When the Guardian went on strike to protest the Observer sale, I became a de facto spokesperson. Later a Tortoise employee I’d never met wrote to me to cancel my 20-year contract. No goodbye & no pay-off. This is how they now take credit for my work..but write me out of the story

Ok. This has gone too far. What on earth is Sagal Abdi-Wali doing inviting this man to campaign with her? Why is she walking around with a politician whose friends and allies tried to destroy the lives of local residents and journalists in her constituency - to protect Reed and Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer. It is genuinely an outrage he is here. Reed was an absolute central character in the Morgan McSweeney/Labour Together war on democracy that produced Starmer. He is implicated in so much wrongdoing I don't even know where to start. Reed is a key character in The Fraud. He was a director of Labour Together from 2016 to 2022. During this period, Labour Together broke the law by failing to report donations as required by law. They used this money to, among other things, purposefully undermine the electoral prospects of the Labour Party. They wanted to give the Tories five more years of corruption and austerity so that they could take over the Labour Party they believed belong to their tiny, regressive faction. The strategy document setting this out was literally printed out in Steve Reed's office and handed to insiders. I exposed the dodgy money when I took documents to the Sunday Times, and then what they did with it in the Fraud. In response, Labour Together hired a reputation management firm called APCO Worldwide to investigate me and my colleagues. They ended up producing a disgusting dossier filled with outright lies and falsehoods about me, my family, my colleague Andrew Feinstein, and other journalists like Gabriel Pogrund at the Times, who I worked with on the story. They found my home address, in Camden where Abdi-Wali is standing, and found out the name of my partner, and then tried to dig up dirt on her family. They did this while my partner pregnant. Labour Together used this dossier to report me to the security services and then handed its despicable content to journalists. We now know that dossier was given to Morgan McSweeney and distributed at the very highest levels of the Labour Party and was even sent to the Cabinet Office. I had to threaten to sue the Guardian stuff defamation to stop them printing stories based on that less that would have destroyed my reputation and livelihood. Almost exactly a year ago, Reed appeared at an event at Labour conference. The Fraud had not been published. Reed attacked me and the book, saying all sorts of things about my family, which were private. Was Reed quoting from this dossier? Maybe. We also know, for certain, that the Labour Party somehow got a PDF copy of my book as it was sent to print. How? I have no idea. Only a tiny number of people had access to it. Why were they so scared of the book? Because it repeatedly laid bare the misconduct of Reed and his friends. One example? Files showed that Reed received emails criminally hacked from a local journalist in Croydon, who had been hacked to find his sources - who were blowing the whistle on the incompetence of Reed's allies on Croydon council who were driving it to bankruptcy. In government, Reed did extraordinary damage in just two years. He first blocked moves towards nationalising water while at Defra. At Local Government and Housing he passed guidelines to allow mega property developers slash the number of affordable houses they must build in new developments. He passed new laws to stop local council's divesting from companies complicit in genocide - after promising the Board of Deputies in a meeting in 2020 that he would stop local governments exercising their power to boycott Israel. The irony is that it was Labour Together's insane attack on journalists that ended Starmer. Josh Simons, who directed Labour Together when it appointed APCO, resigned this year after being managed out of Cabinet. That allowed Burnham to stand in Makerfield, then as leader - to the fury of Reed, the last Starmerite. Now Sagal is claiming to bring hope again. Well in Camden she's just brought a scumbag to campaign.