Yesterday was our Editor’s birthday and we thank everyone who sent us some wonderful and supportive messages and emails.
Some things, one cannot simply cannot make up, such as our editor of this rather satirical blog sharing her birthday with William Hogarth, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hogarth
The subjects and the people involved that we write about (however crazy they might appear to be to people who are unfamiliar with North Kensington and neighbouring areas) are true and while we may have our own political views and take on certain topics that not everyone will agree with; most people here recognise THINK as a legitimate and not ill-intentioned blog.
We really shouldn’t have to attempt to justify ourselves, especially when some people send us “legal threats” by proxy in a rather comedic manner; one email we received at the weekend was far from a nice email sending our Editor birthday wishes!
So here without further ado is an email we received on Saturday, in the form of these amateur mobile screenshots, from one supposed person called “Avesh Mirza” who was acting on behalf of former RBKC Labour councillor for Colville, Marianne Alapini;
Some of our readers will now be wondering what DMCA is:
No, not that! It is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
Clearly Ms Alapini’s friend has the same very poor grasp of understanding the law as they do of communicating effectively in the English language.
Here, for our readers, are the two old blog posts, which Marianne Alapini objects to. (We fully stand by these posts by the way.) :
https://thisisnorthkensington.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/not-so-sweet-charity/
And here, for Marianne “Vulture” Alapini, is a basic lesson in some facts:
FACT: Marianne Alapini was a Labour councillor for Colville Ward in RBKC from 2002 to 2009
FACT: Marianne Alapini has not been a councillor or stood for election as a councillor since then
FACT: Marianne Alapini does not sit on any present RBKC council committees
FACT; Marianne Alapini is no longer a member of the Labour Party and has not been for a considerable number of years
FACT: Marianne Alapini in 2009 made an unsuccessful attempt to get selected as a Labour PPC for Erith and Thamesmead and had briefly been PPC in Woking the year before:
https://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/news/controversial-labour-list-revealed-1-490213
http://fromthehornetsnest.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-ex-cllr-and-her-colourful-employer.html?m=1
But Marianne Alapini really needs to know how to get her facts right, because here is a screenshot from her Facebook profile, in which she still claims to be a councillor at RBKC!
Delusional or what?!
Because Ms Alapini is falsely claiming to still be a councillor at RBKC and even apparently claiming to be on the newly formed Overview and Scrutiny Committee, it is more than likely that she will now receive some very real legal threats from solicitors acting on behalf of our council.
Marianne Alapini’s political career is long over and has been so for over a decade. That silly farcical amateur email gave us a good laugh and we think she should consider a comedy career instead.
Some supposedly litigious individuals perhaps really ought to “remove content” from their social media profiles long before they ever begin to attempt to threaten us….
THis Is North Kensington 