MAJOR POSTAL VOTE INVESTIGATION

We are sure you have all read in the national newspapers that the Met Police are holding a Major investigation into illegal practices in Postal Voting in 12 London Boroughs.

We ask the question why, has Darren Rodwell as Agent for Barking then been putting out leaflets with forms for residents to register for postal votes and then more importantly asking that they return their forms to him??????

It seems that this is in direct contravention of the rules laid down by the Electoral Commission.

THE STORM CLOUDS ARE GATHERING

Our friend on the inside of North street tells us that things are starting to fall apart. Major rows are taking place as Rodwell and Twomey try to exert their power and get people doing it the way they want it done.

Their house of cards is in a state of collapse. We hear that PC plod may be knocking on the door in the next few days, there will be a follow up posting on that when we have all the facts.

Their very expensive glossy leaflet is dropping through the doors across the borough with Hodge MP superimposed in the line up of council candidates.

What makes interesting reading is the centre pages where she and her candidates make claim to all that has been done in each ward. Take Thames for instance they are claiming that they sorted out the cyclone heating, but stupid idiots could not even get the names of the blocks correct its Basset House not Bartletts you fools.

Still the residents in Barking know only too well who has done the work for them, and its certainly not the motley crews they are putting on the leaflets.

And then we come to the threats, a couple of postings back we informed you about Barry Poulton threatening shop keepers over posters, well this dirty little habit appears to be spreading. This will be dealt with in the fullness of time we are told.

WHO MADE RODWELL KING?

A large piece of German newspaper the Speigel has been emailed over to us today, it makes for very interesting and disturbing reading. Obviously Rodwell now truly believes himself to be the Leader for Labour in Barking & Dagenham and a thing like an election is just incidental.

We will just put in a small paragraph of what he says for you to make your own judgement.

Labour and Tories are pressing immigration debate.

Now, it benefits from the wrath of Labours mismanagement. "We have not listened to the people" admits Rodwell. The policy has been in recent years dominated by an old guard retired Ford unionists, who had set up in the City Council comfortable. For ideological reasons, they refused to outsource the construction of social housing to non-profit real estate companies. This had made the national Labour Government as a condition of grants. Thus, since more than ten years, no social housing built in the district - the main reason for the acute housing shortage.

Now we are not about to give this mis-guided young man a history lesson, but, if he feels or believes that he is now in a position to speak to newspapers both national and international on behalf of the borough he could at least take the time to check out his facts, and to learn to speak in English.

The problem with the likes of Rodwell and his mafia is that they have convinced themselves that they are right and everyone else is wrong, where a more commonsense approach would have been to learn how things work, to check out the facts first. Running the council is not like running a Tenants and Residents Association.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Ask yourself this question:

WHY? have the BNP not made more in their leaflets and on the doorstep of the split in Barking Labour Party??????

Could it be .......that the friendship we all know exists between Rodwell (the Leader, yes that's what he is calling himself, more on that later) and Bailey, and of course Letchford and Barnbrook. Has a deal been done? We know for instance that Bailey is doing very little in Alibon ward.

Barnbrook is we hear all over the place where ever there is a camera.

So we will leave it to you, have the Mafia struck a deal with the devil?

STOP YOUR THREATS POULTON - will you never learn?

Isn't it enough that Barry Poulton has just been hauled over the coals by the Standards Board for his behaviour as Chair towards an elderly resident with his ranting and raving, we all know now he was instructed to write an apology which to our knowledge has still not been received.

But, his latest dirty deed really trumps that, would you believe he has been into shops on the ward where the shop keepers have posters in their windows supporting Independent Candidates and told the shop keepers they have to take them down, they are in breach of their Tenancy Agreement and he even threatened that if they did not take them down he would make sure that they loose their shops.

Has the arrogance of this man caused him to leave his brain at home? Does he really want to end up in front of the Standards Board again? this time for making threats and harassing local businessmen.

What the shop keepers choose to put into their windows, as long as its not pornographic etc is their choice, the fact that they choose not to support Poulton is their choice and there is nothing Poulton can do about it.

BARKING PARTY SHARE CLUB MONEY

We have been asked by a number of members who no longer attend clp meetings and some ex-party members all of whom paid into the above to see if anyone will tell what has happened to the money.

The way it has been explained to us the Share Club was set up some years ago, it was agreed that once a month there would be a payout. We have also been told that Tom Fitzhenry ran the Share club as a separate financial matter from the party's usual funds, and all of those who have contacted us have placed on record that they trust Tom totally.

It seems that a draw of the Share Club has not been made since December 2008. So that would indicate that there is quite a good chunk of money in the pot.

Those members who have been or are still members of the Share Club just want to know what has happened to their money.

Its an easy issue to solve really, if the share club has a Bank Statement or a Statement of Accounts to be transparent a copy of this could be sent to all existing members and also those who although now no longer contributing were doing so in the period from December 08 to today.

They do have a legal entitlement to know what has happened to the money, as they are confident that Tom would have explained only a percentage of this money went to Barking CLP direct funds to officers of the party.

THE BOX, THE BANK AND THE CANDIDATE

Firstly lets set the record straight for our readers, we are doing nothing illegal in reporting this tale to you. We have not breached the Data Protection Act at all.

All we are doing is re-telling a tale that has been passed on to us, we have also been told that the Candidate was very free with this information themselves within Barking CLP while lobbying certain senior members to write glowing references on them and in the same letter stating that the bank was awful.

Luckily we are told the majority of those approached refused to write such a letter, but the odd one or two may have got through.

Lets start this by asking our readers, Why would you want to deposit a reasonably large amount of cash in a Safe Deposit Box? We can understand why the alleged jewellery was put in, but not the money, unless of course it was thought to be a way of hiding money.

Anyway we digress, we are told that the candidate went into their bank and stated that they wanted to open a safety deposit box, they were told that they would have to purchase their own box which they did. They returned to the bank with the box and deposited we are told somewhere between £19,000 and £30,000 and some jewellery. Although we would point out that the bank has no way of confirming that this happened.

The story then continues that within a very short space of time the candidate returns to the bank stating that they wish to remove or check something in their Deposit Box, of course being taken by 2 bank operatives to a separate room and then left alone with the box.

It then transpires that the candidate comes out and states that the money that they put in the box is no longer there, and that members of staff at the bank must have stolen it.

The candidate we are told kicked up such a fuss that the bank called the police.

We were also told that the Police did do an investigation into the theft, but, the result of their investigation did not please the candidate one little bit.

We have been told by a number of sources that the Candidate tried to pursue this through the courts and the ombudsman that is why the candidate needed the glowing references.

What we have done on hearing of this very sad tale is to check out with a number of the High Street banks just what were their policies on the opening and keeping safe of Safety Deposit Boxes.

Firstly anyone who actually told the bank that they wished to keep cash in there would be informed that it was not a good way to keep money and that there was easy access to their cash by putting it into an account which would earn interest for them.

Secondly all Banks have a dual control system in dealing with access to Safety Deposit Boxes, at all times when a client wishes to access their box 2 members of the Banks staff would have to be in attendance to bring the box out of a locked room and place it in front of the customer before leaving the room. And the same in returning the box to a locked room.

Now we are not saying that the candidate lied, we are not even suggesting that there was no money put into the box in the first place, what we are saying is that it appears that the Police investigation did not uphold the claim of the candidate.

Readers of course are invited to make up their own minds.

CORE PRINCIPALS

This has been sent over to us with a request that we ask the question.

One of the Core Principals of the Labour Party is we have been told that the Candidates selected to run for election in the Local Elections "be representative of our society, who can uphold the highest standards of probity and integrity in public life"

Can the North Street mafia confirm or not as the case maybe that the candidates they are putting up conform to these Core Principals?

Of course you will note that we have not mentioned the Local Government committee in this, as all will be very much aware that the Local Government committee has not met to endorse said candidates, even though this is a requirement within the Labour Party Rules.

But then again what do North Street care, and don't get us started on the question of probity.

MANY OF THE OLDER MEMBERS OR NOW EX MEMBERS

Will know who this is, and perhaps over the coming days we will reveal the full story.

But if we were to mention a, safety deposit box, between 20,000 and 30,000 £s and a fraudulent claim against a high street bank.

Perhaps that will wet your interest.

North street cannot say they were not advised/warned

NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED

We have been told that the nominations for the local elections on 6th May in Barking & Dagenham closed yesterday at 12 noon.

We do really hope that for once North Street listened to the advice and the warning given about "their" chosen candidates. We really do hope they checked out that none of them at the 12 noon cut off owed the council any money, because if they did or do then North Street will then pay the cost of loosing at least 3 candidates we have been told about.

But of course knowing the arrogance of the North Street mafia they will try to pull strings to get out of this, BUT do remember we know and so do our informants.

A LITTLE RUMOUR

Just a piece of advice, although the North Street mafia don't want to listen, we would encourage them to ensure that all of their candidates have paid up their Council Tax, as we hear that a few of them may have missed quite a few payments.

As the Agent should be aware there are rules that apply to those wishing to stand for election, and although in the past the North Street mafia have chosen to ignore any rules that are quoted to them this is one set of rules you cannot ignore.

No. 2 IN HOW CAN THEY?

This candidate appears to be one sharp operator, who knows how to play the system to their best advantage, certainly the evidence we have seen proves this.

The first application for Incapacity Benefit goes back about 10 years, and once again the "illness" is depression.

This all changes in around 2001 when it is alleged that the candidate has a heart condition, we have seen evidence that would suggest that the candidate had surgery for this and to all intents and purposes should have made a full recovery.

How can we say this, well we have had a chat with a friend who happens to be a Surgeon, who carries out the operation that was needed on a daily basis.

Obviously making a full recovery one would have thought would allow the candidate to live a normal life, but, it seems that would mean a loss of benefits.

So an application was made for Disability Living Allowance, and todate we have been informed the candidate is still in receipt of that.

Now we are NOT questioning whether this candidate should or should not be in receipt of DLA.

What we are questioning is the reasons they allegedly put down to claim it IE. they cannot walk more than 50 yards, their partner has to dress them, they cannot cross roads on their own because they get dizzy, they have to have a full time carer 24/7 and the reasons go on and on.

Now if the physical condition of the candidate were to be as bad as they claim, how then can they function as a councillor?

But of course many who have related this to us know full well that the claim is false.

But its not the only fraudulent claim this candidate has made, the others have far more criminal implications which we will come to in due course.

North Street cannot say they were not advised or warned to check out the background of their proposed candidates. But pigeons start coming home to roost when you start putting the photos of individuals on leaflets that then go across the whole of the borough.

HOW CAN THE PUBLIC BE EXPECTED TO VOTE FOR?

While we fully support candidates with disabilities standing for the Local Elections, that is one of the mainstays of setting up this site after others interfered to De-select candidates because of their physical disabilities. But to be honest we are having trouble making sense of the latest piece of info to come our way.

It appears that one of the North Street Mafia has been on sickness/incapacity benefits for a number of years, no problem with that at all, but, we are told that the reason they are receiving these benefits is that they have been diagnosed as a Manic Depressive.

This as many will know can be quiet a serious Mental Health problem, and can we believe incapacitate the sufferer for weeks if not months at a time, and many would, we feel question if they were right to stand for office, without of course informing the voters first so that the voters can then make an informed decision.

Lets wait and see if we can have some openess and transparancy from North Street.

SEEMS BARRY POULTON HAS NOT APOLOGIZED

Many of you will have read a previous posting when we informed you that Councillor Barry Poulton had been found guilty of a breach of the councils Code of Conduct for Members, when as Chairman of a meeting he was rude and abusive towards an elderly resident.

The Standards Board instructed that he should write a letter of apology to the elderly lady, he was also told that if he were to be re-elected he would have to undergo training on how to behave.

We have been informed that NO apology has been sent to the elderly lady.

It looks as though Barry Poulton is following in the footsteps of his mentor and master George Shaw who we all know does not apologize to anyone.

This will cost Barry votes big time.