Sandwell's Parking Madness!

Sandwell Labour have been assiduous in sucking up to Sandwell Police at every opportunity. The moronic "leader" of the Council, Darren Cooper, is so confident of his political influence over them (particularly after he "helped-out" recently following the untimely death of Police & Crime Commissioner, Bob Jones) that he mocked any suggestion they might dare to investigate the affairs of Sandwell Council by putting a video of "The Laughing Policeman" on his crazed Twitter feed last week.

And the (too) cosy relationship is amply demonstrated in the Sandwell 2014/15 Crime and Policing Plan. Go to this link and take a look at the bottom of Page 1:

http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/docs/your-local-police/sandwell/lpp-2014-sandwell.pdf

Yes, Chief Superintendent Mark Robinson of Sandwell Police smiles out with his picture right next to that of Labour's amnesiac Deputy Leader, Mahboob Hussain - the man who "forgot" about his family's shareholding in a taxi firm that successfully applied for shares in two multi-million pound Council contracts and which has received just £100,000 from Labour to date.

Despite his chronic memory-loss Hussain is, however, apparently perfectly able to fulfil his duties as a "cabinet" member AND Deputy Leader for a major public authority. But he has had a bit of bad press lately and so I thought it might be nice to look at his more comedic activities!

Hussain lives in a large corner plot at a road junction in Oldbury near Sandwell & Dudley Railway Station. He has two entrances to the property which usually has an array of flash German-made cars present - 3 or 4 at a time on the drive. There is the odd VW but mostly it is Mercs, Audis and BMW's.

Clearly, Hussain would be grateful for additional parking space noting that, excluding children of course, there are nine adults listed as living in his house on the electoral register (though not all actually live there so it would seem.....). But, of course, he can have had no influence on Sandwell Council when it comes to painting double yellow lines outside his property. Oh no. As you will see from the following video the additional parking space almost right on the bend can only have arisen due to an error by the road painting team!!!!

I am also informed that Hussain has no influence whatsover in respect of the rescinding of parking tickets by Sandwell Labour in the Oldbury area. Which is good.

And finally, let us have a look at the classic incident when practical joker Kev Beresford (of cult "Roundabouts of Redditch" infamy) hoaxed Hussain and Sandwell Council by lauding the beauty of, er, Birchley Island! Hussain usually likes to keep his dealings secret but could not resist some publicity and appeared outside The Kremlin to accept a calendar from prankster Kev in a classic sting! The comrades were in denial about this for some time but the item has now - sadly - disappeared from SMBC's website. Unfortunately, The Halesowen News (which has been doing a really good scrutiny job on Sandwell Labour lately) also fell for the merry jape too and that is still on the net:

http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/11052338.Oldbury_roundabout_puts_Halesowen_s_to_shame/

You can also read the full sorry saga via my blog of 4th March, 2014, "Hussain Hoaxed! Red Faces at the Kremlin".

But perhaps Hussain was playing along for the laugh all the time rather than just showing himself up as a vainglorious prat..... He looks that kinda guy!

However, following on from this incident I can assure you that there is no truth in the rumour that this will be his campaign "anthem" when he next offers himself to the good folk of Oldbury for re-election:

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