COMRADE PIPER
I had a strange exchange with the wealthy but allegedly Corbynista Piper recently (and no, I am not talking about when this Chair of the Licensing Committee walked into the Oldbury Wetherspoons and shouted a Nazi slogan at myself and another person!!!!)
On 1st March I wrote to all councillors in the rotten Borough asking a series of questions about Labour's bent deal to develop a huge greenfield site at Lion Farm. I asked them to make efforts to seek the answers to my questions. Piper was the only one who replied but was trying to stifle discussion on this corrupt transaction, stating:
"Members of the planning committee, as I am, would be well advised not to make any public pronouncements on this issue because should they do so the developer could claim they had pre-determined the application and therefore could be excluded from voting on the application.
"Similarly, since the application would be outside of existing council policies, should planning decide to grant approval, the decision would go to full council and all councillors would have a vote on varying council policy in respect of the application. Public pronouncements by elected members on the desirability or otherwise of the development could also bring a claim of determination."
Of course, Piper may parade as being left of Lenin but he was awarded the Order of the Brown Nose, First Class for his constant rimming of ex-Leader Steve "Squealing" Eling who was instrumental in granting the original Lion Farm Option and then a new one or variation of it in 2017/18. And Piper himself was at the infamous Audit Committee that sought, retrospectively, to polish this turd (you know the one - the meeting that was to be live broadcast but someone conveniently "forgot" to switch the tape on!!!!) Now he wants to shut everyone up where there is a multi-million pound scandal!
In a sense this is all ludicrous - of course councillors must investigate a corrupt deal and a planning application which, if ever passed, will cause massive damage to the existing retail offering in the six towns of Sadders! And we all know the political reality in the Dictatorship - there is considerable political interference in the planning process and if the Labour High Command say they favour a deal then the sheep will be ordered to support it. One kind correspondent provided me with some statistics (I have not personally checked the figures but the writer is normally highly reliable). In the five years between 2013 and 2017 the planning committee rejected just 4.5% of officer-recommended applications. Of course, the figure comes down to zero for the pet projects of the sleazy "socialists".
Despite the corruption at Sandwell Council the comrades have, generally speaking, managed to declare interests at meetings. If there is a conflict of interests it is customary for them to leave the room when matters are discussed and votes taken (a notable exception being Elaine Costigan and the planning application of her pals at KTC Edibles [posts passim]). But what happened with the eleven inter-linked applications for bed-sits in Bearwood Road (application DC/18/61844 and others)?
The SMBC website says that there were no declarations of interest declared from the attendees including Cllr Bob Piper. When the eleven cases were discussed the record states - with no specificality - that "members indicated that they had been lobbied" though no "member" left the discussion. Then, "on behalf of his constituents" Cllr Piper put forward a list of no less than 11 objections.
The record makes no mention whatsoever of Cllr Piper leaving the room for the votes and all eleven applications were then refused. It must be assumed from the record that Piper actually voted against applications where he had addresses his own committee with multiple objections! (See addendum below).
So Piper says that comrades can say nothing about the bent Lion Farm deal but actually fights eleven planning applications in his own ward and then votes to reject them! WTF is going on here?
And the upshot? The developer has now successfully appealed the matters at the Planning Inspectorate leaving SMBC (ie us, the taxpayers) with a "hefty" but undisclosed legal bill (as reported by Piper's personal friend, hard-left "journalist" George Makin). The most arrogant man in Sandwell (counting The Squealer as a Derbyshire resident) says one thing but does another. And, dear friends, you are picking up the tab!
Addendum 12th May, 2019 - Piper has been on to say that as the minutes say that he "represented his constituents" this makes it totally clear that he had effectively recused himself from the committee at that stage. He also says that he did NOT vote when the applications came to be decided. That is NOT said in the minutes which are totally silent on him recusing himself from the vote. The minutes were approved at the next Planning Committee on 5th September, 2018 including by one Cllr Bob Piper!
ZORRO LOSES IT!
With the possible exception of Paul "Heathcliff" Sanders (coming to a necropolis near you...) there can be few more laughable characters on the bent Labour Council than Peter "Alberich" Hughes (who calls himself "Zorro"). His gold medal-winning feats of arslikhan of the Council's leadership are a sight to behold (only watch the back tapes if you want to be sick all over yourself) and the day he stormed out of a meeting with WM Mayor, Andy Street, dragging his harem in tow, will live with me til my dying day "lol"! His behaviour at the Remembrance Day commemoration a couple of years ago and "that" infamous night at the rugby club are the stuff of Wednesbury legend.
In a poor quality shot here he is glaring daggers at folk in the public gallery at the Oldbury Kremlin:
We know that he was pushing the crazed "Wednesbury BID" scheme through [post passim] and that ended in disaster when the vote for it was rigged and declared to be unlawful! But until yesterday, there was no direct evidence of him having anything to do with the shenanigans at Wednesbury Celebrates when Cllr Elaine "Queen Inane" Costigan was treasurer and where there has STILL been no public accounting for the monies held by that organisation. Where's the f*ing cash gone Elaine?
This blog recorded a whole host of "problems" with Wednesbury Celebrates. Although it was allegedly an independent organisation it was actually - and, mostly, secretly - backed by bent Sandwell Council.
But two emails have come into my possession showing Costigan and Hughes using their personal email accounts to communicate with an employee (now left) of the Council:
I wrote to the absurd "Zorro" yesterday:
"Journalistic enquiry - Can you please tell me your involvement in Wednesbury Celebrates in 2013? Why did you have a copy of its constitution? Why did you send that document to SMBC (via private email)?
Reply:
"No comment and do not harass me again on this or any other matter."
I pointed out that, as a journalist, I was asking valid questions and giving him the chance to respond to which this weirdo replied:
"Taking account of your history of contact with me over a considerable time [eh? Like what?] I consider you to be a harasser and a stalker as defined by legislation, and as such this could be detrimental to my physical or mental health."
Then in red:
"Do not contact me again as I will not reply further, amd will consider any futher unsolicited correspondence or contact from you to be further evidence of harassment/stalking".
This is, of course, a well-used Sandwell trope where any question a councillor does not wish to answer leads to am accusation that the interlocutor is guilty of "harassment" "lol". Needless to say this babyish prat has totally failed to answer the questions put to him!
Zorro brags of what he perceives to be his "status" at the end of his emails:
"Chair - Budget & Corporate Scrutiny Board (Sandwell SMBC)
Chair - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (West Midlands Combined Authority).
A slight pause whilst I p*ss myself laughing - but "Mr Scrutiny" is not very keen on, er, "scrutiny"!
As ever - over you to folks. All info on Peter Hughes's involvement with Wednesbury Celebrates very welcome.
On a related subject my enquiries continue into "The Knights of Wednesbury". I have received a couple of very interesting letters and assure the authors I am "on the case". In the meantime I have been given names of people allegedly connected with the secretive organisation - Jill Turner, Spencer Thrower, Helen Thrower (also known as Helen James?) and Tony Baker. If any of them would like to contact me and set the record straight that would be helpful as would information from anyone else with info!
LETTERS
My contact details are set out below but I have been getting a few interesting letters recently. If you do not want to phone or email write to me at Jules Saunders, 11 Chelworth Road, Birmingham B38 0BG. If you wish to remain anonymous that's fine.
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LAST POST
In my last post "Those Who Wates..." there is an amendment about the SMBC fairground contracts.
LESS OF MOORE!
Political earthquakes continue to shake Sadders and there is finally hope that the evil influence of London-based remoaner Tom Watson MP over the bent Labour council is finally waning. The unsuccessful "Nonce-Finder General" and, to a slightly lesser extent John Spellar MP, have held the pathetic local councillors in their thrall for many years and done massive damage to Sandwell.
Only the other day I speculated that Watson's lead puppet, Paul "The Cipher" Moore, was likely to stay in the Cabinet after the new leader is crowned on Monday. But rumours started to seep out that Moore was resigning from the Cabinet AND from his employment with vicious bully Watson.
Yesterday the excellent "Skwawkbox" website called it - and here is their story:
https://skwawkbox.org/2019/05/10/watson-right-hand-man-resigns-from-job-and-cabinet-sign-of-collapse-of-w-mids-right/
I will be delighted to be proven wrong. Moore is a weird character completely up his own arse. I am not sure I have met such a relatively young person who is so completely humourless! A correspondent yesterday said that although this seemingly inadequate person liked to "cut the big" in the Council he was completely enslaved by Squealing Eling. The suggestion was that he has not got the powder and shot to do anything independently without instruction from either Watson or Eling.
Skwawkie has done excellent work in exposing Watson, Spellar, Eling and Co in Sandwell. If he has called it right on this one it will be a happy day indeed for Sandwell. Alas it probably comes too late to stop the crazed paddling pool project but The Cipher was also pushing through Eling's plan to destroy Lion Farm Fields and there is ample opportunity to stop that in its tracks!
Depending on the leadership election on Monday the Cabinet future of another Watson rimmer hangs in the balance. There is every chance that Bill "Yellow" Gavan will be out too!
PUTTING SMETHWICK ON THE MAP!
We have seen that your Labour representatives have now committed you to a multi-million pound bill for the new Commonwealth Games paddling pool. Increasingly information is seeping out that these t*sspots have not planned anything about this project and have simply agreed to host the post-imperial event for the alleged "kudos" it will [not] bring to Sandwell.
We saw that rather than plan where a leisure centre was actually needed Eling, Moore and Co cast about for any old site that could be developed quickly. Although they and all but three of the full council, decided to destroy Londonderry Fields they had considered 8 other sites including one miles away at Warley Woods!
Fair play to Linda Horton (and you don't often hear me say that) but she objected to the project and especially the traffic problems likely to arise from using the unsuitable "chosen" location. But the comrades waived it through knowing that you will pick up the tab. Moore and "Yellow" blustered that everything had been taken into consideration and would be fine. And so local residents were bemused to see a traffic counting device being placed near the soon-to-be-destroyed green space! They have started investigating traffic flows AFTER already agreeing to this sh*te!
Part of this multi-million pound rush-job are the alleged "legacy" benefits. Sandwell Labour have not put the operation of the centre out to tender but gifted it to Sandwell Leisure Trust. Having committed a huge amount of your cash for this you would expect that the "legacy" provisions would also have been meticulously planned but fat chance of that from Jan Britton and Co. And now it turns out that they have agreed this crazy white elephant without any plan at all! All staff have now been written to with this load of b*llocks asking for ideas FFS!
"Be part of Sandwell's legacy .
As you know, plans for the £60 million Sandwell Aquatic Centre were approved last month.
The new leisure centre at Londonderry Playing Fields in Smethwick is also set to host the swimming and diving for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.This is great news for Sandwell and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring unprecedented tourism and visitors to Sandwell, as well as creating jobs and apprenticeships and opportunities for local businesses.
To ensure Sandwell makes the most of these opportunities, we are running a series of staff focus groups to give you the chance to share your views on the lasting impact of the Games and the aquatics centre and how they will benefit the community for years to come.
The focus groups will be used to create a legacy plan, enabling a greater understanding of how Sandwell can generate the greatest benefits for our communities and achieve our 2030 vision.
Focus groups will take place on an directorate-by-directorate basis.
Places will be allocated on first-come, first-served basis, however, if demand for attendance is extremely high the Sandwell Aquatics Centre Project Management Team (PMO) will arrange further dates to ensure everyone can participate."
This is risible even by the standards of these plonkers!
I have already mentioned that Paul "The Cipher" Moore was metaphorically masturbating when he told the Labour sheep that this farce "would put Smethwick on the map" "lol"! But the millions who only know it as a racist hell-hole once visited by Malcolm X now already have this information courtesy of the final episode of Line of Duty and he could have saved your dosh!
Yes, a crime-ridden dump replete with bent cops supporting a corrupt dictatorship welcomes what's left of the British Empire! Oh, if only AC-12 would come and sort this shower out.....
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