Monday 7 July 2008

Senator Shenton - The Reply and my response

The reply from Senator Shenton is pasted below, aloing with my brief reply.

"Dear Senator Shenton

Thank you for your email.

Please can I kindly request that you respond in full by 8pm tomorrow, assuming that you will see Senator Perchard at the States Assembly tomorrow?

I am meeting a journalist from the BBC for Dinner tomorrow at 9pm. I would like to take this opportunity to invite Senator Perchard and yourself to join us.

Please let me know if you are available so that I can notify the restaurant that two more guests will also be dining with us.

Kind regards

Simon Bellwood


Subject: RE: Urgent request for a meeting> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:41:08 +0100> From: B.Shenton@gov.je> To: bellwoodsimon@hotmail.co.uk> >

Simon,

I've forwarded your e-mail to Jim Perchard (jl.perchard@gov.je) as your original went to a John Perchard. I'll have a chat with Jim once he has had chance to read it and shall get back to you soonest.

Regards

Ben

-----Original Message----- > From: Simon Bellwood [mailto:bellwoodsimon@hotmail.co.uk] > Sent: Sun 7/6/2008 9:15 PM > To: Ben Shenton; John Perchard > Cc: > Subject: Urgent request for a meeting> > > **************************************************************************************> This e-mail has been received directly from the Internet: you should> exercise a degree of caution since there can be no guarantee that the> source or content of the message is authentic.> > If you receive inappropriate e-mail from an external source it is your> responsibility to notify Computer Services Helpdesk (telephone 440440).> > The Full States e-mail Usage Policy can be found here:> https://portal3.gov.je/whalecom730bc7931cba5832ac/whalecom0/aware/internet_email_issues.htm> **************************************************************************************> > Dear Senator Shenton and Perchard> > I hope you are both well now that you have 55,000 readers of the JEP believing that all is rosy in the garden of H&SS.> > I write to you with the offer of an informal meeting with me this week. I wish to discuss my Serious Concerns complaint dated 1st January 2007 and how this relates to the Williamson report. > > I appreciate that you are both extremely busy, along with your buddies, spinning the story so that 99% of the public think that the States have a 'clean bill of health' however, I believe that you need to think very seriously about my offer of an informal meeting.> > I expect your initial reaction will be to ignore my request, I suggest that to do so would be at your own peril. > > Think of me a little bit like a bad smell that just won't go away - I will not stop with my battle for justice until justice has been done. > > There is more than one way to win a battle. I have been fighting so that the children of Jersey receive a good service. I will succeed despite the fact that is in currently on your terms and I continue to be the scapegoat, nonetheless, I have still achieved what I wanted for the children. > > Was I sacked for whistle blowing? 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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Simon

You need to clarify if the meal is free.

Have you ever known a politician to walk away from a free lunch!

Anonymous said...

Two brief points:

1) The media contacts whose email addresses you have publicly posted on your blog are now more likely to receive spam email than if you had not posted their address. Spam harvesting robots will have done their work already. Your contacts probably won't thank you. Don't be too surprised if you are not overcome with replies.

2) Under the Data Protection Act, do you have permission to publish their addresses in this fashion? I suspect that, when each person provided you with their address, this was not the intended use of the data.

Anonymous said...

Not only do you give a completely unrealistic time frame for your recipients to respond to, (a few hours on a Sunday evening is hardly reasonable,) You don't even send your email to the correct address. Are you trying to make yourself look foolish.

Anonymous said...

Simon,

Your detractors are obviously emboldened by all the recent whitewashing. Their comments are just intended to demoralize you, so don't pay any attention to them.

Since you are not originally from Jersey, you already know that virtually every reputable news organization has a website listing detailed contact info for news reporters, including their individual email addresses.

Is it possible that some of the above comments were made by those who only read the JEP? Some insular child abuse deniers might not know that in the free world, a reporter's professional work depends upon easy and open public access. Any news organization afraid to disclose contact info for fear of spam harvesting robots would hardly be able to function beyond the level of the old rag.

Spamilla

Anonymous said...

At what point did blackmailing politicans to attend your meetings become acceptable?

Anonymous said...

simon
we all heard you on the radio this morning and were routing for you. You spoke well and wth convicion which is what I would expect.

I now hope and expect that you keep up informed as to what is going on. Even if it is only a couple of lines.

Please, as they say, keep us in the loop constantly. I know it is a lot to ask but it is important for you to maintain the interest in this site.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm... perhaps a new definition of blackmail is when a whistleblower threatens to tell the truth to the world if the polititians responsible for the mess fail to do so themselves, within a short time frame.

- C.

TonyTheProf said...

Any chance of comments on the unfair dismissal report out recently and the JEPs reporting of it.