Eddie Clark is the supposedly socialist Mayor of Leominster. He and his wife have run the main union in the county, Unision, for years. But at the drop of a hat he calls in proven Wiggin boys to do a number on me at taxpayers' expense.
The letter is self-explanatory. But it's worth knowing that the following Labour councillors voted to approve Ferrari's Tory hatchet job when it was presented to them:
Philippa Roberts (official Labour candidate for Hereford at the last General Election!); Mollie Cook; Emma Pardoe; Charlotte Barnet.
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Dear Mayor,
In May, one day after I was elected to the council and two weeks before I was enrolled as a Town Councillor, the Clerk and Deputy clerk made a complaint that I as a Town Councillor had embarked upon a campaign of harassment.
For your own reasons you decided to accept this logically absurd allegation and set up a Committee to “investigate” it. You invited Benson Ferrari to sit on that committee.
In September 2009 the front page of the local newspaper prominently reported that Benson Ferrari had made a complaint of harassment against me to West Mercia Police:
Leominster Journal Sept 16 2009
The police found absolutely no basis for Mr Ferrari’s complaint which was therefore false and malicious.
Leominster Journal Sept 16 2009
The police found absolutely no basis for Mr Ferrari’s complaint which was therefore false and malicious.
Why did you invite someone you knew to have made a false and malicious complaint of harassment against me to “investigate” a new complaint of harassment against me which might well be false and malicious?
Why did you fail in your duty to ensure that any investigatory committee you set up was fair and impartial?
As you are well aware, in April last year I took Mr Ferrari as a named respondent to the High Court. Two judges ruled that he was unlawfully sitting on Leominster Town Council and they summarily expelled him from his position:
High Court ruling.
I have little doubt that this was a humiliating experience for Mr Ferrari. He clearly has a great personal prejudicial interest against me.
High Court ruling.
I have little doubt that this was a humiliating experience for Mr Ferrari. He clearly has a great personal prejudicial interest against me.
The following month Mr Ferrari signed the nomination papers of Bill Wiggin at the General Election:
Returning Officer's acceptance of proposers
As you are well aware, at that time I had made a serious complaint of wrongdoing against Mr Wiggin to parliament. My complaint was upheld and Mr Wiggin forced to pay the money back. A second complaint of mine against Mr Wiggin for potential fraud is currently being investigated by parliament as you are well aware. It is clear that the signatory to Mr Wiggin’s parliamentary candidature would have a great political prejudicial interest against me.
Returning Officer's acceptance of proposers
As you are well aware, at that time I had made a serious complaint of wrongdoing against Mr Wiggin to parliament. My complaint was upheld and Mr Wiggin forced to pay the money back. A second complaint of mine against Mr Wiggin for potential fraud is currently being investigated by parliament as you are well aware. It is clear that the signatory to Mr Wiggin’s parliamentary candidature would have a great political prejudicial interest against me.
Mayor – why did you allow someone with great personal and political prejudicial interests against me to sit on a panel investigating serious allegations against me?
Why did you allow such a prejudiced person to compile a report about me and why did you yourself present that report to the Town Council at a secret meeting?
Finally, why did you allow Town Council to debate and vote on a report against me which had been compiled with someone who was so evidently not impartial, not unbiased and not disinterested?
Why, Mayor, have you so singularly failed in your duty in this matter?
Yours faithfully
Jim Miller
