Breaking the Silence: Mainstream Media Finally Confirms Oldham Council's Web of Corruption
For six years, I have stood against the tide of corruption sweeping through Oldham Council. I've faced death threats, police harassment, character assassination, legal threats, and relentless attempts to discredit my work as mere conspiracy theories. Today, I can reveal that the Editor of the Oldham Evening Chronicle has validated my investigations in an explosive email that confirms what I've been saying all along: Oldham Council is rotten to its core.
For nearly two centuries, the Oldham Evening Chronicle has been the town’s voice of record, chronicling its triumphs, tribulations, and transformations. Since its first edition on May 6, 1854, the newspaper has prided itself on speaking truth to power, holding local authorities accountable, and championing the voiceless.
Today, it has drawn a battle line that will define its legacy: the newspaper has declared war on the Pakistani grooming gang enablers entrenched in Oldham Council and named its would be Chief Executive, Shelly Kipling, as central to the cover up, criminality and corruption that infests the town.
My Vindication Arrives
After years of being dismissed as a purveyor of misinformation, the Chronicle's Editor has stated unequivocally:
"It's very easy to dismiss social media posts from Raja Miah and other campaigners as misinformation; however, we have found the majority of his research to be based on facts."
This admission from a mainstream local newspaper is nothing short of seismic. My detractors can no longer hide behind accusations that I'm spreading falsehoods. The truth is finally breaking through, and it comes from the very institutions they claimed were more credible than I.
The Council's Campaign of Intimidation
What makes this email so powerful is its direct accusation against Shelly Kipling, Chief Executive Designate of Oldham Council. The Editor describes "a pattern of bullying and defamation being directed towards Oldham Chronicle Limited". The exact same tactics I've experienced firsthand for years.
The Chronicle characterises the council's actions as "a relentless vendetta aimed at undermining our small business," confirming what I've long maintained: Oldham Council uses intimidation to silence those who dare to question its conduct.
Jim McMahon's Complicity Confirmed
I've consistently highlighted Jim McMahon MP's role in Oldham's governance failures. Now, the Chronicle's Editor confirms that McMahon has been fully aware of these issues through "experiences, discussions, emails, and meetings." Despite this knowledge, he has failed to act, rendering him complicit in the council's corruption.
This is precisely what I've been saying: McMahon is not a solution to Oldham's problems but part of the problem itself.
The Child Abuse Cover-Up
For years, I've fought to expose the council's failure to protect vulnerable children from the Pakistani Rape Gangs. The Chronicle's Editor has now joined this fight, requesting testimony in "a government cross-party select committee into several pressing issues concerning Oldham Council, specifically the cover-up of child abuse."
This is no longer my voice alone, it's now the voice of established local media demanding accountability for the most vulnerable in our community.
The Leader's Criminal Connections
I have repeatedly exposed how Arooj Shah, the Leader of Oldham Council, who also serves as Chair of the Labour Party's National Constitutional Committee, maintains disturbing connections with Oldham's criminal underworld. These aren't casual associations but deep links with convicted heroin dealers, money launderers, kidnappers, and those involved in torture.
Most shockingly, these connections extend to a gang member convicted for his role in killing two police officers. How can someone with such associations be trusted to lead our council and serve on a national committee overseeing the Labour Party's constitutional matters?
A Climate of Fear
The Chronicle's Editor reveals something truly chilling. He deliberately excluded the council leader from their email "for safety reasons and concerns for our own safety, not only concerning ourselves but our families and business property and vehicles."
This confirms what I've experienced: those who challenge Oldham's corrupt leadership put themselves at risk. When a newspaper editor fears for their safety, their family, and their property, we are no longer talking about normal politics. We are talking about a regime that rules through intimidation.
Financial Corruption Demands Investigation
I've long called for a forensic examination of council finances. So too have politicians such as Cllr Lewis Quigg. Now the Chronicle joins this call, stating that "forensic accounting would and should be an option in the interest of transparency and openness."
What are they hiding? Why do they resist proper scrutiny of how taxpayer money is spent? The answer, I believe, is that an independent audit would expose years of financial mismanagement and corruption.
Local Media Under Attack
The Chronicle describes how Shelly Kipling attempts to "control the local media narrative, publicise yourself via our channels while you intimidate and gaslight." This is precisely the environment I've been documenting, one where questioning authority leads to character assassination and threats.
When a council believes it can intimidate the press into compliance, democracy itself is at risk.
Where We Go From Here
This email represents a turning point in our fight for transparency and accountability in Oldham. With the Chronicle now confirming my findings, we must demand:
1. A full independent investigation into Oldham Council's governance
2. A forensic audit of council finances
3. A no holds barred statutory inquiry into child protection failures
4. An examination of the council leader's alleged criminal connections
5. Protection for whistleblowers and journalists
The people of Oldham deserve infinitely better than what they have been forced to endure. They deserve better than a council leader who maintains connections with convicted criminals while chairing the Labour Party's National Constitutional Committee. They deserve better than Shelly Kipling, who has weaponised her senior position to wage what the Chronicle describes as a "relentless vendetta" against independent journalism. They deserve better than Jim McMahon MP, who has known about these abuses for years yet chosen to look the other way - perhaps because confronting the truth would threaten his own political ambitions.
But most fundamentally, the people of Oldham deserve better than the corrupt institution that Oldham Council has become. This is no longer about individual bad actors, though there are plenty, but about a systemic failure of governance. The council has transformed from an organisation meant to serve the public into one that serves itself, protects its members, silences critics, and covers up wrongdoing even when that wrongdoing has destroyed the lives of vulnerable children.
When a council fears transparency, bullies journalists, ignores child abuse, mismanages finances, and harbours those with criminal connections, it has forfeited its moral authority to govern. The time has come not just for reform but for wholesale replacement of those who have betrayed the public trust so egregiously.
The people of Oldham will not rest until the town has the honest, transparent governance its people deserve.
Raja Miah MBE
My name is Raja Miah MBE. I led the six-year campaign exposing how Labour politicians protected Pakistani rape gangs. My work is 100% free. No paywalls. No restrictions. No hiding the truth.
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