In The Public Domain?: April 2019

Monday, 29 April 2019

Lion Farm - Candidates Unite v Labour Plans

At very short notice The Skidder asked parties opposing bent Labour's continuing plans to destroy the remaining green spaces in Sandwell to meet at Lion Farm last Saturday and to hear the concerns of locals.

Leaving aside the corrupt nature of Labour's deal to flog Lion Farm Fields to a property developer there seems to be a great degree of cross-party consensus opposing Labour's insatiable appetite for concrete and steel.

I am grateful to the following who switched their campaigning schedules at the last minute to come down to The Farm. No less than eight candidates turned up to support the campaign to save Lion Farm Fields and other open spaces Labour is desperate to sell:

Green Party

Keir Williams (Tividale Ward)
Mike Allen (Abbey Ward)

Conservative Party

Scott Chapman (Princes End Ward)
Keri Skerdian (Oldbury Ward)
Archer "Archie" Williams (Langley Ward)

For Britain Party

Darryl Magher (Wednesbury North Ward)
Lorraine Binsley (Great Barr and Yew Tree Ward)
Sam Harding (Charlemont & Grove Ward)

I should just mention that most of the above named have been involved in the Lion Farm campaign since it was re-started a couple of years ago and so they cannot be accused of "jumping on a bandwagon".

It was also heartening to see that candidates right across the political spectrum were prepared to pull together for the greater good in Sandwell.

It should be remembered that the Labour candidate for Langley, Cllr Yvonne Davies (admirable in so many ways), is, shockingly, supporting the destruction of The Fields as is the Langley's p*ss and wind merchant, Cllr Bill "Alka Seltzer" Gavan. ("Alka" - so named because he has run so many dissolved companies - made great play that he was allegedly against the development and was going to address the first public meeting but suddenly changed his mind and switched horses when the ex-Leader, Steve "Squealing" Eling, gave him a cabinet job!)

Sandwell folk face a large number of opposition candidates to the corrupt Labour dictatorship and have an unprecedented opportunity on Thursday to fight back. It's up to you Sandwell and Lion Farm!

L-R Mike Allen (G), Keir Williams (G), Scott Chapman (C), Darryl Magher (FB)

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Sunday, 28 April 2019

Hosell Meltdown!

This is hilarious! In my post of 8th April (re-titled "April '19 News Round-Up!") I pointed out that both Dave and Shirley Hosell had been deselected by Labour along with a number of other time-servers and Eling-rimmers. Incredibly The Squealer Eling appointed Hosell to his ship of fools (aka the cabinet) though admitted to my face that this was a cynical move as Dave was not up to the job but he did it to win over Dave'n'Shirl to his "side" in the civil war Squealing had unleashed within the sick local Labour Party.

This gruesome pair have taken it all very badly and are standing as "independents" against bent Labour not least because (a) deluded Dave actually thought he was doing a good job in the corrupt Labour council "lol", and (b) they will lose a stonking £42,262.08 between them in allowances if they are kicked out on Thursday.

Mind you, Dave says that he and Shirl are not worried about the potentially serious loss of dosh as they have actually been giving it all away to "good causes". Here is his tweet:

A number of people took to Twitter to ask Dave which good causes had actually benefited from their generosity but answer came there none. Dave was also asked whether he had given money to any of the local organisations on the Sandwell Council gravy train and, if so, whether he had declared any interest when dealing with further funding applications for them. Once again, Dave suddenly lost his tongue (clue Dave - it is still lodged in the Squealer's rectum!)

We saw in my earlier post that Dave has been blowing the gaff on the bent Lion Farm deal. He now says that Cooper and Eling did such a bad deal that it will cost Sandwell millions to get out of it. Thus corrupt Labour have decided to brazen it out and push the deal through regardless. This hypocrite has now put out an election leaflet stating:

"Green Spaces: we must protect our remaining green spaces for future generations".

This from the groveller who says he knew Lion Farm was a bent deal designed to destroy a massive "green space" yet happily supported it in late 2017 as a cabinet member:

(You will note that current Labour candidates Khatun and Costigan are also determined to trash what's left of shopping centres in Tipton and Wednesbury by forcing the corrupt Lion Farm deal through).

Dave has been a Councillor and then a Cabinet member for 8 years - a period where Labour has been embroiled in an endless farrago of fraud, incompetence, cronyism and corruption. Despite not saying a word about any of this and, for example, actively trying to force bent deals like Lion Farm through, GMB Dave has suddenly become a campaigner for truth and justice "lol". In his election leaflet he claims to have known all about the fraud etc (though seemingly obeyed orders to keep his gob shut about it):

"The truth is, something's [sic] been very wrong at Sandwell Council for a very long time. You might have read about some of it [via The Skidder lol] or seen it on the news. Council homes have been handed out like sweeties to the friends and family of a few councillors.Well-meaning community groups ripped-off. Private fortunes made from land sold off cheap."

Dave - you did nothing. Said nothing. And you actually agreed to some of this at Council meetings! What a waste of space!

It gets even better folks! Hypocrite Dave's leaflet goes on:

"There are still plenty of people determined to feather their own nests at your own expense and they're willing to drag my party's name through the mud to do it. They are the reason I'm standing as an Independent".

The reason Dave'n'Shirl are standing as independents is because Labour deselected them! Had they not done so it would have been business as usual with this pair saying nowt about fraud and corruption and continuing to rake in taxpayers' loot!

Dave's two Twitter accounts have gone off the air. Someone on behalf of Dave has told The Skidder he has come off the site voluntarily but other are saying the two accounts have been frozen for his abusive conduct. He recently called Labour Councillor Yvonne Davies (another supporter of the "plan" to destroy Lion Farm Fields) a "lid [sic] mouthed gutter wench". He was one of the Labour Councillors who bullied Yvonne out of a Group meeting when she was telling the comrades the truth about Comrade Marshall. Dave was asked on social media if he now regretted bullying a woman who, as it transpired was telling them the truth, but he replied negatively and suggested that she somehow "deserved it"!

Of course, Dave's legendary lothario status has been the subject of much comment over the years. Squealing Eling and Marshall even mocked their cabinet comrade about it in the infamous "sp*nkgate" WhatsApp feed joking that sexy Dave's motto had been put up on the wall of Wednesbury Leisure Centre:

There have been constant rumours of Dave attending the "Chameleon" swingers' club in Darlaston and of him having an attachment with fellow Labour Councillor, Caroline White (who, in true Sandwell "keep it in the family-style" is also the daughter of Cllr Melia). In a previous incarnation of Caroline's Register of Interests she mysteriously - and bizarrely - actually declared a "close friendship" with Dave Hosell.

Dave then made the local papers [sic] when he entered into a social media discussion with Labour Cllr Jo Hadley. Dave mentioned Chameleons and told Cllr Jo, "If you want to go I'll take you". In a superb reply Cllr Hadley said, "I think I will give it a miss I ain't that desperate"!

Now I MUST refer you to two further amazing reports about Dave on the Skwawkbox website. (Skwawky has done a brilliant job in exposing what has been going on in Sandwell Labour and was a big player in the demise of Squealing Eling. I am sure we are all grateful for that!)

First, er, up is Caroline White being caught on video out campaigning with Dave although she is still a Labour Councillor and he is not.

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/04/24/excl-video-watson-ally-on-sandwell-council-helping-labours-opponent-campaign-for-re-election/

And in an even more extraordinary follow-up which you really do need to click through to if only to hear the amazing audio tape. Dave is out campaigning again with Cllr White and introduces her to a local resident as his "girlfriend". He then says that Cllr White is leaving Labour to "come over to me" which shows the stunning arrogance of the man. Caroline declined to comment to Skwawky apart from a pithy "go f*ck yourself"!

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/04/24/recording-watson-ally-councillor-caught-campaigning-for-opponent-responds-go-fck-yourself/

In another extraordinary twist Warley Labour Facebook Group - perhaps still under the control of The Squealer and his coterie - have been posting support for Hosell even though he is standing against a Labour candidate!!!! (Another Skwawkbox Exclusive).

I know that a large number of people in Sandwell are as thick as pig shite but how much more of Labour can you take? Over 40 years of dismal failure and STILL a hard core of morons vote for MORE incompetence and corruption! Those who don't bother to vote at all are just as culpable in maintaining the bent Labour dictatorship.

There are five other candidates in Dave Hosell's Newton Ward (including my friend Bertram Richards who knows a lot about housing and anti-social behaviour in Sandwell). Folk can't say they haven't got a choice in Newton with Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, For Britain and the Conservatives all contesting Hosell.

But if you want bonkers and bonking, Dave's yer man!

The same five parties are also up against the vituperative Shirley Hosell in Great Barr and Yew Tree. Surely folk will have the sense to consign her (and Labour) to the dustbin of Sandwell history?

LABOUR'S FAKE BREXIT

Once again a reminder that Labour candidates are desperately trying to claim to be pro-Brexit despite the Borough's three Labour MP's either trying to stop it or delaying it. If you are fooled by this you only have yourselves to blame. Labour are just trying to hang onto their seats and Councillors will do whatever Watson and Spellar tell them after the election. Apart, it seems, from Labour's ludicrous whip and money-grubbing greaser John "Jedward" Edwards. He has finally lost it with the odious bully Watson (who is trying to force a second referendum from his London home against the wishes of his constituents). Jedward is openly calling for him to consider leaving the Party. Civil war is alive and well amongst this hapless shower folks! Vote for them if you want to follow Caroline White's advice to Skwawky!

Friday, 26 April 2019

Multi-Million Pound Pool Shortfall!

If you are unlucky enough to live in the failing Labour Dictatorship of Sandwell you have probably just received a letter with another whopping Council Tax increase from the failing "socialists". But you now need to dig deep - literally and metaphorically - for the latest Labour white elephant - the Commonwealth Games pool which will destroy Londonderry Playing Fields, a vital green space in a heavily urbanised area.

The whole array of the bent Labour playbook is in evidence here. This car crash stems from the days of the late wife beater Darren Cooper (formerly the joke "leader" of Sadwell) who insisted that each of Sandwell's six towns (or what is left of them) should have a leisure centre - whether there was an economic case for one or not. Smethwick never got one whilst the scumbag was alive....

But when the increasingly irrelevant "Commonwealth" [sic] Games couldn't find a city in the whole of the old British Empire mug enough to host its second-rate jamboree, bankrupt Birmingham stepped up to the plate and the crazed comrades in Sadders decided they wanted a piece of the - fleeting - action. Durban in South Africa and two big Canadian cities had been sensible enough to pull-out and the Games organisers has to find a patsy - and quickly!

Curiously, bust Brum had been in the running for the 2022 egg and spoon races etc since 2009but announced in September, 2013 that it was pulling out as it "simply didn't have the cash"! WTF has changed since then as that council also continuously bangs on about "austerity" and "Government cuts". Brummies have had to put up with disastrous children's services (ditto Labour Sandwell), bin strikes and anyone visiting the City centre is assailed by legions of beggars. The Council can't seem to find money for the rough-sleepers but has found vast sums down the back of the sofa for "the Games".

As with most Sandwell Labour projects there has been no proper planning and everything is "back of the envelope" fayre. A Borough with a host of brownfield sites available apparently couldn't find one one that could be reclaimed in time and so the decision was automatically made that a greenfield site would be destroyed for this hoopla despite the lack of green space in Sadders, poor air-quality, child obesity etc etc etc..... And so the comrades just needed to decide which green space in Smethwick they wanted to sh*t upon. The comrades looked at these sites but ruled them out - allegedly for the reasons given:

Bizarrely, the (hell's) angel of destruction (now that Squealing Eling has been defenestrated) Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore - pictured above - said at a recent Council meeting that Labour actually tried to BUY the GKN site but they couldn't get it at the right price - something of a black mark for The Cipher who, incredibly, now fancies himself as a property development expert! (Moore is also the "lead" Councillor working to also destroy Lion Farm Fields!)

(Moore is an employee of Tom Watson who is ignoring the Brexit vote in Sandwell and campaigning from his London home for an second referendum).

But with the Games fixed for 2022 time is off the essence. Eling and Co decided to destroy Londonderry Fields. They "consulted" with local swimming groups who, unsurprisingly, were all for this multi-million sp*nk-up-the-wall. Jan Britton's bent paid service said publicly that letters were sent to all local residents but most say they never received one and a large number of them don't want the green space ruined! New regeneration "supremo", Amy Harthoff, got rid of the problem of an environmental impact assessment by simply saying that plonking a huge building on a greenfield site did not require one (safe in the knowledge that no-one has the money to take the bent Council to court to contest such matters).

The "socialists" lied that the pool would not cost local people anything as all the funding would be "external" - seemingly forgetting that most residents of Sadders, er, pay tax in one form or another! But now the truth is coming out.....

On April 9th the full Council had to decide on this act of pure vandalism and Moore went into bat for bent Labour. In his monotone delivery Moore stated that The Fields had no ecological or biodiversity value (unlike concrete "lol") and that this was the only site "readily available in the prescribed time frame" ie this is an ill-conceived enterprise rushed through without thought or proper planning as the Games must be delivered in 2022.

I thought The Cipher might suddenly crack one of the wrist as his tone rose a semi-quaver to explain that this was the site is Smethwick where a leisure centre was "most required". Eh? Surely close by the new hospital (if it ever gets finished) would be more appropriate? But this would be a "world-class facility" (groan...) that would somehow bring "kudos" to Sandwell. He actually said, and I sh*t ye not, that the project would "put Smethwick on the map". All this created a "once in a lifetime opportunity". So folks, you can pay for a 13-day show and you and your kids can pay for it for years to come.

He was seconded by Bill "Alka Seltzer" Gavan - he of all the dissolved companies. Gavan is also in favour of destroying Lion Farm Fields - despite his previous statements/lies to the contrary.

But Moore also made a couple of extraordinary claims. It seems that the running of the Centre was NOT put out to tender but gifted to Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT). Technically SLT is a separate legal entity from the bent Council but, in reality, it is the Council's Leisure arm and receives massive annual subsidies of our, taxpayers' money, to stay afloat (cf the arts in Sadders). In recent times corrupt Labour have threatened to close it down. Relationships became so bad that West Bromwich Leisure Centre was not given to them to run. They came back into favour by agreeing with Cooper, Hussain and Eling's plan to destroy The Public. In return for supporting closure they were given the new Wednesbury Centre to run. But problems persist. There have been redundancies at SLT and some Council members have queried whether it is up to the job.

Aye, but here's the rub. The Cipher Moore says that the new Leisure Centre will SAVE money as Langley and Thimblemill Baths will be closed and they cost a lot of money to run. The Lion Farm coward, Gavan, claimed that "the Smethwick building" will be retained for "community use" which, presumably, will require taxpayer subsidy! And Moore went on to make the extraordinary claim that after The Games the new Londonderry Centre will NOT require any subsidy but will actually generate income for SLT which will subsidise its other activities! Where he has got this from is anyone's guess but this is highly likely to be pure "b*llocks".

And, of course, it gets worse. The predicted cost of the paddling pool is £62.5m. Moore made the ludicrous statement that a considerable amount of external funding had been promised which, wait for it, "Sandwell would lose" if it did not proceed! Moore stated that the Black Country LEP was divvying up £5m of taxpayers money. Sport England were chipping in £2m of, er, taxpayers's money. And the Government via the Department of Culture, Media and Sport were going to plough in - yes you guessed it - taxpayers' money of £32.6m.

This, of course, means the general taxpayer is to fork out a cool £39.6m for a thirteen day jerk-off. (When Sandwell Councillors say I have no right to comment on Sadders when I do not live in the shit-hole Borough this should be a clear reminder that their pathetic decisions affect us all).

And so to "gain" public money Labour are charging local folk £22.9m (£62.5m - £39.6m). This is why they are shafting you for extra Council tax, raising all sorts of charges and selling off every bit of land they can. You are being mugged by Labour again folks!

If the developers, Wates, run into "difficulties" with the site and demand more loot to finish the job the taxpayers's pants will be down again! Hold on tight Sadders - it's going to be a bumpy ride!

There were just three abstentions - Linda'n'Rog Horton and Jo Hadley - as the rest of the comrades present pushed this crap through. As far as I could see Jackie Taylor voted for this scheme when she had been the sole vote against it at the planning committee - there's consistency!

Next Thursday yo have a chance to change things in Sandwell. Not voting is voting for Labour and ensuring more of the same after over 40 years of dismal failure......

Paul Moore's Soccer Whopper!

During the Council meeting Cllr Jo Hadley raised a question about the football pitches on the Fields. Moore's exact response was "to my knowledge there is not currently a football team using the Londonderry site." There is a very good reason for this. The Warley League were thrown off The Fields by, er, Labour Sandwell Council because of this project! What an absolute t*****!

Clacker and Reeves

Jan Britton's boys are taking a pounding! Folk say Clacker has been dismissed. Reevesy remains suspended.

Lion Farm

Pop down to the shops at 11 tomorrow. Some local candidates and The Skidder will be there for an informal chat.

[Please note the Londonderry picnic has been postponed until Sunday 5th May.]

Roger Horton

I am certainly not going to get misty-eyed about the end of Roger Horton's reign as Sandwell's longest serving Councillor - ever. Rog was "old-school" Labour and quite happy to get down and dirty when the Dictatorship was threatened in any way. His reputation, and that of his wife, Linda, will, alas, always be tarnished by the Cashmore scandal.

But over the last couple of years I have often had a merry quip with Rog outside Council meetings and it has been sad to see him suffering ill-health. Linda has had the good grace to keep me up to date with health bulletins when Rog has been unable to attend.

I spoke to Rog outside Labour Group on the night before the last Council meeting and he looked very poorly. He said he would be there on he following night for his last hurrah and I must say that I rather doubted that he would make it. But - gamely - he did.

Outside the building were protesters against the destruction of Londonderry (and Lion Farm) and they parted to give Rog a rousing round of applause as he entered The Oldbury Kremlin. It was good to see Rog smiling and greeting everyone present. Good luck for the future Rog!

Compare and contrast Rog's brave attendance with the behaviour of the snivelling little sh*t who used to be "leader". It is amazing how the scales have dropped from the eyes of so many in Sandwell given Eling's behaviour over the last couple of years and, in particular, his squalid and desperate attempt to hang on to his position (and the money that goes with it). The Squealer gave an absolutely disgraceful interview on the day of the Council meeting to a pet "journalist" stating that he is disabled and feared that he might be "accosted" entering the Council House?! Squealing stated that his back injury meant that he "lived in fear of being pushed or shoved" though did not say whether this was likely to be from members of the public or his erstwhile comrades - many of whom he tried to shaft! For good measure he added "I worry all the more, because I have a disability, I can't run off." His playing of "the victim" following his demise is now as ludicrous as it is tiresome. A number of Labour Councillors were appalled at his conduct and said so!

Let's sound the trumpets for Rog and scrape a tiny fiddle for The Squealer!

Thursday, 25 April 2019

Rouf - Newspaper Corrections!

On 21st March, 2019 I put up a post about Cllr Mohammad Rouf being found to be in breach of standards in respect of three matters ie he made (a) false declarations regarding 88 Shireland Road, (b) false declarations regarding 33 Trafalgar Road and (c) false declarations relating to his employment as a taxi driver (and for some of the material time he was on the Licensing Committee dealing with, er, taxi licensing "lol"!)

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when The Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail put up identical stories bearing the headline "Councillor Cleared of Making False Statements in Sandwell"! Now regular readers will be well aware how the craven local media - including the BBC - have been only too willing to promulgate lies and propaganda on behalf of bent Sandwell Labour Council but this was really going too far. I duly made a formal complaint to IPSO, the press standards watchdog, about the grossly untrue headline and a couple of more minor issues.

Yahoo! Following the intervention of IPSO the publishers of the two newspapers in question, Reach plc, have made a couple of minor amendments to the main article and, more importantly, completely changed the headline. I should say that Reach have dealt with the matter very quickly and professionally which is a pleasant change from the usual insulting manner I have been dealt with by the BBC and local papers in the past.

The headlines on both stories have been changed from "Councillor Cleared of Making False Statements in Sandwell" to "Sandwell Councillor breached members' code three times". Now that's more like it! Here are the links to the amended articles for those who can't get to sleep tonight:

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/sandwell-councillor-breached-members-code-16009187

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/sandwell-councillor-breached-members-code-16009187

PUBLIC NOTICE TO LOCAL MEDIA

A "journalist" has been writing articles which have been published locally stating that at least one Sandwell Councillor has been physically threatened and that the Council has sought an injunction against an individual in respect of this. This statement has been included in published pieces parts of which clearly refer to me and some people have jumped to the wrong conclusion ie that I have been harassing someone and have faced civil legal action. I have contacted the "journalist" but also hereby put local media on formal notice that their careless reporting is potentially libellous of me and that any further publications which lead readers to conclude that I am the person responsible for the threats etc will become actionable.

SAVE GREEN SPACES IN SANDWELL!

Just a quick reminder that I will be at Lion Farm shops at 11.00am this Saturday for half an hour in a protest against Labour's plans to destroy Lion Farm Fields and other vital green spaces in the Borough (corrupt Labour need to raise millions for the Commonwealth Games pool and other crazed projects so that "everything must go"!)

I am pleased to say that some candidates standing for election next Thursday will also be in attendance and this is your chance to have a chat with them. It should all be very civilised and you don't have to superglue your arse to the chip shop window or anything like that.

I would remind local folk that Cllr Yvonne Davies, Labour's candidate standing in Langley Ward, is for the bent deal and the destruction of Lion Farm's green lung. I like Yvonne but she is completely wrong about this!

And our friends battling to save Londonderry Fields are having a picnic on their Field between 1pm and 3pm Saturday afternoon and please support them if you can. Addendum - I have been informed that this event has been postponed......

On the subject of Londonderry Fields a number of local residents are writing to the Government asking that the planning application for the Commonwealth Games pool be "called in" and reviewed. Locals MUST write asap to James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF. The Sandwell planning application number is DC/19/62642. You should state, amongst other things, that this proposal is contrary to Sandwell's own local plan.

The CPRE website says that you should copy the letter to:

The Planning Casework Unit
5 St Philips Place
Colmore Row
Birmingham B3 2PW

pcu@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Alternatively you can just contact that unit directly.

AND FINALLY.....

There is widespread outrage locally that the man who really runs the crap Labour Sandwell Council, Tom Watson, is leading the campaign for a second Brexit referendum which ignores the clear vote to leave the EU from Sandwell folk. The two other local Labour MP's have also been working to delay or even prevent a Brexit deal. Don't be fooled folks by local Labour candidates at the forthcoming elections claiming to be pro-Brexit. They all take their orders from Watson, Bailey and Spellar. You can tell them what you think of that next Thursday!

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Breaking News - Lion Farm - ICO Order!

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered bent Labour Sandwell Council to finally disclose some (though not all) of the key documents concerning their corrupt deal to destroy Lion Farm Fields (after they have now also agreed to concrete over Londonderry Fields). These are documents which failed Labour leaders [sic] Cooper and Eling have not even let most of their own fellow Labour Councillors see!

This is the ICO Order which Jan Britton's bent paid service must comply with by 3rd May, 2019 (unfortunately the day after the election although it will come as no surprise if Labour fails to give full disclosure and tries to string matters out).

1 The Commissioner requires the public authority to take the following steps to comply with the legislation:

Disclose the option agreement (21st May, 2013), the variation of the option agreement (9th June, 2014) [which none of us even knew existed], the plan from the option agreement and the emails between the council and Jeremy Knight-Adams.....[subject to redaction of the names of third parties and junior SMBC employees]
Disclose the information at part 9 [of my original request}.

The Part 9 request was: "At paragraph 3.3 of the Report to Cabinet of the meeting of 17th November, 2017 [see further below] it is said the Jeremy Knight-Adams has already incurred significant expenditure in securing adjoining land to develop the scheme. What evidence does SMBC have that this is true? What adjoining land does SMBC refer to?"

The ICO further states: "Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to s54 of the Act and may be dealt with as contempt of court."

The Order is not perfect but is a major step forward IF bent Labour comply with it. The corrupt comrades have bent over backwards to keep all this secret from YOU for many years.

Please remember to vote next Thursday. Remember that Labour have voted to destroy The Fields in

2012

2013

2017

2018

The Labour candidate for Langley, the local ward. Yvonne Davies, has told The Skidder unequivocally that she supports the destruction of The Fields.

Folks - you have an opportunity on Thursday to send Labour a very clear message! (This applies not just to Lion Farm but across the Borough where Labour are waging war on green spaces to raise the multi-million pound sum they propose to sp*nk up the wall on the Commonwealth Games paddling pool).

I will be by the shops at Lion Farm this Saturday at 11.00am if you want to come and have a chat. Please consider joining us for a few minutes to also protest against Labour's appalling vandalism and environmental damage. I am hoping that a few candidates from other parties will come along and this will also give locals a chance to have a chat with them.

(Incidentally Lion Farm is very similar in many ways to the Druids Heath area of Birmingham - another area of tower blocks etc forgotten by mainstream politicians. Incredibly, Julien Pritchard of the Green Party won the seat last year (the first Green seat in Brum) and is doing a fantastic job. You see folks - there are alternatives to a corrupt Labour Party which has inflicted over 40 years of dismal failure on Sandwell!)

Dave Hosell

In the recent Labour "Night of The Long Knives" two of those deselected were Dave and Shirley Hosell. Eling-rimmer Dave was even, incredibly, a Cabinet member in what the Squealer admitted to my face was a purely political move so that he could count on two more votes against his political opponents.

Dave'n'Shirl will miss out on a shed-load of our money if not re-elected a week tomorrow and so they are standing as "independents" to try and keep the gravy train on the rails. Dave is lashing out at everyone via "social media" (eg calling Cllr Yvonne Davis a "lid [sic] mouthed gutter wench) and he let the cat out of the bag about Lion Farm in this tweet:

This is exactly what everyone suspected was the truth - Cooper, Eling, Moore and others did a disastrous deal in 2013 with a major Tory donor which it will now be difficult to get out of!

But Dave "Benny Hill" Hosell is now claiming that HE has been against all the fraud at SMBC throughout his eight years as a, er, yes-man. Unfortunately for him there is not a single example of him ever getting off his knees and ever opposing the disastrous leadership.

And who was at the November, 2017 Cabinet Meeting which voted again to destroy Lion Farm Fields? Step forward "independent fraud-buster" Dave "lol":

An aside - it is strange that someone who boasts of his sexual prowess should not have seen the shaft coming lol!

Incidentally, you will note from the above list that the Liar Costigan also wants to destroy Lion Farm for a shopping centre which, if ever built, will certainly be the death-knell for Wednesbury - another run-down sh*t-hole after 40+ years of Labour. Costigan was heavily involved in the unlawful BID scheme - how can local retailers be sucked in by her blarney when she is actively voting for something that will destroy their livelihoods! She is also up for election on 2nd May. If you don't want anymore of her nonsense you know what to do! Ditto with Khatun and Shackleton!

Parade of Supercars!

If you are not glued to the Manchester Derby tonight you might care to see the finale of a Hussain Family wedding at New Bingley Hall. I am told the guests will be vying with each other to show off their best motors and new-found wealth. Still, if you've got it - flaunt it!

Thursday, 11 April 2019

A Rouf Over One's Head!

I reported recently that Cllr Mohammad Rouf was found to be in breach of the members's code of conduct at bent Labour Sandwell Council. There were multiple false declarations of interests in his various register interests relating to (a) his beneficial interest in 88 Shireland Road, Smethwick, (b) his claim to own 33 Trafalgar Road when it was, in fact, a council house and (c) his former occupation as a taxi driver.

My original complaint dealt with the most serious matter of all - the fraudulent transaction when Labour intervened to ensure a valuable building plot was transferred to Rouf's son (posts passim and see below). The most dangerous man in Sandwell Council, the highly-controversial Monitoring Officer Surjit Tour, simply decided himself there was nothing to investigate in that regard!

The findings against Rouf detailed above were made after what purports to have been a "full investigation" but, in the true style of Jan Britton's bent paid service, it is not complete and raises more questions than it answers. There is a mass of further information in previous posts but I will try and stick to new information here as far as possible. Now read on please......

Early voters roll checks show Rouf living at 88 Shireland Road in Smethwick and in multiple register of interest declarations he claimed a beneficial interest in that property even after legal title to that property was transferred to one of his sons on 19th July, 2005 [HM Land Registry]. Rouf continued to claim an interest in the property until 2010 for reasons unknown and again later.

In 2005 or 2006 he bought a house at 23 Wellington Road (probably 2005). He sold that for £125,000 on or around 24th April, 2013. I suspect he sold it as he needed the money for the Florence Road property deal although, of course, he claims he has no interest whatsoever in the house that was built there other than now living in it rent free with his wife.

In July, 2012 he appears to have made a correct register of interests declaration in that there is no mention of 88 Shireland Road but he declares ownership of 23 Wellington Road. A further declaration just five days after the sale of that property has 23 Wellington Road as his address but this is crossed out and, in manuscript, an undated entry reads "house sold".

I should say at this point that Rouf himself spoke to The Skidder last May but gave a totally garbled account of all this. Hard-core readers are referred to my earlier post:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/05/mohammad-rouf-speaks_1.html

Imagine the position now. Rouf is homeless and the bent deal on Florence Road is incomplete. But he has £125k in his pocket.....

His 2014 Register of Interests (and may I express my gratitude to employee X at SMBC for sorting all these entries out for me when there was delay via Surjit Tour) shows him as being at 33 Trafalgar Road and this entry is marked in manuscript "council house" though this amendment is undated and could have been added later eg. after my disclosures via this blog.

An informant indicated to me that Rouf was, indeed. living in a Sandwell council house despite his proceeds from the house sale and I did a Land Registry check which confirmed this even though, by now, Rouf was claiming in Register entries of 22/08/14; 25/09/14; 13/11/14 and 12/03/15 that he owned the property.

If you are perplexed by this remember that bent Labour also sorted out a Council property for Cllr (as was) Frear (together with a relative employed by SMBC) and he also tried to conceal that bent deal with a false declaration that he owned the property!

With £125k hanging about it seems highly unlikely that Rouf would have been eligible for council housing having voluntarily disposed of one of his properties. He claimed to The Skidder that he never lived there and that the tenancy was in the name of his mother BUT the SMBC full investigation specifically states that the investigation found that he WAS living at that address. So how exactly did this come about? Rouf has clearly lied to me if what SMBC says is true.

Further, records at Companies House show that as a Director of Smethwick Pakistani Muslim Association Limited he belatedly filed a change of address on 6th November, 2014 stating his address changed to that of the council house on 19th March, 2013 which is shortly BEFORE the sale of his house at 23 Wellington Road. And he made a further return to Companies House on 15th August, 2015 again giving the council house at Trafalgar Road as his address.

Possible scenario 1 - Rouf applies for council housing shortly before the sale of Wellington Road and claims to have no assets when he knew the sale of Wellington Road was going through (with or without the connivance of Cooper, the comrades and/or Jan Britton's bent paid service)? Surely not from such a pillar of the local society what with all his voluntary work at the Midnight Pharmacy and all!

Possible scenario 2 - he moves in with his mother who is indeed the tenant?

Possible scenario 3 - Cooper and the comrades sort him out with a council house whilst the bent Florence Road deal is going through and the house being built? This would explain why the original handwritten note "council house" disappears in later register interests as this fact is deliberately concealed.

(Corrupt West Midlands Police were asked to investigate the false register entries but failed to do so. By the time my complaint was upheld with regard to this the time for any possible prosecution had expired. The bent Blues say this was not deliberate but "accidental due to ignorance of the law"!!!!!! There is no public evidence that they have ever investigated the Florence Road sale and no-one apparently has been interviewed under caution about that).

Curiously, in the March, 2015 declaration Rouf not only declared an interest in the council house but, after a gap of many years, also in 88 Shireland Road again!?!? He did not say so but the property had indeed been "sold" by his son but to his mother, Saleeman Begum ie Rouf's wife on 12th February, 2015 [HM Land Registry].

Clearly there seems to be confusion even within the Rouf family as to who really owns 88 Shireland Road as this 2016 planning application shows. Someone seems to have forgotten who the actual owner was at the time and a speedy amendment was called for "lol"!

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Of course, the late Smethwick scumbag and Labour "leader" Darren Cooper ordered the removal of the plot at Florence Road from auction sale so that it could be sold to one of Rouf's sons. Bizarrely, this fell through. The comrades then decided to sell via sealed bids. Despite considerable local interest in the large plot there were only two valid bids. Happily the "winner" was another of Rouf's sons who paid much less than SMBC had paid for the site and shoe-horned a huge 7-bedroom house onto the property amongst terraced housing with no difficulties via the planning process...

But something kept niggling away at The Skidder. Although the SMBC website says that Rouf was first elected on to the kleptocracy on 2nd May, 2002 there is no Register of Interests declaration until 15th June, 2005 (employee X has diligently searched and either there wasn't one - ? - or it has gone missing). This is shortly before the sale of 88 Shireland Road to his son and so Rouf appears to correctly claim ownership of 88 Shireland at the time of the 2005 declaration. He seems to have bought 23 Wellington Road by this date since he also declares ownership of that property.

Mo is not the sharpest tool in the box even by the standards of the comrades yet was soon being placed on committees of all sorts (gaining the extra "special responsibility payments" that go with these sinecures). He is said to be related to ex-Councillor Mahboob Hussain (though fairly distantly) and was great pals with the former wife-beater, Cooper.

I just wondered if I could find out how long Rouf had actually owned 88 Shireland but this involves an historic Land Registry search (£7) and one has to apply for details of ownership on a specific date so that it can be a gamble as to what information one ends up getting. I should add here that last Monday night outside the Labour Group meeting I asked Mo "who owned 88 Shireland Road before your son?" to which he replied, "I don't know"!

So on 15th June, 2015 Mo was claiming ownership of 88 Shireland Road in a legal declaration. Well if he DID own it as at that date then he had only done so for a very short time since the legal owner as at 1st May, 2005 [HM Land Registry] was in fact (sound the trumpets) one, er, Mahboob Hussain who had owned the property since 1993!

On the assumption that this is the same Mahboob Hussain who was Councillor Hussain then there has been a very serious failure to declare interests here. I can find no trace of Rouf declaring, between his election in 2002 and the sale of 88 Shireland to his son in July, 2005, that Cllr Hussain was actually his landlord! WTF has been going here?

[Addendum 11/04/19 - it seems this Mahboob Hussain is NOT the former councillor. I am informed that the Mahboob Hussain who owned the house is Rouf's brother. This still begs the question why Rouf claimed ownership?]

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Monday, 8 April 2019

April '19 News Round-Up!

Please come along to the demo outside Oldbury Council House on Tuesday night at 17.15 before the final full Council meeting of the municipal year (starts 18.00) as there is much to say to one of the worst cadres of Labour councillors in Sandwell's dismal history (and that's saying something). Let's take a look at a few current issues.....

LONDONDERRY FIELDS

Tomorrow night Councillors will be asked to approve the destruction of the Fields for the new swimming pool which apparently couldn't be built on a brownfield site instead! This project is farcical and is going to cost Sandwell folk to boot (have you just had another whopping Labour council tax increase letter?) Labour originally said the pool wouldn't cost Sandwell voters anything (although the money will come from taxpayers at large). But the figure now being bandied about it that this pool will cost locals a mere £27m!!!

There will be a demo at 17.15 at Oldbury. It is important that folk who care about green spaces all over Sandwell come along together with those who are being poisoned daily by poor air quality in the Borough after 40+ years of Labour and want action. The sleazy comrades are desperate for money to pay for the pool and other vanity projects and are selling off every scrap of land they can. You have to make it plain to them that this is not on anymore! (Here is a picture of a local pool):

One imagines all the Green Party candidates for the May elections will be there tomorrow night. I know some will and it will also be an opportunity to meet and chat with some people opposing this Labour madness. There IS a choice you know!

Mind you, the "Curse of Londonderry" is beginning to take its toll! The moronic Labour Group leapt at the chance to spend millions of pounds of your money so that they could cut the big for a week in 2022 but Eling, the "architect" of the scheme, is currently up sh*t creek without a paddle. I also reported recently on the Labour Councillors who voted for the destruction of the Fields and now TWO have already been deselected by the Labour Party "lol"!

Yes - farewell and good riddance Joy Edis and Keith Davies! Two down - eight to go (and voters in Charlemont and Grove can deliver the coup de grace to Elizabeth Giles on 2nd May too!)

LION FARM LATEST

At the well-attended public meeting about Labour's bent plan to destroy 19ha of green space at Lion Farm I speculated that the Council may have acted unlawfully in 2012/2013 in giving a sole prospective purchaser an option on the Fields. Last year Eling (and Moore) tried to polish this turd by giving it a thin veneer of legality. I speculated at the meeting that the corrupt Labour Council may have bound themselves by the original bent contract so that it was going to cost them a lot of dosh to get out of it. But Eling seemingly decided to try and bluster his way through with this instead of doing the decent thing - hence the ludicrous Audit Committee "show" (where Jan Britton's staff "accidentally forgot" to switch the video recorder on!)

It looks like this may be the truth. A Labour Councillor told me last week that there is an element within the Labour Group who want to take a look at this and see if Eling's handiwork can be undone. S/he specifically said "it may depend on how much it is going to cost us to get out of this".

And then Cabinet "member" Dave Hosell (see further below) let the cat out of the bag on Twitter. I mentioned that he was in the Cabinet last year when it tried to give retrospective legality to the bent deal and this exchange ensued:

I will be referring this back to corrupt West Midlands Police for what that is worth!

Cllr Yvonne Davies is standing in Langley for Labour. In my conversations with her she has, hitherto, sat of the fence and refused to condemn the possible destruction of The Fields. She had to take some time out due to illness but has also completely failed to force disclosure of ANY key documents out of her own Labour Council - most notably the original option.

Tuesday is a chance to try and speak with Yvonne and the other Langley Councillors (Sharon Davies and the "Coward of the County" Bill "Alka Seltzer"* Gavan) as they go into the meeting and also a chance for the Lion Farm protesters to continue to show disgust at Labour's bent deal. Solidarity should be shown with the Londonderry Group and all others working so hard to help save patches of land across Sandwell. Please also come along if you can.

Bescot Sleeper Factory Campaign

This group are the environmental stormtroopers in Sandwell at the moment running a brilliant campaign. Whilst they are not fighting to protect a green space as such (although trees etc have already been cut down as part of this daft scheme) they are alive to the potential pollution from the site - both chemical and noise pollution (and they have raised serious issues concerning contaminated land too). They are switched on to the air quality situation (already poor after 40+ years of Labour paralysis on this issue) and to traffic issues (also highly relevant in respect of Londonderry and Lion Farm). I hope some of their Group can attend tomorrow to show solidarity with the other groups and to highlight that these Labour plans to harm the local environment are Borough-wide and affect everyone (the poisonous air is particularly deleterious to the children of the six towns).

Unlike Mr Durnell's bluster about putting up an independent candidate against Labour in Langley the Bescot Campaign have only gone and done it! Wayne Trinder is standing against three other candidates (available of SMBC's website) in Friar Park Ward providing a brilliant opportunity for local folk to shake off the Labour yoke!

Stephen "Squealing" Eling

Eling became Leader is what looked like a rigged election and set about trying to destroy or neutralise his enemies. He was suspended by the Labour Party in January and, in a bizarre "own goal" incident, bullying Tom Watson MP intervened in his recent disciplinary hearing at the Party's NEC so that it couldn't be heard! Thus was gone any chance of his standing in the May elections and Sandwell looks to have finally rid itself of the miserable scumbag who recently complained to West Midlands Police about the Justice 4 The 21 Campaign group (whose relatives were murdered by Jeremy Corbyn's beloved IRA).

Tuesday night is the last Council meeting Eling can attend as a Councillor. Given the damage he has done for so many years as "the money-man" you would think he would stay away but this arrogant grunt will no doubt attend to try and cause some more political mayhem amongst the rapidly dwindling band of his moronic supporters.

I am sure any protesters present (if he does not sneek in around the back as he did recently) will wish to give him a rousing send-off!

(The Eling dictatorship was dominated by his paranoia - a Council shrouded in secrecy and a cadre of bent employees apparently prepared to do his bidding. Public meetings were surrounded by barriers to divide the people from elected members. Here is a short film imagining the disastrous Squealer checking out the arrangements pre-meeting "lol").

Just do one Squealer and give us all a break!

Did you know....

There are now some hyper-local Facebook Skidder groups set up which will be covering the elections and much more politics in bent Labour Sandwell - Rowley Regis Skidder, Wednesbury Skidder, Oldbury Skidder, Abbey and Bearwood Skidder, West Brom Skidder, Smethwick Skidder and Tipton Skidder. Please consider joining your local group for political discussion of events down your way. If you haven't already done so please also join the main Facebook Group - The Sandwell Skidder - Speaking Truth To Power. I thank you!

Candidates

There are some extraordinary candidates in the May elections - notably Cllr Rouf's daughter! Watch this space for more anon!

Dave and Shirley Hosell

In a recent post I mentioned how Squealing Eling didn't rate Dave Hosell but put him in the Cabinet "lol" to ensure he and Shirley switched to the Milkman's round. Dave fell for it but he and Shirl have been deselected by Labour and have left the Party to stand as Independents in May. (Dave is legendary for his independent member anyway.....)

They have been apoplectic about the deselection. Dave has been lashing out on Twitter, as has his very close friend Cllr Caroline White, and has even been claiming what a great job he has done! And then there is the serious loss of income - Dave'n'Shirl rake in the usual large Labour "special responsibility payments" on top of their normal allowances so that at the end of the 2018 municipal year they scored a stonking £42,262.08 of our cash for the year between them!

When Dave started rimming the Eling arse he (at best) said nothing at the infamous Labour Group meeting when the aforementioned Yvonne Davies was hounded out for, er, telling the comrades the truth about Eling's lickspittle, Richard Marshall. I asked him on Twitter whether he had ever had the balls to apologise to Yvonne. Instead of recognising his own conduct in this vile incident of bullying he launched an astonishing personal attack on Yvonne (Dave is only semi-literate and I think he means "loud" rather than "lid" here):

What a lovely guy! It's a good job he has left Labour voluntarily otherwise he would be joining his beloved Squealer on the suspension bench!

So if you like real AND social media bullies who verbally abuse women Dave's yer man in Newton Ward! (There are five other candidates - see the SMBC website).

REMEMBER FOLKS - if you haven't registered to vote you need to do so by Friday 12th April! You CAN make a change, There are alternatives to the Dictatorship.

LABOUR MP's BLOCK BREXIT (AGAIN)

Why anyone would vote for Labour in Sandwell is a mystery after over 40 years of dismal failure but there is real anger being shown on social media about the three Labour MP's blocking Brexit against the will of local voters. You may wish to send Labour a "message" on 2nd May! Don't get mad - get even!

* Bill Gavan so-named because he has been involved in so many dissolved companies...

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Monday, 1 April 2019

Corbyn's Wife Misses Accounting Deadline?

Laura Alvarez Tonis is the third wife of Jerry "Jeremy" Corbyn (though god knows what number notch she is on the libidinous Labour "leader's" bedpost!) She runs two limited companies in the coffee trade from their agreeable Islington home, Maya Products Limited and Mexica Products Limited.

As with everything connected to economic imbecile Jerry the businesses are more Marx Brothers than Marks and Spencer. The North London friend of terrorism is notoriously lazy and it seems that Wife Three's companies are similarly inactive.

Maya Products is a dormant company ie it does not trade but Laura is keeping it going for some reason as she filed "dormant company accounts" last week on 27th March.

Mexica Products is apparently still trading. Accounts were supposed to have been filed at Companies House by a deadline yesterday (and this can be done online). Maybe there is a backlog there since the website shows no filing as yet? These are the last entries at Companies House a few minutes ago on 1st April, 2019:

On the face of it the accounts are now overdue.....

Because the company is so small you cannot get much information from the accounts and, indeed, only "micro company" accounts were filed in 2017. But these show the true nature of "socialist capitalism" since whilst there was over £6k in the bank, the company owed folk nearly £10k!

The posh boy hard-Brexiteer Corbyn has, of course, never run a tap and even though he only has four sources of income (two incomes, two pensions) was incapable of getting his own tax return in on time in 2016 so that he was fined £100. Nevertheless yer man thinks he is fit to run the country!

Maybe Labour should skip a generation and choose Seb Corbyn (a son via wife 2) as Leader. He has a job "won on merit" - "lol" - with Stalinist Shadow Chancellor - "double lol" - John McDonnell and so a nice income from the Labour "family". But the young man clearly has a bit more nous than his thick as two short planks father since he bought a social housing flat in London for just £162,500 (now worth about 4 times that) and rents it out on Airbnb for £150 a night! "Tidy" as my Cardiff socialist friend would note.

As they say in Islington, "wake up and smell the latte" - or in manhole-cover fetishist Jerry's case, simply "wake up"!