The IOPC is always watching.

 Well it looks from that little experiment that the IOPC is very keen on reading blog post which mention it.

Poacher turned smoke screen.

Alastair Machray was the editor of the dodgy rag the Liverpool Echo. It seems that sometime ago IPSO appointed him to its complaints' committee. 
Given my experience of dealing with the creep and the general appalling behaviour of Reach PLC it is yet another reason to avoid this self-appointed group. Like the Solicitor Regulation Authority and IOPC its job to protect the papers from the consequences of "rogue" companies and individuals not to protected the public, from them.

Protected the public would mean admitting there are problems and that will only be done when there is absolutely no way to reject the complaint.

Don't waste time if you can afford it sue the fuckers.

Damien Walsh

 It appears that dishonest and corrupt former Merseyside Police officer Damien Walsh is still at Winsford Academy.



I wonder what bearing that has on this?

Rubbing it in

 This is what I received in the post.

 

 

Which is a bit galling considering she just joined a list of MPs who could not give a shit. Such as Kim Johnson, Jane Kennedy. Though Johnson's case she has given a shit in other similar case but not mine

Macdonald's career should really disbar her from being on MP, she has spent her entire post university life either in the Labour Party or Working for charities, perhaps both at the same time no experience of life beyond the nice cosy world of politics, no knowledge of what other organisations get up to and no experience of dealing with the great unwashed.

A head fully of theory and bullshit. You might not like Kier Starmer, but as a barrister he will have met all sorts of people. Macdonald hasn't.

The people of Norwich North can look forward to being represented by someone who knows nothing about sorting their problems, either common or uncommon,

A career politician of the worst kind.

My advice is, don't waste your time with her. To her, she not here to serve you, you are here to provide a platform for her. She is not your MP, she has a higher calling which your problems just get in the way of.

Different City same old shits

Meet councillors Claire Kidman and Matthew Packer until recently I had no idea who they were, but I needed someone to witness a document and elected officials were on the list

 

So 1st I wrote to Packer and I got no reply, then I wrote to Kidman, and she was only to please to come around and sign, a date was set.

 

A quick check a few days before and we are all still go. Then a bit more of a check around 12:00 and where are all still go. 

 

Based on this I pay nearly £250 to get the formal copies of the documents with submission numbers sent and arrange all the documents ready for signing.

 

16:00 comes around and Kidman emails saying an emergency has happened and she must cancel. So I ask if we can rearrange.

 

After several weeks of silence, I followed up stating I was unhappy with her behaviour and an automatic response was received.

 

The only reason I contacted the councillor was there was no one else to sign the documents other than a notary public. So my position is that I have to find the £150 for them to witness or let the application lapse. In the end, I managed to get the cash together.

 

As the councillors are members of a party, then such disreputable behaviour should be of interest. Well, not the Labour Party, if it is activities carried out in their role as an elected official. What other reason would 90% of the people have to contact a councillor?

Where are they now.

Chris Lloyd has now decided he doesn't feel safe in the Labour Party, so has defected to the Lib Dems. It should come as relief to everyone that by joining the Lib Dems he has made sure he will never get anywhere near the leavers of power. 

But what of the likes of Rob Carney? The last I heard, he had scuttled off to Manchester.

Gow goes west.

It appears that some time ago Alison Gow left Reach PLC. It would be nice to think someone at Reach found out about her ethical and moral failings, but I don't think it is possible to have sufficiently low ethics or morals to be a risk to the reputation of such a repugnant organisation.

I suppose it possible the Gow found that Reach PLC was below her high standards. That is however very very unlikely.

More likely she just found some, likely unethical, way to make more cash. I believe North Wales used to have some of the highest standards of morals in the country. They must however be in steep decline in the Snowdonia area if Gow can avoid being run out of town.

It is another date for Ged Fitzgerald.

It has been a while coming, but it looks like Ged Fitzgerald and the Operation Aloft crew will be having their day in court in September 2024. See Ex-Lancashire Council leader Geoff Driver trial date set for 2025; Three men accused in the same investigation will also stand trial next year.

It not straight forward though, in September 2024 David McElhinney, Phil Halsall, and Ged Fitzgerald, all ex Liverpool City Council staff, will be at Manchester Crown court for various charges. Then 7 months later they be back for another trial, this time with Geoff Driver.

Despite the article I'm quoting being copyright MGN, this hasn't appeared in any paper or broadcast media. It has all been hush, hush. One question is will the 2nd trial prevent reporting on the first? Where does this leave operation Aloft. Sheridan only covers Lancashire County Council, while Aloft is Liverpool City Council?

An epidemic of lack of integrity.

I've dealt with Liverpool Councillor Ron Gould, Joe Anderson and Nick Small and in order they have been rude, abusive and snide. I've dealt with MPs, mainly their staff, Louise Ellman, Jane Kennedy and Kim Johnson. They have been abusive(staff), abusive and condensing(staff). Kennedy and Johnson managed to by rude personally. All, bar Gould, have been Labour.

 

Explicitly with Ron Gould, where he simply said "We've been told all about you" then Jane Kennedy's staff member's initial greeting of "You should see a psychiatrist" before slamming the phone through Joe's "He just bullshits everything",  right through to snide and condescending Cate Murphy who is Kim Johnson's office manager. It has been fairly obvious they have heard some rumours and obviously taken them seriously.
 

If they were serious people then they would have done some investigation, perhaps given me a chance to address some of them. However, this is Liverpool, a city run by scallies. From the most junior member of the council through to the Chief Executive, specifically Ged Fitzgerald, they are endowed with a degree of entitlement, that is also found in most parts of Liverpool's establishment from lawyers like Brabners, Media a like the Echo and Merseyside Police.

 

Liverpool is a city where the great and the good are totally almost of ethics and moral behaviour. This not 100% true, but in almost every case do not come from Liverpool.

This lack of ethics might also explain some of Kim Johnson's in activity. A couple of years ago I put in a complaint to Merseyside Police and when it was rejected after 0 investigation because their GPS tracking system had recoded an officer in that location and no other attempt being taken to identify and officer in the area.

 

So an appeal was put in via the IOPC, an email was received saying wait for Merseyside Police to contact you. A contact that never came, I asked Johnson to chase this up, she got back saying that I had no complaint withe Merseyside police and that she had no power or any say in how the police ran things. She was sent a copy of the IOPC message saying a complaint had been raised by them. She did not reply.

You only have to search for her name and police to find out that she has been quite happy to use her MP status at other times.

 

The IOPC ignore requests to chase up the complaint and Merseyside Police own grossly incompetent FOI/DPA department say that it will not look up the data because the complaint ID number is an IOPC number not their own.

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 Liverpool 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.