GB Judo Underground, “the JUG”: Fact versus Fiction – Updated

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Updated as a Blog: SBE – 22 July 2023

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Sharing of personal information with the British judo CEO.

Screenshot from the BJA Board of Directors meeting.

Andrew Scoular was contacted and said he couldn't remember.
Paul Ajala was contacted but never responded.

Lishy Loo

Screenshot from the BJA FaceBook page.

BJA Director Claire Lish and head of the BJA Diversity & Inclusion steering group, publicly commented on the BJA FaceBook page using her "Lishy Loo" FaceBook profile.

I mentioned her use of this profile name "Lishy Loo" in the GBJC group in connection with her inability to recognise any racist comments in the JUG BLM discussion of over 650 comments.
Despite some of them blatantly racist. Such as "Britain is White".

Upon publishing these two facts.  

Shortly afterwards, Paul Ajala took to social media to respond by making false accusation without ever supplying any evidence.

Not by responding to the FACTS published!

GB Judo Underground
"The JUG"
Truth - Racism – Ethics

If you publish facts and evidence of unethical behaviour within the judo community, you would have thought that judo ethics and the philosophy of Jigoro Kano might prevail? 

Leading to reflection and improvements?

Instead, the “JUG” administrator at the time, Paul Ajala, decided to direct attention away from the facts and launch a personal attack making many accusations, all without any evidence whatsoever.

He only launched his attack, after some members of the JUG had been secretly removed (“disappeared”) from the group. 
Without reason or notification.

Accusation

In 2021 I was a BJA member and I had previously been a BJC member but let my membership expire. 
I have never been expelled or banned from either.

Paul Ajala’s accusation is NOT TRUE! 
In fact. it is a lie!

 

Racism?

On the face of it, a horrible accusation considering Paul Ajala is black.

Some actually took his word for it and unfriended me on FaceBook. 
I get it, someone like Paul Ajala would not lie about such important issues…….would he?

Below is the cartoon Paul Ajala is referring to.
He never published it in connection with his accusation!  Because it is NOT racially inflammatory!  
Unless of course, you are a Neanderthal living 40,000 years ago.  

Paul Ajala’s accusation is NOT TRUE!

In fact, it is a lie!

What is Racism?

Whether it is racist for a black person to accuse someone not black of being a racist when knowingly referring to something that isn’t racist?   You decide!  

Paul Ajala does go into detail about his fellow moderators and administrators. 
That includes JUG Administrator, Neil “Bomber” Harrison?  British Judo Council Vice Chair.

Is displaying a “black-face” photo publicly on your FaceBook profile racist? 

UPDATED, 19/9-2021:

North Birmingham Judo club

(Neil Harrison’s club)
Requested it be specifically clarified that the photo from Neil Harrison’s FaceBook profile page is NOT a photo of himself nor taken by him. 
 
At no stage has the GBJC website claimed the “Black-Face” photo was of Neil Harrison nor was the photo taken by him.   

Whether he still has the photo on his Facebook page?  

Check his Facebook page yourself – click

UPDATED 22 July 2023 :

Some time after 19/9-2021, Neil Harrison threaten to sue me for £5,000.

Nothing has come of this threat.  

Whatever happened with "Lishy Loo"?

UPDATED 22 July 2023 :

Despite BJA Ltd company director, Claire Lish aka “Lishy Loo” being supplied with the evidence of her commenting, in public on the BJA FaceBook page, in her capacity as a BJA Director and as the head of the steering group. 
Using her Facebook profile “Lishy Loo”.

Claire Lish decided to continue to portray herself as a “victim” instead of accepting she made an error in using her secret Facebook profile “Lishy Loo”.  Even after the BJA forwarding her the evidence. 
She choose to continue her victim portrayal while making many incoorect statements about where and in what capacity “she might” have commented.   

When she then stated “There is no remuneration” in the JUG. 
Things only got worst for her due to the British Judo accounts showing that the same year, over £455,000 had been paid as remuneration to BJA Directors and BJA Managers. 
(Remenration payments going up by 6% while British Judo in England lost 60% of its members.) 
At the time, of over £1,7 million pounds having been paid as remuneration payments since she became a BJA Ltd Director and according to herself, having been on the BJA commission approving these payments.

When it became apparent that her son, Thomas Lish, was listed as a member of the u23s GB Judo Squad, despite not having qualified or achieved the results required? 

Her husband, Matt Lish, took to FaceBook to say this was not nepotism but an error made by the BJA!
Shortly afterwards, the complete page with the GB Squad on the BJA website disappeared.
Whether it was nepotism or just an error by the BJA?
Accidently adding a BJA Director’s son to the GB Squad out of the thousands other u23 members of the BJA?  

Claire Lish resigned early as a BJA Director in 2023.

Find out more………..

Lishy Loo, Mumma Lish & the Mysterious Remuneration Payments.

 

Paul Ajala's FALSE accusations and the evidence of a JUG Administrator supplying the BJA CEO with group member's personal data and comments.

CONNECTED?

Only a few days before the BJA CEO distributed the data file at a BJA Board meeting.  

Paul Ajala, the BJA CEO, Andrew Scoular and the BJA Chair, Ronnie Saez (and others), attended a meeting at the Paris Grand Slam judo competition.

Paris Grand Slam judo competition – 9/10 February 2019.

In a ceremony held at the Paris Grand Slam earlier this year, a Memorandum of Understanding between Harrow School in Great Britain, the British Judo Association and the European Judo Union was signed in support of the EJU ‘Judo at School’ initiative. As stated by EJU President, Mr Sergey Soloveychik,
 

“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”
— Kano Jigoro

The judo community has grown strong!

When a member of the GBJC FaceBook group posted about the Aldi Sports initiative for grassroots judo clubs to participate in.

Along with expressing his disatisfaction that British judo had not promoted this FREE initiative that would benefit grassroots judo clubs across the country.

The Judo Community quickly rallied together, found information and the links.

The GBJC website quickly made all the information available, first on the landing page, later as a post/blog.  

And grassroots judo clubs started to share the information and sign up.

Eventually after the judo community activated and sharing the Aldi Initiative, British Judo had to be seen as promoting the initiative as well, sent an email and posted about it on their website.  
Though not completely truthful and forgetting “some facts”.  Such as the BJA CEO either knowing about it a long time before?  Or that he should have known about it a long time before.

Whether indifferent or incompetent?  

Does it actually matter whether a CEO is indifferent or incompetent considering  he is very well paid and the BJA ltd company  is a multi-million pound company?  Funded by members and the public!

Find out more ………………………………

The Aldi Sports Initiative

 

The Latest community initiative is a petition to get British judo to implement a Public Judo Coach Registry!

One rule for all British Judo Coaches for improved safeguarding and to credit the many legitimate Judo Coaches that have spent years, energy and a lot of money on becoming a Judo Coach!

British Judo has been censoring their facebook page about this issue in connection with ITV news broadcasting a damning piece about how poorly British Judo handled a complain about one of their staff coaches; Simon Moss.

At the time when Simon Moss was suspended, on full pay, by British Judo.

Would you have questioned him about whether he was actually allowed to coach judo?  considering he is Chelsie Giles’ coach!

Find out more………………..

Public Judo Coach Registry – CENSORED!

 

 

 

Updated 10 December 2021

JUG Admins – 

Chris Milward
BJA NW Area Chair.

Simon Hayes
UKBJJA Director & Lead Councilor.

Nadia Minardi
BJA London Area treasurer
BJA Council member

Neil Harrison
BJC Vice-chair & Treasurer.

Rob Connor
BJJ Coach, states he is a “judo black belt”.**

JUG Mods – 

Glenn Spiers
BJA London Committee.*

Gary Howe
Bricklayer.

Danny Williams
GB elite judoka 

* Rob Connor’s club, Bulldozer Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 5 November 2021:

We do have Judo as part of out curriculum, as well as wrestling but our focus is brazilian jiu jitsu.

You can ask Paul Ajala, Claire Lish, Neil Harrison, Mat Lish and Thomas Lish about the content above on social media!

Whether you should believe their answers?  If they answer?

 

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