Dear readers
As previously mentioned, further investigation is ongoing into Mr Potts past. Archives are being searched, and contacts are being spoken to. We expect to fill in the gaps that we know exist...
For the past couple of weeks, your Fat Councillor has been aware of allegations about Mr Potts criminal past. The initial allegations were, far fetched, or so I thought.
In order to have the allegations confirmed or denied, I emailed both Mr Potts and chairman of the Jarrow Conservative Party.
Now, here is where it gets interesting. As you will soon read, the allegations, if true, would be very damaging to any candidate for public office. Your Fat Councillor would expect a furious denial and / or threats of legal action if the allegations were untrue. Not only did the threats and / or denials not come winging back to my email account, there was no response whatsoever. Make of that what you will.
Shortly after attempting to contact the Potts & his gang, your Fat Councillor received much the same allegations and details from a number of other sources, along with some other information.
Wary that it might be a setup, your Fat Councillor carried out tracing checks on the underlying IP addresses. These checks uncovered different IP addresses associated with a variety of internet service providers in various parts of the country. Those IP addresses were then tracked via a stats provider to ascertain the operating system, browser and other settings as they visited this blog. There was no consistency in the results, which tended to support there being multiple sources for the information.
As an added precaution, I contacted one of my spies on the ground and asked them to see if anyone could verbally confirm the allegations. This produced the final confirmation I needed.
So, seven online sources and one verbal source have all said the same things, though obviously some sources contain more details than others.
So, what exactly is in Mr Potts past? What is it that the Jarrow Conservative failed to mention when announcing him as their candidate for the Cleadon and East Boldon wars (other than the fact that none of the party thought to mention that his past was none to at least 2 of them)?
Well, it seems that Mr Potts long history of criminal behaviour dating right back to his school days.
How so? Well your Fat Councillor's sources tell him that Mr Potts has a lengthy history as a dealer both at school and Cambridge University and in and around Cleadon and East Boldon. But that is not the end of it. David Potts also had a penchant for vehicle theft (apparently including the theft of one of his father’s vehicles).
In another episode, your Fat Councillor understands that Mr Potts appears to have been involved in a crash and ran away from the scene without providing details. But then how could he when he was only 14.
Is that enough to get you thinking about his suitability to be a councillor? Well, predictably there is more. Mr Potts also had a very serious drink habit that was known to his mother and other clkose family. But more of that later. Your Fat Councillor wonders if it is a criminal offence to provide someone with the money to buy drink when they are underage. Conspiracy to commit a criminal offence?
As you might expect, you Fat Councillor has more information about Mrs Potts knowledge and 'help' with David’s drink addiction. It will be set out in a separate post.
Contact the Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles with interesting facts and tip offs at eric@ericpickles.com
