No wonder Adur is going to the dogs.

Obviously a district's strength lies in it's leaders, sadly Adur is led by a gang of complete and utter numpties.

We have Leaders who cannot lead, Representatives who refuse to represent, and Managers who couldn't manage a piss up in a brewery.

Next week we have a council meeting, looks like there won't be any changes from the usual level of idiocy. Here's an excerpt from the Leader's report:

This pretty much sums up ADC perfectly, clearly the right man for the job eh? And just for good measure, the Leader isn't even sure what year it is, it's 2013 Neil, you should have spent some of your allowance on a calender.

Adur, clearly being led from behind.
K

Twitter recommendations from my local Tory councillor.

Having a quick browse through the Twitter posts made from accounts that are paid for by our local council tax, I found these fantastic recommendations from my councillor, Darren Burns, a proud member of the Conservative party and clearly identifying the account as his official council account.

Interesting to see what he is linking to though....

Not particularly a great advertisement for the Tories, but given other alleged Tory sexual indiscretions, "hamster blow-jobs" has got to be a new one even for them. A bit of an eye-opener to be honest, not least for the poor hamster.

No surprise that he lives very close to a pet shop, nudge nudge.........

K

Loughton on local immigration issues.

Loughton accepts another "award".

As the Herald had decided that I am far to naughty, and mean to their mate Tim, to be able to comment on their site, I'll have to do it on here instead.

This story tells us that Timbo wholeheartedly supports CaMORON's immigration policies, despite the fact that he freely accepts that it does not affect this area as there are so few immigrants settling here.  This is his quote:

Yes, he believes that he should support something because there is a "perception that there are problems", so rather than correct his supporters misguided perceptions, he would rather change policy. What a complete bunch of arse, if there are problems with perception of reality any reasonable person would correct that rather than blindly support a government proposal which will in effect make sod all difference.

The claim that the Tories need to be "seen to be doing something", pretty much sums up the whole of Loughton's involvement in government. Why bother to make any real changes when they can use the media to give the impression that they are actually doing something useful when in reality, it's all a sham, and they are merely trying to appease the racist attitudes of their members and supporters.

He claims that his last constituency meeting in Southwick suggested that immigration was an issue that was consistently raised. Well considering the uproar when a Chinese supermarket opened in the square, it nearly caused a revolution due to there being people who were conspicuously Chinese entering Southwick without visas and there's the matter of any Big Issue seller who is not white or has an accent of any kind is treated as if leprosy has made a comeback, I have to say that I'm not really that surprised. Add to that, the fact that anyone who doesn't have a problem with multiculturalism wouldn't attend a Tory party meeting, there is no way that his claims represent the whole of society, just a few who have been convinced by him and his mates that we'll all be speaking foreign soon if the 2% minority in the area gets any bigger.

I've noticed that there is also a perception that Tory MPs are a bunch of corrupt, sexual deviants, would Timmy be prepared to support any action to ensure that MPs are monitored for thieving and deviance just to give us the impression that they are taking this potential threat seriously. Maybe Timbo could visit some of the houses of ill repute in Southwick, just to inform them that he has no intention of ever attending one of them as a punter, and publish in full his bank account details to confirm that he isn't on the fiddle. I'm not saying that he is either of these things, but all the time that there could maybe, possibly be a belief that he is, he should be out there actively doing something to appease our misunderstandings and attempting to support policy changes for the sake of it.

K

Tim Loughton named as new "Minister For Hipocrisy".......

I've been watching Twitter, and occasionally sticking my oar in as required, and have noticed that Timbo has now confirmed his "narcissist" credentials beyond doubt.

A quick background; Sompting has been awarded a bag of cash to make it a nicer place for the locals, even though it's not anywhere near as horrendous as other areas (the forgotten parts of Southick for example), I always thought that Sompting was quite nice m'self, but hey if they got some funding then good on 'em. Loughton thought that he should be having a hand in this opportunity for self-publicity and so decided to send an apparently offensive email to one of the councillors, this councillor revealed part of this abusive epistle, and threatened to reveal it in all of it's glory. Timbo doesn't like this, and although some might say that if he doesn't want people to tell when he sends them abusive personal insults that he should stop f*cking sending them, and so he decided to take his usual route of public humiliation of the councillors involved. Now to most of us, when he does this he is only humilliating himself by behaving like a 6 year old who's lost his favourite teddy, but he still insists on publicly throwing his toys out of the pram.

Like this:

Now let's look at his claims.

Timbo thinks that it's unaceptable that a councillor refuses to apologise for supposedly bing gratuitously rude to a resident with a genuine grievance, and suggests that this individual pays taxes and so should have rights.
Now, I don't know what happenned at this meeting so I cannot confirm or deny anything, I do wonder if the poor member of the public was a tory party member though, either way is loughton living in the real world? In his parliamentary rant he made it pretty clear that in his opinion it is perfectly acceptable to respond to a genuine grievance with gratuitous rudeness and that an elected representative has every right to ignore and be personally offensive to any of their electorate. Maybe he only thinks that this is acceptable when it's a Tory being the abusive ignorant tosser (not that I judge the Sompting Cllr to be this in any way, never met the guy, but if he get's up loughton's nose then he can't be all bad).

He also thinks it outrageous that an elected representative should tell someone to get out more and that they are a "nobody", obviously he thinks that these insults are rubbish and if it was a "good" Tory doing the insulting it would have contained far more personal insults and maybe some f*cking swearing to drive the point home. Yes, if you're going to insult someone in front of Timbo you could at least do it f*cking right.

Timmikins is going to write to the Chair of SPC to voice his disgust at his assumption that public question time was used  as "abuse of public time", well if the chair would like a copy of the response from his angry dwarf mate in the house stating that an elected representative can behave in any manner that he sees fit, to copy in response to him he is more than welcome to it. I was only planning on using it as posh bog paper anyway (the embossed HoP crest really gets the job done). I do hope that Loughtyplops gets a similarly dismissive response from SPC, it's only fair, especially considering that he was attending a residents meeting and he is not a resident and so should be treated as any other uninvited member of the public would be.

And as for Sompting Cllrs forgetting that tax payers fund them and have a right to question them, well, if he can pick and choose from his electorate on the money he scams from us then they sure as hell can. The only reason that I can see that Timbolina would be sticking his beak in with such gusto would be that the person involved was one of his incredibly arrogant yet apparently blameless Tory pals, as he never usually gets involved with any constituent who isn't one of his cronies, unless of course they are useful to him for publicity purposes.

Can we all turn up at a Burgess Hill council meeting and start shouting our opinions at them? Probably not, but maybe Loughton should, that's where he lives and so that's where he should be allowed to have opinions about.

Every time I read any of the crap that constantly flows from Loughton's fetid gob, I am astounded at how he hasn't been sectioned yet, he clearly only has a passing relationship with reality.

K

Looks like me and Loughton have something in common after all.

Just been having a chuckle at this little bit of re-invented history, posted on Timbo's website:

Seems that she was responsible for yet another evil, the beginning of the political career of The Lought. However, I do have to admit that she was also the main reason that I became politically active, if it weren't for Thatcher, I'd have been able to get a job after leaving school instead of lining the pockets of opportunist Thatcherite yuppies, exploiting school leavers under the YTS for a fiver a week.

 

This claim that she supported the "little man or woman", is again a complete bunch of arse. What she really did was to encourage people to get balls deep in debt in order to live the self employed dream, and when it all went wonderbra, hey presto instant homeless family, and a nice cheap repossessed property for her rich mates to snap up for a fraction of it's value, using their profits from the ex public utilities that they bought for a song when she privatised them. The only people that truly succeeded under Thatcher were the people who were already rolling in it. Seems like little has changed, and the idiots in charge now are just as oblivious to the needs of the people and only believe that people are living a higher standard of life than they were before Thatcher, as the people at the bottom of the pile are ignored and treated like shit, in order to uphold their belief that these people are only poor because they are lazy or evil or both. If the Tories pulled their heads out of their (or each others) arses and interacted with real people rather than the tiny percentage of society that they choose to accept as existing they may well learn that they are talking complete crap, but that's never going to happen, Loughton himself ignores anyone who isn't middle classed, rich or willing to be exploited for his own self-promotion. You can see that he did indeed learn a lot from Thatcher, like short term personal financial gain at all costs, blind self promotion, destruction of communities for profit, and screwing over anyone who dares to attempt to undermine his agenda, using as many underhanded and immoral tricks as possible.

 

Funny how he didn't mention anything about Thatcher's close personal friendship with Jimmy Savile, and the heavily redacted correspondence between them that has been released, you'd think that as someone who claims to be strongly against protecting child abusers that he'd have a problem with this, but I guess that he hasn't distanced himself from the recent Diocese of Chichester arrests either, I guess that his father (employee of the DoC, under the Bishop of Lewes) has the same untouchable status as Thatcher. I guess that he assumes that these connections, like all those horrible poor people, will go away if he ignores them long enough.

 

I have to say that I have really enjoyed the social media freedom regarding the Thatcher "farm purchase" today, and the suggestions that it is completely unacceptable to say bad things about dead people. I remember when Pinochet died, there was no such restriction, and it was totally acceptable to say what a murderous bastard he was, maybe we should have been vilified for saying such hurtful things when he became an ex-dictator, after all, he did have friends and supporters who would have been upset by such comments, friends and supporters like Thatcher herself.

 

That said, there was one post that disturbed even me, this one:

Although I wasn't actually disturbed enough to not enjoy a good chuckle at it.

 

 

At least Satan won't be eating alone tonight.

K

 

 

 

Slump in T-Shirt sales.

Well, sales of this one anyway:

 

Yes, "Ding dong, the witch is dead" and all that.

 

Obviously it will come as no surprise, that I shan't be shedding any tears at the news that the rusty old bint finally slid off the plate. I would clearly be a hypocrite if I expressed any remorse whatsoever , I couldn't stand the woman when she was alive, so clearly her becoming marginally more cadaverous, doesn't change a thing.

 

As one of the generation known as "Thatcher's children", I feel that child abuse is not too strong a phrase for what she did to myself and others like me. She gave us the YTS on leaving school, which allowed us to offer slave labour to capitalist exploiters, followed by unemployment after completion of a two year tea making course. Of course there were people who actually gained training and employment through the YTS, I personally know of two people who achieved this, sadly I knew more than a hundred people who were forced onto the scheme.

 

The only positive contributions she ever made as far as I'm concerned, was to the arts. The music, poetry and other art inspired by the grim surroundings that she created, and the unity born of the fact that none of us had a pot to piss in, and we were truly "all in this together".

 

She gave us a lovely day out in Trafalgar Square in 1990, where we got to watch the pro-apartheid SA embassy burn, that was a great day out and was thoroughly enjoyed by all concerned.

 

I loved her Poll tax, well, I loved giving the bastards the run around anyway. I had a lovely day out in court for non payment, where I got the opportunity to refuse to swear the oath on a copy of the New Testament after pointing out that it repeatedly condemns the enforcement of unfair taxes. Strangely enough I lost the case and was supposed to pay the vile fresh air tax, then came 6 years of ducking and diving, and swapping addresses with a small group of friends to make it difficult for them to find us. They did catch me in the end, so I had to pay about 5% of the total amount because the rest had been written off under the 6 year rule.

 

She also taught us to never trust a Tory, a lesson worth it's weight in gold, and still very valid to this day. Expect them to screw you over and take as much as they can to feather their own nest with, and you won't go too far wrong. She made it very easy to judge who would be acceptable to have as a friend as well, all you needed to do was mention her name and the reaction would be instant.

 

She did indeed do a lot for this country's people, we were united in hatred for everything she stood for and despised her destruction of what this country really stood for. She forged bonds within communities made unemployed and left destitute by her decisions, bonds that still survive to this day despite her best attempts to smash them beyond repair with greed, selfishness, oppression and war.

 

She may be dead, but the despicable memory of her actions live on, and will continue to do so, all the time we have her acolytes in power. As for a state funeral, the country's already in enough of a "state" without wasting millions on a mad parade, just stick her in the cold ground where she belongs and be done with it.

 

Isn't there supposed to be a party in Trafalgar Square this Saturday? Best leave the SA Embassy alone this time though.

 

K

Local By Election.

Well, looks like we get a By Election in Southlands ward next month along with the County Council elections. As unlike every other councillor in the country, one of ours has actually done the right thing, and resigned before switching from Tory to UKIP, allowing us to actually choose whether we want UKIP or not.

This is beginning to sound like a sensible and informative post, which concerns me somewhat, oh well, never mind, only half a dozen people actually vote anyway so it won't make a vast difference anyway.

Here's our choices:

I'm not too sure what the "Andy" column is for, but it looks like Labour are the only ones that have successfully completed this one, so well done there.

Oh look, there's a Parkin in the mix, what a surprise. Considering that before the last election I was told that Mrs Parkin, yes she is married to the other Parkin, was "promised" this ward, and considering that her husband is on the Tory selection panel, there's little doubt as to the clear nepotism involved here. After increasing his allowance by almost two thirds last year he obviously thinks that he should take some more of our money home with him.

If the tiny amount of voters who bother, decide to elect Mrs Parkin, I assume that I would again have no representation as she is nothing more than a puppet for her husband's attempts to take ownership of Adur, and flog it to the highest bidder. It could be fun for the local papers though, it wouldn't be long before someone managed to capture some footage of her throwing food around in a restaurant, whilst wailing like a banshee and hitting waitresses with her crutches, or pulling down a local shop display and whooping like an overexcited baboon. Personally I'm hoping for another huge screaming tantrum style hissy fit, when she loses, apparently the last one was grrrrrreat, as Tony T Tiger reliably informs me, I'm hoping to witness this one myself though.

I wonder if anyone will bother to knock on my door this time to ask for my vote, they haven't for the last 10 years, so I doubt it, but I'm looking forward to seeing the Parkins wandering around the estate, yeah right...............

K

From the Local Tory party webshite.

Now, from time to tome, we all make spolling mistooks. However, we aren't all MPs, who like to claim superiority over mere mortals.

I really enjoyed this one:

I'm no expert on spelling myself, and I rarely use a spell checker, but this is my personal blog, not an official parliamentary press release.

 

Now I am not too sure what a "Campaugn" is, maybe it's a new kind of boat that Timbo is launching, I have no idea. Equally I am not too sure what a "Roman Gypsy" is either, but I'm getting visions of centurions in caravans, maybe this is why the local Tories have such a problem with travelling folk, perhaps they think that legions of them will march into Adur brandishing gladi.... What's the plural of gladius? gladia, gladii, gladium, your guess is as good as mine on that one.

 

Well aside from the obvious shite spelling, there are plenty of other clear mistakes. Like the one about an investigation into racism under the malicious communications act, an offence that cannot be racially aggravated, so there's a little bit of deception there. There's also the bit about him having no idea, well considering that I told him this in one of the 2 times that I spoke to the liar in the last 6 years, that's crap as well. Basically, it's all crap, but that's the Tory Party for you.

 

As for myself being "gratuitously offensive", considering that I had not actually spoken to him or written to him more than half a dozen times in the last decade, at least nobody can say that I don't make an impression. This claim is just regurgitated shite from his local councillors who are unable to answer tricky questions without threatening members of the public in response, a right gang of thugs they are, especially Hr Parkin, I'm surprised that he hasn't defected to the NF by now.

 

But the most hilarious thing about this "campaugn" against "vexatious complaints" when they should be accepted as free speech, no matter how offensive they are, is that since Loughton's abusive email I decided to start writing a blog (this one), since it's inception Loughton and his party colleagues have been repeatedly attempting to have me arrested for daring to exercise my right to free speech. Strangely enough, Loughton thinks that he should have complete freedom to be directly abusive to people with no consequences, by extending parliamentary privilege, and ensure that everyone else only has the right to free speech, on the condition that they don't actually attempt to use it. Typical Tory bullshit, oppress the masses and then abuse them for good measure, if they dare to fight back, change the rules in order to abuse them further.

 

If he thinks that freedom of speech should be allowed, then my next letter to him won't be polite like the others and will be in the same vein as his abusive sweary bollocks. Sadly, statistics tell us that there have been numerous prosecutions using the malicious communications act against people writing to MPs and none for the reverse. Check out the case of the person successfully prosecuted for telling Camoron that he "has blood on his hands", i personally think that personal insults and swearing is a bit worse than that, but MPs have a "get out of jail free" card that ensures that they aren't prosecuted in the same way as the rest of us.

 

Some animals are indeed more equal than others.

K

Why the Localism Act is shit.

Well, you can get a few insights into the idea of it from this thesaurus entry:

I think that pretty much sums it up.

It's basically part of this "Big Society" crap that our local MP Loughton was getting paid a few grand a month as a consultant for. It pretty much allows central government to wipe their hands of legislation  for local authorities and replace it with a selection of guidelines that are not enforceable and the whole thing is left to "self regulation", which pretty much gives corrupt councils the right to do whatever the hell they want and not have to answer to anyone but themselves.

Obviously Adur Council love this particular bit of legislation, it has allowed them to refuse to publish their pecuniary interests, and gives them the right to investigate themselves, instead of any official independent organisation getting in the way of their imaginative interpretation of these guidelines.

One part of the act, requires "independent" members of the public to be involved, however these "independent" people are selected by the council concerned, strangely enough the same names tend to crop up time and again, and in Adur's case, one of these "independent" people is a director of a business based within the town hall, so you could probably safely assume that none of them are particularly independent.

One further problem with this system, is that members of the public are not permitted to make any form of contact with these supposedly independent people, and all documents passed to them are vetted by the council's legal department first, so this appears to be somewhat opaque rather than truly transparent. In my case, the "independent" person (I think this one was called Tony Case), did not receive the full statement from myself, nor did he receive the recording that clearly shows the breach beyond doubt, and was only made aware of about 25% of one incident reported rather than whole of both. The council's solicitor made sure that the Localism act was abused like a rent boy at a Tory party conference, but that's nothing new for an ADC solicitor, they aren't worried about the truth, they'd rather rely on the assumption that their staff are untouchable and use the holes in the Localism act in order to ensure that they answer to no one. The Fascist Pig Executive Head of legal, Jeremy Cook, even gleefully pointed out that the Localism act was "badly written" and had "plenty of holes", and we all know how much ADC love holes, after all they want us all to live in one, and the majority of them talk out of one.

Essentially what I'm saying, is that independence is relative, and in the case of ADC is usually is one of their relatives.

Viva la revolucion
K

Pillars of the community? Part the fourth

This time it's a whole group, in fact it's the "Whiterock residents group". This group clearly doesn't recognise the actual residents that it claims to represent, as it spends most of it's time spreading nasty rumours about them, making up stories and spying on innocent people.



Most resident groups are made up of volunteers from the community who want to make the area they live in, nicer for the people who live there, this lot are very different. For one, their chairman is actually the local Tory councillor, so independence is a joke, as we all know that they only look out for one group, themselves. Their commander in chief is David Donald Duck, who was previously the Chair of the dreaded ultra right wing, Beach Residents Association, (named BRA after the item most mislaid after the beach residents alleged notorious wife swapping parties of the 1970s and 80s) and who has only a passing acquaintance with the real world, as do most Tories.

This group spends most of it's time congratulating itself on it's mere existence and doesn't actually appear to do anything other than pick put a local target and make their life hell, until they leave. So less of a residents group, more of a lynching party and definitely more in keeping with ADC's modus operandi than an independent association. Their members have more pictures of local kids taken from their windows than is normally accepted as healthy, but they will assure you that these photographs are purely "evidence" that kids are committing evil crimes, like playing in communal gardens. they also like taking lovely photographs of adults and dogs as well, but only the ones that are not members of their little cabal.


John Cadman

Up until recently, their Vice Chair was a chap by the name of John Chambers (previously Cadman), he is still an active member but not on the board. Maybe they found out his dirty little secret, you never know.
It is quite difficult to find a recent picture of Mr Cadman, but there are a few of him from around 1988 like this one from the Argus, when he was quite well publicised in and around the Saltdean area, they seemed to like his "grim reaper" tattoo for some strange reason.

Either way, a clearly upstanding member of society by all accounts. Just the sort of bloke that you'd want, keeping an eye on your granny. Definitely a "Pillar of the Community".



Kevin (or Lee) Davis

Then we have the real idiot, the self-appointed "head of security" within the group, Mr Kevin Davis (also known as Lee Davis). Now I really am not keen on Davis, and people who change their name are usually "a bit dodgy" in my book, but that's just a personal thing. He does a nice line in "cut n shut" documents, I've even seen one where he wrote his own crap and photoshopped an ADC header and Sussex Police footer onto it, some people would call that fraud, but apparently if you regularly have tea with the local PCSO you become exempt from the same laws as the rest of us. He can often be seen with paste pot in hand, fly posting his made up crap to walls in and around Rock Close, and when he's not doing that, he spends his time taking photo's of his latest imagined nemeses from behind his blinds and making up little stories to go with them to in order to increase the pretend crime figures to ensure that nobody will ever want to buy the leasehold to his crappy little Thatcherite dream of home ownership from him. He has made up some pretty fantastical stories about myself as well, but I shan't go into my secret life as an alleged ninja just yet, I'll save that one for later, but I can tell you about the pictures that he took of myself putting a bag of rubbish into the communal bin for my other half, that he insisted was "fly tipping" as I did not live there. You may laugh, but this resulted in my partner receiving a bill for £48 from ADC for the offence, of letting me help her take the bin bags out.

To give you one further example of the actions of this group, we were told by another neighbour that they saw one of the above, cutting the washing lines with a pair of scissors, this damage was then photographed and reported to ADC as being done by the local kids. Residents groups are supposed to support the residents, not the local council, however Whiterock Residents Group is more an ally of the council and a group of mealy minded little turds, intent on ridding a council estate of anyone who displays any signs of overt working-class like behaviour in the presence of a tiny minority of idiots who bought a cheap flat hoping to turn a hearty profit at the expense of the community that they purport to represent.

They even cancelled all of the annual community engagement events and fun days instigated by past members as they did not want to engage with the other residents on a personal level and would rather view themselves as "above" the other residents, who for the most part they would have evicted for minor petty matters that upset their pseudo middle classed ideals.

If this lot represent society then I'm glad and even a little proud that I am an enemy of it.

K