3 October - The establishment fights dirty
You may have noticed that BiB is reluctant to report the intricacies of
stories which are heavily based on legal argument. The detail takes more time to
digest than is available to me and as I have no legal expertise whatsoever there
is a too great a danger that I might get hold of the wrong end of the stick. The worrying case of the police
arresting a Bexley resident as she passed through
Heathrow on her way home from a holiday was dropped for exactly that reason. It
was alleged the police did it for a lark in support of their civilian employee
involved in a marital dispute but it all became so complex that it was
impossible to summarise - or fully understand if truth be told.
For similar reasons I have not given a running commentary on
John Watson’s Judicial Review application. His complaint is that after getting rather too
close for comfort to the truth of
the Maxine Fothergill
stitch-up he was banned
from contacting Bexley Council and his emails were put on a block list.
It is very difficult to fight authority and it requires dedication to even try.
Authority in general and Bexley Council in particular will employ a catalogue of dirty tricks.
When Councillor Peter Craske was arrested
on suspicion of authoring obscene
blogs aimed at me and others, Bexley Council intervened to undermine the case
against him. It was “crippled by political interference” was what the police told me.
There is overwhelming evidence that Councillor Cheryl Bacon and former Chief
Executive Will Tuckley committed Misconduct in Public Office and ten witnesses
to the events of 19th June 2013
wrote accounts disputing Councillor Bacon’s
version of events. No witness spoke up in her defence. The Crown Prosecution
Service has been considering the case against both of them for an unprecedented
(according to police sources) 13 months and their decision must now be imminent.
There is absolutely no way that the establishment can see the new CE at Tower
Hamlets hauled before a court on Misconduct charges after he was specially
selected by government commissioners to sort out the corruption in that borough.
How the CPS will manage to circumvent the ten to one majority of witnesses
against Cheryl Bacon remains to be seen, but dodge the issue they will.
When Bexley Council’s contracted bailiffs were found to be
breaking the law (and
fleecing residents) in very nearly every case they handled, Bexley’s auditors
accepted there had been widespread malpractice but refused to take action against anyone.
Instead they said they only way forward was for me personally to organise a
prosecution which they could have undertaken themselves.
When Bromley - which runs the parking enforcement regime for Bexley - was found
to have signed unlawful contracts the auditors once again looked the other way
while the experts at
Notomob said it was the worst case of illegal practices
they had ever seen.
Once again the auditors asked a resident to fund a prosecution if they wanted to
pursue matters further and once again the crooks-that-be are able to continue
their malpractices with impunity.
Bexley Council will set out to crush John Watson’s efforts to protest his
disenfranchisement from full participation in local democracy. They have emailed
to him various threats to the effect that they will employ a barrister to fight
him using your money and mine to pay for him and claim the money back from John.
Then they do not allow John to respond to their emails because they have blocked
him from so doing.
It is interesting to note that Bexley Council is not using the ‘expertise’ of
their Head of Legal whose job description demands he is either a solicitor or
a barrister but appears not to be. The Council’s letters are signed by other Council
staff. The correspondence is bogged down in legal argument.