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    gaz scott wrote:
    Bladesboy Returns wrote:
    gaz scott wrote:
    AmboGuy wrote:
    Seeing as you refuse to put the quote on this forum I'll do it for you, let's all look for the 'smoking gun' that shows JHunty is a corrupt copper and needs to be exposed:

    "The fact is that Mr Catt is deemed to be vulnerable by the police and therefore they have a duty of care towards him. This means they keep an eye on him at demos, to ensure he is safe and if he gets arrested they arrange for a taxi to take him home from the police station at our expense. Of course this does not fit in with Mr Catts self image and so he keeps quiet about it. Just like he keeps quiet about being forcibly ejected from council meetings in Brighton and Hove when decisions do not go his way. He and the same law firm he is using now spent years and a great deal of public money trying to get Brighton and Hove Albion banned from the Withdean stadium, making ever more desperate appeals as time went by.
    The idea that a police state or anything like Nazi Germany exists today in Britain is a nonsense fuelled by Mr Catts vanity.
    Mr Catt is deeply unpopular in Brighton as are Smashedo. He is no hero just a bored old man using public money to satisfy his need for attention".

    Nope me neither....
    Sorry Ambo really I don't see your point. I posted that link last night. So it's not very clever just posting it - unless you are suggesting people here are too stupid to follow a link. I've never said that was the smoking gun. What I am saying is I'm not going to itemise all the information that I've passed on.

    I have also said (frequently) I'm prepared to admit I am wrong but am still waiting for JHunty to respond.

    I still believe that attempts to discredit a member of the Police Authority if he is a Policeman (Sorry Police Officer) within the context of this political spat is serious enough to investigate. As policing will no doubt be driven by the Council's motion which in turn was driven by press comments I think it is very significant.

    It's not just about some policeman unwisely making a few comments on-line. If you think otherwise then so be it. I'm not terrible worried about what you think at all.
    Gazzer Scott, Bright he's not.............

    ...continues to spout drivel and embarrass himself.

    How we all laugh at the waster, the waster that can't see beyond the end of his greasy little nose and has the brains of a flatfish.
    Oh the list intellectual's back. Mr Originality, with his never ending selection of choice phrases (currently up to 5 - wonder who he copied the most recent one from).

    Conversing with you is like talking to an empty milk bottle so I'll leave it there.
    Gazzer Scott, Bright He's Not...............

    .......lets rip with a splendid attempt at a put down.

    Sadly the brain-challenged waster, wallowing in bedsit land can't quite deliver the killer line.

    Can't quite deliver anything of substance actually, what a waste of space."
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Row breaks out over Brighton Smash EDO protest at Jubilee

2:30pm Wednesday 28th March 2012 in News

A bitter row has broken out over councillors’ condemnation of a Diamond Jubilee anti-arms protest.

Conservatives and Labour councillors on Brighton and Hove City Council voted for a motion that the council should call on Smash EDO to drop its June protest plans because of possible disruption to celebrations.

Senior Green councillor Ben Duncan publicly suggested in his blog that Conservative Coun Tony Janio was “corrupt” in proposing the vote because he did not declare at the time that he himself works for an arms company.

Coun Duncan later clarified in a later post that he was not “alleging corruption”.

Smash EDO wants to close down the EDO factory in Home Farm Road, Moulsecoomb, which it claims makes parts for weapons used in overseas military action.

It has called a demonstration in Brighton on Monday, June 4 – the third day of a four-day bank holiday weekend marking the Queen’s 60th year on the throne – as part of a “summer of resistance”.

At a meeting Coun Janio proposed that the council call on Smash EDO to “abandon their plans to disrupt the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in the city” and to work with police over other plans for protests.

The motion was carried with support from Conservative and Labour group members, with the Greens abstaining or voting against the motion.

Coun Janio, who represents the Hangleton and Knoll ward in Hove, has listed in the council’s register of members’ interests that he works as a “technical instructor” for Thales Training and Simulation – owned by French defence company Thales.

Coun Duncan, the council’s cabinet member for communities, equalities and public protection, wrote in his blog after the meeting: “This looks a bit like corruption to me – keeping silent about his links with the arms industry while trying to shut down the activities of a group campaigning against it – either way the question will keep council lawyers busy for the next few weeks.”

He warned disruption was more likely if the council did not work constructively with protest groups.

He is planning to seek legal advice from council officers before deciding whether to lodge a complaint to the council’s standards committee.

Smash EDO spokeswoman Chloe Marsh said the planned demo was not directed at the jubilee.

A spokeswoman said: “The arms trade does not stop just because of the Jubilee holiday.”

Coun Janio himself said he has no conflict of interest because his job is teaching people to fix flight simulators, not making arms.

He said: “We make flight simulators, we also make military flight simulators, but they don’t harm people.

“The worst thing a simulator can do to somebody is if it fell on them.

“We basically make a non-lethal product that teaches people to fly, whether they are military or civil.”

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