In my post of 10th August, 2014 "Sandwell College or Council - which One is Lying" I pointed out that Labour Sandwell Council had form for initiating "deals" but then claiming that the other party had initially "approached" them.
This blog has maintained all along that Councillors Cooper and Hussain of Sandwell Council were the instigators of the plan to destroy The Public with Hussain being "the front man". Yet in formal Council documents they openly stated that it was the College who started the ball rolling. But then in response to a Freedom of Information Act request the greedy College specifically denied this. I pointed out in my post that one of them was obviously lying.
Today the shysters at the College have again responded to a Freedom of Information Act request. They now publicly state that Hussain telephoned the College and arranged a meeting on 15th August, 2012 AT THE COUNCIL'S OFFICES. The College have specifically stated that Sheryl Dowen* and David Hawkins attended for Sandwell College where they met Hussain and two officers of Sandwell MBC - Steve Smith and Brian Aldridge. (Addendum 07/09/14 - Steve Smith was part of Melanie Dudley's team and was right in on this scandal from day 1. But this did not prevent him attending the infamous Haden Hill meeting on 22nd May, 2013 - see my post of 11th June, 2014, "The Public - The Plot Thickens....")
The College has behaved appalling in shafting the people of Sandwell throughout this affair but they do seem very sure of their ground and have now provided details. If they are correct then the SMBC authors of the so-called Fundamental Review which finished The Public off put false information into that Cabinet report. How much of the rest of it is false? And these were no junior bods either but part of the "High Command" ie:
Director of Neighbourhoods Adrian Scarrott (now on £108.614 per annum) , Director - Melanie Dudley (now on £120,092 pa and involved even though she was a Director of Sandwell Futures Limited which "got" the contract), £128,000 per annum Head of Legal, Neeraj Sharma and Director Stuart Kellas (now on £132, 512 pa).
If this bunch lied - why?
Today the moron who "leads" Sandwell Labour - Darren Cooper - wrote in what he alleges is "his" blog, "As we no longer have official opposition group to challenge the decisions the Council makes, I wanted to look at how we maintain our high levels of openness and transparency". "Lol" as he so frequently tweets!
Who do you believe?
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* Not content with her part in shafting Sandwell this piece of work proposed a celebratory "dinner" at taxpayers' expense to gloat at their cleverness. Fortunately it seems that wiser counsel has prevailed and in another FoI reply the rapacious College assure me that the beano never took place.
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