Lion Farm - Gavan Breaks Ranks (+ Farewell Dicky!)

Cllr Bill Gavan is up for election in May. There was some controversy about his re-selection and a complaint was made to the Labour Party. But Bill himself says this is all nonsense. He says there were 13 voters at the selection meeting who went 7 to 6 for him. (Which seems to indicate that nearly half of local Labour members didn't, er, actually want him back.) Ex-Mayor Derek Rowley (himself currently suspended from the Party due to, inter alia, alleged irregularities in his handling of local selection procedures) then seems to have re-run the vote which came out 12 to 1 in Gavan's favour! So that's alright then....

I have been out on his patch a fair bit lately helping to deliver leaflets against the campaign by Sandwell Council's Leader, Steve "The Milkman" Eling and Tom Watson's puppet Cllr Paul Moore, to destroy Lion Farm Fields. What was truly alarming - though not surprising with this out of control, rogue, Labour Council - is that there has been no consultation with local folk whatsoever. The vast majority of those I spoke to had no idea that SMBC were plotting to get rid of this vital green space in a very heavily urbanised area and the few who did had only found out about it via this blog! This is a massive and controversial project and, typically, these con artists are hiding everything from the people.

But, lo and behold, as election day approaches Gavan has pronounced himself to be a convert to the "Save Lion Farm" cause and says they should remain as playing fields. He insists that this is NOT a trick to con local voters and that his view will be exactly the same after election day (assuming The Milkman has not had his b*lls off by then.)

If this is true it is a welcome step forward (assuming he IS re-elected) but, on the other hand, he has ordered the Campaign Group to stop emailing him which does seem to show a curious lack of interest in important local affairs....

Gavan has appeared in this blog before. Back in 2015 I expressed surprise that the moronic and corrupt former "leader" of the Council, the late Darren Cooper, had made him the Council's "business ambassador" when Bill and his Partner had been involved in a huge list of, er, dissolved companies! See my post, "Only in Sandwell":

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/only-in-sadwell.html

I then revealed that a certain "William Gavan" had made a £5,000 donation to the local Labour Party and Bill, an inexperienced and newish Councillor, was then immediately promoted to Chair of (ironically given the Lion Farm debacle) The Asset Management and Land Disposal Committee which would yield him an extra allowance from us taxpayers of, er, £5,256 per annum. Bill has steadfastly refused to say whether he and the "William Gavan" who made the big party donation are one and the same person. Do ask him when you see him Langley voters! Full blog here:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/dear-bill.html

We have seen that when it comes to recruitment of his henchmen and women, The Milkman has sh*t for brains (notably in this positioning of Marshall - see more below - as his right-hand man and enforcer) but Gavan made a curious remark the other day. After the election confident Bill said it "was not beyond the realms of possibility" that Eling would promote him to the Cabinet in charge of Parks and Recreation! Whatever the position cheeky Bill has seemingly jumped the gun and taken to parking his car near his home in a convenient spot in the entrance of The Jesson Playing Fields in West Brom. Well you have to have some perks for constantly brown-nosing The Milkman, eh folks?

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THE MEETING AT LION FARM ABOUT THE FIELDS TOMORROW. ALL WELCOME:

SAVE LION FARM FIELDS

PUBLIC MEETING

SUNDAY 22nd April, 2018 at 1pm

St James Church, Shelsley Avenue,

Oldbury B69 1BG

Have YOUR say on bent Sandwell Council plan to destroy vital green space in Oldbury 

Say “no” to more congestion and air pollution

Object to Sandwell Council corruption

Support local sport, fitness and grassroots soccer

The fields are held in trust for YOU! How has a property developer got his hands on YOUR land?

Send questions for the meeting to

savelionfarmfields@gmail.com

Join the campaign on social media

Twitter @LoveLionFarm

Facebook Group - Save Lion Farm Fields

FAREWELL RICHARD MARSHALL (The sooner you are gone the better....)

Nothing could show up Steve Eling's hapless abilities as Leader of the bent Labour Council than his disastrous decision to promote new Councillor Richard Marshall as his consigliere and enforcer when The Milkman tried to gain top spot. He and Marshall then used Council staff to dig up dirt on Eling's rivals and, infamously, both tried to recruit me to attack any of his opponents and staff that he perceived to have stepped out of line.

Even a great Eling/Marshall arse-licker like Bob Piper warned the Party of what might happen IF news got out of what was really going on (and he tried to help make sure it didn't) but a grave injustice remains to be overturned. Cllr Yvonne Davies (who is currently recovering from illness) was suspended by the local Party for attempting to tell the Labour Group what Marshall was up to. At the time, she didn't know the half of it but she rightly smelt a rat and warned the comrades of  his appalling conduct. Eling tried to hush it all up. Jan Britton declined to answer a Freedom Of Information Act identifying Marshall as the Sandwell Councillor who had been taken to court for non-payment of Council Tax though Marshall was eventually exposed via this blog. Even when Dicky was made bankrupt the flailing Eling clung on to him like sh*t to a blanket and kept him in the Cabinet until a tsunami of excrement finally overwhelmed him.

Many of Yvonne Davies's supposedly socialist comrades - including The Milkman - shouted at her and hurled abuse when she tried to warn them about Dicky and drummed her out of a meeting. She deserves immediate reinstatement and an apology from all those who attacked her. I know that is not how these venal cowards work but for once they should do the right thing....

Marshall was deselected by Labour. He had the cheek to turn up at the last Council meeting but did not use the main entrance where he would have been spotted. He is to be evicted from his house on Tuesday and is said to be moving to Redditch. No doubt the good matrons of the town are locking up their daughters as I write..... Goodbye and good riddance!

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