Some cynics have suggested that Cllrs Cooper, Eling and Hussain deliberately picked flawed candidates so as to ensure that they did their bidding. They were very highly paid and could be expected to turn a blind eye to corruption, cronyism and incompetence by the "comrades". If they "failed" to do the bidding of their sleazy "socialist" masters they were paid off with huge sums of OUR money and gagged from saying anything with confidentiality clauses. This may or may not be the case but even the undoubting amongst us will have noted that the mostly useless bunch - with the exception of the laughable Britton - have been shipped out - Garratt, Kellas, Sharma, Bubalo, Scarrott, Dudley etc etc. And yes, they all got a nice bag of swag to help them on their way.
And now - "Leader" Eling and his friends have appointed a whole NEW tier of management prepared to risk their careers working with the tainted Britton and the stinking Labour authority! One such is the new "Monitoring Officer", Mr Surjit Tour - head of legal [sic] and the laughably-named "democratic services" at the Oldbury Kremlin.
One obviously malicious soul claimed that Mr Tour actually worked at Sadders years ago when he often provided a lively afternoon "cabaret" in the Wagon & Horses pub in Oldbury but this cannot be true. Mr Tour only mentions working at Cannock Chase and Wirral Councils on his LinkedIn profile today where he also fails to mention his new job. Surely he cannot be embarrassed that his career has sunk so low that he has ended up at Sadders?
Incidentally, his departure from the Wirral was unlamented as recorded in the excellent Wirralleaks blog:
After the disastrous Neeraj Sharma and the subsequent hiatus following her departure surely the two people in control [sic] of Sadders (excluding, for present purposes, Watson and Spellar) the Sp*nk Brothers, Cllrs Eling and Marshall, appointed a real tough guy to do what Steve "The Milkman" Eling has been promising - the "draining of the swamp" (which he himself was heavily involved in creating)? After all the public pronouncements could we really expect a new brush sweeping Britton's disreputable empire clean? Well, readers, the omens are not good.....
Regular readers may remember one of my posts about Cllr Elaine Costigan who had solicited money for her pet project, the scandal-riddled "Wednesbury Celebrates", from a company called KDC Edibles at a time when they were in breach of planning regulations. Costigan's pals had erected two huge silos at their factory without permission. They were "encouraged" by SMBC to move them to a different part of the site and retrospective planning permission was waved through by the comrades in record time with Costigan being on the Planning Committee that gave the approval. She said nowt and did not declare any interest even though KDC had, by then, coughed up a grand for her pet project. The full story so far, and details of West Midland Police's very unhealthy relationship with her, can be found at:
In the absence of any action being taken by Sadwell Council about this I made a formal Standards Committee complaint - also mentioning a document which referred to Costigan and the pathetic Peter "Zorro" Hughes actively courting the management of what was named the "Gallagher Retail Park" which is a frequent source of planning applications. Costigan is said to be close friends with Tony Gallagher (and I mean that purely in the literal sense).
My complaint was dealt with unusually quickly and here is the full response from our Mr Tour de Force:
Let's leave the Gallagher stuff on one side here though you can see what the comrades were/are up to via an earlier blog linked below. You should also note that I supplied the new "Monitoring Officer" with two specific dates when Costigan met with the management of the Retail Park ie 25th March, 2014 when she met a Mr Mark Edwards and 27th October, 2014 when she met a Mr Chris Daniels at Starbucks. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, unless she fails to mention it at relevant SMBC meetings. Why did she meet them and what was the outcome? You will see from the link below that she and Hughes slagged off a fellow Labour Councillor who dared to complain about parking issues around the retail park as they had such a "good relationship" with the management company! (Don't forget that Costigan is, unbelievably, in the joke Cabinet now as reward for switching sides in the Milkman's dodgy leadership election!)
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/cllrs-costigan-hughes-slam-hobbit.html
Costigan's "defence" is, firstly, that she acted in good faith as she raised the planning matter with the Council. With no due respect she could hardly do otherwise as the whole street next to the silos were up in arms and local UKIP members and Labour comrades were already "on the case" (and see further below.)
Secondly, Costigan says she took advice about declaring the interest from a male SMBC employee (which means that she must of been aware of an interest at the material time!) She alleges that whoever was the "Head of Development and Regulatory Services" at the time told her she didn't have to declare the interest! Happily this male employee is still around but "couldn't remember" Costigan making this request but did tell Tour that Costigan is a good egg anyway! (Answers on a postcard please as to who this joker is and what the proper procedure should be here. Is it enough for a Councillor to ask any useless time server in the bent paid service whether she should declare an interest? Surely it should be for the Monitoring Officer to decide and the advice recorded and/or to ask the Chair of the Committee at the meeting?)
Thirdly, this liar (and we have seen how she was caught out fibbing in the Lorraine Binsley affair) says that even though she could remember enough to question an employee whether she should declare an interest the original email asking for cash may have been written by someone else using her name!!!!! Ok - she ran the "association" as a personal fifedom and used the box office and other parts of the Town Hall very frequently (whilst the association was failing to pay rent to, er, her own Council) but let's just have a look at the full email record:
1 This is the original begging letter for the attention of Jindy Khera of KDC Edibles which follows certain "conversations". Even though the Wednesbury Celebrates organisation was supposed to be nothing to do with the Council (although Jan Britton has still got a lot of questions to answer on why he seconded staff to them) you will see that Costigan's name is on the letter and specifically refers to her status as a Councillor!
2 KDC replied offering £1,000 - hardly likely if just on the basis of the letter and probably indicative of other contact too. But note especially - this is also 4th March, 2015 and the email in reply is specifically copied in to Costigan on her Council email account. You will see from 1 above that this was NOT on the original email and so they had clearly obtained Costigan's email from somewhere!!!! And besides spinning the new Monitoring Officer the yarn that she may not have known about the original email (in her name) she was copied in to the reply on the very same day. I don't know about you readers but if I was copied into an email offering £1k for a small organisation I was running I would want to know what was going on! The truth is Mr Tour, Elaine's pissed down your leg and told you it was raining!
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/cllrs-costigan-hughes-slam-hobbit.html
Costigan's "defence" is, firstly, that she acted in good faith as she raised the planning matter with the Council. With no due respect she could hardly do otherwise as the whole street next to the silos were up in arms and local UKIP members and Labour comrades were already "on the case" (and see further below.)
Secondly, Costigan says she took advice about declaring the interest from a male SMBC employee (which means that she must of been aware of an interest at the material time!) She alleges that whoever was the "Head of Development and Regulatory Services" at the time told her she didn't have to declare the interest! Happily this male employee is still around but "couldn't remember" Costigan making this request but did tell Tour that Costigan is a good egg anyway! (Answers on a postcard please as to who this joker is and what the proper procedure should be here. Is it enough for a Councillor to ask any useless time server in the bent paid service whether she should declare an interest? Surely it should be for the Monitoring Officer to decide and the advice recorded and/or to ask the Chair of the Committee at the meeting?)
Thirdly, this liar (and we have seen how she was caught out fibbing in the Lorraine Binsley affair) says that even though she could remember enough to question an employee whether she should declare an interest the original email asking for cash may have been written by someone else using her name!!!!! Ok - she ran the "association" as a personal fifedom and used the box office and other parts of the Town Hall very frequently (whilst the association was failing to pay rent to, er, her own Council) but let's just have a look at the full email record:
1 This is the original begging letter for the attention of Jindy Khera of KDC Edibles which follows certain "conversations". Even though the Wednesbury Celebrates organisation was supposed to be nothing to do with the Council (although Jan Britton has still got a lot of questions to answer on why he seconded staff to them) you will see that Costigan's name is on the letter and specifically refers to her status as a Councillor!
2 KDC replied offering £1,000 - hardly likely if just on the basis of the letter and probably indicative of other contact too. But note especially - this is also 4th March, 2015 and the email in reply is specifically copied in to Costigan on her Council email account. You will see from 1 above that this was NOT on the original email and so they had clearly obtained Costigan's email from somewhere!!!! And besides spinning the new Monitoring Officer the yarn that she may not have known about the original email (in her name) she was copied in to the reply on the very same day. I don't know about you readers but if I was copied into an email offering £1k for a small organisation I was running I would want to know what was going on! The truth is Mr Tour, Elaine's pissed down your leg and told you it was raining!
3 If there was any doubt about Costigan not signing the original begging letter but allowing her name to be used how about this one from the very next day? It is sent from an iPad (her Council-owned one presumably), she uses her private email address, refers to having had a discussion with Jindy, makes an electoral pitch and then seals it all with a kiss! How nice. There can be absolutely no doubt that Costigan is fully involved in this now. She promises to send an invoice which is duly sent by Wednesbury Celebrates on 9th March, 2015 signed "Elaine, Wednesbury Celebrates" (oh, if only she had been so quick paying the huge sums of rent payable to the taxpayer.....)
4 April, 2015 - the sh*t hits the fan when the silos go up without planning permission and they are BIG! Local residents go barmy and Ukip are on the case. Our new investigative hero, Mr Tour, tells us that on 21st April, 2015 Costigan emailed the employee though he makes NO reference to Costigan declaring an interest at this point (in other words she didn't.) Remember, at this point her friends are breaking the law. By 25th April, 2015 even "The Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers" had caught up:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/04/25/fury-as-30ft-silos-loom-over-black-country-homes/
5 KDC are rather tardy paying the invoice. Conspiracy theorists may wonder whether they were checking the planning went through OK before parting with the dosh but they seem like nice people (unless you live next to the factory) and, in any event, they had no fear since our old friend Nick Bubalo was "on the case". Despite KDC being the ones who have broken the law, Bubalo was now bending over backwards to help them. It seems there is no mention anywhere of any any action eg fines against KDC and the whole thing is rushed through for the Planning Committee of 1st July. As above, Costigan allegedly asks the mystery employee if she should make a declaration (having seemingly remembered that she MAY have an interest to declare). We must assume this was a verbal enquiry as our gumshoe MO has found no emails confirming this. As above, the joke employee cannot remember but thinks Costigan is great anyway! Clearly we need to investigate whether he had the authority to tell a Councillor not to make a declaration and disciplinary action must now swiftly follow if he did not. Costigan attended the meeting, sought no guidance from the MO or the Chair and failed to declare any sort of interest - not even that she clearly knew the directors of the Company! (Remember folks, she is now a Cabinet member!!!)
And so - a new MO but same old modus operandi. The "investigation" here has been a sick joke and has apparently been waived through by an anonymous "independent person" [sic]. There is NO appeal says Tour.
I have referred the whole fraudulent conduct of SMBC/Wednesbury Celebrates to corrupt West Midlands Police before but will be sending this all to the Chief Constable tomorrow as there are alleged to be other investigations still "ongoing" "lol". WMP have ducked out of doing their job before alleging that SMBC have investigated certain matters but when their formal investigations are as laughable as this, something is seriously wrong - as we have been saying for just FOUR YEARS now!!!!
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4 April, 2015 - the sh*t hits the fan when the silos go up without planning permission and they are BIG! Local residents go barmy and Ukip are on the case. Our new investigative hero, Mr Tour, tells us that on 21st April, 2015 Costigan emailed the employee though he makes NO reference to Costigan declaring an interest at this point (in other words she didn't.) Remember, at this point her friends are breaking the law. By 25th April, 2015 even "The Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers" had caught up:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/04/25/fury-as-30ft-silos-loom-over-black-country-homes/
5 KDC are rather tardy paying the invoice. Conspiracy theorists may wonder whether they were checking the planning went through OK before parting with the dosh but they seem like nice people (unless you live next to the factory) and, in any event, they had no fear since our old friend Nick Bubalo was "on the case". Despite KDC being the ones who have broken the law, Bubalo was now bending over backwards to help them. It seems there is no mention anywhere of any any action eg fines against KDC and the whole thing is rushed through for the Planning Committee of 1st July. As above, Costigan allegedly asks the mystery employee if she should make a declaration (having seemingly remembered that she MAY have an interest to declare). We must assume this was a verbal enquiry as our gumshoe MO has found no emails confirming this. As above, the joke employee cannot remember but thinks Costigan is great anyway! Clearly we need to investigate whether he had the authority to tell a Councillor not to make a declaration and disciplinary action must now swiftly follow if he did not. Costigan attended the meeting, sought no guidance from the MO or the Chair and failed to declare any sort of interest - not even that she clearly knew the directors of the Company! (Remember folks, she is now a Cabinet member!!!)
I have referred the whole fraudulent conduct of SMBC/Wednesbury Celebrates to corrupt West Midlands Police before but will be sending this all to the Chief Constable tomorrow as there are alleged to be other investigations still "ongoing" "lol". WMP have ducked out of doing their job before alleging that SMBC have investigated certain matters but when their formal investigations are as laughable as this, something is seriously wrong - as we have been saying for just FOUR YEARS now!!!!
THE SANDWELL SKIDDER - COMMUNITY NEWS - READ THE SKIDDER KIDDER!
No phone at present - please use email. Facebook: Julian Saunders
Email: thesandwellskidder@gmail.com
PROUD TO HAVE BEEN TROLLED BY DICKHEAD DARREN COOPER DECEASED!
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