of Whatevs Like I Give A Damn...so over it...whilst out here in the sticks, in SA's largest Regional City, it's 18 months for a basic dental appointment, no public transport at all on weekends or public holidays, Mental Health Services cut, most if not all services cut, jobs cut, Forestry sold-off to pay for that disgraceful stadium bullshit, and on and on it goes-Ed).............

Are you quite done...(nah, I'm just sick of it, all of it, but I'm mostly sick of the rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council and the damage that that has done and continues to do...I mean, look at this 'Tourism Mount Gambier' bullshit...bare-faced, open corruption run-through with Conflict of Interest breaches and rank Nepotism from the same small group of privileged Vested Interests, VIs who continue to treat Mt Gambier like some sort of personal feifdom-Ed)...fair enough, I'm sick of them too, it's a big part of why I continue to do this 'ere blog...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

Full Self Esteem Ahead

Howdy the Netherlands, Brazil, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and a special shout-out to y'all in Mauritius...(yeah, what's goin' on there then? it's fantastic to have a rush of availees from across the globe, and in particular, all those in Mauritius-Ed)...cheers...(yes, cheers...never been there myself, but I hear that it's delightful, it's delicious, it's quite more-ish, it's Mauritius-Ed)...don't practice your witty alliteration around here champ...anyhoos, gidday to y'all...personally, had a grindingly glorious week or two and actually didn't think about this 'ere blog for 2 whole days, albeit not consecutive days, but in that fortnight, on 2 days I didn't even think about this 'ere blog...bliss...quiet, calm, bliss...(and the rest of the time?-Ed)...how can I describe it? perhaps like this what follows...

"Well well well", said the Hole In The Ground to the Nick Fletcher, "fancy meeting you here again"...
..."not really" said the Nick Fletcher...
..."come back for more have you?"...
..."no, I'm here for the rapier-sharp wit and the sparkling repartee"...
..."well you certainly don't need the sarcasm! and why is it exactly that you are here then?"...
..."you tell me mate and we'll both know"...
..."don't ask me, you're the one who keeps coming back here!"...
..."and every time I do, here you are!"...
..."what do you want from me? I'm a bloody Hole In The Ground! I ain't goin' nowhere!"...

And nobody, least of all the man himself, me, Nick Fletcher, knows why and/or how he/me keeps going back to the Well, let alone why the hell the Well puts-up with this rapaciously repetitious reaping of it's increasingly limited resource...whatever the heck that resource actually is, 'cos I'm damned if I know, and I am Nick Fletcher...(well somebody has to do it-Ed)...constantly go back to the Well?...(no, be Nick Fletcher-Ed)...charming, thanks for those glowing words of support and encouragement...(I'm here for ya' man-Ed)...yay...the point is, a Well that ain't got nuthin' in it when you go there, that right there's just a shreckin' hole in the ground...bit of a mangled metaphor, but I reckon I've made my point...(care to remake it please-Ed)...fine, I don't know why but I always go back to the Well but I do, nor quite how I manage it, but I do, and the Well has always got something although I don't know how, why or of what, but I drink my fill, and I go again...

And cheers for the support I do receive and the patience I am shown for the struggles I've been having in continuing with this 'ere blog...it is greatly appreciated by me that people value this 'ere blog and the effort I put into it...and now that I've successfully separated myself from this 'ere blog, so I re-commit to continuing with it, and with a renewed vigour, my usual rigour, and go figure, from the ashes springs the phoenix to spread it's wings and fly again...I am TMGI and TMGI is I and there's no gettin' away from that...over 800 posts over 3 and a half years, a string of defamation threats, a relentless stream of personal abuse, threats, harassment and attempted intimidation, right on through to 19 of the bizzarest 'charges' you could ever hope to generate for the heinous crime of 'blogging' and my very own SAPol (police) 'Operation Baritone' all about me...this is what I have endured, this is what I have achieved, and however it has come to be, this is what I do...and whatevs it is and howevs I does it, I does it good...

And this Self Esteem caper ain't quite all I'd heard it to be, either...it's all well and groovy for me to say 'yay, for the first time in my life I have experienced what I can only describe as Self Esteem, or at least some small semblance of what I understand/believe Self Esteem to be'...easy to say yet somewhat more difficult to maintain...(and yet you do-Ed)...and yet I do Ed, yet I do...Yeti do what the Yeti does...(Yeti? I thought you were a ManBear StuffPig?-Ed)...shh, I'm also identified as being a large Ape-ish Man...(Man-ish Ape more like it-Ed)...shut it!...anyhoos, point is, what I've been through in the last coupla' years has driven into me an irretrievable sense of achievement that can ne'er be unachieved...("unachieved"?-Ed)...and the good news is that whilst I do continue to just grind forward somedays, I continue to grind forward always...(nice-Ed)... 

You's Are Meant To Do It Properly The First Time:...and that way you's don't have to dig it all up again and re-do over, and at great expense to Mt Gambier Ratepayers...(as per the recent re-doing of the cement curbing at the ludicrous brand-new Penola Rd/Wireless Rd traffic lights?-Ed)...indeed...(where you turn left off Penola Rd to go East along Wireless Rd via that ridiculously narrow turning/feeder lane-Ed)...that's the one...(and they've now put rounded curbing after digging-up the brand-new straight sided cement curbing where vehicles were always gouging their tyres 'cos it's ridiculously narrow-Ed)...and the same on the other side immediately opposite, ridiculously narrow, that'll be next...(but hang-on, what's it got to do with Mt Gambier Ratepayers? isn't that intersection a State government/Transport Dept responsibility? I mean, that's why there was all that blame-shifting about who was responsible for 'fixing it', etc, decades of 'it's a State Government responsibility, not Council's', etc-Ed)...exactly...I'll explain, with photos, tomorrow, with the other politics shizzle we're doing...        

Want Tibet On It?:...because I'm sure that the Totalitarian Communist government that is China will now stop it's bellicose Nationalism/Colonialism/Militarism re it's self-declared ownership of the South China Sea...(why would they do that? they haven't been building-up artificial islands with airstrips, etc, to suddenly stop-Ed)...fair point, but the United Nations has now ruled on the issue and stated unequivocally that the area is not China's but is instead International Waters, or whatevs particular legalistic nomenclature they use...(but China has refused to participate in that process and has equally unequivocally vowed to ignore the finding, screeching about corruption in the UN and bias against them, etc-Ed)...and fair enough, if it went in China's favour there'd be those accusing China of exactly the same behaviour...

And fair enough, too, if China wants to argue that they're only doing what various Empire builders have done before them, eg, the USofA, the United Kingdom, Russia/USSR, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch, etc, etc, do I need to go on?...(apparently-Ed)...and all of these Empires were built on the backs of their respective navvies in their respective Navies...but the thing is, you can't go doin' all this stuff with clear and deliberate intent, and then deny it all and whinge about being criticised for it, etc...can't have it both ways...but what I ain't puttin' up with, what I ain't havin', is this Council, Mt Gambier City Council, signing 'deals' with the Communist Party/Chinese government representative, deals that have not seen Minute One of the Public Consultation that Council constantly preaches about, nor the light of day since being announced...come on Council, release this 'agreement' for Public Perusal, shouldn't be a problem, right?...  

For years now I've watched this Council, Mt Gambier City Council, in it's various permutations, act with wholesale corruption, involving multiple and definable Conflict of Interest breaches, Insider Trading, gross Nepotism, dodgy contract after dodgy contract, missing monies, etc, etc, you name, they got it...and it ain't my opinion, it ain't my version of events, I've been right there in the room with these crooked clowns, over and over and over again, watching them run their crooked Circus...Collusion and Corruption, thy name be Mt Gambier City Council...it'd be quicker, much quicker to list the things they've done that aren't crooked, but in the moment I can't actually think of one...(if it wasn't so weepingly sad, it'd be weepingly hilarious-Ed)...indeed, but apart from that, Mt Gambier City Council, you are an absolute disgrace...

A Joke Gone Bad:...because it was left too long on the shelf...following the 'BREXIT' debasco (debacle meets fiasco), last week the British Prime Minister-ship was down to a handful of contenders, including 2 woman, and I was gunna' say that Theresa May but Andrea Leadsom at the moment...(but Theresa May was sworn-in as the new UK PM yesterday-Ed)...yeah, ta', I know, that's why the joke is beyond it's use-by date...(the joke?-Ed)...yeah, Theresa 'may' be the new PM, but Andrea 'leads them' at the moment...(that's the joke is it?-Ed)...yeah, well, obviously any attempt at humour re this situation is immediately confronted and entirely consumed by the looning reality that Boris Johnson was nearly the new PM...("looning reality"? don't you mean 'looming reality'?-Ed)...I know exactly what I mean, and there's no need for any correction...(well except for the actual BREXIT decision itself, that clearly needs correcting-Ed)...absolutely, and hence my exciting new campaign to rectify the situation...(do tell-Ed)...I will...but first, a language warning...

Language Warning:...for the delicately disposed amongst us, for there is no avoiding the expletive-driven hilarity of that which follows...ahem, My Plan...fellow Party faithful, welcome this evening...I believe that we have it in us, I believe that we can fix the United Kingdoms' exit from the European Union, particularly given that the recent vote to leave was motivated by, justified with, and supported on, a platform of issues that turned-out to be a raft of lies...I'll take questions...('Mr Fletcher, Mr Fletcher, Ed from TMGI here Mr Fletcher-Ed)...yes Ed...(Mr Fletcher, what are you going to call this campaign/movement to address the many problems with the BREXIT?-Ed)...FUKIT...(well I was just asking-Ed)...no no, that's what the campaign is called, FIX UK EXIT, FUKIT, or as some are calling it, FUKXIT...(riiiiight-Ed)...yes, I envisage a UK again 'United', in the streets, British streets, British streets full of British people chanting 'FUKIT', 'FUKIT Now' and 'We Want To FUKIT'...(Mr Fletcher, what about your critics who are concerned about the very real potential to undermine the genuine humour of FUKIT by just doing this joke over and over, relentlessly driving it to a certain and untimely death?-Ed)...no Ed, FUKIT we must, and FUKIT we will...(thanks for your time this evening Mr Fletcher-Ed)...FUKIT Ed...     

Aussie Political Cluedo:...and whilst Malcolm Turnbull currently holds the Chalice of Doom in the Room of Gloom, my guess is that we'll have another Prime Minister, and quite possibly quite soon...and as per our spate of PM replacings over recent years, that change is likely to be 'poll-driven' and by their own Party rather than an election, that is, a poor poll result for the current PM may see them quickly become the most recent past PM, courtesy of their own side...(indeed, enter deposed PM Tony Abbott-Ed)...precisely, and my guess is that when Mr Turnbulls' bloodied political carcass is located, the culprit is likely the most obvious suspect, namely, Mr Abbott in the Cabinet with a Poll...(taboomtish-Ed)...yes, I think that deserves a 'taboomtish'...(personally, I don't mind so much when our politicians blow smoke up my backside, it's just when they try to use the mirrors as well-Ed)...and taboomtish yourself...more hilarious Federal politicking,

Tomorrow: Oz Politics 2016 - From Huge Election To Hung Parliament

(Omg, the shizzle that goes on in your head-Ed)...well you oughtta' know, you confected literary device you, because you sir, you are exactly what goes on in my head...(oh yeah, cheers-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...(not ashamed to say I actually made myself weep, only this time it was that deep, weepy laughing that literally brings tears...remember, whenevs life is gettin' ya' down, whenevs The Man is on ya' case, tell'm FIX the UK EXIT)