Britain's Thickest Council Leader? A National Competition.

Is this man the thickest council leader [sic] in Britain?

Recently, on Twitter, someone speculated that as Sandwell's Labour Council is currently mired in scandal and lurching from one crisis to another, the days are numbered for its moronic "leader", Darren Cooper, and commented, "The King is Dead....". The thin-skinned Cooper, unaware of that well-known expression, responded by saying (and this is true) that he was going to report this "death threat" to the police!

I suppose we should expect nothing else from a man who used to BOAST that he had never read a book in his life although we are also told (by the Council's top lawyer no less) that many of his utterances are supposed to be "of comedic value". Perhaps this was just another of his little jokes.....

Cooper is infamous for the "barely literate stream of invective" that is "his" Twitter account* and his twin obsessions with (a) West Bromwich Albion Football Club aka "The Baggies" and (b) canine excrement (this latter earning him the sobriquet, "The Turdmeister").

Dopey Darren first came to national prominence in respect of Twitter in 2012 retweeting the cute sentiment "rot in hell" Margaret Thatcher when she was still alive. But then, as this old-style Labour-bruiser also tweeted, "I like to be kind to people no matter who they r. That's what makes me who I am".

Cooper has trouble with spelling eg manned = "mannered"; poll = "pole"; paid = "payed"; personal = "personnel" (see further below); right = "write"; quite = "quiet" etc etc etc...... He is proud to display his ignorance, however, and when challenged once replied, "Thanks buts it's tweeter so"! As he also put it, "Your right I can't spell"!

In another classic, Disastrous Daz (a keen angler) tweeted complete "pollocks" during an exchange of puns about fish which he attempted to gatecrash:

Me: "So are squid fish then Cooper?

D. Daz: "Yeah they just lack a backbone bit like you...."

(Squid are NOT fish).

Cooper regularly uses his Council-owned iPhone to attack private individuals and for what he calls his "anti-UKIP agenda". Thus a long-standing trade unionist and Labour Party member who had the temerity to question his antics was lambasted as "a nasty piece of work" and the onslaught on UKIP is relentless. He calls them a "Thatch-Rite" party and, conjuring up an image of John Motson on a snowbound soccer pitch, "tories in sheepskin clothing" (no offence John!). He regularly sneers at the public school education of Nigel Farage seemingly forgetting that local Labour MP John Spellar went to the same private school! (Rumour has it though that he likes to claim to be big "mates" with ex-public schoolboy and one-man economic disaster zone, Ed Balls! He also once saluted Mrs Bollocks, "Welcome to tweeter Yvette")

Whilst he incessantly spits bile at UKIP, the other politician he probably hates most is Michael Gove - mostly due to the cancellation of the ruinously-expensive Building Schools for the Future programme. It is a shame that Gove has moved from Education since he may have benefited from Dimwit Darren's insight if this (unaltered) tweet is anything to go by:

"Not easily for some to understand how Schools get funding taken me a while. Easy to create conspicuous theory and carp about things".

The Turdmeister hates art and the arts (Birmingham - and LoB in particular - you have been warned) and formed a close "friendship" with a mythical troll called "Ian Crow" who opined that art is "shit". Strangely, Cooper and Crow both spelt "personal" as "personnel" and, for example, used the derogatory expression "wifey" about my, er, wife.** Cooper and a friend in the Unite trade union have also recently been openly trolling a Birmingham arts charity. When he and his colleagues recently shafted a local arts centre in an area of extremely high cultural deprivation he claimed in this unaltered tweet:

"We have Gallery's in other parts of Sandwell".

You couldn't make it up.....

As above, however, Pooper S-Cooper "likes to be kind to people" and so when the Council was shutting down some local public conveniences he advised local shoppers, "Make sure they go before they come out". When three male protesters against closure were photographed outside the lavatories he made the homophobic quip, "O dear you could get arrested hanging around what was public toilets!"

Sometimes his utterances are positively gnomic: "Fed up with these as Beens giving it the big one". (Answers on a postcard please....) He accused a former councillor of "still bitching" which doesn't seem very "PC". In a rare moment of insight, however, he did ask the rhetorical question, "Why does everyone hate councillors?"

Cooper has openly trolled in his own name and as this blog has shown, has teamed up with the likes of  Mr Paul Kerton to attack me and my wife. Recently the trolling has been particularly vicious - notably via the now-closed account @Bhamskidder. The curious thing about that account was that Clairvoyant Councillor Cooper was the ONLY follower of it BEFORE it became active! Whilst the police are involved in all this the trolling has continued via other accounts - usually followed by Cooper and one Brian Rickers of Unite. Readers of this blog will know that the GMB Union also tried to smear me recently and their employee, one Sarah James of the local Smethwick Branch, immediately tweeted Cooper and Rickers to tell them what she had done. And who both immediately "favourited" her message? Yes, I think you can guess.

A couple of days ago a troll starting using my wife's name and then stole her twitter profile photo to put on it as well. Who started following this obviously fake account? Desperate Darren (although he has not had the cojones to retweet any of the grossly defamatory material).

Addendum 02/01/15 - the main current troll account has morphed again. You will see from the photo below that Cooper is the ONLY follower of the troll I know. He started following when this account was in my wife's name but it has now been morphed to "L Smith" (which happens to be my wife's maiden name as put on twitter by the previous troll). The profile also specifically mentions me as "Jules" and the area where I live (which is known to The Turdmeister). Once again Cooper is aligning himself with a trolling account!

(There are currently at least two troll accounts attacking me and my wife and clear evidence of others waiting "in the wings").

Addendum 05/01/14: Readers of this addendum which includes another thicko Cooper classic may also like to read my blog of today's date, "Sandwell "Leader" Tries to Cover His Tracks". He has actually not only been following the above troll account but actually retweeting from it. The account has now been suspended by Twitter. At the same time Dopey Daz has been trying to "clean-up" his own timeline with various deletions. At LEAST four other troll accounts are now up and running. The Turdmeister (who, unbelievably, is also Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel) is continuing to rubbish claims that the current fraud investigations at Sandwell Council will come to anything and to claim that his Twitter account is purely personal even though it is clearly shown on his official Council business card. And so we have this mocking, but "stiff", gem in reply to a Labour Party member tonight:

"Bob any news on the Business card you e-mailed about or arrest yet? & all I've done [ie in trying to clean-up his timeline] is got rigid of the idiots off my timeline".

Clearly Cooper is throwing down the gauntlet to would-be challengers and seems determined to seize the "Thickest Leader" trophy!

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This character has long-harboured the ambition of placing his buttocks on the green benches of the House of Commons but it seems that even the Labour Party are not stupid enough to allow him near the place. Thus he has turned his attention to extending his power base within the proposed "Greater Birmingham" combined authority - something those in the West Midlands outside Sandwell should truly fear. Of course, his commitment to self-aggrandisement is total and he is not going to let his personal beliefs get in the way of career progression. Other local politicians should heed his notorious tweet of 21/12/13, "I really don't care what's happening in Brum my focus is on #sandwell & the people who live here". Vive le Roi!

If YOUR council "leader" is even thicker than Councillor Cooper please let me know! Contact details below. 

BY OVERWHELMING POPULAR REQUEST THE CLOSING DATE HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD FROM 30TH TO 1ST APRIL, 2015!

* See my posts - "Unsuccesful Complaint to Sandwell Council - Tweets of Council "Leader" of 08/05/14 and "Tweets of The Turdmesiter - Part One" of 19/05/14.

** See my post "The Curious Case of Ian Crow" of 25/02/14

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