Goodbye CCTV
Bad Boy Bishop: Michael Reid preached traditional values while doinking the choir mistress
The final nail in the coffin of the Christian Campaign for Traditional Values was hammered in last week with the official resignation of its PR man Garry Selfridge. It came four months after the resignation of the organisations leader, “Bishop” Michael Reid, who was exposed as a traditional adulterer.
Selfridge’s letter contains a mixture of shame and bitterness. Shame at having “lacked the intuition to see [Reid’s] true nature over many years of working with him” and playing such a major role in the group’s promotion. Bitterness at having been duped by such a “fake” whose “peerless hypocrisy” and “personal disgrace” caused the “irretrievable loss of reputation of the CCTV” and exposed Selfridge to “loud scornful laughter in the BBC White City newsroom”.
The letter also claims that Reid is “entirely impenitent” and makes several allegations in evidence which MWW will not publish here because of their potentially libellous nature. Suffice to say that they reveal Reid to be a deeply unpleasant character, and as such come as no surprise to those of us who regarded the “Bishop” with the contempt he deserved right from the start.
Not that Essex PR man Garry Selfridge deserves any sympathy in this matter. He is, after all, behind such dishonest and hateful CCTV campaigns as “Gay aim – abolish the family”. And he still hasn’t removed Reid’s image from the slideshow on Selfridge Communications website.
It is with some pleasure that we remove the link to CCTV in our “watching these” sidebar. Good riddance.
I would not be quite so quick to assume that cctv is finished!
The official resignation of PR man may be no more than one involved individual feeling totally betrayed by the behaviour of reid and wanting nothing to do with him!
There are in fact hundreds of people who feel the same way about reid. What I find amazing is that there are still those who actually support him and treat him with respect!
There are rumours that CCTV is being taken over by reid and that it will return in some form. This may be no more than misinformtion (there is a lot of it about!)
Between the above story and Stephen Green’s looming bankruptcy and televised use as a bird toilet, I am starting to wonder if maybe there really is a God after all and He has truly had enough of these groups claiming to represent Him.