As long last Sandwell Council has fulfilled its legal requirement to publish the list of allowances for councillors. The list is slightly historical as it is made up to 31st March, 2014. It shows the gravy train travelling at full speed whilst more redundancies hit hard-pressed SMBC staff. For some reason I am unable to link the schedule to this post so go to the Sandwell Council website if you want to peruse it at your leisure. Press the tab marked "About the Council" and then the box marked ""Local Councillors". Scroll down the page that comes up and you will find it. I will just mention here a few of the more "interesting" points.
Of the huge Labour Group only seven (yes, seven) do not receive a "special responsibility" payment on top of the basic allowance of £10,619.04p. It seems that if you can cheer every utterance of the moronic "leader" in council meetings you can pick up another couple of grand.....or more....
The motormouth Cooper himself scores an extra £26.276.04 making £36,895.08 in total. Usually not shy when inflicting his crazed views on the public he has been remarkably reticent recently about the loan he said he had for his big house extension and where he told people he got the loan from. I do hope he is keeping up with the repayments!
Deputy Leader [sic] Eling who lied about the casino legal costs and whose disastrous and illegal CTR scheme lost Sandwell a grant of £675,000 and led to huge legal costs for the taxpayer has to get by with an extra £23,649.96 (£34,269 in total) and still claims to be working at the same time for, er, Rotherham Council. Fortunately for the hard-pressed Eling household his wife works for SMBC too!
At least Eling is working. I have pointed out before that a large number of the comrades are allegedly unemployed. Some have been claiming benefits in the past and this is likely to feature in this blog again shortly....
Presumably for his masturbatory tweeting in praise of The Great Helmsman the cipher Moore scores a total of £26, 386.08 as well as being a parliamentary researcher for the expenses-guzzler-in-chief, Tom Watson MP. Ian Jones who recently lied about the Bog-gate valuation live on BBC radio picks up the same sum. Nice!
Even the liar Cashmore gets an extra divvy too - presumably to assist with her travelling expenses! Lying Lucy gets an extra £2,628 on top of her basic allowance! She has not bothered to turn up for some full council meetings this year.
(By the way, the police are supposed to be investigating lies told by some Sandwell Labour councillors via the Register of Member Interests and also some potential electoral misdemeanours. Whilst the investigations are still with West Midland Police I am pleased to say that matters have been taken away from Sandwell. If you have any information - particularly as to residence of councillors - please contact DS P. Gilece, West Midlands Police, Aquarius 2, Aston Cross Business Park, 50 Rocky Lane, Birmingham B6 5RQ. Of course, The Skidder will also be happy to pass information on....)
Take a look at the list to see the full horror of it all. But the greatest shock is on the second page where a man who apparently can't remember which hand to wipe his arse with when it comes to getting council contracts etc rakes in a total of £34,269! Yes, step forward the other Deputy Leader [sic] and local pauper - Mahboob Hussain!
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