Liphook
This section of the website details corruption that is ongoing in Liphook and Bramshott.
29 April 2019 - Complaints of electoral offences by Councillor Rebecca Standish
The Leader of the Justice & Anti-Corruption Party, Don Jerrard, today sent a follow-up email to Gill Kneller of East Hampshire District Council (EHDC) :
Dear Ms Kneller
I have not yet received even an acknowledgment to my email below. Accordingly I have sought advice from the Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission confirmed that every police force in the UK has an identified Single Point of Contact Officer (or SPOC) for electoral fraud who provides specialist support and advice to investigators.
Cllr Trotter and I have already asked the Hampshire police on two occasions within the last fortnight and again immediately before sending this email to give us the name and address of the SPOC. However they have so far declined in doing so.
Meanwhile Cllr Trotter has received some further intimidating telephone calls, and we and other candidates in the current elections have been the subject of further “trolling” on the local community website.
There has also been further intimidation of four candidates locally, including my wife, by Mrs Jane Ives, whom we now know made an anonymous and malicious complaint against Cllr Trotter in the latter part of last year. There is a meeting of Bramshott & Liphook Parish Council this evening at which we have been informed Mrs Ives is intending to make further intimidatory remarks about Cllr Michael Croucher, Cllr Trotter and myself.
The evidence which I have provided to you that Cllr Standish has not given her true home address in her nomination papers is overwhelming. If she is able to convince you and the Electoral Commission. that Sweet Briar Farm can be described as her home address that simply provides further evidence that her failure to declare that she had, and may still have, a licence to occupy Foley Lodge was deliberate and planned
There is also overwhelming evidence that Cllr Standish has arranged for her son, Marcus Standish, to have a postal vote at Sweet Briar Farm, when he has been in a full-time job and living about 200 miles away for nearly three years.
May I please be told what you as Returning Officer are going to do about this quite blatant electoral fraud by return email.
You will note that I have openly copied the Chairman and Clerk to BLPC, the first of whom is a candidate in the election in the Ward where I live and where my wife is a Parish Councillor and a candidate in the present election.
Regards
Cllr Don Jerrard
Dear Ms Kneller
I have not yet received even an acknowledgment to my email below. Accordingly I have sought advice from the Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission confirmed that every police force in the UK has an identified Single Point of Contact Officer (or SPOC) for electoral fraud who provides specialist support and advice to investigators.
Cllr Trotter and I have already asked the Hampshire police on two occasions within the last fortnight and again immediately before sending this email to give us the name and address of the SPOC. However they have so far declined in doing so.
Meanwhile Cllr Trotter has received some further intimidating telephone calls, and we and other candidates in the current elections have been the subject of further “trolling” on the local community website.
There has also been further intimidation of four candidates locally, including my wife, by Mrs Jane Ives, whom we now know made an anonymous and malicious complaint against Cllr Trotter in the latter part of last year. There is a meeting of Bramshott & Liphook Parish Council this evening at which we have been informed Mrs Ives is intending to make further intimidatory remarks about Cllr Michael Croucher, Cllr Trotter and myself.
The evidence which I have provided to you that Cllr Standish has not given her true home address in her nomination papers is overwhelming. If she is able to convince you and the Electoral Commission. that Sweet Briar Farm can be described as her home address that simply provides further evidence that her failure to declare that she had, and may still have, a licence to occupy Foley Lodge was deliberate and planned
There is also overwhelming evidence that Cllr Standish has arranged for her son, Marcus Standish, to have a postal vote at Sweet Briar Farm, when he has been in a full-time job and living about 200 miles away for nearly three years.
May I please be told what you as Returning Officer are going to do about this quite blatant electoral fraud by return email.
You will note that I have openly copied the Chairman and Clerk to BLPC, the first of whom is a candidate in the election in the Ward where I live and where my wife is a Parish Councillor and a candidate in the present election.
Regards
Cllr Don Jerrard
26 April 2019 - Complaints of electoral offences by Councillor Rebecca Standish
As the Leader of the Justice & Anti-Corruption Party and one of the Party’s two candidates in the Bramshott & Liphook Ward in the EHDC election on 2 May 2019, Don Jerrard sent the letter below and three attachments to Gill Kneller in her joint capacity of Electoral Registration Officer of EHDC and Returning Officer in the election :
- Covering letter to Ms Gill Kneller
- 29 July 2018 report on Cllr Rebecca Standish
- 1 October 2018 letter to Sandy Hopkins re Electoral offences
- 5 November 2018 letter to Sandy Hopkins
The letter asked Ms Kneller to take appropriate action immediately concerning a number of electoral offences which we believe have been committed by Cllr Rebecca Standish, who is one of the Conservative Party candidates for the Bramshott & Liphook Ward in the current election.
- Covering letter to Ms Gill Kneller
- 29 July 2018 report on Cllr Rebecca Standish
- 1 October 2018 letter to Sandy Hopkins re Electoral offences
- 5 November 2018 letter to Sandy Hopkins
The letter asked Ms Kneller to take appropriate action immediately concerning a number of electoral offences which we believe have been committed by Cllr Rebecca Standish, who is one of the Conservative Party candidates for the Bramshott & Liphook Ward in the current election.
19 April 2019 - Foley Lodge, Liphook
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This is the building work in progress at Foley Lodge, Portsmouth Road, Liphook. As you can see, the work is almost complete, yet the owner doesn't have planning permission or a certificate of lawful development. The South Downs National Park Authority are investigating this possible breach of planning law.
The owner of Foley Lodge, since May 1988, is Richard Northcott, the leading proponent for large-scale housing developments on Weavers Down and Bohunt Manor. Richard Northcutt also owns The Deers Hut nearby. The Northcott Trust are leading the proposal for the so called "Western Relief Road" through Weavers Down and Bohunt Manor, which would be funded by the development of up to 500 adjacent houses in this part of the South Downs National Park. To the right is a plan provided by Richard Northcott to the Parish Council (click on the image to see a larger plan). Cllr Rebecca Standish has been living at Foley Lodge, with her husband and daughter, for much of the last 4 years. Indeed, their daughter was on the electoral register at Foley Lodge from July 2016 until May 2017, when she came off the electoral register following protests to the Electoral Commission by the JAC Party at the time of the County Council and General Elections in May/June 2017. Cllr Rebecca Standish is a Bramshott & Liphook District Councillor and on the Parish Council's steering group for the neighbourhood development plan for Bramshott & Liphook. For most of the last few years, Cllr Standish has been working as a chef at The Deers Hut. Clearly we can rely on Cllr Rebecca Standish to oppose Richard Northcott's large-scale development plans! |
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