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.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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.
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.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
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?
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?
Monday, 19 April 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
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 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.
Friday, 16 April 2010
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.
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.
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