A leader of slaves?

What does a non-existent travel company have to do with one of the most aggressively promoted narratives of recent years? At first glance, nothing at all. Yet follow the paper trail - corporate filings, vanished websites, impossible prices, and a suspicious chorus of media amplification, and a very different picture emerges. This piece isn’t about personalities or politics. It’s about how fraud survives in plain sight when journalists stop asking basic questions, and how easily “alternative” voices can become just another layer of managed deception.

I thought I’d write up some of my observations about some alleged friends of Lucy Connolly who are pretending that whole pantomime is real. Not the warpspeed tangerine and Father-of-the-Vaccine everyone is meant to be so upset about. Nor their mutual friend and working man’s toff, Farage, who clearly needs Lucy’s media profile to improve his image more than she does his; to boost her own credibility with anyone left with a head to wobble.

I won’t be focussing on the involvement of her friend and enthusiastic fundraiser for Matt Hancock, Andrew Bridgen, as that’s been done much better here, though I would encourage you to read it if you haven’t. I’ll also leave out JHB apologizing to Lucy live on air, whilst simultaneously and repeatedly calling her a criminal, who should never have been convicted. As well as ignoring the unbelievably creepy Dan Wootton. I don’t believe in lizards but maybe that one, he makes my skin crawl just listening to him.

I’d like to focus today on this article’s titular character Dean (meaning: leader) Schiavi (meaning: slave) and maybe finish with a few questions for the editors of the Telegraph, Daily + Mail, and Jamaica’s The Gleaner.

To any readers unaware of the name, Dean is seemingly the man behind a plethora of twitter accounts, some of which rose to prominence during the scamdemic. Namely Moriarty and Tradewinds, now Travelcube (if it’s not a pyramid, eh?). Both did the rounds as freedom fighters, receiving quite a bit of amplification and acknowledgement from all too familiar figures including Allison Pearson and Bernie Spofforth. Tradewinds made a name for itself reporting what countries required tourists to inject themselves with the clown-juice or had to stick clearly iatrogenic materials up their nose.

There were numerous accounts with different handles masquerading as this bogus travel firm on social media, along with several different, fairly professional, websites. Rather than list them all out, for brevity anyone interested can check them out in their live or archived forms here, here, here, here or here. If anyone enjoys thoroughly investigating frauds as much as I do, then you can find the Companies House records for Dean’s empire of lies at Travelcube Group Ltd, UK Tradewinds Travel Ltd, Secret Hotel Prices Ltd, Tradewinds Travel Holidays Ltd or East India Travel Company Ltd. If you don’t have the time for that, the TLDR is a bunch of £1 paper companies only, with no financial records after incorporation, no revenue, and no evidence of a single holiday having ever been sold. With all but the latest iteration having been dissolved, or struck off, shortly after registration.

I first became aware of the accounts and companies when whoever is behind them popped up to troll me and some clear-eyed friends, who were pointing out how obviously contrived and ridiculous the emerging Lucy Connolly narrative was. This was back when Lucy was still everyone’s favourite, wine guzzling, sometimes knickerless, migrant-burning, loveable Mum, and it was claimed she’d been arrested for a tweet. Not after it became painstakingly obvious that the entire story was as fraudulent as convid, and being brought to us by the same lying establishment and media. Back then, a lot of characters became strangely obsessed with pretending the absurd was real - Including Dean, who claimed Lucy had booked a holiday with one of his fictitious firms and they’d become friends. He provided what he claimed was a booking receipt as proof. When the authenticity of this receipt was rightly questioned, he responded with the less than 5-star worthy response of F***-o**.

So I started looking into him and the first thing that was suspicious was, despite being involved in the UK travel sector for over twenty years, I’d never heard of him. I called around some of the outbound operators and booking agents I knew, and similarly no one had ever heard of him or his companies. I called the office numbers provided and got no answers, so took a deeper look at the website and what it claimed to be selling. From here I noticed the then current iteration of the business didn’t display an Air Travel Organiser’s License (ATOL) number but that some older versions of the site had (11706). That alone is enough to be seriously sceptical, so I wrote to the UK Civil Aviation Authority reporting the oddity, and to my mild surprise the account and website deleted themselves promptly thereafter.
Before it went though, I noted that many of the prices the Tradewinds website was offering for very high-end accommodation appeared to be impossibly low. Since I live in Asia and speak several of the languages, I decided to call around the luxury hotels and operators Tradewinds claimed to be retailing. Only to be told unanimously that they had no business relationship with Tradewinds whatsoever, and that they would not honour any prices or bookings made through them. Later, when the same man rebranded as Travelcube, I wrote to many of the operators in order to obtain a written record from prestigious brands refuting any such working relationship with Travelcube.
Please see the small screen-shotted selection of replies below to convince yourself that this entity, promoted by clowns and major newspapers alike, was not selling any holidays to Lucy, Bernie, or anyone else for that matter.

So who cares if Dean Schiavi, Tradewinds or Travelcube are frauds? What does it matter if Lucy Connolly, Allison Pearson and many other fake-awake narrative creations or propaganda pushers interact with it as though it’s a real entity? It’s not as though the direct ancestor of Netflix’s CEO & Founder, Bernays, knew what he was talking about when he is quoted as saying: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”

I get that Dean Schiavi could be a lone conman who set up some fraudulent travel companies, but why did leading newspapers and so many social commentators promote that business in particular? Have they no duty of care to report accurately to the public, to not promote scams? Do their paid advertisers, many no doubt travel operators and hotels, mind that they give free exposure to a fraudulent competitor of theirs?
This company/brand failed my sniff-test within minutes and fared much worse upon investigation, do their journalists do theirs? Perhaps they lack intelligence and agency or merely have an overabundance of intelligence agencies.

I realise of course that ultimately the Telegraph, Daily Mail, and all those that work there are merely enthusiastic promoters of propaganda, but how do so many of them sleep at night after a day spent deceiving others? How hollow a life it must be to live bereft of the pursuit of truth and the love of it. There is still some of humanity that cares for the truth, whose intentions are as true as their words and we weren’t born yesterday. Beware of amplified clowns that act like they were and want you to emulate them. Really what were the odds of both Bernie and Lucy being involved with this sham and going on to be pretend arrested for tweets? It doesn’t take much intelligence to see it despite the attempts of an awful lot to not.

I’m a little bit traumatised dear reader, after having written about travel companies, businesses and hotels, given that I lost all of mine to the fake plague of 2020 and pushing back against the nonsense. Here’s a final link for anyone that’s interested, it was mine and a poignant reminder that unchallenged lies do have a consequence. Amplified voices, pretending nonsense a five-year-old could see through, have a consequence. Live not by lies imho.

As a final thought, I’d like to share this. Many of the fake-awake, alt-celebrities, are fond of diminishing the role of controlled opposition in misleading a movement; whilst admonishing those that use terms like ‘Normies’ or ‘Awake’. Before I left the UK recently, I met up with some old university friends for drinks. It was very nice and I love them all dearly. I’ve spoken a lot to some about what I’ve seen the last six years. One, who I hadn’t spoken to as much, asked at one point “Wait, what’s a Normie?” To which I replied “Someone that doesn’t think for themselves or is unable to think past the framing of their emotions.” That's the vast majority of humanity sadly, it’s not their fault, this was done to them.
God love them, honest voices continue to encourage and support them, but beware the provided alt-clowns that still can’t call a spade a spade.

Hope & Courage to all the real ones that happen to read this!