I always feel a bit uncomfortable with Mr Street. Is he really standing on principles or just trying to flog policies like he sold curtains to bourgeois women throughout the land? Is he really a "breath of fresh air" or just incredibly naive? There is no doubt he is getting a bit of a taste for politics and power (foreign jaunts included) but can he survive what looks like being a Tory meltdown of epic proportions just around the corner? If Britain elects the communistic terrorist-lover and economic imbecile Corbyn and Labour increase their power in West Midlands councils then Street may become a lame duck very soon!
Street has been "light" on principles - notoriously steering clear of the Brexit debate and some matters closer to home. The general consensus is that he is only in power because grotesque bully Tom Watson forced Labour to put up the ludicrous and useless Sion Simon as their candidate. In his campaign, Street participated in a number of "Ask Andy" sessions where the public are invited to spend an hour in his company and ask him whatever they like. He has continued these sessions since his election but for how much longer remains to be seen if last Tuesday night is anything to go by, when Andy picked his was through the dog-turd smeared streets of Oldbury to expose himself (in the non-Hackett sense) to the apathetic, grunting proletariat in Sadders.
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| Ceremonial Shit-Strewn Way laid out in memory of the late woman-bully thug, Cooper. |
The event took place in the Council chamber where attendees had to walk past a picture of the former Leader [sic] and wifebeater Darren Cooper to get in. (Of course, the late Smethwick Scumbag had delusional pretensions of winning the mayoral crown himself "lol"!) Sandwell Council is a fetid Labour dictatorship where ludicrous Councillors like John "Socialist Landlord" Edwards and Bob Piper actually take to social media and castigate Tories as "vermin". The "Party" has f*cked up the Borough royal in the 43 years of its existence and is currently an exemplar of fraud, cronyism and incompetence. And now mired in scandal too!
But as the extra tier of West Midlands governance was thrust upon us against our will so some of these "socialist" sleazebags have now been "promoted" to positions within the Combined Authority despite all the f*ck-ups in Sadders! Spunk Brother Steve Eling has been taken on by Street himself as his Cohesion Czar! Perhaps the Mayor should sit down and have a read about Eling's "finest hour" in the High Court judgment of Mr Justice Hickinbottom where the left-wing ("lol") Council was slaughtered for discrimination and much else by - hang your head in shame Eling & Co - the Child Poverty Action Group!
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| Female equality Sadwell-style |
Such was the "pull" of Street's appearance that I counted 22 people (excluding Andy's team) at the session plus two late-comers. Three were Sadwell Labour stooges (more anon). There was, as far as I could tell, only one representative of Sadwell Tories present to support their own man! The Skidder was there as was well-known community activist Darryl Magher and the amazing local wildlife and environmental campaigner Ian "Goose-man" Carroll.
There was a tag team present of four young women who asked some fine questions about homelessness - and sexual discrimination in that context. Alas, they were not Sandwell folk but had travelled from Brum! (Ironic that they should have asked questions of this subject in this venue noting Eling's disastrous court case mentioned above.) Under questioning from your own correspondent, Street said the fact that he owns three and a half properties is "irrelevant" when discussing his attitudes to homelessness and also generally since we all strive to get on and do well in life..... Well quite!
There were two chaps who asked about transport related matters, one from the Motorcycle Action Group.
Some women were present campaigning for WASPI - the campaign against horrendous pension and other inequality for women. One kindly wore a sash to make Tory Street feel at home, even if it wasn't an Orange one!
A young woman trying to start a business in the Borough bemoaned the lack of cheap non-office space in the Borough (hardly surprising as the "socialist" council has waged war on business and enterprise for 43 years.)
Mr Carroll asked how Labour Sandwell could be promoting the ridiculous "Garden City" concept as an excuse to let a developer - based in an offshore tax-haven - build houses around the incredibly-polluted Rattlechain Lagoon in Tividale/Oldbury, a poisonous pond stuffed with toxic white phosphorus*. Incidentally, the vile scum at Sadwell Council are calling the health-threatening lagoon "the wet tip"! The Mayor didn't know the facts about this but made an interesting comment for a Tory that he wasn't over-keen on companies using tax-havens to do business within the UK which is a reason he had issues with Amazon when he was boss of John Lewis.
Roughly half-way through The Skidder and Mr Magher asked some questions about the fact that there was no mechanism in the Combined Authority structure to suspend or expel corrupt Sandwell Council from the club. When the first question was asked the male Labour stooge ordered his two female companions to rise and storm out of the Chamber in a huff, thereby diminishing the already sparse audience! The leader whom the sheepish women dutifully followed was none-other than Labour Cllr Pete "Zorro" Hughes and his unthinking supporters Cllr ("lol") Pam Hughes (related) and Wednesbury's favourite "frail pensioner" Maggie Dorsett!!!
Fair play to Street he does try - at least for now - to give straight answers eg that the CA was targeting concessionary travel fares on youngsters rather than wrinklies. Whilst he was diplomatic on the night he (and others) do now seem to be aware of the numerous "issues" in bent Sandwell (and WMP.)
If he is not just giving us all the hard sell our Mayor comes over as a nice guy and he is certainly getting to grips with his brief, showing an increasingly impressive mastery of facts and figures etc. He still maintains that he is a "moderate, tolerant and inclusive" Tory who wants to bend the "nasty" Party to that way of thinking. Naive? Maybe. But I can't see him wasting much time with Sandwell in the future just when the intervention of sensible outside agencies is desperately needed.
I am sure if the crazed Jedward is reading about a "moderate" Tory he is already on Twitter using his favourite hashtag #vermin but these insular knuckle-dragging jokers are selling Sadders short once again. And what of "The Boy From The Brown Stuff" who made his second most infamous exit from an event since THAT night at Wednesbury Rugby Club? Yes folks, Peter "Tosser" Hughes is now the, er, Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel at, yes you guessed it, West Midlands Combined Authority. Remember to "Ask Andy" next time you see him how such a f*cking ridiculous appointment could ever have been made????????
And finally, remember this (PH being Pete Hughes) from leaked Labour Party minutes:
"Gallagher Retail Park – details were given of the proposed improvements that were going through on this retail park and increase in jobs, in addition to those at Lidl. EC/PH pointed out that they had built up a particularly positive relationship with the representative of the Management Company, Quadrant. They also expressed their extreme disappointment and disgust at the intervention of the CLP Chair, and Wednesbury South Councillor, Bob Lloyd, in criticising (in articles in the Express & Star and Sandwell Chronicle) the Management Company with regard to the car park works being carried out over the last few months of 2016."
As you will see from the photo below all is well in the world and EC "persuaded" Gallagher's to divvy up again for the Wednesbury lights. Let's all hope that if they have some more planning applications next year, SMBC will deal with them favourably as they have so often in the past....
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| Gates of Hell! (Hughes pictured with green antlers!) |
*Read Ian's excellent blog about Rattlechain:
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