Tweets of The Turdmeister - Part One

A number of residents of the Borough of Sandwell have minor criminal convictions but as they are not open political opponents of the oafish Labour "leader" [sic] of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, aka "The Turdmeister", they escape his public censure. Not so in the case of one local  man - let us call him "Mr X".

It is a matter of public record that Mr X faced a court hearing in February, 2014. Before the hearing Turdy regularly "advertised" the forthcoming hearing via what he says is his "personal" twitter account (er, @sandwellleader) as it is fair to say that Mr X was a political opponent (although not a member of any political party).

Mr X was convicted of a relatively minor offence not including violence and received what appears to be a particularly harsh sentence. The "Leader's" friends at the Express and Star made great play on this "story" and gave it prominent coverage complete with photographs. Turdy was beside himself with glee and on 11th and 12th February ran a whole series of gloating tweets.

Let us just assume for a moment that The Turdmeister was tweeting simply as a loutish moron and was indifferent to the effect of any of this upon the reputation of the Borough (in 2012 his twitter account was famously described as "a barely literate stream of invective"). Some may say, "ah, well - that's politics". Some may  even think Mr X was "fair game" for a series of public attacks (bring back the stocks....) But even those of a vindictive bent would, I surmise, have had their two-pennies' worth and left it at that. But not Cooper.......

Since his initial flurry, The Turdmeister has additionally tweeted direct references to the conviction on a minimum of 8 occasions plus he has tweeted a minimum of 3 times enquiring about fine payment. In addition he has tweeted a minimum of 13 (thirteen) times concerning Mr X's curfew. Mr X has fragile health but our dear "Mental Health Nurse" has referred to him as "a criminal", "crim" and "the convict X". He has threatened to report Mr X to the police for "breaches" of curfew (even though he apparently has no knowledge of the ACTUAL terms of same and is incorrect in his assumptions). In one particularly notorious incident he actually took to twitter and directly accused Mr X of breaching curfew and throwing a brick through his window - later tweeting that this incident had actually been the work of a gang of "thugs". On the night of 3rd April he tweeted about the curfew no less than 3 times (which prompted me to refer this to Ed Miliband on the basis that this was simple harassment. No reply, natch).

And all this from a man who once tweeted, "I like to be kind to other people no matter who they r. That's what makes me who I am". We must all be grateful that his "mental health nursing career" does not entail working with prisoners or other "offender rehabilitation".

ADDENDUM 29TH MAY, 2014

The final paragraph above was meant to be "ironic". My information is that the boorish Cooper is employed by Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust ("Bsmhft") who, inter alia, supply mental health services at Birmingham - Winson Green - Prison. I had been told Cooper did indeed work with offenders but I am still unable to independently verify that (yet). Whatever, the situation, Mr John Short, the Chief Executive of Bsmhft, has been made aware of "The Tweets of the Turdmeister" and, indeed of this blogpost dated 19th May. You and I might be surprised that a "mental health trust" tolerates the sort of thing referred to above by an employee (especially if the employee DOES actually work with offenders) but it seems that Bsmhft not only tolerates this but actively CONDONES such behaviour. How else can one explain that "@sandwellleader" [sic] made a further four attacks on Mr X via twitter on the night of 26th May (seven days AFTER this post)?

On that night, Darren Cooper tweeted the Express & Star article again. He then tweeted 3 more times about the curfew. Interestingly, when a formal complaint was made to Sandwell Council about different tweets our "mental health nurse" was totally exonerated as "he was tweeting in a personal capacity" but when confronted about these tweets he says it is just "politics". Here is a tweet from 26th May and it is up to you, dear readers, to decide whether all of this constitutes bullying/harassment:

"@X No I don't think it is bullying it's politics. You were convicted by a court it's in the public realm. End of anyway #curfew".

Clearly Mr John Short must also take the view that all this is acceptable as The Teflon Turd has continued his "campaign" with impunity. Why should this be? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the he is not only an employee but, unbelievably, also a GOVERNOR of Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust! You couldn't make it up!

ADDENDUM - 30TH JUNE, 2014 - AND HE IS STILL AT IT!

Now it is absolutely clear that Bsmhft  DOES condone all this as employee Darren Cooper has re-started his attacks. And so we get these to Mr X:

19/06/14 "Where you been hiding X? Been doing your  community services? Lol"

20/06/14 "Only the criminal mind would come up with such an analogy X".


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