Sunday 12 January 2020

Another Welsh Tory "Unfit for Office"?

Got to be careful here for legal reasons but the new  Tory MP for Bridgend  seems to be associated with a very dubious website.

According to the BBC 
A candidate in the Labour leadership contest wants Boris Johnson to kick one of his new Welsh MPs out of the Conservative party in Parliament.
Jess Phillips has started a petition calling on the prime minister to withdraw the whip from the Tory MP for Bridgend, Jamie Wallis.
He was the director of several firms which have been the subject of hundreds of complaints to Bridgend trading standards.
Mr Wallis has been asked to comment.
On Saturday the Conservative Party said it could not make a comment at this time.
He won Bridgend for the Tories from Labour in last month's election.
It has emerged that one of the companies, Quickie Divorce Ltd, which trades under the title clean-break.co.uk, advertised on its website a separate business called Sugar-Daddy.net.

This business offered people introductions to wealthy individuals, saying: "We can introduce you to your very own sugar daddy and solve your money worries.
"Whether you're a boy, girl, straight or gay, there's a sugar daddy for you."
Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, has now launched a petition calling on the prime minister to withdraw the whip from Mr Wallis.
Her petition says: "Let's be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly: exploitation of women by powerful men.
"The Tories should feel ashamed sitting alongside Jamie Wallis. The only way to show they don't condone this kind of behaviour is to remove the whip. "Let's be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly

Labour's Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi backed Ms Phillips' call to remove the whip from Mr Wallis
Ms Phillips, a well known women's right campaigner, is one of the Labour MPs hoping to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.
Labour's Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi backed Ms Phillips' call to remove the whip from Mr Wallis.
She said she was "really concerned" about Mr Wallis and added that "his track record is very dubious".
"I'm concerned the Conservatives are not doing a simple Google search to have a look to see what their candidates are like," she said.
"Jamie Wallis has been known to the Tory party, he has stood as a candidate in Ogmore previously and I think people like him should not be members of parliament."
Mr Wallis resigned his directorships of a number of companies including Quickie Divorce Ltd, a short time after December's general election.
According to Companies House, he remains a person with significant control of the company, owning voting rights of 75% or more.
Mr Wallis and the Conservative Party have been approached for a response.Mr Wallis told BuzzFeed: "Online queries indicate the sugar-daddy.net website was registered in 2004 and ceased to be operational in 2010.
"The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited. For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities."
Mr Wallis has also rejected the information provided about complaints to Bridgend trading standards relating to the companies where he was director.
He has rejected them as "nonsense" and says his former businesses are considering legal action against the local authority.

There were more than 800 complaints to trading standards about a group of businesses run by a Welsh Conservative MP, according to data published by a Welsh council.
Newly-elected Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis said the council's information was wrong and his company was taking legal action over the disclosure.


Mr Wallis became the MP for Bridgend in December, ousting Labour’s Madeleine Moon, who had held the seat since 2005. He was, until December 20, the director of a data recovery company based at nearby Pencoed called the Fields Group.
Since the election, Mr Wallis has quit as a director of at least seven companies providing various online services: Fields Associates Ltd, Rapid Data Recovery Ltd, Fields Data Recovery Ltd, Quickie Divorce Ltd, Fields Group Ltd, Fields Holdings Ltd and Digzoo Ltd.
The companies offer services including data recovery and data security. Quickie Divorce Ltd described itself as offering 'other information technology activities'. Digzoo was a website that said it "strived to bring you the weirdest and most wonderful news stories".
Another company Mr Wallis was previously involved with, Action Direct UK, was banned from taking on new clients by the Ministry of Justice, as we reported in 2011.

Action Direct (UK), also based at Pencoed and run by his father Dr Daryl Hamilton-Wallis, agreed to the restrictions following an investigation carried out by the Claims Management Regulator.
Among the online operations set up by Action Direct UK were visaaction.co.uk and injunction-direct.com, which Jamie Wallis has described as commercial trials closed down on his appointement as director.
Bridgend council's latest disclosure follows a Freedom of Information request from an unnamed member of the public.
They asked: “I wish to know the exact number of complaints, trading standard site visits, investigation and trading standards interventions recorded against Fields Group Ltd and its many trading names and subsidiaries across Europe – most operated by Fields Associates Ltd.
"In particular: Fields Data Recovery Ltd, Rapid Data Recovery Ltd, Action Direct UK Ltd, Debt Survival UK Ltd, Quickie Divorce Ltd, UK Digital Solutions Ltd, Smart B2B Services Ltd, First Claims Direct Ltd, Fields Associates Ltd, Endeavour Law Ltd.”

It appears that the Welsh Conservatives believe that they can simply ignore  any questions in the suitability  and as Alun Cairns has proven after being reelected despite a trial was collapsed after his friend Ross England, an aide to former Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns, began his evidence by making allegations about the victim's sexual history which the judge had said the jury should not hear.public outrage counts for nothing.

With a lying philandering Prime Minister who twenty years ago would find it difficult to get elected to a community of parish council base on his past exploits it seems that we will not see the the sort of headlines that helped bring down the John Major government.

As have i have often stated I don't care who our elected officials sleep with, but the above cases are beyond simple prudish morality . Neither  Alun Cairns or Jamie Wallis. seem to be fit for office.

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