This morning I received the following rant from Conservative Rutland County Councillor Peter Jones in response to a e-mail sent to him on the 1st February 2011.
I would suggest he is rather angry because he is not going to walk back into the council chamber as easily as he thought, six other Candidates are standing against him in Oakham South East Ward.
Ms Goodliffe I am surprised that after you have been furnished with a full breakdown of of the dispersal
of the Arts Council grant that you requested that you have not publicly apologised for the completely unfounded and untrue inference that I some how used money from this grant to fund my Gallery On the contrary you continue to infer that that this is the case ,you are both obviously pursuing some form of vindictive personal vendetta ,your recent comments are both full of inaccuracies and untrue inferances Ms Goodliffe you list the listed the history of my Gallery ,you neglected to mention the 6 week or so period when it was lent to a local artist in need of a studio,at a cost to me of nearly a £1000,a suprising oversight since I know you are an artist . You also conveniently forget the Gallery was not short-lived ,it moved to my premises in Mill st where in the last year I have not only provided employment for a young artist but provided valuable gallery exposure for more than a dozen local artists.Finally the Gallery has given significant cash prizes to local artists through open exhibitions .
Mr Brookes ,your continuing diatribe against me, full of sick unfounded lies indeed products of what I type of mind I cannot even fathom,however there are somewhat harder to comment on because a lot of them make no sense and are basically goobledegook,your last rant for example: what on earth is is £37,ooo of plastic and artists being asked to dispose of it all about. You have been provided with details of how the grant was spent obviously not on my Gallery so please issue a full apology or are you going to hide behind the mythical "Rutland Resident " who feeds you malicious unfounded gossip ,which you obviously fail to check out --should of course they actually exist ,if they do perhaps you care to identify them .You also try to excuse your lack of further comment or perhaps an apology to the fact your do not "enjoy being threatened by my friends" this is one of your most disgusting inferences you have made I suggest you either name these so called friends and specify the so called threats made against you or withdraw the comment with a full apology Indeed none of my friends would consider wasting a second of their time in issuing threats against you .Finally whatever "Catmose College raised the Fund " is meant to mean is a complete mystery .By the way I apologise for communicating with you since some months ago when I proved you had lied about another issue you again failed to apologise but asked me not to contact you again ,since however you have continued to bombard me with your warped and ill-informed blog/e mails that have been increasingly attacking me I feel fully entitled to respond
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My response:
I can not respond for Ms Goodliffe and she has moved and no longer uses the listed e-mail address. Maybe that is why he has taken to writing to me instead of her?
I do not hide behind any mythical names, that has been my problem, I have never been a coward and as all can see my blog is titled using my name.
Mr Jones employs Mrs Beech wife of Mr Beech who has in the past behaved in a terrible manner towards me this stopped once I found his facebook entries and published his own admissions he is a drunk, he has refrained from his bad behaviour. I have also seen Mr Beech visiting Mr Jones shop many times and chatting with him so I do not believe it is wrong for me to assume they are friends.
As for the mention of Catmose College, they received a large amount the Arts Council Council grant for services they provided Art for Rutland. I simple stated it appeared to be a good way for them to raise school funds.
I do not feel I owe Mr Jones any apology.
I think the ballot box on May the 5th will show him what the majority of the public think of him. Many times he says he speaks for local traders this is not what they are saying to me. The few traders who speak to him in Mill Street is not representative of the whole town.
Mr O'Brien said he was never visited regarding the Sainsbury application and knows many other traders who say the same and feels so strongly that about what Mr Jones new friend said at the last Council meeting he is putting pen to paper and writing to the Rutland Times.
I am still awaiting for an apology another of his friends, Helen Briggs for her email rant full of lies, sent out from the council computer.
I refer ex Tory Councillors Nick Wainwrights, email where he refers to suffering, he was subjected too, he named Chief Exectutive Helen Briggs and Tory Councillors Roger Begy, Terry King and Peter Jones.
Now we can't all be wrong Mr Jones. Can We?
Can I suggest you lay of the bottle and concentrate on your last stand to cling on to power at Rutland County County Council and don't go telephoning Inspector Johnny Monks he is in enough trouble because of your mob.
A lot of people think its disgusting he put together a team of officers to go out looking for you rusty Swan stolen from your shop wall. The rest of us are lucky to get a crime number from Leicestershire Constabulary. It would b wonderful if we all received the exclusive services of Inspector Johnny Monks expert team.
| | The email below provoked Mr Jones delayed rant, £37,000 of plastic waste refers to the Rutland Hippos. The figures speak for themself the money was wasted. I am entitled to my view. I wont be shut up by Jones and his bullies, the councils own web site says his Live@museum project has lost £16,000 so far. Mr Jones does not like the facts. I can only assume the Arts Council have refused to give him £25,000 for his summer project. Date: Tuesday, 1 February, 2011, 16:26 |
