Considering. By Uncle Monty.

Considering The Big Issue.

By Uncle Monty.

Graphics By Alex Albion.
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Their silence is deafening at The Big Issue
since pathetic Peter Bird and joyless John Bird

illegally suspended me for “bringing the Big Issue

into disrepute.” Whatever, let’s go head so that I

can now raise more questions considering

The Big Issue. So, here we go ....
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Considering The Big Issue is owned and operated

by a self-confessed, ex-criminal. Considering one of

The Big Iusse’s favourite pets is a lass with almost
100 criminal convictions to her name and who has

publicly met then Prime Minister Gordon Brown at

No. 10 with John Bird and his picked fancy fans; she

met David Cameron, too, who is now the British Prime

Minister, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Considering The Big Issue is known to have 3,000
London street vendors of which some third of them,

or around a 1000 of them, have allegedly either

criminal records or have been in prison or on

probation or have had ASBOs or were imposed

with community service sentences by

the British courts.

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So I wonder why on earth Peter and John

Bird are now acting all so "Holy & Thou"

towards me? And, whose past American sins

were callously revealed by America's "Kook of

The Year." Why have they signaled and singled

me out considering The Big Issue isn't full of

sinless folkz from the top to the bottom of the

Bird street publication that is sold weekly on

the open and cold streets the UK.

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The answer is they decided to victimize me

with the aid and abetting of the Colorado cunt

and his intent to destroy my life. All that the

Bird Brothers have now done is to try to de-

stroy my English life like the Colorado kook

did by viciously hounding and stalking my

then American life since 1996. As of last count,

the same "cleric" cunt sent over 3,000, yes

3,000, menacing e-mails to me. Now, he's

started on my English life with the help of the

Bird Brothers! "A gift from a bad man, brings no

good," and that's exactly what the unconvicted

criminal cyber stalker of Loveland, Colorado,

has brought for Peter and John Bird and The

Big Issue. Beware, too, that the same Loveland

bogus bishop calls himself a "Press Officer" by

sending out threatening e-mails on behalf of

his empty and paper "Episcopal" Church. He

is no more a real Press Officer, than I am a

one-legged Muslim ... Oh, and before I forget,

the kook also hates the English at every step.

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The So-Called "Guru" of UK Homelessness.

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Considering The Big Issue has already lost £25,000
for what it has done to me. And, my full story about
that will go online in couple of weeks or so, if I en-

counter no further legal hitch to reveal such. I am

hoping, too, that I can also stop another major gift

from coming The Big Issue way.

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Considering The Big Issue has ignored over 1,000

people in their support of my public petition to be

restored to my rightful pitch of five years at

London's Long Acre outside of Cafe Nero. The

Big Issue believes it is legally immuned thanks

to the free legal advice from Charles Russell and

Doughty Street Chambers. But the Bird Brothers

may in the end be in for a rude legal shock sooner

or later, if they continue to ignore the obvious.
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Considering The Big Issue has violated my human

and legal rights with utter contempt. Considering

The Big Issue's vile brothers Peter and John Bird

have also dismissed my civil and protected rights

under both European Union and British laws.

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Considering The Big Issue has thrown alway all

of my good and many customers with utter im-

punity by its unjust and disgusting “suspension”

of me as a Big Issue vendor even though I com-

mitted no crime or offences on or off my pitch!
Considering Peter and John Bird have thrown

away my pitch of five years standing to satisfy

their own sense of bloated self-importance and

naked lawlessness.

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Considering The Big Issue has acted in a totally

arbitrary and capricious manner against me.
Considering The Big Issue has discarded my

vendor life and vunerable status as sheltered-

house pensioner at their utter whim.
Considering The Big Issue is continuing to

purposely ignore my public protests has

if I don’t even humanly exist.

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Considering Peter and John Bird have dismissed

absolutely the pleas of my friends and good

customers for The Big Issue to simply lift

my suspension and give me back my pitch.

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Considering The Big Issue provides no

in-house process for vendors like me to appeal

the Bird Brothers' unjust and revengeful decision

to take away our pitches at the drop of a hat!

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Pathetic Peter Bird!

Please continue to sign my online petition.

All you need do is simply write your name

in the subject line and then send. Your

e-mail address will not be disclosed.

onlinepetitionformonty@gmx.co.uk

Thankz for your support!!

:::
Considering The Big Issue goes on and on. I

will suffice for now on many other comments

in considering what The Big Issue has done

not only to me but to other vendors over the

years ... Some of what I have been told

amount to pure horror stories from some

vendors who have contacted me since

the start of this my new blog that is

all about The (REAL) Big Issue.

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Your Feedback or To Post A Blog Message:

allaboutthebigissue@britain.com
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Here's The "Guru" Himself!

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:: BEST MESSAGE AT HALF-YEAR ::
"Dear Uncle Monty, Where on earth did the word

"DEBADGED" come from? Never heard of such a word

before. It's a strange use of the English language.

Look, I have also been following the big issue saga

re - you. And, that bogus bishop and "Kook of the

Year, 1996" in Loveland, Colorado, who set in motion

all your troubles with big issue. I am so disappointed

with John Bird being an ex-criminal himself for bending

his knee to that kook. None of us are angels including

myself who served time in prison like John Bird did.

Reading the things you are alleged to have done in the

States should have no impact on what you do (or did) at

your patch. The kook is wallowing in your misfortune

as usual. I don't believe big issue has done you right.

Be sure Uncle Monty to stand up for your rights (which

you seem capable of doing) while it seems John Bird,

the whole of big issue, and the kook in Colorado, have

contemptuously violated. I am sure you have a good

law case to sue the socks of them. The more I have

read about your 'suspension', the more I am convinced

you've been blackened by their gross conspiracy to

destroy you. Hang in there; you might overcome them

one way or another. I shall be watching carefully the

outcome of your case against John Bird and that kook".

Ex-con, with Ph.D., Prison Badge

No. 213-703-9118A.

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Following this latest story, I have now almost

completed my next one about the murdered

Big Issue vendor Ralph Millward entitled:

"Crocodile Tears." By Uncle Monty.
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Alive and angry, Uncle Monty.

+Eighth Sunday after Trinity, 2010.
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Sure, it was lovely to be back again at my old

Big Issue pitch on London's Long Acre after my

five-year pitch was closed down by the vile decision

of Peter and John Bird to suspend me for "bringing

The Big Issue into disrepute." Such is the catch-all

rule used against vendors at the whim and will of

The Big Issue Bird Brothers. Their "suspension" of

me is illegal and has no legal validity against me

until a court of law rules whatever which way for

me or The Big Issue. Thus, legal counsel informs

me of such and on that basis I have now freely

acted accordingly as seen today by the use my

pitch to once again sell The Big Issue that I

most certainly see no reason why I shouldn't.

Or whether I am a vendor who is "debadged or

not!" by the nasty ilk of The Bird Brothers.

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But for now, back at my pitch I was today and so

enjoyed every minute of it as old friends and good

customers were surprised to see me again. In fact,

I spent two extra hours beyond my planned time

to set-up and sell my wholesale supply of the

latest edition of The Big Issue, No. 906.

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Two of my good friends held the banners high.

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Aside from the fact that the front cover of No.

906 was one of the worst Big Issue covers I've

seen in a good while, I still finally sold out with

some good profit for me, too, after being deprived

of making an honest dime for the past 8 weeks

since the callous Bird Brothers conspired to get rid

of me all because of some notorious sham bishop

and unconvicted international criminal cyber

stalker at America's State of Colorado who has

gleefully and viciously told them tales of

every horror supposedly about me!!
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Another good friend did the honours, too, for me!

~~~
One of the last things that Big Issue's distributor

Sam Woolock asked of me was whether I was

then "debadged or not?" I told her, before she

then called the police on me behind my back,

that as far as I knew I was merely suspended
but for how long I wasn't told by ruthless Peter

Bird since he said he needed to conduct "an in-

vestigation" of me to which I would then be told

further matters regarding his suspenion of me.

Needless to say, I've not heard a dickey bird

back from either little honcho Peter Bird

or from his big honcho brother John Bird.

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I consider at this point that whatever period

of suspension I have had, I have now served

that after 8 long weeks for whatever reason (s)

The Big Issue saw fit to do what it has already

done to me. Perhaps all they want to do is like

the sham bishop and who has literally tried to

throw away my life and Christ-being all to

satisfy whatever fits his own brand of hatred

toward me ... I am long ago immuned to

whatever the bastard says about me.

I simply don't care anymore ...

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Yet another good friend also came and did

public honour for me right next to my pitch.

~~~
I am sure that I am the first Big Issue vendor

who decided to go back to his or her pitch whe-

ther he or she is "debadged or not." The term

"debadged" is based on The Big Issue taking

away a vendor's badge that he or she must

wear while selling on the street or at an

assigned pitch. The badge has a crude mug-

shot of the vendor with a badge number and

Big Issue seal. Every six-months the badge

number of the vendor is updated and a new

colour one is issued for the new badge. Non-

Big Issue badges are bogusly printed by rogue

sellors across the country. Genuine badges are

sometimes lost or stolen or sold and then used

by street people who have themselves either

been unjustly suspended or refused a badge for

whatever reasons or who don't want to go to the

hassle of signing-up to become a badged vendor.

My badge is No. 115 and I started out five years

ago with the No. 2669. Always remember, too, it

doesn't matter how long you've been with The

Big Issue, they'll shaft you on the spot and have

no sense of loyalty even though they demand

the vendor give loyalty to The Big Issue ...

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Today was a very good day for me. Even though

I still see no light at the end of The Big Issue

tunnel for me, I will continue to do further public

protests against the unjust Peter and John Bird.

I have other surprises instore for them and I

don't care if they get even more mad against me.

Once they take some positive steps to rightfully

restore me to my Long Acre pitch, then I will not

let up on writing all I can about them and their

Big Issue. I've lost what I had at The Big Issue,

so until I gain it back again then in my loss I

can only contain my deep anger against Peter

and John Bird by my pen that is mightier than

the sword. I cry, while my enemies rejoice!

But one day, I shall rejoice against The Bird

Brothers and most especially against that

sham bishop of Yankee hate. Mark my

words, my dear ones!! And that will come

whether I am "debadged or not!"

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Over 1,000 people have now sign my

petition either "live" or online to have my

Big Issue pitch rightfully restored to me:

onlinepetitionformonty@gmx.co.uk

In the subject line write your name only.

Your e-mail address will not be disclosed.

~~~

I fight the good fight with

all my might, Uncle Monty.

+St. Gregory, 2010.

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"Considering The Big Issue" is the next story by Uncle

Monty here at allaboutthebigissue.blogspot.com

Then Came Billie, who is pictured below ...

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Dead Bird. By Graham Walker.

Dead Bird Walking. By Graham Walker.
Part 2 of 2. Edited By Uncle Monty.

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I was appalled on behalf of all other vendors who, as

‘unreliable’ as they are, have, over the past 18 years,

stood on the streets braving the elements, subsequent-

ly lining your pockets with nugget. I was then angered

that as a Big Issue vendor myself for 15 years, you

were getting personal, you were also talking about me!

I myself have been one of your "unreliable" vendors

for 15 years. I have been so unreliable as a big Issue

vendor that I have raised £65,000 for various charities

(including £2000 for the Big Issue Foundation) and,

without going into detail, I’ve been even more unreliable

than that! And then, lost in my own achievements, for

me, guiltily too late, my thoughts turned to the many

friends I’ve lost on ‘Big Issue street’. Although you

never met them, although you’re not even aware

of their existence, to you, they were no more than

an expendable, unreliable workforce. Well I can tell

you Mr Bird, having known intimately, each one of

them, they were nothing less than wonderfully
reliable friends and vendors who are now, each

of them, ‘reliably’ dead.

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So in memory, and speaking on behalf, of Pete,

Myles, Debs, Carol, Dan, Graham two ties, Craig,

Pontoon Steve, Geoff, Geordie John, Fluffy Mark,

Helen and Gillespie, and to the many I never

got to know . . .
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"How dare you!”
Mr. Bird. I’m sorry if this article is a little heavy,
but it’s made so by the leadened bricks of irony you’ve
littered throughout. Yes, ironically, without the brazenly
dressed, beer swigging students, the posh g its who can’t
write proper, the violent, uncultured working class,
many of whom buy the Big Issue. Without the homeless
drug addicts, the alcoholics, the feckless, the scumbags
and the most unreliable workforce on God’s earth who
sell it. Without the charities who often pay good dollar to
advertise in it. Without the soup runs, agencies, churches
and charities such as Shelter, Crisis and the Salvation
Army who support, house, feed and often repair the
homeless, in many instances, ensuring vendors are still
capable of standing on the streets to sell your magazine.
Without each of these, the Big Issue wouldn’t survive!
And the biggest irony for me is, if the welfare state; the
benefits system, you are so, so derisory of, were to shut
up shop first thing tomorrow morning, The Big Issue Co.
Ltd. and you too Mr Bird, would be no more than five
minutes behind it! Yes, on behalf of my dear, dead

friends, and indeed on behalf of your mentally and

physically damaged, (‘irresponsibly dead’) ex-soldier.

How dare you!
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A. John Bird's Nude Sketch That Fetched

Over 300 Quid For Charity Last Year.

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John bird on students:
“I live near a university. All the women students

walk around with their tits hanging out and the

guys wear baseball caps backwards swigging

from beer bottles.” ⒈
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John Bird on soup runs:
“Soup runs keep people ON the streets

rather than helping them off.” ⒉

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What the hell are you thinking of John?
Having had a suck at rough sleeping yourself,
you know full well that this has always been a
sworn secret, sacrosanct amongst the homeless
community; an enigma that academia has

scratched it’s head at for millennia, i.e., why do

people sleep rough?. And now you’ve gone
and told the whole world and it’s blinkin’ dog!
Talk about whistle-blowing. What you’ve done

is akin to the president of the magic circle reveal-

ing the ‘sawing a woman in half’ trick on live TV.

It’s worse than someone in the know, selling
Banksy’s true identity to the Daily Mail for a few

shekels. So well done you Mr Bird, the secret is

now out. The game’s up! Yes indeed, the motive

behind people sleeping rough on the streets of

Britain, risking abuse, death from hypothermia

or being beaten senseless by a drunken mob is

down to the mug of lukewarm minestrone

they get handed late at night!

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John Bird on Charities:
“We need to stop our conscience-salving donations

to Shelter and Crisis.” ⒊ “The government and

charity's actions combine to keep people mired in

their “Christmas help seems to me, a desperate

act.” (Politea (right wing think tank)

Christmas address).
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“The Big Issue is not a charity, it’s a business ...

I didn’t want to do a charity because

charities piss me off.” ⒌

:::
Response from Jamie McCoy ... I spent 30 years on

and off the streets and I entirely disagree with what

Mr. Bird says. Yes, there are lots of homeless charities,

but they are all trying different things. One charity

paid for me to learn to read and write. Another
charity provided a hostel and then a permanent

home, an outreach team helped me to manage my

finances and keep my place clean, and I learnt cooking

skills at a centre for the homeless. The way forward
is to fund prevention of our drug culture, not saying

stupid things about homeless charities.

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Tim, 32. Homeless, He remembers COC (Crisis

Open Christmas) “It’s been a salvation as I’ve been

depressed about Christmas. It’s like having a new

family. It makes you remember how kind some
people are, it reminds me what life could be like.”
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John Bird on the welfare state:
“It exists because you could never trust the

working class to put a bit of money aside for

their kids education, or put a bit aside for their

health.” ⒍“Social security is criminal, insane,

a new form of slavery. It ensures people stay in

poverty."⒎“The social security is the biggest

bug bear that’s ever been deposited on the

lives of the poor.” ⒏

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The Big Issue UK Headquarters at London's Vauxhall.

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With average Big Issue sales per vendor of less than

40 magazines per week (earnings £30), with a large

proportion of vendors living in bedsits, hostels and

temporary housing, with living costs of £150+, it

doesn’t take an abacus to work out that the over-

whelming majority of vendors are reliant on benefits:

‘Enslaved with the insane bug-bear of social security!’

Yes, the vast majority of vendors are victims, inextri-

cably locked into the benefits system you abhor. And

ironically, through purchasing ‘Issues’ from you (John

Bird), vendors do, by proxy, turn you into perhaps

the largest recipient of Social Security benefits in
the country!

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John Bird on entrepreneurism:
“... for some people who start selling the Big Issue,

it gives them the chance to spend yet more bad

money to put into their arms or down their throat.

What we have to realise about entrepreneurism is
that there’s always plusses and minuses ... one guy

I heard of, left the British army, had severe mental

health and physical problems, had spent a lot of
time causing himself ‘grief’, then sold the Big Issue.

He worked for us for six months and then died!
The thing about the Big Issue is, it’s an opportunity

but, it’s also about people taking responsibility for

themselves. And if they don’t take that responsibility,

if they don’t have the social structures and support

system, they may well die. What I’m trying to sell is

the life and death reality of social entrepreneurism.” ⒐

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These two articles has been written because I am

saddened and totally wearied at the constant derision

and scorn Mr. Bird continues to pour on everything and

everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute

to his personal standing, wealth and well-being. In so do-

ing, also dispelling the popular misconception that Dr. A.

John Bird MBE. BA. Hons. the ’co-founder’ of The Big

Issue, is the authoritative spokesman on homelessness.

Although he describes himself as the ‘self-confessed’
representative for the homeless community, as a ‘long-

standing’ Big Issue man; a fully paid-up member of that

community, I, along with many others, find that the maj-

ority of Mr. Bird’s views on the homeless, the solution to

homelessness, and society in general, bear little resem-

blance to the reality I have witnessed over the last twenty

years. This article is not written as a sleight on The Big

Issue, it’s core ‘intentions’, and most definitely not it’s

vendors and the homeless community at large.

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These two articles (have also) been written because

I have rarely in life stood up to be counted, rarely in

life spoken out against injustice. It’s, in the main, been

a life-time perched comfortably on the fence. Now,

in the enviable position of having nothing, enviable

because I therefore have nothing to lose, it would

be remiss of me not to fling wide open this window

of opportunity to, at last, let fly my opinions and

air my responses to Mr Bird’s often outlandish

comments and often bigoted views.

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I’ll leave the last word to Mr. Bird:
“I have always had a belief in myself. It is almost
delusional-as though I had been sent here to save

the world ... Religion won’t save us, even if it is

of the secular variety. You are better off in the

hands of imperfect people like me who create

something usable than the hollow hands of those

who are looking forward to the day when we

all wake up to true Socialism.” ⒑

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Dead. By Graham Walker.

Dead Bird Walking.

Part 1 of 2.

By Graham Walker.

Edited By Uncle Monty.
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As a celebrity, these days much of Mr (A. John)

Bird’s income is derived from inspirational talks at

business seminars and after-dinner speeches.
Having witnessed him performing, he’s good,

damn good!

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His introduction usually starts off by disabling his

audience with a sharp, verbal, power-pointed C.V.

that includes his short stint in an orphanage, his

childhood, his spell on the streets, his fraudulence,

his thuggery, his criminal background, finishing

with his social rebirth and via the Big Issue, his

entrepreneurial renaissance.

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This not only leads his now receptive listeners to fully

appreciate his earthy origins but also his pseudo-

altruistic approach to helping the homeless, or in

business terms - how to get blood out of a stone!

I can only describe John Bird as an orator of merit;

aggressively elegant, mockingly mischievous,

an entertainer, a showman, a ‘shockjock.’

:::
He delivers in an authoritative, passionate-bordering

on (the) desperate, ‘I’d sell me own muvver’ sort

of style. And although most of his speeches are sadly

tainted with statistically dubious content, this is more
than compensated by peppering them with right

wing, beat ‘em into submission–type rhetoric,

which invariably leaves the audience

absolutely spellbound.

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Now there may be some criticism levied at me that,

in this article, I might be cherry-picking certain state-

ments and also perhaps, I have taken Mr. Bird’s quotes

out of context. The first might indeed contain a nano of

truth. The second? You decide. These, after all,

are not my statements, they are those of Mr Bird.

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Known as "TheBigIssueMan," Graham Walker

is decidedly anti-Big Issue and anti-John Bird.

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John Bird on the class system:
I have been very unfortunate to marry into

posh families - three times - and I was

astonished at how they wrote so badly.” °
“I’m middle class. I got out of the working class

as quick as I could. The working class is violent and

abusive, they beat their wives and I hate their culture!

A psychiatrist once told me, ‘I’ve never once got

an Englishman to admit he’s middle-class’.” ⒈

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As the owner of The Big Issue company, Mr Bird is

more aware than most, of the prejudice, misconceptions

and generalisations the homeless have to contend with

on a daily basis. I’m absolutely certain he’s savvy and

intelligent enough not to fall into that old trap.

Consequently, I think it’s safe to assume he’s talking

fact and knows intimately, each and every one of the

(estimated 15 million) ‘violent, uncultured’

working class.
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“Products such as Carlsberg Special brew are

destroying the lives of problem drinkers. . . .

The firms that brew these lagers are a despicable

bunch of thugs.” ⒉
(Mr Bird reminiscing on the Big Issue’s first
Christmas when they held a party for its vendors
in the crypt of St-Martin-in the–Fields.)
“My brother (Peter Bird?) brought in 400 cans of

Special Brew. It was the most unbelievably maddest

office Christmas party I’ve ever been to. It took
seven hours to get everyone out. St Martin's said
we were an embarrassment to those who wanted

to help the homeless.”⒊

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John Bird on John Bird:
“Whether it’s burglary, just bluffing my way through,

or really making it, I have experienced getting away

with it in a variety of fields and know how to teach

others to do the same.” ⒋

“I’m a bit like Jesus Christ.” ⒌
“I’m an annoying geezer.” ⒍

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John Bird: Yet, Another

UK "Champagne Socialist."

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John Bird on Politicians:

“. . . the white, middle-class, liberals like Shirley

Williams and all those other mother-f**kers. I

absolutely loathe them. They stole from from

the poor and called it Social Security.” ⒎

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“I’m a bit like Maggie Thatcher. . . . Norman

Tebbit introduced me to her.” ⒏

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John Bird on the Big Issue:
“I started the Big Issue for the scumbags, the people

who would creep into your home at night and rob you,

the people who would sell you a piece of their ass if you

wanted it. The Big Issue is more revolutionary than

Engells, Lenin, Stalin, or Trotsky; they didn’t know

what they were talking about.” ⒐

John Bird on conflict:
The only way to get some peace is after a good

war. I hate peaceniks. Is there peace in Northern

Ireland? Yes, because a lot of people died.

Was there peace after Hitler?

Yes, it was paid for in dead soldiers.” ⒑

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John Bird on Family:
“There are only a handful of people like me in Britain . . .

I have a future, not like my elder brothers who are either

dead through drink or drugs or living in high rise hells on

the edge of town, hating blacks and Jews. F**king scumbags.

I’ve got nieces and nephews who I’d speak to in a foreign

accent so they wouldn’t know it was me if they rang up.” ⒒

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John Bird on the homeless:

“They are feckless, unreliable ... scumbags.

Addicts who are unable to wash or

feed themselves. They should be sectioned ...

put behind bars if necessary.”

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John Bird in Big Issue vendors:

“They are the most unreliable workforce on God’s earth”. ⒓

Let me say: How dare you! Of course they’re unreliable!

They’re “addicts, feckless, scumbags!” What on ‘God’s

Earth’ do you expect? Vendors arriving at the office at

8.55 am, dressed in a natty suit, starched shirt, a neatly

folded copy of The Times tucked under their arm and a

muesli and orange juice breakfast nestling comfortably

in their stomachs, all eager to put in an eight

hour shift on the streets?
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John Bird on the poor:
“I don’t give a f**k for the poor.” ⒔

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BOYCOTT PETER AND JOHN BIRD. By Uncle Monty.

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Boycott Peter & John Bird of The

Big Issue ~ It's Long Overdue.
By Uncle Monty.
Blog Graphics & Photograbs
By Alex Albion.
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(Re-Indexed From http://thebiggerissue.org/)
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“You know, it’s a known fact that (The) Big Issue

attracts old-criminals, old communists, and those
from no good Labour and things like that, ” said
Minnie Darcy, who has boycotted the weekly
street magazine for the past 18 months or so ...
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“Have you thought of banning them, I mean those

pair?,” she asked me out of the blue after never
thinking of doing such myself until what she had
fittingly suggested to me. The “pair,” she was re-
ferring to was, of course, Peter and John Bird.
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“They’ve ban you, so why not do them a favour?
Why not ban them like they have you?,” the lady said
almost defiantly against the Bird Brothers herself.
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“They’ve ignored your protest against them I bet,”
she intuitively observed. Minnie and I have seen one
another at my Big Issue pitch from past years. Upon
until now, she’d never expressed her own personal

antipathy toward the Big Issue brothers until she
learned that I myself had been unjustly removed by
them after 5 years as a badged Big Issue vendor at
London’s Covent Garden. She raged against them

and the more vehemently against the Big Issue

honcho John Bird, who she said she’d seen around

the place in the past but not of any recent dates.

That’s because, I explained to her, he’s now seques-

tered in so-called semi- retirememt , if you will, up

at Cambridge. While his little honcho brother Peter

Bird now mostly manages The Big Issue H.Q.

at London’s Vauxhall in his absence.

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“If they finally let you back, then you can lift
your ban against the pair since they would have
done the same to you by no longer banning you
from The Big Issue," Minnie couldn't have put
it any better than she did. I asked her: "Do you
mean I should boycott the pair?" She looked
at me ruefully for a moment and exploded -
"BOYCOTT OR BAN THE BUGGERS? YES!
YES!!! That's what those two BUGGERS
need ...," almost cursing now at the Bird
pair was loud Minnie Darcy.
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Her 30-year son had gone to prison (for what she
didn’t say). He then lost his misses, his kidz, and

his big lorry job. Finally, he started drifting on

the streets and soon became completely homeless

and jobless in less than two years. He slept rough

for awhile and got sick. At that point, she lost touch

with him and learned from time to time that he

was probably selling The Big Issue somewhere up

country. Last year in January he finally contacted

his mum again, who immediately put him up and he

is now in skills training to become a plumber’s mate.

When his mum asked him if he’d been a Big Issue

vendor, he confirmed that he had been on and

off for about three years.
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"Did they help you?," his mum asked him point blank.
‘”NO, they're only WANKERS,”’ came his impolite

reply to his mom. She was shocked and disgusted

with The Big Issue and since then she has boycott

the weekly street paper published by The Bird

Brothers. She nevertheless regularly supports her

local individual Big Issue vendor. Still, she refuses

to buy the weekly. “I cannot buy The Big Issue

after they did nothing to help my son off the

street,” said Minnie in a sharp condemnatory

tone all of her own.
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Looking much older than her mid-50’s, Minnie
Darcy (not her real name, I should add) insisted
she sign my petition to be given back my pitch that
has unjustly been yanked from under me by The
Big Issue’s Big Bird Brothers for quote on quote
“bringing The Big Issue into disrepute.”
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Now at the beginning of the seventh week of Peter
Bird's arbitrary and capricious suspension of me,
there is no sign of any reconcilitation or any kind

of negotiated settlement between us in order
to avoid a costly and long court fight against the
callous actions and injustice by Peter and John Bird.

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The good Lord works in mysterious ways, so I am

still not fazed, although patently angry, at the Bird

Brother’s contemptuous attitude and their unbend-
ing proclivity to be a chavalier law unto themselves.
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My planned peaceful public protest for today –

which would have been my Day 4 Protest – has

been re-scheduled due to my doctor's appointment

this morning and possibly now undergoing heart

surgery that I have been putting-off for sometime

now. Such surgery wouldn't take place until the

earliest in January, 2011, if I such survive any

kind of heart attack or stroke between then and

now. Also, at noon today, I'll be witnessing some

thing of great interest to me personally. I'll tell

you all about that at close of my full story:
"BOYCOTT PETER & JOHN BIRD."
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My planned public protests against The Big
Issue are, of course, still set to go ahead through-
out the summer and fall, if no resolution is found
between me and them. Right now, it's looking very
bleak and dismal to get my rightful Big Issue pitch
back due to all the damage and bad stuff now in-
flicted on me by the employees and backers
of Peter and John Bird against me.
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I have now also received my first job offer since
my illegal suspension by vile Peter Bird himself.
I have no desire to hold a 9 to 5 job, although I
was pleased and surprised to get such a job offer
to work writing ads scripts for a small advertising

company whose boss is a good friend of mine. The
only job that would interest me is to do news photo-
graphy on a freelance basis ... such an offer would

be more than welcome! I could even do that, if my

Big Issue pitch is rightfully restored to me by
The Bird Brothers.
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Many of my old friends and regular Big Issue
customers are still unaware of what has happened
or about my present plight with The Big Issue.
Even Contessa Maria doesn’t know since she’s on
her around-the-world cruise until September and
it’s doutbfully I can get hold of her until then at the
earliest to help provide me the financial support
needed by me to hire legal counsel against The
Big Issue. I knew when we were in Moscow, that
she was to leave the next day from New York
on her world sea voyage and that she’s be out
of reach until she shows up again in mid-
September. By that time, who knows what
the legal status will be between me
and The Big Isse’s Bird Brothers.
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So no Maria right now for me, then sometime
in the future she will be there again for me
without a doubt. Although she has long wanted
me to give up my Big Issue pitch at London's
Long Acre, she’ll no doubt be disgusted at the
way it has been forcefully taken from me
without any due process or by any process of
appeal. Once she finds out, all hell will be let
loose on Peter and John Bird for what they
have unjustly done to me ... Don't fear, how-
ever, since more of my planned public and
private protests are on the way all throughout
the summer and the fall against The Big Issue.
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One thing is certain, however, she'll never
directly speak to them or contact them by
any other means since she has no love or
respect per se for The Big Issue itself, so
she has repeatedly declared to me when-
ever the topic of John Bird is mentioned.
She has also repeatedly told me: "Look here
Monty, I don't want you on the street. You
have to deal with all those nasty people
you meet. Some I am sure will want to
rob you. That's not good. I don't like you
there since I am sure a good many of them
are dreadful types of people ...," fretted
Contessa Maria. Then I would tell her:
"But, Maria, my dear, that's where I
first met you on the street!! She then
swollowed her own words as I laughed
at her obvious and inverted snootiness
aside from her genuine worry and concern
for my personal safety as a Big Issue vendor.
Particularly, when some one like defenseless
Ralph Millward, the murdered and harmless
Big Issue vendor, who was savagely kicked to
death by some young British yobs at his own
Big Issue pitch for refusing to give them a
stogie. Bring back, at the least, the judicial
birch and school cane I say to teach such

yobs how to properly behave before they are
allowed to run amok with their murderous
behaviour and dangerous criminality.

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Did you know John Duffy at Glasgow when Peter

Bird was also there with Scotland Big Issue? If so,

please contact this blogger - Uncle Monty -

at oldalbion@go.com

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UPDATED: When John Duffy, shown above, con-

tacted me last night concerning the "666" added by

me to the name tag around his neck he was pretty

upset with me. I told him that the purpose of the

"666" was not to insult him but rather to call attention

to the issue at hand - regarding Peter Bird when the

were both up at Scotland together. The result has

brought four responses thus far plus John Duffy's.

Had I not purposely put "666," I suspect I wouldn't

have heard from Duffy or the four others who

have been most helpful toward me. The power

of symbols and words always amazes me and
that's why I use such whenever I can.
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Once he requests the removal of the "666," I

will go ahead with my pardon to him. An Anglican,

John Duffy has been for years a close and faithful

ally of big honcho John Bird and little honcho Peter

Bird. Most interesting, however, was Duffy's sur-
prising revelation to me that he no longer works
for The Big Issue that saw him first as homeless,
then as street vendor, then as Big Issue supervisor,
then as the Big Issue international business manager
with an office at its London H.Q at Vauxhall, then
as The Scotland Big Issue manager with vile Peter
Bird up at Glasgow, then as the holder of The
Big Issue franchise for Surrey (where he lives),
and then now his odd departure from what most
considered to be his close work with his big buddies
The Big Bird Brothers. My impression is that there
has been a recent and continuing drain of Big Issue
old-timers leaving The Big Issue either under du-
ress or because they're sick and tired of Peter and
John Bird or the job itself. So John Duffy has now
gone and so has this "pervo" Uncle Monty ... thanks
to Peter and John Bird who suspended me from
my five-year old Covent Garden pitch by their
arbitrary and callous actions against me. One
vendor friend of mine told me today on the
Strand that what has happened is "pay back
time, Monty, for all that stuff you've said
about those you didn't like in Big Issue."
I couldn't have agreed more with him!
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Yesterday, I also told John Duffy that if he

wants to write his own story I might well

be pleased to publish it on my little blog.
Yes, yes, yes, I know all about what is being
said against me, but that doesn't fazed me
one little bit. Few people I know don't have
some closet to hide no matter who they are.
All I ask is that you don't blame me for
whatever my identical twin brother or
some other relatives or good friends of
mine, may or may not have done ...
I don't have to justify a thing and I
most certainly will not to whoever may
suspect rightly or wrongly of me ...
Openly, UM. June 12th, 2010.
PS. My primary aim is to get back my
rightful Big Issue pitch come rain or
sunshine or come heaven or hell ...
Until then, I will NOT shut-up!
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Letter From Adelaide's "Shambani"
To Uncle Monty.

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Dear Monty, We got your e-mail about being shafted

by the bosses of “Big Issue”. But I could not access

the full story. Worse perhaps, we could not add our
protest about this blow to you and all who know you.

We had no e-mail address to contact the Bird boys.
I wrote an e-mail to you and sent it and had it sent
back – not enough information for it to go through....

So, we feel a little bit powerless. I hope that by the

time you have received this, all will be back to nor-
mal. You will no doubt have had more literate people

pushing for restitution. We are due to leave Adelaide
three weeks today and shall arrive in London on
Monday 21st June in the evening – if the Volcano
behaves itself. We shall, all being well, call in
to see you on the corner outside Caffe Nero ....

Monty – wouldn’t “Evening Standard” be in-
terested in your story? Cannot understand
why they did it. A golden man for the cause.
... I hope you are still fighting fire. I would love

to watch a confrontation between you and

the rich (sod) Mr. Bird. Give them hell. Hope

to see you soon . Best wishes Myrna & Carl.
{Letter posted by snail mail on May 30th, 2010.
Received by me in London, June 5th, 2010. The
Hancocks’ letter has been edited by me to exclude
other personal matters in the Aussie epistle ... }

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I have a good friend named Lisa Blake who I've ...
I have a good friend named Lisa Blake who I've known
for many years. She was homeless, living in a bus, and
sold The Big Issue. Unfortunately she dropped out of
sight and contact several years ago despite many efforts
to find her. I have been trying again to look for her,
and a google search has brought up the same name
in your blog post under the 2007 list of the homeless
dead. I know it's a long shot but you don't happen to
know who I would contact to get more information
about the lady that passed to see if it is the same
friend I am looking for. Many thanks, LEX.
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(Lex, please send your contact details in order perhaps
to help you further on this matter of your Lisa Blake.)
thebiggerissue@k.st. - Lex Scott has now provided
his personal e-mail for those to contact him, if they
should know anything about the situation of his old
friend Lisa Blake: Lex.Scott75@googlemail.com -
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Hi Monty Glad to see you are still ...
Hi Monty Glad to see you are still around as I

was worried when you stopped appering outside

Caffe Nero. I haven't worked out why you were

"suspended" but I'm glad you are ok and hope to

see you back soon. (Anonymous)
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Hi Monty. Please keep my surname and e-mail

address anonymous. It's ok to leave my first

name though. Missing you terribly. Wondered

what the latest is. I'm not very au fait with how

web pages work, so from what i have read it looks

like you have come to some sort of peace agree-

ment with the Bird's. I can't wait for you to re-

turn to your pitch, i do hope you have not com-

promised your beliefs and right to free speach.

What are they so worried about? Or that Bird

man so drunk on power? Happy to send an e-

mail of support to The Big Issue if you wish???

Look forward to seeing you, very soon i hope.

Warmest regards Gillian.
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AJB: Boycott Him ...

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