The Black Book: Submitting Evidence of Local Government Hostility

Share your experience with the council if you have it documented.

Following yesterday’s article exposing the Whitehall smoke screen, my inbox has been rather busy. It is clear that our community has hit a massive nerve. While ministers in Westminster are wringing their hands over the comfort of local politicians, a completely inverted, deeply disturbing reality is playing out on the ground

They want a parliamentary debate on the safety of local politicians? Fine. Let’s hand them the definitive ledger of how councils actually treat the public.

After reading the stories you sent me, an unmistakable pattern is taking shape. And when the same behaviours start echoing across different situations, it’s rarely coincidence — it’s structure. When residents ask questions that public officials cannot answer, the system doesn’t offer evidence; it lashes out.

Because of the responses you’ve shared, the National Residents for Civic Accountability (NRCA) is formally launching The Black Book - a master, clinically evidenced ledger documenting institutional bullying, intimidation, and the silencing of residents by local authorities.

We will be handing The Black Book directly to both Baroness Taylor of Stevenage- who seems so deeply worried about the “abusive public”- and Lord George Young, who rightly stood up in the same debate to defend the fundamental right of citizens to question elected officials.

We aim to create a direct challenge to the current legislative debate, this dossier is being compiled for distribution to Parliament and national media. We open the official record of The Black Book with two verified local case studies

Case Study 1: The Totnes Council Assault and the “Vanishing” CCTV

A few years ago ,Becca - a member of the Heritage Party -attended a full council meeting in Totnes. Armed with hard data, she began reading from the Corona Act, asking the exact same structural and statutory questions we are now forcing onto the record regarding Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)

The response from the chamber? Shouted swear words( I am not even going to quote it here) , commands to “shut up,” and the Mayor physically walking toward her and attempting to slap her across the face.

When this shocking incident was reported to the local newspaper, it was miraculously spun under a headline claiming councillors were worried about their safety and needed protection. When we went to the police, the institutional closing of ranks began. First, an officer confirmed via email(we have on record) : “Yes, I can see it on the CCTV.” One month later, when Becca called for an update, the narrative completely flipped: suddenly, the police claimed the video “wasn’t working,” and the council audaciously demanded an apology from Becca before they would agree “not to push the matter further.

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Case Study 2: The Market Stall Defamation

In another blatant abuse of position, we were simply putting up an informational gazebo at a local town market, completely legally, right next to the town council’s own stall. Our purpose was purely informational - simply an electoral‑campaigning stall. At that point it wasn’t even obvious, as the gazebo wasn’t fully up and no materials were yet on display. A council worker from the children and culture sector walked directly over to our stall and began aggressively screaming at us in public, labelling us “racists” and “Nazis” simply for existing in the same public space. Just like the assault in Totnes, this area was entirely covered by public CCTV. And just like the Totnes assault, the footage mysteriously “disappeared” the moment it was required for accountability.

Case Study 3: The Teignbridge District Council Deflection and Slur

question: "I presume you are aware of the Corona Virus Act requirement of 3 legal conditions to justify such a serious decision... Could you explain and justify (with supporting evidence) lockdowns, and lockdown restrictions enforcement decision made by the Teignbridge council"

In September 2021, a resident formally registered to speak at a Full Council meeting at Teignbridge District Council. Listed on the official agenda as the first public questioner, she challenged the council leadership on their adoption of powers under the Coronavirus Act.

Crucially—and directly mirroring the current Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) rollout—the council’s adoption of these emergency powers was not automatically imposed by central government. It was voluntary and strictly conditional. To lawfully exercise these powers, the council was legally required to fulfill specific statutory criteria and produce hard statistical evidence justifying the measures.

The public data showed those criteria had not been met, and the council had made no documented attempt to satisfy them

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When the resident asked the council to produce the justifying statistics and explain how their actions adhered to the Nolan Principles of Public Life (Integrity, Objectivity, and Accountability), the response from the chamber was not to produce the required data. Instead, a councillor chose to openly slander members of the public from the floor of the chamber, shouting the derogatory slur “anti-vaxxers” to shut down the scrutiny.

This is not hearsay; it is permanently auditable. The resident’s lawful questions remain on the council’s own published agenda minutes, and the councillor’s resulting slur was formally documented as primary evidence in a subsequent “Public Vote of No Confidence” petition lodged against Teignbridge District Council. It proves a multi-year, documented pattern: when asked for the statutory evidence to justify voluntary overreach, officials default to name-calling

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We Need Your Evidence for The Black Book

These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a systematic, weaponised strategy to reframe the peaceful, lawful, inquiring citizen as a “safeguarding threat” the moment the council’s paperwork is out of order.

If you have experienced bullying, threats, verbal abuse, or institutional silencing by council officers or elected politicians, we want to put it in The Black Book. However, because the establishment loves to hide behind the label of “misinformation,” our ledger must be legally watertight.

We are strictly looking for cases that can be backed up by a paper trail. Please send us:

• The Paper Trail: Emails, letters, or formal correspondence where council officers or police admit to seeing incidents before footage “failed” or vanished.

• Documented Hostility: Written code-of-conduct complaints, local media coverage, or audio/video recordings of public meetings where you were suppressed.

• The Double-Talk: Written proof of councils demanding you apologise to them after they initiated the hostility.

Where to Submit

Please email your evidence schedules, timelines, and documents directly to: residentsconcern@proton.me

We will protect your privacy, redact personal details where requested, and ensure your identity is shielded. We are not a mob; we are an audit network. We deal in dates, documents, and disclosures.

Let Baroness Taylor of Stevenage talk about protecting untouchable officials. We are going to hand her The Black Book and show her who actually needs protection from whom.

Submit your evidence today. Let’s write the real record.

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