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Published on: 03/05/2022 09:38 AMReported by: editor
Official figures from Sefton Council show that Damien Moore MP engaged with the Council at a rate three times higher when compared to the next highest Sefton MP in the 2021-2022 financial year.
The data show that Mr. Moore submitted 317 formal enquiries on behalf of his constituents to Sefton Council between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, compared to 93 from Bill Esterson and 50 from Peter Dowd. This represents more than double the volume of enquiries than the other two MPs combined.
Each enquiry typically represents a piece of complex casework on behalf of a constituent, not the thousands of routine emails sent across the same period. MPs frequently engage with local councils to support constituents who have fallen through the gaps due to council mismanagement, and act often as a measure of last resort for a struggling family or individual.
This year’s figures build on those for last year, when official figures showed that Mr. Moore submitted 214 enquiries in the period 23 March 2020 to 29 April 2021, compared to 49 for Bill Esteron MP and 38 for Peter Dowd MP.
Damien Moore, Member of Parliament for Southport, said:
“It is a regretful that the Labour-dominated Sefton Council seem to persist in failing to support Southport and its hard-working residents.
“I will not take lightly any attempt to treat Southport’s residents as in any way inferior or less deserving of the Council’s attention than those residents from Bootle and elsewhere in Sefton.
“Southport deserves better local Governance, and I will continue doing everything I can to stand up for our local community and for local families.”
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I wonder how many requests were actually relating to residents problems and how many were dumb Damian making vexatious requests on behalf of the small coterie of Conservative chums.
Sefton Council must rightly consider him a waste of resources in terms of time and effort expended at a time when their resources have been stretched due to continuous Conservative Government cuts.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of his correspondence enquiries though I doubt that Sefton Council would want to waste any further time on him.
I am sure that their rate of response was far better that the poor service Damian Moore gives. Perhaps he would be better addressing the rot within his own Party.
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Originally Posted by
Nash
I wonder how many requests were actually relating to residents problems and how many were dumb Damian making vexatious requests on behalf of the small coterie of Conservative chums.Sefton Council must rightly consider him a waste of resources in terms of time and effort expended at a time when their resources have been stretched due to continuous Conservative Government cuts. It would be interesting to see an analysis of his correspondence enquiries though I doubt that Sefton Council would want to waste any further time on him. I am sure that their rate of response was far better that the poor service Damian Moore gives. Perhaps he would be better addressing the rot within his own Party.
you must of banged your head coming out with that crap you leftie prat. if the council could even do half their jobs right the town would be better.people like you blame the government all the time as you are crazy rather than practical
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town36
you must of banged your head coming out with that crap you leftie prat. if the council could even do half their jobs right the town would be better.people like you blame the government all the time as you are crazy rather than practical
It’s ‘must have banged’, not ‘must of banged’.
Illiterate tory prat.
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Asked about their work in parliament some new MPs replied: - 'scrutiny is shocking',
- 'scrutiny of legislation here is very bad, the whole thing is a theatre',
- 'I don't think scrutiny is very good here', and
- 'the thing that I've been really disappointed by since coming in has been how bad the legislation side of things has been'
In terms of ensuring that central government legislation is well crafted, MPs seem not to be doing a good job. A few will acknowledge that their constituency workload includes guiding their constituents through the complexities and idiocies created by legislation from Westminster in matters including housing, social benefits and much else.
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But Mr Moore’s office has defended his expenses, saying:
“All of Moore’s expenses, including travel, have been in keeping with IPSA’s independently set rules.”
“Mr Moore makes no apology for his significantly higher level of correspondence compared to nearby Labour MPs in protecting his constituents from the inadequacies of Labour-run Sefton council, and will continue to do all he can to stand up for his constituents, both in Southport and in Westminster.”
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Damien hasn't got his thinking cap on with this press release, if he doesn't give the detail it's an open goal for his detractors.
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"Thinking cap"...is THAT what has been missing?
If so and he finds it we should all celebrate. And lo and behold he might discover a long list of issues which have the square root of zero connection to Sefton Council.
Like
Poverty
Lack of resource in the NHS and education
The failing economy
The environment
Social care
and many more
Oh and of course corruption rife in his party and the government.
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