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  • FR JULIAN LARGE & THE COGHLAN AFFAIR

    Fr Julian and Shaun Bailey

    Those attending Mass at Brompton Oratory last Sunday received a sharp reminder about what it means to be a Catholic. Fr Julian praised Fr Ian Vane, the subject of much unwarranted vitriol from Chris Coghlan MP.

    Coghlan, a professing Roman Catholic, voted in favour of assisted dying and late-stage abortion. Odd for an Irish ‘cradle Catholic’ to be unaware of his Church’s teaching on these fundamental matters!

    Fr Julian also referenced the 12 other Catholic MPs whose support of the legislation defied Church teaching on assisted dying and the aborting of babies up until birth or indeed abortion at any stage.

    From his sermon….

    The Very Reverend Julian Large has pleaded, in fraternal charity, with MPs who voted in favour of either abortion up until birth or assisted suicide not to present themselves to receive Holy Communion.

    According to a source close to the Herald, during his Sunday homily, he reflected on the recent example of an MP who had voted in favour of both abortion up until birth and assisted suicide, and who was told by his parish priest that he must not receive Communion unless he had repented.

    He was referring to Chris Coghlan, the Liberal Democrat MP for Dorking and Horley in Surrey, who backed a Crime and Policing Bill amendment on June 17 that decriminalised abortion up until birth, and the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which seeks to roll out assisted suicide across England and Wales.

    Mr Coghlan said Father Ian Vane, the priest at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dorking, wrote to him before the votes and then, last week, told people attending Mass that he would be refusing him Communion.

    Fr Large commended the priest for his courage and charity in calling the MP to repentance.

    From the Catholic Herald

  • THE RICH KINNOCK CLAN

    We have seen the speed with which wealth leaves this increasingly endangered country. London has borne the brunt of the non-dom exodus with every economic sector hard hit.

    Now the failed windbag Lord Kinnock want to put a wealth tax on those idiotic enough wishing to stay. Love or loathe the rich they create dynamic economies.

    This is why cities like Milan, Madrid and Lisbon are luring our rich entrepreneurs

    A wealth tax won’t hurt the windbag. He has never had a proper job and garners a pension and income of over £140,000 a year: a good chunk of which is tax-free

    This sort of freeloading runs in the family. Stephen Kinnock and his wife also live off the poor bloody taxpayer

  • LEAVE THE MARKET ALONE!

    Market in full and happy swing

    When local councils try to ‘improve’ an area, you can be certain disaster will follow. And when they try to force these ‘improvements’ through during peak holiday times, you can be sure they are trampling over transparancy.

    This council has some serious issues to address and should not be tampering with Portobello Market. The market has been a successful magnet for decades and should be protected as a community asset.

    Dear All

    Summer has arrived. Many neighbours have left London. As happens every summer, RBKC’s plan to destroy Portobello Market returns. While we’re engrossed in Wimbledon, RBKC has resurrected its master plan to “accidentally” destroy the Market – by banning, or hugely reducing, parking.

    This issue has a considerable history. There are no prizes for guessing exactly who is currently behind this; nor why. Cllr Taylor Smith has told us he used to run ‘commercial’ markets. A few years ago an estate agent told a street trader that the traders would soon be gone, because RBKC had done a deal with the gin palace and local property owners, to replace the market stalls with restaurant tables & chairs. No one had considered the traders’ legal status. Suffice it to say that: the law protects them. So RBKC yet again intends to destroy Market parking by lying about:

    a) Shopkeepers’ ‘sightlines’
    b) Tourist overcrowding
    c) Multiple “public consultations”
    d) Now, an 80+% chance: security. 

    This is RBKC’s position. As ever; get rid of the parking; get rid of the Market. Job done. Then RBKC can follow through with it’s long established plan to replace Market with restaurant/pub/cafe/bar tables and chairs in the street a la Covent Garden. Except Portobello Road is not in the West End. It’s an ugly little back street off Ladbroke Grove. It’s famous only because the Market has made it famous. Without the Market; it’s just a back street.

    a) Market shops have always been blocked by stalls to the east and parking to the west. RBKC has systematically sold off 80% of traders’ stores. Street traders can no longer afford to live nearby. Those wanting perfect sight lines can go to All Saints Rd. It’s beautiful and rents much lower – because there’s no footfall.

    b) Despite protests, for the last 10+ years, the Market Office has promoted Portobello Market as a major tourist attraction – not a place to buy staples. We understood the Met police annual footfall figure of 3 million. Yet in 2023, RBKC/Cllr Faulks published a report “Live, Work Learn” claiming a 6 million footfall per annum. RBKC took no  measurements. It has never published a report on the financial value of the Market to the area. On the back of Cllr Faulks’ report; property owners and estate agents colluded to sell leases to a score of new restaurants, bars, cafes etc. with the promise of endless outdoor seating for their customers – in the area formerly used by the Market. At no time did RBKC consult the Borough Solicitor. The street traders advised Cllr Taylor Smith on the law.

    c) There is no need to plough through the saga of RBKC’s multiple public consultations on Portobello, over the years. They focused on persuading residents/shopkeepers/visitors to condemn the Market to the dustbin of history. They all failed. This last exercise has cost £100,000 and elicited the same response: “Leave Portobello Market Alone!” Nothing more has been heard for months.

    d) RBKC is now rushing to obey 20 years’ overdue “new” security requirements regarding the Market and its visitors. Meanwhile, the identical risks to RBKC’s hundreds of roadway diners, are ignored. 

    Please note: RBKC managed to get its dangerously low ’security’ blocks of something other than concrete, installed without serious trouble. Now RBKC is ready to rid Portobello of Market parking. No parking; no Market – because over the last 20 years RBKC has sold off 80 – 90% of the Market stores. Five hundred street traders will lose their livelihoods. All this; so a few councillors; multiple property owners plus estate agents can make more money! The restaurants/pubs//bars/cafes will continue to mostly lose money; because rents etc are huge and tourists mostly young, with little to spend.
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    Local Resident

  • Cllr Dori Schmetterling is a fine, hardworking councillor…and a good egg.

    ……so what has Andrew Foster got against him and why are the good people of Pembroke Ward being deprived of his services?

    The Dame has never met this councillor but she has heard only good things about him. There was a particular and totally untruthful comment which the Dame did not take seriously.

    There seems a singular lack of transparency at the local party organisation level. Residents are entitled to know why good councillors are replaced at the whim of some party apparatchik.

    Has Dori offended Mr Foster? We need to be told.

  • APOLOGIST FOR PUTIN BEHIND OXFORDSHIRE THEME PARK

    Philippe de Villiers, the French politician and founder of Puy Du Fou theme parks is expanding in the UK with a proposed £600m site in Bicester.

    de Villiers condoned the annexation of parts of Ukraine and decried sanctions against war criminal, Putin.

    This link tells you all you need to know about de Villiers and his business associates. https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20140816-french-conservative-aristocrat-defends-plans-russian-theme-park

    His business partner in Moscow is a EU-sanctioned individual. LINK

    He has also been sanctioned by the US State department LINK

    So, what we find is that de Villiers is in partnership with a sanctioned Russian individual. 

    Is de Villiers a fit and proper person to be a major investor in the UK?

  • WRONG MAN FOR GOOD IDEA

    Patrick Vallance dominated our lives during the pandemic. He reminds us of those badly handled and miserable days.

    The government has a good plan to link two great universities, Oxford and Cambridge. The idea is to link the 66 miles between the cities into an intensive innovation cluster area and, as importantly, a hub for globally renowned science and technology firms in life sciences, manufacturing, and AI.

    This Fenland Silicon Valley is to be driven by Vallance.

    This is atypical of all governments. Instead of thinking outside the box, it picks an ageing safe pair of hands.

    This job should have been given to a young and fiery transatlantic entrepreneur: a man or woman able to relate to the new generation of tech entrepreneurs. One can just imagine what a turn off he will be to young tech pioneers as he drones on about his glory days. Now….someone like Chris Huhne? Different kettle of fish.

  • A KICK IN THE TEETH TO REFORM GRASSROOTS

    Marlborough

    The other night Nigel Farage held a £25,000 a head party at a vulgar Mayfair club called Oswald’s. The intention was to raise money.

    Dom Perignon, the preferred champagne of the parvenu flowed and ‘distinguished’ guests like James Marlborough and George Cracknell danced away with Lady Vicky Harvey until the small hours having gorged themselves on foie gras and Beluga.

    Harvey

    Yes, the Dame, a fearful snob would love to have been able to wear her new gold lame frock and mingle with the cream of society. But, how does all this resonate with Farage’s grassroots supporters?

    Many are struggling small business people and most have rather Cromwellian and puritanical views of politics.

    These dreadful and ostentatious displays of wealth set a nasty tone:

    Farage, being a bit ‘middle’ middle class loves to be surrounded by aristocratic dross and ex celebs.

    Serious potential donors like Dyson, Ratcliffe and other industrial titans will be very put off. Tarnishing one’s reputation by rubbing shoulders with some of the celebrity ex cons would not go down well with shareholders.

  • PR SPEND AND PULLING HENS’ TEETH

    Persuading RBK&C’s FoI department to come clean on costs is like pulling hens’ teeth.

    In the last couple of years just under £2 million has been spent or budgeted for.

    This is a huge amount of money. The PR department under Price-Thompson has become an empire with around 16 staff beavering away. It would be understandable if there was tangible evidence of some sort of positive outcome but that is not the case.

    The Dame knows a little about the PR Game. Over the years she has consistently advocated outsourcing to a grown-up consultancy or sharing the resource with neighbouring councils.

    The publicity material put out by the Council is just embarrassing and unread and whatever advice is given to the Leader still leaves her floundering.

    It is time the winds of change blew through the Council and a new, younger, leader untainted by the past put in the driving seat.

  • DISSEMBLING MP

    Is Henry Tufnell MP backwards in coming forward(back in image)?

    There is nothing contemptible in an aristo being a Labour MP.

    What is contemptible is pretending to be what you are not.

    If Tufnell had been open about his background no one would have given two hoots. However, his gauche efforts at clambering up the greasy political pole by pretending to be common (like the Dame) are just embarrassing.

    He has made a fool of himself for no reason.

  • LYING DOWN LIME BIKES!

    Typical chaotic Lime/Forest scene

    Wayne Ting, boss of Lime claims the council needs to ‘give’ his multibillion company more space. His words are his smooth as his looks.

    Ting….Smooth operator

    No matter now much space you give his riders they will still feel entitled to drop bikes as the fancy takes them. This is why on every London street we see the results of his company’s miss-management. He attempts to claim he is on some sort of divine social mission to enhance our streets. Most of us think he is looking to make easy money out of public spaces. Santander manages to have a socially responsible docking system but that costs money.

    This is what Miss Pleasant, a PR operative for Lime wrote in response to yet another complaint. She also claims to be replying on behalf of a ‘Dominic’ who is responsible for Forest ‘excuses’. 

    Thank you for your email and sincere apologies for the issues you are experiencing at Hans Road and Walton Place, this is not acceptable. I am responding on behalf of myself at Lime and Dominic at Forest to let you know that we take these issues incredibly seriously and will be looking to take action here. 

    Both operators have a system of warnings and fines for users who do not park appropriately. Repeated offenders are also banned from our services. We also have teams of staff who monitor bays, redistribute overcrowded vehicles and tidy bays such as this. We will allocate additional resourcing here to ensure that we are keeping on top of these locations and moving vehicles away from them swiftly. 

    The issue here is caused by overcrowding as a result of high demand, we will be working with the council to see if there is further space that we can add parking to reduce pressure on the Hans Road bay as well as private parking locations in the area.”

    Miss Pleasant attempts to present this as an isolated incident: it is not. It is greater London wide and is the result of lousy logistical planning by a money making private equity backed monster.

    It is time RBKC got to grips with this. There is a mass of legislation it can deploy yet the officer involved seems out of his depth and passes the buck back to Miss Pleasant.

    If you park your car badly it gets a fine and /or impounded. The Council should be doing the same with these bikes.

  • PLANNING INSPECTORATE KICK US IN THE TEETH

    The Planning Inspectorate has ridden roughshod over houseboat dwellers, RBK&C and all who love this stretch of our river. The ‘Mysterious Moffats’ have been allowed to park their hideous mega boats despite 100% opposition: what a negation of democracy.

    The Inspector’s decision can be challenged in the courts if there has been an error in law. If that is a possibility the RBK&C should fund the challenge.

    The Standard has written an excellent summary https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/chelsea-reach-decision-mega-boats-houseboat-residents-b1195152.htm

  • SAVING THE MARKET FOR US NOT THIEVES IN THE NIGHT

    The Dame’s many long-term fans will have followed this story for years. RBKC’s traditional markets are controlled and protected by parliamentary legislation: the London Local Authorities Act 1990. Council charges for market services must be “reasonable” and agreed with licensed street traders. Unreasonable, unagreed charges are unlawful. All unspent revenues must be returned to individual traders. The Market account is currently £200k in credit; funds are owed back to the traders. 

    RBKC has long proved itself incapable of tolerating the existence of publicly owned assets, particularly in the north of the Borough. Numerous, attempts have been made to steal and/or destroy them. These are a few fairly recent attempts by RBKC to sell off and/or demolish:

    *North Kensington Public Library – RBKC declared the interior stone staircase unsafe for children. Despite this, the building was leased to a private primary school. When the public objected, RBKC ‘reversed’ the lease.

    *Morely College provided higher education for N. Kensington residents, for decades. It was set in spacious grounds; so was sold to a ‘private’ educational company – be demolished for luxury flats. Several hundreds residents attended a public meeting. RBKC’s Cllr Taylor Smith publicly announced the reversal of the sale. The College now flourishes.

    *Portobello Court – 300 flats. RBKC drew up early plans to demolish the estate; replacing it with private luxury flats + shops. The Chair of the Portobello Court Residents Association knew nothing of the plans. Lawyers for the Grosvenor Estate wrote to RBKC. If the flats were to be demolished; the Estate would take back ownership of the land on which it sits. Shortly after WW2 it was leased in perpetuity to Kensington Council for public use. No more has been heard of the plan.       

    *The Old Laundry and half the playground in Colville School was sold to a private French Nursery. The Nursery had recently lost its lease. Enquiries followed.

    The Nursery owner was a baronet, who had evicted his own business from his own villa in Oxford Gardens.

    No Colville School parents or local residents had been consulted over the plan.

    The husband of an RBKC councillor was then Chair of Governors. Once the story was made public, RBKC backed off and Colville School continues to thrive.

    Returning to the Markets; RBKC has long ’secretly’ planned to steal Portobello & Golborne Markets from public ownership. It will sell assets it does not own to the highest bidder. Successive public consultations have failed to deliver the result required to move forward. In 2017 RBKC published a report local tourism. Portobello Market has 6 million visitors a year. In 2019 Cllr. Faulks’ report on the local economy provided a detailed analysis of the Borough; without a single reference to or image of Portobello or Golborne Markets. In 2022 a rash of licence applications mysteriously appeared for hospitality tables and chairs to replace market traders. The public objected. All the applications were rejected. In January 2023 RBKC omitted to advise the public of 3 alleged public meetings to be held on one day. All were allegedly to discuss the future of the Markets. Days before the phantom meetings, the Dame published details. Hundreds of residents attended. By evening Cllr Kemahli rode back on the plan. Yet the current, £100k+ public consultation seeks to ‘improve’ Portobello Road, while co-incidentally preventing future market trading. This is the 4th or 5th consultation that’s failed to garner the required support for RBKC’s supposedly secret plan. Local residents know what’s intended and continue to refuse to accept the destruction of 500 people’s livelihoods. Kim Taylor-Smith claims to have “dealt with” the Grenfell survivors and now intends to “deal” with the street traders in a similar manner by unilaterally forcing up rents and other expenses. This, apparently without thought given to the possibility that by doing so, RBKC may breach parliamentary law.             

    To protect residents, street traders and the public; this is a matter for the Leader of the Council; Chief Executive and Borough Solicitor. It is their duty to uphold the law and protect the public, rather than support the ambitions of a local politician.

    Yours faithfully
    A. Resident

  • K&C PR EMPIRE

    The real price of Nick Price-Thompson

    The Dame is a bit of a PR expert. She knows the tricks PR people get up using pseudo-scientific nonsense to get leaders to ante up more dough.

    Mr Price-Thompson, the K&C PR boss, has built up a huge empire convincing Elizabeth Campbell all her troubles could disappear by pouring out endless drivel read by no one.

    One bit of wisdom was to persuade those celebrating Diwali to use electric candles as normal candles caused fires!

    The Dame decided it was time to see how much Thompson and team cost taxpayers.

    Such information should be available at the touch of a button so why is her FoI taking weeks to answer?

    No council needs an in-house PR team.

    PR would be economically and efficiently managed bought in from external consultancies.

  • THE DAME’S FAVE RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION….

    Sir Peter Bazalgette

    The Milner Street Area Residents’ Association holds it 2024 Annual General meeting on Thursday, 28th November at St Simon Zelotes Church at 7pm.

    After the meeting, there will be a party so residents can meet with local luminaries and, importantly councillors, the police and Joe Powell MP.

    Peter Bazalgette, described as the most important man in British television, will give an address. The Dame was fascinated to read that his parents never allowed him to watch television until he was 12. What are his thoughts on smart screen usage by the young?

    Those flooded by sewage a few years back might also get his views on Thames Water’s poor upkeep of our sewage system…Peter’s Victorian ancestor engineered the first effective London sewage system.

    MISARA is a very proactive campaigning association.

    We complain that our views are frequently ignored but MISARA is a powerful vehicle to amplify our voice and thus deserves our support.

  • AN EX STINC EMPLOYEE SPEAKS OUT

    ANONYMOUS

    I am a former employee of Inc&Co. Despite exiting ….. years ago, I am still in touch with many great people who work in the companies and many people who have left over the years and here is some information to help provide factual information on the setup.

    Dylan is not actively involved in the day-to-day operations of any of the companies he claims to have ‘founded’. Neither is JM. Instead, Dylan meddled and focussed his time at the group level, likely skimming off profits, racking up legal fees and ‘removing’ £13.7 million from Barclays. JM focus in group was craving validation spending all this time in the mirror or on his failed quest to become the next Steven Barnett, as a LinkedIn influencer. Neither one of these two individuals have any credit to take for any of the companies successes under the umbrella.

    All company finances are centralised at Inc&Co, with decisions on payments tightly controlled at the top with an iron grip (THE FD who reports into SD). this includes the lack payment of staff pensions and also sale fees to former company heads. Individual businesses have no access to banks, budgets or funds and everything is managed and owned by Scott and hidden behind multiple layers of finance personnel within Inc&Co. JM was nothing more than a puppet craving attention, a distraction from the real operator and most likely developed by Dylan to take the fall. The staff at Inc&Co and the businesses have had the rug pulled from under them. He is a master fraudster and it beggars belief that Barclays have allowed this devastation. He doesn’t operate in plain sight, he hides behind multiple layers of group staff given he has no value to offer any of the companies. Most people haven’t even seen him in the flesh. Sometimes he would turn up for the odd board meeting refusing to put his camera on, but mostly he would use the sessions to discuss himself and his prior successes, a great opportunity for him to Gaslight the domain experts in the companies themselves.

    Scott claims to invest in these companies, but in reality there is no investment, he siphons money, avoids paying creditors, and destroys thriving businesses. He’s a compulsive liar who thrives on manipulation. When challenged, he doesn’t hesitate to threaten livelihoods, pulling companies and jobs as leverage. He often takes to LinkedIn to spew abuse, masking his actions with smoke and mirrors all over the press and claiming complex PTSD. There have been many instances where JM has challenged SD and staff have been left unpaid. Despite being JM grade A arsehole, SD is the puppeteer. The FD? Few question marks there.

  • ALL COCK & BULL STORIES

    A RARE TRIBUTE FOR ALLCOCK FROM A PENTONVILLE PRISONER. IF HE IS SO GOOD AT SEARCH RESULTS MAYBE HE COULD SEARCH FOR INC FUGITIVES?

    We know that Mr Dylan likes changing his name. Here that he has changed name yet again…. to Dylon!

    When the Dame was a young thing she tie-dyed her T shirts with Dylon

    The journalist’s trade mag, Press Gazette, the New Statesmen and PR WEEK have investigated PR Fire, Manchester PR company run by one Sam Allcock. It claims that he runs a series of websites purporting to be independent local news sources.

    Below is an another Allcock ‘publication. 2 issues. 1. the genuine Financial News is not happy with this passing off. 2. Dave Antrobus listed as a journalist is on the run so one assumes ‘working remotely’!

    PR Week the trade mag also looked into Allcocks’s activities…

    These websites are nothing more than vehicles for paid releases put out by Allcock. Some of the stories on his various websites have been written by one Scott Dylan. The Dame has comprehensive evidence that Dylan, now serving time in Pentonville for contempt of court, is well known to Allcock.

    From the ALLCOCK MEDIA GROUP!!!!Some of Allcock’s ‘papers’ go under these titles…the Bolton Gazette, Rochdale Gazette and Manchester Gazette. He has several others. We should be told whether Allcock was paid by Dylan. Step up to the plate, Allcock and tell us.

    It would not be so bad if these ‘newspapers’ were standalone but they are not. They all connect back to Allcock.

    You can read the full investigation

    https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/network-of-pr-led-uk-local-news-websites-used-to-promote-paid-for-content/

    and here

    https://www.prweek.co.uk/article/1847691/pr-firm-placing-promotional-copy-genuine-news-investigation-claims

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  • MAKER&SON AND ITS OWNERSHIP

    Bradley Coulson

    Many K&C residents got badly burnt when on the run convict, Jack Mason, bought it. Deposits mysteriously disappeared and complaints soared on Trustpilot over quality and dire customer service.

    Until very recently Mason was still running it but scuttled back to Spain when the police wanted to chat to him.

    With an arrest warrant out on him and Judge Rajah attempting to seize assets the business is now in the hands the hands of a man who also claims to be resident in Spain. The word on the street is that Mason has passed over control to his friend, Bradley Coulson. The Dame thought that Mason was barred from transferring assets so what’s going on? Jonathan Sen….can you help us?

  • JONATHAN SEN IN LOVE WITH THE DAME!

    Jonathan

    It is rare for the Dame to get plaudits from mysterious readers but when she does she purrs like a Persian or Iranian cat!

    Her only wish is that Jonathan could have provided a true email address so she could invite him to one of her fabulously amazing functions where the good and the great assemble to pay homage to the old thing

    Jonathan, don’t be a shy boy….send the Dame your address and you receive one of her much sought-after invitations. 

    Dear Dame,

    I have been a loyal reader of your amazing blog for more years than I ever care to remember.

    Never unkind….always balanced; you have been an inspiration to us all.

    Never ceasing to fight the good fight against corruption and mean-spiritedness your blog sets the highest standards of civic life.

    Yes, bad local political actors may wince as you lay into them but the good un’s always know that you back them to the hilt.

    Your pursuit of the villainous Scott Dylan the Villain was a masterpiece of investigative work.

    Now he languishes in rat-infested Pentonville soon to be joined by his fellow gang members, Mason and Antrobus.

    Dame, this is a Royal Borough and your regal presence amongst us is to be treasured.

    Yours adoringly and so gushingly

    Jonathan

  • TENANT TAKEOVER

    Thank you, Ian Henderson, for a wonderful story of how things change when tenants took over the care of their property at Wandsworth Plain Armoury Way.

    Poorly kept outside areas have been transformed.

    Before

    After

    Well done, Ian and all the tenant gardening group…an inspiration to us all!

  • SHED LOADS FOR EVERSHEDS

    Banged up!

    Above is the convict Scott Dylan…. a very lucky man. He squats on a £13.7 million fortune ‘extracted’ from Barclays; a bit less as he splurged £150k on private jet hire for holidays for his ghastly low life friends.

    The Dame hears tell the assets are neatly tucked away in the BVI and Delaware….well out of reach of Judge Rajah.

    Some were even shifted between Mason and his boyfriend just weeks ago….so much for freezing orders!

    So who ‘won’…….apart from Scott Villain and his criminal confreres?

    Barclays poured millions into the pockets of the legal eagles but to what end?

    Why did it not report the gang to the fraud squad at the outset? Had it done so Villain would never have had time to move the assets away. Especially as Barc must have known about his early life.

    The whole thing is a pantomime. Mason, Dylan’s patsy, had his passport removed by Judge Rajah who could smell a bad ‘un. What happened next? Mason goes blubbing to the Court of Appeal saying he has nowhere to live and needs to get back to Barcelona. Sadly, the useless court of appeal agreed and that was the last seen of Mason.

    So the winners are Scott Villain and his gang.

    We don’t yet know what Tony Peto KC and his underlings and Evershed-Sutherlands charged but legal big boys don’t come cheap.

    The losers? Barclays customers and shareholders….they have lost millions….oh….and us poor bloody taxpayers who pick up the legal aid bill.

  • The Dame Demands Cllr Kasim Ali condemns Somalian Despot.

    This photo of Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama (R) and his senior adviser (seated behind him) at the Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network event has caused a storm on X

    Cllr Kasim Ali Labour Group Leader and one time Somali government adviser

    So, Cllr Ali…tell us what you think about these women despising idiots?

    Outrage has erupted on social media after Somalia’s Family Minister Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama shared photos on X of himself and another male delegate representing Somalia at a UN meeting about women’s issues.

    “It is tone-deaf for the Somali government to have men on the frontline, representing women at the conference,” Fathiya Absie, a well-known Somali author and human rights activist, told the BBC.

  • DYLAN PENT UP IN PENTOVILLE

    Scott Dylan (aka Scott Wiginton / Reece Dylan)” persuaded Google and WordPress to delete this blog on several occasions.

    Yesterday, His Honour, Mr Justice Rajah sentenced Dylan and his gang of Jack Mason and Dave Antrobus to 24 months. Tonight Dylan will be in Pentonville Prison. Without access to a mobile phone this scumbag who damaged the lives of thousands will be out of action. Mason had his passport taken but got it back via the Court of Appeal. Now he has it he refuses to return. Antrobus also went AWOL.

    Dylan told the judge he was a first offender to get a reduced sentence. Mr Justice Rajah has been informed of the true circumstances….

    Dylan took £13.7m from Barclays and used it to buy Baldwins Travel, a major multi agency firm. He controls that company and refuses to hand it back.

    The disgusting fellow wrote to a friend the day prior to sentence claiming he would keep Baldwins.

    Everything rotten about this country is represented by this convict.

    The police failed to act against him….Barclays failed to report him to the police…… The Insolvency Service stopped an action against him when he claimed mental health issues.

    As for his shameless solicitors….they did all they could to silence victims and whistleblowers.

    Will Barclays shareholders get their £13.7 million plus millions in costs?

    Of course not…..it’s lost and gone forever!

  • HENDERSON….ACTION NOT WAFFLE

    “Lovely to inspect the refurbished properties on the Sutton Estate with Clare Miller of Clarion and Chelsea and Fulham MP Ben Coleman.

    We have come a long way since https://lnkd.in/eUTHVrkK .

    The Campaign fought to save the buildings and the social housing floorspace .

    Today we visited the refurbished properties which have all been fitted with ground source heat pumps coupled with properly insulated properties , which in turn mean lower fuel bills for residents.

    The turnaround from where we were, effectively looking at the demolition of these historical buildings into what we have now .

    Fully refurbished net zero homes .”

  • BARCLAYS & FAILURE TO PREVENT FRAUD…

    BANK FAILING EVERYONE

    We volunteers who now manage this site are relentless in pursuit of Dylan. He has damaged so many lives.

    Barclays are trying extract £13.7 million from Scott Dylan & others. It claims Dylan and friends conspired to take the millions for ‘personal enrichment’ …..private jet travel etc. But that accounts for just a fraction of the missing millions.

    Barclays has a few questions to answer

    1. in 2006 a Reece Dylan(related?) stole £100k from Barclays…a huge amount 23 years ago. Had his record been properly checked he would not have passed Barclays’ due diligence.
    2. 23 years on Barclays lose close to £14 million at the hands of Scott Dylan and refuse to report this latest alleged conspiracy to the police
    3. Why were internal systems so inadequate Dylan and gang were able to do this.
    4. Finally what sort of message does Barclays inaction send to shareholders, customers and the general public?
    5. Barclays has wasted millions try to get claw back the missing millions: it will never get the money back
    6. Finally and most importantly…as Reece Dylan, due diligence should shown him to be a high risk client

    Do your duty Barclays…report this to the police