To James Caan: Life Is Full of Criminals. By Uncle Monty.

To James Caan:

Life Is Full of Criminals.

Story By Uncle Monty.

Photos & Graphics By Alex Albion.

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As chairman of The Big Issue Foundation, James Caan,

who is close to age 50, and a name changer and practising

Parkistani Muslim, stated he will not invest his business money

with co-star Duncan Bannatyne, because of Duncan's convicted

minor criminal past as then a teenager.
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Caan's comments were reported in The London Evening Standard

that declared he could not invest with anyone who had a criminal

record. Yet, Caan works closely with one of UK's most well-known

and self-confessed criminals at The Big Issue called John Bird,

who co-founded the magazine and is now close to age 65. Bird

also gets speaking fees in the range of $4,000 to £7,000

at various corporate and charity dinner talks.

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Also, The Big Issue is said to have 1,000 ex-prisoners and

ex-parolees among its estimated 3,000 Big Issue vendors

in the UK. So why is James Caan now talking "All Holy Than

Thou" against Duncan Bannatyne? Plus, it seems James Caan

(who is not to be confused with the American film actor of the

same name) is also pulling the "race card" it seems on Duncan

by branding him a so-called “racist.” Typically in Broken Britain,

immigrants, asylum seekers, and foreigners are quick to call a

local white a racist whenever they’re offended by something or
cannot get their own way in an argument over someone. I

am personally so sick and tired of those sprouting the word

"racist" at every turn and then being allowed to get away

with it. James Caan seems now to have spitefully fallen

for the same ugly smear and dirty trick as a Muslim

Pakistani that he is against Britisher Duncan Bannatyne.

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Whatever, surely Caan must have known John Bird was

a well-known and self-admitted ex-criminal? If not, he

should not have been made foundation chairman by the

money-grabbing Bird, who insists on ingratiating himself

with a variety of B-rated celebrities like James Caan. While

Bird's close and long time buddy Nigel Kershaw is Group

Chairman and was appointed OBE at The Queen’s New

Year’s Honour List, 2010. Congrats to Nigel!!

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And Caan, formerly known as Nazim Khan, must have

surely known that many Big Issue vendors also come

from criminal backgrounds, which I have noted in

previous Big Issue stories of mine.
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The problem with The Big Issue Foundation and The

Big Issue magazine is that a cult or clique has emerged

around Bird himself. The operation of both money-making

entities thrives at the expense of everybody else, and most

especially at the expense of Big Issue vendors like me all

across the UK and who are not given entré to the inner

Bird circle and its secretive workings. Alot of what goes

on inside the foundation and the magazine is done, I am

told, in concerted fear and dread of others knowing

too much. From what I can figure, there is a kind of

behind the scenes "seizure mentality" that consumes

and dictates whatever arbitrary actions are taken by

John Bird, whose own brother Peter Bird has been

shipped off to Scotland to represent the Scottish Big

Issue founded by Mel Young and who is the founder

of Homeless World Cup (HWC) that is

headquartered at Edinburgh.

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Cult or clique members at Big Issue Vauxhall, and also

now at Bird's home base at Cambridge, bow and scrape to

his every asinine word like he is the world’s leading guru

on homelesssness and social enterprise. Heaven forbid!

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As for The Big Issue Foundation chairman, I have little

time or patience for the ilk of James Caan, frankly. I cer-

tainly wouldn’t go out of my way to see him perform in

BBC’s Dragons' Den. I write here, by the way, as a critical

blogger and open Big Issue vendor of five year’s

standing at London’s Long Acre.

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As for James Caan declaring he will not invest with some

one with a criminal record, well all I can say to him is that

"life is full of criminals." In fact, we have more convicted and

non-convicted criminals worldwide today than at any other

time in all the human history of the world. And, if you want to

roughly know the staggering numbers of convicted criminals

in the UK, the figure runs at over ONE MILLION since before

vile New Labour’s red stranglehold on “Broken Britain.” More

and more dangerous immigrants and crime-ridden foreigners

are filling now the UK prison system to bursting point thanks

again to hideous New Labour letting millions of such low life

scum into the UK so as to gain more pro-socialist voters

for New Labour.

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In the US of A, the figure runs at a mind-boggling number

of about EIGHT MILLION convicted criminals since before

"closet Muslim" Barack Hussein Obama took over the once

Christian Oval Office from millions of "non-Obama"

Americans.

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And the United States also has over FIVE MILLION

outstanding arrest warrants for its own citizens and for

all manner of folkz from all around the world. If America's

role is that of the World's Policeman, then it is also now the

World's No. 1 Jailer with over TWO MILLION prisoners

already locked up in the country's vast penal system of

state penitentiaries and county jailhouses "from sea

to shining sea" and all "across the land of milk and

honey!!" The American Deam is now dead for many

and the New Eldorado is Western Europe for them,

especially at "borderless" Britain that has seen millions

of the world's unwanted scum now crammed inside New

Labour's "Broken Britain" and that such an immigration

stampede has now helped to destroy the very home-

land of the English Christian White People.

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Of the ethnic breakdown of the 6,656 robbery

offenders prosecuted last year in London, over 65%

of them were either Black, Asian, or mixed race

culprits. Such is the negative impact on our society

due entirely to New Labour's hideous and destructive

mass immigration that is choking or killing the very

life that was once my beloved England. It's criminal

what The British Labour Party has done and continues

to do with their utter immigration impunity and

immunity. England will never be the same as the

country evolves more and more into a Third World

Haarlem brought upon us be the deceit and political

trickery of the ilk of Blair and Brown and that now

threatens us all beyond repair as a once proud nation.

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The UK is now more ghettoised and foreignized

than even the whole of the United States!! And,

if New Labour should by fair or foul win yet an-

other 5 years in office, then the United Kingdom

will become completely swallowed up by even

more abusive imposition of greater mass immig-

ation against the British People by the treacherous

and cunning socialist gangsters of New Labour. So

vote Labour for more and more mass immigration!

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So be careful, James Caan, for your good buddies may

turn out to be one of those criminals you don't want to

associate or invest with for whatever reason you have

declared. If you don't want to invest with known

criminals, then my best advice to you is to immediately

resign your chairmanship of The Big Issue Foundation and

say goodbye to your Catholic buddy and ex-British criminal,

Mr. A. John Bird, MBE. Good riddence then to you James

and your 70 million quid. So Bye ...

Byyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeee, then!

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James Caan (entrepreneur)

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Big Issue's John Duffy At London's Covent Garden.

John Duffy: Re-Inventing Homeless Folkz.

By Uncle Monty. Photo By Alex Albion.

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Earlier you may recall my initial brief story outline of

my unexpected encounter again with Big Issue's John

Duffy after an absence of two years. He has returned

from Glasgow to his old hunting ground of Surry at

where he now holds The Big Issue franchise there.

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When he first went to Glasgow to work for Scotland

Big Issue it was under the pressure or the duress of

John Bird, who needed to have someone to take charge

there after the manager was either sacked or quit and

so nobody was there to take charge of things until John

Duffy was drafted and hired. However, some time after

being in Glasgow he found himself in a personal situation

that grew more problematical for him due to him not be-

ing a Scot, so he says, that resulted in open antipathy to-

wards him as an English guy by the local Scots. Though no

one at Glasgow - at where my own late dad was born -

said such to him to his face, John Duffy knew nevertheless

that he wasn't all that welcome simply for not being a

native son and perhaps because John can be unbending

in dealing in certain situations with other people.

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Whatever, our good chat on Good Friday at Covent

Garden revealed Duffy's surprising desire of re-inventing

homeless folkz. What? Yes, re-inventing homeless folkz

by dropping the negative homeless tag for one of a more

positive one of calling such people "community residents"

or "community workers" of The Big Issue.

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While John Duffy's intention is good, the question is

will such a name change for the homeless make any

difference in the actual circumstances of the homeless

on a day-to-day basis? Perhaps, hopefully yes. But if

we look at what Scotland's Mel Young has done with his

remarkable creation of the Homeless World Cup in the

lives of the homeless around the world, then the

evidence and lessions of his "re-inventing homeless

folkz" is truly real and without question right there at

the good hands of Mel Young. Positive words alone cannot

solve the core problems of many homeless, but they can

at least help to motivate some of them to do positive things

to enchance their own esteem and worth instead of using

homelessness as a crutch rather than using it as a tool

to better things. John Duffy's insight into the issues of

homelessness is based on his personal experience of

being homeless, then becoming a Big Issue vendor,

and later a vendor co-ordinator and finally to be

named as the Big Issue's International Business

represenative before he headed out to Ramsgate

and eventually onto Scotland's Glasgow. I might say

he has now come full circle with The Big Issue. Be-

fore he lost his home, John was a landscape gardener

at Kent, so I have been told by Oliver Tidmarsh

who once worked with Duffy.

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At another point, John Duffy was also awarded The

Metropolitan Police Commander Award for having in-

structed serving London cops with his insight and under-

standing of the problems and behaviour of the homeless

and rough sleepers on the cold city streets. Met Police

Inspector Malcolm Barnard, then head of the Homeless

Street Unit, could find nothing but huge praise for

John Duffy and The Big Issue.

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John was critical of a number of things that I agreed

with myself. One was that hideous TV progamme from

last year of rich and famous people sleeping rough for 10

days in what I have called "nothing more than a homeless

skit" and to which was done more for John Bird's inflated

and insatiable self-ego and to raise more big bucks for his

own Big Issue Foundation than anything else. John Duffy

was also rightly very critical of the stupid "Coronation

Street" idiot on the programme as I was equally of the

"Indian Comic" guy. We liked best Rosie Boycott, who

was the glue and she clipped Bird's feathers as he

apologised to her with his small tail hanging between

his Big Issue legs after he screwed up things with her.

You don't mess with someone like Rosie and get

away with it. No, sir!

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Also the recent magazine wholesale price increase

to vendors we scorned and especially the new retail

price of £1.70 that is of no help to the vendor who now

needs to fiddle in his or her pocket for change of 30

pence for two quid from customers. I have suggested

the magazine should be priced now at two quid. But

knowing the greed of The Big Issue, I suspect it

would promptly increase the wholesale price yet

again to its vendors so that the vendors are never

allowed to make even more profit for themselves

without Big Issue cashing in on the deal. John Bird

stated at the last price increase that such an increase

was being "split" between the vendors and him.

Who is this he kidding? This is the same "homeless

guru" who has declared war on street folkz who go

begging (or panhandling), while Bird himself is the

biggest begger of them all!! He goes corporate begg-

ing instead, while he then unashamedly condemns

the poor buggers and homeless people on the street

who beg for peanuts while he, Bird, gets big fancy

corporate bucks running into thousands of dollars

at time fo his "poor" foundation. What? Yep!

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John Duffy: The Old Version.

http://www.bigissue.com/John_Duffy_52.php

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I am sorry. I don't have more time now to write more

about Duffy. Perhaps later on down the road, I will do so.
I want to get on here to complain abit about Big Issue's

Steven Farrell-Wood shitty attitude in my next short

story that will soon be online. I feel like even after five

years of knowing him, he is still shows no good manners

or respect toward me for reasons best known to himself.

He is always distrusting of Big Issue vendors despite the

fact that he has been one himself. He always counts out

my magazine money as if I am about to cheat him. He

never ever says a "thank you" or "please" or "hello"

even after five years of knowing him! How strange,

indeed? Steve Farrell is so moody at the best of time,

too. Can never figure our what his problem is ...

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The 'Other' Steve Farrell: His More Charming Side.
http://www.bigissue.com/Steven_Farrell_54.php

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G'day everyone, Uncle Monty.

+St. Catherine, 2010.

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Next Three Stories Soon By Uncle Monty:

1. RALPH MILLWARD: Big Issue Vendor

Battered To Death Over A Lousey Cigarette

By Three Under-Age British Street Yobz.

2. What I Was Told About Tom.

3. Steve Farrell: Get Yourself Some Manners.

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Followed by Graham Walker's highly critical two-

part series on John Bird called "Dead Bird Walking."

Then Uncle Monty's "Outlaw The Alien Burka Now."

And, also his "No Good Samaritan For Us," which exposes

the socialist and stupid bullshit of Jackass Gordon Brown

on the campaign road at the British General Election.

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