| Topic: | Time for Phil to own up... | |
| Posted by: | Andrew Simpson | |
| Date/Time: | 16/09/13 20:19:00 |
| Oh come on Phil, surely you can divulge the name of the person who shared Robin's emails with you? After all, you're always boasting about your "honesty and openness". Let's look at what you admitted on your blog: the person in question is an "on/off" friend of yours, they "change their allegiance every five minutes" and they are local to Isleworth. We previously established that there are only three Isleworth residents who have ever had email contact with Robin. These are Vanessa, Sue and Simon. Vanessa has never been a friend of yours, Sue has never changed her allegiance and I don't believe the above is a fair description of Simon either. So that leaves: no one. In other words you were telling porkies when you claimed to have obtained Robin's IP address. You did this because you like posting comments on your own blog and accusing your political opponents of leaving them there. This is in accordance with your long history of putting words in your opponents' mouths and then condemning them for it. Remember that strange letter that appeared in the local paper many years back? It was from someone who claimed to be a Labour Party activist. Very conveniently for you, he publicly advocated his view that Labour should conduct a "dirty tricks" campaign against the ICG on the grounds that “some of the mud will stick”. Predictably you wrote in condemning him for this and subsequently referred to his letter as proof of Labour's lack of ethics. The problem is that no one in the Labour Party had ever heard of him. Funny, isn't it? On top of this are the many occasions when you would write in using African or Asian-sounding aliases. One of these was supportive of the National Front-inspired "Independent Ivybridge Tenants Association" (set up by you after NF members were rightly barred from the committee of the official tenants association) and in your early ICG years your Asian alias wrote in again attacking your Anti Nazi League opponents for allegedly harassing a BNP candidate. Incidentally, I know about the identical letters that were sent to the paper in the names of Robin Taylor, Manria Kaur and Parvez Haling in 2009 (which was done in an attempt to discredit their letter-writing campaign in support of Ann Keen). Very clever. The really funny thing is that you recently said "I am one of those sad people who thinks there is still a need for honesty and integrity in our politics". For once I agree with you: there really IS a need for honesty and integrity in your politics. P.S.:- I notice you’ve added the “Searchlight” link to your blog again. Correct me if I am wrong but you last had that link in the run-up to the 2010 local elections and then when the elections were over it mysteriously disappeared. Well it’s good to see you’re an anti-fascist again. Is it for keeps this time or just for the election? |