Labour Help a Business Grow!

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Now here is another oddity from the stinking cesspool of Sandwell Labour. The first question is  - when is a business start-up a "business start-up"? Do the comrades view this as someone who has never started a business before opening a new business or do they mean someone who has had, or still has, a business but is also going to try their hand in a different enterprise? It would seem to be the latter as far as the usually anti-business Sandwell Labour Council are concerned....

Back in the day, one Sayeda Amirun Nessa of Tipton applied for a business start-up grant to open the Moonlight  Restaurant and Takeaway, at existing restaurant premises leased out by the freeholder at 71 Great Bridge, Tipton. A "panel" at Sandwell Council decided that the application was in accordance with the grant scheme. I have done a Freedom of Information Act request about all this but, as yet, SMBC have not disclosed the grant application, the identity of the "panel" who decided the issue and any other relevant documentation.

I have pointed out many times that the hard-left loonies hate business and vast numbers of the Labour councillors are unemployed and have no business experience nor acumen. Maybe this explains why the shifty "socialists" duly awarded Syeda her grant - £2,000 on 21st January, 2011 - even though she had, at that stage, already been involved in a failed business called Regal Housing Limited operating from her home address in Bevan Road, Tipton. Indeed an application to strike off the company from the register at Companies House - signed by Sayeda herself on 10th January, 2011 - was made just 4 days before Labour handed her two grand. No doubt she declared all this in her grant application - that's the one I haven't been able to see yet.

Of course, any sane person might have questioned the wisdom of making a "business start-up" loan to a person with a failed business behind her but they're a crazy bunch those Sandwell Labour Councillors! But then they are not dishing out their own money are they? They are squandering ours!

And so, we ask, how did the balti business do under Sayeda's control? Well at this stage I can't say but I will hazard a guess that if she was actually involved in the business at all it wasn't for very long. Why do I say this? Remember that the restaurant owner - Sayeda in this case - was a tenant of the owner of the property. Remember too that she was getting her "business start-up grants" in January, 2011. And yet when PC Plod came a knocking at the Moonlight on 26th November, 2012 she had, so it would seem, already gone. Unfortunately, what had not gone from the premises were 629 cannabis plants! A Judge later found that the Moonlight  "farm" was only part of a much larger operation involving two Vietnamese gents who were duly caged. But the press reported at the time that the "tenant" of the Moonlight was not Sayeda but one Jahodur Rohman who, for permitting the use of the premises for drug production, received a 20-week sentence suspended for two years.

Well at least laughable Labour did see some business "growth" at the premises!

Indeed, Sayeda was moving onwards and upwards. Despite her involvement with a building company and a restaurant she obviously also has an extensive knowledge of health issues since in May, 2012 (17 months after her grant and six months before the cannabis farm was found) she became a trustee of the Bangladeshi Women's Association and also Company Secretary and Director of Bangladeshi Women's Association Limited where she is described on official documents as a "Health Development Officer". It is not clear whether she "gave up" her business and is employed in this role elsewhere or actually by the BWA itself.

Of course, the BWA receive substantial funds from Sandwell Labour and a leading light there is none other that Labour Councillor Sayeda Khatun MBE.

Oh, by the way, did I forget to mention the identity of Sayeda's Landlord at the Moonlight? He is Syed Raja Miah* - perhaps better known as the husband of, er, Labour Cllr Sayeda Khatun MBE. He was, no doubt, delighted in 2011 when Sandwell Labour decided to help his tenant out with the rent!

If you have information about possible corruption at Sandwell Council please speak in confidence to thepPolice Regional Fraud Team - DS Wayne Haynes & Team - 0121 251 2175.

*When I checked the electoral register just yesterday this gent was not registered at Cllr Khatun's home address but she declares his interest in the Great Bridge property on her Register of Interests.

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