Money owed was never repaid, and the company refused to issue Payslips or contracts to their workers for the missing wages, so grievance letters, arguments and Employment Tribunal claims ensued. However, the Directors simply refused to speak to ACAS, ignored Employment law and legal correspondence, including Solicitor's letters, Employment Tribunals, Enforcement of the Tribunal Judgments as well as other legal paperwork - instead choosing to bully, intimidate and harass employees that initiated Employment Tribunal claims into leaving, so that they would not have to make redundancy payments - all of which made life extremely difficult and stressful.

At that time, Ealing North MP Steven Pound was contacted (he was the local MP for the area in which the aforesaid business was located), and he said:

The withholding of earned wages is a criminal offence. No "ifs" and no "buts".
Get the Police involved and they'll bring in the Fraud Squad!

The Police, however, refused to become involved with what they termed "Civil matters", at which point Mr. Pound decided that because I wasn't his constituent, he couldn't help further, and suggested writing to my then Local MP (Tony McNulty). Mr. Pound said that he would forward my correspondence to Mr. McNulty, and I also wrote directly to Mr. McNulty, but Mr. McNulty decided to ignore both of us.

After many months of legal wrangling, Employment Tribunal claims were won, and again ignored by the company Directors, along with enforcement of those Tribunal claims, further Employment Tribunals, and eventually claims for Constructive dismissal.

Subsequently (upon being presented with a winding up order) the Directors simply closed the company, and quickly reopened under a different name - carrying on the same line of business, using the same plant and machinery, operating from the same premises, with the same Top Management and shareholders, as well as the same customers and suppliers.

At this point, it transpired that there was no slow-paying customer, but that the company's financial Auditors had qualified the company's previous annual accounts with doubts about the solvency of the company, high levels of bad debt, and had further questionned the potential resale value of large amounts of stock held. The Directors had then gone on to abuse an invoice factoring service by submitting large numbers of invoices for goods that had never been manufactured, which we now believe lead to the withdrawal of the banks support of the business [PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) was sent in by Bank of Scotland Cashflow Finance, but we were never told why at that time], and ultimately a withdrawal of credit lines by suppliers.

This rogue employer then failed to pass employees details to the Insolvency Practitioner, so that workers were not even made aware that they were redundent until after Christmas. Further, they later discovered that as well as wages, neither PAYE nor National Insurance contributions had been paid, causing additional problems that they were left to straighten out with HM Revenue & Customs. Next, the former company's Statement of affairs was found to be greatly at variance with the witness statements of former employees and the findings of numerous Employment Tribunals. At this point, many former employees complained to the Government Insolvency Service, whilst the Insolvency Practitioner also submitted an adverse report about the Directors to the Insolvency Service.

Despite all this, Legal experts say that there is little that can be done now, since the Directors of this company have exploited a loophole in the Law, which quite obviously needs to be addressed... I have therefore contacted my current local MP, Bob Blackman, who, after I had sent him numerous letters and followups requesting an acknowledgement or response - over a period of many months - instead of having the Directors struck off, starting an inquiry into this scandal or passing legislation to close the loopholes in the Law (and forgetting all about compassion or fair dealing or accountability to the wider community), finally tries to bury the matter by responding with the terse message that:

it is not in the public interest [to pursue this matter]

As you might imagine, we are shocked and surprised to be given such an arrogant, dismissive response; and even more astonished to find that Mr. Blackman is now completely ignoring any further correspondence, whilst attempts to pursue this matter by telephone have only elicited the comment that "Mr. Blackman is busy", from his Office staff, and then zero attempts to return phone calls. Similarly, messages sent to him via other Members of Parliament have received the same brick wall response.

We therefore believe the Directors of the company we worked for need to be struck off, and the law changed, to prevent other companies abusing employees in the same way.

In summary, we believe that there was wrongdoing and unfitting conduct exhibited by the Directors, because:

• Employees were given wage cheques which the Directors knew would not be honoured
• The Directors then lied, when they claimed that the company only had "temporary cash flow problems" and "a slow-paying customer"
• After the dishonoured cheque incidents, employees earned wages were withheld for many months
• The Directors again lied about having a full order book (when instead they knew about the precarious state of the company)
• Employees were refused payslips for weeks when they were not paid
• The Directors made every effort not to keep written records of this scandal
• The Directors refused to speak to ACAS or Solicitors
• The Directors told more lies claiming that all the money owed to the workforce would be paid back
• The company's Financial Auditors had previously noted the poor financial state of the company in 2006 and 2007 - A fact which the Directors hid from the staff
• Bank of Scotland Cashflow Finance had caught the Directors making fraudulent claims against an invoice factoring service, for goods that had never been manufactured
• The Directors refused to give employees written employment contracts
• The Directors ignored grievance letters from employees
• The Directors ignored all the Employment tribunal claims brought by employees
• The Directors ignored all the communications from ACAS and Solicitors
• The Directors tried to bully and intimidate employees who brought Employment tribunals into leaving
• The Directors ignored all the Employment tribunal Judgements won against them
• Employees won all the Employment tribunal cases they started, and the Directors were severely criticised by all members of the Tribunal panels
• The Directors ignored all the Enforcements of Employment tribunal Judgements
• The Directors told more lies, such as "there's a worldwide shortage of glass", when it transpired that Suppliers had frozen the company's credit lines
• The company quite obviously traded for a lengthy period whilst it was insolvent
• The Directors secretly put the Company into Administration over Christmas, so that employees had no chance to consult on the matter
• The Directors then opened the exact same type of business (just with a different name), so that they could avoid paying what was owed to the workers
• Staff were left poorer, stressed, suffering sleepless nights, and eventually unemployed
• Employees complained to Companies Investigation Branch - who ignored the matter
• The Insolvency practitioner submitted an adverse report about the Directors to the Insolvency Service
• Former employees of this business are still owed a considerable amount of money
• The phoenix company has not posted any accounts with Companies House since its incorporation in 2008, and seems to be headed to repeat the same scandal

All of which Harrow East local MP, Bob Blackman, with his warped Freemason view of the world, seems to think is perfectly normal business practise, and therefore "Not in the public interest" to change!

Now, since we know that Mr. Blackman seems to care so little about the concerns of people living in his constituency, and gaping holes in Employment law; we should all thank Bob Blackman for demonstrating to us that sleazebag Politicians still don't give a damn about the people that they are supposed to represent.

Bob Blackman has now become a warning to other Harrow East residents, and should not be taken seriously, because of his dismissive, apathetic attitude, and his pathetic response when asked to help. Therefore, until Bob Blackman decides to start taking his role as Harrow East local MP seriously, or is removed from Public Office, this website will stand as a beacon highlighting his ineptitude and 'dodgy' dealings.

Clearly, about fifty-five employees being bullied, victimized and taken advantage of by a rogue employer using loopholes in the Law most certainly is in the public interest. And thus, now that Mr. Blackman's disappointing lack of interest in his constituent's problems has been exposed, we feel that he should be impeached from Public Office, for Gross negligence - or that he should do the decent thing and resign immediately - so that a more conscientious person can take over the role of tackling the concerns of Harrow East's constituents.