ARCHER'S PEERAGE (2nd of 2 parts) CONCLUSION

Surprise, surprise. I received the full report from the KPMG at the end of their investigation. Listed on it were all of the people who took part in it without exception. The name of their group or organisation and what they had done or raised. Well, what do you know, there was no mention at all of BAFK. Not a dickie bird. Now why, I wonder, would that be. Because it was to be reported on by the media wasn't it. How could they mention us. Questions would be asked. It would show that out of everyone, we were by far the largest relief aid organisation for the Kurds in the country. No, once again, we were treated as though we didn't exist.

Everything had slotted into place. Throughout our work, the people who ran the show in their own areas were constantly telephoning me asking why the media kept reporting that the British public were doing nothing. They KNEW we were. They rang me daily for updates! I was, and still am, so frustrated. How dare that b***** government be corrupt enough to hide the enormous work that the people of Britain did? These were the people who had elected them into power in the first place and they were treated as nothing's just so that a smug, little man with very deep pockets and whose whole life has been about "him" could stamp his feet throw out his dummy and demand a peerage. Is it little wonder that we now have so little disregard for the so called Honour's list anymore.

When the cash for peerages investigation was launched I had dealings with that team also. Great interest was taken and then eventually after 2 years nothing. There is something very strange about this whole affair. You may wonder why I am still hounding that man after so many years. It is because I let down the people who did that work. It is my fault that everything they did was unrecognised. None of them wanted rewards, titles or glory. All they wanted was for people to stop pretending they weren't doing anything. They all wanted to know why Archer was deemed so important to John Major that he had to go to such lengths to cover up their work and pretend he was the hero.

Do you know what scares me most about this? If a Prime Minister and his government on his orders can go to such lengths to lie and cover up something such as this, what the heck are they capable of doing about something serious. Makes one shudder doesn't it?
There is so very much more I could tell you, but the whole object of this was to get the story out into the general public.Let them know the truth about his peerage. When it was proved he raised not a penny, why was he not stripped of the title? They tried to keep this quiet and now, thanks to Blogger, Twitter, Digital Spy and others, I have had a chance to let those of you who are interested know the truth. Thank you to them.

This is one way they couldn't stop me. Hopefully, word will now spread by all of you who are as disgusted as I am. I leave it to you to decide if you want this story to spread. I have done what I have wanted to for years. I have managed, at last, to let some of the country know what a wonderful and truly outstanding thing we British did. Only a handful of the group know the extent of our achievement. Even those involved have been unaware for all of these years what they did. To all of you I thank you for your unstinting generosity and time. I know many of you struggled yourselves in your lives for many reasons and yet still gave of yourselves in the most unselfish and generous way.

I apologise unreservedly to each and every one of those good and generous people for not managing to have their work recognised. I tried, I really tried and for some of you now it is too late to see I have managed in a very small way to do it at last. I am sorry that all you had at the helm was me. If you had a celebrity heading it this would not have happened to you. I have to accept now that Jeffrey Archer (who will always be MR Archer to me) is being very protected by the powers that be for some strange reason. There must be more to it than friendship don't you think? At least we all know what we did. We know that we managed to maybe save a lot of lives and that, for us, is what it was all about. More to the point, we can stand in front of God (or whatever your belief is) and not be ashamed.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. For those of you who have supported my story I thank you. I truly don't mind any comments. I am made of pretty tough stuff theses days, but please, don't ever accuse me again of wanting glory. There is only one person who has done that in this whole story and we know who he is don't we. This for me is the end. I know I have been a pain in that man's side for all of these years and now I have done what I wanted to do, and what they wanted to prevent, I got the word out there. The rest is up to you. Many thanks,

God Bless,

Lorraine Goodrich

DON'T EVER UNDERESTIMATE AN ORDINARY HOUSEWIFE AGAIN MR ARCHER