Lion Farm Scandal - Who Did Kerry Tell?

Amended 27/06/18 - THE HUMAN CHAIN EVENT IS TONIGHT!!!!!

Before I start on the latest Lion Farm news can I remind you of TONIGHT'S event - which is important not just to Lion Farm folk but for all those who want to stand up to Sandwell corruption and to protect the local environment with its toxic and murderous air quality and dire traffic congestion. Oldbury is the second worst of the six towns for green space and the bent Labour Council want to get rid of another huge chunk.

Please give up just 10 minutes of your time to join the human chain at 6.30pm opposite the Post Office on Newbury Lane. At 6.30 we will join hands in a show of solidarity. Wear your England or other footie colours if you like. Meet other folk and have some fun on what should be a lovely summer's evening. We will take some photos and disperse in good time to get home for the footie!

At the public meeting the other week I spoke about the mystery surrounding the property developer not registering a restriction to protect his dodgy deal.

In 2012 (then) Cllr Hussain introduced the developer, Jeremy Knight Adams to the bent Labour Council. Meanwhile Knight Adams bought a property in Dudley off Hussain's son for nearly half a million pounds (Hussain's son had paid £85,000 for it a few years before.) Cllrs Hussain and Hackett then agreed in a matter of minutes to grant Knight Adams an option on this gigantic piece of land without marketing it or offering it to anyone else. The Cabinet (including Cllr's Eling and Moore) backed the "deal" as did the full Council. The legal department of Sandwell Council - which we now know to have been tainted with corruption - gave the developer his option in early 2013 and, so it would seem, secretly extended it annually thereafter.

As I said at the meeting - it was very unusual for an experienced property developer not to register the option at the Land Registry.

In 2017 the good folk at Cradley Heathens speedway took an interest in the site and received encouragement for some Labour Councillors (including Eling) even though they had already done a deal on the land (see recent post - only one Labour Councillor has so far replied why they were stringing the speedway people along.)

Now here's a funny thing. The speedway were talking with the Council and enquired about listing Lion Farm as an asset of community value. Just before we move on this is the definition of such a beast from Localism Act 2011:

"88(1) .....a building or other land in a local authority's area IS land of community value if in the opinion of the authority:

(a) an actual current use of the building or other land.....furthers the social well-being or social interest of the local community: and

(b) it is realistic to think that there can be ...use of the building or other land which will further (whether or not in the same way) the social well-being or social social interest of the local community."

You would think that Lion Farm Fields were "nailed on" as an asset of community value......

The speedway were talking with the "Senior Property Officer" in Jan Britton's bent paid service, one Kerry Jones (though no wrongdoing on her part is implied at the present time.) On 25th July, 2017 she sent the speedway the nomination forms. Now at this point the ONLY people on earth who knew about the proposed application were the speedway and Sandwell Council (ie whoever Kerry had spoken to about this.) Yet just three days later at 12.23pm on 28th July, 2017 Jeremy Knight Adams's solicitors applied to HM Land Registry to register the option when they had not bothered to do so for over FOUR YEARS!

Now that is one hell of a coincidence or someone in SMBC tipped Knight Adams off. Where's your money on that one folks?

Further suspicion arises in that either the developers solicitors or SMBC are lying about the registration as shown in the following Freedom of Information Request:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lion_farm_fields_registered_titl#incoming-1178749

The developers solicitors made a legal certification that SMBC consented to registration of the restriction but SMBC say they have no records of this. Again I know where my money is in the pork pie stakes here!

Unbelievably SMBC then turned down the application for asset of community value status simply saying that the definition (as set out above) did not apply to Lion Farm - no other reason given! (Of course it is an old trick of the corrupt Council to lie and obfuscate on the basis that no-one has got the cash to take them to court and they can get away with fraud and corrupt practice.) The Save Lion Farm Fields campaign is giving urgent consideration whether the original application can be re-instated or whether a fresh application should be made (any lawyers out there who can help - please contact via the details below - and I can put you in contact with the relevant parties.)

This all stinks again and I am once again sending this post to West Midlands Police and to the Minister for Local Government etc....

Hope to see you tomorrow at 6.30pm. Night, night!

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More Proof of Eling's Lies!

There was panic at the Oldbury Kremlin yesterday when a national media organisation threatened to publish a major story relating to Steve "The Milkman" Eling's (aka Elying's) bizarre lie (when he was savaging James Morris MP like a crazed stoat) that the bullsh*tting bolshies don't use confidentiality agreements/gagging clauses when forcing staff out the door (usually with us taxpayers easing the pain with 40 pieces of silver.) The highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, threatened legal action to prevent the excellent story coming out. As yet, the organisation has not published.

I picked up the story independently and emailed Eling requesting his confirmation that it was true. Today I too have been threatened by Tour with legal action. I have given him until 4pm to put up or shut up.

Meanwhile, and on a related issue, Eling and Co have been boasting about no "compulsory" redundancies at the Krem whilst - as reported even by the Express and Star a few days ago - they have just shelled-out another £5m on redundancy payments. Of course it is all smoke and mirrors from the conning comrades to bolster their allegedly "left-wing" credentials. As we have seen - and as admitted by long-serving Councillor Bob Piper - Jan Britton sacks the good people so that those that remain are mostly arse-lickers and/or members of "The Party." Feeble employees are promoted above their capabilities - like Britton was himself - for services rendered to "the Leader" "lol" or, as in at least one infamous case in Parks Department, for sexual favours.

When Elying bragged that SMBC do not use confidentiality agreements/gagging clauses he was either (a) lying again or (b) suffering a particularly bad attack of selective amnesia - a local affliction popularly known as "Hussain's Disease". He seems to have forgotten a scheme whereby instead of compulsory redundancy the sleazy socialists offer a special scheme for employees leaving at a future date - "retirement in the efficiency of the service [sic]." Taxpayers give the employee leaving on a fixed future date a fixed sum in their pension pots but the employee has to sign, er, gagging clauses. Despite the untruthful b*llocks from Eling I am told  that the current numbers of these agreements already set up with staff departing on various dates is around three figures! Eling - you might be able to take the p*ss out of the BBC and West Midlands Police but you can't fool Skidder readers!

So smug after humiliating BBC "journalists"!

The employee is given £250 plus VAT to take legal advice on a THIRTY-ONE page contract drawn up by SMBC solicitors. By Clause 4(c) the employee may not even tell anyone - other than a few specified persons - that the agreement even exists! Here it is and the next sub-clause is a gagging clause preventing the employee from bad-mouthing Britton's bent paid service. The employee agrees also not to speak to the press and at 4(g) the threat is made - breach the agreement and you lose the bung from the taxpayer:

Just in case the employee doesn't get the message s/he is warned that in return for taxpayers' dosh there must be no disclosure of any of the terms of the agreement:

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Lion Farm - Nothing from Government Yet.

Back in March I wrote to the then Secretary of State for Local Government etc, Sajid Javid, who also happens to be my MP. The letter was also addressed to the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police who have hitherto failed to investigate fraud at bent Labour Sandwell Council. I urged them both to investigate the highly unusual circumstances surrounding the grant of an option on Lion Farm to property developer, Jeremy Knight Adams. Neither have bothered to respond to date.

By original letter was put on this blog here:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/03/lion-farm-scandal-letter-to-cc-sajid.html

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Of course, Sajid Javid moved to the Home Office and was replaced by James Brokenshire MP. In the absence of a response to my original letter I wrote to the new incumbent at the Local Government berth on 16th May, 2018:

"The Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP                                             
Ministry of Housing etc                                                                   
2 Marsham Street                                                                                         16/05/18
London SW1P 4DF

Cc:  The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP
Cc:  The Chief Constable, West Midlands Police
Cc:  James Morris MP
Cc:  Fields in Trust

Dear Secretary of State,

URGENT - NO REPLY FROM 13th March, 2018

I sent the attached letter to your predecessor (who is also my MP) and to others back in March but have received no response from any party.

This matter is urgent as the property developer has had surveyors on the 19ha greenfield site during the last two days.

I am copying in Mr Javid again as he is hopefully now in a position to act in respect of the corrupt relationship between West Midlands Police and Sandwell Council and as hs IS my MP and I deserve a response from him.

I now understand that the property developer is a significant donor to The Conservative Party but hope (naively) that this fact has not been the cause of the delay in responding to me to date.

Please also note that Sandwell Council have STILL not answered my important FOI request on this proposed development despite the fact that the ICO has written asking them to do so. Please intervene and ensure that they comply with FOIA.

Sandwell are also refusing to disclose the Trust Deed which purportedly put this land in Trust for the benefit of the people of Sandwell and, even though the people are the beneficiaries of the deed Fields in Trust are bizarrely also refusing to give disclosure without permission from SMBC.How can this possibly be right or fair?

Yours faithfully,"

[As we shall see it appears the attached letter got lost too.]

I have now received a letter from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government:

I sent this response yesterday:

"Date: Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:42 PM
Subject: Your Ref: 3779986 - Lion Farm Fields
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sajid.javid.mp@parliament.uk, james.morris.mp@parliament.uk, angela.lewis@fieldsintrust.org


Dear Mr xxxxx,

Thank you for your letter of 15th June, 2018. I fear that because you did not see the original letter from March we are at cross purposes here.

The March letter was sent to your then Secretary of Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, and others. I did sent it direct to Mr Javid as he also happens to be my MP. It seems it somehow didn't get through to the Department.

The easiest way to see the letter is via the link here to my blog (which itself refers to an earlier post):

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/03/lion-farm-scandal-letter-to-cc-sajid.html

Before we move on, it must be remembered that Sandwell is a Council that has gone "rogue" and is riven with fraud, corruption, cronyism and incompetence. Some of these issues were rehearsed in James Morris MP's Adjournment Debate of 25th January, 2018 when the Under-Secretary for State, Rishi Sunak was present.

My main concern here is that the developer (a significant donor to the Conservative Party) was given an option on this land in a matter of minutes by a Committee that included (then) Cllr Mahboob Hussain. The developer was introduced to the Council by Hussain after he had purchased a property from Hussain's son for nearly half a million pounds. This is a HUGE greenfield site we are talking about at Lion Farm. It was not marketed elsewhere nor otherwise offered to other developers. There are clear s.123 "best value" issues if nothing else. This absurd "deal" was endorsed in a Cabinet meeting soon thereafter which got through a full agenda in just 2 (two) minutes! Hussain was present again when the obviously dodgy deal was rubber-stamped.

West Midlands Police launched a fraud enquiry into Sandwell Council but in a bizarre and unexplained twist agreed to stop the investigation (with full use of police powers) if Sandwell Council instructed a private firm of Solicitors (with very limited powers) to do a report instead! The subsequent and useless report (handicapped by lack of investigative powers) still voiced concern about this deal but specifically stated that it did NOT address matters concerning the option. Thus no police force nor anyone else has looked into it despite the obvious stench hanging around it. Someone, somewhere, MUST now do so.

Even though the option was not investigated the solicitor who provided the report still said that the failure to declare interests by Hussain MAY have been in breach of Bribery Act requirements. Us taxpayers paid £180,000 for the useless report - surely we are entitled to something out of that obscene expenditure? Surely when the report raises issues relating to the option here we are entitled to expect the relevant authorities to take action?

Someone, somewhere, in Government has to get a grip on this. We are talking about an alleged £200 million development! Also, there is a very close and unhealthy relationship between West Midlands Police and both Sandwell Council and ex-Councillor Hussain personally and someone "in power" must act to arrange for a proper full and unbiased investigation here.

Your comments about the planning process etc are all noted.

Finally, and in passing, I am surprised that your Department has such a cavalier attitude with regard to Sandwell's non-compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. I accept that this is not within your remit but the failure to respond to FOI requests adequately or at all (or worse, to have deliberately given false information in certain replies) is one of the "badges" indicating fraud and corruption with the Council. Surely if you are responsible for efficient local government you should be concerned that the ICO is currently dealing with NUMEROUS outstanding requests from this Council and recognise that this is yet another symptom of the rottenness therein?

Cc The Chief Constable of the West Midlands By Post.

Yours faithfully"

Needless to say developer Knight Adams has not replied to my letter to him. Besides finding £100k down the back of the sofa for "Vote Leave" he has given plenty to the Tories too (which makes it all the more ironic that the Sandwell "socialists" are so desperate to let him shaft them):

DON'T FORGET FOLKS:

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PLEASE ALSO SUPPORT GRASSROOTS SPORT AND FOOTBALL. 

THE EVENT WILL ONLY LAST 10 MINS WITH ALL LINKING HANDS AT 6.30PM SO YOU CAN ALL GET BACK FOR THE 7PM WORLD CUP KICK-OFFS!

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Skidder Shorts #33 - Coincidences Again...

In 21st May, 2018 I sent the following by first class post to what I believe to be the home address of a female -

"If you are the xxxxxxxxx who works for Sandwell Council I would appreciate a quick and private discussion.

My number is 07930 361831 or email thesandwellskidder@gmail.com

Julian Saunders

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On 22nd May, 2018 - the day she should have received the letter - Jan Britton made a complaint about me to West Midlands Police.

All very odd.......

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Why Were These Councillors/Officers Lying?

Nothing should surprise me any more with regard to the comrades at bent Labour Sandwell Council but this is an odd one even by their gutter-level standards.

I have been speaking with Mr Paul Tromans who was the chap who enquired with the corrupt Borough about moving Cradley Speedway onto Lion Farm Fields (whilst also preserving the existing football pitches.) He tells me, and I have no reason to disbelieve him, that last year - 2017 - he broached the idea with SMBC.

He says he spoke to (at least) these Councillors and Officers:

Councillors:

Steve "The Milkman" Eling, Richard Marshall (kicked off the Council now "lol"), Barbara Price, Chris Tranter, Susan Eaves, Ann Jaron, Sharon Davies, Sandra Hevican, Maria Crompton, Julie Webb and Yvonne Davies.

Officers:

Jan Britton, Nick Bubalo, John Satchwell, Max Cookson, Sunish Patel, Mike Nicholls, Alison Bishop, Simon Chadwick, Andy Miller and John Barker.

Not one of this lot told him that SMBC had already granted an option in 2013 to Jeremy Knight Adams and that they had extended that option (seemingly secretly.) So what the f*ck were this lot doing - particularly officers - lying to him about the true situation?

I know some of the Councillors and some of the above-named are not usually untruthful so what was their game here? Why were these people telling porkies? I hope they will all contact me to explain themselves so that I can pass that info on to you!

Addendum, 21/06/18 - I am grateful to Cllr Barbara Price who has contacted to confirm that she did speak to Paul about this in surgery and passed his ambitions on. She had no idea whatsover that Eling, Moore and others had already done a deal with Jeremy Knight Adams. Thank you Cllr for your prompt response.

Addendum 21/06/18 - Cllr Yvonne Davies has also responded though "private and confidentially."

DON'T FORGET THE HUMAN CHAIN EVENT NEXT WEDNESDAY - 27TH JUNE AT 6.30PM. PLEASE GIVE 10 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO SHOW THE BENT COUNCIL YOU WANT TO KEEP (AND IMPROVE) THE FIELDS. WEAR YOUR FOOTBALL COLOURS - ENGLAND OR YOUR LOCAL TEAM! GATHER ON NEWBURY LANE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE!

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Threats of Violence by Elings "Frivolous"!

Recently the corrupt Labour Council in the rotten Borough of Sandwell announced that there is now to be"zero tolerance" to verbal and physical threats to SMBC staff or to the binmen/women who work for private company, Serco.

Yet when The Skidder made a Standards Complaint against the threat of violence made to me at the 2017 election count (plus a threat to make false allegations about me to the police) by Labour "leader" Steve "The Milkman" Eling (in an incident also involving his wife) the highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, dismissed this as "frivolous." Standards or Double Standards folks?

Tour has ignored my formal complaints concerning Eling and Marshall even though I was directly involved on the basis that others have also complained and THEIR complaints will be dealt with at a forthcoming hearing but not mine!!!! Also Mr Tour says I cannot get a hearing because of  my unspecified "general conduct" towards The Milkman! I have asked him to explain himself and I think an application to the Local Government Ombudsman is inevitable here....

I have not been invited to the alleged hearing even though I am the person most directly involved in all this which is farcical even by Tour's trickery lol.

Here are his preliminary decisions on my complaints:

Here is a reminder of the local police force's attitude towards Marshall. We all thought he was a bit of a winker!

And here is the response to my Eling complaint:

AND MORE ON ELING

The left-wing Skwawkbox is continuing its serious allegations about Warley CLP etc and the malign influence of Spellar. Eling has featured for the second time - now in respect of his claim to delegate status via Brandhall Labour Club:

https://skwawkbox.org/2018/06/12/extraordinary-email-we-were-delegated-to-spellars-clp-without-our-permission-now-suspend-it/

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Public Notice to All Sandwell Labour Councillors.

Here is a notice that I have sent to all the Labour Councillors at corrupt Sandwell. Enough said!

(Special thanks to my first donors. The donate button is on the right under the archive list. If you are viewing on a mobile you need to click through to the "web version" to find it.)

Email:

"Dear All,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION

Eid Mubarak to those celebrating.

Over the years I have known most of you, I have been insulted and abused on occasions too numerous to mention. The "F" word has been used liberally and sometimes the "C" word. I have had councillors literally screaming abuse in my face. I have been threatened with physical violence. On an infamous occasion one or more councillors stole two eggs from SMBC and threw them at myself and other peaceful protesters.

It seems that hitherto I have had a thicker skin than your Chief Executive [sic] and that the alleged use of a single swear word is now classed as a criminal offence! I hereby put you on notice that I am no longer going to tolerate this sort of abuse. I have rights too. Please be aware that from today all abuse and threats WILL be reported to West Midlands Police forthwith. You have been warned and I shall produce this notice to WMP on each and every occasion it is required.

Jules"

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Jan Britton Seeks Revenge?

Chief Constable Dave Thompson has crime cracked in the West Midlands. Thus he has the resources to set the "Complex Crime Unit" onto me to try and close down this blog. Now I have to attend the police station again next week as Jan Britton has said that I called him a "c*cksucker" at the last Council meeting and the bent cops have "crimed" [sic] this as a "public order offence"!!!!!

Regular readers will know that I have frequently referred to Britton's extraordinary feats of arslikhan and questioned how he could possibly have been given the Chief Executive role at the corrupt Labour and retained it for so long on a pay package just shy of £160k per annum (£158,681).

The suspicion has always been that corrupt councillors gave him the job as he is biddable - as they did when promoting the already disgraced Neeraj Sharma to head [sic] the legal department. And regular readers will know he delivered almost immediately - sending an infamous memo to all staff demanding that they always obey the will of councillors rather than rely on their own professional judgement.

Britton was personally involved for a time in the disaster that was Labour's Children's Services and employed Impower on a contract that went way over budget and failed to budge the Ofsted "inadequate" rating. (Under Britton stewardship of the corrupt Council the Department failed so spectacularly the Government has had to intervene and it has now been transferred into a Trust!)

 He did a deal with the (moral) Cowards in Blue that they would drop their fraud investigation on the basis that he would instruct a firm of solicitors to do a report instead!!!!! The main "target" of the Report was ex-Councillor Mahboob Hussain, a Muslim. Britton appointed a self-proclaimed Zionist to do the number on him and the whole thing turned to disaster when the Solicitor made a racist joke about Hussain's family. Notwithstanding that, Britton had agreed to pay these tossers £100,000 of our money for the ultimately useless report and then agreed nearly £80,000 more when they came back with the begging bowl!

We have to assume that Britton has not been on the take from the corruption within the Council but he carefully distanced himself from the fraudulent activity. Although he has ultimate responsibility he claims (although he has never been interviewed under caution by the Police) that he simply didn't know what was going on in his bent paid service. Many reasonable folk would think that is a damning indictment in itself worthy of instant dismissal but Labour want to keep him on. Indeed it is said that he knows too much about Steve "The Milkman" Eling and that Eling knows too much about him so that they remain chained to each other in perpetuity. Senior employees have been culled in the fall-out from the fraud disclosures, eg Sharma and Scarrott, but Teflon Jan has carried on regardless!

When Mahboob Hussain bid for part of a valuable taxi contract from his own Council without declaring his and his wife's interest in the bidding company Jan Britton launched an in-depth "investigation" into the affair and exonerated Mahboob on the basis that it had all just been an unfortunate "oversight". A Freedom of Information request revealed that the investigation was so thorough that Britton could not say what it consisted of and that he made NO records whatsoever of the course of the investigation nor the reason for his findings! Surely grounds for dismissal again?

But Jan has his enemies and they have spread vicious lies about him. A number of callers to The Skidder have falsely claimed that he has behaved improperly with female staff members. I know this is all false as Jan has told me this as have Eling/Marshall.

Regular readers (and hi to Smethwick xxx, an avid reader whom I recently met in The Wildcat, Stirchley) will know that in a secret meeting Eling and then-Councillor Marshall agreed to send me dirt on Eling's enemies. Marshall then sent me a considerable amount of information via WhatsApp. At 17.11 on 11th January, 2017 I sent them a message about one of the allegations concerning Britton.

This is part of the exchange the following day when Eling/Marshall made it plain there was no truth whatsoever in the allegation.

12/01/2017, 17:29 - Richard Marshall: Hes [sic] not Lothario material , trust me. You source is stirring

Of course, Marshall was notoriously "Lothario material" and "knows" about these things. I let the matter drop.

As 2017 progressed a number of  mostly anonymous callers went further with these allegations naming names. I duly wrote to Jan on 31st October, 2017 and he responded with a firm and categorical denial. The question is - who is spreading these lies about Jan and, for that matter, other employees? Who are these enemies in the camp?

The fact remains,  however, that if you are a female employee and "on Jan's side" you are likely to get a better deal than other women working at Sandwell Council. It is said that Jan was away from The Oldbury Kremlin when highly-controversial Monitoring Officer Surjit Tour had his secret pow-wow with the members of the Standards Committee BEFORE Cllr Ian Jones's kangaroo court hearing. It is also said that he was away when seven secretaries were all unlawfully suspended - seemingly by Darren Carter*. (They have been reinstated with compensation from our pockets. Six have signed gagging agreements - posts passim).

But then compare and contrast the treatment of Ms Liz O'nions. She is alleged, and I repeat alleged, to have cocked-up in one section of the Council but rather than face sanction she has simply been moved elsewhere. Shortly before that, she was seen openly "joshing" with Jan in the office and reminded him that he "owed her a curry." Not long thereafter he was seen squiring her to The Vine for non-Ugandan discussions over the poppadoms. One rule for one.......

* Despite the intervention of the Office of the Information Commissioner Jan Britton has failed to answer the Freedom of Information Request into the secretary scandal. I am pressing the ICO to take further action. In the meantime, I wrote to Cllr Steve "Luvvie" Trow on this subject yesterday but have had no response as yet:


Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018, 09:52
Subject: Darren Carter
To: <Steve_Trow@sandwell.gov.uk>, Darren Carter <Darren_Carter@sandwell.gov.uk>


Dear Steve,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION

For the record:

On 25th January, 2018 I sent you and your colleagues on the Standards Committee the following email concerning the unlawful suspension of the cabinet secretaries (including your own):

Good Afternoon Councillors,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION

I am being told - rightly or wrongly - that Cllr Eling took exception to the leak about your private meeting with Surjit Tour before Cllr Jones's hearing and has suspended staff. who he believes leaked the information.

Is this correct please?

I am also told that parts of the IT system is in lockdown for the same investigation. Again, can you confirm please?

Jules

You did not reply.

As per the "Stop Press" Section of my blog post of 19th March, 2018 you told me that Stuart Taylor was not involved in the suspension of the secretaries which had all been down to Darren Carter.

As I understand it, no disciplinary proceedings have been taken (yet) against Mr Carter but I spoke with a Sandwell Council insider yesterday who defended him - at least to the extent of saying that they did not believe he was the sort of person who would have been shouting "I want the f*ckers out and I don't want the f*ckers back!"

I am sending Mr Carter a copy of this email.

When you said the whole episode was down to him what exactly did you mean? Are you also alleging that he was the person who shouted the obscenities about the secretaries quoted above?

Jules
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Cllr Elying On The Ropes!

Updated 15th July, 2018 - more evidence welcome please!

Please also see a whole new post on this where bent Sandwell are using gagging clauses for "planned leavers". Eling has lied again! Follow this link:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/06/more-proof-of-elings-lies.html

Under pressure and failing "leader" "lol" of the Sandwell Labour dictatorship, Steve "The Milkman" Eling (aka Elying), has been caught out telling porkies again - this time by the left-wing media via The Skwawkbox. Here is their original piece:

https://skwawkbox.org/2018/06/06/excl-sandwell-council-leader-tells-mp-we-dont-use-confidentiality-agreements-heres-one/

Incidentally, The Swawkbox are lifting the lid on the stinking morass that is Sandwell Labour Group and you can also follow all their revelations on Twitter at @skwawkbox.

This blog has repeatedly criticised the corrupt Council for using gagging clauses to keep their dirty secrets (and at our expense). Eling claims that these are not used by SMBC despite all the contrary evidence and as shown to be false by The Skwawkbox. This was also one of the outrageous issues arising from our local bent coppers at West Mids Police agreeing not to proceed with their fraud investigation provided SMBC employed a solicitor to do a report instead since the lawyer did NOT have police powers to "get behind" confidentiality agreements. They have legitimacy in civil matters but not in criminal investigations.

This blog is intended to form a database of all those who, contrary to the liar Eling's comments, HAVE signed confidentiality agreements and so will be updated from time to time.

Update: A Sandwell person has confirmed that to his personal knowledge 17 (seventeen) confidentiality agreements have been entered into. He thinks there are many more!

If you are on the list and did NOT sign a confidentiality agreement on departure please contact The Skidder to have your name removed.

If you yourself signed such an agreement please contact The Skidder (if you don't want your name to appear in this blog I can arrange to use "Anon" plus the date year of your departure.)

If you think you know of others who signed confidentiality agreements please ring or email The Skidder in confidence.

Stop press - a Sandwell Council insider has contacted the Skidder today to say that to their knowledge the confidentiality clauses probably run into "three figures" at least and not as Elying says....

In another context, I recently reported that 6 of the 7 secretaries unlawfully suspended in still mysterious circumstances received compensation from us taxpayers subject to signing confidentiality agreements! One is believed to be the secretary of....yes....The Milkman himself!

1   LIST OF PERSONS WHO SIGNED CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSES BUT WERE NOT INTERVIEWED UNDER CAUTION BY BENT WMP:

Neeraj Sharma - involved in numerous dodgy deals but alleged "saw nothing". Believed to have received a substantial pay-off to say nowt;

Nick Bubalo - with Sharma intimately involved in numerous fraudulent deals and Hussain's son worked in his department. Again he allegedly saw nothing. Apparently retired through ill-health but likely to have been properly gagged;

Adrian Scarrott - disgraced Head of Neighbourhoods where he was widely said to be in Hussain's pocket. In the Whats App feed Eling and Marshall said that fraud had been found in his department but this has apparently not been investigated by the (moral) Cowards in Blue;

Dave Willetts - either utterly incompetent or totally corrupt. Said to be in Hussain's pocket. These people MUST still be interviewed by WMP;

Pardip Sharma - no relation apparently but Neeraj's sidekick. Another who "failed to see anything" right under her nose;

John Satchwell Senior - left as investigations were underway into allegations concerning the Parks Department. The Eling/Marshall Whats App feed [posts passim] shows allegations relating to this. Sources say he was given a very low pay-off on a "take it or leave it basis".

2   OTHERS LIKELY TO HAVE SIGNED CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS:

Melanie Dudley - High-flyer who fell foul of "The Milkman." The Whats App feed shows that Eling and Marshall forced her out.

Stuart Kellas or John Garratt - The reason for the uncertainty here is that these two were fired on the same day and The Skidder was told that one of the two bravely refused to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Dave Haywood - a man The Skidder would very much like to chat to.

Dave Thompson - ASB team.

Steve Gregory


3  REFUSNIKS - THOSE REFUSING TO SAY IF THEY SIGNED AGREEMENTS.

Lynda Bateman - very highly paid employee who allegedly left through retirement but is now back helping the comrades as Chair of Trustees for SLT.

4  POSSIBLES

Matthew Sampson

Sharon Moore

Phil Hardy

Jane Dixon (a third party says Jane did NOT sign one but not yet confirmed direct)

(There was a chap who was recently working on the Isle of Wight)

Jez Hall

Allison Fraser?

Peter Manley

Glyn Dixon

More info please!

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Technical Blog - Lion Farm Standards Complaint

This is a Standards Complaint I have submitted today in respect of the secrecy, lies, deceit and total incompetence surrounding the bent Lion Farm deal:

Standards Complaint June, 2018 re Cllrs Eling, Hackett, Horton (Linda) and Moore.

General principles of conduct relevant to this Complaint:
1  Cllrs must not bring their office into disrepute;
2  When carrying out their public duties such as awarding contracts of recommending individuals for rewards or benefits, Councillors must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias;
3  Cllrs must promote and support high standards of conduct when serving in their office;
4  Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest;
5  Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.
6  Holders of public office should be truthful.

Background to the Complaint: Period to 19th December, 2012.

In 2012 certain Councillors, including Cllr Eling, decided to make the disposal of publicly-owned land “easier” by forming the Asset Management and Land Disposal Committee (AMLDC) at the urging of ex-Councillor Mahboob Hussain who was then appointed as the Committee’s Chair.

On a date unknown, ex-Councillor Hussain introduced a property developer to Sandwell Council with a view to him purchasing various plots of Council land. A series of secret meetings took place between Sandwell Council and Jeremy Knight Adams. At one such secret meeting Sandwell Council officials agreed to grant an option to Jeremy Knight Adams to develop a colossal 19ha of green space in Oldbury known as Lion Farm Fields subject to member approval. The said Fields had not been marketed to the public at large nor otherwise offered to other developers or individuals.

(It is not known whether any of the Councillors complained of in this complaint were party to these secret meetings and subsequent “deal”. If they were then I make the complaint that they failed to comply with all 6 principles of conduct set out above and also failed to register their interest in this matter when subsequently voting for it.)

The matter was listed on the agenda for the meeting of the AMLDC on 19th December, 2012 under the misleading and untrue title of “Junction 2 Regeneration.” The Report to the Committee nor any other information about this agenda item were made available to the public prior to the Committee meeting. At the meeting only Cllrs Hussain and Hackett were in attendance and promptly excluded the public from the meeting. The Report was not disclosed by SMBC until 15th February, 2018 - over SIX YEARS after the event! The two Councillors held the entire meeting with a lengthy agenda in just 7 minutes.

Part One of the Complaint:

No complaint can now be brought against Cllr Hussain as he has left the Council. Thus all complaints in this section relate to the failures of Cllr Hackett in that he:

Failed to question Cllr Hussain’s involvement in introducing Jeremy Knight Adams to the Council to do this deal and his connections to him; failed to question why this land had not been marketed to others; failed to question why all meetings with Jeremy Knight Adams were held in secret and were unminuted; failed to secure the best evidence when recommending an individual - ie Jeremy Knight Adams - for reward or benefit; failed to allow the disclosure to the public of the report to the committee and excluded the public from the meeting.

These failures constitute breaches of principles 1 to 5 inclusive above.

Further, the fact that Cllrs Hussain and Hackett dealt with the whole agenda (including another land disposal which eventually benefitted the Hussain family) was contempt for the public, the constitution of the Council and the proper and efficient conduct of its business. Cllr Hackett breached principles 1 and 3 above in this regard.

Background to the Complaint: Period: 20th December, 2012 to 9th January, 2013:

On 9th January, 2013 the crucial disposal of this huge piece of land to someone introduced to SMBC by Cllr Hussain came before the Cabinet when the report of the AMLDC of 19th December, 2012 was received. No Councillor present raised any objection to the unusual circumstances of this proposed transaction but then those present got through a lengthy agenda in just 2 (two) minutes!

Part Two of the Complaint:

The following Councillors (excluding members who are no longer on the Council) were present at the important two-minute long meeting:

Eling; Hackett; Horton (Linda); Jones (Ian) and Moore.

Please note that although he was present at the meeting I am specifically excluding Cllr Ian Jones from this complaint as I am aware that he has been (and still is) subject to unwarranted persecution by certain members and officials within SMBC and it is, therefore, highly unlikely that SMBC would give him the opportunity of a fair hearing in respect of this issue.

Obviously Cllr Hackett is again guilty of the failures set out in Part One above and those are repeated against him here in respect of this Cabinet meeting and the breaches of conduct principles that arise therefrom.

Cllrs Eling, Horton (Linda) and Moore did not apply their minds to the unusual circumstances of such a significant transaction either adequately or at all during the two minute meeting (assuming that their poor conduct was not deliberate.) In the premises and noting the size of the land concerned and that it was public open space (part of which was - and is - held by Fields in Trust) they failed to consider the matters Cllr Hackett should have considered as set out in Part One above and are guilty of breaching the principles 1 to 5 set out above. The fact that the entire meeting with a full agenda lasted just two minutes is evidence thereof.

Further, the fact that the Cllrs complained of got through a full agenda in just two minutes is, in itself, breach of the code of conduct as well as showing utter contempt for the people of Sandwell, the Constitution of the Council and the proper and efficient conduct of the Council’s business. Thus Cllrs Eling, Hackett, Horton (Linda) and Moore are further guilty of breaching principles 1 and 3 above.

Background to the Complaint: Report to Cabinet 15th November, 2017:

This section relates to the failures of Cllr Paul Moore. He approved and then presented a Report to Cabinet on the above date riddled with inaccuracy and falsehoods. Whilst Cllr Moore was not the author of the Report he failed either adequately or at all to assess its truthfulness and accuracy. Once again the Report and the agenda item was deliberately intended to mislead the public as it was again spuriously headed as “Junction 2 Regeneration”. In particular the report:

Failed to refer to the highly unusual (and possibly unlawful) circumstances in which the option was initially granted to Jeremy Knight Adams; referred to this proposed development as a regional attraction whilst failing to refer at all to the planning permission given for a similar major development at Cannock since the original option was granted; stated that Jeremy Knight Adams had, as at 15th November, 2017 made “significant progress” in respect of preparatory steps in respect of the (still) secret option agreement whilst failing to state what those steps were or to make them public; alleged that Jeremy Knight Adams had incurred “significant expenditure in securing adjoining land to develop the scheme” without specifying what land had then been secured or making the details public; stated that Jeremy Knight Adams had - as at 15th November, 2017 - “undertaken numerous feasibility studies” but failed to state or make public what these were; relied of spurious unverified figures that the development would create “more than 2,000 jobs” and bring circa £200m extra investment in to the area when these were the figures mentioned in 2012 in a very different environment; failed completely to mention that since 2012/13 SMBC itself had granted planning permission in 2016 to Hammerson Plc for an alternative high-end shopping development ALSO IN OLDBURY at The Junction site to be known as Fountain Retail Park.

The Report was so blatantly flawed that Cllr Moore either knew that the contents were likely to deceive fellow Cabinet members or was reckless in that regard. Ditto with regard to members of the public. In the premises Cllr Moore was in breach of the principles 1 to 6 set out above. The fact that he was an attendee at the 2013 Cabinet Meeting (see above) makes his egregious conduct in withholding facts from fellow Councillors and the public all the more culpable.

End. 12/06/18.

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An Open Letter to Jeremy Knight Adams

I have written to the property developer friend of ex-Sandwell Councillor Mahboob Hussain. Here is my letter. Let's see how keen Mr Knight Adams is to tell the public what is really going on!




Mr J. Knight Adams                                                            xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Malvern xxxxxxxx


Dear Sir,

Lion Farm Fields

THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER. IT HAS BEEN PLACED ON A BLOG at thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com

You have recently taken to the media to say how you will be consulting with folk about your plan to destroy 19ha of vital green space at Lion Farm Fields, Oldbury.

Many local people would like to consult with you and, for starters, I wonder if you would mind answering the following questions please:

1 When exactly did you first meet Azeem Hafeez?;
2 When exactly did you first meet ex-Sandwell Councillor Mahboob Hussain;
3 On what date did you pay £470,000 to Azeem Hafeez/his servants or agents;
4 On what date exactly did Mahboob Hussain introduce you do Sandwell Council?
5 Please list all dates when you and/or your servants or agents had meetings with Sandwell Council and state the names of all persons present and where the meetings took place;
6 The initial option granted to you/your companies in 2013 was stated by SMBC to be for one year with the possibility of it being extended to one further year. Please state how the option came to be extended beyond 2014;
7 Please state why your option was not listed at HM Land Registry until 2017;
8 In 2017 SMBC stated that you had already incurred “significant expenditure in securing adjoining land to develop the scheme.” Please identify that land - preferably with HM Land Registry title numbers.
9 Kindly disclose the option agreement between yourself and SMBC dated 21st May, 2013.   

Yours faithfully,


JULIAN SAUNDERS

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The First Lion Farm Secret Document Is Here!

Here is one of the important documents that Fields in Trust (formerly the National Playing Fields Association) and corrupt Sandwell Council have refused to disclose about Lion Farm even though it refers to land belonging to us, the people. Jan Britton, the Chief Executive "lol" of the bent paid service (a man who has been the very well paid boss throughout years of fraud, corruption, cronyism and incompetence but who claims he "didn't see anything") has also refused to let Councillors see this document even though they have already approved the Cabinet decision to destroy the Fields!!!!!

Before I comment on the document, bent Labour Sandwell Council are still spouting nonsense about millions of pounds of investment and thousands of jobs if the dodgy deal goes ahead (despite a major planned expansion of Merry Hill and the new "designer shopping village" to be built just up the motorway at Cannock!) But here is a quote from David Smith, the Economics Expert, in the last Sunday Times:

"The Centre for Retail Research lists 16 medium to large retail business failures in April this year alone, with more jobs potentially affected - more than 13,000 - than in the whole of last year, and twice the number of stores and employees affected as in the whole of 2015."

And yet the moronic business-hating "socialists " - yes the same ones who brought you Queen Square, West Bromwich - think they can make this work "lol"!

Unfortunately this document is not particularly good news. The sleazy comrades with their weird obsession for building leisure centres wanted the land where they have now built the Portway Centre but that was in Trust to Fields in Trust from 1962 onwards. The simple answer was just to switch the trust land for other playing fields around Sandwell and you will see that this now includes just part of Lion Farm - around 2.8 hectares and not the whole thing. Incidentally, they also switched the land in Trust to include Londonderry Fields which Leader, Steve The Milkman" Eling and his cronies (including Tom Watson's puppet Cllr Moore - pictured) also want to destroy.

You will also see that this whole business on naming the Fields the QEII Fields is also just a load of meaningless b*llocks to suck up to our sponging Royal Family. Fields in Trust (probably staffed entirely by grovelling establishment figures and their privileged offspring) have had the bent socialists [sic] name the whole of Lion Farm Fields as QEII Fields even though only a small part of the area is actually in Trust.

It also appears that THEY had money from ASDA but that there is no evidence so far of any of it being spent on Lion Farm!

Notwithstanding the above, if Labour are going to push through the bent deal with the developer they will have to persuade Fields in Trust to "move" the Trust Land again. I am sure the Campaign Group and others will be making the appropriate representations to the so-called "charity".

Don't forget the Human Chain Event on 27th June when you can show your disapproval of this whole con trick! You can also follow the Campaign Group on Social Media:

Facebook Group (open to all): Save Lion Farm Fields     Twitter:   @LoveLionFarm

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