Hall of Shame
Cllr. John Whitworth
being done about it. I kept pressing him for an update and also insisted that he tell me who he had referred the matter to, but he just kept repeating the same cracked record that he had referred it to someone senior within the housing department whilst refusing to tell me who. Then, after a tedious exchange of emails with him still refusing to tell me who he had referred the matter to or what was being done about it, he instead tried to wash his hands of the matter by telling me to take it up with the complaints department again.
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I then sent him a put up or shut up email where I insisted that he either tell me who he had referred the matter to or admit that he hasn't referred it to anyone in order to cover for Jon Hillier, which unsurprisingly, I got no reply from. John Whitworth is not in his job to look after the tenants interests, he is there to pretend that he is looking after the tenants interests whilst covering for those who might get in trouble as a result. But if Mr Whitworth really did refer my complaint to someone senior within the housing department, he will have the paper trail to prove it as all council business must be officially documented, so unless he can, I would suggest that lying to a tenant and deliberately stopping that tenant from getting the help they need in order to cover for a senior housing manager would surely be grounds to demand his resignation.
I've heard it said that quite a few of the Newham councillors are thoroughly corrupt and I'd be willing to bet that John Whitworth is one of them, as he went out of his way to to ensure that nothing was done about the complaint I referred to him whilst telling me what I strongly suspect was a complete pack of lies about what he supposedly had done about it in order to protect certain members of staff who could well have found themselved in trouble had the complaint reached the right people.
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I emailed him a copy of my 14 page letter of complaint and asked him to refer it to someone senior within the housing department who was above of the head of housing and property services, Jon Hillier, whose bad behaviour was part of that complaint. He assured me that he had referred the matter to someone senior within the housing department, but like Kimberley Johns, refused to tell me who he had referred the matter to, or what was