TOTAL CONDEMNATION OF DARREN RODWELL

Over the last 24 hours or so our mail box has been overflowing with complaints against Darren Rodwell and a FLYER that he is promoting in Thames Ward.

These complaints have come in from residents and members of the Party, and more importantly members of the Party who know the rules.

A number of these have sent a copy of the FLYER over to us and we now fully understand their anger.

For our readers and supporters who may not have seen this let us explain.

Its one side of A4 in black and white, Headline Margaret Hodge MP, how you can help me to improve your local area. Taking Action: there then follows a list of Barking & Dagenham Council telephone numbers for different services.

NO PROBLEM THERE.

Police Safer Neighbourhood Team - NO PROBLEM THERE

Contact details for Margaret Hodge MP and John Biggs London Assembly Member
NO PROBLEM THERE

Here we go:

Your local Labour Team - Cllr Barry Poulton - with a Council telephone number that will put residents through to a council officer, Cllr Barry Poulton will be well aware that it should be his own telephone number that goes onto Political Leaflets - No Member of the council should involve council officers in politics.

Then the names of Cameron Geddes and Josephine Channer, with a mobile phone number and an email address. Just who will be answering these calls and emails?

At the bottom is the usual script printed by Barking Labour Party, promoted by Darren Rodwell on behalf of Barking Labour Party 102 North Street Barking.

Firstly can we draw to Darren Rodwells attention the FACT whether he or the North Street mafia like it or not Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns are still the duly elected LABOUR Councillors for Thames ward until May of next year, and must still be part of the Labour team.

By doing this Darren Rodwell has committed a clear UN COMRADELY act against Joan Rawlinson and Fred Barns, one that Darren Rodwell will NOT be able to deny as it is in print. This is one of the founding rules within the Labour Party that members must treat each other in a comradely manner.

Secondly Darren Rodwell has fallen into the trap of putting Barking Labour Party's address as 102 North Street, when will the North street mafia learn that 102 North Street is the constituency office of Margaret Hodge MP paid for by the BRITISH TAXPAYER, it is not and never has been the office of Barking Labour Party, an agreement by Barking CLP and the Parliamentary Fees Office has never been entered into, to our certain knowledge Barking CLP and other wards who use 102 North Street do not make any payment at all to the Fees Office.

We would refer the North Street mafia to the article written in the Evening Standard about this just a couple of months ago.

So just what has Darren Rodwell in his arrogance done, he has breached party rules in his treatment of duly elected Labour Councillors, he has breached Council rules by involving Council officers in a political leaflet. And he has breached Parliamentary rules by stating on the leaflet that 102 North Street is the office of the Barking Labour Party.

Just goes to show what arrogance and corruption can do.............but the flip side of this is that it has so angered the residents of Thames view that they are now even firmer together in their fight against this corruption.