This is Brian Booth – the sleepy new Interim Chair @PFEW_HQ. Sleepy Brian was the PFEW office holder responsible for determining my appeal against the Ethics Panel decision of 24 April 2025. That decision removed me as Branch Chair and banned me for life from any Federation representative role after I gave interviews to @GBNEWS and the @Telegraph on 17 March 2025 (while still suspended) in which I publicised my @speechunion crowdfund. The crowdfund was necessary because PFEW and their panel insurers were my sole providers of legal cover – and every single policy explicitly excluded any cover where PFEW themselves were the perpetrators of the unlawful conduct I was challenging. I lodged the appeal with Sleepy Brian (via the PFEW Governance Team) on 12 May 2025. Between naps, it then took him until Friday 21 November 2025 – over six months later and the week before my judicial review was due to start – to respond. This came via an email from PFEW’s solicitors saying Sleepy Brian would “shortly” provide me with a summary of the legal advice he’d been given so I could comment before he made his decision. Suffice to say, I never received any such advice. Then, on the morning of the first day of the judicial review (Tuesday 25 November), Leading Counsel for PFEW informed my counsel on an open basis that the Removal Decision had been withdrawn and was no longer effective. PFEW itself accepted the decision was unlawful. In effect, it never happened. I wish the 147,000 shafted members all the luck in the world with their new dynamic National Interim Chair 😴😴😴 Graphic courtesy of @fact_hunts