UPTOWNEVENTS RESPONDS!

"Hello Peter

Uptown Events is the name of our group and we are are people on an "Events Managements" Course at CSV. This course is NDLC accredited and we are all individuals from different backgrounds and organisations who have a general interest in this type of opportunity. We have been meeting since this February under the tutelage of Cad Taylor learning about all the different aspects of Events and all the tricks of the trade.
The aim of this course is to gain a qualification, and to achieve this we have been tasked to organise and event of our own and use our new found skills practically. We decided to focus our event during "Adult Learners Week" as this would give us an audience. As you may know our event is this Thursday and we have various activities, entertainment and information we wish to celebrate on the day.
We all work closely in our own lives with local communities and have experience networking and joining in partnership. This Event is free for all and we have tried to cover almost every angle possible, however this is a massive task as we only meet once a week.
We do not have a website or web presence as this is a one off event for the beifit of the people of suffolk, and ourselves
Thanks you
Uptown Events Team
If you would like further information please phone my mobile to discuss
Ashley Maw
Community Inclusion Facilitator
Suiffolk County Council
07894598584 "

What I we make of this? The address is a massive building in Gt Whip Street and Ashley Maw seems to have a title so is this an employed position as Community Inclusion Facilitator? The idea seems brillaint but upon closer scrutiny it appears to be some kind of experiment. Obviously they are funded by us, as all these organisations are, but here with this event it seems we are spending a small fortune on good causes and employing people to do "good causes" which doesn't seem right somehow. If the county was overflowing with cash and everybody was in full employment maybe this would be acceptable but with so many people looking for work it just doesn't seem right to have people paid to organise people to compete with them free and drive their chances of employment down. It is especially wrong our money is being used to make this competition when those running the county are coining in such fantastic salaries and pensions.

From Our Ipswich.

Look at the bottom of this poster that was e-mailed to me by Optua on behalf of Ashley Maw, Community Inclusion Facilitator, Supporting Families Delivery Agency, Adult and Community Services, Suffolk County Council, New Southwest, 12 Great Whip Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8EZ  Tel: 01473 400855 Mob: 07894598584, Mail to: ashley.maw@suffolk.gov.uk,  http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/  Just why SCC cannot send out their own mails I do not know. However the listed supporters of this event are; http://www.leap.ac.uk/home, http://www.csv.org.uk/ , http://skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk/,
http://www.suffolklearningconsortium.org,uk/ , http://www.yourconsortium.org/nldc.html,
http://www.optua.org.uk,%20http//www.avenuesgroup.org.uk
It seems more people are being paid to support this event than are actually likely to attend and by allowing this we add to the numbers of unemployed in the country as people are being exhorted to volunteer to do jobs free that should be done by workers on wages. There is also uptownevents12@gmail.com who I have been unable to trace so far. Phones are not being answered and mails are not being replied to. There is an interesting point here that needs looking into considering Optua have an income of £6 million a year much of it from us and they are a respectable charity as far as I can see so far but who checks their accounts? Optua makes funding available to organisations that do not account for the money so why are Optua giving our money away without being able to account for it. This is but a small issue in an otherwise respectable charity but how many small issues are there. We should be able to discover this but we cannot. Why?

WHAT IS SCC DOING WITH OUR CASH?

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=3103315308879&set=a.3103315268878.2119378.1444135984&type=3&theater This facebook post by Optua made me curious. Optua does a good job in Suffolk for disabled people but they are mainly supported with our cash so why are they posting this poster for a commercial event? Look closely at the base on the poster and you will see other organisations promoting this too. Many of them are also supported with our cash and even some of them ask us to volunteer our servises free or even at our own cost. I often volunteer and usually I pay my own costs too so why are so many people paid by us to get us to work for nothing? Look at this link too from the SCC website; http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/your-community/support-for-communities/volunteer-join-in Who audits these voluntary groups? How much do we pay them and who decides who gets what? It is our money and I believe there must be an audit trail so we can see where our money is going and of course it is also essential SCC can show it is not involved in patronage deals? Indeed it is very important SCC shows clean hands when handing out a few million pounds of our cash?

KEVIN ALGAR; WHAT A PLONKER.

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in response to Peter Turtill:



I do not accept your claim that my original post about Redsell was removed because of your fear of the libel laws. [COMMENT EDITED BY RSV]



Peter, the first comment I removed contained libelous accusations against your electoral opponants. As it was not only libelous but could also have been in breach of electoral law I removed it and forwarded it by Email to the people you were libeling in case they wanted to take legal action against you. If you persist with this, your comments here are likely to end up in the spam tray. Write what you like on your blog, just don't write it here. I hope you are out of politics now as you claim to be because libeling the dead as you have just done on your blog is the lowest of the low.
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What a plonker:-) He can send my posts anywhere he wants and lets see who wants to face me in court. Electorial Law my backside. Libel a dead man? Don't be so silly. Stick to writing your silly blog Kevin as that seems to have overtaxed your ability. This fool deleted a post by me about a paedo and then later posted a link to my blog claiming some credit. He is one of those who likes to hide stuff from the public.

WHY THE ELECTORATE DOESN'T VOTE.

The election is over for me and I was hoping to walk away from politics once it was over but an important issue has been exposed by me during this recent period. I am happy Andrew Cann is to represent St.Margaret's ward. Indeed I would have been even more happy if the tory chap had won with the same slim majority but the important point is the majority of only 98 votes means Andrew Cann will have to take care of his constituents if he wishes to continue representing them at the next election. Massive majorities leave the imcumbent lazy and tending to disregard their voters.

Andrew Cann does have a duty to this town though and that is to declare why he stopped posting on Ipswich Spy, the blog I revealed as being run by a former councilor who has been convicted of child sex charges and is on the Sex Offenders Register? Did he know this while he was posting anonymously or did he discover this belatedly as I did. If the latter then why didn't he make this public knowledge and allow the voters of Ipswich that knowledge too. I suppose I must sadly conclude they were never anymore than potential voters as the overwhelming majority of potential voters have long ago been turned off by the behaviour of politicians which is hardly surprising now. I do however intend to make an issue of this persons blog and just who was manipulating him besides the late Russell Harsant and his associates.

IT MAY NOT BE OVER YET.

I was beaten into the ground at the election last night. My team worked hard and I didn't do justice to them and it was deeply disappointing for them. There was an issue I may take forward though. Andrew Cann won St.Margaret's by less than 100 votes in a ward with the highest percentage turn out last night and it should have gone to the Conservatives if my hands were not tied.

Andrew Cann's mother contacted my canvassers and stopped me posting on this blog. This blog has never been pro-tory or pro-labour but it was always anti-Andrew Cann. By having my canvassers rebel he in effect gained votes as people became less disenchanted with him. This blog would have made a difference of 100 votes to the tories easily if it had been allowed to continue.

I believe Andrew Cann's mother broke the Representation of the People Act and I may take that further. Keep watching this space.

CENSORED AND HAMSTRUNG TOO.

My supporters are all very decent people. Very respectable and unable to fight an election if that means attacking others even if they need attacking. I have had objections to my blog which is quite aggressive and not acceptable to my supporters who to be fair did originally want me to stand aside and just allow them to canvass for me. They have made and delivered something like 7.000 leaflets all over the ward and that is something I would not have been able to do as I use a wheelchair. The final straw came last night when I was informed by a canvasser the campaign was over and nobody was going to canvass for me as it was alledged Andrew Cann's mother had telephoned my canvasssers and complained about my blog which is my only tool. I had to either lose all my support and upset a very dear friend or quit writing my blog. I gave them the password for my blog and said they could edit the stuff they or alledgedly Rosie Cann objected too and I wouldn't write on here again. It is now nearly 2pm and nobody has accessed my blog to edit stuff out that alledgedly Andrew Cann's mother didn't like so it seems my canvassers have actually walked away and given up. That leaves the field open for me as far as this blog is concerned and so I will now replace the stuff I removed alledgedly to please Rosie Cann and fight on alone. I believe a fighter is required if one wants to win an election in a ward where the major parties have already decided the result will be a win for the Andrew Cann who will also be our next candidate as MP for this town as Ben Gummer is abandoned. Tally ho and off we jolly well go then, back into the fray with but one target. To win and to win fairly. Peter Turtill will stamp out corrupt practises in Ipswich starting with this election if you, the voters help me by voting not only for me but to show your repugnance of the political parties who had already decided who was to be your councillor. Don't stay at home as that allows those controlling the elections to believe they can get away with it as you just don't care. Vote Turtill and fight back.