Until fairly recently, bent Sandwell Labour spent most of their 47 years of dictatorship unquestioned by the cowardly folk of the benighted Borough. Happily, people are rising-up all over Sadders and fighting back against these petty tyrants. And they don't like it up 'em, Captain Mainwaring!
We saw that at the last full Council many of the pusillanimous Labour Councillors sneaked through the offices and across the bridge to the Council chamber rather than walk past the THREE peaceful demonstrations by the linkway.*
(The glass corridor shown above the apex of the linkway entrance is where the Labour cowards scurried through).
At present Labour are cynically using the appalling murder of a Tory MP to "tighten security" i.e. stop members of the public getting close to them.
But the most egregious example of their determination to stifle free speech is the proposed "amendment" to the tenancy agreements of council-house dwellers. No doubt on the advice of legal supremo "lol", Surjit Tour, this is the unlawful and discriminatory clause these Labour fascists intend to sneak in:
There is already a zero-tolerance policy against abuse and threats to staff and a whole range of legal remedies to prevent such obnoxious behaviour. But Labour are unhappy with the bad publicity they are receiving via social media and so want to, er, ban it altogether!
Note especially that this threatening legal nonsense includes criticism of "councillors" which rather gives the game away. The obvious flaw here is that this is a direct threat purely to Council tenants - therefore it is unlawful and discriminatory. The other problem is the definition - if a Council house tenant says critical things about a joke Labour Councillor like Peter "Zorro" Hughes, is that within their absurd "definition" even if the tenant is commenting on something that is nothing whatsoever to do with their tenancy?
Surjit Tour was directly involved in the conspiracy surrounding McNally's legal case which cost the taxpayer over £100,000. Tour (with the now sacked Stevens and Cllr Maria Crompton) unlawfully used taxpayers' money to fund McNally's disastrous claim which he and at least three other Sandwell solicitors, Price, Lynch and Maher-Smith, tried to frame in terms of "harassment". A High Court judge stated that there was no "harassment" and yet here Tour is using the exact same word again to stop local council house residents ONLY criticising the Council and Councillors about ANYTHING! They are not getting the message are they readers?
I will shortly be talking to some of the housing charities to ask if we can form a legal fighting fund to stop this nonsense and, if Labour force it through via the likes of Cllr Bostan, that we can provide assistance to any tenant who faces misguided legal action. (Any lawyers or charity workers who can help with this - please get in touch. Contact details below.)
McNally Attacks Tories - Again!
Lisa McNally, the Director of Public Health at bent Sandwell Labour Council, earns over £105k per annum (plus gold-plated pension) and is specifically in a politically-restricted post. But, seemingly, she can't resist having a go at local Conservatives.
Readers will remember that last year, she threatened Nicola Richards, the MP for WBE, with legal action. Incredibly, The Skidder is now hearing that she made a formal standards complaint against one of the growing band of Tory Councillors for having the temerity to question why the taxpayer is on the hook for her legal bill of more than £100k!
Surjit Tour (the Monitoring Officer) was, as above, directly involved in the conspiracy to bring her ridiculous case against me yet has blocked the Conservative Group from asking a question about McNally's costs at the last full Council meeting - despite his clearest possible personal conflict of interest. Somehow I don't think the opposition will be going away on this one, especially now it is known that then-Labour Leader Maria Crompton (Tividale) sanctioned the absurd litigation but is now too cowardly to disclose the papers relating to her costly and disastrous decision!
Rajbir "The Puppet" Singh - the race is on!
Since May, bent Labour have had opposition on their corrupt Council. A weird manifestation of their reaction to this is that new Leader, the Boy Blunder, Rajbir Singh, keeps popping up all over the place for photo opportunities. He is like Captain Scott racing to be first at the South Pole but Amundsen, in the form of Tory Group Leader, David Fisher, keeps beating him to it.
On 12th October I alerted Cllr Fisher to the concerns of local residents about a proposed House of Multiple Occupation in Singh's own ward. Cllr Fisher contacted residents on the following day, the 13th. Twitter describes Singh getting around to telephoning local residents on the 21st. And Singh proudly showed himself with locals on the 23rd - but after Cllr Fisher had already visited!
This looks like being one to watch in the coming months! And after 47 years of failure, Labour are finally having to do some work!
Self-described "thief" joins Express and Star
I recently wrote about the vile mysogynistic writing of Sandwell Labour puppet and propagandist, Adam Smith. You can access the post via this link but please heed the specific warning that the post contains disgusting material of a most unpleasant nature. This is NOT suitable for the easily-shocked or for under-18's:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-misogyny-of-adam-smith-journalist.html
Smith was/is a mouthpiece for the following local Labour former and current "politicians" (and others): Mick Davies, Tom "Lazy Tom" Watson, Simon Hackett, Liam Preece, Kerry Carmichael and, of course, the infamous masturbator, John Tipper. His famous "exclusives" for the, er, Halesowen News, were direct leaks that his pals wanted in the public domain for their own political purposes.
Since this "award-winning journalist" left the HN, he had a spell in London which didn't last long and some sort of position on the mighty "Erdington Local". Whilst in London he received a visitor from Sandwell. He described to that person how he had worked out the times when the security man at a branch of a well-known local store took his breaks and then went in and stole goods. I am not saying this is true since, as stated before, it is difficult to know where Smith's constant bragging begins and ends. He might just have been bullsh*tting but that is the story he told. The visitor also stated, however, that when they went into a tube station he was progressing through the ticket barrier and Smith literally leapt onto his back and clung on to avoid paying the fare!
In my recent post I quoted Smith's own words (the asterisk was missing from the original):
"I'm not a journalist. Was gonna go to Glasgow to be one again but the Mrs wants me to stay in Brum and, as u know, no f*cker will employ me in this town."
Happily the editors of the Wolvo C*ck-Suckers are not so squeamish as their Brum counterparts since they have now employed Smith as, I sh*t ye not, a "Senior Reporter".
Besides being very, very, "brave" of the E&S, this is also another aspect of the mystery why they constantly rim bent Sandwell Labour. They know from a picture posted in the public domain (and much else) that Smith has worked specifically for the Labour Party at elections:
Curiously they also know that, even very recently, he openly and very publicly lied about the video his mate Tipper took of himself masturbating (using a Sandwell Council-owned phone). He very deliberately defamed a former Councillor when, as he very well knows, there are a number of witnesses who saw the video:
"The phone story was a Mahboob smear hence no actual journalist would touch it with a barge pole."
Incidentally, I was the only journalist who did publish this and Tipper phoned saying he would sue me if I didn't remove the story. Having obtained evidence from others pre-publication, I gave him the famous Private Eye magazine response to such threats - the second word being "off". Tipper didn't sue.
No surprise given their track record but clearly the Wolvo C-S's weren't looking for anyone politically unbiased lol.
Smith recently boasted that "if" he was a local journalist he would be "all over" Mahboob Hussain. Now that he - amazingly - is, I am not sure the E&S lawyers will be so enthusiastic given his past output!
A legal letter is also winging its way towards Smith on another matter!
Once again, one to watch this one and this should be fun!
But you can't trust The Star!
This blog has said this many times over the years. The Wolvo C'S's have constantly omitted news stories unfavourable to bent Sandwell Labour or misreported the facts (the most egregious example being that they have said FOR YEARS that Sandwell College is paying rent for The Public when it is not AND the E&S KNOW this since I sent them the relevant clause from the actual lease)!
Now here is an odd story of their constant grovelling to SMBC. The Star has very frequently referred to McNally as "Dr". Of course, she can use that formal title as she has a PhD but she is NOT a medical doctor - something she complained about me saying in the High Court even though it is, er, true. I am going over old ground a bit, but EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE - 100% - of the people I spoke to in Sadders were of the view that she IS a GMC-registered doctor before I wrote my blog on the subject. As before, and for the avoidance of doubt, one does not have to be a medical doctor to be a Director of Public Health and so she is properly qualified for her highly-paid position.
But I pointed out to The Star on 1st February, 2021 that their readers were genuinely confused. They THOUGHT she was a medical doctor when The C-S's constantly referred to her as "Dr Lisa McNally". I questioned whether this was appropriate and sensible in the middle of a global pandemic, and when McNally was openly challenging the opinions of highly-qualified medics. In one article alone, she was referred to as "Dr" no less than 5 times. In my email of 1st February, 2021 I very specifically stated that she has a PhD and is entitled to use the term "Dr". The question - as we had to eventually thrash out in the High Court - was whether or not I was able, as a journalist, to report on her qualifications and comment that she is not,in fact, a medic.
McNally and her co-conspirators, Crompton, Stevens and Tour, alleged that this was "harassment"! She told the High Court:
"On 21st February, 2021 I had an interview with an Express and Star reporter about vaccination. [The E&S will not say who the reporter is, but it is believed to be Jamie Brassington who no longer works for them.] At the end he said he needed to raise something difficult, which in summary was that they received a complaint from Julian Saunders about me being referred to as 'Dr'... I found this extremely upsetting."
If we unpick this a bit, this was some 20 days after my email to the Editor. No response had been received and The Star continued to call McNally "Dr" in the interim. They then, according to McNally, got a junior reporter to raise this with her which, for some bizarre reason, "he" found personally difficult even though the full facts had been clearly shown on this blog. Quite why McNally found this "extremely upsetting" was never stated.
Given her allegation that the E&S reporter had named me to her about this matter even though the information was publicly available, I wrote again to the C-S's asking what actually happened. Clearly someone is lying since this was the response from one Mark Drew, the "Group Deputy Editor":
"Having spoken to the reporter involved, your name was not divulged to Ms McNally or any member of her team when we contacted her for a response to your initial email. The council has told us in response to your query that she is referred to as Doctor because she has a doctorate."
So there we have it. A bizarre response denying that the reporter named me to McNally as she alleges but unspecified contact between The Star and their pals at bent Sandwell Council (and as above, I had stated in this blog and in my email to them that she DOES hold a doctorate!) Despite a follow-up email, Drew did not attempt to answer the point that E&S readers, who pay his wages, were confused about the terminology used and that many (all) were indeed mislead into believing that McNally is a medic. But then, perhaps Drew and Co don't care what mere readers think?
All a bit rum eh readers?
Stll no apology from The Mayor
I also wrote recently about the appalling behaviour of the Mayor of Sadders, Labour's Mushtaq Hussain at the last full Council. I invited him to publicly apologise but I can't trace a response. I now call formally for the Deputy Mayor to take the Chair at the next Council meeting in December.
Incidentally, local WBW MP Shaun Bailey was present to witness the disgraceful spectacle and his letter to the Mayor is shown following the legal notice below. I am not aware of Shaun having received a reply as yet either.
Readers will know that The Skidder takes the view that the parochial Enoch & Eli-type nonsense actually holds the Black Country back, but there is a great clip on Shaun's Facebook page where he upbraids some apparatchik for lumping the Black Country in as an appendage of Brum! It's worth a watch just to see the guy squirming:
https://www.facebook.com/ShaunBaileyMP/videos/342768710948990
Levelling-up Fund
Many "left-behind" areas were celebrating the receipt of money from the Government's "levelling-up fund" recently and folk in Sandwell were mystified why their sh*thole area had not qualified. The answer is simple: bent Labour didn't bother to apply!
Nicola Richards MP was furious and stated on social media that she had written to then "Leader" Maria Crompton sometime ago reminding Labour to get bids in but the "socialists" obviously feel that you are rich enough in Sadders since they ignored her!
And finally - URGENT - BRANDHALL CONSULTATION
Labour's determination to destroy most of the green space left in Sandwell continues and their utter cynicism on green issues is laid bare by the plan to destroy the Brandhall site and build a, wait for it, wait for it, "village" there.
There is a consultation document out (for what that is worth given that the comrades have already decided to destroy the green space) but it is still important for locals and all Sandwell residents who care about saving the shrinking green areas to complete the exercise. Here is a link:
https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/brandhall
The fake consultation (look what they did to Londonderry Fields if you think this is for real) runs until 28th November but, who knows, there may be a legal challenge to this vandalism and there will certainly be planning objections - so make your views known NOW!
The Save Brandhall Green Space campaign will also be out in force on Tuesday 16th November from 4.30pm at Brandhall Library, Tame Road. There are in fact 2 sessions at the Library that day about the destruction - noon until 3.30pm amd then 4.30pm until 8.00pm. Do go along and make your views known! And the Group will be happy to have new members on board.
* In a recent post I described how Labour Cllr Ellen Fenton (Bristnall) was one of those seen using the bridge - which was correct - but I am advised by the Save Brandhall team that she did stop and speak to their "sub-demo" on the other side of the building and I am happy to put the record straight.
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