Home with the Hortons!

I need to make a public apology in respect of the Cashmore story. I know I checked something a while ago without getting a result but on re-checking, I find I have missed something very interesting indeed!

Labour Councillors Roger and Linda Horton have made no public comments whatsoever in the last year about their lying daughter, er, Labour Cllr Lucy Cashmore. Roger, who is up for re-election on Thursday, is blind but you would think he would have noticed if Lucy had been living in his Smethwick house for a considerable amount of time in the last four years rather than with her husband (a Sandwell Council employee) and two children in South Birmingham. But, of course, the local Labour Party - of which Roger is a very senior and prominent member - conspired to select The Liar as a candidate even though she was ineligible (though Roger, no doubt, did not influence the, still anonymous, selection panel in any way).

It is getting a bit full down at 47 Hall Road. Having been registered at the electoral roll at her Birmingham address for several years, The Liar has now registered on the electoral roll at BOTH her Birmingham address and at the Hortons' in Smethwick. This is legal if she is spending roughly equal amounts of time at each address. Curiously, many Councillors in Sandwell have a complete lack of judgement and have apparently given the woman-bullying "leader" of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, authority to speak out on their behalf. Mind you, in this case, he is a very close personal friend of the Hortons and though he won't publicly admit it, he must have been fully aware of her ineligibility as a candidate in the first place. But when questions were raised, Cooper started putting it about that Lying Lucy was having "marital difficulties" - hence her sojourns on the dog-sh*t smeared streets of Smethwick. Why Cashmore and her Council employee husband (who have two kids) gave him authority to say this is a mystery and, in past blogs, I pointed out that The Liar's own Facebook pages seem to show a very different story anyway (or did before she erased them).

And now Roger has another grown-up daughter under his feet too! The new electoral roll - prepared using individual voter registration - shows that daughter Charlotte has also completed a legal declaration saying she too is spending at least half the year in 47 Hall Road which is odd as she was recently living at Wilson Drive, Tividale. Indeed her move back home must be a selfless act to look after Roger as Land Registry records today show that Charlotte is actually the co-owner of xx Wilson Drive!

Funnily enough, Charlotte used to work for Jobsworth Recruitment Solutions as did her lying sister. Indeed, Lucy Cashmore was a Company Director there for a short time and told Companies House in legal declarations that she was living at her real address in South Birmingham, not in Smethwick.

Then Charlotte worked for two other companies where The Liar also worked, Prime Time Recruitment and First Personnel. 

Now when I first spoke to the Police about Cashmore, I pointed out that Sandwell Council is dishing out hundreds of thousands of pounds per annum to recruitment agencies to employ staff at grossly inflated wages and the commission-hungry agencies are taking massive cuts or percentages (as I pointed out from leaked documents a while ago Labour were paying an agency - owned as part of his empire by a Dragon's Den bloke - £3,045.84 a 37-hour WEEK for the services of one E. Redding and I am told there are even higher figures than that!) The staff at recruitment agencies rely on commission for much of their income. 

There could be a very good reason if a Councillor lied about her employment if her company (which also employs her sister) were getting business from the Council. Now I must have been p*ssed when I first looked at this since I could find no possible connection and, of course, all this may be entirely coincidental but The Liar Cashmore says she worked for First Personnel from February, 2013. But by May, 2013 at the latest Sandwell Labour had started giving work to, er, First Personnel!

Again by pure coincidence, the Sandwell Council payments over £500 list show NO payments to First Personnel at all in the financial year ending 30th March, 2013 but then we have this:

June, 2013 £2,579.07 (3 deals); July, 2013 £7,271.63 (5); August £7,333.93 (3); September £12,982.60 (4), October £14,945.33 (5); November £2,435.99 (1); December £6,664.21 (2); January, 2014 £16,024.69 (9); February, 2014 £15,607.86 (6); March, 2014 £10,646.50 (4).

April, 2014 £8,0121.94 (4); May, 2014 £nil; June, 2014 £13,781.77 (10); July, 2014 £5,051.39 (3); August, 2014 £890.10 (1).

And so whilst Cashmore was claiming in the Register of Interests to be unemployed, by total coincidence, her actual employers - during her time with SMBC - secured contracts worth around £124,237.

MY SINCERE APOLOGIES FOR MISSING THIS EARLIER!

Incidentally, all the payments came from the Strategic Resources Department. People tell me the ex-boss, Stuart Kellas, was massive mates with, er, Roger Horton but even if this is true, I am quite sure that nothing was untoward in any way. It seems that it is quite common in Sandwell for employees to socialise with Labour councillors.

I have done a short Freedom of Information Request which is set out below and I am inviting the Police to look at all this again to make sure that all is "above board".

Let us now all give thanks that in addition to her pay and commission, the Liar has also received thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money by way of Council allowances. Glory Be!

Now I pointed out recently that the Labour propaganda machine, the Wolverhampton c*ck-suckers (aka "The Express and Star"), did a massive puff piece on Cashers alleging that The Liar has only stepped down from the Council because some unpleasant people have been using social media to "troll her" although they do not mention whom these alleged "trolls" might be. They also forgot to mention that the Express and Star Group not only employ The Liar Cashmore but have even promoted her!

YOU CAN'T TRUST "THE STAR"!

Lying Lucy joined the recruitment arm of the cock-suckers, Star Employment Services, in July, 2014 and was allegedly promoted in February, 2015 to "Operations Director". In the newspaper article, "The Star" quoted Cashmore as saying that her health had been affected by the non-existent "trolling" and yet they knew all along she was working for them and can't have been too concerned about her health if they say fit to promote her! Clearly being a massive fibber is not a bar to employment in the recruitment industry.

And "The Star" also failed to mention that since September, 2014 they have also been employing the Liar's sister, the aforementioned Charlotte Horton! She herself mentions working with The Liar on LinkedIn (though she also forgets to mention to potential clients and employers that "Lucy Cashmore" is also her sister):

Sandwell Labour have well and truly rogered the Borough but if you live in Soho and Vic and are very stupid you can "roger yourself" this Thursday! Of course, most of us mortals just have one vote but, because of her lying, Cashmore has one vote in the General Election but can vote Labour twice in the local authority elections - once in Brandwood, Birmingham where she really lives and once for her dear Daddy! Now that's what I call fair.

Of course, Labour also p*ssed on Bristnall four years ago by conspiring to break the law and foist an ineligible candidate on the benighted populace but have they taken care in selecting a replacement? No, they have not. If you live in Bristnall and are even thicker than people in Soho and Vic you can elect Carol Goult for Labour on Thursday. This new joke Labour candidate has entered an Individual Voluntary Agreement to avoid being made personally bankrupt! This means she nearly went bust but her creditors accepted a reduction in the debt payable by instalments instead. Although she has been unable to manage her own finances Carol "The Debtor" wants to have a say in running (or ruining) the lives of good Sandwell folk. Bristnall - it is pay back time but this one is down to you!

You couldn't make it up. And I haven't.

If you have evidence of possible corruption at SMBC phone the police Regional Fraud Team on 0121 251 2175 - DS Wayne Haynes & Team.

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FOI REQUEST 04/05/15:

It is apparent that Sandwell Council started contracting with First Personnel in or around February/March 2013. 

1. Please disclose the internal documentation relating to First Personnel's approval as a supplier to SMBC;

2. Please supply copies of First Personnel's invoices to SMBC from 1st February, 2013 to 30th August, 2014;

3. Please confirm - with full details if applicable - any direct contact between SMBC staff and Lucy Cashmore and/or Charlotte Horton of First Personnel from 1st February, 2013 to 30th August, 2014.

I will meet reasonable photocopying charges - if pre-agreed - for the copy invoices.