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Hackney mayor suspended by Labour after photo emerges of him partying with paedophile councillor

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IwantToRetire · 31/08/2023 16:49

What is it with people who get into power who think they can break the rules, or in this case commit a serious crime against childrn.

And although the Mayor is not the culprit, there is so much wrong with this behaviour, not just lying but lying in relation to this crime, but put his friendship before his position.

Let alone both of them letting down the gay community by seemingly thinking it just wasnt an issue.

I am sure similar has happened in Tory councils, but this hardly makes Labour look like the new hope in this increasingly morally corrupt world.

Not forgetting, the real victims, the children. Just horrible.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-hackney-philip-glanville-thomas-dewey-labour-photo-councillor-b1103953.html

Hackney mayor suspended after photo of him at party with paedophile emerges

The Mayor of Hackney was suspended by the Labour party on Thursday after a photo emerged of him partying with a former councillor who had been arrested in a child pornography sting two weeks previously.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-hackney-philip-glanville-thomas-dewey-labour-photo-councillor-b1103953.html

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IwantToRetire · 21/09/2024 22:05

DBS checks now compulsory for Hackney’s elected politicans
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/09/19/dbs-checks-compulsory-hackney-elected-politicans/

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IwantToRetire · 19/07/2024 17:00

I suppose I thought DBS checks would help stop people with convictions of sexual crimes of getting any where near children or information about children.

But then recently there have been so many stories of people reported for sexually criminal behaviour, and all too often if doesn't get to court.

Makes me think that the system introduced in Ireland (I started a thread about it) is as additional precaution. ie anyone who gives a character reference for someone covering up their criminal behaviour becomes legally liable. I know it would stop it every happening but it might make a few people think.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5122429-character-references-for-sexual-offenders-must-now-be-vouched-and-can-be-cross-examined-in-court-ireland

Character references for sexual offenders must now be vouched and can be cross-examined in court - Ireland | Mumsnet

^Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) welcomes the enactment from today of legislation mandating that individuals providing character references for sexua...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5122429-character-references-for-sexual-offenders-must-now-be-vouched-and-can-be-cross-examined-in-court-ireland

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LeFromage · 19/07/2024 08:36

Islington council was shown to have a local councillor who was campaigning for the Paedophile Information Exchange in 1981, (google Fallen Angels Islington for news articles) elected to council in 1982, in charge of looked after children committee by 1984. When photos of her at a conference surfaced a compensation scheme was established by Islington Council saying they acknowledged the fact that paedophiles were working in every borough care home for children by 1992. Despite apologising and setting up the scheme the council have fought many applications for redress and blocked as many as possible. Weirdly Corbyn has never supported these constituents. See also Islington Survivors Network. Baffling and scary.

kiterunning · 19/07/2024 08:21

Love the Morning Star. Totally women supporting ( the old fashioned type)

Omlettes · 19/07/2024 05:24

IwantToRetire · 18/12/2023 01:04

Dont want to appear obsessed by this but am stunned by the way Labour Party is responding to this. Do you remember in the good old days when a disgraced politician would disappear off for a decade or so and do good works. Now they just seem to think it is about having their name in the news.

And as for the Labour leadership. Can Starmer stoop any lower?

Ex-mayor greets guests to Labour business gala where Sir Keir gives speech

DISGRACED former Labour mayor Philip Glanville was pictured last week meeting and greeting guests to a £2,000-a-table Labour business gala dinner where party leader Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and Labour’s general secretary David Evans were also pictured at SME4Labour’s London shmooze-up, which saw up to 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators accuse the party’s leadership of being “genocide facilitators” on Tuesday.

Mr Glanville resigned as elected mayor after the Morning Star published pictures showing him partying with his councillor flatmate Tom Dewey after being informed of his arrest for possession of indecent child images.

He admitted lying in public in August after previously claiming that he had no communications with now-convicted Dewey after learning of the allegations against him.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ex-mayor-greets-guests-to-labour-business-gala-where-sir-keir-gives-speech

Good on the Morning Star for not letting this go.

Exactly, what happened to the gun in the library?
That wasnt so long ago.

CheeseChamp · 19/07/2024 05:21

I worked in a certain london borough council in around 2012. There was a young man who got put away for rape - I forget the details. Worked in the same team as me, but I didn't interact with him much, he was quiet and unassuming. Turned out he had previously had another conviction relating to rape and possession of indecent images of children. This man worked on the IT helpdesk. Everyone in that team had full access to all council databases, that includes the childrens social care system (security was terrible because they decided it was too hard to put in proper procedures). None of us were DBS checked and he never disclosed his prior conviction. Opened my eyes to how easy it used to be for these predators. Less so now, I hope. I think they have their networks and they know where they need to move to in order to carry out their depravity.

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IwantToRetire · 19/07/2024 02:09

I know in the past there were terrible stories of local child sex abusers being protected both in Hackney and Islington because there were council employees.

Not sure why I would have thought it doesn't happen any more.

So strange that both the application process for a job and to become a councillor dont have some sort of back ground checks.

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ShillingForLabour · 19/07/2024 01:40

IwantToRetire · 19/07/2024 01:29

Is this just Hackney or is there this level of criminal sexual behaviour common among councillors? Angry

Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation

He was elected as Deputy Speaker in May and sat on the Town Hall’s children and young people’s scrutiny commission.

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/07/18/hackney-deputy-speaker-charged-sexually-assaulting-child-resignation/

I think this is across the whole country really. No one scrutinises local councillors do they? Only MPs are known or spoken about. People tend to vote according to the party they prefer, not recognising the name. I once googled looking for a pedophile councillor and couldn’t wade through all the hits. They are privy to all sort of information that is useful to people with bad motives as well as being well-connected.

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IwantToRetire · 19/07/2024 01:29

Is this just Hackney or is there this level of criminal sexual behaviour common among councillors? Angry

Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation

He was elected as Deputy Speaker in May and sat on the Town Hall’s children and young people’s scrutiny commission.

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/07/18/hackney-deputy-speaker-charged-sexually-assaulting-child-resignation/

Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation

Lee Laudat-Scott, 48, appeared in court today charged with sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 13

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/07/18/hackney-deputy-speaker-charged-sexually-assaulting-child-resignation

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IwantToRetire · 24/05/2024 16:28

And just to update on another part of a Labour borough showing how undemocratic they are when in power:

Hackney Labour is “stifled by a lack of internal democracy, transparency and scrutiny”.They also said there is an “absence of progressive thinking at national leadership level”.
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/05/17/three-hackney-councillors-quit-labour-independent-group/

Three Hackney councillors dramatically quit Labour to form independent group

Cllrs Claudia Turbet-Delof, Penny Wrout and Fliss Premru say they can ‘no longer in good conscience continue campaigning for Labour’

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/05/17/three-hackney-councillors-quit-labour-independent-group

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IwantToRetire · 02/02/2024 01:33

What a surprise - turns out the investigation wasn't as ssqueaky clean as they tried to pretend!

Henderson, a former chief executive of Staffordshire County Council, said it was “rather unfortunate” that neither Dewey or Glanville responded to his request for an interview.

He was given an initial list of names to contact, many of which resulted in follow-up interviews, after he was tipped off about members he should approach.

In total, he interviewed around 15 people at the Town Hall.

“I didn’t follow up with any of his [Dewey’s] contacts,” Henderson explained. “None of them were named to me, it has to be said.

“Nobody said, ‘He’s best friends with X, you need to speak to them’. Had they done so, I would have followed up, but they were never named, and that was quite telling.”

There was a “mixture of disgust and shame” among the officers he spoke to, he said.

Henderson said he couldn’t just email Dewey due to data protection rules, and that it was “quite difficult to find an officer who was willing to contact him”.

A councillor told the investigation that there was a whistleblower, but in the end no-one came forward through the official whistleblowing channel.

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/01/31/tom-dewey-inquiry-investigator-more-details-probe-disgraced-former-councillor/

John Henderson

Tom Dewey inquiry: Investigator reveals more details of probe into disgraced former councillor

John Henderson said there was a ‘mixture of disgust and shame’ from people he interviewed at the Town Hall

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/01/31/tom-dewey-inquiry-investigator-more-details-probe-disgraced-former-councillor

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AlisonDonut · 26/01/2024 19:05

Somatically correct?

UtopiaPlanitia · 26/01/2024 19:03

IwantToRetire · 26/01/2024 17:27

All sounds really dodgy, but of course might have been a way of saying it was all the Mayor's fault, he deceived people and we got rid of him. So bureaucratically we are squeaky clean.

These people strike me as the type of people who think technically correct is the best kind of correct 🙄🤯

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IwantToRetire · 26/01/2024 17:27

All sounds really dodgy, but of course might have been a way of saying it was all the Mayor's fault, he deceived people and we got rid of him. So bureaucratically we are squeaky clean.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 26/01/2024 08:39

Apparently the Council were not at fault in any way and behaved appropriately.

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Froodwithatowel · 18/12/2023 12:10

It's a culture of impunity and immunity. Mone's Sunday interview was a disgrace. There really is a complete disregard for Nolan principles of public life.

Yes.

The beneficiaries of whom are men, and their increased sexual freedoms.

The victims of which are women and children.

If you honestly can't get why this is a feminist issue then you must have bought into the idea - incidentally beloved by the very kind of man we're talking about - who will try to tell you that feminism means 'is permissive and enabling at all times to the right people, while suppressing the people who the right kind of people would like to use, with no boundaries of any kind'.

RethinkingLife · 18/12/2023 11:17

standards in public life are beyond a joke.

It's a culture of impunity and immunity. Mone's Sunday interview was a disgrace. There really is a complete disregard for Nolan principles of public life.

Why, yes, I may have spent the weekend working on something for which I don't receive either acknowledgement or reward. And for the honour of doing that, I had to fill out detailed questions to scrutinise whether I have any declarations of interest to be assessed as plausible conflicts of interest.

Nolan seems to be for the little people.

UtopiaPlanitia · 18/12/2023 01:15

IwantToRetire · 18/12/2023 01:04

Dont want to appear obsessed by this but am stunned by the way Labour Party is responding to this. Do you remember in the good old days when a disgraced politician would disappear off for a decade or so and do good works. Now they just seem to think it is about having their name in the news.

And as for the Labour leadership. Can Starmer stoop any lower?

Ex-mayor greets guests to Labour business gala where Sir Keir gives speech

DISGRACED former Labour mayor Philip Glanville was pictured last week meeting and greeting guests to a £2,000-a-table Labour business gala dinner where party leader Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and Labour’s general secretary David Evans were also pictured at SME4Labour’s London shmooze-up, which saw up to 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators accuse the party’s leadership of being “genocide facilitators” on Tuesday.

Mr Glanville resigned as elected mayor after the Morning Star published pictures showing him partying with his councillor flatmate Tom Dewey after being informed of his arrest for possession of indecent child images.

He admitted lying in public in August after previously claiming that he had no communications with now-convicted Dewey after learning of the allegations against him.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ex-mayor-greets-guests-to-labour-business-gala-where-sir-keir-gives-speech

Good on the Morning Star for not letting this go.

Bloody hell, standards in public life are beyond a joke. It seems like nearly everybody in politics (from local to national to international) has a brass neck and little to no sense of shame.

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IwantToRetire · 18/12/2023 01:04

Dont want to appear obsessed by this but am stunned by the way Labour Party is responding to this. Do you remember in the good old days when a disgraced politician would disappear off for a decade or so and do good works. Now they just seem to think it is about having their name in the news.

And as for the Labour leadership. Can Starmer stoop any lower?

Ex-mayor greets guests to Labour business gala where Sir Keir gives speech

DISGRACED former Labour mayor Philip Glanville was pictured last week meeting and greeting guests to a £2,000-a-table Labour business gala dinner where party leader Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and Labour’s general secretary David Evans were also pictured at SME4Labour’s London shmooze-up, which saw up to 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators accuse the party’s leadership of being “genocide facilitators” on Tuesday.

Mr Glanville resigned as elected mayor after the Morning Star published pictures showing him partying with his councillor flatmate Tom Dewey after being informed of his arrest for possession of indecent child images.

He admitted lying in public in August after previously claiming that he had no communications with now-convicted Dewey after learning of the allegations against him.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ex-mayor-greets-guests-to-labour-business-gala-where-sir-keir-gives-speech

Good on the Morning Star for not letting this go.

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IwantToRetire · 07/09/2023 20:44

This is the best Hackney Labour can come up with and its not even on their website, or their facebook pages which still refers to Glanville as their Mayor.

https://twitter.com/HackneyLabour/status/1699468757561716872

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IwantToRetire · 06/09/2023 20:17

Apparently it’s a witch-hunt …

(From a post upthread)

April 29th Thomas Dewey is arrested at home and presumably his devices are seized as well.

The following week Dewey stands for election as a councillor and is elected, but he presumably hadn't told anybody in Labour or the electorate about the charges he was facing.

May 13th Philip Glanville, Mayor of Hackney, and others at the council were notified of the arrest.

May 14th Eurovision party at the home which Glanville and Dewey share where they are pictured together having a jolly social evening.

How is it possible that Dewey could be arrested at home by the National Crime Agency and one of his housemates claims to have no knowledge that this has happened for a further fortnight?

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