They’ve added a cheesy, tacky, rotating piece of nonsense with a load of testimonials they’ve obviously written themselves.

Let’s face it, anyone who has read about Mann’s behaviour on this and other blogs is going to have a really hard time believing, never mind applying, words like ‘honest’, ’sincere’ and ‘integrity’ when referring to John Boy. So forgive me if I doubt the provenance of these flattering epithets.

And like the rest of his campaign material, there’s a distinct odour of desperation emanating from this.

First, as I reported a week or so ago, he claimed to be the MP for Retford, when in fact, until the boundary changes come into effect, the MP for Retford is Patrick Mercer. He apologised for that in the Retford Times.

Now he has some more apologising to do. In his recent attempt to woo Retford voters, he distributed a pamphlet with the usual self-serving claptrap, mainly suggesting that Retford was a second class town which would benefit from his expertise.

To round off his pitch, the pamphlet concluded with a couple of photos contrasting the market place with a shot of the Clinton Arms, in an area he describes as ‘a neglected backwater’.

The Retford businessman who had recently purchased the  Clinton Arms for £160,000 and is in the process of spending another £40,000 turning it into a retail establishment to compliment the one he owns on the opposite side of the street was less than delighted when he spied the above photograph. He, understandably, went nuclear. Having invested £200,000 in an area he believes to have great potential, he sees it described as ‘a neglected backwater’ by Mann.

And just yesterday, when I went to photograph the area (for future use) I was approached by the landlord and the occupier of the house next door to the Clinton Arms, who were also enraged that a nice house was being ‘classed as a slum’ by Mann.

So there are at least 3 voters who won’t be putting their crosses against Mann’s name.

He claims to be ‘A different kind of MP’.

I can’t argue with that.

And neither would the majority of decent, hard working MPs who would not care to be associated with Mann or his behaviour.

Three MPs charged with expenses fiddling are aiming to use legal aid to defend themseleves. That’s right, having fraudulently trousered a load of the taxpayers cash already, they are asking you and I to pay for their defense. £3million quid!

See the Telegraph

Having got that off my chest, I’ll just remind readers that fiddling is fiddling. The amount doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of the degree of fiddling.

If anyone wants the little matter of J0hn Mann’s expenses claim and repayment, which he treats as if it was toxic waste and to be avoided at all costs, clarified for the taxpayers who fund the Government, please sign the petition.

UPDATE

Friend of Mannisms, Sir Olly Cromwell, has done a neat bit of research on the swindling MPs trying to weasel out of their come-uppance. He’s identified the legal represenatatives of the accused and their email addresses. He has sent an email to each essentially saying that, since the taxpapyers are picking up the bill for Legal Aid, he has instructed the barristers to enter a Guilty Plea. Some wonderful thinking there, Olly.

Please get yourselves over to http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=584 and copy and paste the email and send it under your own name to the legal eagles, who are  getting rich on the back of these thieving MPS.

The sucker in this case is YOU, the taxpayer.

A few days ago, RR and his wife received some Mann propaganda. The envelope it arrived in is shown below.

You can see the hand written annotation to the return address. It appears innocuous enough unless you know the background.

This is clearly intended to intimidate RR.

Putting the frighteners on a pensioner and his wife is a despicable act and adds a new dimension to Mann’s aready questionable behaviour.

My advice to RR is to take this to the police.

See BBC news report

So who are the losers?

On one hand, the individuals against whom the allegations had been made. One said that the last five years had been a hideous and heartbreaking time.

But the real losers were the miners and their families who had their expectations cruelly raised by John Mann’s campaign of public meetings and media appearances promising a payout.

Some of these people may have spent savings or even borrowed money against the prospect of a future payment and now will not only be disappointed but also in a financially poorer position than they might have been without all the hoo-haa.

Any decent advocate would have gone about this quietly as there was never any guarantee of further compensation unless and until a fraud had been proved in a court of law. But not Mr Mann. Never shying away from an opportunity to publicise himself, he shouted this from the rooftops.

And has John Mann made any apology?

Not on your life.

And in this week’s Worksop Guardian, through his mouthpiece, he says he is set to call for a public enquiry after the election.

What a piece of work he is.

Aided and abetted by his mate, Editor George Robinson, currently working his notice for allegedly failing to meet circulation and advertising targets, Mann trotted out  his usual nonsense blaming the council for an £8million investment (which is being returned, no matter what Mann will have you believe) but conveniently forgetting to tell readers that Icelandic Banks were on a list of approved investments recommended to the Council by, wait for it, the Labour Government. No mention either that Nottingham City Council (Labour) dumped over £40million into the Icelandic Banks with the encouragement of the same government.

This week’s  outpouring of self-serving cobblers has surely demonstrated to everyone in Bassetlaw that John Mann is indeed an Icelandic Banker. Evidence of his financial acumen can also be seen from his expenses claims, where he apparently can’t be bothered to reclaim £2,395.02 ‘claimed on the wrong forms’ and repaid by him when MP’s expenses came under scrutiny. Much more on that to come.

Finally, John Mann would do well to remember that those hard working Council officers who have had the boot aimed at them for the past 6 years are also voters. And their families and friends.

STOP PRESS: Just visited the Worksop Guardian’s website and clicked on the Breaking News link. I got a story about the Vesuvius appeal. Dated 11th March.  That’s 2 weeks ago as of today. Little wonder that rag is failing.

Who paid for the distribution of this deception?

Not John Mann, who, on his Facebook page, states “we don’t have the opposition’s money” and begs for campaign donations.

Directly or indirectly, the dissemination of this literature was paid for by the unions. Indirectly as they are the Labour Party’s major contributor and directly as they sponsor John Mann.

So there you have it; the unions sponsoring a member of the current government to mislead the voters.

I thought these kind of shennigans disappeared with Old Labour.

Apparently not.

1. Which one has the biggest mouth?

2. Which one belches most hot air?

Answers on a postcard to:

John Mann

68a Carlton Road,

Worksop

True, causes will be taken up and run their course and be replaced by other more recent causes. But while printed matter ends up in the blue bin and gets recycled into toilet paper (which, to be honest, it was in  the first place), web content never goes away. It hangs around to haunt anyone who is imprudent enough to get the attention of the media, large or small.

Try Googling for “John Mann libel” or “John Mann ASDA” and you’ll see that this site and the other blog sites which support me are all there for everyone to see, right up at the top of the search engine rankings.

So anyone looking for the Gospel according to Mann on Google, Yahoo or Bing will have quite a few versions to choose from.

And unlike the recycled newspaper stories, they will be there till the end of eternity.

NOTE: To the Diddy Manns who leave comments here. Unless you are commenting on the article, your comments will not be published.

It starts off with

In your childish and highly offensive website you make a large number of inaccurate statements…..

It carries on in a similar vein for a paragraph. It makes no effort to correct the inaccuracies, though,

Fair enough, he’s entitled to his say.

Then he goes on to say

You make inferences that there is something improper regarding my Parliamentary expenses. You are inaccurate and wrong in this. There is and has been nothinng improper.

The rest of the letter goes on to detail his Press credits and other testimonials for being sqeaky clean.

Now, here’s my problem with this. The letter makes no effort to answer the question asked on this blog and by a Retford resident by email.

A question that is met with threats of legal action whenever asked. Namely, regarding the repayment of expenses made by Mr. Mann, what was the claim for and if it is legitimate and claimed on the wrong forms as he says, then why hasn’t he reclaimed it. It is not an insignificant sum.

So, here’s a challenge  for Mr. Mann. He likes challenges and has this week offered one of his own in the Worksop Guarding Mann. (Goodbye, George. Can’t say I’ll miss you. Maybe next time we’ll get an editor with the balls to print news instead of fiction.)

Reclaim the money on the correct forms and give it to charity. That seems a neat solution since you don’t seem to care about reclaiming it for yourself. There are a number of charitable institiutions in Bassetlaw who would benefit greatly from £2,395.02

Do this and I’ll get off your case. At least with regard to expenses.

I look forward to your response.

UPDATE: Original post edited after an inaccuracy was pointed out. See, I can be reasonable.