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Originally Posted by Richard the Lionheart
Cassie, there may be a grain of truth in what has been stated. You know yourself that Christine likes to vet other people's work. Our county press officer also had problems with her over the English Voice magazine. Christine appeared to want to keep it all to herself. In addition, I can also say how difficult it was to work with the central organisation when we tried to open a branch account.
I accept the emails might well have been heavily edited, but knowing the some of the characters as I do, I would not be surprised if there some element of truth in this.
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A lot of work has gone on to decentalise the English Democrats party.
An example of where this works well is Portsmouth, where the Portsmouth Committee run their own show !
I worked hard to let Matt have "freedom" within the agreed budget.
This was agreed at £12,000 for the Campaign
(£38,000 of course has to go straight to the Goverment in deposits)
We ended up with a compromise where Matt had control of the PPB and the party kept control of the Election Address.
It has become clear now that Matt had an agenda to use the London Campaign to raise his profile to start his own English Nationalist party after the London Elections.
It appear that he asked at least 4 of the London Campaign Team to join him in his new party, including myself the weekend before he resigned.
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Matt had been "out of circulation" for 4 days, and after St Georges Day he phoned me up to tell me that we had "done nothing" on St Georges Day.
I pointed out that we had :-
1 Attended a Demonstration Outside the British Parilament o St Georges Day
2 We had St George and the Dragon at the Demo
3 We had arranged for another St George to come into Parliament Square on Horse back
4 We had arranged for 160+ London Cabs to Fly the Cross of St George Flag and drive around Parliament Square
5 We had handed in a "Bill" to Ken Livingstone to £100,000 for his lack of support for St Georges Day.
I suggest to Matt that he spoke to Richard Castle his friend and Justice for Fathers Co-ordinator in London and standing for the Engilsh Democrats in Croydon & Sutton.
Matt dismissed this idea.
He said he was resigning anyway !!!!!!!!!!!
I had already told him the previous time that he treatened to resign that there was no mechanism to allow for this in an election.
It was one of the wierdest conversations I have ever had.
I spoke to Richard Castle and he suggest that Matt was often a bit wierd after coming out of a bender, and I should take no notice.
In the morning Matt O'Connor sent out an e-mail to a press list of one of our Dartford Members.
He then appear on the Venesa show -Drive Time