Because of the obscene, disgusting filth that the North Street mafia and their friends have decided to post on here today we are moderating ALL comments on this blog for the weekend.
We will be fair, we will continue to put through the normal disputes etc, but what we will not tolerate is filth.
Please also be aware that the police have been notified once again.
We are doing this reluctantly but feel we have a responsibility to our friends and supporters not to subject them to such trash.
Hopefully normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Saturday 29 August 2009
JUST WHAT IS COMING UP NEXT
We thought we would give you all a little preview on what will be coming up over the next week or so.
We will of course be posting Part 6 of the George Shaw saga, this will tell readers and friends of how George was made to sign up to the deal with the North Street mafia that would go against all of his racist principals........the very full information on this comes from our insider in the mafia.
We will clearly demonstrate why within the Party rules it clearly states that LGC officers should ensure that checks are done so that there are no issues that would disqualify a potential candidate.
ie. a candidate who it has been discovered is an un-discharged bankrupt. a candidate who has so many bailiffs and debt recovery companies after them that residents in the area are all very well aware of what is going on. a candidate who has a lot of night time visitors with suitcases. a candidate whose name is not really their name and we could go on..........but that is all to come. and if we can find this out don't you think the BNP can as well.
And probably the last piece for this week will be the full expose of Mr Muhammed Riaz. We will prove his close links with Laila Butt and Abdul Aziz, we will go on the prove their links with the East London Mosque, and further more their extensive links both business and political with politics in Pakistan.
We now pose a question, do the North Street mafia really think that those councillors who have been de-selected would have the time and access to the sites that would give that level of information? No of course not. We keep stressing to the mafia that this is so much bigger than they think perhaps when all this comes out finally they will get the message.
We will of course be posting Part 6 of the George Shaw saga, this will tell readers and friends of how George was made to sign up to the deal with the North Street mafia that would go against all of his racist principals........the very full information on this comes from our insider in the mafia.
We will clearly demonstrate why within the Party rules it clearly states that LGC officers should ensure that checks are done so that there are no issues that would disqualify a potential candidate.
ie. a candidate who it has been discovered is an un-discharged bankrupt. a candidate who has so many bailiffs and debt recovery companies after them that residents in the area are all very well aware of what is going on. a candidate who has a lot of night time visitors with suitcases. a candidate whose name is not really their name and we could go on..........but that is all to come. and if we can find this out don't you think the BNP can as well.
And probably the last piece for this week will be the full expose of Mr Muhammed Riaz. We will prove his close links with Laila Butt and Abdul Aziz, we will go on the prove their links with the East London Mosque, and further more their extensive links both business and political with politics in Pakistan.
We now pose a question, do the North Street mafia really think that those councillors who have been de-selected would have the time and access to the sites that would give that level of information? No of course not. We keep stressing to the mafia that this is so much bigger than they think perhaps when all this comes out finally they will get the message.
Friday 28 August 2009
TOTAL CONDEMNATION OF DARREN RODWELL
Over the last 24 hours or so our mail box has been overflowing with complaints against Darren Rodwell and a FLYER that he is promoting in Thames Ward.
These complaints have come in from residents and members of the Party, and more importantly members of the Party who know the rules.
A number of these have sent a copy of the FLYER over to us and we now fully understand their anger.
For our readers and supporters who may not have seen this let us explain.
Its one side of A4 in black and white, Headline Margaret Hodge MP, how you can help me to improve your local area. Taking Action: there then follows a list of Barking & Dagenham Council telephone numbers for different services.
NO PROBLEM THERE.
Police Safer Neighbourhood Team - NO PROBLEM THERE
Contact details for Margaret Hodge MP and John Biggs London Assembly Member
NO PROBLEM THERE
Here we go:
Your local Labour Team - Cllr Barry Poulton - with a Council telephone number that will put residents through to a council officer, Cllr Barry Poulton will be well aware that it should be his own telephone number that goes onto Political Leaflets - No Member of the council should involve council officers in politics.
Then the names of Cameron Geddes and Josephine Channer, with a mobile phone number and an email address. Just who will be answering these calls and emails?
At the bottom is the usual script printed by Barking Labour Party, promoted by Darren Rodwell on behalf of Barking Labour Party 102 North Street Barking.
Firstly can we draw to Darren Rodwells attention the FACT whether he or the North Street mafia like it or not Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns are still the duly elected LABOUR Councillors for Thames ward until May of next year, and must still be part of the Labour team.
By doing this Darren Rodwell has committed a clear UN COMRADELY act against Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns, one that Darren Rodwell will NOT be able to deny as it is in print. This is one of the founding rules within the Labour Party that members must treat each other in a comradely manner.
Secondly Darren Rodwell has fallen into the trap of putting Barking Labour Party's address as 102 North Street, when will the North street mafia learn that 102 North Street is the constituency office of Margaret Hodge MP paid for by the BRITISH TAXPAYER, it is not and never has been the office of Barking Labour Party, an agreement by Barking CLP and the Parliamentary Fees Office has never been entered into, to our certain knowledge Barking CLP and other wards who use 102 North Street do not make any payment at all to the Fees Office.
We would refer the North Street mafia to the article written in the Evening Standard about this just a couple of months ago.
So just what has Darren Rodwell in his arrogance done, he has breached party rules in his treatment of duly elected Labour Councillors, he has breached Council rules by involving Council officers in a political leaflet. And he has breached Parliamentary rules by stating on the leaflet that 102 North Street is the office of the Barking Labour Party.
Just goes to show what arrogance and corruption can do.............but the flip side of this is that it has so angered the residents of Thames view that they are now even firmer together in their fight against this corruption.
These complaints have come in from residents and members of the Party, and more importantly members of the Party who know the rules.
A number of these have sent a copy of the FLYER over to us and we now fully understand their anger.
For our readers and supporters who may not have seen this let us explain.
Its one side of A4 in black and white, Headline Margaret Hodge MP, how you can help me to improve your local area. Taking Action: there then follows a list of Barking & Dagenham Council telephone numbers for different services.
NO PROBLEM THERE.
Police Safer Neighbourhood Team - NO PROBLEM THERE
Contact details for Margaret Hodge MP and John Biggs London Assembly Member
NO PROBLEM THERE
Here we go:
Your local Labour Team - Cllr Barry Poulton - with a Council telephone number that will put residents through to a council officer, Cllr Barry Poulton will be well aware that it should be his own telephone number that goes onto Political Leaflets - No Member of the council should involve council officers in politics.
Then the names of Cameron Geddes and Josephine Channer, with a mobile phone number and an email address. Just who will be answering these calls and emails?
At the bottom is the usual script printed by Barking Labour Party, promoted by Darren Rodwell on behalf of Barking Labour Party 102 North Street Barking.
Firstly can we draw to Darren Rodwells attention the FACT whether he or the North Street mafia like it or not Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns are still the duly elected LABOUR Councillors for Thames ward until May of next year, and must still be part of the Labour team.
By doing this Darren Rodwell has committed a clear UN COMRADELY act against Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns, one that Darren Rodwell will NOT be able to deny as it is in print. This is one of the founding rules within the Labour Party that members must treat each other in a comradely manner.
Secondly Darren Rodwell has fallen into the trap of putting Barking Labour Party's address as 102 North Street, when will the North street mafia learn that 102 North Street is the constituency office of Margaret Hodge MP paid for by the BRITISH TAXPAYER, it is not and never has been the office of Barking Labour Party, an agreement by Barking CLP and the Parliamentary Fees Office has never been entered into, to our certain knowledge Barking CLP and other wards who use 102 North Street do not make any payment at all to the Fees Office.
We would refer the North Street mafia to the article written in the Evening Standard about this just a couple of months ago.
So just what has Darren Rodwell in his arrogance done, he has breached party rules in his treatment of duly elected Labour Councillors, he has breached Council rules by involving Council officers in a political leaflet. And he has breached Parliamentary rules by stating on the leaflet that 102 North Street is the office of the Barking Labour Party.
Just goes to show what arrogance and corruption can do.............but the flip side of this is that it has so angered the residents of Thames view that they are now even firmer together in their fight against this corruption.
Wednesday 26 August 2009
WE HAVE FOUND MR RIAZ
Must be our lucky day today through friends and supporters in our community we have found Mr Riaz, and OH what a story he has to tell.........when his story hits this blog it will call into question the actions of some very senior members within Barking CLP, it will go some way to making Rob Chapman feel very uncomfortable, especially in regard to his not inconsiderable role in the whole sorry affair.
We should imagine it will also cause a great deal of embarrassment to Ken Clark and the General Secretary of the Labour Party who it now seems have both been misled.
Still that is a piece of work in progress, but just wait for the .......to hit the fan.
We should imagine it will also cause a great deal of embarrassment to Ken Clark and the General Secretary of the Labour Party who it now seems have both been misled.
Still that is a piece of work in progress, but just wait for the .......to hit the fan.
HARRY DAY FOUND GUILTY
Check the front page of the local newspaper this morning, Harry Day has been found guilty in court of sexual abuse of young boys in his care. He has got a prison sentance of 13 years. After the jury deliberated for only 6 hours.
Why should this be cause for concern for our readers in Barking & Dagenham. Reason being that young people from our borough were sent to his Citizens Guild centre in Norfolk, George Shaw was Chairman of the Guilds management committee.
And most importantly of all is the statements made by the young people themselves who when questioned under oath after having gone through the gruelling questioning while giving evidence, were asked "Why they had not come forward before now?". We understand that all of the young people involved stated that they did not come forward because "Harry had influential friends".
We certainly hope that by now having the courage to give their evidence, and we do appreciate it must have been very difficult and painful for them, these young men are comforted somewhat by the 13 years in prison handed out to Harry Day, and may he rot in jail.
Why should this be cause for concern for our readers in Barking & Dagenham. Reason being that young people from our borough were sent to his Citizens Guild centre in Norfolk, George Shaw was Chairman of the Guilds management committee.
And most importantly of all is the statements made by the young people themselves who when questioned under oath after having gone through the gruelling questioning while giving evidence, were asked "Why they had not come forward before now?". We understand that all of the young people involved stated that they did not come forward because "Harry had influential friends".
We certainly hope that by now having the courage to give their evidence, and we do appreciate it must have been very difficult and painful for them, these young men are comforted somewhat by the 13 years in prison handed out to Harry Day, and may he rot in jail.
**********WARNING***********
We would like to inform friends and supporters of this blog that we have NOT invited the commentor arbitrator to either post or comment on this blog.
We firmly believe that the people behind this bogus name are the North Street mafia who appear to be so worried and concerned about the truths that are coming out on this blog that they are now operating a sustained and vicious attack.
We are confident that our friends will support us in our continued fight to get the truth out.
We firmly believe that the people behind this bogus name are the North Street mafia who appear to be so worried and concerned about the truths that are coming out on this blog that they are now operating a sustained and vicious attack.
We are confident that our friends will support us in our continued fight to get the truth out.
Tuesday 25 August 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 5
Sorry for the delay on this, as usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations, anecdote and historical memory/fact.
So George now has control of the TRA on Thames View, not so bad some thought, an experienced councillor, used to chairing meetings, and at that time some still respected George enough to believe he would help to get things done.
Well it did not take long for the more acute of residents and officers of the council to see just what George was up to.
Even though Fred was Mayor he still made every attempt to attend the TRA meetings, and always we are told brought a full briefing for the residents on what he had been doing on their behalf, if issues had been raised with him he always took the responses back to the meeting. But, here is where the George Shaw method of pushing people out first started to show, whenever Fred started his feedback, George would interrupt him and say something like, "Oh yes me and Barry sorted that out, didn't we Barry?" Barry would duly nod his head. Barry was now totally George's man, after the initial fall out. George much preferred Barry's way of doing things, which was basically to allow George to do them and just follow on behind.
George even got Barry to set up regular walkabouts on the estate with officers, did not inform the other ward councillors. This went on for some little time until the plug got pulled because the other ward councillors had to be invited.
George took his control very seriously, and set about engineering himself on different boards and panels that were being set up in the ward. It got to be quite embarrassing for both officers and other Councillors because George lives in the past and will not let go of how he used to do things.
Over the last 18 months or so George has taken to criticising the council every chance that he could get, the TRA members were getting fed up with it, they were certainly seeing the way that George was treating Fred Barns at their meetings and they did not like it at all.
Fred tried his best, he worked closely with the new residents on Barking Riverside, he got a group of them together to set up a Residents Association, George put every obstacle he could find in their way. Residents have told us of a joint meeting called to discuss regeneration issues in the area, George was at first adamant that the Riverside residents should not be invited, but they were, George then insisted that in the hall they be isolated and made to sit together on one side of the room.
Many now say that they had a lot of respect for George, but, the way he has treated Fred and Joan has made them change their opinion of him, but, we don't think George has ever changed from the basic nasty right winged bully that he has always been.
We were reminded of a meeting that was held some 3 years ago, it was a joint ward meeting for Barking CLP, Phil Woolas MP for Oldham had been invited by M Hodge MP to explain to party members how he and his party had tackled the BNP in Oldham, it was for most a very worthwhile meeting.
But, it was also a meeting that caused a great deal of embarrassment both for M Hodge and other members of the party. Why? because for the very first time, what we had all suspected was proved true. George Shaw and a small number of his friends in the party showed themselves for the racists they truly are. Even M Hodge was heard to condemn George Shaw for his comments at the meeting.
Leopards, especially old ones like George do not change their spots, he always was a racist and will continue to be a racist, that is probably why in wanting so desperately to get rid of Fred Barns George may have been made to pay a price to high.
We will come right up to date in our final part on George Shaw later.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations and historical memory/fact.
So George now has control of the TRA on Thames View, not so bad some thought, an experienced councillor, used to chairing meetings, and at that time some still respected George enough to believe he would help to get things done.
Well it did not take long for the more acute of residents and officers of the council to see just what George was up to.
Even though Fred was Mayor he still made every attempt to attend the TRA meetings, and always we are told brought a full briefing for the residents on what he had been doing on their behalf, if issues had been raised with him he always took the responses back to the meeting. But, here is where the George Shaw method of pushing people out first started to show, whenever Fred started his feedback, George would interrupt him and say something like, "Oh yes me and Barry sorted that out, didn't we Barry?" Barry would duly nod his head. Barry was now totally George's man, after the initial fall out. George much preferred Barry's way of doing things, which was basically to allow George to do them and just follow on behind.
George even got Barry to set up regular walkabouts on the estate with officers, did not inform the other ward councillors. This went on for some little time until the plug got pulled because the other ward councillors had to be invited.
George took his control very seriously, and set about engineering himself on different boards and panels that were being set up in the ward. It got to be quite embarrassing for both officers and other Councillors because George lives in the past and will not let go of how he used to do things.
Over the last 18 months or so George has taken to criticising the council every chance that he could get, the TRA members were getting fed up with it, they were certainly seeing the way that George was treating Fred Barns at their meetings and they did not like it at all.
Fred tried his best, he worked closely with the new residents on Barking Riverside, he got a group of them together to set up a Residents Association, George put every obstacle he could find in their way. Residents have told us of a joint meeting called to discuss regeneration issues in the area, George was at first adamant that the Riverside residents should not be invited, but they were, George then insisted that in the hall they be isolated and made to sit together on one side of the room.
Many now say that they had a lot of respect for George, but, the way he has treated Fred and Joan has made them change their opinion of him, but, we don't think George has ever changed from the basic nasty right winged bully that he has always been.
We were reminded of a meeting that was held some 3 years ago, it was a joint ward meeting for Barking CLP, Phil Woolas MP for Oldham had been invited by M Hodge MP to explain to party members how he and his party had tackled the BNP in Oldham, it was for most a very worthwhile meeting.
But, it was also a meeting that caused a great deal of embarrassment both for M Hodge and other members of the party. Why? because for the very first time, what we had all suspected was proved true. George Shaw and a small number of his friends in the party showed themselves for the racists they truly are. Even M Hodge was heard to condemn George Shaw for his comments at the meeting.
Leopards, especially old ones like George do not change their spots, he always was a racist and will continue to be a racist, that is probably why in wanting so desperately to get rid of Fred Barns George may have been made to pay a price to high.
We will come right up to date in our final part on George Shaw later.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations and historical memory/fact.
Monday 24 August 2009
AN APOLOGY TO FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS
Many of you may have got caught out yesterday and clicked on a link to a profile that they thought was "night shift worker" and then found themselves looking at a load of degrading filth.
Firstly can we assure you that we know for a fact that this was not posted by our good friend 'night shift worker'
If members had noticed or remember it was headlined "night shift worker says" in red, when in fact if you check back on previous postings by our friend you will find that they all start anon.......and is signed off 'night shift worker'
We do take responsibility for ensuring that this blog is monitored and will do our best to make sure this does not happen again, but, like everyone else we do want to be able to trust our readers, so for the moment we are not going to moderate comments, but if this kind of attack continues we will do so.
As for those persons who are attacking this blog in such a shameful manner, please be aware we do know who you are, and so do the police.
Once again our apology to friends and supporters.
Firstly can we assure you that we know for a fact that this was not posted by our good friend 'night shift worker'
If members had noticed or remember it was headlined "night shift worker says" in red, when in fact if you check back on previous postings by our friend you will find that they all start anon.......and is signed off 'night shift worker'
We do take responsibility for ensuring that this blog is monitored and will do our best to make sure this does not happen again, but, like everyone else we do want to be able to trust our readers, so for the moment we are not going to moderate comments, but if this kind of attack continues we will do so.
As for those persons who are attacking this blog in such a shameful manner, please be aware we do know who you are, and so do the police.
Once again our apology to friends and supporters.
Sunday 23 August 2009
GRAHAM LETCHFORD AND HIS RESPECT FOR BNP COUNCILLOR
We feel that we must return to the subject of Graham Letchford. Comments on another posting have made this necessary.
One of the comments called for John Davis Chair of Barking CLP to take disciplinary action against Graham Letchford for his comments on this blog.
In his comments Letchford states quite clearly that in 'his' view Cllr Barnbrook BNP is the only Councillor on Goresbrook ward who does any work.
We are pretty sure that there are a large number of the Labour Group members and officers of the council who would refute that statement, along with residents in Goresbrook ward.
Letchford then goes on to claim that because Barnbrook BNP was in 'his' view the only Councillor doing any work that is why Letchford would meet with him and pass case work on to him.
Now we are pretty sure, in fact we are positive that this is a clear breach of Labour Party Rules. What Letchford (as a card carrying member of the Labour Party) should have been doing was meeting with his Labour Councillor in the ward and working with him to resolve issues in the ward.
Also in his comments Letchford boldly states that he BANNED Councillors from attending 'his' Tenants and Residents meetings, we would suggest that Letchford had no right to BAN duly elected Councillors in this manner, but aside from that Letchford knew very well that by putting in this ban it would only affect the Labour Councillor, because allegedly Barnbrook lives in the ward (even though it is well known he lives in Blackheath) and he could then attend as a resident. Which we are told Barnbrook did on a regular basis, and Letchford allowed him to grandstand from the floor, with Letchford even supporting Barnbrook when he criticised the Labour Council.
This is another issue, Letchford continually at public meetings criticised the Labour Council and Councillors, is this something that a member of the Labour Party should be doing? Is it in breach of the Party Rules? Yes it is.
And we come to another comment posted yesterday by a 'Labour Party Member Barking' who criticises other comments made against Letchford and Barnbrook by saying ' don't run down a respected Councillor' and 'your way is wrong'.
Are these the kind of statements that should be being made by Labour Party members, that we shouldn't criticise Barnbrook?
We have been hearing rumours for many months now of how right wing the North Street mafia are, we have even heard it said that when they are in power they are going to BOND with the BNP and work with them.
This may come as a bit of a shock to the Dagenham CLP, do they realise that if any of the North Street mafia do get elected they will be working with the BNP.
Or perhaps between now and May of next year the North Street mafia may get an attack of honesty and stand for election in the colours of their true party , which many believe is not the Labour Party.
So yes we agree the Labour Party does need to step in and take disciplinary action against Graham Letchford, could they trust John Davis to do it NO, this must be taken higher.
We will leave you with a quote from Cllr Barnbrook who while standing around a camp fire at the BNP RWB festival a couple of weeks ago, Barnbrook stated that "Ive got balls made of steel, in my own ward if I go around naked, and put black boot polish on my face, they'd still love me" even some of the local labour party members too we think.
One of the comments called for John Davis Chair of Barking CLP to take disciplinary action against Graham Letchford for his comments on this blog.
In his comments Letchford states quite clearly that in 'his' view Cllr Barnbrook BNP is the only Councillor on Goresbrook ward who does any work.
We are pretty sure that there are a large number of the Labour Group members and officers of the council who would refute that statement, along with residents in Goresbrook ward.
Letchford then goes on to claim that because Barnbrook BNP was in 'his' view the only Councillor doing any work that is why Letchford would meet with him and pass case work on to him.
Now we are pretty sure, in fact we are positive that this is a clear breach of Labour Party Rules. What Letchford (as a card carrying member of the Labour Party) should have been doing was meeting with his Labour Councillor in the ward and working with him to resolve issues in the ward.
Also in his comments Letchford boldly states that he BANNED Councillors from attending 'his' Tenants and Residents meetings, we would suggest that Letchford had no right to BAN duly elected Councillors in this manner, but aside from that Letchford knew very well that by putting in this ban it would only affect the Labour Councillor, because allegedly Barnbrook lives in the ward (even though it is well known he lives in Blackheath) and he could then attend as a resident. Which we are told Barnbrook did on a regular basis, and Letchford allowed him to grandstand from the floor, with Letchford even supporting Barnbrook when he criticised the Labour Council.
This is another issue, Letchford continually at public meetings criticised the Labour Council and Councillors, is this something that a member of the Labour Party should be doing? Is it in breach of the Party Rules? Yes it is.
And we come to another comment posted yesterday by a 'Labour Party Member Barking' who criticises other comments made against Letchford and Barnbrook by saying ' don't run down a respected Councillor' and 'your way is wrong'.
Are these the kind of statements that should be being made by Labour Party members, that we shouldn't criticise Barnbrook?
We have been hearing rumours for many months now of how right wing the North Street mafia are, we have even heard it said that when they are in power they are going to BOND with the BNP and work with them.
This may come as a bit of a shock to the Dagenham CLP, do they realise that if any of the North Street mafia do get elected they will be working with the BNP.
Or perhaps between now and May of next year the North Street mafia may get an attack of honesty and stand for election in the colours of their true party , which many believe is not the Labour Party.
So yes we agree the Labour Party does need to step in and take disciplinary action against Graham Letchford, could they trust John Davis to do it NO, this must be taken higher.
We will leave you with a quote from Cllr Barnbrook who while standing around a camp fire at the BNP RWB festival a couple of weeks ago, Barnbrook stated that "Ive got balls made of steel, in my own ward if I go around naked, and put black boot polish on my face, they'd still love me" even some of the local labour party members too we think.
Saturday 22 August 2009
****************UNDER ATTACK************
It has been a very late night for us here on the blog. We have come under a sustained and very abusive attack.
The attack started on our system at about 11.0pm last night, and it was a case of all hands on deck to combat the attack.
We can only guess at where and why the attack took place.
The WHY should be pretty obvious to our friends and supporters, the truth is coming out, the corruption is being exposed, and party members and residents are now able to read about it and add their comments. Something not allowed in Barking CLP anymore we understand.
Where did the attack come from, well your guess is as good as ours, it could have come direct from the North Street mafia, or they could have gone crying to Central Labour Party and it could have been done from there.
Our guess for what its worth is that the North Street mafia engineered this, it was not a professional attack, spasmodic and not too successful.
They appeared to be trying to delete certain comments, which we have successfully retrieved, those being the ones posted by G Letchford the alleged Labour Candidate for Goresbrook, who in his own words admitted to working together with BNP Councillor Barnbrook.
We would ask the question WHY is he still a candidate?
There were several other postings that they tried to delete but we believe we have been successfully in saving all, as we do of course run a back up on our system.
They tried without success to find out who we are, and also who was making comments, well if they had asked us the question in the first place we would have saved them all the mucking around, we don't even know the identity of com mentors.
The only thing we are left with is their very stupid attempt at humour on a previous posting they tried to make which was just a line of aaaaaaa and when we can get round to it we will remove this as well.
So all is back to normal this morning, we do hope friends and supporters can still click onto us without any problems, we have checked as much as we are able, but if you or you know friends who are experiencing problems send us an email and we will see what we can do to help you out.
As for the North Street mafia and the Labour Party, we would like to say on the record that we have not in any of our postings attacked the policies of the Labour Party or the government, we are still true party members, but what we are attacking, and drawing your attention to is the abuse of the processes within the Labour Party by a minority group of corrupt individuals.
Have a good day friends.
The attack started on our system at about 11.0pm last night, and it was a case of all hands on deck to combat the attack.
We can only guess at where and why the attack took place.
The WHY should be pretty obvious to our friends and supporters, the truth is coming out, the corruption is being exposed, and party members and residents are now able to read about it and add their comments. Something not allowed in Barking CLP anymore we understand.
Where did the attack come from, well your guess is as good as ours, it could have come direct from the North Street mafia, or they could have gone crying to Central Labour Party and it could have been done from there.
Our guess for what its worth is that the North Street mafia engineered this, it was not a professional attack, spasmodic and not too successful.
They appeared to be trying to delete certain comments, which we have successfully retrieved, those being the ones posted by G Letchford the alleged Labour Candidate for Goresbrook, who in his own words admitted to working together with BNP Councillor Barnbrook.
We would ask the question WHY is he still a candidate?
There were several other postings that they tried to delete but we believe we have been successfully in saving all, as we do of course run a back up on our system.
They tried without success to find out who we are, and also who was making comments, well if they had asked us the question in the first place we would have saved them all the mucking around, we don't even know the identity of com mentors.
The only thing we are left with is their very stupid attempt at humour on a previous posting they tried to make which was just a line of aaaaaaa and when we can get round to it we will remove this as well.
So all is back to normal this morning, we do hope friends and supporters can still click onto us without any problems, we have checked as much as we are able, but if you or you know friends who are experiencing problems send us an email and we will see what we can do to help you out.
As for the North Street mafia and the Labour Party, we would like to say on the record that we have not in any of our postings attacked the policies of the Labour Party or the government, we are still true party members, but what we are attacking, and drawing your attention to is the abuse of the processes within the Labour Party by a minority group of corrupt individuals.
Have a good day friends.
Friday 21 August 2009
????????? re JOHN DAVIS
We hear that John (brown envelope) Davis has now missed 3 Labour Group meetings, why?
Is he scared now to face his labour group colleagues? Is he worried that he will be questioned about the fact that he was NOT interviewed for the selection panel, in the same way all other candidates were.
And it has also been reported to us that John (brown envelope) Davis now seems to enjoy the company and conversation with a certain Cllr Christine Knight, who many will know is a BNP councillor.
It is reported that John (brown envelope) Davis has been seen leaving the Town Hall with his arm around Cllr Knight, it is reported that many of the labour group members shun Davis now because he appears to spend most of his time in conversation with the BNP and Cllr Christine Knight in particular.
Comments please, or an explanation would be nice.
Is he scared now to face his labour group colleagues? Is he worried that he will be questioned about the fact that he was NOT interviewed for the selection panel, in the same way all other candidates were.
And it has also been reported to us that John (brown envelope) Davis now seems to enjoy the company and conversation with a certain Cllr Christine Knight, who many will know is a BNP councillor.
It is reported that John (brown envelope) Davis has been seen leaving the Town Hall with his arm around Cllr Knight, it is reported that many of the labour group members shun Davis now because he appears to spend most of his time in conversation with the BNP and Cllr Christine Knight in particular.
Comments please, or an explanation would be nice.
Tuesday 18 August 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 4
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations, anecdote and historical memory/fact.
When we first started writing about George Shaw we honestly thought we would get everything done and dusted in 2 parts, but as you can see we are now on part 4 and still information is coming in on a daily basis. Not only from party members but more importantly from residents who tell us that knowing how vindictive George Shaw could be they have kept quiet for so long, but it now appears that they feel liberated, and angry enough to speak up.
So just to start this off lets put some election results up firstly for G. Shaw - 1990 - 1714; 1994 - 1517; 1997 - 941. As you can see George Shaw's vote is dropping off, not so popular anymore.
Early 2002 George Shaw made the announcement that he was not going to stand for re-election in the May. Along with several of the older councillors, of course what George and some of the others were hoping was that senior members of the Labour Group would talk them round and persuade them to stay on, it has happened before, and George and some others were sure it would happen again, well this time they were out of luck, senior members made sure they avoided them, did not enter into conversation with them, and then the announcements mysteriously turned up in the local press, there was no way back then George and the others were out.
Fred Barns was elected in 2002 - 980, Dave Miles - 940; Joan Rawlinson - 947. So already Fred has upped his vote where George's vote was on a downward spiral.
But George was not going to go away, he believed he could be the puppet master, there had been for many years a very strong Tenants and Residents Association on the estate which was chaired by a very good and popular man George Atkinson, a few weeks before the elections in 2002 George Shaw took George Atkinson to one side and did what only George could do, he leaned on him, George Shaw wanted the Chair and he was determined to get it.
Following the elections we understand the newly elected Councillors turned up for their first meeting of the TRA, George Atkinson announced he was standing down as Chairman and that George Shaw would now take his place. Which duly happened, but what happened next set the pattern for what would happen a few years in the future, George Shaw announced that George Atkinson would now take the place of Vice Chairman, of course this came as a big shock to the person who was vice chair at the time and we are told he stormed out of the room, this person was Barry Poulton, more to come later.
So we now have George Shaw in control of the largest TRA in the ward, he then made himself very busy, he thought he had his puppets well under control, so what, that he wasn't a Councillor anymore, he still had the power and didn't have to move off of the estate to use it.
As with anything becoming a councillor for the first time there is an awful lot to learn we are told, Joan had the experience of course but Dave Miles and Fred Barns were not slow to learn, but there was a difference between them, Fred recognised the need at the time to keep George on side for a while, Dave was his own man, he had strong trade union links and also good friends in the labour group. This did not go down well with George he could see his control was slipping, so he started looking round for another puppet, and he found one, Barry Poulton, so when it came round to the selection interviews for the 2006 elections Dave Miles knew, he had seen what was going to happen so did not even attend for interview.
So the 2006 slate for Thames ward were Fred Barns, Barry Poulton and Joan Rawlinson. When the votes were counted Fred Barns - 1264; Barry Poulton - 1127; Joan Rawlinson - 1157. On the face of it a winning team with Fred once again increasing his numbers over George, but, the peace did not last long, only a couple of weeks, and then the real nastiness started.
As usual this posting is a matter of allegation, rumour, anecdote, observations and historical memory/fact.
When we first started writing about George Shaw we honestly thought we would get everything done and dusted in 2 parts, but as you can see we are now on part 4 and still information is coming in on a daily basis. Not only from party members but more importantly from residents who tell us that knowing how vindictive George Shaw could be they have kept quiet for so long, but it now appears that they feel liberated, and angry enough to speak up.
So just to start this off lets put some election results up firstly for G. Shaw - 1990 - 1714; 1994 - 1517; 1997 - 941. As you can see George Shaw's vote is dropping off, not so popular anymore.
Early 2002 George Shaw made the announcement that he was not going to stand for re-election in the May. Along with several of the older councillors, of course what George and some of the others were hoping was that senior members of the Labour Group would talk them round and persuade them to stay on, it has happened before, and George and some others were sure it would happen again, well this time they were out of luck, senior members made sure they avoided them, did not enter into conversation with them, and then the announcements mysteriously turned up in the local press, there was no way back then George and the others were out.
Fred Barns was elected in 2002 - 980, Dave Miles - 940; Joan Rawlinson - 947. So already Fred has upped his vote where George's vote was on a downward spiral.
But George was not going to go away, he believed he could be the puppet master, there had been for many years a very strong Tenants and Residents Association on the estate which was chaired by a very good and popular man George Atkinson, a few weeks before the elections in 2002 George Shaw took George Atkinson to one side and did what only George could do, he leaned on him, George Shaw wanted the Chair and he was determined to get it.
Following the elections we understand the newly elected Councillors turned up for their first meeting of the TRA, George Atkinson announced he was standing down as Chairman and that George Shaw would now take his place. Which duly happened, but what happened next set the pattern for what would happen a few years in the future, George Shaw announced that George Atkinson would now take the place of Vice Chairman, of course this came as a big shock to the person who was vice chair at the time and we are told he stormed out of the room, this person was Barry Poulton, more to come later.
So we now have George Shaw in control of the largest TRA in the ward, he then made himself very busy, he thought he had his puppets well under control, so what, that he wasn't a Councillor anymore, he still had the power and didn't have to move off of the estate to use it.
As with anything becoming a councillor for the first time there is an awful lot to learn we are told, Joan had the experience of course but Dave Miles and Fred Barns were not slow to learn, but there was a difference between them, Fred recognised the need at the time to keep George on side for a while, Dave was his own man, he had strong trade union links and also good friends in the labour group. This did not go down well with George he could see his control was slipping, so he started looking round for another puppet, and he found one, Barry Poulton, so when it came round to the selection interviews for the 2006 elections Dave Miles knew, he had seen what was going to happen so did not even attend for interview.
So the 2006 slate for Thames ward were Fred Barns, Barry Poulton and Joan Rawlinson. When the votes were counted Fred Barns - 1264; Barry Poulton - 1127; Joan Rawlinson - 1157. On the face of it a winning team with Fred once again increasing his numbers over George, but, the peace did not last long, only a couple of weeks, and then the real nastiness started.
As usual this posting is a matter of allegation, rumour, anecdote, observations and historical memory/fact.
Sunday 16 August 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 3
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations and historical memory/fact.
As stated at the end of the last posting we will now go on to tell you how George Shaw ruined a very well regarded Headteacher.
Because of the sensitivity of this issue we will try as much as we can to protect the Headteacher by not naming her or her school.
As is fully recognised nowadays the Governing Body of a school has far more legal responsibility for what goes on in their school than they ever did before, but, what must always be remembered is that the day to day management of the school is the sole responsibility of the Headteacher.
This school on Thames view had Roy Patient as Chair of Governors well versed in the relationship the governors should have with the Headteacher. This newly appointed Head was a consummate professional, who wanted to work in an area where the children had a great need for a good education. She was we have been told also a long time member of the Labour Party, she duly set about bringing a breath of fresh air to the school, but none of this would or could save her from the venom of George Shaw.
He made no secret we are told from her early days in the school of saying he wanted rid of her and took every chance he could to undermine her work in the school. Rather unluckily for George it appears he had met a worthy opponent, this Headteacher was very strong and dignified and George had little chance to make an attack.
However after many years at the school building a wonderful relationship with the community and her children George got his chance.
It is said that the Headteacher had cause to dismiss one of the dinner ladies for a serious breach of parent confidentiality. The woman had it seems 3 previous warnings about her behaviour so the Headteacher was left with little choice but to dismiss, the governors were all made aware of the situation and agreed with the Heads actions. But, the dinner lady went to see George, and yes, you guessed it, George took this as his one chance to get rid of the Head, he told the dinner lady that he totally supported her and would make sure she was reinstated.
We have not been able to discover which officers George Shaw dealt with on this, probably because they have all left the council now, but George did what George does best, he bullied, he bullied and he ranted and raved until the officers caved in and told the Headteacher she had to re-instate the dinner lady.
The remaining governors were shocked at this, and we are told that there were a number of meetings which took place with the Head, the Director of Education and some of the governors, but in the end, the bully won. This bullying and controlling councillor was responsible for the breakdown of a totally professional and dedicated Headteacher who we understand left and has never returned to the profession she loved, he destroyed her, for no other reason than to show he could, and that he didn't like her.
This gossiping dinner lady who used to stand outside the school gates and give out confidential information to all who would listen kept her job. And of course who did she vote for after that, who was the man who saved her job? George Shaw.
Who we think, all can see now is a bully, who hates women who are stronger and more intelligent than him, and this bully will do anything to win.
We will come more up to date in our next chapter.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations, anecdote and historical memory/fact.
As stated at the end of the last posting we will now go on to tell you how George Shaw ruined a very well regarded Headteacher.
Because of the sensitivity of this issue we will try as much as we can to protect the Headteacher by not naming her or her school.
As is fully recognised nowadays the Governing Body of a school has far more legal responsibility for what goes on in their school than they ever did before, but, what must always be remembered is that the day to day management of the school is the sole responsibility of the Headteacher.
This school on Thames view had Roy Patient as Chair of Governors well versed in the relationship the governors should have with the Headteacher. This newly appointed Head was a consummate professional, who wanted to work in an area where the children had a great need for a good education. She was we have been told also a long time member of the Labour Party, she duly set about bringing a breath of fresh air to the school, but none of this would or could save her from the venom of George Shaw.
He made no secret we are told from her early days in the school of saying he wanted rid of her and took every chance he could to undermine her work in the school. Rather unluckily for George it appears he had met a worthy opponent, this Headteacher was very strong and dignified and George had little chance to make an attack.
However after many years at the school building a wonderful relationship with the community and her children George got his chance.
It is said that the Headteacher had cause to dismiss one of the dinner ladies for a serious breach of parent confidentiality. The woman had it seems 3 previous warnings about her behaviour so the Headteacher was left with little choice but to dismiss, the governors were all made aware of the situation and agreed with the Heads actions. But, the dinner lady went to see George, and yes, you guessed it, George took this as his one chance to get rid of the Head, he told the dinner lady that he totally supported her and would make sure she was reinstated.
We have not been able to discover which officers George Shaw dealt with on this, probably because they have all left the council now, but George did what George does best, he bullied, he bullied and he ranted and raved until the officers caved in and told the Headteacher she had to re-instate the dinner lady.
The remaining governors were shocked at this, and we are told that there were a number of meetings which took place with the Head, the Director of Education and some of the governors, but in the end, the bully won. This bullying and controlling councillor was responsible for the breakdown of a totally professional and dedicated Headteacher who we understand left and has never returned to the profession she loved, he destroyed her, for no other reason than to show he could, and that he didn't like her.
This gossiping dinner lady who used to stand outside the school gates and give out confidential information to all who would listen kept her job. And of course who did she vote for after that, who was the man who saved her job? George Shaw.
Who we think, all can see now is a bully, who hates women who are stronger and more intelligent than him, and this bully will do anything to win.
We will come more up to date in our next chapter.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations, anecdote and historical memory/fact.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We have been asked to place this response to whoever it was who made the comment about Jo Chesterton leaving the council, and the comment went further to allege that the council is near bankrupt.
A very senior member of the Labour Group has asked that we state that Jo Chesterton chose to leave for his own personal reasons.
And as for the councils finances they are in good shape, Barking & Dagenham is a 4* council one of only 26 in the country. You don't get that kind of acknowledgement if you are bankrupt.
A very senior member of the Labour Group has asked that we state that Jo Chesterton chose to leave for his own personal reasons.
And as for the councils finances they are in good shape, Barking & Dagenham is a 4* council one of only 26 in the country. You don't get that kind of acknowledgement if you are bankrupt.
Saturday 15 August 2009
WE ARE AMAZED
Not one comment on the life and times of George Shaw so far.
Is this because North Street know that. What has been written is correct, or is it that they have been instructed to stay away?
Not that this matters to us, but it is very much a codemnation on them and appears to bear out that the information given to us by so many people is accurate.
We will of course continue with the story as there is still much to be told.
And just a word to the wise North Street this blog is not a flash in the pan.
Is this because North Street know that. What has been written is correct, or is it that they have been instructed to stay away?
Not that this matters to us, but it is very much a codemnation on them and appears to bear out that the information given to us by so many people is accurate.
We will of course continue with the story as there is still much to be told.
And just a word to the wise North Street this blog is not a flash in the pan.
Thursday 13 August 2009
George Shaw Part 2
As is usual this posting is a matter of allegations, rumour, anecdote, observations and historical memory/fact.
At the end of part 1 we had informed you that there appeared to be a problem with the electrics at the farm and that some workers and volunteers had been electrocuted while working although thankfully none of them were seriously hurt.
While all of this was going on following the departure of the previous manager had taken over she had the very full support of George Shaw so much so that George would not accept any criticism of her at all. The management committee were pushing for the job to out to advert, but, George did not want that he is reported as saying that he did not want any intellectuals applying so as you can guess the temp manager got the job. She soon fell into line on just how George wanted things done, but, there were serious problems on the horizon, on of which was the electricity.
We understand that a very fiery meeting of the management committee took place to discuss this very serious issue. As any responsible person would expect there were requests that this matter be taken seriously, that a qualified electrical surveyor (possibly from the council) be called in to find out exactly what the problem was, and then for this surveyor to report to the MC how it could be fixed. George Shaw was having none of this, he demanded that the new manager be allowed to get on with fixing it as she saw fit. George it would seem had been in discussion with the new manager and it was a case of she knew a friend of a friend who could fix it.
With his usual manner of browbeating and bullying he forced the resignation of several members of the management committee and got exactly what he wanted total and absolute control with now no one to challenge him. From the investigations we have managed to carry out we understand that the situation with the electricity was never put right and safe, but, this did not seem to worry George because he was very much aware that there were other problems on the horizon.
It seems that the finances of the farm were not what they should have been, invoices and bills not being paid. The Council had stated it wanted a Business Plan ready before the next allotment of Grant funding was due, but George had stuck his head in the sand, he was obviously working under the principal that all he needed to do was talk to Grants officers in the council and everything would be OK, but this is where things started to change.
Over a period of time the new manager had grown into her position, and was increasingly speaking up for herself and putting forward her own views on how the farm should be managed, how money should be spent etc. Of course as with others before her this did not go down well with George Shaw.
The very real and very sad outcome of George Shaw's need for revenge on this one is that it has had a major impact not only on the community in Thames ward but for children all over the borough.
George decided that the new manager had to go, but, in doing this he also took the decision that the farm should go as well, don't forget George was due to come off the council, he would no longer have the automatic place on the management committee, so he just did not care how much damage his poisonous venom did.
We understand in the end that the Council took the decision that it could no longer fund the City Farm, which we suppose they the Council had had a good look at the books etc and come to that decision on a financial level, but, no one was in place who could ask George Shaw just what he had spent the money on, he was the Chairman the responsibility was his, but as is always the case with George the farm was dead to him, he just walked away leaving a trail of devastation behind him.
In Part 3 we will inform you of the damage done by George Shaw to a very professional Headteacher.
As always this posting is a matter of rumour, observations, allegations, anecdotes and historical memory/facts.
At the end of part 1 we had informed you that there appeared to be a problem with the electrics at the farm and that some workers and volunteers had been electrocuted while working although thankfully none of them were seriously hurt.
While all of this was going on following the departure of the previous manager had taken over she had the very full support of George Shaw so much so that George would not accept any criticism of her at all. The management committee were pushing for the job to out to advert, but, George did not want that he is reported as saying that he did not want any intellectuals applying so as you can guess the temp manager got the job. She soon fell into line on just how George wanted things done, but, there were serious problems on the horizon, on of which was the electricity.
We understand that a very fiery meeting of the management committee took place to discuss this very serious issue. As any responsible person would expect there were requests that this matter be taken seriously, that a qualified electrical surveyor (possibly from the council) be called in to find out exactly what the problem was, and then for this surveyor to report to the MC how it could be fixed. George Shaw was having none of this, he demanded that the new manager be allowed to get on with fixing it as she saw fit. George it would seem had been in discussion with the new manager and it was a case of she knew a friend of a friend who could fix it.
With his usual manner of browbeating and bullying he forced the resignation of several members of the management committee and got exactly what he wanted total and absolute control with now no one to challenge him. From the investigations we have managed to carry out we understand that the situation with the electricity was never put right and safe, but, this did not seem to worry George because he was very much aware that there were other problems on the horizon.
It seems that the finances of the farm were not what they should have been, invoices and bills not being paid. The Council had stated it wanted a Business Plan ready before the next allotment of Grant funding was due, but George had stuck his head in the sand, he was obviously working under the principal that all he needed to do was talk to Grants officers in the council and everything would be OK, but this is where things started to change.
Over a period of time the new manager had grown into her position, and was increasingly speaking up for herself and putting forward her own views on how the farm should be managed, how money should be spent etc. Of course as with others before her this did not go down well with George Shaw.
The very real and very sad outcome of George Shaw's need for revenge on this one is that it has had a major impact not only on the community in Thames ward but for children all over the borough.
George decided that the new manager had to go, but, in doing this he also took the decision that the farm should go as well, don't forget George was due to come off the council, he would no longer have the automatic place on the management committee, so he just did not care how much damage his poisonous venom did.
We understand in the end that the Council took the decision that it could no longer fund the City Farm, which we suppose they the Council had had a good look at the books etc and come to that decision on a financial level, but, no one was in place who could ask George Shaw just what he had spent the money on, he was the Chairman the responsibility was his, but as is always the case with George the farm was dead to him, he just walked away leaving a trail of devastation behind him.
In Part 3 we will inform you of the damage done by George Shaw to a very professional Headteacher.
As always this posting is a matter of rumour, observations, allegations, anecdotes and historical memory/facts.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
HAS GEORGE SHAW CROSSED A BRIDGE TOO FAR
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, observations, allegations, anecdotes and historical memory/facts.
We have discovered that some 38 years ago (1971) George Shaw was first elected to Barking & Dagenham council to represent Gascoigne ward then following the boundary changes he was re-elected in 1978 to represent Thames ward with Dougie Walters, Scrattons Farm was not part of Thames ward back then, it is said that both George and Dougie were right wing, and both of them disliked the much loved MP Jo Richardson and at elections times did all they could to get rid of her. Thankfully for the residents of Barking they were not successful.
George's career on the council seemed to kick of big almost from the start, he was elected as Vice Chairman of housing 1972 to 1977 while his old side kick John Lawrence was Chairman.
When Dougie Walters retired from the council the seat went to Roy Patient. It seems that Roy and George and their families had been friends for many years, and for some years to come they both worked together very well, to some observers at the time if was firmly believed that Roy got on because he did what George told him to. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.
In 1977 George Shaw finally put the knife into the back of John Lawrence and took the Chair of Housing, as a consolation prize he allowed John to stay as his vice chair. He even convinced John to take the Chair back while he was Mayor in 1985/86 but he was back firmly in control as Chair while he was Deputy Mayor.
It is difficult to explain and probably just as difficult to comprehend just how much power Chairman of committees had in those days, but they were incredibly powerful, and some like George abused that power with relish.
Just take for instance officers in Housing, if you did not get on the right side of the Chairman, you just did not get promoted, you may even loose your job. Even the hiring of officers down to the most lowly of positions was done by a panel of members who were usually George's cronies, who were happy to get the additional money for turning up at the meeting, and of course very grateful to the Chairman, so it won't be a stretch of your imagination to think what could and did happen there.
But as far as Thames ward was concerned it was George Shaw's kingdom and he ruled it, you did not get a council tenancy on Thames unless the lettings committee which he Chaired approved it, later on when that committee was abolished, officers just quietly passed him the list, and bearing in mind how right wing George is we think you can guess the rest.
At some time in mid 80s Roy Patient started to stand up for himself and develop his own career on the council, George cut him stone dead, would not talk to him, no reason was ever given why, the families that had grown up together no longer spoke. This was George punishing Roy in much the same way as he is now punishing Fred Barns, Roy showed he was his own man, he was not George's lap dog, and then George filled with his venom, decided that as far has he was concerned Roy was dead to him, the exact words George has used to Fred.
George set to with his nasty bullying mind to get rid of Roy, he spread vicious rumours around the ward, he made life so uncomfortable for Roy but even more so for Roy's wife who was at home most days on her own and had been cut off from people she thought were friends. George even tried to ridicule Roy in the council chamber, but George always does his best work in the dark and he knew that Roy would not tolerate his wife being so unhappy and lonely. Eventually Roy sold his house and moved away. Many people will tell you about the big smile and the crowing that George did on that day.
One thing you need to realise about George Shaw is that in Thames ward his reach was endless, if you were a council officer and you were working on anything in his ward, if he didn't like you you didn't keep your job for long, especially if you were a woman. Just as the very last Youth officer that run the youth club there before it very conveniently burned down found out.
Ask many of the Voluntary Sector organisations who tried to operate in the ward......but lets just take one as an example.
The City Farm. The area of the farm was originally waste land, and we are told the idea came from Barry Watson, the electricity company agreed to give the land for free and the council gave money from the Grants committee (Chaired by our old friend Brown envelope Davis). After some time and because we understand for health reasons Barry Watson left, George Shaw became Chairman of the management committee, lots of volunteers were trained to work on the farm, the visitor numbers were brilliant. A Councillor colleague became manager of the project, and things seemed to go OK for a while, but as with everything, the minute the manager starts to think for themselves George is in with the venom, he managed very skillfully to so blacken the name of the manager, she lost not only her job but her place on the council, still shrouded in mystery that one.
But an even more worrying matter was happening at the farm, there was concerns raised many a time about the electrical supply to the farm and how some of the workers and volunteers were being electrocuted while working around the farm, although non of them were seriously hurt this was a real worry for the more responsible members of the management committee.
We think there is a need to take a break in this posting we are sure you will agree that trying to get over 30 years of bullying and skulduggery down in one posting, and for our readers to sit and read it is a bit too much, so END of part one as they say.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations anecdotes and historical memory/fact.
We have discovered that some 38 years ago (1971) George Shaw was first elected to Barking & Dagenham council to represent Gascoigne ward then following the boundary changes he was re-elected in 1978 to represent Thames ward with Dougie Walters, Scrattons Farm was not part of Thames ward back then, it is said that both George and Dougie were right wing, and both of them disliked the much loved MP Jo Richardson and at elections times did all they could to get rid of her. Thankfully for the residents of Barking they were not successful.
George's career on the council seemed to kick of big almost from the start, he was elected as Vice Chairman of housing 1972 to 1977 while his old side kick John Lawrence was Chairman.
When Dougie Walters retired from the council the seat went to Roy Patient. It seems that Roy and George and their families had been friends for many years, and for some years to come they both worked together very well, to some observers at the time if was firmly believed that Roy got on because he did what George told him to. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.
In 1977 George Shaw finally put the knife into the back of John Lawrence and took the Chair of Housing, as a consolation prize he allowed John to stay as his vice chair. He even convinced John to take the Chair back while he was Mayor in 1985/86 but he was back firmly in control as Chair while he was Deputy Mayor.
It is difficult to explain and probably just as difficult to comprehend just how much power Chairman of committees had in those days, but they were incredibly powerful, and some like George abused that power with relish.
Just take for instance officers in Housing, if you did not get on the right side of the Chairman, you just did not get promoted, you may even loose your job. Even the hiring of officers down to the most lowly of positions was done by a panel of members who were usually George's cronies, who were happy to get the additional money for turning up at the meeting, and of course very grateful to the Chairman, so it won't be a stretch of your imagination to think what could and did happen there.
But as far as Thames ward was concerned it was George Shaw's kingdom and he ruled it, you did not get a council tenancy on Thames unless the lettings committee which he Chaired approved it, later on when that committee was abolished, officers just quietly passed him the list, and bearing in mind how right wing George is we think you can guess the rest.
At some time in mid 80s Roy Patient started to stand up for himself and develop his own career on the council, George cut him stone dead, would not talk to him, no reason was ever given why, the families that had grown up together no longer spoke. This was George punishing Roy in much the same way as he is now punishing Fred Barns, Roy showed he was his own man, he was not George's lap dog, and then George filled with his venom, decided that as far has he was concerned Roy was dead to him, the exact words George has used to Fred.
George set to with his nasty bullying mind to get rid of Roy, he spread vicious rumours around the ward, he made life so uncomfortable for Roy but even more so for Roy's wife who was at home most days on her own and had been cut off from people she thought were friends. George even tried to ridicule Roy in the council chamber, but George always does his best work in the dark and he knew that Roy would not tolerate his wife being so unhappy and lonely. Eventually Roy sold his house and moved away. Many people will tell you about the big smile and the crowing that George did on that day.
One thing you need to realise about George Shaw is that in Thames ward his reach was endless, if you were a council officer and you were working on anything in his ward, if he didn't like you you didn't keep your job for long, especially if you were a woman. Just as the very last Youth officer that run the youth club there before it very conveniently burned down found out.
Ask many of the Voluntary Sector organisations who tried to operate in the ward......but lets just take one as an example.
The City Farm. The area of the farm was originally waste land, and we are told the idea came from Barry Watson, the electricity company agreed to give the land for free and the council gave money from the Grants committee (Chaired by our old friend Brown envelope Davis). After some time and because we understand for health reasons Barry Watson left, George Shaw became Chairman of the management committee, lots of volunteers were trained to work on the farm, the visitor numbers were brilliant. A Councillor colleague became manager of the project, and things seemed to go OK for a while, but as with everything, the minute the manager starts to think for themselves George is in with the venom, he managed very skillfully to so blacken the name of the manager, she lost not only her job but her place on the council, still shrouded in mystery that one.
But an even more worrying matter was happening at the farm, there was concerns raised many a time about the electrical supply to the farm and how some of the workers and volunteers were being electrocuted while working around the farm, although non of them were seriously hurt this was a real worry for the more responsible members of the management committee.
We think there is a need to take a break in this posting we are sure you will agree that trying to get over 30 years of bullying and skulduggery down in one posting, and for our readers to sit and read it is a bit too much, so END of part one as they say.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations anecdotes and historical memory/fact.
? FOR ANYONE WHO CAN ANSWER PLEASE
We are trying to track down Mr Riaz who we hear caused a major problem a few months back in Eastbury Ward.
We understand he is very close friends with Laila Butt and Mr Abdul Aziz, and very active in 102 North Street.
So if anyone knows how we can get in touch please let us know.
Thanks.
We understand he is very close friends with Laila Butt and Mr Abdul Aziz, and very active in 102 North Street.
So if anyone knows how we can get in touch please let us know.
Thanks.
Monday 10 August 2009
ORDER! ORDER! Part 3
Chapter 20 Appendix iv NEC procedural rules for the selection of local government Candidates.
E6. Such appeals shall be to establish the suitability or otherwise of the nominee for inclusion in the panel of candidates on this basis the panel established to hear the appeal shall consider submissions from the appellant and representatives of the LGC concerned. The panel shall receive any submissions from both sides in the presence of the other and, within reason witnesses may be called to support the submissions. A reasonable opportunity shall be given for witnesses and submissions to be questioned by either side. The panel may conduct the appeal hearing as a re-interview should they consider this is required by the circumstances.
Should any appeal be conducted by the panel as a re-interview then, in the absence of any express decision to the contrary by the panel, the result of the such a re-interview shall constitute the final determination of the appeal.
When an appeal hearing against withdrawl of endorsement is heard, the hearing may be conducted where the panel consider it appropriate solely in relation to the changed circumstances leading to the LGC withdrawal of endorsement. The panel shall also rule on any procedural issues.
The decision of the appeals panel shall be final and binding on all parties in accordance with the rules for local government selections. The reasons for the decision shall remain confidential to the panel concerned.
Why you will be asking have we raised this rule today, well as we have said we are going through the party rules with a fine tooth comb, and today we ask this question of Messrs Rodwell and Twomey.
Please tell us why Mr Abdul Aziz (we have evidence that this may not be his real name and would refer you to rule quoted yesterday Chapter 20 appendix iv. D1).
Was allowed to have 2 appeals?
We understand that he failed at interview, quite understandably if you talk to members who know him.
He then lodged an appeal, as of course he had every right to do, and lost his appeal.
We then hear that very quickly another appeal was arranged, and heard out of borough, and Mr Aziz won his appeal.
How? we understand that Darren Rodwell will have very full knowledge on this as he accompanied Mr Aziz to his 2nd appeal hearing in London.
Of course Darren Rodwell could not be going on behalf of the LGC to explain why it had refused to endorse Mr Aziz, because as we explained yesterday there has been NO meeting of the LGC to endorse any of the candidates on the panel, which is in itself a clear breach of party rules.
So we can only take it then that Darren Rodwell was there to speak on Mr Aziz behalf, which we would state is highly irregular, and not something the Chairman of the LGC should be in a position to do.
But then it is highly irregular to have 2 Appeal hearings as well.
Perhaps Darren Rodwell would explain his actions.
E6. Such appeals shall be to establish the suitability or otherwise of the nominee for inclusion in the panel of candidates on this basis the panel established to hear the appeal shall consider submissions from the appellant and representatives of the LGC concerned. The panel shall receive any submissions from both sides in the presence of the other and, within reason witnesses may be called to support the submissions. A reasonable opportunity shall be given for witnesses and submissions to be questioned by either side. The panel may conduct the appeal hearing as a re-interview should they consider this is required by the circumstances.
Should any appeal be conducted by the panel as a re-interview then, in the absence of any express decision to the contrary by the panel, the result of the such a re-interview shall constitute the final determination of the appeal.
When an appeal hearing against withdrawl of endorsement is heard, the hearing may be conducted where the panel consider it appropriate solely in relation to the changed circumstances leading to the LGC withdrawal of endorsement. The panel shall also rule on any procedural issues.
The decision of the appeals panel shall be final and binding on all parties in accordance with the rules for local government selections. The reasons for the decision shall remain confidential to the panel concerned.
Why you will be asking have we raised this rule today, well as we have said we are going through the party rules with a fine tooth comb, and today we ask this question of Messrs Rodwell and Twomey.
Please tell us why Mr Abdul Aziz (we have evidence that this may not be his real name and would refer you to rule quoted yesterday Chapter 20 appendix iv. D1).
Was allowed to have 2 appeals?
We understand that he failed at interview, quite understandably if you talk to members who know him.
He then lodged an appeal, as of course he had every right to do, and lost his appeal.
We then hear that very quickly another appeal was arranged, and heard out of borough, and Mr Aziz won his appeal.
How? we understand that Darren Rodwell will have very full knowledge on this as he accompanied Mr Aziz to his 2nd appeal hearing in London.
Of course Darren Rodwell could not be going on behalf of the LGC to explain why it had refused to endorse Mr Aziz, because as we explained yesterday there has been NO meeting of the LGC to endorse any of the candidates on the panel, which is in itself a clear breach of party rules.
So we can only take it then that Darren Rodwell was there to speak on Mr Aziz behalf, which we would state is highly irregular, and not something the Chairman of the LGC should be in a position to do.
But then it is highly irregular to have 2 Appeal hearings as well.
Perhaps Darren Rodwell would explain his actions.
Sunday 9 August 2009
Coming this week: "HAS GEORGE SHAW FINALLY GONE A BRIDGE TOO FAR"
So angry are the residents and members in Thames ward we have been inundated with information, both up to date and historical on the life and times of George Shaw.
We will tell you of the over 30years of bullying, intimidation and corruption he practiced as a councillor and more recently as Chair of the ward.
We will give you numbers of members in the ward who now turn their back on him and the party.
And having read all that we have, perhaps you will better understand as we do why George Shaw no longer walks the streets of Thames View.
WATCH THIS SPACE
We will tell you of the over 30years of bullying, intimidation and corruption he practiced as a councillor and more recently as Chair of the ward.
We will give you numbers of members in the ward who now turn their back on him and the party.
And having read all that we have, perhaps you will better understand as we do why George Shaw no longer walks the streets of Thames View.
WATCH THIS SPACE
ORDER! ORDER! Part 2
We have as we said before been receiving many emails re the antics of the North Street Mafia, and in a large number of them we have been asked to pay careful attention to the selection procedure that has been used by the Local Government committee.
We have been told that the LGC held an agm last October, which in many's view was manipulated by the mafia with the aid of Rob Chapman........we will go into that at length in a future posting.
But we have with legal help been going through the Labour Party Rules, and today we have just picked out 2 examples from Chapter 20 Appendix iv which are the NEC procedural rules for the selection of local government Candidates for elections.
Now we are going to hold the real big questions back for a little longer because further research has to be done, but, here is just a couple of the rules where it is quite clear that instead of acting as a committee, or even the executive of that committee it appears that the Chairman - Darren Rodwell and the Secretary - Dominic Twomey have been taking decisions that have had a major impact on so many people WITHOUT the authority of the LGC.
Chapter 20. D4.
Nominees must be legally qualified, and not disqualified, to stand for the local authority at the election concerned. It is required of LGCs that they take steps to check on disqualifications under the relevant legislation as well as any party requirements when compiling their panel of prospective candidates.
It is quite obvious that Messrs Rodwell and Twomey did not do this.
E. Endorsement of applicants to the panel of approved candidates.
E1. All applicants recommended for inclusion in its panel of candidates must be submitted to a meeting of the management committee of the LGC concerned.
We have been informed that this did not happen, and that there are no minutes of such a meeting.
Therefore NONE of the candidates who are allegedly on the panel have the endorsement of the Local Government Committee, and it therefore follows that the selection interviews could be considered null and void.
And also Mr Dominic Twomeys announcement to the Dagenham Post giving the names of Selected candidates is bogus.
As we have stated at the begining this is just the start of an in depth look at the breaches in the Party rules that have taken place during this whole corrupt selection procedure, and once again it looks as though all fingers are pointing to North Street.
We have been told that the LGC held an agm last October, which in many's view was manipulated by the mafia with the aid of Rob Chapman........we will go into that at length in a future posting.
But we have with legal help been going through the Labour Party Rules, and today we have just picked out 2 examples from Chapter 20 Appendix iv which are the NEC procedural rules for the selection of local government Candidates for elections.
Now we are going to hold the real big questions back for a little longer because further research has to be done, but, here is just a couple of the rules where it is quite clear that instead of acting as a committee, or even the executive of that committee it appears that the Chairman - Darren Rodwell and the Secretary - Dominic Twomey have been taking decisions that have had a major impact on so many people WITHOUT the authority of the LGC.
Chapter 20. D4.
Nominees must be legally qualified, and not disqualified, to stand for the local authority at the election concerned. It is required of LGCs that they take steps to check on disqualifications under the relevant legislation as well as any party requirements when compiling their panel of prospective candidates.
It is quite obvious that Messrs Rodwell and Twomey did not do this.
E. Endorsement of applicants to the panel of approved candidates.
E1. All applicants recommended for inclusion in its panel of candidates must be submitted to a meeting of the management committee of the LGC concerned.
We have been informed that this did not happen, and that there are no minutes of such a meeting.
Therefore NONE of the candidates who are allegedly on the panel have the endorsement of the Local Government Committee, and it therefore follows that the selection interviews could be considered null and void.
And also Mr Dominic Twomeys announcement to the Dagenham Post giving the names of Selected candidates is bogus.
As we have stated at the begining this is just the start of an in depth look at the breaches in the Party rules that have taken place during this whole corrupt selection procedure, and once again it looks as though all fingers are pointing to North Street.
Friday 7 August 2009
ORDER! ORDER!
We have over the last couple of weeks put forward in our postings the very strong allegations that all may not be legal in some of the wards in Barking CLP when it comes to membership.
We have been inundated with emails from members raising just this matter, we even understand that it has been raised as an issue in London because it appears that in certain areas in Barking the growth in membership is bucking the national trend.
We have had our people go through the Labour Party rule book to see how these matters are dealt with in the Rules.
Chapter 2. B. Membership procedures.
A. It is an abuse of party rules for one individual or faction to 'buy' party membership for other
individuals or groups of individuals who would otherwise be unwilling to pay their own subscriptions.
C. It is an abuse of party rules for individuals or factions to recruit members who do not live at
the claimed addresses in an attempt to manipulate local party meetings or the outcome of
party ballots.
Chapter 18 Appendix ii.
A.5 The health and democracy of the party depends on the efforts and genuine participation of individuals who support the aims of the Labour Party, wish to join the party and get involved with our activities. The recruitment of large numbers of 'paper members' who have no wish to participate except at the behest of others in an attempt to manipulate party processes, undermines our internal democracy and is unacceptable to the party as a whole.
Having read through the rules and following a lengthy discussion we are now agreed that a demand must be made, in that a full investigation takes place into the seeming growth of members in certain wards in Barking CLP.
Because there is now so little trust in the officers of Barking CLP by its members, and also unfortunately little trust in officers in London Region, we would request that the investigation be run by 2/3 officers from Dagenham CLP and 2/3 officers from the Labour Group.
We firmly believe that this would be the most democratic way forward, and would encourage officers from Barking CLP to pass over all membership lists and any aid necessary so that these very strong and growing allegations can be dealt with.
We have been inundated with emails from members raising just this matter, we even understand that it has been raised as an issue in London because it appears that in certain areas in Barking the growth in membership is bucking the national trend.
We have had our people go through the Labour Party rule book to see how these matters are dealt with in the Rules.
Chapter 2. B. Membership procedures.
A. It is an abuse of party rules for one individual or faction to 'buy' party membership for other
individuals or groups of individuals who would otherwise be unwilling to pay their own subscriptions.
C. It is an abuse of party rules for individuals or factions to recruit members who do not live at
the claimed addresses in an attempt to manipulate local party meetings or the outcome of
party ballots.
Chapter 18 Appendix ii.
A.5 The health and democracy of the party depends on the efforts and genuine participation of individuals who support the aims of the Labour Party, wish to join the party and get involved with our activities. The recruitment of large numbers of 'paper members' who have no wish to participate except at the behest of others in an attempt to manipulate party processes, undermines our internal democracy and is unacceptable to the party as a whole.
Having read through the rules and following a lengthy discussion we are now agreed that a demand must be made, in that a full investigation takes place into the seeming growth of members in certain wards in Barking CLP.
Because there is now so little trust in the officers of Barking CLP by its members, and also unfortunately little trust in officers in London Region, we would request that the investigation be run by 2/3 officers from Dagenham CLP and 2/3 officers from the Labour Group.
We firmly believe that this would be the most democratic way forward, and would encourage officers from Barking CLP to pass over all membership lists and any aid necessary so that these very strong and growing allegations can be dealt with.
Wednesday 5 August 2009
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PETER WHITE
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations and historical memory.
We just thought we would fill in some time until we are able to bring forward a larger piece of work that we are still tying some loose ends on.
So Peter, or Pete, whatever you want to call him, most people tell us that on the face of it he seems a nice kinda bloke, friendly, cheeky, say some, lazy say everybody.
But after the initial impression wears off you begin to find out just what he is about.
We hav'nt been able to find out exactly when or why he ended up working in M Hodge office at 102 North Street, but as with everything else where Peter is concerned there are consequences.
We understand that he was an officer in Young Labour may even have been the Chair at one point but we hear that he was pretty soon moved on.
His early time in 102 North Street was spent we understand on working side by side with Mike Haywood to ensure that M Hodge long term constituency secretary got the sack, Peter we hear is quite a convincing little liar when he believes there may be some gain in it for him.
Once the secretary was out of the way Mike and Peter then set about taking control of Barking CLP, something they could not have done with the secretary in place, that was the real reason she had to go.
So how do you take over a CLP very easily it seems, especially if you have access to Labour Party computer equipment, a handful of willing people ready to follow your every direction and away you go. But as with all things, there are costs and consequences.
Peter for all of his cheery cheeky approach is really quite lazy, he is not a doer, he will stand there with a clipboard and pen and tell others what to do but will not do it himself.
He is also not very smart, he, for a start does not recognize that even tinkering with names and addresses on a computer can be tracked back.
Lets take a for instance, there was at one time an awful lot of members crossing the border into Barking from Ilford, moving their membership over, but never for any longer that a couple of months and then they would quietly move back to Ilford.
It is very easy to track back on the dates of these "moves" and the names and discover that the moves would coincide with preparation for meetings where votes mattered, such as the CLP AGM, or the Co-op AGM or a number of wards AGMs.
We are told that Barking is not that insular that conversations took place with Ilford officers who had also noticed the movement.
During the election campaign for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, who was it we wonder who put pictures and quotes of Labour Councillors in Barking down as supporters for Harriet Harman? when in fact they were supporters of Jon Cruddas.
Who was it we wonder who moved elected members membership out of the borough without consulting them?
Who was it we wonder who came up with the idea and followed through on the ghost members, the gerry mandering in certain wards one in particular, which is so bucking the national trend for membership sign up that people in London are looking at it as suspect.
These are the kind of things that can be tracked when done on a computer, you can never really walk away from it scot free.
And that is what finally happened we hear, we understand that the board for London Region are allegedly keeping an eye on what is going on in Barking, and they were informed, we don't know who by, that all of the BME voters in Barking had been entered into the Labour computer system as Labour Party voters.
This is of course a very stupid and foolish path to go down. We hear that there was a very difficult meeting up in London where Ken Clark and Rob Chapman got a real dressing down over this, and allegedly Peter White was called in to explain his actions, we cannot confirm if he turned up for this meeting, but we do know that he was very quickly out of the door at 102 North street, as we said earlier there are always costs and consequences.
Its a shame really that Peter was the only person who paid the cost of this because we understand that Rob Chapman was aware that it had been done. We still don't know if money was paid out to cleanse the computer system, but what it did do we understand was wipe out all of the door knocking contacts for the previous 18 months to 2 years as they were considered to be corrupt.
Still Peter moved on, still ambitious we hear, he allegedly got his membership moved to a bogus address in Reede Road in Dagenham in the hope that he would be selected to stand as a councillor in 2010, not very bright Peter, he thought it was in Dagenham CLP, but when after some months of winding him up he discovered in was in Barking he moved back to Havering, and we hear that he has been selected to stand in Havering in 2010.
Well they are welcome to him so we are told, will he do the work that is needed to be done, we doubt it, but then again just how much fiddling could he do with the computers over there?
As usual this posting is a matter of allegations, observations, anecdote, rumour and historical memory.
We just thought we would fill in some time until we are able to bring forward a larger piece of work that we are still tying some loose ends on.
So Peter, or Pete, whatever you want to call him, most people tell us that on the face of it he seems a nice kinda bloke, friendly, cheeky, say some, lazy say everybody.
But after the initial impression wears off you begin to find out just what he is about.
We hav'nt been able to find out exactly when or why he ended up working in M Hodge office at 102 North Street, but as with everything else where Peter is concerned there are consequences.
We understand that he was an officer in Young Labour may even have been the Chair at one point but we hear that he was pretty soon moved on.
His early time in 102 North Street was spent we understand on working side by side with Mike Haywood to ensure that M Hodge long term constituency secretary got the sack, Peter we hear is quite a convincing little liar when he believes there may be some gain in it for him.
Once the secretary was out of the way Mike and Peter then set about taking control of Barking CLP, something they could not have done with the secretary in place, that was the real reason she had to go.
So how do you take over a CLP very easily it seems, especially if you have access to Labour Party computer equipment, a handful of willing people ready to follow your every direction and away you go. But as with all things, there are costs and consequences.
Peter for all of his cheery cheeky approach is really quite lazy, he is not a doer, he will stand there with a clipboard and pen and tell others what to do but will not do it himself.
He is also not very smart, he, for a start does not recognize that even tinkering with names and addresses on a computer can be tracked back.
Lets take a for instance, there was at one time an awful lot of members crossing the border into Barking from Ilford, moving their membership over, but never for any longer that a couple of months and then they would quietly move back to Ilford.
It is very easy to track back on the dates of these "moves" and the names and discover that the moves would coincide with preparation for meetings where votes mattered, such as the CLP AGM, or the Co-op AGM or a number of wards AGMs.
We are told that Barking is not that insular that conversations took place with Ilford officers who had also noticed the movement.
During the election campaign for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, who was it we wonder who put pictures and quotes of Labour Councillors in Barking down as supporters for Harriet Harman? when in fact they were supporters of Jon Cruddas.
Who was it we wonder who moved elected members membership out of the borough without consulting them?
Who was it we wonder who came up with the idea and followed through on the ghost members, the gerry mandering in certain wards one in particular, which is so bucking the national trend for membership sign up that people in London are looking at it as suspect.
These are the kind of things that can be tracked when done on a computer, you can never really walk away from it scot free.
And that is what finally happened we hear, we understand that the board for London Region are allegedly keeping an eye on what is going on in Barking, and they were informed, we don't know who by, that all of the BME voters in Barking had been entered into the Labour computer system as Labour Party voters.
This is of course a very stupid and foolish path to go down. We hear that there was a very difficult meeting up in London where Ken Clark and Rob Chapman got a real dressing down over this, and allegedly Peter White was called in to explain his actions, we cannot confirm if he turned up for this meeting, but we do know that he was very quickly out of the door at 102 North street, as we said earlier there are always costs and consequences.
Its a shame really that Peter was the only person who paid the cost of this because we understand that Rob Chapman was aware that it had been done. We still don't know if money was paid out to cleanse the computer system, but what it did do we understand was wipe out all of the door knocking contacts for the previous 18 months to 2 years as they were considered to be corrupt.
Still Peter moved on, still ambitious we hear, he allegedly got his membership moved to a bogus address in Reede Road in Dagenham in the hope that he would be selected to stand as a councillor in 2010, not very bright Peter, he thought it was in Dagenham CLP, but when after some months of winding him up he discovered in was in Barking he moved back to Havering, and we hear that he has been selected to stand in Havering in 2010.
Well they are welcome to him so we are told, will he do the work that is needed to be done, we doubt it, but then again just how much fiddling could he do with the computers over there?
As usual this posting is a matter of allegations, observations, anecdote, rumour and historical memory.
Monday 3 August 2009
JUST SOME UPDATED NEWS
We have learned some interesting facts today, that could possibly also interest the North Street mafia.
It appears that Tenants and Residents Associations are signed up to be non political, and having checked this out with find that the majority of them have this in their Constitutions, so do many other voluntary sector organisations.
So we suppose the question to be asked is, if you are on the committee or hold a position in any of these organisations, and had been selected to run for a place on the Council would you now not have to resign? and put some distance between yourself and that organisation? not like one of the candidates who has been selected, who allegedly resigned from his position as Chairman, but is still seen in the local press etc as the spokesman for the association.
Most would recognise that you do have to abide by the constitution of the group you were involved with.
It appears that Tenants and Residents Associations are signed up to be non political, and having checked this out with find that the majority of them have this in their Constitutions, so do many other voluntary sector organisations.
So we suppose the question to be asked is, if you are on the committee or hold a position in any of these organisations, and had been selected to run for a place on the Council would you now not have to resign? and put some distance between yourself and that organisation? not like one of the candidates who has been selected, who allegedly resigned from his position as Chairman, but is still seen in the local press etc as the spokesman for the association.
Most would recognise that you do have to abide by the constitution of the group you were involved with.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
In all that we have posted so far there is one shadowy figure lurking in the background that we feel it is time to mention.
Rob Chapman
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations observations and historical memory.
Now just how did Barking & Dagenham get lumbered with this man? Well to be fair following the elections in 2006, it soon became very obvious that B & D were going to get no help at all from London Region or anywhere else in the Labour party.
There they all were saying it was a dreadful day for B & D and Labour etc.....what help did they offer NONE.
In the 3 years since then when did anyone from London Region come along and sit in on Council meetings and observe how the BNP were behaving, NEVER. When did anyone from London Region after observing how the BNP were behaving come along and give advice on how the Labour Group could effectively tackle them NEVER.
So what do B & D end up with a pompous idiot!!!! Rob Chapman. To be fair the Trade Unions put up the money for his wages, remember this the North Street mafia, he is not paid by the Labour Party. And to be fair to the Trade Unions they did this for all the right reasons, Chapman is supposed to be in B & D to support the Labour Group and the CLPs in fighting the BNP.
But, as with all things Chapman and possibly his Boss Ken Clark had another agenda. Chapman we understand has been nowhere near the Labour Group, he has not offered any advice at all.
But what he very quickly appeared to do is to get sucked in to the North Street mafia.
Instead of following the Agenda and his job description he started to follow their Agenda, he started interferring in Barking CLP. On a number of occasions at Barking CLP AGMs he knowingly broke the rules of the Labour Party to give the mafia an unfair advantage.
He alone is guilty of ensuring that Eastbury Ward could not take part in this years AGM, even though the ward we understand was able to provide evidence of fraud.
He alone is guilty of ensuring that a large number of Trade union members and long standing party members were banned from attending this years AGM.
We have evidence that he may possibly be guilty of vote rigging at one of the wards selection interviews.
This appears to be what happens when a little man thinks he has more power than he really has. Please note that he has not tried any of this on in Dagenham, he would soon get his arrogance kicked out of him if he tried it there.
But he is right at home in the corrupt bunch which is the North Street mafia.
Will he stay the course? has he any idea at all on how to fight the BNP? or does he just really enjoy corruption and all the fringe benefits?
As always this posting is a matter of rumour, allegation, anecdote, observation and historical memory.
Rob Chapman
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations observations and historical memory.
Now just how did Barking & Dagenham get lumbered with this man? Well to be fair following the elections in 2006, it soon became very obvious that B & D were going to get no help at all from London Region or anywhere else in the Labour party.
There they all were saying it was a dreadful day for B & D and Labour etc.....what help did they offer NONE.
In the 3 years since then when did anyone from London Region come along and sit in on Council meetings and observe how the BNP were behaving, NEVER. When did anyone from London Region after observing how the BNP were behaving come along and give advice on how the Labour Group could effectively tackle them NEVER.
So what do B & D end up with a pompous idiot!!!! Rob Chapman. To be fair the Trade Unions put up the money for his wages, remember this the North Street mafia, he is not paid by the Labour Party. And to be fair to the Trade Unions they did this for all the right reasons, Chapman is supposed to be in B & D to support the Labour Group and the CLPs in fighting the BNP.
But, as with all things Chapman and possibly his Boss Ken Clark had another agenda. Chapman we understand has been nowhere near the Labour Group, he has not offered any advice at all.
But what he very quickly appeared to do is to get sucked in to the North Street mafia.
Instead of following the Agenda and his job description he started to follow their Agenda, he started interferring in Barking CLP. On a number of occasions at Barking CLP AGMs he knowingly broke the rules of the Labour Party to give the mafia an unfair advantage.
He alone is guilty of ensuring that Eastbury Ward could not take part in this years AGM, even though the ward we understand was able to provide evidence of fraud.
He alone is guilty of ensuring that a large number of Trade union members and long standing party members were banned from attending this years AGM.
We have evidence that he may possibly be guilty of vote rigging at one of the wards selection interviews.
This appears to be what happens when a little man thinks he has more power than he really has. Please note that he has not tried any of this on in Dagenham, he would soon get his arrogance kicked out of him if he tried it there.
But he is right at home in the corrupt bunch which is the North Street mafia.
Will he stay the course? has he any idea at all on how to fight the BNP? or does he just really enjoy corruption and all the fringe benefits?
As always this posting is a matter of rumour, allegation, anecdote, observation and historical memory.
Sunday 2 August 2009
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
Lengthy discussions have taken place this weekend on where we go from here.
We have taken you through the mafias selected candidates, please note we said their selected candidates and not yours.
But what next? We are pretty much convinced that North Street would heave a great sigh of relief if we just said "thats all folks" but, as we have discovered over the last couple of weeks its very much the case of "and then theres more".
Individuals who want to stand for public office need to realise that the skeletons in their cupboards need to be under 6ft of concrete, as there are an awful lot of older members, and members of the community that have very long memories.
And guess what? they have been talking to us.
If you have a business, or were involved in a business that benefitted from council funding we will know about it. Any dodgy deals that you might have thought you got away with? we will know about it.
Are you aware that the council is seriously looking at CRB checks for councillors?
And then of course the evidence of how Barking got to where it is today, and there is such a lot of evidence.
So watch this space there is a lot more to come.
We have taken you through the mafias selected candidates, please note we said their selected candidates and not yours.
But what next? We are pretty much convinced that North Street would heave a great sigh of relief if we just said "thats all folks" but, as we have discovered over the last couple of weeks its very much the case of "and then theres more".
Individuals who want to stand for public office need to realise that the skeletons in their cupboards need to be under 6ft of concrete, as there are an awful lot of older members, and members of the community that have very long memories.
And guess what? they have been talking to us.
If you have a business, or were involved in a business that benefitted from council funding we will know about it. Any dodgy deals that you might have thought you got away with? we will know about it.
Are you aware that the council is seriously looking at CRB checks for councillors?
And then of course the evidence of how Barking got to where it is today, and there is such a lot of evidence.
So watch this space there is a lot more to come.
Saturday 1 August 2009
VALENCE WARD
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations and historical memory.
So we come to the last of the Barking wards that the North street mafia have interferred in.
Don Hemmett has been the ward councillor here since 1994 and despite having at times quite serious health problems he has always been available to his community and they know it. They know that they can ring him or call at his home and he will do whatever he can to help them.
So just how did the mafia interfere? All started off very innocently we suppose, Linda Rice joined the ward some couple of years ago and appeared to all as a person who wanted to learn and wanted to help the community she was given every encouragement, and certainly Don was incredibly supportive of her, but if Don has one failing it could well be that he is too trusting as recent events prove.
Linda Rice was not content to learn and be supportive, she was aiming for greater positions and quickly joined in with the mafia, getting herself elected as Campaign co-ordinator for Barking, (ask any true member for Barking what they thought of her co-ordination, and see what response you get), not content with that she dragged her husband in as well, he says very little, but what he does say is only repeating what his wife says anyway.
Now you would have thought wouldnt you that if they were so committed to where they lived and had a good start to making an impact on Valence Ward that is where they would have said they wanted to stand in 2010.
Well NO of course thats not what they want, this is not about them serving the community where they live, this is about them serving themselves.
As many will know Don Hemmett was de-selected, basically because he is in a wheelchair, and for a party to discriminate against people with disabilities that has to tell you something about Barking CLP.
Valence ward members were incredibily angry at what had been done to Don, but, we hear this was nothing like the anger that spilled over when the ward members turned up for the Selection interviews only to be told that they had no candidates to interview.
As we have been told by ward members, this appalling situation was all down to the North Street mafia, they arranged for Don to be kicked off, Linda Rice and Chris Rice who were practically guaranteed to be selected did not want to have to work and fight the BNP so arranged it so they got selected for "safe seats" and now Valence is left with no one.
So much for the Barking mafia being the only ones who know how to fight the BNP, a bunch of cowards really running away to the safe seats so they dont have to fight.
Well they will have a fight on their hands we are told, but it will probably not come from where they are expecting it.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegation, observations, anecdote and historical memory.
So we come to the last of the Barking wards that the North street mafia have interferred in.
Don Hemmett has been the ward councillor here since 1994 and despite having at times quite serious health problems he has always been available to his community and they know it. They know that they can ring him or call at his home and he will do whatever he can to help them.
So just how did the mafia interfere? All started off very innocently we suppose, Linda Rice joined the ward some couple of years ago and appeared to all as a person who wanted to learn and wanted to help the community she was given every encouragement, and certainly Don was incredibly supportive of her, but if Don has one failing it could well be that he is too trusting as recent events prove.
Linda Rice was not content to learn and be supportive, she was aiming for greater positions and quickly joined in with the mafia, getting herself elected as Campaign co-ordinator for Barking, (ask any true member for Barking what they thought of her co-ordination, and see what response you get), not content with that she dragged her husband in as well, he says very little, but what he does say is only repeating what his wife says anyway.
Now you would have thought wouldnt you that if they were so committed to where they lived and had a good start to making an impact on Valence Ward that is where they would have said they wanted to stand in 2010.
Well NO of course thats not what they want, this is not about them serving the community where they live, this is about them serving themselves.
As many will know Don Hemmett was de-selected, basically because he is in a wheelchair, and for a party to discriminate against people with disabilities that has to tell you something about Barking CLP.
Valence ward members were incredibily angry at what had been done to Don, but, we hear this was nothing like the anger that spilled over when the ward members turned up for the Selection interviews only to be told that they had no candidates to interview.
As we have been told by ward members, this appalling situation was all down to the North Street mafia, they arranged for Don to be kicked off, Linda Rice and Chris Rice who were practically guaranteed to be selected did not want to have to work and fight the BNP so arranged it so they got selected for "safe seats" and now Valence is left with no one.
So much for the Barking mafia being the only ones who know how to fight the BNP, a bunch of cowards really running away to the safe seats so they dont have to fight.
Well they will have a fight on their hands we are told, but it will probably not come from where they are expecting it.
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegation, observations, anecdote and historical memory.
********NEWS FLASH***********
Just picked this up from our old friend the Tribune site and we thought it might interest our readers and supporters.
more in sadness than in anger :
Date: July 31, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
on July 22nd Jackie said ‘Looks like the North Street mafia have fallen off the face of the earth. All has gone deadly quite, does it mean that because the MP gets 12 weeks paid holiday that that lot of scheming s…..s do as well?’
just heard that this might be commencted to the fight to replace Derek Wyatt as Labour MP for Sittingbournme & sheepy in Kent. this vacancy was announced just 4 weeks ago by the sitting MP. and who do we find in the middle of that battle? Step forward Mike haywood Deputy Leader of the local council therehttp://www.swale.gov.uk/dso/displaymore.asp?uid=126
Is it just coincidence that everything goes deadthly quiet in North Street when theres a chance for someone to become an Mp in Kent if enough schemeing can be done there as well?
more in sadness than in anger :
Date: July 31, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
on July 22nd Jackie said ‘Looks like the North Street mafia have fallen off the face of the earth. All has gone deadly quite, does it mean that because the MP gets 12 weeks paid holiday that that lot of scheming s…..s do as well?’
just heard that this might be commencted to the fight to replace Derek Wyatt as Labour MP for Sittingbournme & sheepy in Kent. this vacancy was announced just 4 weeks ago by the sitting MP. and who do we find in the middle of that battle? Step forward Mike haywood Deputy Leader of the local council therehttp://www.swale.gov.uk/dso/displaymore.asp?uid=126
Is it just coincidence that everything goes deadthly quiet in North Street when theres a chance for someone to become an Mp in Kent if enough schemeing can be done there as well?
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