People are rightly saying that Andrew Griffiths has not been convicted beyond reasonable doubt. But who is? The jury at my trial was specifically directed by the judge to "disregard" that concept. I have explicitly not been convicted beyond reasonable doubt.
As for later guilty pleas to the charges that were contrived among my political enemies in order to activate my suspended sentence, I entered them on solicitors' advice that perhaps I should have ignored. Among other things, I was told that no lawyer would represent anyone who attempted to plead not guilty to harassment, the crime of which consisted in having made the complainant feel harassed. What matters is that the complainant is sufficiently well connected for the Crown Prosecution Service to take up the case.
But nothing else has ever given me as much cachet as prison has. I really am a proper activist now. Put that together with the fact that I have been a parliamentary candidate (on bail, no less; I mean, top that) and that I remain one to this day, and I outrank pretty much everyone, and certainly the people who spent years treating me as a dilettante.
Over on the Hard Right, those who maintain that I harassed them are free to sue me for calling them liars. More than that, though, they are free to contest the North West Durham parliamentary seat, to which at least two of them have aspired in the past. Most obviously, but not necessarily, in the Labour interest. If none of them did so, then all of them would have conceded that their complaints against me were false, and purely political. Although to what specific political purpose would be less than immediately apparent.
People are a bit frightened of you now.
ReplyDeleteJolly good.
DeleteYes, especially the people that got sent all the death threats and so forth.
DeleteNo one was. Ask them. Some of them have hated my guts for years, but none of them would tell you that I had ever sent them a death threat. Not a single one of them.
DeleteIt was no wonder that the Prosecution never called any of them. Just give that a moment to sink in. The Prosecution never called even so much as one of them. Anyone would have thought that the whole thing had been fixed from the start, and that they could not have had any spanners in the works.
Also note the total silence both from the Council and from the Labour Party when I was convicted, when I was sentenced the first time, when I was imprisoned, and when I was released. On all four occasions, total silence from the Council and total silence from the Labour Party.
The party is going to try and murder me again, s I wish it all the success that it has had at least twice in the past. The hitman in prison took such a liking to me that it gave the Labour Party its money back.