The sources for this are numerous and are to be viewed as allegations, anecdote, observations,rumour, historical memory/fact and written evidence supplied.
We are told that the first the whole of Eastbury ward knew there was something wrong was when they got a letter inviting them to an Extraordinary General Meeting.
It seems that they were told that a few days after the ward secretary had sent over to the Barking CLP secretary Laila Butt the new positions in the ward and the nominations for positions within the party there was a phone call from Rob Chapman from London Region, he stated that he had received a couple of complaints from ward members that they had not received notice of the wards AGM.
The ward secretary informed the members that she had asked Chapman who had made the complaints he claimed he could not find the email but one of the names was Mr Riaz.
The ward secretary they were told stated to Chapman that all ward members had received the notice, and even emailed him a copy of the label list used for the envelopes, but, Chapman was having none of it he said that he would advise Ken Clark that the AGM should be re-run.
Jim McDermott the Chair told the meeting that in a conversation with the secretary he asked her to check with all members to see if they had received the notice.
Ward Secretary reported that she had managed to contact majority of ward members who told her that they had received the notice, but, there were 4 or 5 who had a bigger story to tell. Ward Secretary reported this to Chair and it was agreed that the secretary would visit these members and take statements from them.
The first member visited was perhaps the most telling, and gave a pretty good idea of what was to come next.
It was reported to the EGM that the visit was made to the address at which Mr Riaz had allegedly moved to, the male resident was a party member and was very happy to make a written statement and to sign it.
He told that back in the beginning of December he got a telephone call from Mr Riaz, who told him that he was having problems with his wife and needed to have a new postal address and would Mr.....mind if he used his? Mr.......said that would be OK, and in fact said that Mr Riaz actually stayed at his house for a night. He did not know Mr Riaz had moved his party membership to his address.
Mr .....statement which was read out to the members then went on to say that some 2 or 3 months later he had a telephone call from Mr Riaz asking if he could use Mr.........home address on the electoral register, Mr.....said that he knew this would be wrong and he refused.
Mr......confirmed that he had received the notice for the AGM.
Another ward members statement was read out Mr B stated that Mr Riaz had knocked on his door and asked him if he received any letters or notices from the ward? Mr A said that he did, Mr Riaz then asked him to sign a piece of paper to confirm this.
Mr A said that being an elderly gentleman he got worried about this, so the next day he made a visit to North Street to find out if it was genuine. He said he was spoken to by a young man with glasses who told him that yes it was genuine and that Mr Riaz worked as part of M Hodge team and was an incredibly busy member of Eastbury ward.
The ward members who were listening to this all said they were very surprised at this as none of them until just recently had heard or seen Mr Riaz.
But, we know that this gets better.
This comes from numerous sources and is to be viewed as allegations, rumour, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
Monday 28 September 2009
Sunday 27 September 2009
FOR OUR MORE SENSITIVE AND PC READERS Part 3
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
Now we come to the tale of the mysterious Mohammad Riaz, first appeared on the Barking labour party scene about 2 years or more ago. Once again on questioning many 'knew' him but no one seems to know of him.
But that did not seem to matter at North Street, according to them he was a willing and terribly hard worker.
In fact if many of you as friends and supporters will remember back you will have seen Mr Riaz voting regularly at Barking CLP meetings, at the Barking clp AGM, at the Co-op meeting AGM and also we understand at the LGC. All of his votes were of course illegal votes but then again when would the Chair John Davis ever worry about that.
Allegedly Mr Riaz lived in Goresbrook ward, but, we understand that he never attended a ward meeting there. We have also been given information that Goresbrook was not the ward he was interested in.
Members have told us that a few of them would be sitting together at a meeting talking and would look round and there was Mr Riaz listening in to what they were saying. Always there in the background at meetings or M Hodge coffee mornings was how he was described to us really creepy.
We are also told that the only 2 people he seemed to be really close with were Mr Aziz and Laila Butt.
We have seen evidence that last year in the London elections a list of Ward co-coordinators was sent out to members and Mr Riaz and his mobile tele no was listed was the Ward co-coordinator for Eastbury Ward, strange this don't you think bearing in mind he allegedly lived in Goresbrook ward.
We understand that this was challenged by the Chair and Secretary of Eastbury as the Chairman was in fact the co-coordinator for Eastbury this was hurriedly brushed away by North Street as a simple mistake, but knowing what followed on from there we, and we are sure you will come to a different conclusion.
Now as we have said Mr Riaz allegedly lived in Goresbrook ward in Stamford road, which many will know is quite a long road and covers 2 wards. We are told that the next word of Mr Riaz was an up date on membership lists which go to many members of the party, the up date in December stated that Mr Riaz had moved, only to another address in Stamford road, but one which would put him in Eastbury Ward.
Why the move in the same road you may ask, well we asked the same question, and what rolled out from this is a real comedy of errors, that will bring some very red faces not only in North Street, London Region but right to the General Secretary of the Labour Party, as it was on his desk that this pile of corruption would finally end up.
Just to give you an example of the stupidity of the North Street mafia and why this case will continue to run, when 'they' moved Mr Riaz into Eastbury ward they moved him next door to the ward secretary. Well to be fair to them there is a small road between the houses, but what they would not have known and what we have subsequently found out is that the ward secretary knew the owners of the house that Mr Riaz had allegedly moved into.
In our next installment we will tell you what Aziz,Butt and Riaz did to try and destabilize the Eastbury ward AGM and just how and why the General Secretary has been caught up in this dirty little game. We would place on record that we and others involved in this firmly believe that the General Secretary is an innocent party in this but the same could not be said of Rob Chapman from London Region.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
Now we come to the tale of the mysterious Mohammad Riaz, first appeared on the Barking labour party scene about 2 years or more ago. Once again on questioning many 'knew' him but no one seems to know of him.
But that did not seem to matter at North Street, according to them he was a willing and terribly hard worker.
In fact if many of you as friends and supporters will remember back you will have seen Mr Riaz voting regularly at Barking CLP meetings, at the Barking clp AGM, at the Co-op meeting AGM and also we understand at the LGC. All of his votes were of course illegal votes but then again when would the Chair John Davis ever worry about that.
Allegedly Mr Riaz lived in Goresbrook ward, but, we understand that he never attended a ward meeting there. We have also been given information that Goresbrook was not the ward he was interested in.
Members have told us that a few of them would be sitting together at a meeting talking and would look round and there was Mr Riaz listening in to what they were saying. Always there in the background at meetings or M Hodge coffee mornings was how he was described to us really creepy.
We are also told that the only 2 people he seemed to be really close with were Mr Aziz and Laila Butt.
We have seen evidence that last year in the London elections a list of Ward co-coordinators was sent out to members and Mr Riaz and his mobile tele no was listed was the Ward co-coordinator for Eastbury Ward, strange this don't you think bearing in mind he allegedly lived in Goresbrook ward.
We understand that this was challenged by the Chair and Secretary of Eastbury as the Chairman was in fact the co-coordinator for Eastbury this was hurriedly brushed away by North Street as a simple mistake, but knowing what followed on from there we, and we are sure you will come to a different conclusion.
Now as we have said Mr Riaz allegedly lived in Goresbrook ward in Stamford road, which many will know is quite a long road and covers 2 wards. We are told that the next word of Mr Riaz was an up date on membership lists which go to many members of the party, the up date in December stated that Mr Riaz had moved, only to another address in Stamford road, but one which would put him in Eastbury Ward.
Why the move in the same road you may ask, well we asked the same question, and what rolled out from this is a real comedy of errors, that will bring some very red faces not only in North Street, London Region but right to the General Secretary of the Labour Party, as it was on his desk that this pile of corruption would finally end up.
Just to give you an example of the stupidity of the North Street mafia and why this case will continue to run, when 'they' moved Mr Riaz into Eastbury ward they moved him next door to the ward secretary. Well to be fair to them there is a small road between the houses, but what they would not have known and what we have subsequently found out is that the ward secretary knew the owners of the house that Mr Riaz had allegedly moved into.
In our next installment we will tell you what Aziz,Butt and Riaz did to try and destabilize the Eastbury ward AGM and just how and why the General Secretary has been caught up in this dirty little game. We would place on record that we and others involved in this firmly believe that the General Secretary is an innocent party in this but the same could not be said of Rob Chapman from London Region.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
ANNOUNCEMENT
This afternoon we have had quite a few emails informing us of comments made on the Tribune blog, that appeared to have been carried over from here which accuse us of being the BNP and a bunch of racists.
We can only come to the conclusion that the North Street mafia are trying this form of attack because of the 3 part story we are running.
Now perhaps we could have been a little bit more sensitive in choosing the title of our story, but we reckon even if we had chosen something entirely different we would have been branded racist because of the 3 individuals involved.
We would like to point out that all of our postings have been about the corruption going on with in North Street, the very fact that these 3 individuals are involved in it is all part of the story.
We would also suggest that those in North Street are showing their own naivety if they are not aware of the problems that the London Labour Party are dealing with in a borough not too far from Barking that 2 of these individuals have strong links to.
Other than that we can only assume that the North Street Mafia do not want the full story of what went on in Eastbury ward to come out, and these 3 individuals were very involved in that.
So NO we are not the BNP neither are we racist, what we are is a group of like minded individuals who banded together to fight the corruption that is going on within the Barking Labour Party and we will continue to do so.
We can only come to the conclusion that the North Street mafia are trying this form of attack because of the 3 part story we are running.
Now perhaps we could have been a little bit more sensitive in choosing the title of our story, but we reckon even if we had chosen something entirely different we would have been branded racist because of the 3 individuals involved.
We would like to point out that all of our postings have been about the corruption going on with in North Street, the very fact that these 3 individuals are involved in it is all part of the story.
We would also suggest that those in North Street are showing their own naivety if they are not aware of the problems that the London Labour Party are dealing with in a borough not too far from Barking that 2 of these individuals have strong links to.
Other than that we can only assume that the North Street Mafia do not want the full story of what went on in Eastbury ward to come out, and these 3 individuals were very involved in that.
So NO we are not the BNP neither are we racist, what we are is a group of like minded individuals who banded together to fight the corruption that is going on within the Barking Labour Party and we will continue to do so.
Saturday 26 September 2009
THE TAIL OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Part 2
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
And so we come to the 2nd little piggy Laila Butt, now many have said that what this young woman knows about politics, and the Labour Party could be written on the back of a postage stamp. And from our investigations this appears to be true.
The same could also be said about her ability to act as a secretary to Barking CLP, having seen some of her early correspondence we can appreciate the fact that all correspondence and minutes etc are in all probability covered by M Hodges staff at North Street.
When it comes to politics though the same cannot be said of her father we have been told, we have seen evidence that clearly links him into politics in Pakistan in a big way, much the same as Mr Aziz. We understand that they both have a strong political base within the Pakistan Peoples Party which for many years has been under the control of the Bhutto family.
Many of our readers will be aware that the Pakistan Peoples Party has long held the label of corruption. And now it seems or appears that a level of that corruption is seeping into Barking labour party.
We doubt that there are many true labour party members in Barking that will not say that corruption has firmly taken hold with North Street as its base.
For some time Laila Butt was we are told even working for M Hodge, but then we hear that Laila decided she would go to college to study Law we understand, and this is where the link with Mohammad Riaz can be confirmed.
Bear in mind we have established the link between Mr Aziz and Mr Riaz as they had been into business together.
We have evidence that Mr Riaz decided to attend the same college and study Law the same as Laila Butt.
We have also discovered that it was Laila who encouraged Mr Riaz to rent a property in Barking & Dagenham, and also to join the Labour Party.
As many of our readers have stated it seems Laila Butt has great difficulty making and keeping friends who are female, in fact many of the Muslim woman dislike her intensely, but she does not appear to have the same problem with the males.
After setting the scene in our next post we will set out for you just what the 3 of them got up to next.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
And so we come to the 2nd little piggy Laila Butt, now many have said that what this young woman knows about politics, and the Labour Party could be written on the back of a postage stamp. And from our investigations this appears to be true.
The same could also be said about her ability to act as a secretary to Barking CLP, having seen some of her early correspondence we can appreciate the fact that all correspondence and minutes etc are in all probability covered by M Hodges staff at North Street.
When it comes to politics though the same cannot be said of her father we have been told, we have seen evidence that clearly links him into politics in Pakistan in a big way, much the same as Mr Aziz. We understand that they both have a strong political base within the Pakistan Peoples Party which for many years has been under the control of the Bhutto family.
Many of our readers will be aware that the Pakistan Peoples Party has long held the label of corruption. And now it seems or appears that a level of that corruption is seeping into Barking labour party.
We doubt that there are many true labour party members in Barking that will not say that corruption has firmly taken hold with North Street as its base.
For some time Laila Butt was we are told even working for M Hodge, but then we hear that Laila decided she would go to college to study Law we understand, and this is where the link with Mohammad Riaz can be confirmed.
Bear in mind we have established the link between Mr Aziz and Mr Riaz as they had been into business together.
We have evidence that Mr Riaz decided to attend the same college and study Law the same as Laila Butt.
We have also discovered that it was Laila who encouraged Mr Riaz to rent a property in Barking & Dagenham, and also to join the Labour Party.
As many of our readers have stated it seems Laila Butt has great difficulty making and keeping friends who are female, in fact many of the Muslim woman dislike her intensely, but she does not appear to have the same problem with the males.
After setting the scene in our next post we will set out for you just what the 3 of them got up to next.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and in this case written evidence.
Wednesday 23 September 2009
THE TAIL OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
We would like to place on record our thanks to a number of supporters who have passed on to us the necessary leads and information which have contributed to this tale.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and in this story an incredible amount of written evidence.
Lets first look at Mr Aziz, practically everyone knows of him in Barking and Dagenham Labour Parties, but, no one really knows him. If you ask regular attendees at the Mosque they will tell you they know of him, but that's all, if you ask members at the Cultural Society they know of him, but know very little about him, and many will say they trust him even less. Not well liked Mr Aziz we understand.
It seems that the first many knew of Mr Aziz was when he arrived in the borough in 97, strange but it seems he moved around a bit between Barking and then Redbridge basically to see which borough offered him a home first, Barking won that race.
Even stranger is that although Mr Aziz claimed to have come from Denmark his wife did not arrive here until some 3 years later from Pakistan.
Now on joining the Labour Party which he seems to have done very quickly on getting settled in Barking he told everyone one he talked to that he had big business interests in Denmark, strange then that when he arrived here he immediately made claim for benefits. We have also seen evidence that would support that a regular income is still arriving from business interests in Denmark.
Now if this is not criminal enough there is a far more serious criminal matter to be exposed, but we will hold that back for now.
Anyway we are reliably informed that when he and his family were finally settled in Barking Mr Aziz ran a madrassa from his home for you Muslim boys.
We are also reliably informed that he regularly pestered the MP Margaret Hodge through her secretary to nominate him to the House of Lords.
Now we all know that Mr Aziz stood for election to the council a number of years ago in a Dagenham ward, and to be fair to him he did put in the work, but, would not go out on his own would only work as part of a group, the reason for this is as many will know Mr Aziz has great difficulty in speaking and understanding the English language, and we understand that Mr Aziz cannot read or write English at all.
Mr Aziz failed in has attempt to get elected at this time, he was incredibly bitter and angry over this and stayed away from local party meetings for a few months.
But, it appears that outside influences brought him back. The problem with Mr Aziz and working for the party was easy to see during the next round of elections, he was never available to leaflet or canvas during the following General Elections, and we are told that when asked why he stated that he could not and would not set foot in the blocks of flats because they smelled, and he did not see why he had to do something that was beneath him.
During the following Local elections in 2006 we are told that Mr Aziz disappeared, allegedly he returned at the beginning for a brief holiday in Pakistan for a family holiday, but we have now seen evidence that shows that while in Pakistan he was detained at the governments pleasure for approx 6 months.
Now we and others can find NO evidence whatsoever to support Mr Aziz's claim to use the title of Doctor, and we have extensively researched this issue not only in this country but in Denmark and even further in Pakistan itself.
Anyway what is the link with Mr Mohammad Riaz we have seen evidence that prove positive that up until some 2 years ago both Mr Aziz and Mr Riaz were in business together in the East End of London outside of Barking of course.
Now that will lead us nicely into Part 2 of our tale, and would we suggest go some way to explain why when you ask members at the Mosque what they know of Mr Riaz they will tell you they know of him, but, know nothing about him, the same is said when you ask members of the Cultural Society they know of him but know nothing about him, other than the fact that they do not trust him. Strange this?
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and in this tale written evidence.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and in this story an incredible amount of written evidence.
Lets first look at Mr Aziz, practically everyone knows of him in Barking and Dagenham Labour Parties, but, no one really knows him. If you ask regular attendees at the Mosque they will tell you they know of him, but that's all, if you ask members at the Cultural Society they know of him, but know very little about him, and many will say they trust him even less. Not well liked Mr Aziz we understand.
It seems that the first many knew of Mr Aziz was when he arrived in the borough in 97, strange but it seems he moved around a bit between Barking and then Redbridge basically to see which borough offered him a home first, Barking won that race.
Even stranger is that although Mr Aziz claimed to have come from Denmark his wife did not arrive here until some 3 years later from Pakistan.
Now on joining the Labour Party which he seems to have done very quickly on getting settled in Barking he told everyone one he talked to that he had big business interests in Denmark, strange then that when he arrived here he immediately made claim for benefits. We have also seen evidence that would support that a regular income is still arriving from business interests in Denmark.
Now if this is not criminal enough there is a far more serious criminal matter to be exposed, but we will hold that back for now.
Anyway we are reliably informed that when he and his family were finally settled in Barking Mr Aziz ran a madrassa from his home for you Muslim boys.
We are also reliably informed that he regularly pestered the MP Margaret Hodge through her secretary to nominate him to the House of Lords.
Now we all know that Mr Aziz stood for election to the council a number of years ago in a Dagenham ward, and to be fair to him he did put in the work, but, would not go out on his own would only work as part of a group, the reason for this is as many will know Mr Aziz has great difficulty in speaking and understanding the English language, and we understand that Mr Aziz cannot read or write English at all.
Mr Aziz failed in has attempt to get elected at this time, he was incredibly bitter and angry over this and stayed away from local party meetings for a few months.
But, it appears that outside influences brought him back. The problem with Mr Aziz and working for the party was easy to see during the next round of elections, he was never available to leaflet or canvas during the following General Elections, and we are told that when asked why he stated that he could not and would not set foot in the blocks of flats because they smelled, and he did not see why he had to do something that was beneath him.
During the following Local elections in 2006 we are told that Mr Aziz disappeared, allegedly he returned at the beginning for a brief holiday in Pakistan for a family holiday, but we have now seen evidence that shows that while in Pakistan he was detained at the governments pleasure for approx 6 months.
Now we and others can find NO evidence whatsoever to support Mr Aziz's claim to use the title of Doctor, and we have extensively researched this issue not only in this country but in Denmark and even further in Pakistan itself.
Anyway what is the link with Mr Mohammad Riaz we have seen evidence that prove positive that up until some 2 years ago both Mr Aziz and Mr Riaz were in business together in the East End of London outside of Barking of course.
Now that will lead us nicely into Part 2 of our tale, and would we suggest go some way to explain why when you ask members at the Mosque what they know of Mr Riaz they will tell you they know of him, but, know nothing about him, the same is said when you ask members of the Cultural Society they know of him but know nothing about him, other than the fact that they do not trust him. Strange this?
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and in this tale written evidence.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
A QUESTION FOR OUR READERS
Before we roll out our next piece in the ongoing saga of corruption we would ask our readers to come up with what they believe are the links between Mohammed Riaz, Laila Butt and Abdul Aziz.
Please no racist comments as they will not get through moderation, we would however give you a few ideas, that have nothing whatsoever to do with their religion or race.
But have an awful lot to do with business, money and the East London Mosque.
Please put your thinking caps on and let us know your ideas, there might even be a token prize for the one who gets the closest.
Please no racist comments as they will not get through moderation, we would however give you a few ideas, that have nothing whatsoever to do with their religion or race.
But have an awful lot to do with business, money and the East London Mosque.
Please put your thinking caps on and let us know your ideas, there might even be a token prize for the one who gets the closest.
Thursday 17 September 2009
WHATS THIS WE HEAR
We hear from our insider that Messrs Rodwell and Twomey have had to re-open the Local Government panel.................we hear that they are surprised they only have 46 candidates when they need 51.
We could have told them that weeks ago, if they would only listen. If they had played it by the book, and if the North Street mafia had not corrupted the whole sorry process it would all be over and done with weeks ago.
This is what happens when you allow outsiders to play out their personal vendettas.
We also hear that at the most recent meeting of the London Region Board, Ken Clark was moaning that the whole process was taking up too much time. Well Ken corruption does take time because honest people will challenge it, and will go on challenging it.
So just a little bit of advice Messrs Rodwell and Twomey, play this round of panel selections by the book, NO more personal vendettas, NO more trying to get family and friends in just because they are family and friends, and who have no intention whatsoever of doing any work, play it by the book, other wise the challenges will just roll on and on, and in some instances could even end in legal proceedings we hear.
Of course this is just a little piece of advice.
We could have told them that weeks ago, if they would only listen. If they had played it by the book, and if the North Street mafia had not corrupted the whole sorry process it would all be over and done with weeks ago.
This is what happens when you allow outsiders to play out their personal vendettas.
We also hear that at the most recent meeting of the London Region Board, Ken Clark was moaning that the whole process was taking up too much time. Well Ken corruption does take time because honest people will challenge it, and will go on challenging it.
So just a little bit of advice Messrs Rodwell and Twomey, play this round of panel selections by the book, NO more personal vendettas, NO more trying to get family and friends in just because they are family and friends, and who have no intention whatsoever of doing any work, play it by the book, other wise the challenges will just roll on and on, and in some instances could even end in legal proceedings we hear.
Of course this is just a little piece of advice.
Wednesday 16 September 2009
GEORGE SHAW Chapter 10
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, observations, anecdotes, historical memory/fact and written statements.
So we come to the Sunday of the Thames Ward Selection interviews. As has been explained to us there is a ruling that the ward has to be quorate to select their candidates if not then their numbers will be made up from the Executive committee of the CLP. One way that the North Street mafia have made sure that they will be able to impose THEIR candidates on the wards was by setting the quorate number at an unachievable number of 10. They knew that many wards would be unable to achieve this. And to be honest Barking & Dagenham parties have never treated their members in this manner before they always set what they knew to be a realistic number, so that ward members would know that they were selecting the candidates, and that they would know that they were getting the best candidates for their area.
Still Thames Ward would have been able to reach this number with ease, if it had not been for the corrupt actions once again of George Shaw.
We are informed that only 1 Thames Ward member turned up for the meeting. We are also informed that this member is wheelchair bound and had contacted the LGC Secretary Dominic Twomey to ask if the venue they had selected for the meeting was readily accessible for members with disabilities, she was informed that it was not. This is a clear breach of the Labour Party rules, which state that all venues MUST be accessible for members with disabilities. We understand that Dominic Twomey told her that if she wanted to attend he would make sure that she was carried up what was a steep flight of steps, which were on the outside of the building onto the street.
Does Mr Twomey and his partners in crime have no sense in how incredibly embarrassing this was for the member. We find this totally shocking bearing in mind the organization that Mr Twomey and we believe Mr Rodwell works for in the borough, is the largest champion for rights for the disabled no less.
Still so committed to attending this member turned up and was aided and manhandled up the steep flight of steps into the building.
She was the ONLY member from Thames Ward to attend, George Shaw had of course arranged it with his buddies that they did not attend, and other loyal members had been so sickened and angry at the corrupt actions of George Shaw at the shortlisting meeting that they did not attend either.
Even if those few had attended they would not have been quorate, and therefore the EC committee would and were brought in and imposed their choice of candidates.
The single member who did attend has informed many members that she was totally disgusted with the way that the process was handled from start to finish.
But as we pointed out to our readers yesterday there is a way to successfully challenge this process because of the illegal use of members who had no entitlement to be members of the EC committee.
We can now inform our readers that 10 members of Thames ward have formally resigned from the party and at least another further 10 who subs are due within the next month or two have let us know that they will not be renewing their subscriptions to the Labour Party.
In Thames Ward we would respectfully suggest that this is totally due to members now seeing George Shaw for what he really is a bully, a spiteful and vindictive old man. He has been like this for most of his life but now it is finally out in the open members and more importantly the voters in the ward are disgusted. They are telling us that unless there is a radical change in the ward,and that unless Fred Barns and Joan Rawlinson are re-instated they will not vote Labour in the elections, and this doesn't just mean the local elections they will not vote for Margaret Hodge.
Can she or the local party afford to loose all those votes, we don't think so.
The local labour party has the time, the local government committee has the time to change, not only for Thames Ward, but, also the other wards where these dirty deeds have been done. It will cost Labour Barking we can promise you that.
Why? because when we start rolling out the very grave and important facts that we have discovered about some of your other candidates, some of which is criminal you will be in even more trouble.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
So we come to the Sunday of the Thames Ward Selection interviews. As has been explained to us there is a ruling that the ward has to be quorate to select their candidates if not then their numbers will be made up from the Executive committee of the CLP. One way that the North Street mafia have made sure that they will be able to impose THEIR candidates on the wards was by setting the quorate number at an unachievable number of 10. They knew that many wards would be unable to achieve this. And to be honest Barking & Dagenham parties have never treated their members in this manner before they always set what they knew to be a realistic number, so that ward members would know that they were selecting the candidates, and that they would know that they were getting the best candidates for their area.
Still Thames Ward would have been able to reach this number with ease, if it had not been for the corrupt actions once again of George Shaw.
We are informed that only 1 Thames Ward member turned up for the meeting. We are also informed that this member is wheelchair bound and had contacted the LGC Secretary Dominic Twomey to ask if the venue they had selected for the meeting was readily accessible for members with disabilities, she was informed that it was not. This is a clear breach of the Labour Party rules, which state that all venues MUST be accessible for members with disabilities. We understand that Dominic Twomey told her that if she wanted to attend he would make sure that she was carried up what was a steep flight of steps, which were on the outside of the building onto the street.
Does Mr Twomey and his partners in crime have no sense in how incredibly embarrassing this was for the member. We find this totally shocking bearing in mind the organization that Mr Twomey and we believe Mr Rodwell works for in the borough, is the largest champion for rights for the disabled no less.
Still so committed to attending this member turned up and was aided and manhandled up the steep flight of steps into the building.
She was the ONLY member from Thames Ward to attend, George Shaw had of course arranged it with his buddies that they did not attend, and other loyal members had been so sickened and angry at the corrupt actions of George Shaw at the shortlisting meeting that they did not attend either.
Even if those few had attended they would not have been quorate, and therefore the EC committee would and were brought in and imposed their choice of candidates.
The single member who did attend has informed many members that she was totally disgusted with the way that the process was handled from start to finish.
But as we pointed out to our readers yesterday there is a way to successfully challenge this process because of the illegal use of members who had no entitlement to be members of the EC committee.
We can now inform our readers that 10 members of Thames ward have formally resigned from the party and at least another further 10 who subs are due within the next month or two have let us know that they will not be renewing their subscriptions to the Labour Party.
In Thames Ward we would respectfully suggest that this is totally due to members now seeing George Shaw for what he really is a bully, a spiteful and vindictive old man. He has been like this for most of his life but now it is finally out in the open members and more importantly the voters in the ward are disgusted. They are telling us that unless there is a radical change in the ward,and that unless Fred Barns and Joan Rawlinson are re-instated they will not vote Labour in the elections, and this doesn't just mean the local elections they will not vote for Margaret Hodge.
Can she or the local party afford to loose all those votes, we don't think so.
The local labour party has the time, the local government committee has the time to change, not only for Thames Ward, but, also the other wards where these dirty deeds have been done. It will cost Labour Barking we can promise you that.
Why? because when we start rolling out the very grave and important facts that we have discovered about some of your other candidates, some of which is criminal you will be in even more trouble.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdote, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
Monday 14 September 2009
REALLY GOOD NEWS FOR OUR READERS AND SUPPORTERS
We have now completed our research into the "so called" selection interviews that have taken place over 2 weekends, under the watchful eyes of Rodwell, Twomey and an alleged cheater Rob Chapman East London coordinator paid for by the trade unions and working out of London Region.
Whats the Good news? you ask, well we have of course heard from many party members about these events, and what we can quite categorically tell you is that there are only 3 wards who have now legitimately selected their candidates.
This is because these 3 wards did not have to have their numbers made up to a quorum by the EC of Barking CLP. It is fair to say that Eastbury ward only managed to do this at a second attempt, but the reason they had the chance of a 2nd attempt is that they successfully challenged the so called membership of the EC rolled out by Barking CLP.
The other 2 wards are Longbridge because they managed to turn out their members. And Abbey Ward who turned out members, although their membership list is under investigation at the moment.
We would advise good members from Becontree and Thames that they can and should NOW challenge the decisions made at their selection interviews because the same EC members that were used for Eastbury ward were used for theirs, apart from George Shaw who was we hear too scared to show his face at the Thames meeting.
The 2 Executive members that were ruled out were Alicia Edmunds from Gascoigne Ward who has only been a party member since December and therefore does not qualify to me a member of the Executive, and Edna Fergus who was a lapsed members.
You cannot be denied the right to have the selection interviews declared null and void as Eastbury has already proved its case and Rodwell, Twomey and London Region had to accept it.
We would strongly suggest that any wards who have had candidates that they do not and will not accept imposed on them to challenge the validity of the EC and also challenge the validity of the Local Government officers imposing candidates who have NOT been interviewed for the PANEL.
There is of course always the fall back position, that a meeting of the Local Government Committee MUST be called to endorse, or not the candidates. But we would strongly urge members not to wait for this to happen, as it looks to us and many of our supporters that North Street mafia have thrown the rule book out of the window.
So at long last the power is back in the hands of the ordinary members, write your letters send your emails and challenge the decisions of Rodwell, Twomey and Chapman, these are supposed to be your decisions, the decisions you take on behalf of the community you live in, you do this because you want the best people for the job, not a bunch of ner do wells, some of whom have a real seedy past,
The door is ajar you just have to push it fully open.
Whats the Good news? you ask, well we have of course heard from many party members about these events, and what we can quite categorically tell you is that there are only 3 wards who have now legitimately selected their candidates.
This is because these 3 wards did not have to have their numbers made up to a quorum by the EC of Barking CLP. It is fair to say that Eastbury ward only managed to do this at a second attempt, but the reason they had the chance of a 2nd attempt is that they successfully challenged the so called membership of the EC rolled out by Barking CLP.
The other 2 wards are Longbridge because they managed to turn out their members. And Abbey Ward who turned out members, although their membership list is under investigation at the moment.
We would advise good members from Becontree and Thames that they can and should NOW challenge the decisions made at their selection interviews because the same EC members that were used for Eastbury ward were used for theirs, apart from George Shaw who was we hear too scared to show his face at the Thames meeting.
The 2 Executive members that were ruled out were Alicia Edmunds from Gascoigne Ward who has only been a party member since December and therefore does not qualify to me a member of the Executive, and Edna Fergus who was a lapsed members.
You cannot be denied the right to have the selection interviews declared null and void as Eastbury has already proved its case and Rodwell, Twomey and London Region had to accept it.
We would strongly suggest that any wards who have had candidates that they do not and will not accept imposed on them to challenge the validity of the EC and also challenge the validity of the Local Government officers imposing candidates who have NOT been interviewed for the PANEL.
There is of course always the fall back position, that a meeting of the Local Government Committee MUST be called to endorse, or not the candidates. But we would strongly urge members not to wait for this to happen, as it looks to us and many of our supporters that North Street mafia have thrown the rule book out of the window.
So at long last the power is back in the hands of the ordinary members, write your letters send your emails and challenge the decisions of Rodwell, Twomey and Chapman, these are supposed to be your decisions, the decisions you take on behalf of the community you live in, you do this because you want the best people for the job, not a bunch of ner do wells, some of whom have a real seedy past,
The door is ajar you just have to push it fully open.
Sunday 13 September 2009
NOTICE TO THE CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Despite us in numerous postings reminding you and others that there is a Labour Party Rule Book which ALL members are required to abide by. You have constantly failed to take notice of it.
We have been inundated over the last couple of days by emails from party members asking us to point out to you that:
In line with Party Rules in the selection of candidates for Local Government, those candidates are required to be ENDORSED by the Local Government Committee.
That does not mean that a) the Chair and Secretary can sit down over a cup of tea and endorse them. That does not mean that b) only the North Street mafia members of the Local Government Committee can endorse them.
What it does mean is that you are required to call a meeting of the Local Government Committee so that each individual candidate can be ENDORSED or REJECTED as the Local Government Committee sees fit.
Until such time as you do this, the candidates are NOT prospective candidates at all.
And just to add to your concerns, what do you propose to do if Ward Members refuse to endorse and accept the candidates that you have forced on them. Just who is going to do the work in the wards?
We are asking this because we hear that you ran into some problems this weekend in the selection process. We also hear that there is a possibility that as there are no more candidates on the panel, and you have vacancies, that you are proposing to fill the gaps with persons who have NOT been through the selection panel process, we hear that you are proposing to impose these people and in fact may have already done so, one of which we understand could be Darren Rodwells daughter.
Well our advice to you is that if that is what you have done or are proposing to do you are leaving yourself right open to a successful legal challenge.
And as it appears to us from the correspondence we are receiving that more members are now waking up to exactly what is going on, there very well could be a legal challenge mounted by a large number of very disaffected party members.
By the way, because of the large number of emails received overnight giving various points of view into exactly what went on yesterday, it may take us a little while to put it all together for posting.
We have been inundated over the last couple of days by emails from party members asking us to point out to you that:
In line with Party Rules in the selection of candidates for Local Government, those candidates are required to be ENDORSED by the Local Government Committee.
That does not mean that a) the Chair and Secretary can sit down over a cup of tea and endorse them. That does not mean that b) only the North Street mafia members of the Local Government Committee can endorse them.
What it does mean is that you are required to call a meeting of the Local Government Committee so that each individual candidate can be ENDORSED or REJECTED as the Local Government Committee sees fit.
Until such time as you do this, the candidates are NOT prospective candidates at all.
And just to add to your concerns, what do you propose to do if Ward Members refuse to endorse and accept the candidates that you have forced on them. Just who is going to do the work in the wards?
We are asking this because we hear that you ran into some problems this weekend in the selection process. We also hear that there is a possibility that as there are no more candidates on the panel, and you have vacancies, that you are proposing to fill the gaps with persons who have NOT been through the selection panel process, we hear that you are proposing to impose these people and in fact may have already done so, one of which we understand could be Darren Rodwells daughter.
Well our advice to you is that if that is what you have done or are proposing to do you are leaving yourself right open to a successful legal challenge.
And as it appears to us from the correspondence we are receiving that more members are now waking up to exactly what is going on, there very well could be a legal challenge mounted by a large number of very disaffected party members.
By the way, because of the large number of emails received overnight giving various points of view into exactly what went on yesterday, it may take us a little while to put it all together for posting.
Saturday 12 September 2009
A QUESTION FOR GEORGE SHAW
Before we bring you what could be the last chapter for George Shaw on this whole sorry and corrupt mess with regard to the selection of candidates for Thames Ward. We feel its required of us on behalf of the decent, honest party members from the ward, which we understand are now a dwindling number to ask George a question, one which we hope he will have the courage to answer.
George please tell us and our friends and readers why as Chairman of Thames Ward, and to quote you George ' a loyal and hardworking member of the party for nearly 40 years' , WHY did you NOT turn up for the selection interviews???????
We await your response George, we don't want to hear it from anyone else just you. Come on for once in your life be a man and explain to us why.
George please tell us and our friends and readers why as Chairman of Thames Ward, and to quote you George ' a loyal and hardworking member of the party for nearly 40 years' , WHY did you NOT turn up for the selection interviews???????
We await your response George, we don't want to hear it from anyone else just you. Come on for once in your life be a man and explain to us why.
Friday 11 September 2009
JUST A FRIENDLY WARNING
Who ever it is within the North Street mafia or their little hangers on.
Do STOP trying to access and control this blog by contacting google stating that '''you'''' have forgotten your sign in or your password.
We believe that we have informed readers several times that this blog is very well supervised, and google is very much aware of the situation of possible abuse.
So please just stop wasting your time and ours.
Time we feel you could be better spending in checking out the backgrounds of your so called new candidates.
Be warned that if we can find the information out about them, which we believe if you continue along the route you have chosen will bring great embarrassment to the Labour Party and the council.
Don't you think that opposition parties can find it out too?
Do STOP trying to access and control this blog by contacting google stating that '''you'''' have forgotten your sign in or your password.
We believe that we have informed readers several times that this blog is very well supervised, and google is very much aware of the situation of possible abuse.
So please just stop wasting your time and ours.
Time we feel you could be better spending in checking out the backgrounds of your so called new candidates.
Be warned that if we can find the information out about them, which we believe if you continue along the route you have chosen will bring great embarrassment to the Labour Party and the council.
Don't you think that opposition parties can find it out too?
Wednesday 9 September 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 9
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour,allegations,anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
So we come to the "night of the long knives" this is the evening where despite doing all he could do to prevent it George Shaw had to show his hand.
All of Barkings shortlisting meetings were taking place at the Abbey community centre, and despite being told that they were not allowed to be present, we are told that on the evening there were quite a large number of the potential candidates hanging around. We are also told that there were quite a few of them inside the hall itself. Seems to us its one law for some and one law for them.
We are told that Rob Chapman and Dominic Twomey were checking off people on a list as they arrived.
Thames Ward members were the usual faces but there were we are told at least 2 who members did not recognise at all.
2 female long standing members of the party turned up at the door to take part, 1 of them was told by Chapman and Twomey that she could not go in as her membership had lapsed.
We understand, but are still trying to clarify the point, that the word 'lapsed' is only used if your membership has not been renewed for 3 months.
This lady had brought along copies of evidence that her membership had run out the previous Saturday and she had renewed it by post on the Monday, she then put up the argument that she had renewed her membership and paid her dues, but, neither Chapman or Twomey would accept it.
This is despite the letter going out to all members informing them that if they had not paid their membership they could still attend the meeting as long as they had paid their fees by 6.0pm on the day of the shortlisting meeting. Which of course this lady could prove she had.
We hear from a number of sources that a very heated exchange took place but Chapman and Twomey were adamant she was not getting in. Of course they had counted the numbers already in there and knew exactly how many George needed to win.
George opened the meeting and we understand that members were asked to agree 6 candidates to be interviewed none of which was Fred Barns, a member moved from the floor that the ward should interview 7 and that rightly Fred should be interviewed.
In stepped someone very very close to George who moved that a vote be taken that the ward only interviewed 6 and that she could not and would not support the inclusion of Fred.
We understand that George had great difficulty in controlling his facial expressions at this time at could not keep the look of pure smugness off his face.
A ballot of members took place and George announced that it was a tied ballot. George then stated he would as Chairman use his casting vote.........a moment of pure triumph for evil here, it should really be accompanied by a drum roll.....George completed his final act of treachery by voting against the inclusion of Fred to the shortlist.
We understand that silent uproar broke out, members just got up from their seats and walked out in disgust.
Outside very very angry ward members were pretty vocal on their feelings about George and his corrupt actions. We understand a lot of decisions were made outside of that meeting that could have a major impact on labour in Thames and Barking.
Of course Barry Poulton could not resist turning up to gloat at this time.
But, what the ward members did not realize at that time is that George Shaw under Party Rules did NOT have the right as Chairman to use the casting vote.
Members have discovered that now and have made their protests but of course they are being ignored by the North Street mafia.
In our next post we will describe the total farce of the ward interviews??????and let you know just how many party members from Thames have resigned from the party over this.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations historical memory/fact and written evidence.
So we come to the "night of the long knives" this is the evening where despite doing all he could do to prevent it George Shaw had to show his hand.
All of Barkings shortlisting meetings were taking place at the Abbey community centre, and despite being told that they were not allowed to be present, we are told that on the evening there were quite a large number of the potential candidates hanging around. We are also told that there were quite a few of them inside the hall itself. Seems to us its one law for some and one law for them.
We are told that Rob Chapman and Dominic Twomey were checking off people on a list as they arrived.
Thames Ward members were the usual faces but there were we are told at least 2 who members did not recognise at all.
2 female long standing members of the party turned up at the door to take part, 1 of them was told by Chapman and Twomey that she could not go in as her membership had lapsed.
We understand, but are still trying to clarify the point, that the word 'lapsed' is only used if your membership has not been renewed for 3 months.
This lady had brought along copies of evidence that her membership had run out the previous Saturday and she had renewed it by post on the Monday, she then put up the argument that she had renewed her membership and paid her dues, but, neither Chapman or Twomey would accept it.
This is despite the letter going out to all members informing them that if they had not paid their membership they could still attend the meeting as long as they had paid their fees by 6.0pm on the day of the shortlisting meeting. Which of course this lady could prove she had.
We hear from a number of sources that a very heated exchange took place but Chapman and Twomey were adamant she was not getting in. Of course they had counted the numbers already in there and knew exactly how many George needed to win.
George opened the meeting and we understand that members were asked to agree 6 candidates to be interviewed none of which was Fred Barns, a member moved from the floor that the ward should interview 7 and that rightly Fred should be interviewed.
In stepped someone very very close to George who moved that a vote be taken that the ward only interviewed 6 and that she could not and would not support the inclusion of Fred.
We understand that George had great difficulty in controlling his facial expressions at this time at could not keep the look of pure smugness off his face.
A ballot of members took place and George announced that it was a tied ballot. George then stated he would as Chairman use his casting vote.........a moment of pure triumph for evil here, it should really be accompanied by a drum roll.....George completed his final act of treachery by voting against the inclusion of Fred to the shortlist.
We understand that silent uproar broke out, members just got up from their seats and walked out in disgust.
Outside very very angry ward members were pretty vocal on their feelings about George and his corrupt actions. We understand a lot of decisions were made outside of that meeting that could have a major impact on labour in Thames and Barking.
Of course Barry Poulton could not resist turning up to gloat at this time.
But, what the ward members did not realize at that time is that George Shaw under Party Rules did NOT have the right as Chairman to use the casting vote.
Members have discovered that now and have made their protests but of course they are being ignored by the North Street mafia.
In our next post we will describe the total farce of the ward interviews??????and let you know just how many party members from Thames have resigned from the party over this.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations historical memory/fact and written evidence.
Tuesday 8 September 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 8
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
On receiving their rejection letters Fred and Joan were we are told dumbstruck. They had both done an enormous amount of work for Thames Ward as Councillors something that both they and their residents were well aware of.
Both of them reacted in different ways, Fred got angry, but channeled his anger into putting forward an appeal. Joan we are told took this very differently, Joan is slow to anger, but we know she felt incredibly let down by George Shaw and Margaret Hodge both of whom she had totally supported.
Obviously Margaret Hodge and the mafia got to hear very quickly that they had been caught out by saying what they did while canvassing in Thames Ward. We are told that Margaret Hodge actually phoned Joan Rawlinson several times, she allegedly said that she was personally very sorry that Joan had not got through the panel, and that Joan should leave it to her as "we really need you" was the words used. Funny not "we really want you" but need.
Anyway we understand that after a lot of soul searching, and with the full support of her family Joan decided not to appeal. Of course that does not mean in anyway that Joan has walked away from the residents in the ward because she has not and is still representing them and is really overwhelmed with the full support she has from the residents.
Fred meanwhile had put in his appeal. Fred was optimistic and pretty sure of his grounds. George we hear was furious, he had been led to believe that Fred would be out on the first round and their would be no chance at all of George having to break cover and get involved at all. Once again George was given reassurance that it would be ok.
Of course Fred was successful at his appeal and in our view rightly so, they were not judging him on the work that he had done, which they should have been they were judging him on his disability, and of course that is illegal, and Fred successfully argued that case.
We understand that the air at North Street was black and blue when George Shaw was informed that Fred had been successful, because this would know mean that George would have to do the job himself. In fact we hear from our Insider (yes we do have one) that George ranted words to the effect that as always "if he wanted a job done he had to do it himself".
We are informed that several meetings then took place in North Street with very clear directions being dictated to Darren Rodwell and Dominic Twomey just how the short listing meetings for wards were to be run, where they were to be held, and more importantly a very tightly scripted plan for George to ensure that Fred most definitely fell at the next hurdle.
As is usual this post is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
On receiving their rejection letters Fred and Joan were we are told dumbstruck. They had both done an enormous amount of work for Thames Ward as Councillors something that both they and their residents were well aware of.
Both of them reacted in different ways, Fred got angry, but channeled his anger into putting forward an appeal. Joan we are told took this very differently, Joan is slow to anger, but we know she felt incredibly let down by George Shaw and Margaret Hodge both of whom she had totally supported.
Obviously Margaret Hodge and the mafia got to hear very quickly that they had been caught out by saying what they did while canvassing in Thames Ward. We are told that Margaret Hodge actually phoned Joan Rawlinson several times, she allegedly said that she was personally very sorry that Joan had not got through the panel, and that Joan should leave it to her as "we really need you" was the words used. Funny not "we really want you" but need.
Anyway we understand that after a lot of soul searching, and with the full support of her family Joan decided not to appeal. Of course that does not mean in anyway that Joan has walked away from the residents in the ward because she has not and is still representing them and is really overwhelmed with the full support she has from the residents.
Fred meanwhile had put in his appeal. Fred was optimistic and pretty sure of his grounds. George we hear was furious, he had been led to believe that Fred would be out on the first round and their would be no chance at all of George having to break cover and get involved at all. Once again George was given reassurance that it would be ok.
Of course Fred was successful at his appeal and in our view rightly so, they were not judging him on the work that he had done, which they should have been they were judging him on his disability, and of course that is illegal, and Fred successfully argued that case.
We understand that the air at North Street was black and blue when George Shaw was informed that Fred had been successful, because this would know mean that George would have to do the job himself. In fact we hear from our Insider (yes we do have one) that George ranted words to the effect that as always "if he wanted a job done he had to do it himself".
We are informed that several meetings then took place in North Street with very clear directions being dictated to Darren Rodwell and Dominic Twomey just how the short listing meetings for wards were to be run, where they were to be held, and more importantly a very tightly scripted plan for George to ensure that Fred most definitely fell at the next hurdle.
As is usual this post is a matter of rumour, allegations, anecdotes, observations, historical memory/fact and written evidence.
Sunday 6 September 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 7
As usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations, historical memory and first hand witness statements.
In the run up to this we have described to you how George had to "bite" his racist bullet and do his deal with the devil, of course this is the devil he believes will dance to his tune.
He along with the North Street mafia and abetted by Rob Chapman engineered their takeover of the Local Government Committee. Succeeding in this was crucial to their long term plans. We are told that on the evening of the Local Government AGM the mafia had their mobiles glued to their ears so that they could receive instructions from outside. And just who was out side Mike Haywood, he had written their script, a script they could not move from.
Anyway they gained control, there are we understand still questions by the Dagenham delegates about the rigging of ballots, but they had control.
The next thing anyone heard was that Rob Chapman would through North Street be sending out the application forms for any party member who wanted to stand as a Councillor.
The argument is still raging on we here as to how Rob Chapman came to be involved, because the selections of candidates is the responsibility of the Local Government Committee, and as they had not met to discuss how the selections were to be done WHO in total breach of party rules handed it over to Rob Chapman?
That question along with other breaches of rules will be dealt with under a separate posting.
Now what you have to bear in mind is that on his own admission George Shaw supervises all of the party work done in North Street, so, the sending out of all of these letters and forms came under the control of George and so, more importantly would have been what happened to them on their return when they had been completed by party members.
Also with these forms is a report from the Ward Secretary, now for Thames Ward this was Barry Poulton. He had to write reports on Fred Barns and Joan Rawlinson, and would you believe he even wrote his own. To this day, despite numerous requests we believe neither Fred nor Joan have seen the reports that Barry put in.
We come to the interviews to go onto the 'panel' once again a breach in rules, this panel was not done by the Local Government Committee, but outsiders, and according to many outsiders who had been well briefed on exactly who could NOT get through the process.
All sitting Councillors were seen by the same panel with a very aggressive Chair. Both Fred and Joan fell at the first hurdle. Fred because of his disability that prevents him from doing a lot of walking, but, he always went on the canvassing his wife would do the door knocking, he was there to talk to the residents, never mind all of the other campaigning work Fred did, they turned him down just on the grounds of his disability.
Joan they just ripped to shreds, they were vicious. Joan has worked solidly for 15 years as a ward councillor, yet they just tortured her, and George Shaw gave them the information to do it.
Now strangely enough there is a sting in the tail of this, as the following Saturday when the letters of rejection were dropping through peoples letterboxes, Margaret Hodge and her mafia were canvassing in Thames Ward.......and it just goes to show how cock sure and arrogant they are. M Hodge knocked on the door of a party member and got to talking, she then went on to tell this Thames resident and party member that of course Barry Poulton is the only Councillor on the ward who does any work, but, don't worry I will make sure you get 2 new good councillors next year because Fred and Joan have been de-selected. We understand that the resident then told M Hodge to F.....off and slammed the door.
We are told that the letter of rejection had not even dropped through the letter boxes of Fred and Joan at that time.
But we do know that the resident concerned has made a full written statement of what took place that morning. And this may very well be the reason why things did not go to plan.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations, historical memory/fact and first hand written statements.
In the run up to this we have described to you how George had to "bite" his racist bullet and do his deal with the devil, of course this is the devil he believes will dance to his tune.
He along with the North Street mafia and abetted by Rob Chapman engineered their takeover of the Local Government Committee. Succeeding in this was crucial to their long term plans. We are told that on the evening of the Local Government AGM the mafia had their mobiles glued to their ears so that they could receive instructions from outside. And just who was out side Mike Haywood, he had written their script, a script they could not move from.
Anyway they gained control, there are we understand still questions by the Dagenham delegates about the rigging of ballots, but they had control.
The next thing anyone heard was that Rob Chapman would through North Street be sending out the application forms for any party member who wanted to stand as a Councillor.
The argument is still raging on we here as to how Rob Chapman came to be involved, because the selections of candidates is the responsibility of the Local Government Committee, and as they had not met to discuss how the selections were to be done WHO in total breach of party rules handed it over to Rob Chapman?
That question along with other breaches of rules will be dealt with under a separate posting.
Now what you have to bear in mind is that on his own admission George Shaw supervises all of the party work done in North Street, so, the sending out of all of these letters and forms came under the control of George and so, more importantly would have been what happened to them on their return when they had been completed by party members.
Also with these forms is a report from the Ward Secretary, now for Thames Ward this was Barry Poulton. He had to write reports on Fred Barns and Joan Rawlinson, and would you believe he even wrote his own. To this day, despite numerous requests we believe neither Fred nor Joan have seen the reports that Barry put in.
We come to the interviews to go onto the 'panel' once again a breach in rules, this panel was not done by the Local Government Committee, but outsiders, and according to many outsiders who had been well briefed on exactly who could NOT get through the process.
All sitting Councillors were seen by the same panel with a very aggressive Chair. Both Fred and Joan fell at the first hurdle. Fred because of his disability that prevents him from doing a lot of walking, but, he always went on the canvassing his wife would do the door knocking, he was there to talk to the residents, never mind all of the other campaigning work Fred did, they turned him down just on the grounds of his disability.
Joan they just ripped to shreds, they were vicious. Joan has worked solidly for 15 years as a ward councillor, yet they just tortured her, and George Shaw gave them the information to do it.
Now strangely enough there is a sting in the tail of this, as the following Saturday when the letters of rejection were dropping through peoples letterboxes, Margaret Hodge and her mafia were canvassing in Thames Ward.......and it just goes to show how cock sure and arrogant they are. M Hodge knocked on the door of a party member and got to talking, she then went on to tell this Thames resident and party member that of course Barry Poulton is the only Councillor on the ward who does any work, but, don't worry I will make sure you get 2 new good councillors next year because Fred and Joan have been de-selected. We understand that the resident then told M Hodge to F.....off and slammed the door.
We are told that the letter of rejection had not even dropped through the letter boxes of Fred and Joan at that time.
But we do know that the resident concerned has made a full written statement of what took place that morning. And this may very well be the reason why things did not go to plan.
As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, anecdote, allegations, observations, historical memory/fact and first hand written statements.
Friday 4 September 2009
Thursday 3 September 2009
*************NEWS UPDATE**********
We have been informed that a Barking CLP meeting took place this evening at North Street.
Our man on the inside (yes we do have one) tells us only approx 15 turned up. No MP. No Chairman, just where has John (brown envelope) Davis disappeared to?
So the saintly Darren Rodwell chaired the meeting, you know the one, who does everything for the community while putting their money in his companies bank account. Which we understand is very much in the red.
Graham Letchford stole our thunder by informing the meeting that all Goresbrook ward members have resigned, and he is the only one left, whoops Graham you forgot your wife. You also forgot to tell the meeting why the members had resigned, something we were storing up for next week, but, the members resigned we are very reliably informed because they would not stand for having Graham Letchford imposed on them as a candidate.
Just how many more good true labour party members have to resign before London Region get the message.
Our Insider also informs us that our blog was mentioned, great they are even talking about us in labour party meetings now, just what we like to hear, even if the Bully George Shaw states that he knows who we are. Poor old man he just doesn't get it does he.
We now have Insiders where he and the others wouldn't think we could have insiders, these are party members who at first when all this corruption started to come out just wanted to rip up their party membership cards, but after a number of conversations they now realize that the only way to fight is from the inside.
The North Street mafia will not even think twice about our Insiders, that is why they are so good at what they do.
Our man on the inside (yes we do have one) tells us only approx 15 turned up. No MP. No Chairman, just where has John (brown envelope) Davis disappeared to?
So the saintly Darren Rodwell chaired the meeting, you know the one, who does everything for the community while putting their money in his companies bank account. Which we understand is very much in the red.
Graham Letchford stole our thunder by informing the meeting that all Goresbrook ward members have resigned, and he is the only one left, whoops Graham you forgot your wife. You also forgot to tell the meeting why the members had resigned, something we were storing up for next week, but, the members resigned we are very reliably informed because they would not stand for having Graham Letchford imposed on them as a candidate.
Just how many more good true labour party members have to resign before London Region get the message.
Our Insider also informs us that our blog was mentioned, great they are even talking about us in labour party meetings now, just what we like to hear, even if the Bully George Shaw states that he knows who we are. Poor old man he just doesn't get it does he.
We now have Insiders where he and the others wouldn't think we could have insiders, these are party members who at first when all this corruption started to come out just wanted to rip up their party membership cards, but after a number of conversations they now realize that the only way to fight is from the inside.
The North Street mafia will not even think twice about our Insiders, that is why they are so good at what they do.
Tuesday 1 September 2009
GEORGE SHAW Part 6
As usual this posting is a matter of allegations, anecdotes, observations, rumour and historical memory/fact.
A little over a year ago George Shaw had to make a tough decision. He had already told Fred Barns in a telephone conversation that Fred was DEAD to him and he wanted nothing more to do with him.
But, as much as George is a bully, he is not a stupid bully, and over the previous year he had seen the growing support that Fred had in the ward. George had heard the grumblings at the TRA meetings whenever he had a go at Fred. He knew Barry Poulton did not have the support on the ward. More importantly George knew he could not get rid of Fred or even Joan on his own. He knew that the ward would not go for it.
So George had to think just where he could get the help he needed. Didn't take him long to work it out that only the North Street mafia could help him, BUT, as with all things there would be a price to pay.
George went along for a meeting at North Street to discuss his 'problem' they fell over themselves to help dear old George. At first it was going to be John (brown envelope) Davis moving over there. But for once John put his foot down,he was staying where he was. Too far to drive after a few drinks we hear.
So they agreed Cameron Geddes, no problem with George on that one, he was pretty sure he would be able to manage Cameron, just as he had before. But the next choice was where the whole plan very nearly went down the toilet, they told George he would have to have Jose Channer, no problem with her being a woman of course, easy to manipulate, but, Jose Channer is from the BME community, George could not and would not swallow this.
They told him that it was only window dressing, that they must have a BME candidate in the ward.
We hear that at first George stormed out of the meeting, told them he would get rid of Fred on his own, but, George knew, he would have to swallow his racist bullet.
He went back a couple of days latter and very very reluctantly agreed.
Shortly after agreeing to their plan George Shaw set about resigning from all committees, boards and panels in the ward, he stepped down as Chair of the TRA, and came off the Tenants Federation, he also came off the Governing Bodies of the schools.
No reason for this was given at all. The only group that George Shaw stayed a member of was the Labour Party, and he still attended the ward meetings. Even though we understand he was loosing his grip of those.
Perhaps that is why when the Selection Process started (which we will cover in the next posting) George had to work to a script.
As usual this posting is a matter of allegations, rumour, anecdote, observations and historical memory/fact.
A little over a year ago George Shaw had to make a tough decision. He had already told Fred Barns in a telephone conversation that Fred was DEAD to him and he wanted nothing more to do with him.
But, as much as George is a bully, he is not a stupid bully, and over the previous year he had seen the growing support that Fred had in the ward. George had heard the grumblings at the TRA meetings whenever he had a go at Fred. He knew Barry Poulton did not have the support on the ward. More importantly George knew he could not get rid of Fred or even Joan on his own. He knew that the ward would not go for it.
So George had to think just where he could get the help he needed. Didn't take him long to work it out that only the North Street mafia could help him, BUT, as with all things there would be a price to pay.
George went along for a meeting at North Street to discuss his 'problem' they fell over themselves to help dear old George. At first it was going to be John (brown envelope) Davis moving over there. But for once John put his foot down,he was staying where he was. Too far to drive after a few drinks we hear.
So they agreed Cameron Geddes, no problem with George on that one, he was pretty sure he would be able to manage Cameron, just as he had before. But the next choice was where the whole plan very nearly went down the toilet, they told George he would have to have Jose Channer, no problem with her being a woman of course, easy to manipulate, but, Jose Channer is from the BME community, George could not and would not swallow this.
They told him that it was only window dressing, that they must have a BME candidate in the ward.
We hear that at first George stormed out of the meeting, told them he would get rid of Fred on his own, but, George knew, he would have to swallow his racist bullet.
He went back a couple of days latter and very very reluctantly agreed.
Shortly after agreeing to their plan George Shaw set about resigning from all committees, boards and panels in the ward, he stepped down as Chair of the TRA, and came off the Tenants Federation, he also came off the Governing Bodies of the schools.
No reason for this was given at all. The only group that George Shaw stayed a member of was the Labour Party, and he still attended the ward meetings. Even though we understand he was loosing his grip of those.
Perhaps that is why when the Selection Process started (which we will cover in the next posting) George had to work to a script.
As usual this posting is a matter of allegations, rumour, anecdote, observations and historical memory/fact.
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