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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