BHANGEELAAR! Told "Dr" Kevan Collins to do his job as "Returning Officer" and show that he had complied with the constitutional duties. He failed.

0600 [0030] Hrs GMT
London
Friday
24 September 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque


BHANGEELAAR! Told "Dr" Kevan Collins to do his job as "Returning Officer" and show that he had complied with the constitutional duties. He failed.

What constitutional law duties did Bhangeelaar ask “Dr” Kevan Collins about?

Answer: That he had to show that he had supervised the campaign for either outcome to the referendum question.

But Kevan Collins did not even bother to reply to our campaign communications himself. He got one of the ‘subordinates’ or line-managed persons to do the replying to us.

As it turned out, that line managed person was called John S Williams.

He ought never to have been gotten involved in these communications if Kevan Collins had any respect for the electorate.

Question: How?

Answer: The Bhangeelaar! Campaign had knowledge of John S Williams having been publicly condemned in the media over his reported role in creating the fiasco over alleged eating ban on non-Muslim Tower Hamlets councillors during the month of Ramadan a couple years ago. So we specifically asked Kevan Collins’ office to NOT refer our questions addressed to Kevan Collins to either John S Williams or to Isabella Freeman.

We specified that condition because we had evidence showing that John S Williams could not deal with the questions that were for the Returning Officer. One aspect of that evidence was the fact that Isabella Freeman was in the habit of offloading to John S Williams items that she was reluctant to address herself. And the fact that Isabella Freeman was repeatedly stated to us to be John S Williams’ line manger meant that we could not allow our communications to be diverted into the offices of either Freeman or John S Williams.

So we specifically stated in advance of sending the actual questions to Kevan Collins that our campaign’s constitutional law and administrative law questions were for Kevan Collins himself to deal with, answer and reply to.

[To be continued]