March 8, 2010 | In: Politics
Time on their hands…
A few days after I started work at the Mercury, I heard that two councillors from my old South Tyneside patch had made a few phone calls to politicians here in Leicester.
Iain Malcolm, deputy chairman of a lobbying firm, and David Potts called various public figures in the area and dropped a word in their ear about me, warning them about the digging I’d done on the shambolic Labour administration and the supine Tory opposition leader.
I treated it as a badge of honour.
Several local politicians down here were a little more curious, however, and over the past few weeks they’ve carried out their own background checks into the pair. They started, naturally, by browsing through my previously-published news stories.
“From what I’ve now discovered,” one high-flying politico chuckled to me this week, “they deserved everything you gave them!” The rest of the responses were similar.
That’s the problem when you’re an ousted Parliamentary candidate who helped a chemical attacker avoid prison.
Your views don’t have that much clout anymore…
5 Responses to Time on their hands…
John Robertson
March 9th, 2010 at 10:59 am
David,
can you email me , I live in Jarrow
Regards
John
Dennis Allsop
March 10th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Hi David
Well, you could not have had better references. Keep on with the investigative work, and try to reserve a bit for S.T.M.B.C. Do you remember when I wrote my first letter to the Fanzine re the “mini riot” upon which you reported at THAT Council Meting. I asked if the Gazette was about to become a campaigning newspaper!!!!
Sadly, probably ‘nuf said.
Enjoy
Dennis
Jim Hodgson
March 10th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hi David,
Hope you are keeping well.
Good article about Malcolm and Potts
Keep it going
Out every day now in the ward
Take care
Jim
Peter shaw
March 10th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Surely not THE David Potts, a man who cried his heart out when he was booted out of Edinburgh?
Surely not THE David Potts who then offered the excuse of the BNP presence in South Tyneside?
Surely not THE David Potts who mysteriously failed to appear in the Primrose Ward campaign (the BNP’s heartland in the Borough)?
Surely not THE David Potts who has had 2 designated blogs purely aimed at his downfall?
Surely not THE David Potts who was the first designated councillor since 1899 who failed to lay a wreath on Remembrance Sunday?
Surely not THE David Potts who has only bothered to attend only 20% of the council meetings he was elected to sit on?
Surely not THE David Potts who as a councillor has the most FOIA requests lodged against him?
Surely not THE David Potts who professed to employ top London lawyers, but then supplied the details of a one man band accident claims solicitor when threatened with legal action?
Surely not THE David Potts…….sorry David, I must get back to flipping burgers.
Taxi for Steve
March 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Is this the same Iain Malcolm who lost his chance of a becoming the MP for South Shields after the town’s outgoing MP – Dr David Clarke – told the police that he had evidence of Iain Malcolm’s ballot rigging activities. Iain was duly removed from the Parliamentary panel and David Miliband was parachuted in.
http://mrmonkeysblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/exclusive-council-leader-iain-malcolm-rigs-ballot-to-cheat-tory-pat-piggott-out-of-victory/