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Vigilante writes ...
When I started this website in 2006, I wanted to publish information about corrupt and dishonest companies I had encountered personally. I wanted to warn others who might otherwise fall foul of their devious antics. But then I started to observe the antics of my local council - the London Borough of Bexley - and I felt they should be exposed. Since then, the feedback I get from visitors shows that there are many other local authorities just like Bexley, and a great many more that are even worse. As a result, this site now covers the experiences of my contributors. Directly or indirectly, every single one of them is a member of the Name and Shame 'team' and without them it would merely be a boring story about my personal battles with bureaucracy.
But the credit for this page should go to one of Bexley's councillors who made the most astonishing and totally unfounded allegations about the content I published in respect of my dealings with Bexley Council, all of which I could back up with documented evidence. But true facts and documented evidence do not figure in the thoughts of people like Councillor Peter Craske. They think that having a title like "Councillor" makes them extremely important and gives them the right to consider themselves better than the rest of us. That's exactly the sort of mental attitude that turns such idiots into the dangerous animals they really are.
However, one of Craske's criticisms was that I named some of the fraudsters who are employed by Bexley Council and published correspondence from them without ever revealing my own identity. That's a nonsense of course because it's not difficult to trace any website's owner. The information is in the public domain and is easily accessed. But trying to expose corrupt practises does have its dangers and I know for a fact that one of my correspondents had his life threatened by a senior legal official in a large northern city, with the initial instructions coming from a member of parliament who once held very high office in the New Labour government. That's how dangerous these people are!
You certainly make enemies of some really nasty people when you attempt to expose their activities so I don't propose to make it too easy for them to arrange for me to have an 'accident'. But I will tell you that I have written a book about government conspiracy and I have helped other aspiring authors to get their books into print. I am now a pensioner and, like most pensioners, I wonder how I ever found time to work. This website keeps me fully occupied and I struggle to keep abreast of the feedback I receive but I will keep going because I despise the people who are trying to turn our once-proud nation into a satellite of Europe and constantly turn innocent people into criminals while, at the same time, treating real criminals like special cases.
For the moment I will retain the alias of "Vigilante" although my true identity is partly revealed to the correspondents who write to me about their personal experiences and thus become members of the Name and Shame team.
Yours
Mike C
How the site is funded
Many hours go into producing and maintaining a website like this and the cost is largely borne by me. I do get a small amount of revenue (about $5 a week) from the Google AdWords panel you will see in the left-hand column on each page and you can help by clicking any of the links. Unfortunately, we have no control over the content of each advert so you may see some from the type of people we try to expose, e.g. private parking control contractors. Please feel free to click their links as many times as you like. They pay for each click and Name and Shame receives a small commission to continue the battle against corruption and dishonesty.
Visitors' Comments
I came across your website a couple of days ago. Congratulations for producing it.
Last year I got a strange letter from a solicitor. His client was a businessman I had met, spoken to or even thought of for about 3 years!!!
Anyway the letter was long and full of threats and demands. The case they were making was less clear. In fact the whole letter never gave one single detail about what they wanted to sue for. The letter wasn't proofread and when it finally did try to say one legal thing, it contradicted what was said in a previous paragraph.
Anyway I paid about 1,500 UK pounds to see a solicitor about it. He wrote a short letter simply saying "no evidence, no detail". We never heard from them again. They didn't even have the courtesy to say they had dropped the case.
As I was about to do university exams at the time I was rather annoyed. I cancelled the exams due to the worry. Apart from harassing me, nothing was achieved by anyone.
I presume the solicitor's letter I got would be called a "professional lie". They missed out important details and the whole direction was misrepresentation. Given the solicitor's client had injured me (via negligence) over 3 years ago, I thought the whole thing was in bad taste. Not only had they wasted months of my time when I couldn't work but they were coming back to disrupt the exams I was taking.
Soloar, London
Addendum
Just to add something to my last post, the solicitor who sent me a threatening letter was self-employed and was not operating in his own registered company. His fictitious operating name was registered with the Law Society, but I checked and it wasn't registered at Companies House. After all the nasty threats, this guy didn't even sign a signature - it was just a line, and not a very expressive line at that. Plus he didn't put his real name on the letter, just the fictitious name. Presumably as he is self-employed (no company) this name must have been given to the Inland Revenue.
I always thought that when writing a letter etc. you had to give both your REAL NAME and the NAME REGISTERED WITH INLAND REVENUE - not just the latter. I suspect the solicitor was ashamed of his letter and didn't want his signature or real name associated with it. But is this illegal? Just to give a fictitious name and NOT your real name.
Soloar, London
My experience of solicitors is that they all sign letters with a squiggle and never give their name - usually just the name of the company. I don't know if this is illegal but in my book it means they don't have the guts to stand by their threats, i.e. they don't have any principles. Ed.
There are a growing number of people who feel the same as you about Cllr Craske. He must be damaging the conservative party in Bexley.
Wilham, Sidcup
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