Unite the Union made a great song and dance about it and there was industrial action but they quickly caved-in when Serco offered them a sop. "I'm very pleased. All members are happy", local Unite officer and close personal friend of Council Leader [sic] Darren Cooper, Brian Rickers, told the Wolverhampton c*ck-suckers.
It has to be said that Labour have a disastrous record with outsourcing and "25-year" contracts. The housing contract had to be brought back in-house and the BT "Transform Sandwell" deal turned out to be an unmitigated disaster, with the multi-million pound fallout still damaging Sandwell. The Public was another "25-year" project which the comrades simply tore-up.
On the other hand, the loony Lefties have been comprehensively stitched-up in long-term PFI deals by the likes of Barclays Private Equity and Interserve and are being forced to pay eye-wateringly large sums to them and their successors for periods of up to 30 years. Just take a look at SMBC's "payments over £500 list" and you will see the colossal monthly payments under these deals to the likes of Total Schools Solutions (Sandwell) Ltd and Sandwell Futures Ltd.
PFI is not known as "Pay For it Indefinitely" without good reason and the "socialists" would have to pay staggering sums to buy the people of Sandwell and the taxpayer out. The strutting "leader", Cooper, and his Labour comrades have saddled not just this generation but the next with mountainous debts.
On a happier note it is said that a few "friends" of Sandwell Labour have been found employment with Serco including, so it is said, one with a criminal record for serious violence. It is also said that Deputy Leader Cllr Mahboob Hussain's son-in-law works for them (the one who owns a house in Century Road, Oldbury with Hussain's daughter for which Sandwell labour gave the couple a home-improvement grant - which is strange as she has also been given a four-bedroom council house by the cunning comrades and diligent officers of Jan Britton's Council team!)
Serco have been raking in millions from Sandwell folk and the taxpayer-at-large but are showered with praise at every opportunity by senior Labour councillors. In 2013 Cllr Ian Jones (the one who lied live on BBC radio about the #bog-gate scandal) said:
"Since teaming up with Serco in 2010 we have dramatically improved waste and recycling services for residents".
When a local resident tweeted to Darren "The Turdmeister" Cooper himself with a contrary view, Turdy replied in his own inimitable way (via his purely "personal" account which is not, er, used to promote SMBC etc):
@spaghetti_fan @PeterBateman6 @sandwellcouncil Feedback about Serco very positive normally. But we meet know when it's not a good service."
Sandwell Labour have permitted Serco to put their logo as an advertisement on a variety of SMBC propaganda posters and leaflets including a former arts festival, a shindig aimed at promoting Labour at West Bromwich Town Hall and others.
Serco also (allegedly) sponsor the "Big Spring Clean" whereby volunteers laudably go around doing for free what Serco itself is paid millions by us taxpayers to do anyway ie cleaning up the Borough. You will see from the 2014 poster that this purports to be a Serco "event" and the contact is via Serco but SMBC boldly display their logo and their huge, taxpayer-funded, press office use all available means to link this to the Council and thus to promote Labour:
Let's hope that the funding is coming from Serco and not the cunning comrades, eh Readers? There is only one company "cleaning-up" from all this!
Which brings us neatly to Sandwell Labour's favourite subject - canine excrement. Not long ago, the Trotskyist [sic] Turd-hunters launched a poster campaign of staggering vulgarity at a cost of £3,386 to the taxpayer against the brown tide engulfing the six towns and, ever since, the bloated and supposedly "independent" press office has pumped huge public resources into promoting this. Of course, The Turdmeister himself has given the campaign his imprimatur and extensive backing - earning his sobriquet in the process.
Unbelievably, it is said that some other councils (Bewdley possibly being one) have adopted the ghastly images and so at least that means Sandwell Labour have got some licence fees back for all this public expenditure. Alas not. The comradely coprophiles have, according to a Freedom of Information reply, gifted the rights away "in the spirit of co-operation"! So who says they are short of cash?
Ah well, I hear you say - at least the Serco logo is daubed all over the posters and so the entrepreneurial lefties will have got a fair old screw out of the capitalist giant for that? I think you can guess what is coming? Yes, you are right. Sandwell Labour say in an FOI reply that they got precisely NOTHING from Serco for advertising the logo far and wide.
The morons in Sandwell Labour like to refer to the public-cash-guzzling monster that is Serco as their "partner" (perhaps Cllr Sandars writes the script?) This is not something that comes out of a dog's arse but out of that of a larger beast altogether. It is popularly called "bullsh*t".
Sandwell employees and others can phone the police fraud team in confidence - DS Wayne Haynes - 0121 251 2175
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