A REQUEST

We have been asked to remind Barking CLP again that they are holding monies that do not belong to them.

As has been stated on this blog before Barking CLP some years ago set up a Share Club, not many members contributed to this, but, those that did at least had a chance for a return on their money in the monthly draw.

Tom Fitzhenry holds these funds and is trusted by all, but, we are told that no draw has been held now for well over a year.

Legally Barking CLP and its officers have no right to this money, and to either run the draw now or to close the Share Club the CLP will have to write to ALL share club members who were still contributing at the time of the last draw which we understand was Christmas 2008, even though members may have withdrawn since then.

We have been told that some of these ex members are concerned about the misuse of this funding and that they are seriously considering taking legal advice on this issue.

So we would suggest to Barking CLP the easiest and safest way round this would be to write to the Share Club contribute rs.

STANDARDS!!!! WHAT STANDARDS

How can you have an elected member of the councils Standards Board who allegedly owes the council some £4,000 in unpaid Car Parking fines, sitting in judgement on other members?

Talking of Standards, has Barry Poulton written the letter of apology to the elderly lady in Thames ward yet?

AND WE ARE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE THIS

Just imagine the whining and pleading voice of Darren Rodwell.

"this was just a stupid silly little mistake. we believed that because she was only a part time member of council staff it would be all right for her to stand (nope) it has been done before (nope) and they (the government) have recently changed the rules (rubbish that's been the ruling for many years).

Sorry Rodwell you deliberately set out to defraud the electorate.

NEWS FLASH

So if the very reliable rumour we have heard is true, its proof positive that North Street get no where by cheating.

Very expensive lesson for them to learn, but, then politics is a game of hard ball. And just whose neck will be on the block? Darren Rodwell he, who they all believe is a Saint!!!!!

Well we would suggest his halo is around his feet at the moment. Or the individual concerned? who really should have read the papers they signed first. Now not only have they lost their job but their seat as well. And the very real possibility of a Criminal conviction to boot.

A very expensive lesson that one, and there will be more, of that you can be sure.

HANG ON TO YOUR HATS

We have had confirmation early this morning that the s....t is about to hit the fan, has Barking CLP got deep pockets?

NOW JUST WHO HAS MORE MONEY THAN SENSE

We have been informed that the 2 candidates who stood for Barking in the Local elections who between them owed the council over £4500 in council tax were seen going into the cashiers section at the council on Tuesday 4th May with bundles of £10 and £20 notes in their hot little hands to pay off their debts.

The question that now needs to be asked is just who bailed them out, Barking CLP doubtful, the Labour Party maybe or was there another more wealthy donor to their cause?

Still the money has been paid, but can Barking CLP legitimately put these down as election expenses?

WHAT A TREAT IS IN STORE

Having just looked through just how many of the North Street mafia have now got their noses in the trough, IE additional pay for either Chair or Vice Chair, this is going to be a delight to report on.

Not a clue, useless, yet given or voted themselves areas of responsibility that really required them to serve at least a year just learning their way around.

Still we will watch and see, and of course report to you. Just 2 for you to ponder on at the moment Tariq Saeed Lead Member for the Public Accounts select committee, no this is no joke.
Failed King Rodwell Lead Member for Safer Communities Select committee, just a question there Rodwell should you not declare a Personal Interest?

The fun has just started.

Oh and while we are at it Letchford, suit, shirt and tie please, you are not on the beach at Southend you know.

EASTBURY WARD the truth is out

Can we refer our readers back to our posting on this ward back in July last year where we gave you an idea of just how corrupt North Street were in their interference in this wards AGM. Which led to Rob Chapman banning them from Barking CLP AGM and indeed forcing the Ward to then re-run its AGM.

Well it now appears that Mr Riaz who did so much work for North Street to bring this about has decided to come clean.

We are very reliably informed that all that Mr Riaz did IE claiming he lived at a certain address in the ward, visiting ward members and getting them to sign bits of paper which were then used in a lie. Mr Riaz working with Laila Butt and Abdul Aziz visiting BME members telling them that the ward members were racist and would not put forward a BME candidate.

All of this and more was done at the direction of one person in North Street, a person we might add who has no right whatsoever to get involved in local party politics as his salary is paid by the British taxpayer through the House of Commons.

Yes you guessed it Mike Haywood, and it appears that so angry is Mr Riaz at the way he was treated by North Street after doing everything that was asked of him, that he is fully prepared to make a written statement in law.

Now while we of course can only put down in print the allegations made by Mr Riaz, we are told that he is making them widely and loudly.

Perhaps now the London Region of the Labour Party and also the General Secretary of the Labour Party will give the complaints we know that were made to them a second look.

Justice may prevail.

THE KING FAILED TO GET HIS CROWN

Live as we post this blog we hear that even with his and the North Street Mafia total immersion into corruption, Darren Rodwell FAILED to be elected as Leader of the Council.

Justice prevails.

PANIC AND RECRIMINATIONS AT NORTH STREET

Well its started. we hear that Louis Couling is blaming Liam Smith because she cannot take up her seat in the council chamber. No sorry you stupid old woman, nobody to blame but yourself and your Agent. You should have read the paperwork that went to ALL candidates. And more importantly so should your agent.

Then the biggest and most laughable news guess who North Street are going to run in the Goresbrook by election wait for it, Dominics Mummy, Pat Twomey.

Well lets just put this marker down on behalf of all the the de-selected councillors who did not get through North Streets corrupted selection process.

Try that and you and London Region will find yourselves in the courts. Pat Twomey never got through your so called Independent panel as did many others, you do not have the right just to impose a failure. Never mind labour party rules, there are other avenues, such as the Equal Opportunities.

So try it and then wait for the backlash.

HIGH LEVEL MEETING AT NORTH STREET

We have heard that this weekend a high level or should we call it low level meeting was held at North Street.

The meeting was lead by Mike Heywood with a guest appearance by ex councillor Pat Twomey, now why they should have brought her on board is beyond us, obviously they wanted her to teach them how things are run in the Labour Group, they could have saved themselves the trouble because she never had a clue.

Still why were they there? it seems the carve up for positions on the council was to take place, obviously the King Darren Rodwell is going for the big prize of Leader, the rest will be allocated and serve as he directs.

Now just to make sure he has got enough votes visits have been made to a number of Dagenham party members to bring them to his aid, we don't think he has a chance.

One very large and quite serious disappointment for North Street will be the knowledge that they do not have a full slate, Louis Couling will be barred from taking up the position as councillor, she knows it, they know it, and we hear the police know it. There is a hefty fine or prison sentence that goes with what she has done, we wonder if North street will pay the fine, and then be ready to pay out for the by election which will come along very quickly.

REVIEW 4

PARSLOES Ward, really the only candidate for Labour on the ballot paper who is worth a mention is Bert Collins, a good man, works hard for his people, not only in the ward but across the borough........the other 2 are not worthy of having their names on the ballot paper let alone a further mention on here.

THAMES Ward, Well what a motley crew, Cameron Geddes, nobody on Thames knows what he even looks like, well the same has been said at North street it seems as he don't turn up there either.
Living in the past young man, sees life either through the bottom of a bottle, or on his playstation.

Josie Channer, once again very few on Thames knows what she looks like, other than her neighbours and they are none too happy either. It is said that in her application to go forward for selection she claimed to have worked for Her Majesty's Prison service, there are some now who would said that perhaps she had been detained by the same.

Barry Poulton, well known on Thames View estate for litter picking, abusing elderly residents, holding his surgery at his garden gate so all can hear, exaggerating issues, there are never 2 black bags with Barry always 202. Well known at council functions for hanging around at the end so he can empty the biscuit plate or even sandwiches into his bag. Obviously not big on cooking.

His claims of what he has done are so well documented and disproved that most just ignore him now.

One of these candidates it is said owes the council and incredibly large amount of money in council tax. They should really make sure the Bailiffs letters are not left pinned to the door for neighbours to read.

Will these 3 get elected? most unlikely. George Shaw your failure is just around the corner.

VALENCE Ward, very little is known about these 3 other than Maureen Worby, the question should be asked if she was not good enough for Dagenham why should she be good enough for Barking, well she is not. In fact very little work has been done by any of these 3 in this ward.

So there you go, a whiz through to top up where we started back in July, not made much improvement have they? in fact they don't instill any confidence in you at all do they?

Our feedback from North Street is that they have all been told that they are not allowed lunch or tea breaks tomorrow, they are not even allowed home to use the toilet. Darren Rodwell the King has given them their orders, they have we hear been told that any who do not follow his orders will be expelled from the party.

Would you really want to be in such a party?

We will give you regular updates during the day tomorrow.

ROUND UP No 3

LONGBRIDGE Ward, honestly the only one on here who is worth a comment is Linda Rice, heaven knows what the voter will get if they even bother to vote for her. Another of the North Street mafia who does not believe in being part of a team.

MAYESBROOK Ward, Ralph Baldwin, Mr Mystery man this one, parachuted in from who knows where, claims to be ex Army, claims to be a BSc, claims to be.....claims to be......and it goes on and on. He certainly does NOT come from the borough, a labour party plant we hear.

George Barratt, nice old man who it seems has got carried away with his own PR doing very little in the ward to get elected.

And finally we come to Dee Hunt, well what can we add to what we have written before, will her understanding with the BNP set up in 2006 carry her through this time? there are many who say NO, but then can she honestly say that she has worked and represented her voters over the last 4 years?

REVIEW part 2

EASTBURY Ward, Jeanne Alexander, Jim McDermott and Hardial Singh Rai, totally marginalised by the North Street mafia, no support or help given or offered. With a little bit of additional resources this ward could have been taken by Labour, but perhaps there is some truth in the tale that North Street have already got a fall back position on this one with the spectre of Mohammed Riaz who is posing as a Lib Dem , is there a chance that if he were to snatch the victory from these 3 labour candidates, who were democratically selected by the ward members, that Riaz would do what he has been set up to do which is cross the floor to Labour.

GASCOIGNE Ward, Saima Ashraf, Abdul Aziz and Dominic Twomey.

Saima Ashraf only speaks when given permission to by Aziz. Twomey has obviously decided to adopt the same campaign he used in 2006 which was to go it alone, there is no team work on this ward, Twomey has cut himself adrift, probably because he recognises the handicap.

Anyway there has been much talk of fraud against a High Street Bank in another posting on this site, also the abuse of the benefits systems. Lets just say that 1 of these 3 is guilty of both offences.

GORESBROOK Ward, Jim Clee, Louis Couling and Graham Letchford, what a tribe.

With the exception of Jim Clee who is a nice old boy, very genuine but clueless, the other 2 are a train crash waiting to happen. We hear the the Met Police is already investigating one of these 2 candidates, and North Street cannot say they were not warned. As for Letchford, on his application to go forward for interview for the panel, he wrote that he was retired. Well that's 1 lie for a start, when all know that he is on the sick, with the diagnoses of Manic Depressive.

He claimed in an earlier posting on this blog that of course he spoke to Richard Barnbrook of the BNP as he was the only councillor doing anything, do wonder if he repeated that to the interview panel? once again a clear breach of labour party rules. Observers say that his relationship with Barnbrook over the months has grown, and that there is a very real possibility that a deal has been struck very much the same as that between Rodwell and Bailey.

Just one little further piece of information one of these candidates owes the council an awful lot of money in council tax arrears we hear.

BECONTREE

Well things seem to have got a bit hot in this ward, no sign of Evilyn seems she has run for cover, no longer is she boasting that she will be the next Deputy Leader of the council, it looks very much like she is giving up the fight to keep her seat.

Perhaps she has recognised that the Independents standing have a far better relationship with the community than she could ever have, they at least understand what is going on in the ward, and they certainly do not preach to residents.

James Ogungbose, very nice man, but does he really have a clue what he is doing. We know there were a large number of complaints about the time of night he was delivering leaflets.

Rob Douglas, absolutely clueless, just does as he is told, well doing as he was told got him into trouble the other day we hear, he really should not go into local shops and threaten shop keepers that they will loose their tenancy if they keep the Independents posters in their windows.

Does he really believe that even councillors have that kind of power, no of course they don't, but its worrying that Douglas believes he has.

Becontree is not a safe seat for Labour now.

ALIBON, is this the KINGs seat or?

more like the tale of the Emperors new clothes.

Lets have a look shall we?

Sanchia Alasia - still after all this time nothing more known about her, we hope that at least some voters know her in the ward.

John (brown envelope) Davis well what can we say, despite Hodge and the mafia doing everything they could to get him through, including the fact that he was never interviewed by the so called Independent panel to go forward for selection. He has as all have known been hopeless on the campaign trail.

Its only safe to allow him to turn up for a photograph, the mafia have been warned don't let him near the public, and don't let him anywhere near visiting ministers.

The way that things have been carved up in Alibon ward there will only be 1 place for Labour and that wont be John (brown envelope) Davis.

And now we come to Darren Rodwell the man who would be king.......we hear that he has already selected his Cabinet, there will be NO members from Dagenham in that little cosy group.

He has we understand been condemned by the Electoral Commission with regard to his handling of Postal Vote forms.

He has continued in his condemnation of previous Labour Members in how they run the council, despite the very fact that only just a short while ago the Council was judged to be a 4* Council, 1 of very few in London.

By the way his condemnation of those Labour members goes against the rules of the Labour Party which he claims to represent.

Tell us Darren did you resolve your companies bankruptcy issues?

But, lets set all of his corrupt little ways aside, because they pale in significance to the deal he has struck with Bob Bailey from the BNP, many have been aware of the friendship that exists between them, and now people are coming forward and talking openly about their belief that an agreement has been reached between these 2. Bailey it seems is quite happy to sacrifice one of his own to let Rodwell win a seat. It is even being suggested that certain bnp canvassers are suggesting this on the doorstep.

We of course would like to be in the position to confirm this without any doubt but as yet we are unable to, but we have been reminded that a similar deal was struck in Mayesbrook Ward in 2006.

REVIEW and ROUNDUP

Well as its only a few days till D day we thought we would do a whistle stop tour around the Barking Wards and have a look see just how the North Street mafias candidates have shaped up on the run up to polling day.

Starting of course with Abbey Ward.

Laila Butt, Manzoor Hussain and Tariq Saeed

Well nothing much has changed with these 3, it seems they are now as they have always been of the opinion that being Muslim will get them through.

They are we have been told the laziest lot of campaigners in Barking, the only time they turn up is if its to have their photo taken. The don't do door knocking, and when they can get away with it they give the kids a few bob to deliver any leaflets.

What is worrying for all residents and voters in the area should be that they are making promises, there is a strong rumour of a expansion to the Mosque which of course these 3 are signed up to

Also the growth, the very worrying growth in postal votes in Abbey Ward, but, as we have already covered that issue in another posting.

Will all 3 get through? possibly, but, there could well be a couple of surprises the Conservatives have put forward a strong team, and as awful as it is the 1 BNP candidate could cause an upset.

FURTHER INFO ON MET POLICE INVESTIGATION

We have learned this morning that the Mets investigation into fictitious names being put on the electoral role in East London has been prompted by the fact that more than 5,000 last-minute applications to vote have been received.

We also have today a direct quote from the Electoral Commission set out below:

The Electoral Commission condemns political parties for encouraging voters to send postal vote application forms to local campaign offices INSTEAD of town halls.

Parties store information for canvassing purposes, then send the forms on to council election staff who distribute ballot papers to households.

BUT, the practice is open to abuse because application forms include both the signature and birth date of the voter, which could be used by fraudsters to forge ballot papers."

Is North Street that desperate?????