A Neil Wilby Media article published yesterday (5th August, 2023) and headlined ‘Did MP crowd-funder lead to Facebook ban‘ produced the usual interesting mailbox and commentary.
The article focused on one of the frequently-banned Recusant Nine social media channels run by an infamous, unemployed, Tameside-based conspiracy theorist, Raja Miah. A link to that Facebook page can be found here. Some readers may find the overall content distressing.
A Neil Wilby Media reader has pointed out what, she says, is an important omission from yesterday’s analysis, which can be read in full here, The author of both that article, and this one, Neil Wilby, is inclined to agree.
‘I am not a money launderer’ Bradford-born Raja Miah told his followers, whom self-style as ‘The Rabble’, on the Facebook post under scrutiny, as he sought to re-ignite his campaign to be elected as a Member of Parliament in a neighbouring Borough (read more here).
Whether he is guilty of such an offence, or one similar, has been the subject of fierce debate in the Greater Manchester Region since Schoolsweek published the first of what was to be several excoriating analyses of the finances of two free schools founded and run by Miah between 2013 and 2017. That article can be read here. An infographic that is central to it is reproduced below. Raja Miah denies any and all wrongdoing.
The Miah for MP campaign is certain to bring this, and other issues connected to the schools, including grotesque operational and safeguarding failures identified by Jim McMahon MP (read more here), into play as hundreds of pupils, parents, teachers and other stakeholders live in the Oldham West and Royton constituency that Raja has targeted in his quest to replace McMahon.
The media appearances, public meetings, debates and hustings, that form a conventional part of any general election campaign, should provide ample opportunity for the prospective Parliamentarian to answer all those questions he has studiously avoided for the past five years. In particular, the ultimate destination, and present whereabouts, of between two and three million pounds funnelled into companies he controlled.
Especially from pupils, whom are now adults, and contend, with considerable justification, that their lives have been permanently blighted by Miah’s free school failures.
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Page last updated: Sunday 6th August, 2023 at 09h55
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