Brad Burton is a man unsure of the arse/elbow relationship
In an earlier Sunday Essay today, The Slog gave readers a macro picture of where we’re heading. This micro-example shows how little shits add up to a crock of shit.
We’re revisiting a bit of nby’s past in this post. One of The Slog mother site’s early targets was the not entirely wonderful pc repair man and all-round prat Les Kinch. He arrived in our local seaside town three years ago, fresh from a history of bad debt and fraud in Bournemouth, and continued on his merry way. Lauded by money-obsessed local press dazzled by his advertising account, Kinch cheated customers, illegally emptied bank accounts, gbh’d his retail neighbour, got cautioned twice by the local bobbies – and then went bust twice more.
There are now a grand total of seven landlords (both retail and domestic) owed money by this piece of excrement. He has been cautioned a third time for sending abusive emails (to this site and others) but you have to hand it to Les – you can knock him down, but like all weebles everywhere, we wobbles straight up again. Now he’s got yet another company, offering the same services with the same contracts and the same small print allowing him to empty the bank accounts of unsuspecting customers.
Here’s why Les keeps on succeeding before going serially bankrupt:
1. The police caution him, but don’t prosecute.
2. The local trading standards authority warn him, but do nothing.
3. Both these two useless institutions spend their time arguing about who should act against him.
4. Local citizens (especially other retailers) on seeing no support from the cops, are unwilling to bring civil actions against him.
5. The local (bent) media freesheets won’t write about him, because they need his advertising.
6. Despite his complete lack of any credentials as a borrower, desperately recessed suppliers keep on giving him credit.
7. Unbelievably, commercial contact networks make no checks at all – so Les is able to carry on looking kosher on such sites.
A Slog reader, who (like us) has been following Kinch’s criminal career for some time now, pointed out his appearance on the site 4Networking. The site 4Networking tells all potential users that it is all about ‘MEET LIKE KNOW TRUST’. So we thought we’d put 4Networking to the test by telling its self-styled managing director and ‘marketing genius’ Brad Burton. As you can see from the piccie at the head of this post, Brad is obviously an intellectual, because he’s written a book. It’s mind-challenging title is Get Off Your Arse. Nice.
This was how Brad the Thinker replied to the Slog’s information about Les the Loser:
‘Rather than tell me via email, why don’t you go register on the forum as yourself and post what you emailed to me. The community steers the community, I cannot get involved in disputes that are nothing to do with me.’
So clearly, The Slog’s campaign to stop Les Kinch ripping off the vulnerable is ‘a dispute’. And because Brad is such a marketing genius, he doesn’t miss the opportunity to try and recruit me to his site. Cute or what?
Anyway, we had another (slightly harder-edged) go at 4Networking, if only on the basis that when I was young and people had ethics, somebody running a site allegedly all about MEET LIKE KNOW TRUST would’ve been expected to check on the claims of its clients. This was Brad’s response to being bothered again:
‘Its your dispute not mine. Your attitude towards me on a weekend quite frankly sucks. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. So If he’s done something illegal go tell the Police – or as I suggest post your concerns online.’
Brad Burton (who doesn’t want his weekend disturbed) perhaps needs to get off his arse and get some ethics. You can help Brad the Lad do this, by ringing 4Networking’s Helpdesk on
0845 123 4444
Or you can email Brad about his quality control re the Trust dimension on
Just to remind all those who wonder how the UK got to here, this sort of blind-eye bollocks is a big part of the answer.
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