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This is an exclusive first look at a campaigning ‘newsletter’ being prepared for printing and distribution by a notorious, unemployed, Tameside-based conspiracy theorist, Raja Miah.

Widely known on social media as ‘The Malicious Beggar’ or simply, ‘The Beggar’, he has raised an estimated £40,000 over the past 4 years from a small group of cranks, misfits and political axe-grinders whom self-style as ‘The Rabble’ or ‘Raja’s Rabble‘.

The most recent crowd-funder has raised over £5,000 which, Miah says, from his plush apartment in Mossley, will pay for leaflets (more latterly termed by him as newsletters) to be printed, at an estimated cost less than £1,000, and distributed at no cost by The Rabble into over 50,000 homes in the Oldham West and Royton constituency. Which, he claims, he will contest in January, 2025 (or sooner if the present Conservative government doesn’t run its full term).

The seat is currently held by Jim McMahon MP, who has served constituents since December, 2015 when he won a by-election following the death of the previous incumbent. Prior to that McMahon was the Leader of Oldham Council for almost 5 years.

Bradford-born Raja Miah has run what he, himself, describes as ‘a vendetta’ against the sitting MP, for the past 5 years, following McMahon’s exposure of grotesque safeguarding and operational failings, and financial mismanagement on a huge scale, at the Collective Free Spirit school that Miah founded and ran in Chadderton.

Many will see the ‘newsletter’, designed using Bradford City football team colours, mostly comedic and puerile with its familiar baseless allegations and violent fantasies, as partly a continuation of that vendetta, but, mainly, as another in a lengthening line of Miah money-making schemes that have seen huge sums extracted from two failed charities, Peacemaker and RISE, in which he was the principal, as well as the £millions that remain unaccounted for from the free schools. 

The reverse of the leaflet is expected to be devoted largely to exhorting the elderly, vulnerable, deluded or gullible – mirroring the rump of The Rabble’s existing membership – to send Raja Miah money they probably can’t afford and, for which, not a single receipt or one page of book-keeping will be produced. 

The announcement of the date of the first public meeting that will be held in support of this prospective MP campaign is very eagerly anticipated by so many in Oldham.

Maybe that will appear on the back of the leaflet, too?

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Page last updated: Tuesday 15th August, 2023 at 17h25

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