It's Official - Councillor Meehan WAS Lying!

Tony "Fudgy" Meehan HAS joined the ranks of Sandwell's Labour liars! I have been catching up with research over the holiday and regret to say that I had missed Anthony William Meehan's change of information on his Register of Members' Interests on 21st November, 2014 to correct his earlier lie.

Regular readers will know that Postman Prat was elected in May, 2014 as prime Hussain and Cooper voting fodder but lied on his original Register entry (a criminal offence if done without reasonable excuse) when he claimed not to own any property within the Borough of Sandwell. As long ago as 22nd July I pointed out that if "Tony Meehan" was one and the same person as "Anthony William Meehan" - the registered owner of the freehold property at 8 Vicarage Road, Wednesbury - then our Tone was telling porkies (see my blog "Another Sandwell Labour Liar? - Tony 'Fudgy' Meehan" dated 22/07/14). I wrote to Neeraj Sharma, the Monitoring Officer of Sandwell Council, at the time but she refused to say whether Anthony William was, indeed, "Fudgy". Seemingly she also did not speak to him about the query (or else he simply ignored her) as the Register was not changed until late November.

Sandwell Police (and, later, senior officers within West Midlands Police) have been fully aware of problems with the Register entries of a number of Labour's lying Councillors since July and this subject will be blogged about again shortly. Compare and contrast their lack of activity with the charges the Dorset Police have brought against a Tory at the local council who has been specifically charged under the Localism Act for failure to disclose a material interest (as reported in a recent Private Eye article)!

"Fudgy" has owned 8 Vicarage Road since 2000 and so it is strange that he should have forgotten this particularly as it is the address he has used both a Labour election agent and as a candidate - not to mention as the base for the mythical "charity" - the "Friends of Fudgestock" - which received at least one grant of £1,500 from the comrades at SMBC! Finally on 22nd November, 2014 he has admitted the truth!

To make sure Meehan does Hussain and his sidekick's bidding this new kid on the block has been placed on 11th June, 2014 on both the Wednesbury Town Services Improvement Board [sic] and, unbelievably, on the crucial audit committee! Still, at least that will mean he is entitled to "special responsibility" payments from us taxpayers on top of his normal allowances! Trebles all round!

Report SMBC dodgy deals please to Regional Fraud Team - 0121 251 2175 - DS Wayne Haynes.

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