The latest news is not good. The SWT and I were to have a meeting with
the parish council at the cricket club on Friday morning. When we
arrived the chair of the PC, Malcolm Eastwood, histrionically banned me
from the meeting, to which he had earlier invited me, and attempted to
remove me from the common (not realising that as it was a registered
common I had a statutory right of access!!).
His justification
was that he thought my BBC R Sussex radio interview (BBC Radio Sussex Neil
Pringle 24th May 1hr 48 mins into prog) was 'unbalanced' and
untruthful...for instance by saying there was a chamomile lawn. He said
it did not exist!!
I refused to
leave and they were obliged to re-convene the meeting at the parish
offices in Henfield !
We have also missed a major media
opportunity, for BBC TV South Today wished to do a piece but would not
proceed without the participation of the SxWT, who didn't want to engage.
(Clearly South Today don't have much time for individual whistleblowers like
myself).
I haven't got any feedback yet from Tony/the SWT and I wasn't around to seek it
later on Friday.
I
hope the SWT will have got something from the meeting...With the media moving
our way and the parish council so
defensive they refused to be interviewed by the media, we have them on
the back foot,
Dave Bangs
