CRUMBRIA: 07/05/2025: EXCLUSIVE
AS mentioned in today’s earlier article, The Crumbling News recently made a swipe at reporting Crumberland Council’s financial woes.
The “newspaper” made reference to an action plan and an independent panel being set up behind the scenes at the Labour-daft Council.
It stopped agonisingly short of asking all the important questions such as who’s on it; what their remit is, and how much they’re being paid!
The article also introduced a new name to the public having never previously written about them before…
Robert Tinlin.
The Chronic has established that ‘troubleshooter’ Mr Tinlin is the Berwick-based chairman of the special ‘improvement’ panel sorting out the mess at Crumberland after it went to the Government needing millions.
He’s been chairing this panel ‘part-time’ since September 2024.
So that puts the local media’s reporting of developments at least EIGHT MONTHS behind the curve!
The Chronic can further reveal that Mr Tinlin is a former Council chief executive, awarded an MBE for services to Local Government in Essex.
In 2021, the slightly more energetic local media ‘dahn sarf’ tabled a Freedom of Information request when Tinlin was interim chief executive of a local Council.
It revealed that the recruitment agency involved in his placement there was paid £1,000 a day for his services.
You could say he is a very well-paid fixer of Council problems.
What might Mr Tinlin be getting for working miracles in Crumberland?
It looks like he’s going to oversee a major cost-cutting programme and a fire sale of Council assets.
Again, don’t look to our local media if you want to know what services or buildings might be on the chopping block – it hasn’t bothered to ask.
And why do brains always have to be bought and brought into Crumbria to sort out our problems when we already have Council directors paid hundreds of thousands of pounds on the public payroll?
Isn’t that their job?
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