Sorry Vanessa, I didn't mean to ignore your concerns. You should know by now that when say a thing I am sure of my facts and can substantiate them.The assault on my father was reported to the police and a crime number has been issued. The chief officer at the polling station did see my father visibly shaken and offered him tea and comfort. She is also aware of the assailant's identity, as he presented his polling card to her immediately after it happened! I understand that she cannot disclose the voter's identity under the Data Protection Act unless the police intend to make an arrest, and in the absence of any witnesses to the actual incident there is no will on their part to do so.The suggestion that this incident was dreamed up after the election is offensive, and a classic case of Labour judging me by its own standards. I was telling at a polling station in Hounslow South in the company of Labour's Bob Whatley and a Conservative when I received the 'phone call from our agent informing me of it and I immediately abandoned my post to drive over to St. John's to check that he was okay. When I returned Bob had been replaced by Laurie Lopes, with whom I also discussed the incident at length.Both Bob and Laurie were genuinely sympathetic and expressed their relief that he wasn't hurt. I was happy to accept at the time that it had not been a political incident, and that his assailant was simply a freelance lowlife. It was only some time later that my father informed me that he believed he recognised him to be a Labour man who had verbally abused him in the past.Regarding Labour candidates with criminal convictions, I could offer you as a fine example one Christopher Boucher - candidate for Isleworth ward. I believe William E Hughes knows this gentleman rather well. In 2004 our Chris was ordered to pay £3700 court costs and to undertake 200 hours of community service, was placed on a curfew preventing him from leaving his home on Friday and Saturday nights and ordered to wear a tagging device - simply, he tells us, for drink-driving!His then employer, Hounslow Community Transport, stood by him and were repaid by their grateful employee with a £2000 'phone bill after young Chris had repeatedly used the company mobile of this registered charity, in defiance of warnings, to ring dubious premium rate contact lines. This is the man whom the Labour Party considered suitable to represent the people of Isleworth on the local authority.None of this I would have mentioned had our Chris had the wit to refrain from knocking on doors throughout the ward demanding that residents did not vote for the ICG because it was "run by a well-known criminal" (presumably a reference to my widely publicised conviction as a National Front activist some twenty years ago). What arrogance is that from a guy who is carrying so much baggage himself?My reference to the criminal histories of the people who provide the Labour Party and its gutter journalist friends with "information" about the ICG can easily be substantiated.Searchlight magazine's Gerry Gable purports to be an "investigative journalist" providing information on the far-right to anti-racist politicians and media people. If he has any right to use this description of himself then he will know that his remark to the London Evening Standard, viz. "Phil Andrews has never renounced his National Front past" was completely untrue. So what were his motives for making it? What is his agenda?When Gable speaks of my "criminality" he does so as an authority on the subject. In 1964 he was convicted of burglary after breaking into the home of the right-wing historian David Irving whilst posing as a workman (see http://www.answers.com/topic/gerry-gable).One of his accomplices on this mission was Searchlight researcher Manny Carpel. Many years later, in 1981, Carpel was gaoled after being convicted of torching the business premises of a far-right publisher in Sussex.One of the founders of Searchlight magazine was one Harry Bidney. In 1977 Bidney was convicted on eight charges of living off the immoral earning of prostitutes. His friend David Calderhead - a "businessman" who has provided finance to Searchlight - was gaoled for attempting to procure a 16-year-old boy to commit an act of gross indecency with Bidney.These are the people to whom the Labour Party and its madia friends turn for assistance whenever they feel the time has come around again to "expose" (for the umpteenth time) my own transgressions from the dim and distant past.Of course, one might be tempted to argue that most of the illegality indulged in by the people at Searchlight has resulted from their anti-fascist activities and can therefore be justified. If that is the case, it might be an idea to see how this Labour-supporting organisation treats its "friends". Here's a few links to be getting on with: http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-for-beginners-larry-o-harahttp://website.lineone.net/~grandlaf/Afa.htmhttp://www.searchlight.org.uk/o-hara/index.htmlA cursory visit to Google will reveal many more.This, then, is some of the information which I was referring to and there is much, much more of it. Vanessa, you have suggested that I do something about it? Like what?The Standards Board have no brief to investigate failed candidates, nor dodgy "investigative journalists" with a penchant for misrepresenting anti-racists as racists for their own political ends. Most of the offences referred to have already resulted in convictions, so it is a little late in the day to ask me to report them to the police.Neither is there anything unlawful about any Labour councillor or former Labour Executive member having served a prison sentence. We all make mistakes. And I don't highlight those of others unless they are stupid enough to try to make an issue out of mine.
Phil Andrews ● 6901d