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‘Can you believe this?!!’ said the text message from a professional associate this morning.

She was referring to the image posted beneath the headline on this page.

The reply from the author of this article, Neil Wilby, and the subsequent digital conversation went like this:

‘Pull the other one! No-one can possibly be so utterly stupid as to send The Beggar 100 quid a month?!!’.

‘Are you going to write about it?’

‘No, I don’t think so. The Beggar is someone else’s problem now’.

‘I’ll buy you coffee and cake’.

‘You know I don’t eat cake! But, actually, I will knock out a couple of hundred words’.

‘Please do. We’ve missed your Oldham contributions!’

‘A good headline would be ‘There’s one born every minute’ as my late father used to say’.

‘Who do you think is giving Raja £100 per month?’.

‘No-one. I think he just made that up’.

‘Really?’.

‘Yep. Will send you the link to the article when written. Have a nice day!’.

‘Do you mind if I refer to this convo in the article? Anonymised, of course’.

‘Not at all. Please do’.

So, here we are: After a break of a few weeks, and confined to my accommodation in the South of France by a biblical Catalan thunderstorm, a few unexpected lines on ‘The Malicious Beggar’. To give Raja Miah, a notorious, unemployed Tameside-based conspiracy theorist his unabridged nickname.

Struggling to maintain any sort of credibility after his election meddling and smear campaigns saved the Labour Party from losing control of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council – and gifting the Leadership to a politician he despises, Cllr Arooj Shah (read more here) – he has been forced to turn the screw on the microscopic number of supporters from whom he regularly leeches money. Most of them on State benefits in one form or another.

Bradford-born Miah, now widely recognised as the Greater Manchester Region’s most persistent, mendacious liar admits to having just 193 supporters of his disgraced, frequently banned ‘Recusant Nine’ social media platforms. His most recent venture, a Telegram channel, has just 155 subscribers churning out the same angry, hate-filled, harassing, defamatory, divisive, narcissistic narrative for which his Facebook and Twitter pages are well recognised.

Of which, it is estimated that around 20% of that total, like Raja himself, do not live in Oldham. If Failsworth-based subscribers were excluded from the total he would probably be down to around the 100 mark. Out of an Oldham Borough population of 235,623.

In August last year, Miah claimed he was living off just the £500 per month he received from his subscribers, running a swish apartment in a sought-after commuter village and a top of the range BMW car.

That astonishing assertion spawned a devastating take-down headlined ‘Five loaves and two fishes‘ (read here) and a quick revision, following publication of that article, in what he demanded financially from ‘The Rabble’, as Recusant Nine supporters appositely self-style themselves.

He urged the cranks, misfits, axe-grinders and Labour Party malcontents to, collectively, increase their payments to £2,500 per month, but later downgraded that to £1,750 per month.

The output of his public begging recently has intensified in inverse proportion to the relevance and usefulness of what he has to say. Mostly recycling the same old evidence-free tropes and smears upon which he has relied for the past several years.

Largely offensive content that has led to two dawn raids by Greater Manchester Police on his Mossley home and two defamation claims served upon him. One of which he compromised at an early stage to avoid the huge costs and damages inflicted on his co-defendant and close friend, Khazir Rehman (better known locally as Kaiser), who now faces court orders totalling just under £200,000 (read full story here). The second, brought by Oldham’s present Mayor, Dr Zahid Chauhan OBE, Raja Miah appears certain to lose, upon careful analysis of publicly available High Court documents. He has admitted on Recusant Nine that he faces losing his home as a result (read more here).

A significant number of Oldhammers would say it is nothing less then he, and The Rabble who fund him, deserve.

At least one other defamation claimant is waiting in the wings to serve a pre-action protocol letter on ‘The Beggar’. Reasoning, quite understandably, that if the noted samosa nibbler is ‘cleaned out’ by the second claim there is no point throwing good money after bad in pursuing a case where legal costs would not be covered.

Injunction proceedings in the County Court are being considered as a more viable option in stemming the tide of Recusant Nine bile.

UPDATES: Just a few hours after this article was published Raja Miah turned his Recusant Nine Telegram channel ‘private’. Thus limiting his audience (and income) to The Rabble only – and seriously inhibiting his ability to snare others in his money trap from a demographic of elderly, disabled, mentally ill, gullible or deluded souls that are at the heart of Miah’s support group.

A recent email circulated by ‘The Beggar’ to the 289 ‘free’ members of the Recusant Nine website – as opposed to those paying members – produced just one conversion to a paid subscription from that captive audience, he says.

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Page last updated: Saturday 3rd June, 2023 at 13h15.

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