Let me take you back to January. The "comrades" had finally arranged a show trial for Cllr Ian Jones on trumped up nonsense (ie that the late Smethwick Scumbag Darren Cooper had ordered that the plot of land at Florence Road, Smethwick be removed from an auction and sold privately to Cllr Mohammad Rouf's son. Jonesy was allegedly in breach of the code of conduct for simply passing this order on to members of Jan Britton's bent paid service).
Regular readers will know from the infamous WhatsApp feed (posts passim) that a number of Councillors, including the feeble "Leader", Steve "The Milkman" Eling, were determined to destroy Jonesy who was seen as a threat to the new regime. To make sure that the Standards Committee came to the right decision on the evidence, ahem, Sandwell's highly controversial new Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, arranged a top secret meeting the day before the hearing with the Committee members. You would have thought the four Councillors - Lewis, Trow, Shackleton and Crompton - would have been experienced enough to have realised the irregularity of all this but dutifully turned up anyway. But info of the pow-wow leaked out.....
There were reports that a male person in Oldbury Council House went ballistic when the leak became public knowledge. Someone decided that it must have come from one or more of the seven secretaries working for the Cabinet members. The male was heard shouting "I want the f*ckers out and I don't want the f*ckers back." Apparently Jan Britton was not in the office (though it is doubtful if his brooding presence would have made any difference given his willingness to toe the Labour Party line) but a person or persons unknown then suspended the seven - just like that! Part of the Council's computer system was locked down as the mole hunt began.
I initially reported - from information received - that the ranting male was Herr Eling which was the same information many others received. Eling never contacted me to correct this (although I have referred to his unproven denial in this blog) but he ran to his pals at West Midlands Police and said that I was guilty of criminal harassment for reporting that it was him!
But mystery still surrounds this whole affair. It was initially said that a lowly grunt in the bent paid service, Stuart Taylor, had been responsible for this crazed and arbitrary decision which always seemed improbable. This was then changed to "council managers acting on the advice of human resources" had made the absurd order. But now SMBC are refusing to answer a Freedom of Information (FOI) request as to who made the fateful decision. Further, the foul-mouthed shouter who demanded the suspensions has still not been identified.
West Bromwich West Labour Party were disgusted that seven workers could be treated in this way by their own Party and put forward a motion of censure which stated, inter alia:
"Such actions are a fundamental abuse of natural justice, a breach of trade union agreed processes and are contrary to the historic values of the Labour Party." Ouch!
I was told immediately that the leak had NOT come from the secretaries and, lo and behold, no evidence was found that it had. After a period of gardening leave they were all re-instated. They quite rightly consulted their unions. But here the story takes another odd twist....
I have blogged about Darren and Sarah James* - well paid GMB officials xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ms James, a woman who was obsessed with the soft porn sado masochistic novels of E. L. James, has caught the eye of two of Labour's most notorious shaggers (no, not you Dave) Corbyn and [Tom] Watson.
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2014/12/skidder-shorts-no-22-hilarity-at.html
Addendum 03/12/18 - xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Addendum 2nd October, 2019: for those that have been attempting to make trouble for me it should be remembered that it is perfectly legal for councillors other than those of relevant wards to assist housing applicants if requested pursuant to The Allocation of Housing (Procedure) Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/483). Indeed Sandwell Labour Councillors, including the current Leader, assure me that this is a daily occurrence for many of them.
There has been a suspicion - voiced to the Skidder by some GMB members - that the Union has been less than enthusiastic in upholding their rights where Sandwell Council is concerned. Of the seven secretaries I understand that six were in Unite but that one, the secretary of The Sandwell Slasher, Simon Hackett, who I believe from the SMBC website is Amy Hodgkins, wasn't. Unite have secured compensation for their wronged six but the GMB were apparently not prepared to help poor Amy against their pals. Unite's six have, however, been forced to sign confidentiality clauses so Labour are still trying to hush this all up! BUT IT IS TAXPAYERS' MONEY that the bent Council is now forking out ie they are stealing it from you and I to cover up their shocking and disastrous decision.
I have gone to the Information Commissioner to try and force out the name of the person or persons who made the ridiculous order in the first place because it is clearly essential that disciplinary action is taken against them for gross abuse of power that has directly led to the loss of taxpayers' money.
Last night I asked cabinet members Eling, Hackett, Trow, Costigan and Hossell how much the secretaries got and why it was being kept secret. Eling and Hackett made no comment. Trow and Costigan claimed they didn't know anything about this!!!!! Hossell said the same initially but then said it was Amy's fault she lost out as "she was in the wrong Union and should have been in mine"! This is bizarre as the unemployed Hossell claims in his Register of Interests to be a member of the, er, GMB!!!!
I also attempted to ask the same Councillors, irrespective of Amy's Union affiliation, was it a "socialist" thing to do to compensate six colleagues and not her? Answer came there none....
Jan Britton made an appearance outside last night and I asked him for comment but he too said nowt. He must have signed this rotten deal off and he must now say what really happened and how much it has cost US!
Conspiracy Theory
Tom Watson used to be bankrolled by Unite's long-suffering members but they have turned their back on him. The vicious bully - who controls Hackett and some other Councillors - is now declaring donations from the, er, GMB. Nudge, nudge - wink, wink!
But Hackett's Jodie Gets The Mine....
Sandwell Council's allegedly "independent" audit team under one Peter Farrow (cf the WhatsApp feed) have had information for some time about Councillor Hackett and senior employee Jim Brennan actively involving themselves in the Council housing requirements of Cllr Hackett's personal friend Jodie xxxxxx. As nothing has apparently been done I asked Hackett about this last night but he made no comment. But here is an actual screenshot of a Sandwell Council computer showing that he was involved in one of the two dodgy transactions involving this young lady. Why and how? This is AFTER Hackett had been "cleared" (following the intervention of Herr Eling "lol") of five serious allegations of breaches of the Code of Conduct.... Over to you WMP!
Nothing is ever black and white in Sadders. It's always 50 Shades of Grey.....
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