One Sp*nk Brother down! Bankrupt Councillor and keen amateur swordsman Richard Marshall was due to stand for election again in May but at the recent Labour Campaign Forum meeting in Sandwell he was given the bum's rush by the comrades! His fall from grace has been even more spectacular than his mysterious rise to the position of "Leader" Steve "The Milkman" Eling's right-hand man and "enforcer"! But his demise may turn out to be good news for his fellow Sp*nk Brother.....
Incidentally, Eling himself left before the vote on his pal, an incident described by one Labour Party insider as "abject cowardice even by his standards!"
It seems that Legendary Lothario Richard had not even been in the Labour Party for very long when he was taken under the wing of the late Smethwick Scumbag, Darren Cooper. We know the former wife-beater never acted for altruistic motives and it remains an enigma what services Tricky was to provide for Dickhead Daz's dubious patronage!
Marshall was quickly found a seat and became a Councillor in 2014. He was perpetually skint and he and his wife ran up numerous debts. Although he initially denied it was him, he eventually confessed to being the Sandwell Labour Councillor who had to be taken to Court for non-payment of Council Tax (although "Chief Executive" "lol" Jan Britton tried to suppress that fact.) He operated a very small building company but had difficulty getting credit from building suppliers whom he had already sh*t upon such as Travis Perkins. He had debts of £133,000 secured on his low-value property plus many unsecured amounts (see further below) and his wife has three current County Court Judgments registered against her.
I know that despite my scatalogical lapses this blog attracts a "family" audience but, alas, the rumours about Tricky Dicky's extra-marital activities are just too graphic for the shrinking violets of Sadders. But we cannot move on without reference (mentioned elsewhere in this blog) of how this poor innocent abroad was wickedly entrapped and seduced by a veritable she-devil described here in his very own words:
"She said her husband would not be back for a while, grabbed me and started groping me. I am ashamed to say that I responded."
Yes folks, poor Richard was a VICTIM - though his next comment about this sordid tale rather suggests otherwise "lol":
"This was the start of a sex-only affair that lasted approximately 12 months."
It is not my practice to mention the family of councillors save where there is very good reason why their affairs should be in the public domain eg. Cooper's domestic violence in a former relationship, Eling being listed at his wife's property in Derbyshire and their joint threats to me at the election count (posts passim) etc. But Mrs Marshall was a co-defendant with Tricky Dicky in a court case where she backed him up 100%. In case you missed it - Richard had a fantasy project to do a barn conversion on a farm near Halesowen although he didn't actually, er, own it. He and his wife then procured a sum in excess of £30,000 from a widow to part-fund this pie in the sky nonsense. Of course, nothing ever came of it and Mr & Mrs M simply blew the cash. The widow asked for the money back and when she didn't get it, commenced court proceedings. The Sopranos, sorry Marshalls, fought the case on the ludicrous ground that the money had been a "gift" and both did a vicious hatchet job on their unfortunate victim - attacking her in most vile ways. Immediately before the Court hearing it seems that a barrister gave the Marshalls the "appropriate advice" and they caved in. By this time the debt had increased with interest and the widow had spent thousands of pounds on legal costs so that she obtained judgement for around £80,000 whereupon Tricky Dicky simply declared himself bankrupt.
(Despite her involvement in ripping off the widow whilst amassing numerous debts there is a rumour going round - which surely cannot be true - that Mrs Marshall is now in receipt of our - public - money as an employee of dire Sandwell Labour Councillor and now also Edgbaston MP, Preet Kaur "Greedy" Gill!!!! Any info on this gratefully received!)
Because of the debts secured on his property plus all his other debt - including nearly £7,000 which Marshall had screwed out of a (then) near-neighbour to buy supplies and pay workers following "an invoicing error" - the widow is now likely to receive nothing at all! Nor are his other conned and unfortunate creditors.
Steve Eling has known all the stories about Marshall for ages but showing spectacular lack of judgement - like many other comrades - chose to ignore them and even to ignore direct warnings, not least from Cllr Yvonne Davies. Even though Dicky had only been a Councillor for two years when the Scumbag died, The Milkman gave him a Cabinet position at the bent Council!
Love her or hate her, Yvonne is a feisty character - unlike the cowering dimwitted sheep around her in the Sandwell Labour Group. She was actually hounded out of one of their meetings with Eling himself screaming "out, out, out" at her for telling the comrades the facts about Marshall. She has been hauled before the "whips" for trying to alert them of impending disaster if they continued to back Marshall but, as ever, the pathetic drones played "follow my leader" and did Eling's bidding. Cllr Davies was duly admonished for, er, telling the truth! I hope the sheep will be queuing up now to apologise to her!
If only the comrades had also heeded the words of impending disaster from class comedian Cllr Bob Piper! He also gave the comrades fair warning of what was likely to happen but he is such a joke no-one paid any heed to what he was saying - things like this:
But Piper has also been a major Eling/Marshall groupie. Here is again on the subject of cheating conman Tricky Dicky:
"I think he's a good bloke whatever his past indiscretions (if any)."
Despite outstanding complaints with the Labour Party there are also Standards Complaints with SMBC against Eling and Marshall although the new(ish) and highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, is doing his best to block them.
Cllr Marshall (though not Cllr Eling) referred himself to Standards after the WhatsApp revelations when he and Eling attacked fellow Labour Councillors, SMBC employees and disclosed confidential information. This is the sort of filth they churned out:
This was clearly the standard ploy to try to save his skin (and Eling's) but complaints have also gone in from others including myself and ex-Assistant Chief Executive, Melanie Dudley.
Melanie was, of course, viciously attacked by Eling and Marshall and it was plain from the WhatsApp feed that Eling planned to get rid of her (Marshall didn't have the authority for that decision). As we have seen time and time again (though Eling recently DENIED it to The Halesowen News) errant employees have been paid off and gagged with confidentiality clauses from speaking out. Here, Eling himself ordered Jan Britton not to go over the top with her severance package:
Labour keep on about "Tory" cuts whilst robbing local folk and pissing cash up the wall yet if the unaudited accounts are to be believed The Milkman agreed a final severance package for Mel of just short of HALF A MILLION POUNDS! Here is the relevant section from the accounts which show a final annualised payment to Melanie Dudley of £482,079!!!!
(I have repeatedly pointed out to the Chief Constable and other officers of bent West Midlands Police that the contractual confidentiality clauses only have effect in civil law and that if the Cowards in Blue did their job properly they would have interviewed a number of people who have been paid to remain silent and broken the whole stinking Sandwell mess wide open. But CC Dave Thompson was a mate of Dickhead Daz and his force is deeply implicated in this whole scandal and so he won't. Let us hope that the recent comments of James Morris MP on Sandwell recently in Parliament will mean that higher authorities will intervene here and demand police action - preferably from an independent force.)
So paying out nearly half a million quid of OUR MONEY is not going "above and beyond" as far as Eling and Britton are concerned! (This payment, by the way, was not approved by the full Council despite the huge sum involved.) But like Yvonne Davies, Melanie is no pathetic pushover. The Sp*nk Brothers and Britton thought they have bought her off but she bravely put in her own Standards complaint following the WhatsApp disclosures although she only named Marshall. Clearly Surjit Tour thought he could safely ignore this but brave Mel then went to the Wolverhampton C*ck-Suckers (aka The Express and Star) in early February and pointed out that her complaint had been made in October and nothing had been done for four months! (What a way to treat a senior ex-employee in any event.)
In the meantime the Skidder also put in a Standards complaint against Eling and Marshall since, as far as the WhatsApp feed is concerned, that pair are two cheeks of the same sh*t-smeared arse. The Complaint went in at the end of November (although further allegations have been added to the original ones since.) I was told on 22nd December, 2017 that one Sandra Prail of SMBC would be conducting the investigation and that she would be in touch. Later that day Tour said he had been appraised of "further information" and would be reconsidering whether my complaint would be dealt with at all. He also tried to silence me from commenting on it. Despite a prompt I have heard nothing further since and it looks like I will have to approach the Local Government Ombudsman in due course.
Of course, the likelihood here is that Tour has been stalling Melanie and myself so that any "investigation" runs into the "purdah" period before the May elections (ie from late March onwards the sleazy Council will "shut-down" any controversial party issues until after the election) This was important when Marshall was due to stand in May.
Now the situation is even rosier for Eling as Standards Hearings only occur for
serving Councillors. Following the defenestration of Tricky Dicky by Labour, Tour only has to delay the investigations a short while longer and once the election has taken place that is that as far as Marshall is concerned and Melanie's objections to their shocking conduct will die a death. My complaint about Marshall will also die but Tour will no doubt do his best to block the one about Eling (if he has survived as Leader by then.)
Folks, your chance of seeing this pair on camera in the Council chamber having to account for their misdeeds is now very remote. If you want the truth you will have to consider reading The Skidder, I'm afraid!
As everyone has now seen, Eling and Marshall wanted me to attack Melanie Dudley whilst she was ACE of their own Council eg suggesting at one point that I give her a "kicking" and making untrue allegations of various sorts against her. On 3rd September, 2016 Eling and Marshall wanted me to attack her again:
But Melanie has the mine and Marshall's got the shaft. Indeed Eling has given Dicky a sharp stick of his own to make himself useful as he is now just hanging around like a bad smell....
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