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A prospective Member of Parliament for the Oldham West and Royton constituency has announced that he is making no further posts on the social media platform formerly known as Facebook (now Meta).

Long-term unemployed, Bradford-born Raja Miah, who runs his notorious, frequently-banned Recusant Nine social media platforms from his plush home in Mossley, Tameside, offers no explanation for the shock move.

His evidence-free conspiracy theories, largely based around Asian cartels, mobsters, goons, murder, kidnap, gang rape, drug dealers and armed robbers (read more here), will now be confined to his three subscriber-only platforms; Telegram, Ghost and YouTube. 

The move effectively ends his MP campaign as the audience reach – and voter influence – within the target constituency is, on his own admission, less than 200. The seat was retained at the last general election by Jim McMahon MP with a majority of over 11,000. 

Other than perpetuating a long-running ‘vendetta’ (Miah’s own word) against the sitting MP, he has not offered any form of recognisable manifesto other than pressing for a public inquiry into an alleged cover of child sexual exploitation in the town by Labour politicians, the police, safeguarding partners, senior council officers and journalists. A form of scrutiny rejected on at least three occasions in the past fifteen months by the Conservative government.

Questions, therefore, remain over the whereabouts of the money raised from his latest crowd-funder. At present standing at well over £6,000 and purportedly to pay for a leaflet campaign supporting his MP candidacy. It appears that two lots of 10,000 flyers have been distributed, so far. The cost of printing being estimated at around £1,000 leaves a handy sum still sitting in Raja’s bank account or already used to fund his designer lifestyle, top model BMW motor car and fondness for samosa nibbling.

Miah is estimated to have scooped over £40,000 from his support group over the past few years. Much of it funded by State benefits in one form or another.

Even the most ardent members of The Rabble, as they self-style, a largely elderly, gullible, deluded group of axe-grinders and political malcontents, now realise the game is up for their cult hero. His lies and ludicrous fantasies now being driven, effectively, underground. Just one of the latest being that he was the subject of a kidnap and murder plot – including stoning him to death – by local Muslims (read more here).

Another recent post claimed he would soon be homeless if The Rabble did not recruit more members and send more money to fund his plush lifestyle (read more here).

Few in Raja Miah’s neighbouring Borough of Oldham, which he left in 2004 as soon as he could afford to do so, will lament his departure from Facebook, or Meta if you prefer.

The Rabble meet at the aptly-named Million restaurant on 19th December, 2023. Perhaps at least one of them will be bold enough to ask about the crowdfunder? 

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Page last updated: Saturday 16th December, 2023 at 0825 hours

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