Eling - The Cover-Up Kid!

When our friend, the quondam Derbyshire resident and Rotherham Council "political officer", Steve Eling became the new "Leader" of disastrous Labour Sandwell (aka "Sadwell") Council he made great pronouncements about how he was going to "drain the swamp" following the corruption of the Cooper/Britton years (although he has yet to sack Britton allegedly because the joke "Chief Exec" has "too much" on Eling's own record for him to wield the axe). He specifically said that he would address the problems arising from Cooper and Britton's "flexible" attitude to complying with the law of the land and, in particular, the Freedom Of Information Act.

Regulars readers may remember that The Skidder organised the UK's first ever "Corruptour" not so long ago (this idea emanated from Mexico City and involves people actually seeing with their own eyes some of the places where fraud and corruption has occurred). Some folk actually thought this was a joke and that there was not an actual trip but the event did go ahead - and a photomontage will appear on here in due course!

I did a short blog on 31st March, 2017 stating how Labour Councillors had used a neighbourhood meeting to complain about this event to their friends at bent West Midlands Police (I am not suggesting any wrongdoing by the individual officer but we do know that a senior officer of officers have been deliberately blocking police investigations into Sandwell Council corruption).

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/councillors-try-to-stop-corruptour.html

Unbelievably, although bent WMP will not investigate their corrupt pals they apparently have so little to do that when a Councillor complains to them on such a nonsensical issue they spend further time taking action on the complaint. Thus the Sgt telephoned me demanding information about the Corruptour!

It then became apparent that the matter had been raised at the official meeting by Cllr Linda Horton (mother of the Liar Lucy Cashmore) and so I put in a Freedom of Information request for the minutes (Steve Eling's campaign of openness does not extend to these minutes being automatically available to taxpayers and voters "lol").

After considerable delay on a very simple request Britton's staff have now replied sending the minutes but, lo and behold, there is no record whatsoever of the disgraced former Mayor's complaint! Either the comrades with the connivance of WMP and the Fire Service who were also present agreed not to minute the issue or it was later expunged from the official record! FFS what is going on here?

Now I have been forced to make a new FOI to WMP itself:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sandwell_corruptour_complaint_to#incoming-1000141

Of course, it is interesting to note that an MP at the time plus a new MP were at the meeting. See if you can spot the name of an alleged anti-corruption campaigner there too!

Present:

Councillor Richard Marshall (Chair)

Councillor Babu S Bawa OBE      

Councillor Steve Eling

Councillor Mohammad Rouf

Councillor Linda Horton

Councillor Roger Horton

Councillor Keith Davies

Councillor Zahoor Ahmed

Councillor Preet Gill

Rt. Hon.John Spellar MP

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