a) The owner of Diversity International (one of the organisations at the centre of the LDA row) is a long time friend of Lee Jasper and a Board Director of the 1990 Trust

b) Lee Jasper is involved in the day to day management of the 1990 Trust directing its work and operations from City Hall, hence the attack on Trevor Phillips to stop him getting the job as the Chair of the new CEHR.

c) Lee Jasper is a long time friend of Errol Walters

d) Lee Jasper influenced the appointment of Errol Walters as the ‘Interim Director’ of the Black Londoners Forum despite his lack of qualifications for the post.

e) Two years have passed since the appointment of Errol Walters to the position of ‘Interim Director’, yet despite City Hall funding no recruitment has been undertaken to fill the post on a permanent basis, giving Errol Walters a free ride.

f) Lee Jasper intervened in the LDA funding of Brixton Base also run by Errol Walters from funding failure to funding success despite there being existing long established organisations in the Balck community engaged in work with young people, music and the creative industries whom were better placed to deliver and could have been given the opportunity to compete for the contract instead.

g) Lee Jasper is the Company Secretary of the African Caribbean Positive Image Foundation (ACPIF) a business he set up with two others to put on an awards event in order to compete with already established and experienced Black Awards events.

h) ACPIF lost money in its first year of operation and in order to fill this debt, ACPIF acquired a loan from ‘Ethnic Mutual’ a loan bank funded by the LDA and the DTI to help business to grow and develop. ACPIF ‘falsely’ acquired funds from ‘Ethnic Mutual’ to fill its £18,000 debt and then according to company’s house ACPIF in 2007 closed down with Lee Jasper still as its Company Secretary.

i) Ken Livingstone was critical of Atma Singh, a former mayoral advisor for running a business whilst an employee, yet what action is taken of Lee Jasper who too was running a business (ACPIF) while being an employee.

Lee Jasper has been accused of breaking the rules not breaking the law, thus why doesn’t Ken Livingstone refer the whole matter to the District Auditor to be properly independently investigated. The police have no remit to investigate public officials who break the rules. Is Ken alleging that a crime may have been committed?

As yet, no allegations have been put that Lee Jasper committed a crime, so why put up the police as a smoke screen.

Finally, given that Lee Jasper has been suspended, why is he being allowed to give a series of press interviews, claiming racism (see his interview in the Voice today) whilst still on his full City Hall salary of £121,000.

Dave, I’m not sure about this argument. There hasn’t really been proper coverage of the Mayoral election worth keeping out for in tyhe way it has been with the American elections. In fact there’s been far more coverage of the American elections than the Mayoral. So it negates the ‘momentum’ argument for me.

There has been much mudslinging by the Evening Standard but its circulation is low and credibility on the issue even lower.

and I was quite incensed by Brian Paddick’s comments around the Archbishop incident… not sure if I’ll be voting for him anymore.