Saturday 9 February 2019

Leadership Election Special

Following the suspension of the "leader" of bent Sandwell Council, Steven "Squealing" Eling, by the national Labour Party this pathetic greaser has tried to hang on to his position. He initially suggested (perhaps following advice from his Labour activist wife) that his suspension was a purely party political matter and that he could continue as the failing Borough's supremo - with the extra £27,000 a year on top of his standard allowance that this brings - but then he is very fond of money.

Many of the comrades pissed their pants when they heard the news. Eling has claimed that he doesn't know why he has been suspended and a few deluded people actually believe him like credulous Cabinet Member, David Hosell, who told me this to my face last Wednesday night. The Squealer is up for election in May and so he needs to get his lawyers on the case if he is to fight his seat. But his support has been ebbing away - apart from the likes of the ludicrous Wednesbury Windbag, Peter Hughes, who produced another bravura and vomit-inducing display of arslikhan at Cabinet this week.

Incidentally I have started the protocol process to commence my own legal proceedings against The Squealer and this is very dangerous for him and the likes of Jan Britton. In a civil action there will have to be extensive disclosure of documents which have hitherto been kept secret. The whole Eling standards stitch up will be blown apart with much else.....

[Talking of the standards stitch up there is an extraordinary story going round that in consideration of bankrupt ex-Councillor Richard Marshall taking the rap for Squealing Eling, Labour Party figures arranged for his wife, Marie, to have a job working for Edgbaston MP, Preet Kaur Gill - for new readers an ineffectual Sandwell Councillor before she was mysteriously elevated to the green benches. The allegation was that the taxpayer was picking up the bill and that money was indirectly finding its way to Dicky. A number of people told me this but I had discounted it as improbable fiction until this week when an impeccable Sandwell Labour source told me that Marie had definitely been working for Gill (although the current position is unclear). I am sure that Mrs Marshall must have been employed strictly on her merits but no doubt she and Ms Gill will hasten to clarify the position as it is clearly a matter of considerable public interest.]

Eling, also known locally as "The Milkman", tried to ignore everything that has gone wrong during his lengthy tenure in the rotten Borough and his supporters claimed that a short "peer review" last year  somehow "proved" what a tremendous chap he really was! Of course, assorted supporters took to Facebook to laud his appalling record. The usual suspects were there - "Inane" Elaine Costigan, Pam Pulsford (Eling's Derbyshire-dwelling wife) and employee Phil Challenor (a unique "double" in that he was the interviewer on the late Smethwick Wife-Beater Darren Cooper's infamous taxpayer-funded video "Lie Story" [Surely "Life Story", Ed?]

Behind the scenes MP's Spellar and Watson were going apesh*t about the Party's action. And so their supporters also "came out" for Eling. A couple deserve mention eg SMBC employee Sarah Sprung. Who she? A GMB member and signatory to Watson's election nomination. She is also the partner of one of Watson's puppets on the Council, Cllr Liam Preece. Liam was touted by some Labour Councillors as a possible contender for the leadership. He is a likeable and intelligent guy but as another Watson clone unsuitable for the role (but see below). One Labour Councillor tells me he was ordered not to stand by Watson but that is unverified and might be untrue. The fact is that he is not in the race.

Another Eling cheerleader is my old friend, SMBC employee but full-time GMB rep Sarah James. Mrs James is currently suing me for £50,000 plus costs for things said in this blog and, via her solicitors, says my wife and I may lose our home of 35 years if I don't pay up. The recent disclosure by West Midlands Police of Eling's emails (posts passim) show that her union role did not prevent her from being close to The Squealer and that she was corresponding with him about me. (She was also very close to the late Wife Beater and is a Tom Watson (non-sexual) "project") In response to a ludicrous Facebook post that Eling had been a "great leader" "lol" she gushed "a lot to be proud of". No doubt she will enlighten is further on all this in due course....

The enfeebled Milko got a tame left-wing journalist [sic] (and friend of Piper's) to flood the local media grovellers with a story that he was not going to turn his back of the unfortunate folk of Sadders. He claimed "it would be wrong of him to voluntary [sic] step down while crucial decisions are still be made on the borough's budget and services." This is, of course, b*llocks. Due to his love of money Eling has claimed his full allowances in Sandwell whilst also working part-time for another Labour basket-case Council, Rotherham. Thus he abandons Sandwell for half the week anyway to rake in the dosh (and enhance his gold-plated pensions) in nearby, er, Rotherham. And he spends a lot of his time living away from sh*tty Smethwick to enjoy the charms of his wife's "Summer Palace" (copyright R. Piper) in bucolic Derbyshire. What a ****!

But The Party has acted and there is an election to replace this deadbeat on Monday night.

But will civil war continue to dog Sandwell Labour Group? Until today I understood that the battle was between another Watson puppet, Steve "Luvvie" Trow and Yvonne Davies although a caller - usually very reliable - has told me today that Bill Gavan has also thrown his hat in the ring.

I am working on the assumption that the Gavan thing is also a joke - as he is himself - although he too is a Watson clone. This blog has shown that he had a history of closed businesses to his name before he was forced onto the Council. He has only been a Cabinet member for a short time. Other Labour Councillor's whisper about his past. He refuses to say whether he was the "William Gavan" who made a £5,000 donation to the Labour Group. (If so, he would have been quickly back in pocket as he was rapidly promoted and started raking in "special responsibility" payments.) This is also the chap who made great play that he would attend a meeting about the corrupt Lion Farm deal and was then too scared to turn up! Like Trow - see below - he is also wasting taxpayers money in respect of #gategate.

The other Watson clone, Trow, has a certain degree of intelligence marred by a nonsensical suspension of all rationality where "The Party" is concerned. He was a non-entity during the Cooper era - perhaps another who was simply frightened of the Smethwick Scumbag? But he is heavily tainted by his association with The Squealer. He has been a joke on the Standards Committee issues. Knowing that these were kangaroo courts and seemingly having watched some episodes of Perry Mason at some time he put a pretence that these were properly conducted hearings - engaging in long and tortuous "observations". But he refused, with his colleagues, to hear evidence vital evidence - including my own.

He has not denied (yet) despite many opportunities to do so, that he was at the infamous meeting where Sandwell's highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, "briefed" the Committee BEFORE a standards hearing. As if that conduct is not bad enough this led directly to the unlawful suspension of seven secretaries. I have him on record denying that he knew anything about this when his own secretary was one of those treated in this despicable was by a "socialist" Council!!!!!

(All seven secretaries were reinstated. Unite the Union secured taxpayer-funded compensation for six on them ie we paid out. The GMB did not for the seventh).

As my last blog showed Trow is also quite prepared to play silly buggers with taxpayers' money and he has deliberately failed to rule himself out of the incident when I was unlawfully excluded from a Council meeting (#gategate). That doesn't augur well for a Trow leadership and his husbandry of the Council's finances.

Last, but very far from least, he put his name to the absurd and frankly fascistic document - duly agreed by the comrades - to try and stifle legitimate scrutiny of the corrupt organisation (posts passim)! An absolute disgrace and he should be duly ashamed of himself. Like Eling he is likely to try and continue the inherent secrecy within the rotten Borough if elected.

As above, legal action should force a lot of sh*t out of SMBC at long last and I hope Trow has a clear record/conscience.... But a vote for Trow is a vote for yet more Tom Watson interference and a continuance of the disastrous governance that has dogged Sandwell throughout the Jan Britton era... And Trow is unlikely to have the b*lls to get rid of Britton and Tour (as above re Lion Farm, Gavan p*sses his pants rather than standing up and being counted).


I have occasionally been unkind to Yvonne Davies on this blog but she is strong and feisty. We have had some good debates both on Twitter and in person. She has a fundamental decency that is rare amongst the comrades and she is brave whereas many of them are spineless. 

This blog has written many times about her appalling treatment when she crossed The Squealer. She had the audacity to stand up at a Labour Group meeting and tell the massed ranks of her comrades the truth about Marshall. Eling led the baying mob which ejected her from the meeting. She was then suspended. But, of course, she was absolutely right (indeed, she did not go nearly far enough) and it was Marshall who was eventually kicked out. I may be wrong but I am not aware of a single "member" who has apologised to her yet for getting things so completely wrong.

From the personal point of view Yvonne was outraged by the criminal prosecution of me for allegedly calling Jan Britton, the head of Sandwell's bent paid service, a "c*cksucker". She was one of a number of councillors who provided statements for me and she (with another Councillor) attended my trial to give evidence on my behalf. (She didn't have to give evidence when video evidence shown to the Court proved that I had been, er, telling the truth all along...) Yvonne showed courage and integrity - traits that would normally be valued but are generally not in dysfunctional Sandwell Labour.

Of course, I don't agree with Yvonne politically (on many things) and don't get her blind-spot about the imbecilic Corbyn but I know who I would want beside me in a fight and it wouldn't be Trow and Gavan!

And Finally,

Jan Britton's Toyota has disappeared from "winter storage" at the Waterfall Lane depot (post passim). Anyone know who moved it and when as there are stories that he has been off sick....?



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