20 Rotten Years.

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John Bird's 20 Rotten Years of The Big Issue.

By Uncle Monty.

Photograbs & Story Graphics

By Alex Albion.

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Exactly 20 rotten years ago today, The Big Issue was co-founded

by Gordon Roddick, now 68; and John Bird, now 65. They are

now estranged since the death four years ago of Gordon's beloved

wife Dame Anita. Like so much to do with The Big Issue under

 pigface Anthony John Bird, it has had a knack for destroying

friends and then making enemies of them like me.

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Now 20 rotten years later, The Big Issue is tethering on some

kind of collaspe or revamp that is due solely to its own stupid

making at its UK London Vauxhall HQ. The HQ is riddled with

questionable talent of the likes of Bird's brother Peter Bird,

 the well-known prick that he has now become. While during

the rotten 20 years, pigface John Bird himself has lived by

 pigging off  The Roddicks and the homeless with impunity

 and immunity to the point that he is now a millionaire along

with allegedly getting paid over 150,000 quid annual salary

while heading The Big Issue. For an ex-convict and ex-

homeless character that the pigface truly is, he's done very

well for himself as he retires now at Cambridge as a

Champagne Socialist and rarely shows his pigface

anymore at his London Vauxhall HQ. His little prick

brother Peter Bird now stands in for him ...

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The dream of The Big Issue has now turned into a

living nightmare in which the dream has been creamed

off by the crude, sour, and obnoxious Anthony

John Bird himself. His empty legacy is in a shambles

and his exploitation of the homeless over the past 20

rotten years will be enscribed on his cold tombstone

 in which nobody will cry for him. He is already dead

 among the homeless and those who have had the

 misfortune to encounter such a false prophet of the

homeless. The Big Issue is now a Big Lie. Its

 taken 20 rotten years to lay bare the big rotten

lie that will finally die at the death of the

rotten pigface himself.

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Here are some of Bird's "wonderful" folkz that also

pig off  the vendors of The Big Issue. None of the

 iffy characters thus described below were around at

 the start of The Big Issue some 20 rotten years ago.

Although a few of them have been around for

 about half or more of the 20 rotten years in which

the UK street mag has existed and has explioted

the homeless to the hilt in order to engender huge

and maximum profits for John Bird and his Big

 Issue cronies and fat catz.

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Samantha Woodlock: The Big Issue's Hatchet Woman.

She is oftentimes as cold as ice. She can, however,

be ever so nice when it suits her, especially when pigface

 John Bird and prick Peter Bird are around. Sam, as she is

 known to all the vendors, is quite gifted as a short story

 writer, but beyond that she shows little talent other then to

enforce the rules against those vendors who cross her

 path. Now after 13 or so years at London's Big Issue 

Covent Garden distribution spot outside of Boots at

James Steet, Sam is a fixture that sooner or later they'll

get rid of. She was once out of circulation for days, by

the way, due two huge black eyes that had been inflcited

on her for reasons that I was never able to discover.

Violence is a common occurance among staffers and

vendors of The Big Issue. Almost all of them come from

lower class backgrounds just like The vile Bird Brothers,

 who now are nouveau riche and without any social or

cultural rearing or grace. I've come to the conclusion

that the best job for Samantha Woodlock would be that

of a UK prison guard. She's certainly no Sam Cam!

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Billie Bickley: The Big Issue's Big Gob.

A self-confessed lesbian wench, Billie Bickley's badge of

honour is having almost 100 criminal convictions that goes

along with her Big Gob and her foul mouth at almost every

 time she says a word or two. Always hypo and in need to

 be the centre of attention among other street vendors,

 Billie Bickley can never keep her filthy mouth shut.

In many ways she is so full of herself she comes over as the

most commom of the common. Her gutter language confirms

that.  This is the same Billie Bickley who has been allowed to

sit down recently with prime minister David Cameron at The

 Big Issue HQ. She also went to No. 10, along with pigface

 John Bird, to chat with the then British Labour Party moron

and PM Gordon Brown.  How a long convicted criminal

 like her is permitted to have access to someone like a

 sitting prime minister is beyond me considering her wide

criminal background and her ever Big Gob and her foul

speech. She's a big pet of The Greedy Bird Brothers and

that's why. They love to use her as a Big Issue prop to

promote whatever bullshit is has on its latest agenda.

John Bird's own criminal past is much like Billie

Bickley's and that's perhaps why they are endeared

to each other. The best job for Billie Bickley would

 be to be a crude barmaid from wherever she is from.

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John Duffy: Ex-Big Issue Bad Ass.

An Anglican and a former gardener and failed business

operator, John Duffy has been close to the pigface and

the prick for quite sometime until he quit The Big Issue

almost 2 years ago. He was set to dizzy heights at the

Vauxhall HQ when he was made "International Business

 Manager" with his own office and all. What? How

clever?  With failed business skills and non-existent

academic qualifications, John Duffy looked like a right

buffoon at The Big Issue.  His situation there re-

minded me very much of the T-Shirt I saw in San

 Francisco that said: "Trash Walks, Skills Talk."

Yes, Skills Talk, Duffy Walks!! In his years with

pigface John Bird, Duffy was more or less forced

by Bird to go to work for The Scotland Big

Issue at Glasgow that was started by Mel Young

of Edinburgh. Duffy soon came unstuck there, too,

and chafed under what he perceived to be anti-English

 attitudes by some Scots against him. He then returned

to Vauxhall and eventually got the franchise to distribute

 The Big Issue in Surrey, where he is now based. That

 soon came to end, too, for troublesome John Duffy, who

 is related to Sam Woodlock, The Hatchet Woman. Duffy

hasn't been seen or heard from for the past 18 months

or so by allaboutthebigissue. The best job for such a

 bad ass (or arse) like John Duffy would be that

of a Soho nightclub bouncer.

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Tom Woodlock: The Big Issue's Mother Fucker.

Said to speak fluent Italian, Tom Woodlock is a nasty

piece of work and who thinks he's a cut above the home-

less even though he comes from low homeless stock

himself.  Whatever, Tom Woodlock is best known as

The Big Issue's Mother Fucker and who is married

to Sam "The Hatch Woman." He and her are part of

the staff clique at The Big Issue, although not permitted

into the inner sanctum of the Fat Catz like chairman

James Caan and big boy Nigel Kershaw and so-called

executive editor Anthony John Bird. Big Issue vendors

and voluntary staff are strictly barred by them.

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Such Fat Catz operate in the utmost secrecy and

out of earshot of those excluded from the inner

dealings and workings of The Big Issue that for

20 rotten years has been developed into a cunning

and slick art form to hide and conceal whatever is

really going on with the huge amounts of money and

loose cash flowing almost daily to Bird & Co.

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Easy to get him annoyed, dad of one Tom Woodlock

has a bad history of being downright nasty to Big Issue

 vendors at Covent Garden.  He treats them like shit as

do many of the other so-called "voluntary staff." The

 best job for Tom Woodlock would be a grave

digger, I think. I hope the next grave is for him!

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Stephen Farrell Wood: The Big Issue's Hack Poet.

He was once the overgrown Poster Boy for The

Big Issue Christmas Appeal was Steve Farrell who

 is totally moody and unpredictable from one day to

 the next. His erratic mood swings are bolstered by

his sudden outburst of gutter language whenever he

 decides to finally speak to you. Not once did I hear

Steve Farrell every say "thank you" or "please" or

ever call me by my name in almost the 5 years I

knew him at The Big Issue's Covent Garden dis-

tribution spot. This is the same pitiful character who

 went fast asleep on the front pew, as The Big Issue

official represenative, at the St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Annual Commemoration Service to the Homeless

 Dead. I had to wake him up!! Such ignorance is

so common among the ilk of Steve Farrell. The

best job for him would be to be a lavatory cleaner.

That should fit nicely for a hack poet like him ...

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Peter Bird: The Big Issue's Big Prick.

Don't get me going on Peter Bird, who I utterly de-

test with all my venom against him and his pigface

 brother John. The prick was more or less out of

 The Big Issue picture from its start of some 20

rotten years ago. In fact, I believe John Bird and

 Peter Bird were estranged brothers at that time in

the late 80's and early 90's. What Peter Bird did

then I don't know. Not that it matters now some 20

years later.  Shallow and self-centred like his big

 brother, Peter Bird doesn't amount to a hill of beans

despite every effort to make him look important at

The Big Issue. He's a cad and nothing else in my

opinion - period. The best job for him would be

 shoveling horse shit as some kind of low farm hand.

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So today marks the 20th rotten year of The Big Issue.

 There is little to be proud of. Although they may hold

some kind of 20th Birthday Party for the vendors who

will be very lucky to get a small bottle of spring water

and a little bar of Divine Chocolate (courtesy of old

Gordon Roddick's business dealings with The Divine

Chocolate Company) from the "kind" and "generous"

founders and big jerks of The Big Issue. Don't count,

however, on too many future birthdays. But do count

on a few more rotten years under Bird & Co

before the whole shabang goes down to its ultimate

demise for us all hopefully to see. Clap loud, now!

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Good Riddance then to The Big Issue - period.

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Truly, Uncle Monty.

+Birth of the BVM, 2011.

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Big Issue doesn't stand out in a crowd, admits founder

John Bird tells Nina Lakhani why his 20-year-old

 magazine is being revamped.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/big-issue-doesnt-stand-out-in-a-crowd-admits-founder-2349315.html

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Postcard From Paris. By Uncle Monty.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2011/09/postcard.html

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Next Story Here By Uncle Monty.

Homeless Everywhere Inside Paris.

I embargoed my Paris homeless story to be

 sure that the story herein of John Bird's 20 Rotten

Years of The Big Issue appeared timely and exactly

on the same day - Sept. 8th -  of its 20th Rotten

Anniversary, 2011.

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