Britton's Bent Register? The Latest...

Yesterday, in my post, "Oldbury's Mary Celeste Street", I mentioned that one of Cllr Mohammad Rouf's sons, Mohammad Javed, was allegedly living in cramped conditions above Faz's Barbers at 88 Shireland Road, Smethwick together with another son, Mohammad Shauib, and a female I imagine may be the latter's wife. Now Javed has a wife and two daughters and recent Facebook content suggests that they are still on good terms. Surely that doesn't mean the whole family is also hunkering down amongst what Sandwell Council like to advertise as the dog-mess-smeared streets of Smethwick? Still, according to Sandwell's Chief Executive, Jan Britton, everyone is hurrying to complete the building and then land transfer of Rouf Hall in Florence Road (even though the Council's highly-paid head lawyer is saying the file is in "lock down" due to the ongoing police investigation) to Mohammad Shauib!

Mo's Mansion on Florence Road.

Now here's a curious thing. Peopletracer show that Javed was listed on the old electoral register at 23 Wellington Road which was, of course, owned by his unemployed father, Cllr Rouf (who holds a Birmingham City Council private hire taxi licence). Rouf put that property on the market with Connells at £155,000 but eventually sold it - at least according to HM Land Registry - for £125,000. Happily, his "socialist" comrades in Sandwell Labour were immediately able to provide him with a council house at 33 Trafalgar Road!

Javed was listed on the electoral register at 23 Wellington Road from 2010 to 2013 (please hold those dates in your mind) and, of course, has now had himself listed at a flat above the barbers. Now something has been niggling me about this for the last 24 hours. My Muslim friends in Smethwick suggest Javed is an OK guy. He is a pharmacist and so clearly has something about him. His father being "unemployed" is the classic case of every cloud having a silver lining since my friends tell me that Cllr Rouf is often seen opening up the shop and making the prescription deliveries. Indeed, such the extent of this help that locum pharmacists can be employed to do the dispensing, thus allowing Javed to set up another pharmacy in Old Hill. Javed seems to have inherited his father's "golden touch" and has also set up a "dessert company" and uses Facebook to promote a dessert restaurant in Ladypool Road, Birmingham.

Now here's the rub. My Smethwick chums tell me that Javed hasn't been living in Smethwick for a long time. I wonder whether this has anything to do with him and Mahvish Meryam Safid-Javed having co-owned the house at 2xx Station Road, Stechford, Birmingham since 30th June 2010?

But surely, I hear you say, just because Javed and and a lady who appears to be his partner own a house in Birmingham doesn't mean he cannot be living in Smethwick - just look at the Labour liar Cashmore! And he has placed himself year on year on the Sandwell Electoral Register since 2010 -making legal declarations as to his residence - so he can't be living in Stechford, can he?

The only slight problem with this is his planning application which he signed in May 2012 - DC/12/54698 - to open a new pharmacy at The Medical Centre, Priest House, Priest Street, Cradley Heath. And his address on the planning application - 2xx Station Road, Stechford, Birmingham!

Mr Britton - stop listening to unwise counsel - and get a grip!

By the way, I forgot to mention Cllr Frear in my blog yesterday. Frear is usually rumoured as never having a pot to piss in which is, no doubt, why Sandwell Labour placed him at one time on the Finances and Resources Scrutiny Panel! By all accounts, however, he has friends in high places [sic] on the Politburo and so he has also held the key position of Chair of the Planning Committee. He is yet another of the Sandwell Labour Group who declares himself to be unemployed.

On his statutory Register of Interest he claims to have a "beneficial interest" in his home at xx Hill Top Road, Oldbury. One would expect the Chair of Planning to at least have the rudiments of knowledge of land ownership but the curious thing here is that HM Land Registry show that the owner of xx Hill Top Road is NOT Frear but, er Sandwell Council!

My understanding is that Frear was shacked up with a lady in private rented accomodation but, again, the comrades were able to find a council house for them in Whyley Walk. Frear moved on and was allowed another council house at xx Hill Top Rd. The new electoral register shows him living there with his brother/half brother, the twitter troll and, er, Sandwell Council employee, Paul Kerton (see posts passim) who presumably placed himself on the electoral register there under the new "individual registration" provisions.

Kerton earns a reasonable screw as "networks manager" at Old Park Primary School in Wednesbury, particularly as he used to boast that he was also responsible for ICT procurement for a "number" of Sandwell schools. Frear received his normal allowance as a councillor last year of £10,619.04 plus a magnificent extra £13,138.04 for his "special responsibilities". He has failed to mention the fact that a Sandwell Council employee is living in his house on his Register of Members' Interests but then Sandwell has its own peculiar residential status unknown elsewhere in the land, "the non-paying tenant", as pioneered by Labour's Lying Lucy.

With these two having a substantial joint income, readers are probably surprised that they have been allocated council housing but then its not what you know......

Finally, may I just thank readers for the good wishes in respect of the recent troll attack. This is in the hands of the police and other action is planned but I would just like to mention here that only six local people followed the troll. Two were journalists and the other four were as follows:

1. The Leader [sic] of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, who started following the troll hours before it became active, followed it until twitter suspended the account, favourited some tweets and re-tweeted at least one tweet;

2. Sandwell Labour Councillor Bob Piper;

3. The Unite Regional Officer I referred to in respect of the trolling of a Birmingham arts charity in an earlier post, Brian Rickers: and

4. Colin Kerton - yes, relation of Paul.

All very odd! As you will see, however, The Skidder marches on regardless!

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