I purchased
this domain May 2021.
Why call it
simonclayton2020.com ? I mean sounds a bit nutjob...
Because…
And this
has nothing to do with any medical matters.
Purely
incidental in a wonderful last 14 months my closest compañera
in a so successful thing we have done together where we have young would be
horseriders from not well off families gathering to use some unused nags
needing exercise said something one day. No one has ‘said’ anything for years.
Now, the
freedom of speech case – visits to see the big bewigged on absurd gagging
orders, as they found, of 2004-6 does have it at core two things. Firstly being
able to publicly hold to account authority, adminstrator and state figures who may have most
damaging potential power over the citizen. I was probably the first person ever
to suggest to an Appeal Court test case panel of Law Lords (meaning the result
goes straight into the statutes due the seniority of the judges) that
with social media just beginning, the citizen journalsing in public oe even citizen journalist will be something of a thing of the
future (it was in my first stage representations in writing - the old duffers never even mentioned it). Never mind traditional media with their “ a mother who cannot be named
for legal reasons” hardly ever feature injustices if they cannot name and show
a person as the human element is the core of all modern journalism. They just
don’t print stories almost no matter how gutwrenching or state sponsored nazi they are unless they can
tell the reader some of the bio of that person.
But another
side matter was to use specific legal terminology (meaning that which senior
judges would use in write ups ) the “whispering campaign”. In other words
unless a citizen can normally get their truth or at least their version of
events out properly then there may always be mutterings behind ones back. This
was just when google was in its infancy in reality.
Ehh things
rather moved on.
So coming
to today - or in fact last month, and in my opinion there is a rather a lot more silly jumping to
conclusions based on redneck gossip than
ever before, and something was said...
It mattered greatly to me as in the last decade i have spent a fair bit of time
with a range of young adults and
children. But I actually welcomed this because it because for quite a few years
I have had in mind the story of simply how laws got changed against every odd
is a good inspirational one to the social justice warriors of today. There are
plenty of laughs in my journey. And i long had avoided getting around to at
least the accurate initial write up. Call it ‘my version’ if you will. I am
careful. And I am careful because by far the more important legal matter to me
in that period was for myself i secured
the best ever possible guaranteed ‘custody’ of my daughter – as of May 2004,
the judge then as good as demanded all will be an equal share of time... and
then it was all finalised (ehh some may not have liked it maybe one day that
gets inserted too, i know not really what the end goal is yet) a year later in
a write up before a High Court judge the document that was presented to him
became in essence the basis for what is complete reform of family law a few
years on making the ‘Parenting Plan’ central to all dispute resolution. My lass did a radio 1 interview by herself in
summer 2006 on her Uk's first ever Parenting Plan. I am proud of kindof inventing Parenting
Plan or Parenting Agreement. I would do lay advocacy for others in the courts
from around 2005 and would see how
others - mainly the top lay advocates in
big protracted cases i knew personally, then developed the concept into
variants of our first Plan. And Hedley The High Court judge commented in 2005
it was “remarkable”. As did the family law journals that printed it out in
full. I ‘commented’ back in my Appeal Court case solely on High Court gagging
injunction “ well i should be able to remark myself mister” especially as Hedley
and a few months later the top dog LJ
Wall, had also said i personally was a very good media trailblazer and example
to others – a sane careful spokesperson on child and family matters
But within
the concept of Parenting Plan is ...well a deal.... not deceiving, truth. And as i often say to people over the
subsequent years “well i cannot lie, ever, as i am known for truthful public
deals ...and that they best be kept to or else..” So I do not, lie.
Anyway my
friend was put right after the recent little Miss Speaking of hers and it spurred me forward to get act together. But also I
had spent a lot of the last 12 months hearing a whole range of intellectual
people query 2020 in terms of free speech. And i have spent some of the last 15
years deeply thinking on the subject from all angles and i do rather here a lot
of wayward waffle. And i also know that the ordinary citizen is very lost on
the topic. So that further energises my wish to get something out that does
pinpoint the true Hobson’s choices or Occam's Razors or whatever supping with
the devil one may have to do to ensure peace and fairness. In a modern way.
SO fast
forward just a week after the subsequently
welcome words from my friend. And they may have even made us more trusting - deepened our trust. It
is not important, she has a busy life with her wonderful kids.. And my ranty
rejoinder via email - listing a few bigwigs who got at least partially taken
down by me over a few years, i was rather proud of in fact maybe are the ‘end’
of this.
This one
maybe is more important. A week later i was speaking with someone local who
like me does a little advocacy and assisting others who cannot get any legal
help with things that may go to court. I
know he is a sceptical and intelligent man. He is reasonably well to do but he
fights for the little people as he knows how dubious and riddled with vested
interest the state and organs and subcontractors can be. This is how we had
become friends a year earlier – we bonded over mutual ranting at the dodginess
of the lot of em.
So a day
came when i had just made some suggestions about an employment tribunal he was
assisting in – horrible accusations against a woman who worked in care, and we were
discussing open courts and going public. Just in conversation later - my own past that is in some of the
newspaper articles appended, a friend and ally and more important a fellow
sceptic and wise man in respect of what the state actually is capable of, he
said to me “ i know all about you...”
To which i was
frankly a little shocked. In the following chat came up that i have been fully
googled and read up on. The shock was
that such an intelligent man would not know the following:
Almost every
newspaper article that one participates in – they paint a melodrama a story...
have to have one or other person they describe in a certain ‘role’. That is how they get people
to read their stuff. And one may even be going along with their ‘agenda’ for an
even deeper ‘agenda’ one may have that cannot be apparent for personal reasons.
Especially where perhaps a little peace in the future for a child must be prime
objective. Perhaps even great
journalists like Ms Cunningham are slightly played with. And anyway you know
you cannot trust them to keep to deals (in my case for the sake of OTHERS “that
is background but there is no need to cover it as in fact it could only harm
others and that’s never my intent”). Indeed the only way to gain trust is
in fact to give them as much as possible
and state (pandering to ego) “i do trust you not to put that in i shall give
you everything but for decency leave out x and y..” that in fact works.
But anyway
the short version is that over a few years and then again in 08-9 during my
absolutely wonderful nuclear attack on the Straw man ...i had no hope of
getting him, quite alone, to uturn on a December 2008 statement he made in
parliament... which ended up taking me
only three months after Dear Frances Gibb of The Times – legal ed at the time
wrote to me saying she doesn’t respond well to “blackmail” except she was lying
as she printed the following day the truth, which Straw had to admit just a few
weeks later was the truth, except he missed out the bit of him “hoodwinking”
parliament and the voters. As Frances had printed after being “blackmailed” by
me.
SO0yes i
digress, a fair bit of media coverage over 4 years now and again with gaps,
gosh its hilarious the amount of dumb mistakes they print. As my almost hero
Mister Pilger broadcast last year in August on rt.com i have the link somewhere flip theyre useless
the lot of em... he meant all his mainstream media colleagues.
As we can
see here I mean this is a so posh and Lordly journo its daft, my ‘case’ - the bit that really mattered, indeed was
that when 100s of thousands of other parents – both sexes, even if maybe moreso
dads, had suffered injustice or apathy in the court systems, or at the hands of
the majority “ignorant” social services
(to quote a very senior many year social worker who was my few years close
campaigning confidante in latter 00s), i was was the only one who had swift
correct ‘justice’. In May 2004.
I was the
most unestranged dad of them all. Indeed had a cast iron copper bottom custody
when 99% of others have only worry. That is not due cheating or bullying opposing
barristers or judges even (being i self represented in court almost from day 1).
That is because various truths were apparent to the highups even then in 2004. And the most splendid of them all a very
experienced senior judge quite rightly stated, a little more than maybe meets
the eye but lets now just focus on tomorrow for the child. All the past we
shall draw a line over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Rozenberg
Times 2006
frankly offensive. Even if some other facts within may be useful to causes or whatever that this man who is a senior BBC broadcaster so feted could not manage to appreciate the ,most unestranged dad ever shows that Oxford Cambridge indeed all the Redbricks should be shut down and actual education encouraged somehow in this weird land.
Oh yes and the Joshuas and Frances types get plenty of access behind the scenes to the files....
But, today, or a few weeks ago, that an educated intelligent man believes what he reads in the papers, i simply cannot understand. With my daughter even in the easier times of 2006 – when one had space and peace to even write emails alongside interviews with timelines and facts , we would look at the coverage and giggle at how many silly basic errors the hurried senior journalists of today could get into their pieces. And maybe that is really why i know i have not done what i was invited to do by publishers in 2006. Get a certain amount of it all clarified at least.
