Jolyon’s (requiescat in pace) Good Law Project has launched a campaign against group Sex Matters which is running a standard letter-writing effort aimed at MPs in the Council of Europe. Jolyon’s outfit is aghast that Sex Matters are “infiltrating the vote” and “bullying them to uphold transphobic ideas and asking them to vote against a ban”…
The GLP is therefore launching a counter-letter campaign: “Email the MPs and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats, they can stand up for what’s right.” So upset are they that they’ve illustrated their big campaign with a photo of the European Commission not the Council of Europe. If even the Euro-crazies can’t get it right…
New financial declarations from top woke charities Stonewall and Mermaids show massive declines in income. Spare a thought for Jolyon Maugham…
Mermaids incurred losses of £285,496 with final reserves of minus £33,056, down from £226,224 last year. The charity reports reduced activity and that it has undergone “a full restructure to reduce costs.” Shedding jobs…
Stonewall is in an equally bad position. Its income fell from £6.9 million last year to £4.7 million. Higher spending of £5.6 million have produced a deficit of £906,000. Their cash reserves are down to £92,000 from £1 million…
The organisations are also supported by piecemeal grants from taxpayer-funded sources in their activities. At a university talk late last year trans campaigner Jolyon Maugham said the two charities were “essentially killed” by the Charity Commission after having to fight legal cases. The same strategy Jolyon is using unsuccessfully against the Institute of Economic Affairs…
It was actually Maugham’s Good Law Project which crowdfunded and supported Mermaids in its massively unsuccessful litigation against fellow charity the LGBA to have its status revoked. That’s what kicked off the downward spiral…
In other Jolyon news the campaigner told students he was setting up Good Law Project associations in universities in the New Year to establish them as “centres of resistance.” He’ll find a way to lose at that, too…
Jolyon has lost again. It’s practically daily now…
The Good Law Project announced yesterday:
“Good Law Project has taken on leading civil society organisations The Bureau for Investigative Journalism and Spotlight on Corruption as clients, as they challenge a decision by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to hear the “blackmail” case against Christopher Hutchings in private…Good Law Project’s clients will make submissions before the SDT tomorrow to seek to overturn their decision…When solicitors are accused of bad behaviour – particularly behaviour which seeks to silence journalism on important issues – the public must be able to see justice being done.”
The case regards an alleged threat made in a phone call between two solicitors. It is being heard in private to protect the contents of correspondence regarding solicitors’ clients. Jolyon’s application for the case to be heard was summarily dismissed today. The Law Society Gazette reports:
“SDT panel chair Lisa Boyce said: ‘This application is late, there is no reason given for the application being made in between month of the conclusion of the hearing in October and the letter of 17 November.’ Noting that the substantive hearing was nearly finished, Boyce said: ‘We are only hearing closing submissions. It would be contrary to our overriding objective to hear the application at this stage. The application to be heard is refused. We will move to private session.’”
Chin up Jolyon, it’s only November. A few more losses to fit in before Christmas…
The Charity Commission has finally brought to an end the two year Good Law Project campaign against the Institute of Economic Affairs. Jolyon has lost again…
The complaint alleged that the think tank was acting outside of its objects or the Commission’s published guidance as a charity and was thrown out last year. Jolyon tried again and failed again…
The case has been closed without finding any wrongdoing and with no sanctions. Andy Mayer, the IEA’s Chief Operating Officer, said “this is the seventh time since 1984 that activists have misused the regulator to try to remove the IEA’s charitable status.” He added:
“They have failed on every occasion, but the activity is not harmless, wasting charity time and resources. Every point the GLP made, most of which were old complaints previously dismissed, were not upheld. This matter should have concluded quickly, and we reiterate our concern that the Regulator could do more to avoid being co-opted into political campaigns.”
Maugham complained that “we think it is – not for the first time – remarkably complacent in believing the leopard of 55 Tufton Street will change its spots. We will not let the matter rest here, and are consulting with our lawyers.” Time to rattle the fundraising tin again…
Jolyon’s Good Law Project has been humiliated. Again…
It said today with regard to its battle with the EHRC over the post-Supreme Court ruling trans guidance:
“Faced with a threat of legal action, we’re picking our battles and taking down information about the commission’s consultation on trans rights.
We’re not interested in a legal battle to decide whether it was right to publish that information. We’re clear it was in the public interest given the importance of the consultation and the controversy that has already surrounded the commission’s efforts to cut it short.
But we don’t want to get distracted by a sideshow. The fight to defend trans rights is more important than a legal tussle over whether the public has a right to know about a flawed consultation.
Our challenge against the EHRC’s interim guidance goes on. And we’ll keep working to hold the commission to account over its consultation.”
The Good Law Project previously stated that “a cache of leaked documents showed the EHRC is planning to ignore half of the responses to its flawed consultation… The commission wants to finalise the redrafted guidance this consultation was supposed to inform by 18 August… there must be ‘adequate time’ both for people to consider the question and for them to respond. All the evidence is that the commission’s botched consultation breaches these guidelines and we have instructed lawyers accordingly. And we’ll update you as soon as we know more.” Looks like the EHRC instructed their lawyers too…
A judicial review claim brought by the GLP against the EHRC’s interim update was not allowed to proceed by the court. It’s getting hard keeping track of the losing streak here…
Jolyon declared war on GB News and lost. According to the Good Law Project, the channel’s reporting of the rape gangs scandal was “at odds with government data that reports that only 7% of group-based child sexual exploitation suspects had their ethnicity recorded as ‘Asian'”. Data which was later described by Baroness Casey as “incomplete”, “unreliable”, and a “bloody disaster”…
GB News’ Charlie Peters said this afternoon:
GB News has proudly and bravely pushed against that denial, championing the victims affected by this scandal through countless exclusive reports that have led to political resignations and fresh police investigations… Our coverage reflected the sincerely held views of the British people, which the government eventually caught up on when it ordered an inquiry in June. When it comes to the small boats crisis, recent headline government action and new operational agreements with France represent the importance of this issue. It is a national security crisis that Britons urgently want to see tackled.”
Jolyon and his pals obviously still clinging to the shibboleths of the North London dinner party class on this…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”