Lee (grapser?) Jasper resigns

[treelover]

Lee Jasper, A senior aide to Red Ken as the his race advisor has resigned, he is under a cloud of suspicion over misuse of GLA funds, and now risque emails.

plenty of people on here will have had negative experiences of Jasper , some from his days as a radical fighting the far right, I suspect few will shed a tear.

Livingstone aide Jasper quits after email claims


By Daniel Bentley, PA
Tuesday, 4 March 2008

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone accepted the resignation of senior aide Lee Jasper today.

The move follows a string of claims about Mr Jasper's alleged misuse of City Hall funds.

The Greater London Authority insisted tonight that there was no foundation for the allegations against Mr Livingstone's adviser on race relations.

But it added that Mr Jasper had tendered his resignation after new claims today.

"The mayor has accepted it," a spokesman said.

The resignation comes after London's Evening Standard newspaper claimed today Mr Jasper had sent risque emails to a woman involved with organisations which received City Hall cash.

The Greater London Authority (GLA) spokesman paid tribute to Mr Jasper's achievements.

"The record of the GLA in dealing with racism in London has been outstanding," he said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...e-jasper-quits-after-email-claims-791154.html

 

[London_Calling]

The move follows a string of claims about Mr Jasper's alleged misuse of City Hall funds.

No it doesn't. It follows the emails to a woman who didn't complain at the time - but, of course, they're worth money at election time.

Fwiw, the police even had to announce they aren't investigating Jasper because they have nothing at all to investigate.

It is smear after smear.

 

[Sasaferrato]

No it doesn't. It follows the emails to a woman who didn't complain at the time - but, of course, they're worth money at election time.

Fwiw, the police even had to announce they aren't investigating Jasper because they have nothing at all to investigate.

It is smear after smear.

Um. If there is nothing, why not stand and fight?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Um. If there is nothing, why not stand and fight?

cos the standard were clearly out to do him and associates no matter what. trial by the media is never going to produce a happy ending and the rather pathetic attempts to imply affairs and so on in yesterday's standard probably made him think enough is enough tbh.

 

[gunneradt]

How people don't realise that Livingstone has been corrupt and encouraged this kind of behaviour for years is beyond me.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

It is smear after smear.

If it was nothing but a smear why didn't Jasper the Grasper stand up in front of the GLA and answer the questions. He is either a coward or guilty in my eyes because of this.


<the below comment is not directed personally at you LC - just a general observation>
I suppose in a few minuites the Livingstone worshippers will have deigned to detach themselves from the womblike comfort of Kens anus and turn up to try to shout Livingstone opponents down.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

How people don't realise that Livingstone has been corrupt and encouraged this kind of behaviour for years is beyond me.

Spot on. I supported Livingstone when he was first elected and was a supporter of the GLC back in the day and there was always a whiff of dodgyness about him but he was less worse than the alternatives. Now however his meglomania (does London REALLY need to have local taxpayers fund a 'space office'?) now has gone to extremes.

He needs to go for the sake of London.

 

[London_Calling]

If it was nothing but a smear why didn't Jasper the Grasper stand up in front of the GLA and answer the questions. He is either a coward or guilty in my eyes because of this.

Because, as the police confirm, there is nothing to answer. To do so would be to dignify the smears. It would be a charade entirey for the purpose of politcial gain.

Ask the fucking police if they have any questions.

 

[Dan U]

No it doesn't. It follows the emails to a woman who didn't complain at the time - but, of course, they're worth money at election time.

Fwiw, the police even had to announce they aren't investigating Jasper because they have nothing at all to investigate.

It is smear after smear.

Not following due process for awarding contracts - or not following proper post award auditing procedures on those contracts - is not a criminal offence.

Which is pretty much what the Met said.

It doesn't mean he hasn't done anything wrong, it means it isn't a criminal matter.

 

[London_Calling]

He needs to go for the sake of London.

You just don't like paying the £25.00 to drive your Chelsea tractor around town, do you?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

If it was nothing but a smear why didn't Jasper the Grasper stand up in front of the GLA and answer the questions. He is either a coward or guilty in my eyes because of this.


<the below comment is not directed personally at you LC - just a general observation>
I suppose in a few minuites the Livingstone worshippers will have deigned to detach themselves from the womblike comfort of Kens anus and turn up to try to shout Livingstone opponents down.

Guilty of being a coward because the standard were trying to not only undermine his political credibility but also his private life by printing what were clearly smears in relation to emails that didn't imply anything like the hyperbolic language as reported.

If you want the Standard to run our capital then carry on with the hysteria, myself I would rather see something like informed debate on the issues at hand, not some half-hearted spin from a newspaper and a journo, Gilligan, who we all know have a personal and longstanding grudge against livingstone and associates.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

You just don't like paying the £25.00 to drive your Chelsea tractor around town, do you?

No not that I'm seeing so many little people whohave been shat on by Livingstone and such a rise in corruption that I feel that he has to go.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Guilty of being a coward because the standard were trying to not only undermine his political credibility but also his private life by printing what were clearly smears in relation to emails that didn't imply anything like the hyperbolic language as reported.

If you want the Standard to run our capital then carry on with the hysteria, myself I would rather see something like informed debate on the issues at hand, not some half-hearted spin from a newspaper and a journo, Gilligan, who we all know have a personal and longstanding grudge against livingstone and associates.

Nah Jasper the Grasper is just a coward. If he had stood up and defended himself it may well have looked better.

BTW I used to work for the Standard back in the 80's (as a freelance I might like to add) and yes they did have a campaign against him. I don't think the current anti Livingstone stories are anything like as bad as some of theones back then.

 

[London_Calling]

No not that I'm seeing so many little people whohave been shat on by Livingstone and such a rise in corruption that I feel that he has to go.

But I don't remember you opposing Livingstone before the emission charge of £25.00, and even if you did you didn't rant in terms of "He needs to go for the sake of London."

Fwiw, it is really quite difficult to take you seriously on this issue because you're so angry about the impact on you and your Chelsea tractor. Honestly, you don't have a 'right' to drive that fucking great thing around a city.

 

[sir.clip]

Lee jasper in The Jamaican gleaner online said:

Resignation implies some sort of guilt, and, in my view, I am not guilty of anything, so that is why I have asked the police to investigate. To simply resign and have no police investigation, I would not be able to completely prove my innocence. If you are innocent, why would you give up your job? I am not being hounded out of my job because of racist lies and smears. I am not capitulating to racism. I never do. I am absolutely confident and clear in my integrity.


Oh well... laters bruv...

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Lee jasper in The Jamaican gleaner online said:

Resignation implies some sort of guilt, and, in my view, I am not guilty of anything, so that is why I have asked the police to investigate. To simply resign and have no police investigation, I would not be able to completely prove my innocence. If you are innocent, why would you give up your job? I am not being hounded out of my job because of racist lies and smears. I am not capitulating to racism. I never do. I am absolutely confident and clear in my integrity.


Oh well... laters bruv...

Utter bollocks and it demeans the work that genuine anti racists have done over the years.

Opportunist cock.

 

[Dan U]

Lee jasper in The Jamaican gleaner online said:

Resignation implies some sort of guilt, and, in my view, I am not guilty of anything, so that is why I have asked the police to investigate. To simply resign and have no police investigation, I would not be able to completely prove my innocence. If you are innocent, why would you give up your job? I am not being hounded out of my job because of racist lies and smears. I am not capitulating to racism. I never do. I am absolutely confident and clear in my integrity.


Oh well... laters bruv...

The police was a big smokescreen by Ken - as i said earlier there was nothing for the police to investigate in Lee Jaspers actions. Abusing procurement codes is not a criminal offence, it is a proffessional matter.

The police, i believe, are still investigating what happened with the money after it was awarded - which IS potentially a criminal matter.

 

[gunneradt]

What the hell is a race adviser? and why does this person need £100k a year or whatever. Why does Livingstone surround himself with idiot employees in idiotic jobs?

No-one needs a race adviser except the Olympics project

 

[Dan U]

What the hell is a race adviser? and why does this person need £100k a year or whatever. Why does Livingstone surround himself with idiot employees in idiotic jobs?

No-one needs a race adviser except the Olympics project

The Mayor of a hugely diverse city doesn't need a race adviser?

wtf!

I am a bit more confused about how the campaign against Jasper is racist smears myself. The Stannah hates Ken more, and he is white.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

The Mayor of a hugely diverse city doesn't need a race adviser?
.

I agree that the mayor of a city such as London does need a race advisor however it should be someone appointed by open competition and examined for probity by either the full GLA or a GLA committee. It shouldn't be just a 'friend of ken'.

 

[bluestreak]

KBJ, do us a favour and try and try not to flood out debate. I think that there's some discussion that can be had but it wears me down reading half a thread of you posting variations on a theme.

gunneradt, is there a non-racist adult there that could perhaps make your posts for you?

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Lee Jasper... well, I don't tend to trust the police and politicians, however Jasper and Livingstone are hated by the Met so if they can't find anything I reckon he's clean.

IMO the London that the Standard think we should have is a dull shitty yuppie playpen where the ethnics know their place and we all do as the Tory party want us to do. So naturally anyone who winds them up enough to repeatedly attack with smears is someone I feel I ought to support.

 

[untethered]

What the hell is a race adviser? and why does this person need £100k a year or whatever. Why does Livingstone surround himself with idiot employees in idiotic jobs?

It's just political patronage. In return for drumming up electoral support among certain "communities", selected activists get appointed to lucrative non-jobs in the administration.

Mr Jasper was getting something in the order of £120,000 a year, not far short of what a cabinet minister gets. I'd imagine that advising the London mayor on "equalities" is a great deal easier and has considerably less responsibility than, say, running the Treasury.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

KBJ, do us a favour and try and try not to flood out debate. .

I'm not trying to flood out debate merely making a comment on the Jasper case and its connections with the reign of Livingstone.

 

[sir.clip]

I agree that the mayor of a city such as London does need a race advisor however it should be someone appointed by open competition and examined for probity by either the full GLA or a GLA committee. It shouldn't be just a 'friend of ken'.

Or a thief..

 

[untethered]

I agree that the mayor of a city such as London does need a race advisor.

If so, how much should such a person get paid? I imagine it'd be easy to find a suitably-qualified person for, say, £30,000.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Not following due process for awarding contracts - or not following proper post award auditing procedures on those contracts - is not a criminal offence.

Which is pretty much what the Met said.

It doesn't mean he hasn't done anything wrong, it means it isn't a criminal matter.

True.

Then again, following a precedent established by both previous central governments can't really be quantified as "doing something wrong", given how many decades this has happened for without people being hounded by the daily press.

 

[ViolentPanda]

You just don't like paying the £25.00 to drive your Chelsea tractor around town, do you?

To be fair, a 30-odd yr old Land Rover is less of a "Chelsea Tractor", more of a vintage locomotive.

 

[Sasaferrato]

If it was nothing but a smear why didn't Jasper the Grasper stand up in front of the GLA and answer the questions. He is either a coward or guilty in my eyes because of this.


<the below comment is not directed personally at you LC - just a general observation>
I suppose in a few minuites the Livingstone worshippers will have deigned to detach themselves from the womblike comfort of Kens anus and turn up to try to shout Livingstone opponents down.

I notice in the paper today that his salary was £120,000.00 per annum.

 

[Jografer]

I notice in the paper today that his salary was £120,000.00 per annum.

Gross £10,000 per month... take home £6,372.80 per month.... that'll buy a lot of champagne to be socialist with...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nah Jasper the Grasper is just a coward. If he had stood up and defended himself it may well have looked better.

perhaps he didn't (as had already happened to some degree) want to risk the "collateral damage" that repeated smears could have caused?
Then again, you actually like Boris Johnson, don't you?

BTW I used to work for the Standard back in the 80's (as a freelance I might like to add) and yes they did have a campaign against him. I don't think the current anti Livingstone stories are anything like as bad as some of theones back then.

Only because they couldn't get away with most of the poisonous crap they used to foment about him and the GLC. Don't flatter them that they're somehow better now than they used to be. If they could get away with stories about Ken giving money to Black, one-legged Welsh lesbian IRA-supporters then they'd run them.