The parasite's new apologist.

Meet Dr Rebecca Whittington the Online Safety Chief for Reach PLC.  Her job "to support journalists across the company who receive abuse or harassment as a result of their job". 

The reality of journo abuse is that a lot of it is very similar to the abuse journos hand out, it may not be the journos that hand it out who receive it but let's remember Jeremy Clarkson is a journo, Kelvin MacKenzie is a journo, Piers Morgan is a journo formerly at Reach, the people who work at GBNews are journos. They are the big names in journo abuse. Who is there to protect the people who are their victims? 

True, most of them pick on big names, who have the budgets for therapy and security but what about further down the list where the local and regional press abuse people? I have suffered abusive phone calls from the rag that is the Echo and its then editor. I also suffered attacks on Twitter when mentioning it, from Reach's staff. Where is my support? 

Where is Helen Wilkie's support after being forced off a course by the Liverpool Echo's editor for alleged abuse on Twitter? Have those abusive tweets been produced yet? Last time I checked they hadn't! 

Where is the support for the people of Upper Pitt Street where a flat was attacked and smashed up, incurring £1000s of pounds worth of damage for the landlord to pay, because the Echo revealed that someone just convicted of sexual offences had lived there? Of course, as they'd been held on remand and were sent down for 4 years, were never going to live there again. What public interest was there in publishing this detail other than to prime the mob? 

The Echo likes a good crime story, the darker the events the better, they play well with the prurient interests of the readers and sells papers thereby making them money. What also makes money is a hagiography of murdered gangsters or the death of some petty hoodlum. Oh, they loved their mum.

Whatever gets the most clicks or sells the most papers. 

Journalists have granted themselves special privileges in society and they are cuddled up to the powerful. You or I engaging in the practices that journalists engage in, is 90% of what they call abuse when it's directed at them. 

If there is some deal where we tolerate their, for money, intrusion in people's lives, in return for them keeping a close eye on those in power and holding them accountable, then we seriously need to revise it because they stopped delivering on their side of the bargain long ago. 

The rise of media away from the likes of Reach is a threat to them, that's why Reach took Google's money to try and destroy truly local journalism.

 

I'm sure that a large focus of her job will be humanising journalists to the population, so people feel sympathy for them. It is a job Reach will only do for its staff and the most socially destructive criminals on its patch.
Of course Whittington doesn't allow people to comment on her posts, how typical of journalists. Hypocritical to the core.

Gill's snide land.

For many years I worked in Oxbridge in both halves and during that time I developed a deep deep suspicion of Oxbridge Graduates, some of them are very talented and capable, some of them are very intelligent and incapable and there are some that are just plain weird.
However the biggest single group are the self-serving it is all about them, they are indoctrinated to believe they are the cream of the cream who deserve all the success they can get no matter what they have to do to get it. This goes a long way to explain the BBC's Andy Gill, who till a few minutes ago I hadn't realised was an Oxfordman but it makes sense.
I've never knowingly communicated with Andy but he was spread some now know bollocks about me by a snapper at the Liverpool Echo and perhaps a local high-profile solicitor. The solicitor has had to retract allegations he made about made claiming it was mistaken identity, though he never explained where the info came from.
The scant information presented to him would not be enough for a person of integrity to come to any conclusion, let alone act on it, but that didn't stop Andy. It is the kind of snap judgment that a qualification from Oxbridge entitles you to make and one which you fellow Oxbridgers and Oxbridge sycophants will make sure you suffer no ill effects from making.
Andy used to give me a hard stair every time we crossed paths after the encounter outside Liverpool Crown court. This of course makes me think that together with my Oxbridgephobia he was given some other tips on how to annoy me.

MPs Staff

I've dealt with the offices of several MPs and their staff. They don't inspire confidence. The four offices varied from plain abusive through snide to just idiotic. They seem to have got the job based on a shared ideology, not their ability to interact with the public.

One of them whose personal behaviour was snide/ borderline abusive was Chris Lloyd, who worked for Louise Ellman. In a court case, I was involved in had statements from Lloyd, the mild-mannered solicitor developed a loathing for Lloyd based purely on his victim statement. In the end, the CPS seems to have developed a similar opinion of Lloyd and the other staff members, leading to their removal from the case as victims.

The MP went out of their way to ensure that their statements never ended up in court and so they could not be cross-examined in public.

Ellman was the chairperson of the Transport Select Committee. When Lloyd left Ellaman's office, he secured a nice gig working for Network Rail. I wonder what Network Rail thought it was getting from someone with a Politics with Law degree in a PR position. Though perhaps the qualification wasn't the important thing. 

It seems that Lloyd is back on the campaign trail. See "Greenwich councillor Chris Lloyd misses out in the race to be Westminster candidate".

 

 

But what of the present collection, the post-2019 group? They don't seem to be an improvement. If anything, they are more uniform in their abysmal attitude. This time though, it is streaked through with ideology. Don't expect anything from them on behalf of the working class. They only see the working class as the foot soldiers of their army. The patronising and paternalistic nature of the hard left is alive and kicking in L8.

Court news.

It seems that Ged Fitzgerald is about to get his day in court, well, actually several weeks.

He will be joined in the dock by Dr David McElhinney, Philip Halsall, Gerard Fitzgerald, and Geoff Driver. This is in connection with Lancashire County Council but the 1st 3 all have connections with Liverpool City Council as well.

The enquire is said to centre around One Connect joint venture between BT. A similar scheme, Liverpool Direct was running in Liverpool up to 2014.

Press release from Lancashire police.

The court thing happened and complete silence. 

I wrote to the approriate court and asked for a copy of the reporting retrictions and again complete silence.  I can only conclude that their are none otherwise the they would have replied say it is not possible.

To:gm-manmcadmin@justice.gov.uk

Wed, 1 Feb at 22:21

Hi,

Is it possible to get a copy of the reporting restrictions imposed at the court on the above date, in the case involving David McElhinney, Phillip Halsall, Gerard Fitzgerald and Geoff Driver?

Brabners, the SRA & Liz and Vicky.

Recently evidence of the behaviour of Brabners Solicitors of Liverpool came into my hands. Showing that they agreed with the police not to take a prosecution forward after their staff had made allegations to the police. The evidence was in the form of a statement made by a Merseyside Police Constable.
The allegations made by "Liz & Vicky" are vehemently denied by the accused, who was happy to go to court to defend their integrity, and who ensured everyone was aware of this. Brabners staff backed out but still instituted; the allegations were true.
Several other strange allegations by Brabners staff, were withdrawn when it came to light, though with only the thinnest of covering the story.
When the complaint was taken to the SRA, it was ignored by Sally Atherton, who does not see police statements as evidence, seems ignorant of the basic principles of law, and is incapable of basic reasoning.
Like most UK professions, they have no external supervision with any teeth. They are there for show. They do not protect the public from the predatory actions of abusive organisations but act only when the behaviour of a set of solicitors threatens the trust people have in solicitors and their money-making potential. If you have evidence of underhand behaviour by a solicitor that needs the SRAs help , then they will not help.
All the people involved in this, from Liz & Vicky, Mark Manley, Sharon McCarthy, Sally Atherton and others, have demonstrated snide arrogance, regardless of wether they are low-ranking trainee solicitors or high-ranking part-time judges.




 

 

Not so much Nutall as Fuck All.

Here is an email from Alan Nutall, the staff officer of Serena Kennedy, the current chief constable of Merseyside. It is now over six months old. I doubt anyone is surprised that there is no response.
 
 I did call Nuttall about this and was asked for an incident ID by a call handler. I explained I didn't have one, so the operator accused me of being obstructive by not giving it to her. She then progressively became more aggressive until I called her a bully, at which point, she hung up. How someone so dense gets a job in a vital service is almost a crime in and of itself.
 
 Nor is there a response from Kim Johnson MP, the MP for the Johnson family children. Happy to complain about the slightest possible stupidity by the met but unhappy to get involved in sorting out 25+ years for one of her unrelated constituents. Eagerly aided and abetted by fellow Momentum/Corbynite, Cate Murphy, I'm not sure what the criteria are for MPs picking their assistants but having less integrity than senior Merseyside Police officers seems to be one. This observation is from interactions with more than 1 MP's office.

Nuttall Alan <alan.nuttall@merseyside.police.uk>

Tue, 4 Jan at 14:41

As requested as I have requested, two things on your behalf:
1) finalisation communication from 2006 complaint re your home address
2) update on IOPC ref 2021/157040

I will not be undertaking any other review.

Kind regards
Alan

How did Liverpool get into this state.

Liverpool City Council is currently partially controlled by central government-appointed commissioners. However, some known crooks still hold senior positions, while Merseyside Police should be under external investigation for endemic corruption.

In London, Boris Johnson is under intense scrutiny by the press, as are the Metropolitan Police for not investigating, despite the wealth of evidence. In Liverpool, there is near silence from the local newspaper, regional media and the national press.

The press prides itself on holding the powerful to account. It thinks it deserves special privileges to allow it to do this, but now it often fails to have any impact. At a local level, the failing is even more apparent and no more so than in the Liverpool Echo, part of Reach Plc, formerly Trinity Mirror. Trinity Mirror resulted from the merger of the Mirror Group, former proprietor Robert Maxwell and Trinity International Holdings, a product of rearranging the Liverpool Echo's substantial holdings. This merger wasn't good news for Liverpool. What had once been a successful local company became a minor part. 

The merger had successfully placed the head office in Chester for several years at the first opportunity it moved to London.

In 1995 Alastair Machray joined the group as editor of the Daily Post, which was Liverpool's morning paper. In 2005, he became the editor of the Echo. Previous Liverpool Echo editors had had strong associations with the city, but Machray is a newcomer. He has no knowledge of the city beyond what he would have picked up from generic sources, both good and bad.

The local newspaper market has gone into a steep decline. The falling sales attributed to the rise of new media being the cause. Machray, whether of his own volition or under instruction from management, started making the paper relevant. He did this by firing a large portion of the local-born staff, whose views of the city were based on personal experience and leaving those remaining to peddle the myth of Liverpool.

With Machray as editor, the Echo ran ghost stories and hagiographies for dead gangsters while cultivating scouse exceptionalism. All for its end of making money. Not content with that, Machray has been keen to cosy up to any group he sees as influential, all at the expense of journalistic standards.

The Mirror group was the group of Bouncing Bob Maxwell, Telephone hacking and faked pictures. Machray has taken this Mirror group brand and happily cut and pasted its ethics into the Liverpool Echo.

Out of all this, the city gets a corrupt council and a corrupt police force while he gets an OBE. Even Thatcher and Boris did more for Liverpool than Machray ever did.