INDEX 18 November, 2023
The long shadow of the Economic League
One of the things the hackers do is send me fake demands for money. This is, of course a crime. But it is quite interesting because the same sort of campaign was run 20 years ago. So I can say with a deal of certainty that the intelligence services have been targeting me for more than two decades.

All those years ago I was living with Katy Andrews and she was a Donga, a hardcore road protestor. An organisation called the Economic League, funded by the construction industry, was collecting information about union activists working in construction and environmentalists protesting about building projects (notably new roads).

The Economic League was forced to reveal the identities of the unionists but despite being legally required to hand over the data, the identities of the environmentalists were concealed. The files were destroyed.

However, if the league had been doing a proper job it would certainly have included Dongas in its list of environmental activists. What the league was doing with this information was handing it over to the secret police and the 'intelligence' services. Hence the bailiffs letters we were getting.

The campaign of bailiffs letters fizzled out eventually, though not before we got a visit from a hefty bloke who came round and rattled our door. I believe they moved on to other things since the bastards behind this campaign probably worked out that it was losing its impact.

The latest letters are very similar to the ones we used to get. I've never had anything to do with Vodafone Mobile Airtime. I don't even know what it is. Vodafone Mobile Airtime has never made any attempt to contact me. The first I heard about this £173.96 bill is this bailiff's letter.

I have tried talking to bailiffs and explaining that they have got it all wrong (in that instance it was a fake British Gas bill) but they misunderstand what I say, either willfully or through stupidity.
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Jonathan Brind
18 November, 2023