The Curse of The Pink Elephant - Victims 2 & 3!

The Pink 'Un on the Rampage!

Tis the Season for Schadenfreude!

Before I get to the main course may I tempt you with a small amuse bouche? Or two, in fact.

Sandwell College (and the Labour Council) have been singing the praises of their sixth form (even putting up misleading posters etc to gull academically-challenged kids into signing-up with them so that they can get extra grants) and often put their limited success down to the Director - Matt Lamb. That would be Worcester LABOUR councillor Matt Lamb, then. Those old Sandwell Labour tribal connections again.... As it is, there is the remote possibility that they will lose this paragon next May as he is standing for Parliament in Wyre Forest. It would take a minor miracle for him to get elected (the only possible scenario seemingly being UKIP taking a lot of the old Tory vote and Lamb creeping through "on the rails" in a three-way "split". Anyway, it does not necessarily augur well for the great new sixth-form centre that the Director wants away.....

Of course the scandal-ridden sixth form centre was opened in a blaze of expensive publicity (except that Sandwell Labour apparently didn't need to pay for the usual blow job from the Express and Star). Naturally, "The Turdmeister" went into overdrive on Twitter as did another account - Punch Records. I don't suppose they are in any way related, are they, to the "Punch Records DJ Workshops Limited" paid £2,000 (Two Thousand Pounds) by cash-strapped Sandwell Labour Council on 6th November????

And so to the meat. Sandwell Labour's "Chief Executive", £164,000 per annum Jan Britton has distinguished himself in the Borough for the way he has sacked truly massive numbers of Council workers for his Labour masters. As part of the bent Public deal, Sandwell College mysteriously started renting property at the taxpayers' expense from, er, Labour Party Properties Limited and were also forced to take the giant amoeba onto their Board of Governors so that Hussain and his sidekick, Cooper, could extend their power-base still further. It seems that he has now brought his job-cutting expertise to the College as four top [sic] people have recently "left" in mysterious circumstances!

I know I shouldn't gloat but I am going to anyway, particularly in the light of the vilification and threats The Skidder and team (and The Sandwell Scrutineers) have had to face in the last year. At least two of these four College superstars were instrumental in stitching-up the people of Sandwell and beyond in respect of The Public and, I am delighted to say, have now succumbed to the dreaded "curse".

Firstly, we have Ms Sheryl Dowen. This piece of work was the one who was summoned to The Court of King Mahboob on 15th August, 2012 and even though the greedy bastards at The College were only just moving into their brand-new taxpayer-funded Spon Lane Campus, was happy to implement Hussain's master-plan. The College minutes show that she very enthusiastically tried to force the deal through at every opportunity and, to cap it all, when The College had shafted the taxpayer and the people of Sandwell royal, this fuckwit formally proposed to the Board that the taxpayer should be ripped-off still further so that the College and Labour Council could enjoy a "celebratory dinner"! Fortunately, this spectacular two-fingers up at us all did not happen. It seems Sandwell College will be deprived of her "skills" and good judgement from now on. Shame (takes onion and dabs around eyes....)

Secondly, we have Mr Scott Upton who has also been trampled by The Pink 'Un. This character was put up by The College for the BBC pieces on 9th May, 2013 when Hussain announced to the world that he was going to destroy The Public and little Scotty was happy to stand in front of the cameras and back him 100% even though, as the minutes of the Board of Governors show, this was very far from being a done deal. My earlier blogs have shown that Hussain and his disciple, Darren, were so desperate to get what they wanted that they announced the "done" deal to the media before any official appraisals, reviews etc and having already decided to offer a multi-million pound contract to Interserve without putting it out to tender.

They then tried to bounce The College into the only deal in town and Scotty and his chums proceeded to enthusiastically take Labour to the cleaners. Not funny, unfortunately, as it is we, the people, who have to face the disastrous consequences. (Incidentally, note The Turdmeister's similar attempts to "bounce" neighbouring local authorities into the "Greater Birmingham" deal. Other local councils should note that Cooper did not earn his other sobriquet, "Sadim", for nothing.....)

Almost exactly a year ago, I was standing outside the shell of what was The Public. Instead of local people enjoying that excellent facility, which the taxpayer had paid for, there was just a brooding hulk. To force through their bent deal, vindictive Labour had ensured that it should be closed early so that folk couldn't enjoy the Christmas programme and the excellent dinners. Who should come along with a bunch of work colleagues on the way to their Xmas do at Nando's but Mr Upton. This grinning cock (!) was pointing at the building to his acolytes and waving his arms around in triumph at his own cleverness. Well in the spirit of the festive season this year I can now say, "Scotty - you can take your Peri-Peri Chicken Wings and shove then up your a***!"

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