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I watched and re-watched a certain council meeting online and studied it closely. Funnily enough you learn quite a bit by watching the people on the outskirts who don't think they are subject to scrutiny. This was the full council meeting of 6 Nov 2019
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The link above is not broken, if you try and click it, you will see it comes up as 'Private'.
This has been done by whoever administrates Oldham councils youtube of PUBLIC council meetings record! It seems several meetings have been deleted and a search of their youtube listing reveals as much, please see the screenshots added below., HOWEVER, I have acquired a full download of said council meeting and it is now hosted on my own youtube channel, you can see the full meeting here
There is also a utility called 'youtube time' which allows linking to specific sections of a youtube channel so please click here to go directly to the subject content.
Screenshots showing missing/privatised Oldham Council content
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Anyway, my eyebrow raised a little at the inclusion of a person called forward to ask a question. Call me paranoid at that point if you so choose, and I could be completely wrong, I am making no accusations here, but something didn't feel right. But because the time for asking questions at a full council meeting is an extremely limited (now only 15 minutes for Oldham Council), I have a couple of questions.
1) If a council knew that some rather embarrassing questions were going to be asked, since they have them in writing beforehand, does that mean they can be very selective with them?
2) Would it be beyond reason to suggest that regarding said council, if the other allegations re 'alleged' corruption and grooming cover ups are to be believed, would they also use delaying tactics in order to avoid certain other questions being asked?
As I said, I make no accusations, however I have 4 photos here. One is a still from the said council meeting video where a member of the public is asking a question, the next 2 are actually 2 versions of the same photo, one of them a zoomed version, of Debbie Abrahams publicity propaganda. The fourth photo just highlights the questioners comfortable familiarity with Council leader Sean Fielding.
It turns out, the person taking up 'public' question time when the council KNEW they were going to get embarrassing questions was a gentleman called Josh not only was he an up and coming member of Oldham's young Labour Party, he was nominated by the party prior to this meeting as the new candidate for councillor to take the place of Stephen Hewitt who was mentioned in my other article.
Also worthy of note, due to Josh's obvious familiarity with the various players in the local Labour Party hierarchy, had his question been a legitimate one (based on his own need as an Oldham resident to get the answer to the question he raised), couldn't he have achieved this by simply approaching Cllr Mushtaq on one of the many occasions he bumped into him at say for example Debbie Abrahams office or at party meetings or even by phone? Instead, it ate into the restrictive time allowed by the council for the less well connected public to raise their concerns and get answers.
This was the same council meeting that later erupted with the now infamous "Bare Faced Lies" speech by Oldham council leader Sean Fielding!
Firstly, I believe 100% that Josh was put there to fill in time. However, this is NOT a witch hunt. I have no evidence to say that Josh was a willing and fully informed participant in the alleged deception. For instance, I would be more inclined to believe that another council member had approached the up and coming, enthusiastic and ambitious young Labour member and said something along the lines of :-
"listen Josh, since you are up and coming and all that, how about, to get you a little practice, we get you up in chambers to ask a question so that you can get a feel for what it's like in there?"
Let's not forget, people like these have been doing this for years! They are not strangers to setting others up for falls. If the above was the case, I hope Josh has learned from this, and that he reads and watches a lot more, because he had allied himself with a pit of vipers and got bitten! It's actually a shame that it has come to this, but please find attached Josh's last announcement. If he was victimised as a result, he absolutely should not have been. Blame the machine that made him.
Could it also be a coincidence that another well connected member of the labour party in Oldham, one ""Syed Maruf Ali" branch secretary of the labour party in Werneth Oldham, also chose that particular evening to raise a question to eat up the time that the 'general public' had available?
Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me! In the 2022 all out elections in Oldham, Josh charters stood and was elected as an Oldham Labour councillor for St James ward. Draw your own conclusions.
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