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Jonathan Boyd Hunt
Jonathan Boyd Hunt announced his decision to stand in the Parliamentary seat of Tatton at the General Election. Hunt has spent three years trying to prove the innocence of Neil Hamilton, and has written a book called "Trial by Conspiracy". Hunt has not been funded by any third parties, and was before the investigation an independent journalist. We asked him why he was doing this work for so little reward
Q. Why are you standing in the Tatton seat?
A.
I'm standing to bring to the attention of the constituents of Tatton the following facts:
a) Two journalists, Malcolm Keith-Hill and myself, have conducted an exhaustive investigation into
The Guardian's/Mohamed Al Fayed's allegations against their former MP, Neil Hamilton.
b) Our investigation has found no evidence to support the allegations. From the evidence we concluded
instead that Fayed made false allegations against Neil Hamilton out of spite, because Hamilton wouldn't
use his ministerial position to help the Egyptian acquire a British passport.
c) Our investigation has unearthed solid evidence showing that Hamilton was framed by
The Guardian
newspaper in league with Fayed and certain of both parties' lawyers. The evidence shows that the
conspiracy was enacted to create the false impression that Fayed had made his allegations against
Hamilton over a year before Fayed had become enraged by his blocked passport - and by so doing
create the false impression that Fayed had not been motivated to make the allegations spitefully.
d) The Guardian/Fayed conspiracy included the illegal withholding of documents; the fabrication of
documents; and the giving of false testimony both orally and in writing for/during the Downey Inquiry
and for/during Neil Hamilton's libel action(s).
e) Various prominent journalists, including the Daily Telegraph's top investigative reporters, and various
senior BBC journalists, have vindicated our conclusions.
f) The national media, much of which has strong links with
The Guardian, has conducted a news blackout
on our investigation - including the Daily Telegraph, whose profitability depends on its contracts to print
The Guardian in London and Manchester, which by the year 2009 are expected to have grossed well in
excess of £1 billion.
g) Sections of the local news media in the Tatton constituency have also conducted a news blackout of our
investigation, including the Manchester Evening News, the Manchester Metro News, the Wilmslow
Express Advertiser & Knutsford Express Advertiser; plus Granada TV (for whom I worked as a reporter
and whom I represented in 1997 for the NW Royal Television Society Award for Best News Reporter of
the Year).
h) All the newspapers listed above in g) are owned by
The Guardian, including the Wilmslow Express and
Knutsford Express, who conceal that fact from their Tatton readership by stating their parentage as being
merely "Lancashire and Cheshire County Newspapers" - which is actually a wholly-owned subsidiary
of The Guardian.
i) Granada TV also has very close political links to
The Guardian, as illustrated by the fact that many of its
World in Action political documentaries were produced and directed by Guardian political staff, such as
David Leigh; Luke Harding; David Pallister; Alan Rusbridger; Jamie Wilson; and others.
j) Sir Gordon Downey's "compelling evidence" verdict that Hamilton took bribes from Fayed, consisted
entirely of the evidence-free testimony of three of Fayed's closest and longest-serving employees, who did
not emerge with their story that they had paid Hamilton "cash in
brown envelopes" until just three days before
Hamilton's libel action against The
Guardian was due to be heard, which was a full two years after the
Guardian's original story that Fayed's lobbyist had bribed Hamilton - and that, in any event, Downey
rejected these three employees' similarly belated tale that they had processed cash payments to the
lobbyist!
k) Keith-Hill & myself have identified serious incompatible anomalies in
The Guardian's stories explaining
the three Fayed employees' late emergence, including two completely irreconcilable stories given by the
same journalist, David Leigh, who had nevertheless been part of
The Guardian's legal team.
Q. Do you think the public will still be interested hearing about Neil Hamilton?
A. This story is not primarily about Neil Hamilton. It's more about the British news media's dependency on a single news agency, the Press Association, which took all its information about a major political controversy from a partial source,
The Guardian newspaper, which also happens to be one of that agency's major shareholders. It's also about the British media's suppression of news of an independent investigation that has unearthed a major cover-up within
The Guardian, which happens to be the most influential newspaper within Britain's media. It's also about the brainwashing of a powerful democracy by a supposedly free press. Least significant of all, it's about the wrongful destruction of an innocent man - who happens to be a Conservative politician named Neil Hamilton.
Q. What in particular motivates you to keep on with this case, given that you are having to fund yourself?
A. The story is simply too important to walk away from. The simple fact is, Mohamed
Al Fayed, who was found to have lied over a hundred times to the government's officials investigating his acquisition of Harrods, has nevertheless succeeded in having this country's institutions accept his evidence-free allegations against a government Minister who has denied them passionately from the outset. If Fayed is allowed to succeed, then all of us - not just Neil Hamilton - are vulnerable to the incurious media juggernaut which facilitated Hamilton's downfall.
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