• The Sour ‘Game’ ;

• The Sweet ‘Game’.

Early in the battle of the will of decency against corruption the Bugler sent a ranging shot to the LCFA Solicitor (a back door entrant) called Anthony Harold (long gone and returned to publicly bullying Traffic Wardens who found him parking in a disabled bay at Salford Town Hall as a councillor).

The purpose was to explore  the LCFA’s vulnerability to the Law; Harold’s panicked response said it all, Go Here.

Through the years that followed and to date, again and again, their useful lawlessness proved to be their Achilles Heel in generating corrupt exposure.

Of particular value to the Bugler was their exposed weakness over Personal Record Files (PRF) which greatly irritates them and repeatedly exposes and confirms their fraudulence; not about what was filed in these records, but conversely what was not.

Their administration was shoddy, careless, and sloppy.

It will be upon a PRF’s contents which includes (or should) pension records that the bottom line of financial restitution will be established to pay back the LCFA’s overdue late commercial statutory debts to all those it has defrauded for the last almost 3 decades since 1992.

A debt framed under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 found in the TMB Legislation Library Year 1998. Go Here.

Of course, the LCFA will not be allowed to ‘fiddle the books’ once more and their uphill task will be greatly assisted by the defrauded acting with an independent Court appointed Auditors.

So what is a PRF and why is it increasingly significant as the Bugler et al reaches financial accounting time?

A Personal Record File (PRF) is generated from induction into the Service; it is a file which in the main is generated by the individual Firefighter whose name is affixed to the file recording, in truth, accuracy, and justice (or so it ought to ) the named individual’s administrative progress through Service life.

A PRF is a legal document and is by Data Protection Law 1998(as amended) the Firefighter’s ‘subject data’ and thus his/her possession.

But in the past and continuing into this present Century it is not an ideal world in the LCFA.

In the past when uniquely a Firefighter asked to see his PRF it sent a shudder through the ‘establishment’ because most PRF’s were neither truthful, accurate, nor just and usually recorded defamatory material in a poorly administered record where generally filing was of a deplorable standard;  today it continues to remain so.

Often salient records are missing; filed out of sequence, if filed at all ; and in this latter respect pension records were, as recent history since 2002 shows the worst of all when Mr. Warren a clerk with no pension management qualifications or experience became the Lancashire Firefighters Pension Scheme manager arriving as an outcast from Bournemouth College of Further Education and then ejected from British Rail North-West.

Statutory information was legally required from and supplied by Firefighters who, for example, were required to submit DWP records of sickness benefits paid to them (to avoid duplication of payments) usually  the result of a Service injury/ill-health but which rarely, as personal examination has revealed, made it to their PRF.

But the FSV Sages retained their own copies, just in case.

It was common knowledge and remains a common practice in the 21^st century that a PRF could only be examined under duress in the most artificially malfeasantly created, time limited atmosphere of suspicion; mutual, it has to be said.

It was all a power ‘game’ of ‘we have it’ and ‘you have to get it’, and in spite of the Information Commissioner (Graham~ useless and corrupt; Lady Denham CBE an outstanding Iron Lady); but the Law and the LCFA remain incompatible…sleazy oil and water.

Before the appointed time for viewing it was stated in writing to the Applicant that he/she could not either remove or copy a single document from the PRF but might be allowed to make a contemporaneous note.

Indeed handling a PRF was simply viewed as a sacrilege all of which had to take place in the presence of an accredited Trade Union Official, or a suitably qualified legal representative, even though the senior LFRS HR clerk Ms.Drinkall and the erstwhile Ms. Jayne Hutchinson were present neither of whom held any qualifications themselves.

The power of possession remains 9/10ths of the law, and unbridled intimidation was the order of the day.

Needless to say due to deliberate obfuscation and stonewalling very few Applicants ever reached the ‘promised land’ of the document visual examination phase; such was, and remains, this antediluvian system; and if they did, then the PRF would have already been sanitised and ‘offending’, that is to the ‘establishment’, or suable documents removed for reinsertion later.

A Sour ‘Game’…

The Bugler was fully aware of this ‘Game’ from his Rank perspective and it was not until ironically he required a copy of his own PRF in 2007, for pension and Court purposes, that the denial ‘Game’ became fully engaged.

A ‘Game’ which ultimately required, after due deliberate delay a Court Order for its release only to find an essential contemporaneous note on a conversation about a retirement benefit he was receiving which could not be found recorded, even though he had a copy; it is hard enough to beat an accomplished bent Judge like ‘Nelson’ Butler…but the game is not played out yet.

This PRF issue rose to prominence again in 2014 over yet another battle involving the disenfranchised on this occasion disabled FSV~RRB’s who was attempting to obtain his PRF.

Of course, ICO Graham ‘lost’ the extensive 60+ files he had been sent by the Bugler; naturally Graham was acting on behalf of his ‘Freemason’ chums at the LCFA.  

But two clever and courageous young ladies at the ICO called Nicki Hargreaves and Tracy Egerton knew what the ‘game’ was and no doubt to their career cost insisted on ‘pushing the boat out’ and took the fight to the LCFA.

The point being that in frustration they and another colleague, all three, physically went and inspected the PRF filing system at the LCFA HQ to face down their corporate falsehood that they were exempted from the Act because ‘their filing system was not a filing system’… and to think, that the Bugler was not the only ‘Orishman’ around using Irishisms? Go Here

And still the LCFA refused to recognise the law until threatened with Contempt of Court Proceedings and here we all are again in 2021 and once more the LCFA are back at the old stonewalling Sour ‘Game’ criminality again.

Only this time under the current CFO Justin Johnson (fully aware of all this ‘game’ whilst deputy Chief) , Warren, and Hutchinson are all back at the stonewalling again.

It seems that personal financial sanctions and/or prison are the only answer to their corporate and complicit lawlessness…Go Here.

So what is the answer to the PRF conundrum?
It is technology… stupid.

An interoperable two word security linked entry to the PRF is provided; one for the LFRS and one for the Firefighter/
Owner, a joint on line action.

Every agreed entry/debit, in an annual exercise, is authorised, both in and out, with an individual time and date stamped exercise for each document entered/ removed…

In September 2018 a small group of Lancashire  In~Service~Firefighters (ISF), representative of about 150+ other Firefighters of all ranks, approached the Bugler to seek assistance on the matter of their future pension. This was first reported in Editorial 033 12th October 2018 under the title ‘The Second Front Opens ‘, Go Here.

Their leader ISF~NC and his colleagues were very impressive, legally well informed, and highly administratively organised. It seemed that the question of pensionable pay, or rather its absence, had arisen on their Day Crew Manning System on  which the Bugler had to be updated.

As ever the LCFA in the person of clerk Warren their Pension Scheme manager had decided in 2010 (who needs the law?) that a large element of their pay was not pensionable and as such Warren just decided to defraud the Lancashire Firefighters Pension Fund of joint contributions which the Bugler and disabled FSV~FMG draw down from, for their own pensions(in part).

Warren told everyone that by “local agreement” with the FBU (the Chair as ever in his handshake pocket), it had been decided that the employers and the employees did not need to pay contributions to the Fund on a monthly basis and thus they all had not been doing so; the ISFirefighters remained in total trusting ignorance.

After studying this unique “agreement”, which never saw the light of day, and in common cause the Bugler made an approach to retired  pro bono Barrister Mr. John M. Copplestone Bruce (Inner Temple) who immediately responded to their appeal and  engaged legally on their behalf with their dispute. Though later John was to pay a forfeit at the Inner Temple himself for such disloyalty.

The resolution, as such , when it came was reported on TMB in Current Affairs Volume 30  23^rd July 2019  Go Here.

Twisting turning and engaging is his well known dissimulation and mendacity and fully supported in his lawlessness by ‘his’ FBU, Warren was forced under threat of a full unofficial operational strike to yield,  as did ‘his’ FBU, which was taken back under the control of its Lancashire Membership under the threat of a Membership mass resignation potentially taking with them their lucrative FBU subscriptions, as the the Americans say…Money talks and BS walks’…

And has this all got worse …well yes it has. It now appear the LCFA  who works cash-in-hand to the value of £200k+ has now to find an underestimated £5-7Mil. Once more forced to be creative Warren (who ‘outranks’ them all in the Brethren by holding their ‘secrets’) has had to look at the LCFA financial ‘reserves’ but even when all those are liquidised there is an almighty shortfall which will only buy the LCFA back in Pension Fund restitution terms to 2015 when in fact and law it has all to be paid back to 2010.

One dare not mention the statutory debt at 8% compound interest which has also to be ‘found’ by the LCFA to get them back to the point they would have been at, if collectively, including the Elected Members, they had not been such a greedy bunch of fraudsters …

One wonders if Warren (‘Hardship Route’ author) and Mattinson (LCFA Treasurer)  the fiscal genius behind all this fraud are  going to pay back their bonuses and promotion which they paid themselves over this 11 years period for their ‘creativity’ in cooking the books of the Lancashire Firefighters Pension Fund including the payoff of £200k (hidden in Mattinson’s annual statements of accounts) which the Bugler  located after a tip off)  to the sacked HR manager Brendan, ‘The Barbarian’, Hamilton (a handshaker) from Belfast for being an foul mouthed outrageous racist to a black LFRS occupational health nurse who got absolutely nothing; neither apologies nor Justice?

Of course the Lancashire Community Charge payers are ignorant of the fact that their Fire and Rescue Service is, as the Bugler predicted some time back, bankrupt and will have to remove both Firefighters and Fire Engines off the streets thus substantially reducing the F&R  safety cover for all the Citizens of Lancashire and their possessions, including their lives…

But today’s Firefighters are nothing less than honourable, just like their forebears, and in gratitude to their leading legal light J.M.C-B (Inner Temple) their Leader ISF~FC and his deputy ISF~KC landed unannounced one day recently, as they have done previously to attend to other essential maintenance, on this occasion tarring John’s old leaky garage roof.

And in a ‘whip round’ the 150+ IS Firefighters provided John’s comely Maiden, S, with her dream garden ‘studio’ to paint in…

Not to be outdone John received the final accolade only Firefighters can present, an inscribed  ‘Silver Axe’ Award to their Legal Knight in Shining Armour…if ever a man truly deserved a Knighthood then it is John…valuing as he does Truth and Justice above mere trinkets…

But there still remains the small matter for the LCFA of bridging the fiscal gap of an additional around £2-3mil to a to an estimated total of £7Mil to get the restitution back to 2010 where it belongs.

But it is not all bad news for the LCFA they are going to employ temporary additional clerking staff to scour the, yes you have guessed it, the PRFs to ensure that their books will finally balance… and thus just in time, based on this accumulated experience, they will have the ability to pay back 25% of the underpaid pensions to every one of the 200 disabled Veteran Lancashire Firefighters they have defrauded of their pensions…(£75k the latest individual figure).

It seems Lancashire will have take its quaint horse drawn steamer out of the museum and put it back on the streets… and who is to say that at least poetic Justice does not exist in England?

Now that is a Sweet ‘Game’ is it not !

But the Question to the LCFA still remains the same…“Why are we still being underpaid by 25% the wrong pensions?”.