About Name and Shame

The title of this page is "About us". Most websites have a similar page and the idea is to make people think you are a big business even when your business consists of just you and the dog. So, in one sense, the page title here is a fallacy. It should be "About me" because I run the website on my own. I don't have any staff and I don't have an impressive office - just my small study at home and a couple of computers. Not even a dog!

Yet, in another sense, this page is correctly titled "About us" because this website is not just about my experiences or opinions - it's about the experiences of all 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.

As I said on the home page, 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.

But the credit for this page should go to one of Bexley's councillors who, in recent correspondence, 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.

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 Ł5 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.

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