Nele's work was the creation of over five thousand small ice figures which members of the public placed on the steps of the Square where they duly melted. In a masterpiece of logistics by The Hippodrome an absolutely amazing team of volunteers (of which I am immensely proud to have been one) spent every afternoon (and two Saturday mornings) FOR A FORTNIGHT making the ice sculptures in moulds. The event was a spectacular success with thousands in the Square and massive media coverage. The morning of the event had been particularly stressful for all concerned in the project due to adverse weather but all was well and we all found the event incredibly beautiful and highly-emotional.
Nele was doing media interviews etc after the event and so the volunteers adjourned to the pub before we all met up again. I put a couple of photos of us all on Twitter and Facebook including this one:
You will note that we are all wearing our "black" t-shirts and trousers/skirts which was our "uniform" for the event. Hold that in your minds if you will....
Regular readers will know that Sandwell Council and it's vicious Labour "leader", Darren Cooper, have put in considerable effort to shut this blog down (even trying to get West Midlands Police to do their dirty work for them.) Cooper and his associates having failed in that endeavour have resorted to attacking and harassing my wife and her employer together with a Birmingham charity of which she is a Trustee. Cooper has harassed my wife directly (eg threatening for unknown reasons to confront her at her place of work) and he and his pal, a local Regional Organiser from Unite the Union, also set about using Twitter to attack her employer, a Birmingham arts charity:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/labour-leader-unite-officer-harass-arts.html
But in early 2015 the out of control staff of Jan Britton - who purports to be "Sadwell's" Chief Executive at over £150k per annum - colluded with the reprehensible Cooper and the Council formally sent two letters signed by Darren Cooper to my wife's employer in a bid to have her at least suspended or preferably sacked for her job. This purely on the fallacious "reasoning" that because she has the dubious honour of being married to me (ahem) she is in some way culpable for what I write (and I happen to be rather proud of some of the exposes made in this blog).
Again, Skidder aficionados will know already that Jan Britton's staff and Cooper lifted the above photo from my Twitter or Facebook account and used it for nefarious purposes in one of the letters to the employer. The question is, why?
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/smbc-dis-hippodrome-volunteers.html
Let me take you on a short diversion here, dear readers. Over the last couple of years I have done other voluntary work for arts organisations in Brum including for the charity that employs my wife. During this period my wife and I have been subjected to an enormous trolling campaign on Twitter (which is still ongoing). So far, Twitter has suspended 15 accounts ALL of which Cllr Darren Cooper was DIRECTLY associating with and engaging with (as was his mate from Unite). In a sting operation he was caught out confirming that he knew the identity of one of the trolls and in another case (assuming he was not actually the troll himself) he was caught out passing highly defamatory information direct to the troll.
Back in December, 2014 a very sustained and vicious campaign started together with Unite the Union sending me electronic Christmas cards and staff (who are personal friends of Cooper) from the GMB union spreading malicious and untrue allegations about me. One of the now suspended troll accounts was called @bhamskidder and was being followed by Darren Cooper several hours before the troll started tweeting!!!!! Some of the tweets attached a photograph which had, again, been lifted from my own Twitter account. A cropped version is shown here and you will note that I am wearing a black t-shirt although I have cut off the logo of my wife's employer for present purposes.
Not a pretty sight I know but a lot uglier with the stuff the trolls put with it ie that I had killed a child whilst drink-driving, defrauded a company I used to work for etc all of which was tagged to my wife's employers to cause trouble for her.
A number of the troll accounts which Darren Cooper directly associated himself with, and interacted very publicly with, also hinted to the charity that I was a paedophile and unfit to work with children. They kept referring to criminal record checks to imply that I was unfit to do voluntary work together with less "subtle" stuff:
02/12/14 That's a shame do you work with kids (copied to the charity);
And this from the troll account Darren Cooper has been caught passing stuff directly to:
Cooper wants to be the new West Midlands Mayor and Britton, the Trojan Elephant, is already second in command of the admin side of the new talkshop - black days indeed lie ahead for arts organisations in Birmingham and the wider region. But Darren Cooper is famously/notoriously intellectually-challenged and his lack of any sort of judgment is legendary. Here he is writing about me to one of the troll accounts directly HIMSELF - making highly-defamatory statements that I have committed unspecified offences (which, of course, I have not):
And the answer to the riddle of the picture of The Hippodrome volunteers? Quite simple - the reckless prat Cooper had seen the picture of me wearing a black t-shirt in one picture and just assumed - whilst writing an important official letter as Leader of Sandwell Council to get a woman outside Sandwell sacked from their job - that the picture in the pub related to the same organisation! Can you believe that? And Jan Britton's equally reckless staff failed to check and just used taxpayer-funded Sandwell Council to send it out.
I have spoken to a number of volunteers in the photograph who confirm that neither Jan Britton nor any member of staff sought their consent to use the photograph to attack and bully a woman and that had he sought such consent it would most certainly not have been forthcoming. They are disgusted that, having worked on such a brilliant project, their image has been hijacked by a Labour local authority in this absolutely appalling way.
What do you say readers? Time for Britton to issue a formal public apology to the volunteers?
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Does Cooper have better things to do with his time?
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