Max Evidence 17 Barolotti Denial Allegations
> From: "Pippa Bartolotti"
> Sent by: wgprc-bounces@lists.greenparty.org.uk
> Date: 09/05/2013 00:21
> Cc: 'Chyba', 'Wales Green Party Council'
> Subject: Re: [WGPC] Members Newsletter - Euro-list candidates
>
> Further to my email below.
> The newsletter No 3 has been published, in some haste, to coincide with the WGP Euro election nomination voting process. And in making unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations against one person, myself, it is blatantly interfering with the internal democratic process of the Green Party. This is a very serious matter. One person has already been ejected from the party over similar actions during the EWGP leadership elections, and another may follow. I have not ruled out a libel action.
>
> I consider it appropriate that without delay, an email should be sent to all WGP members outlining this fact, and underlining that none of these allegations have any substance whatsoever. If necessary the entire election process should be stopped forthwith.
>
> Inconvenient this may be, but the contents of this newsletter will doubtless influence voting patterns.
>
> I also would like to take the right of reply, and send a personal email to all members putting the record straight. I take it I can do this, as Max has done, without any approval from WGPC.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pippa
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pippa Bartolotti [mailto:pippabartolotti@walesgreenparty.com]
> Sent: 08 May 2013 17:41
> To: 'John Evans'; 'chris'
> Cc: 'Chyba'; 'Wales Green Party Council'
> Subject: RE: [WGPC] Members Newsletter - Euro-list candidates
>
> Dear All,
>
> Firstly I must say that omitting to circle the sentence on the nomination
> form was my entire oversight. Possibly because I could not circle it on
> the computer, and had to email it to many people in bit of a rush. You will
> understand that I was adhering to the original application deadline of
> March 16th. In any case, I will add right now that I have nothing to declare which may in law be prejudicial to my position as a candidate or would bring the party or myself into disrepute.
>
> These unfounded allegations about my distant past have got way out of hand. I have answered many, many questions to individuals online (through twitter, facebook, askthegreens, emails and my own blogs), and in each case have given a full answer.
>
> I have been told I have an Israeli passport (no) I have lived in Israel
> for 7 years (lies) have been an arms dealer (of course not), have been a
> nuclear consultant (never, never never), the list is practically endless. I have
> also been accused of being a Zionist and an anti-semite (!), and of some
> unintelligible dodgy dealings with a company with which I worked 20 years
> ago (I was always squeaky clean in business so absolutely nothing on me
> there). A Freedom of Information request ( I know of one, there may be
> more) was sent to the WG asking them if I had supplied funds to certain
> companies whilst working for them, when the reply came back that I had
> not, the WG officials ÿwere accused of not doing their job properly! The list
> of things I have been accused of is almost endless and I am regularly
> featured on the Green Left mailing list as if all these horrible, mindless
> accusations were true. None, repeat none of them are true. You might as
> well say that I flew to the moon, then expect me to prove I did not.
>
> None of the allegations are true.
>
> On one occasion, Max circulated a prepared paper of quite wild allegations
> about me to an audience of the UNW. I was giving a talk on Limits to
> Growth at the time. The answer I gave him was that I could not possibly be held
> accountable for actions taken by a company 16 years after I had left it.
> Yet Max continues to perpetrate the unfounded allegations to any who will listen.
>
> None of the allegations are true.
>
> The press have also been involved, as they had been given some sort of tip
> off on my apparent past. I have been contacted by journalists, who upon
> investigation, have admitted to me that they can find no foundation for
> these accusations. No story has ever been made, because there is no story.
> However, despite answering every question truthfully, and there being
> absolutely no skeletons in my cupboard, I have to put up with the same
> questions again and again - and I really do not know why. Yes I am
> becoming exasperated. Why? because every time I have to stop and go over this tired
> old ground I am not writing a press release, or doing something useful to
> forward the aims of the Green Party. Sometimes I think I am put in this
> position precisely to stop me doing what I should be doing. ÿFurthermore,
> you cannot possibly imagine the personal hurt, and pain to my family all
> this has caused. On the occasion that I was accused on Twitter of allowing
> some friends to be beaten up in an Israeli airport because somehow I was
> in cahoots with the regime, I actually had to console my youngest son who was
> distraught with grief and anger upon reading such wicked lies.
>
> None of the allegations are true.
>
> Look. I understand politics. I expect to be put in difficult positions. I
> expect to get some flak and I expect to be under scrutiny. But what is
> going on right now nothing less than a concerted campaign to smear my good name,
> and for no reason that I can think of. Believe me, I have at times
> wondered what I have done to these people for them to attack me in such an
> underhand and persistent way. I understand why the crazy Zionists attack me, and
> they do. But this other attack is from within the Green Party, and I thought we
> were all supposed to be pulling together. If the WGPC would like me to
> stand down, just say the word and we'll have a vote on it. I do not need to be
> going through all this if I'm not wanted.
>
> You may be aware that there is another campaign on Twitter to smear the
> name of the WGP also. I had to block the sender because I couldn't stand the
> rubbish. ÿI hope you also know that there is a purported Wales Green Party
> Blog, which is full of unpleasant malice, and nothing whatsoever to do
> with us, despite having our name on it. Now, I don't particularly expect the
> WGPC to necessarily support their leader when she is put in this awful position
> (though it would be nice to see a bit more solidarity), but I do expect
> the WGPC to protect the WGP. But what does the WGPC do about this blog?
>
> For the benefit of this list, I have truthfully and extensively answered
> every question put to me (although I must admit that I could not possibly
> keep up with the more wild accusations regarding Israel and nuclear
> consultancy on twitter which went on endlessly ) and each and every answer
> is in the public domain. Max knows this, and should have known this for
> almost a year as his partner is the person who has made most of the
> unfounded allegations, yet he has chosen to act as if he did not know this.
>
> None of the allegations are true.
>
> The vast bulk of these questions come from 2 people. The rest are
> anonymous bar one. The same questions are asked again and again in different fora. I
> am all for being scrutinised, but this interrogation has been going on for
> almost a year, on an almost daily basis, and really I do not see why I
> should be stuck interminably in the position of continually answering the
> same questions from the same people. I have stopped answering questions
> from anonymous people as you know, because nowadays they tend to be mischievous
> bordering on malicious, and always without foundation.
>
> When I was first elected as leader, Penny Kemp (ext comms) asked me for a full breakdown of everything she might need to know. A full disclosure was given, and WGPC was copied in at the time.
>
> So I repeat. There are no skeletons in my cupboard whatsoever. I have hidden nothing. I am not by any means perfect, but you all know what there is to know. None of the allegations are true.
>
> If anyone in the WGP would like to set up a Q and A meeting for the
> benefit of members, I would be happy to attend and give a full account of myself.
> I also look forward to all other EU candidates being similarly treated.
>
> Regards, Pippa
>
> PS The upcoming special conference was originally convened to give more time to the discussion on any potential name change.
>
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