A Landscape of Destruction

[Gabino Carballo]

Well, their atitude has been pretty much the same: they have sacked (rather unfairly) people with on little pay and have kept on board all the useless fat cats, that are to blame for the general rip-off that us members have suffered.

I have seen fome financail forecasts and it is more of the same, they are just not reducing enough expenditure because none of the well paid want to go.

They are just setting the whole thing up so next year they can say that the crisis is terrible and that suscriptions must go up! You would think that 5000 people cannot be so stupid, but then, just look at what is happening with Banks, and you can see a pattern emmerging:

There is a sucker for every day and they are going to take us for everything we’ve got.

By the way, have you noticed that bringing this sort of thing up makes you unpopular?

People not only get used to the stench of corruption and thievery, they actually enjoy it after a while.

This is how Nazi Germany was built, decent people covering their noses and looking the other way until it was too late.

We really have to react now!

Gabino

[Gabino Carballo]

I have now written to the President of the Landscape Institute to demmand a reply. This is my message:

Dear Mr Williams,

It has been a month now since I sent you a letter asking a number of questions. Most of them were quite straight forward and easy to reply. In any event, none of them warrant such a long time for an answer.

Given your silence and the fact that the Journal publishes misleading statements about the reasons for our current state of affairs and conceals facts such as those highlihgted in my letter to you, I have reasons to believe that you, the trustees and that uncapable wannabe administrator, McCapra, are involved in a conspiracy to hide both sistemic corruption and wrongdoing at the LI over several years.

I would like you to reply as soon as possible, (ie: now) stating your possition on my views and questions clearly. Moreover, I would particularly like to ask you the following question:

– Would you agree with me that you, and other trustees, are entirely liable for the shortfall in funds occured during Marion Bowman’s term and later, in accordance with CC8 – Internal Financial Controls for Charities – Delegation of financial duties to employees or other officers of the charity?

As you can see Point 18 states-

18. Trustees have a duty to exercise such care and skill as is reasonable in the circumstances when discharging these review duties. If they fail to exercise reasonable care and skill when appointing delegates and reviewing their performance they may be personally liable for losses resulting to the charity from the acts of the delegate.

I would like to know what steps are you taking to redress the situation and what decissions have been taken with regards to returning our Institute to a decent Financial state with your own assets, as you should.

As a matter of urgency, you ought to sack McCapra and Lincoln, for manifest incompetence and the sistematic issue of misleading statements to members at the wider public.

I believe that it would be preferable if you and the rest of the Council resigned with inmediate effect and apologise to all of us members. It would be the decent thing and we could all put this disgusting affair behind us.

Unfortunately, I suspect that none of you lot knows the meaning of the term Decency.

And you definitely do not have the balls to act properly either, so let’s face it, if I do not hear from you within a reasonable time, I may find myself in a position where only way forward are legal avenues. None of you are going to survive the courts, you can count on that. I have nothing to lose.

It’s your call.

I know that you all think that I am some Dirty Dago from Barcelona and that my views are not to be taken seriously, but you may be very well mistaken. This is not Fawlty Towers. This is real, like the money mis-spent and the liablities the lot of you have incurred into.

I am still a Member and I have rights. Don’t you ever forget that.

Gabino Carballo CMLI

http://landscapedestitute.blogspot.com/

[Gabino Carballo]

And their reply!

http://www.adrive.com/public/9d9d44e2c1d09c43d9f479eee91017605950f1bd6c43ca8389dfe853a2a5cc94.html

[Gabino Carballo]

Time for the Dog to wag the Tail –

“If your majesty will not hear words, we must come to cannon and see if you will hear them” (…) “Little man (…) Go home and be quiet!”

After a not so long last, Members of the Landscape Institute have decided that enough is enough. We have had a long running farce at our own house, it has been a laugh, but it all has come to tears.

A number of Members, coordinated by by Dominic Cole of LUC and Brian Clouston, a Past President of the LI have decided to challenge the new and undemocratic election precedures now in place at the LI, designed to keep in place the same people who got us into this mess and ensure that they remain free to take the piss with our money, as they have done for so long. The same people who have run us into the ground, must be brought to account by Membership, and we will do so.

We have agreed to concentrate on removing this obstacle first, prior to implementing any further changes and we hope that many will be able to support the requisition and will do so by signing the forms, indicating membership class and sending it direct to the LI, with pride instead of fear.

Importantly, Elections are coming: Ballot papers have already been sent out and must be returned by 5th of June. It is a crucial time at the LI, our future starts here. Of course, I have not yet received anything, but who knows, I may get lucky and be allowed to vote freely for a candidate of my choice and not one that has already been selected as primus inter pares.

We risk everything we have: our history, our money, our reputation and our ability to decide in what way the LI is run. It is now time for change at the Landscape Institute and I hope that those of you who have also hoped for it will now have a chance to make your votes count.

Please download the Requisition at the link below:

http://www.adrive.com/public/1f405718ddf97dcdcde37aa9b82448b62d39fc0b7fd3873c582cc5ef247b58e9.html

http://landscapedestitute.blogspot.com/

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“Duuude…. wheres my car?”

[Gabino Carballo]

Did you park it near the Landscape Institute?

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