Transparency? Not under this council’s watch It began, as all grand civic delusions do, with a glossy brochure, a slogan, and a promise too good to question. Cornovii was to be Shropshire Council’s redemption — a home-building miracle that would prove local government could outwit the private sector. What it became instead was a textbookContinue reading “Cornovii: Behind Closed Doors”
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Cornovii: Building Success? Or Just Building Debt?
Cornovii: The Council That Built a Company, Hid the Books, and Lost the Architects Since 2020, Shropshire Council’s Housing Supervisory Board has met more than a dozen times to discuss Cornovii. Each meeting began with the same ritual: “That the press and public be excluded.” Now the doors are still closed, the loans still rising,Continue reading “Cornovii: Building Success? Or Just Building Debt?”
The Elephant Has Company: Cornovii and the House of Cards
Welcome to Shropshire, where the houses are public, the risks are private, and the only thing commercial is the branding. Let me introduce you to Cornovii Developments Ltd, Cornovii Investments Ltd, and STAR Housing — a trilogy of publicly owned entities with overlapping leadership, shared liabilities, and a striking ability to shuffle assets faster thanContinue reading “The Elephant Has Company: Cornovii and the House of Cards”
Shropshire Council’s Elephant in the Room
The beast arrives, sits on your wallet, and asks for a tip. Let’s talk about the animal nobody’s feeding but everyone’s funding.It’s grey, immovable — and financed on your credit card. The new pastime Shropshire has a new pastime: building houses with your land and your money, then calling it “commercial”. The developer has aContinue reading “Shropshire Council’s Elephant in the Room”
Lions Led by Donkeys in Shropshire
Article 4: The Safety Catch They Refuse to Pull Shropshire residents dared to believe their Council might actually protect them. They asked, quite reasonably: “Please, use an Article 4 Direction to stop our town being carved into overcrowded HMOs.” Article 4, for the uninitiated, is dead simple: it takes away the automatic right for landlordsContinue reading “Lions Led by Donkeys in Shropshire”
From Dinghy to Dormitory: How our Government and Councils Sold Us Out
The Clown of the Year Moral fibre is no longer optional. Courage is no longer negotiable. And silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity. Welcome to Great Britain — Now With 22 Beds Per Room and No Questions Asked You there — yes, you with the mortgage, the council tax bill, and the quaint belief that localContinue reading “From Dinghy to Dormitory: How our Government and Councils Sold Us Out”
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
Moral fibre is no longer optional. Courage is no longer negotiable. And silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity. Introduction If silence were a policy, Oswestry Town Council would be leading the nation in delivery. If avoidance were an Olympic sport, Shropshire Council would be bringing home the gold. And if cowardice could be bottled, Helen MorganContinue reading “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t”
Oswestry for Lease
How the Lib Dems Turned a Market Town into a Migrant Hostel Once upon a time, Oswestry was a market town—now it’s a market brand, traded like a cheap stock among absentee landlords and watched over by a Liberal Democrat hierarchy so detached you’d think they were governing by astral projection. We used to beContinue reading “Oswestry for Lease”
From Market Town to Migrant Dump: The Great Oswestry Betrayal
Welcome to Oswestry, once a proud market town — now the showroom floor for Britain’s finest scams, deceptively registered developers, and councillors so neutral they could be used in a pH test. This isn’t satire. It’s Shropshire Council and Oswestry Town Council in action — or more accurately, inaction. And like all modern policy disasters,Continue reading “From Market Town to Migrant Dump: The Great Oswestry Betrayal”
The Great Shropshire Reset: Reform UK’s Local Blueprint for an Unbroken Council
Before I begin I thought I may share with you the following: Subject: 📬 Your Annual Contribution to the UK’s Illegal Immigration Bill Dear Citizen, As a valued legal resident of the United Kingdom, we are pleased to inform you that your share of the cost of illegal immigration for this financial year amounts toContinue reading “The Great Shropshire Reset: Reform UK’s Local Blueprint for an Unbroken Council”
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