Ann K££n primes Gilligan and Evening Standard for FIFTH anti-ICG hatchet job
Andrew Gilligan of the London Evening Standard is set to produce a fifth attack on the Independent Community Group, possibly on Monday, at the behest of Ann K££n MP.I have it on good authority that the Standard will reveal the previously undiscovered fact that in the 1980s I was a member of the National Front. If I am correct this will be the fifth such revelation to appear in the Standard, the four most recent all having been made within the past fourteen months.In the build-up to the local elections in 2006 the Standard published a claim that I had a criminal conviction for a racially-motivated assault on a black police officer. This is a complete fabrication, and I wrote to the Editor at the time to request an apology.Far from providing an apology, Gilligan decided to call my bluff this April by repeating the allegation, this time using the even more lurid description of "a race-hate attack against a black police officer".Whilst I have a lot of work to do with my new role at the Council and don't wish to have all my time eaten up fighting legal actions which can be costly, I decided following the most recent such allegation that enough was enough and this particular matter is now in the hands of solicitors. I am particularly keen to deal with this this time around because the most recent allegation seems to have been written in the full knowledge that it was false.This time Gilligan has actually attempted to make contact with me to enable me to provide him with a one-liner which he could use to create an impression of having given both sides of the story. Whilst I am not prepared to give an interview to such a specimen, he did unfortunately manage to have a brief telephone conversation with my wife Caroline during which he confirmed that his latest effort, like the last ones, is being penned at the request of Mrs. K££n.When asked by Caroline whether he felt it was compulsory to write and re-write the same story over and again every time Mrs. K££n so demands, especially as the story is so old and tired that even the small local papers don't consider it news any more, he replied meekly: "Well she is a Member of Parliament".The Standard is not traditionally a strong supporter of the New Labour Party and it was this paper which actually broke the "Mr. & Mrs. Expenses story in 2005.However it seems clear that Mrs. K££n or somebody close to her has something over the Standard which requires them to produce repeated and if necessary defamatory attacks on her opponents whenever she should demand.I intend to investigate the relationship between Gilligan/Evening Standard and the K££ns and to produce a dedicated website showing my findings.One kind individual has already provided me with a useful lead on this matter. If anybody who has any information which they might wish to share with me, in confidence if necessary, please send it to me at phil@communitygroup.org.uk. Many thanks.
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