Twitter Troll No. 2 - Double Header - Darren Cooper and Paul Kerton

My trolls like to have a go at me via my wife who many of you will know, Linda Saunders - made redundant by the closure of The Public.

Regular readers will have seen my earlier blog about Linda's formal complaint to Labour Sandwell Council about Darren Cooper, "The Turdmeister" and joke "leader", in "Unsuccessful Complaint to Sandwell Council" of 8th May, 2014 wherein one of his "classic" tweets was to threaten to drive over and confront her at her new place of work. The complaint got nowhere with Sandwell Council (now there's a surprise).

After a period of relative calm Mr Paul Kerton (see Twitter Troll No. 1 - Paul Kerton) crawled out of the swamp on 29th June alleging that The Public "failed because of its management".

Now it gets really weird.

On 2nd July Linda, in the course of her new job, had a meeting with a Labour Birmingham Councillor - let us call him "BC". After the meeting BC tweeted to Linda:

"Good to see you earlier - looking forward to working together".

This prompted Sandwell Labour Council Leader Darren Cooper to tweet to "BC":

"Have you met Linda's lovely husband @bcrover or @[my personal account] the side they both don't want you to see. Hope you are well :)"

It seems that this clear attempt to queer Linda's pitch was too much even for The Turdmeister and he had second thoughts and took it down. It seems to have only been live for minutes or even seconds and I have no idea if "BC" actually read it. Fortunately my Skidder "team" were able to capture it and I have obviously kept a copy. But then things get stranger still. On 3rd July, up pops Kerton again and HE then tweeted TO "BC":

"I'd be careful working with her. Look what her husband @bcrover does to former colleagues. He stalks them".

Kerton is, of course, an employee of Sandwell Council. For good measure he then sent two tweets addressed to Linda's new employer. Whilst Linda very rarely retweets my tweets he said:

"@[new employer] don't you think the husband @bcrover of your acting exec @[linda] stalking ex employers of hers reflects badly on you", and

"@[new employer] isn't @[linda] retweeting her husband @bcrover tacit approval of his tactics? I'd question her suitability".

The use of the term "acting exec" shows than someone had been doing research about Linda. You won't find these on Kerton's twitter feed as they too have been taken down but, once again, my lovely team captured it all. It seems they were "live" for sometime and so I believe they were seen by the intended recipients.

Then a cryptic one again from Mental Health Trust Governor Cooper on 4th July referring to a place where Linda does voluntary work:

"Had an interesting conversation with people at xxxx today :)"

We both got the message that he was trying to intimidate both of us us but just to make sure The Turdmeister rubbed it in on 9th July:

"Interesting conversation this morning with the good people at xxxx. They aren't happy with the tweeting of some #investigation".

Still unable to silence me Cooper tried a further desperate and potentially libelous throw of the dice on 27th July addressed to me rather than to Linda:

"...currently looking into the accounts of the former Public arts centre".

Cooper has no opposition in Sandwell apart from The Skidder and its supporters, and UKIP, and feels that he is immune from the consequences of his actions - as too, apparently, does Paul Kerton. Cooper's employers - an NHS MENTAL HEALTH TRUST of which he is, incredibly, also a GOVERNOR - are well aware of his activities but couldn't care less and, of course, he has surrounded himself at the Kremlin with a cohort of highly-paid "yes-men and women" too afraid to try and curb his excesses. He has the local media including the BBC dancing to his tune too (one junior reporter recently took an interest in all this but was "spiked" by his editor). And so folks, The Skidder team fight on alone - bloodied but unbowed!

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