No First Name, Please!

"We still have surnames for strangers and first names for friends." — Katharine Whitehorn (The Guardian, 2 April 2013)

"Since when did first-name terms become acceptable etiquette? I didn't get that memo. ... One minute there was Mrs Thatcher, who would have bopped anyone who called her Maggie, then New Labour came along and we lurched into this extreme form of 'Call-me-Tony/Dave' pseudo-intimacy. In the process, we out-Americanised the Americans (who can, in fact, be curiously formal in their forms of address)." — Celia Walden (The Telegraph, 18 December 2009)

"Shouldn't we all try to be 'social' to each other?" asks Redmond McWilliams. Are we missing something here? Redmond McWilliams is a close personal friend and supporter of David Farrant who, more than anyone else, has waged a malicious vendetta against Seán Manchester for decades, self-publishing reams of libel in booklets containg a plethora of copyright infringement, and inciting others to join in his hate campaign. Redmond McWilliams is regarded as Farrant's right-hand man.

Setting enemies aside, the correct etiquette if unsure of what to call someone is to use a formal address, certainly not to use a first name. This becomes magnified when addressing elders.

A sociopath is someone with a personality disorder manifesting in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour. That rather sums up Trystan Lewis Swale perfectly. He has attempted to insinuate himself into every place where Seán Manchester dwells. He has attempted to join groups administrated by Seán Manchester, some of them private, under his real name and also pseudonyms. The Cheltenham clown claims to be all manner of things he is not, including someone working for the "security services" in order to break down people's unwillingness to engage with him. The man, in fact, is not usefully employed as anything. He has turned against people who were previously his friends, and in some cases allies, individuals such as Hayley Stevens, Angie Mary Watkins, Barbara Green and a host of others, all mostly female. He decided earlier this year to start publicly stalking two females who have been closely associated with Seán Manchester in the distant past, at a time when Swale was not even born. One of the two females spoke to Seán Manchester when alerted to what was happening, and reiterated she did not want to have the past raked up after half a century, and would take every necessary precaution to prevent this from happening. The other female made very clear to Seán Manchester when they last had contact that, despite her work as a photographic model and being romantically attached to him in the past, she had every intention of protecting her privacy and would certainly not welcome any intrusion from those seeking to exploit her connection with Seán Manchester. This has not prevented Swale, and his fellow stalker Hogg, contacting newspapers to have their stalking intentions published, but their attempts have come to nothing.

Swale has telephoned Seán Manchester via the latter's ex-directory number. He has pursued people who have a close historic connection to Seán Manchester, and has bought a website domain with exactly the same name as the title of one of Seán Manchester's bestselling books. On his website, as elsewhere, Swale misrepresents, defames and exhibits malice toward Seán Manchester.

Many critics? Seán Manchester's critics pale into insignificance compared to Farrant and his cronies.

How can anyone apply the same maxim to Swale? Seán Manchester has been a well known public figure for almost half a century who has appeared in many films, hundreds of television and radio programmes, plus other walks of life where he is celebrated in other ways. Now a relatively old man, Seán Manchester wants to be left in peace and to have his privacy respected. Swale has no intention of allowing that to happen, and obsessively pursues his quarry from day to day; so much so, that the authorities have had to be alerted to Swale's harassment, and calls to Seán Manchester's telephone number are monitored and recorded. The only other "critics" (to use that euphamism) who pursue Seán Manchester are David Farrant, Redmond McWilliams, Erin Chapman and Anthony Hogg. They, along with Farrant's son, Jamie, are his only real "critics" (trolls). Seán Manchester has been obliged to concisely address some of Farrant's interfering in books, but, apart from briefly and accurately referring to Farrant in a television programme on 13 March 1970, he has never since mentioned the miscreant in the broadcast media. Farrant, on the other hand, has done little else but mention Seán Manchester wherever he can and at every available opportunity. 

Trystan Lewis Swale desperately wants to establish contact with Seán Manchester; indeed, he wants to meet him on public platforms such as the ASSAP event. Seán Manchester, understandably, wants nothing whatsoever to do with Swale, Hogg, Chapman or any of the rest of them.

McWilliams talks about underhand practices, it being "rich" for Swale to be branded a stalker, and also asks what qualifies Seán Manchester or anyone else to determine Swale's mental health?

What qualifies Redmond McWilliams and his close friend David Farrant to hypocritically determine Seán Manchester's mental health by regularly referring to him on the internet (for many years) as "Bishop Bonkers" — disseminating booklets, T-shirts, drinking mugs and a variety of other items with "Bishop Bonkers" written across them plus a supposed cartoon image of Seán Manchester?

 

 

Who are the sociopaths? Who are the trolls? Who are the stalkers?