WOULD THE CALLER ON WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME RE "2004" PLEASE CALL BACK!
On 6th November I made my way to the Kremlin to spend some happy time with the electoral registers. On my way out I happened to bump into Labour's top triumvirate - Messrs (!) Cooper, Hussain and Ian Jones and an amusing time was had by all.
Cooper, posed in front of the chauffeur-driven Range Rover which ferries him around (I had seen him speeding off in it the day before when I was also in Oldbury/Smethwick on a research excursion (and when I received three extremely threatening telephone calls). Quite how much is spent by the "socialists" on chauffeurs & vehicles will have to wait for a future blog......
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| Sandwell's Labour Leader travels in chauffeur-driven style! |
Oddity 1 - Cllr Hussain briefly mentioned the land at Lodge Street sold to his son for £145,000. He opined that this was a reasonable figure as the site was "a fucking shit-hole". A slightly odd comment noting that HIS Asset Management Committee originally resolved that our old chum Nick Bubalo must "consider marketing the land for bungalows and/or accomodation for elderly people in the first instance". I'm not sure if it is official Labour Party policy yet that our senior citizens should be "zoned" for housing in fucking shit-holes but, in any event, the crafty comrades dropped this requirement to enable the sale to Hussain Junior. Quite what he makes of his Father's description of the site where he is building 14 (or 15 if Nick Bubalo agrees) luxury houses at an advertised sale price of just £2.78M is, alas, unknown but I am betting he won't be hiring Mahboob as his marketing manager down at the show home anytime soon.
Oddity 2 - when a Councillor is in the soft and smelly do the honourable thing - blame the staff! Thus when I challenged Ian Jones about his very public lie on BBC local radio that the Bog-gate valuation had been done AFTER the sale of the bogs he stated that it was not his fault and that he had simply been given this - false - information in "a briefing paper". I wonder whether the Groveller-in-Chief (sorry, Chief Executive) will be launching an immediate investigation into which member of staff allegedly got this so spectacularly wrong! I doubt it, don't you readers? (If you think I am being a little harsh on Mr Britton read his arslikan comments this week on what purports to be the "Leader's blog").
Oddity 3 - I reproached the "Gang of Three" for doing huge deals without tender or open competition and then keeping the details secret. Cllr Hussain assured me that this was a legal requirement which I disputed. I have challenged him to e-mail me the relevant statutory provision and if I am wrong, I have offered to wash one (but only one) of his cars! Watch this space....
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Oddity 5 - even my many Muslim callers have been confused about the relationships surrounding Abdul Naeem Quyum. I did mention the Warley Road connections of this gentleman in an earlier blog but the situation still remains a little opaque. Nevertheless, having personally perused the CURRENT voters roll, I am able to confirm that there is an Abdul N. Quyum at 42 Warley Road AND another Abdul N. Quyam at the related family property at 52 Warley Road.
Oddity 6 - someone else was out photographing the huge house being built on Florence Road, Smethwick last Wednesday about an hour before I got there. I wonder who the two gentlemen were? If you know, please get in touch.
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