by Brain Bamford
Labour Shuns Single Mother & Embraces Election Fraudster
Labour Shuns Single Mother & Embraces Election Fraudster
Charlotte Hughes - Dumped by Labour for Council Tax Arrears
WHILE in Rochdale the Labour Party appears to be only too willing to excuse Councillor Faisal Rana, a vulgar fraud who voted twice in the local elections last May, breaching the Representation of the People Act 1983; in nearby Tameside the local Labour Party has blocked a single mother, Charlotte Hughes, from standing in a by-election in Ashton Waterloo ward because she had fallen into debt with her council tax.
On the 3rd, August, an excited local Tameside MP, Angela Rayner wrote:
'Congratulations to anti poverty campaigner @charlotteh71 who has tonight been selected as our Labour Party candidate for Ashton Waterloo Ward in my constituency in the upcoming council by election. I look forward to campaigning hard with Charlotte and our Labour Party team.'Alas, it was not to be for on August 8th, Charlotte wrote on Twitter that she had been deselected owing to an unpaid council tax bill: :
'However I owe council tax, a big NO NO. I’m not ashamed of being poor. It’s a fact. I’m working class and proud of it. However to cut along story short I have been deselected because of this.'
What distinguishes the single mother Charlotte Hughes in Tameside from Councillor Faisal Rana in Rochdale, is that the Rochdale Councillor is a rich director, who also has a portfolio of some 32 houses in central Rochdale, while Ms. Hughes who lives in a council house is poor, and has been driven by misfortune into debt.
The cunning swindler and manipulator of the election register is acceptable in today's Labour Party, while a person down on her luck becomes a persona non grata in the eyes of the great and the good in today's Labour Party in the Greater Manchester area.
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8 comments:
Good article Brian.
Cleverly exposes the rank hypocrisy of Labour’s plastic socialists.
You mentioned the Rochdale councillor who voted twice when we spoke on the phone.
I saw coverage on Facebook of the rescindment of Charlotte's Hughes's selection because of council tax arrears.
Yes, quite a contrast in treatment of these two situations. A good article.
It's becoming far more apparent that the Labour Party does not represent the grass roots anymore. Party if hypocrisy.
Excellent article Brian thank you
Thanks Brian , excellent expose of the local crooks 'running; this town
The most recent appointment of Waterloo Ward Councillor, in May 2018 was someone many of the residents had never heard of. The campaigning was done underhanded and the Ward areas which would have caused some consternation and controversy were not visited. Despite what will be inferred to the contrary, this was a safe seat, did not need a high density Labour party members canvass and this person was parachuted in to fill the vacancy.
There appeared to be a pecking order as to who was next in line!
This caused some unrest inside the Labour party members. Feathers were rustled.
I have had no dealings with the person elected, but it appears that he is an officer of the neighbouring, next door, Oldham Council. Continuing the Nepotism route.
The By election now about to occur in Waterloo Ward is happening as the result of the death of a long serving, sometimes controversial Ward Councillor Cath Piddington. She was a stalwart for her residents within the ward.
I believe certain people had been earmarked to fill this role from within the Labour group, but these people have now fallen from grace due to their differing views over the lack of involvement of residents and their views and their wishes not being responded to, by the council.
The anti-poverty campaigner Charlotte Hughes was identified from within the local Labour group as being the ideal prospective candidate. However it appears that someone within the Labour group decided that this now did fit within the well-defined nepotism route and highlighted the fact that Charlotte was behind on some of her Council tax payments.
This in effect caused her to be de selected from the group. This has now caused ructions from sitting Councillors within Tameside. There has been lots of cat calling and spats over the selection of the new candidate for the ward.
However a recent, 22/08/18, public Twitter spat took place between the current Deputy Mayor, Leigh Drennan, Labour Ashton Hurst Councillor with residents and ward councillors of the Waterloo Ward.
This occurred as the result of Tameside Councillors and prospective candidates being accused of jumping on the bandwagon by attempting to draw in those essential votes by selectively agreeing to support a current campaign, which is causing problems for Tameside and the Waterloo Ward, over the sale and planning issues, regarding a small piece of public open space bordering Daisy Nook, known to the locals as The Backfield. (See Save the Backfield Campaign)
This has caused an unprecedented furore and backlash within the council.
The crux of the matter and in reality is that Charlotte did not fulfil the nepotism role, that Tameside Council appear to actively encourage. Unlike Councillor Faisal Rana with his many houses in his portfolio, she would not fit in within the Shameside Council by owing council tax.
Charlotte, unlike some of the Tameside Councillors does not own several other houses or property abroad, does not own property to rent out for a high income within the borough or further afield, does not own a holiday home where she can vanish for several months a year. Charlotte by her own admission is poor, in debt and working class. The term working class will be a unknown phrase to most of the Tameside Council, as their own well paid safe seat jobs continue to provide a high level of income or “wage “as some councillors have recently referred to it.
How can you have a fair representation of the population if these people do not understand the true predicament of many of the people who find themselves at the lower end of the pecking scale and in debt?
Where is the support of Angela Rayner now? Nepotism continues to roll on.
The Blue Knight.
I'm currently unemployed. I fell two months behind with my Council Tax. Rossendale Borough Council was on my case straight away. They sent me a red reminder and a threat of legal action: referral to a "bent" magistrates court where further costs will be added. Why do only poor people get fined?
I went to my local Council Offices to argue my case. I was confronted by employees of CAPITA which is a private company responsible for chasing debtors on behalf of the Council.
Will anybody join my campaign to expose these shysters?
Green Swiper writes of Capita as 'chasing debtors'. Ironically, The GUARDIAN journalist Julia Kollewe in April described 'Capita, [as] the debt-laden outsourcing company behind the London congestion charge and the BBC licence fee, has been forced into a £701m cash call to shore up its finances.'
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