Cooper Exposed!

Finally we have a definitive link between the thick woman-bullying thuggish Labour Leader [sic] of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, and a couple of the troll accounts attacking me, my wife and others. People like the joke Wainwright at The W'ton Express and Star have been running guff for the paper's hero that he is somehow the victim of trolling whereas anyone with half a brain can see what he has been up to over the last few months and that, in fact, he is at the very heart of a trolling network. He and his big friend, Brian Rickers of the Unite Union - have tried to make my life a misery but their vicious harassment of my wife has been way beyond the pale. Their joint attempt to get her at least suspended and, preferably, dismissed from her job for no other reason than to hurt me is beneath contempt as are their vile accusations about her morals. If this is what Labour, Unite and the people of Sandwell want from their "leader" then you deserve everything you get. If nothing else - read this post and consider whether someone SO abusive and moronic is a suitable person to be running a major local authority.

Please note that I am most definitely NOT "Mr Mole". A friend, appalled at Cooper's conduct, kindly made contact with him without my knowledge of consent but once a channel of communication was open I was informed and suggested some of what follows.

In this first exchange you will see Cooper is very anxious to get dirt on his political opponents:

Mr Mole: "have hard copy of stuff on "Mr X" shall I send to council or home address. Don't want to use Odgen (a new troll account). See Vernon (my Twitter nom de plume) is after me at the moment"

Cooper: "Do you want to email me direct?"

Mr Mole: "Not email, can't scan this lot. Happy to post anonymously to any address"

Cooper: "xxx Londonderry Lane, Smethwick B67 xxx"

Cooper: "That's my home address xxxx"

(Incidentally the last is something of a novelty as it is an extremely rare example of Cooper using an apostrophe!).

Of course, I have kindly been given the actual screenshots as evidence for all this.

Ok you might say, he is a politician and they deal in dirt. But then things take a much more sinister turn. Here is an exchange where a piece of false information was then sent to the wife-beater Cooper:

Mr Mole: it's a very small world spoke to some bloke xxxx xxxx who says "Vernon" assaulted him at a law firm called Talbots in Bham

He just kept job but went in next round of redundancies. Will let you know when post is on it's way.

Cooper: That's very interesting xxxx. Can that be linked to you if used?

Mr Mole: I bloody hope not. It shouldn't and hope you'll keep me out of it. Have enough on plate and missus would go ape.

Cooper: Sorry xxxx I meant would the guy know it's you who told me? I'll most definitely keep you out of it.

In the next exchange which followed on directly from the above, Cooper specifically admits to knowing the real identity of the troll account @OdgenW:

The pathetic Labour "Leader" of a metropolitan borough council and, even more laughably, the Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel (!) then specifically admits to passing this (false) information to the really nasty (and male) Twitter troll @Gemmawool15 (assuming, of course, that Cooper does not have direct access himself to the "Gemma" account):

Mr Mole: its kicking on Gemma's account. Is that you or one of your contacts see calling out matey saunders. If OK will send pack out on Friday.

Cooper: I passed it onto them thanks to you :)

An absolutely unambiguous admission of direct contact with the troll and note the use of the word "them".

This led immediately to a blizzard of harassment from the @Gemmawool15 troll account with no less than 44 tweets in a single day a week last Monday trying to smear me for the mythical assault (12 of which were copied to my wife's employers!). It should be noted here that Councillor Cooper has specifically also been trying other methods to get my wife sacked from her job even though she is nothing whatsover to do with this blog. The troll was even reckless enough to publicly name the alleged victim. Here are just five of the FORTY FOUR tweets (plus there were a further two on the following day both of which were also copied to my wife's employers):

"@Gemmawool15:  Julian Saunders Can you tell us about someone being assaulted at Talbot solicitors why'll you worked there? @xxxxxxxx (wife's employers)";

"@Gemmawool15:  @xxxxxx(wife's employers) @Support @sandwellleader @OdgenW @ExpressandStar I need answers Julian? Otherwise will be over to interview you? Lol"

(Note troll copying in Cooper who is following the account and also the troll @OdgenW who, as above, is known to the "leader");

"@Gemmawool15: @xxxxx(wife's employers) @Support @sandwelleader @OdgenW @ExpressandStar Julian did you get a final warning for your actions? #tribunal"

(Also note, the main cheerleaders for Cooper - the Wolverhampton c*ck-suckers - also copied in);

"@Gemmawool15: let's ask u a simple question did u know a Mr xxxx from Talbot's solicitors? @ExpressandStar @OdgenW @xxxxx (wife's employers) @_sarahloowho"

(The last person copied in here is Sarah James of the GMB Union who tried to smear me before Xmas - read my post below for full details);

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/skidder-shorts-no-22-hilarity-at.html

In addition to all this harassment - started (AT BEST) when Cooper passed the false information to a known troll - there was also filth directed at my wife as stated in my last blog:

Of course, the other trolls (now finally taken down by Twitter as abusive and which were being actively engaged with by both Cooper and Rickers) made vile accusations against us and have made multiple false allegations about Linda's "affairs". Judge for yourselves whether Rickers was being sincere here when he was directly engaging with one of the troll accounts @brumskidder:

Linda used to work in Library Services including for Sandwell MBC!

Regular readers will know that Cooper used his own account to threaten to confront my wife at her new place of work (for reasons he has never explained) and so this is interesting from the day after the 44 abusive tweets referred to above:

"Gemma": Going to [wife's new employers] to get answers (copied in to the employers and to the account purporting to be that of Sandwell Labour Councillor and Facebook liar, Joanne Hadley).

A further message was then sent to this vile xxxxxxxx xxxx [redacted though true description of Darren Cooper] containing false information:

Mr Mole: Mr Saunders has admitted being at Talbots then. Rattled now about assault although not admitted yet, might have more on him if you want it.

Cooper: Indeed xxxx, not admitting it yet. Yes anything you may have of use would be helpful.

Mr Mole: Have you noticed he hasn't mentioned Primitivo (a bar) in B'ham for a long while. Ask him about being barred for touching up the bar staff.

Cooper replied "Really thanks". In yet another monumental display of lack of judgement he and Unite's Brian Rickers soon put this highly-defamatory material onto Twitter without even bothering to check the veracity of it (and Rickers is lying as he most certainly did NOT visit the bar as he alleges). You will see from what follows how close Unite are to the Labour "leader" which must have been very convenient when Cooper was sacking hundreds of  Unite's members!

NB the interesting spelling of "why'll" by Rickers and compare and contrast with this from the aforementioned troll @Gemmawool15:

PLEASE NOTE  that Twitter also suspended the Gemmawool troll account yesterday for abusive behaviour. Cooper and Rickers were both actively engaging with the account throughout.

As above, the Teflon Turd Cooper never misses an opportunity to try and harass and intimidate my wife and drag her in when he is spitting out his baseless and false accusations.

And so another false snippet was sent to the Labour "leader":

Mr Mole: "His Mrs is fed up with his antics and that him not earning no money. Can't stop him. He is also drinking heavily. She's had some problems...

....at work with [first name of person] because of Julian.

Cooper: I know exactly who your [sic] talking about xxxx.

And so Dickhead Daz immediately starts tweeting to the troll Odgen. Remember, this is the guy who is angling to head up "Greater Birmingham" now that his parliamentary ambitions are sinking into the sand! And what a charming way to describe a former employee:

And then a charming exchange with liar Rickers (and I assume that he mentions Stella because it is often called "Wife Beater"):

My wife was away on Thursday night and I has a meeting that evening at The Wellington pub in Birmingham (seriously - it was a genuine meeting concerning some voluntary work I am doing although I don't normally need an excuse to visit The Wellie!) "Mr Mole" mentioned this to the moronic "leader" and so deep is his hatred and obsession with me he immediately started putting this crap up - copying in his Unite operator (note that, as any fule know, The Wellington famously does NOT do food):

And Cooper and Rickers continue to work hand in glove to attack us. They are so vicious and reckless they make no attempt to check the truth of the highly defamatory statements! Cooper having named the alleged victim of the mythical assault then can't even get the name right! This from TODAY about me:

Note Rickers copies in Chief Exec of SMBC - how cosy!

The false allegation that I have a conviction for drink driving has been a recurring theme of the trolls. Cooper cannot help himself and joins in again:

There is a police crime reference number concerning the trolling attacks on us - phone 0121 251 2175 quoting 20BW/219129J/14.

By the way, I had a very nice couple of pints of Tim Taylor's "Landlord" last night at Primitivo and can highly recommend it!

Clearly Cooper has to go but the problem for Sandwell is that it is no good simply exchanging the Hussain/Cooper dictatorship for the Hackett (or whoever) one. SANDWELL DESERVES BETTER!

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