Harrison and his staff tried to put the boot in on me on a couple of occasions and infamously printed a pack of porkies about former councillor "Lying Lucy" Cashmore whilst forgetting to mention that she was then working for a company within the Express and Star Group!
But these tough guys were never man enough to apologise when they had mislead their readers. Au contraire, even when confronted with legal documents proving otherwise they CONTINUED to republish the same old fibs on behalf of their hero - the worst example being the Cooper lie that Sandwell College are paying "rent" for the former Public in West Bromwich whereas the actual lease filed at HM Land Registry shows that they are not!
Regular readers will know that the woman-bullying thug, Darren Cooper, was most anxious to have an ice-rink in West Bromwich. Right from the early days of this blog inside informants advised The Skidder that the greedy little scrote was hoping to secure financial advantage from this "deal". I recently revealed the allegation that the ice rink operator, Mike Petrouis, was personally introduced to Cooper and Co by former West Bromwich MP, "Lord" Peter Snape. Petrouis used to place advertising in the Shropshire Star and so, with Cooper feeding them guff as well, the Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers were immediate cheerleaders for this deeply flawed project.
Now here's a curious thing - following a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request SMBC claim to have no recollection or record of how the proposal came about. They can only say what was already in Council documents ie that the Council was approached by Petrouis. Mysteriously, since current Leader Steve Eling eventually saw the light and pulled the plug on this bent deal, Jan Britton's (Chief Executive [sic]) bent paid service have allegedly got rid of all the early documentation - yet another dramatic failure of governance in his shambolic authority! They even claim they haven't even got a record of the initial meeting! No mention of Snape appears anywhere, natch.
We do know that us taxpayers then paid for SMBC to make "extensive" efforts to find a site for Petrouis before they alighted on the huge multi-storey next to Tesco in West Brom. Documents now released show how ill-thought out this whole thing was and seem to contradict official records anyway. They suggest that, contrary to the official record, Petrouis was to pay for the demolition of the car park. He was also to pay for the ice rink. In return SMBC would charge him £1 a year (yes, you read that right, one pound per annum) for a 150 year lease. Even though the taxpayer would be losing car park of £189,000 per annum less increased rates of £7,350 (a net annual loss £181,650) the comrades were going to bung Petrouis £300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand pounds!)
Right from the off Jan Britton's bent paid service realised that this would be illegal under EU state aid rules*. The law said that, at the material time, a local authority could not grant more than approximately £176,000 to a private company without specific EU approval. Accordingly certain, as yet, unnamed members of "Strategic Finance" recommended that the Council give Petrouis £176,000 cash and the remaining £124,000 be "invested by the Council in environmental improvements in the form of new lighting, pavements, etc". From the very beginning Britton's bent staff recommended flouting the law. (I recently questioned the fitness of the new S.151 Finance Officer to be making decisions on possible fraud and corruption which he had apparently failed to notice it on his watch as a senior accountant at SMBC. Let's hope he wasn't involved in this scam since that calls into question not just his fitness for that purpose but also for his current position even if he is "innocent" of wrongdoing or relies on the Jan Britton "defence" ie "I am very highly paid to do a job which I didn't do. I'm really sorry that I didn't notice the fraud, corruption and bullying going on all around me! Can we just keep on as if nothing has happened please?"
Even though the scheme was deemed to be hopeless under the Council's own scoring system the Labour Party tried to force it through save that they resolved to scrap the lease idea and sell the land cheap to Petrouis instead!
I make no insinuation of any wrongdoing by Petrouis as I currently have no evidence of any but he must have thought all his Christmases has come at once dealing with these "socialist" twisters (who were uncontrolled in any way by the grovelling Britton and other top officers of the authority). Milord Snape is refusing to comment on his alleged involvement in all this.
The FOI reply also confirms what I have claimed all along. The Council made NO options appraisal for the cleared car park site so as to give Petrouis a clear run! If this was not outright corruption then it was negligence by Jan Britton and his staff of the highest order. But then, under Britton, contacts, deals and housing allocations to "friends of the comrades" - to the exclusion of all others - were de rigeur. When is this joker going to be sacked, Cllr Eling?
Back to bully-boy Cooper. I started blogging that this was a bent deal early on - from as long ago as 15th January, 2014 - and pointed out at an early stage that The Wolverhampton C*ck Suckers were quoting Cooper as saying that he dreamt up the idea and that HE had approached ice rink companies! I dealt with the sheer improbability of this recently thus:
"The late woman-bullying thug improbably claimed to the Josef Goebbels Institute in Queen Street, Wolverhampton (aka "The Express and Star") that he had initiated the whole concept and even floated the idea with a "couple" of ice rink companies. They duly printed this tosh in the full knowledge that a retard like Cooper was incapable of working out which hand to wipe his arse with let alone setting-up large business deals!"
How could serious journalists - knowing that "Darren" was an inveterate liar - print this pure propaganda? And yes folks, the truth is out at last in the FOI reply and SMBC have now admitted that it was indeed all untrue and, in fact, Petrouis was the only ice rink operator "Sadwell" had dealings with and they deliberately excluded everyone else from the bent deal. Now there's a surprise......
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* If you are wondering why this did not apply in the case of the bent Public deal when SMBC and the College (including Governor WMP Superintendent Bas Javid, brother of Tory Cabinet Minister Sajid Javid) were able to gift a nearly £6 MILLION pound contract to Interserve without competition it is because they resurrected the procurement provisions of the already defunct Building Schools for the Future scheme).
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