New Year - Fancy A Knight Out?

Some good news to end this awful Sandwell year! "Dr"Alison Knight is another casualty of the latest "Night of the Long Knives" - the clear out of some of the dross from the bent Labour Council's paid service.

This is a long-ish holiday read but I have still had to cut-out many horror stories from the years of Labour corruption, incompetence and cronyism. 

It is worth just trotting through some of the facts - especially for the growing number of new readers (who are most welcome!) Without going too far back in history we start with the late wife-beater, Cllr Darren Cooper, who made the under-qualified groveller Jan Britton "Chief Executive". When Cooper died in 2016 I was asked to attend a secret pub meeting with Cllr Steve "Squealing" Eling aka "The Milkman" (blogs passim ad nauseum and see legal notice below). The Squealer laughed heartily when I urged him to "fish the turd out of the pool" but accepted that Britton, who he himself had supported all along, was on thin ice. But, of course, Britton was as adept at rimming the new Leader as he had been with Cooper and found himself professionally [sic] able to use the paid service to feed Milko's increasingly paranoid and tyrranical regime.

One of the first casualties was Assistant Chief Executive, Melanie Dudley, who was hounded out by Eling, at huge cost to us taxpayers, because she refused to exonerate Cllr Simon "The Sandwell Slasher" Hackett over his politically-motivated disclosure of a child's personal information. In a WhatsApp feed set up by Eling and (then) Cllr Marshall after the secret pub meeting they laughed about their appalling conduct towards Ms Dudley:

"Can you believe she is calling us 'bullies'."

Melanie had also held the statutory position of Monitoring Officer ie the person supposed to be policing the bent Council. In the WhatsApp feed the dreaded duo said they wanted to replace her with a "bastard". They ended up with another retread (ie someone who had worked for the bent Council before) the highly controversial Surjit Tour who, incredibly, remains in post to this day!

The Milkman was known for his evil temper before he became "leader". Since accepting the tarnished crown he is alleged to have misbehaved at a funeral (which he strongly denies. I hold an email wherein Elaine Costigan appears to say that the complainant was lying even though Costigan did not witness the incident!) Again I refer to many previous blogs (and the legal notice below) regarding the shocking further conduct of Eling. He teamed up with his wife, Marshall, Costigan and a lowly pro-Labour employee, Sarah James, to make a series of complaints to West Midlands Police whilst Britton did the same via his Oldbury puppet, Sgt Crapwell. Milko and his wife physically threatened me INSIDE an election count just feet away from WMP officers. He spent large sums of taxpayers' money ringing the Oldbury Council House with barriers and security prior to supposedly democratic public meetings and a YouTube video shows how I was thrown out of OCH by Britton's thugs on his direct order. I was also barred from a public meeting (on the order of Britton according to David Stavens) and the bent Council eventually had to issue an apology for this unlawful conduct in the High Court.

Milko denies involvement in the vicious attack on the Cabinet secretaries but the "shouting" Councillor involved has never been identified. As we have seen he was also tried to get John Spellar, the joke Labour MP for Warley, to get the CPS to prosecute me. His finger prints are all over the outrageous decision to spend £300,000 to silence me and this blog (further blog coming soon). With the help of Surjit Tour he was able to subvert the standards investigation into, inter alia, himself. 

In the WhatsApp feed he and Marshall envisaged fellow Labour Cllr Ian Jones "spunking" over the current Acting Labour Leader "in her bikini" as this would be better than him "doing" his wife, who is also a Labour Councillor. Spellar, Gurinder Josan and others are, I sh*t ye not, actively campaigning for this vile man's suspension from the Labour Party to be lifted. If you are bored with lockdown you may wish to read a letter to Sir Keir Starmer which mainly deals with the shocking misconduct of the GMB Union but where Sir Woodenarse has been personally appraised of just some aspects of Eling's many misdeameanours:

http://crowmultimedia.blogspot.com/2020/12/gmb-union-official-raped-labour-mp-claim.html

Since Eling was booted out kicking and screaming there have been some imperfect improvements to governance. It is worth remembering and saying that SANDWELL COUNCIL ITSELF reported Jan Britton to his pals at West Midlands Police after unearthing documents concerning my proscution in the absurd "C*sucker" trial. Needless to say the Bent Blues took no action but Britton was still kicked out without compensation, other than that to which he was contractually entitled.

Jan Britton - A Digression

I was on the phone a little while ago to a female Labour figure and she made an extraordinary remark about Britton. She mentioned that he was in love with "anyone with a penis." I was rather shocked by this and initially misinterpreted what she meant. It is known that Britton is a family man and that he had his female favourites within the Council like Tara and Liz (please note that I am specifically NOT suggesting by plain speech or innuendo any sexual activity there - indeed Eling and Marshall (a keen amateur swordsman himself) infamously stated in the WhatsApp feed that, "He's [Britton's] not Lothario material"). The caller reassured me that she had not meant that he was a player of the pink oboe but that he went weak at the knees when confronted by what he perceived to be alpha males or "big swinging dicks". Thus this groveller abased himself even further - if that is even possible - when confronted for example, by (1) Mark Greenburgh - the self-confessed Zionist who made racist remarks about Muslims when appointed by Britton to prepare the infamous Wragge Report at a colossal fee; and (2) Jeremy Knight Adams - the Tory donor property developer whom Labour wants to concrete over Lion Farm Fields following the infamous "deal".

It is well known that lardarse (yes, I know, pot/kettle) Britton used to metaphorically crack one off the wrist at the mere mention of the appalling former WBE MP, Tom Watson. Even after his own disgrace Britton could not resist licking the royal bottom, thus we had this from him in January about "Watson's" slimming book:

As with everything "Sandwell" even this is odd as Britton claims his vast wobbling bulk is actually due to thyroid problems and prescriptions he takes for a medical condition rather than gluttony and idleness.

(Perhaps I should add here some other great news recently when the grotesque Watson was again rejected for a peerage!)

Back to the Future...

When Cllr "Red Yvonne" Davies - herself now also suspended by the Labour Party - was in charge I pleaded with her to get rid of Tour but she declined. Red Yvonne is notoriously unwilling to listen to advice and so I had a hollow laugh when Tour was shown sitting in (background left) on her explosive regisgnation speech:

"Red" rigged the recruitment process for a new Chief Executive. Whilst she initially claimed that headhunters would scour the country looking for top talent, in a grubby, typically Sandwell Labour move, David Stevens was given the nod after senior colleagues - including the ludicrous "Dr" Knight - were asked, over the Christmas Holiday last year, whether they wanted to express an interest (which, amazingly as they had no chance of getting the job, they didn't). I think the dickhead, now dismissed, Carter was another mock "candidate" lol!

Mr Stevens has many critics and is perceived by some to be Machiavellian. With the backing of "Red" he shut the "no-solidarity" secretaries up from exposing the full story and he gave personal evidence at Tribunals to halt any further diclosure about the Hackett and Lion Farm debacles (more coming soon...). He has, to be fair, made quite a bit of documentation public after the deliberate concealment of the Britton years. 

Stevens refuses point blank to say whether he was ever in business with his big mate Stuart Lackenby but, in a surprise move, the latter moved on recently to Northamptonshire Council. Nevertheless, and despite the Covid crisis, David has been rewarded by being given the chance to alter the top management structure and mould it to his own requirements.

Regulars readers will know that, until recently, the pathetic Darren Carter was the finance officer of the bent paid service. After his astonishing behaviour in the secretaries scandal he was suspended for months on full pay (from our pockets) despite his appalling conduct not least because 26 Labour Councillors actually supported him! He finally left recently with the line from David Stevens being that he had "taken redundancy" which suggests a large taxpayer-funded pay-off when he should have been instantly dismissed months ago. An erudite reader pointed out that Carter was actually the s.151 Officer which is a statutory post and, therefore, that position is required by law and cannot be made "redundant". Again this suggests that sleaze is still alive and well in the bent Borough even under Maria Crompton and our Dave!

I have repeatedly pointed out that Sandwell is such a sh*thole that most senior officers eg Britton and Stevens don't live there. One senior officer was actually living in, er, Sunderland but he is also out in the restructure. (Of course, two recent political leaders, Eling and Davies, also have delightful country retreats to avoid having to rub shoulders with local scum).

Whilst all right-thinking Sandwell watchers were anticipating Tour would be out, Acting Leader Maria Crompton has seemingly, and very foolishly, kept him on. But we can, at least, celebrate the departure of the hapless Knight.

"Dr" Knight is another Sandwell retread. As regular readers will know she was a major player (though not the only one) in a disastrous scheme called "Click Sandwell". She left but - incredibly - was brought back despite metaphorically sh*tting on the OCH carpets before. It is said that this was because she was a friend of Eling's wife which seems improbable as Mrs Eling/Pulsford is not known to have any friends (at least locally but maybe there are some far away in her Derbyshire village home?) Indeed many Sandwell Labour Councillors and Party members - including women - refer  to her by a derogatory nickname and in all the years of writing this blog only one person has had a good thing to say about  her - Cllr Liam Preece astonishingly, and seemingly without irony, described her as "a lovely lady"!

The disastrous "Dr" had only just been re-employed when she put her name to the shocking "Sh*te Knight Report" on the bent Lion Farm deal. In the limited time available and under pressure from Eling and Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore she produced an effort so bad that a schoolkid would have been embarrassed to present it. It has taken a long time and a Freedom of Information Request to establish that far from trying to ascertain the facts, the principal source of her information had been Jeremy Knight Adams, the developer benefitting from the bent deal! Not surprisingly the developer provided numerous reasons why the destruction of The Fields is a good thing lol. I have campaigned ever since for her instant dismissal for this alone but she has hardly covered herself in glory in other matters. At the ludicrous Liam Preece-chaired meeting to polish this particluar turd her answers from members were truly cringeworthy. Alas you cannot see this properly yourselves as the bent comrades "accidentally" switched the video and audio recorders off for this agenda item!!! (Jan Britton was hiding from view under the public gallery overhang but specificially denies that he had any part in the highly-convenient failure to record the session).

In another classic when I was in the public gallery she was caught like a rabbit in the headlights and a junior colleague had to run round and whisper the correct answer in her ear. Meanwhile she was quick to don the high-vis jacket and pose for publicity photos when the Covid crisis started but she also put her name to the astonishing public appeal to Sandwell people - who are already being well and truly shafted by Labour -  to donate cash to a "socialist" body blowing £73M on a vanity project swimming pool and £300k to screw me!

Don't lose any sleep for the good "Dr" as the venal local government system looks after its own and is happy to reward failure - just look at Jan Britton! Knight will probably be raking it in on £100k plus again soon especially as she is publicly claiming that her departure was somehow "voluntary" - which must be true:

Of course, we recently also saw the very sudden unlamented departure of Carter's mate Richard "Apple" Luckman, the Head of HR. They are going down like ninepins...

Under Britton it looked like career suicide to join his bent paid service but is it any better now? We recently saw Amy Harhoff arrive and leave quickly and, as above, the high-flying Lackenby flew away too. It is difficult to envisage any existing employees stepping up given their craven collusion during the Cooper/Eling/Britton era. But who would want to join this deeply corrupt authority if they were any good? No doubt Mr Stevens will follow his boasts of increased openness and tell us the current position as soon as the Bank Holiday is over! Watch this space...

One other bit of, er, good news! I make no allegation of specific fraud by Britton and his top [sic] staff but I have repeatedly asked why corrupt West Midlands Police have never interviewed Britton, Bubalo, Scarrott and others under caution about their knowledge of the fraud on their watch. Someone knew what was going on! It was pointed out here that sources close to Scarrott alleged that one reason might be that he was "in a relationship" with a WMP Inspector. The duo seem to have now gone public on the liaison with social media photos appearing of the loved-up pair in Venice (although it's not known whether Adrian took his guest up the Arsenale). Anyway, you will be delighted to know that this Cop has now been transferred to - drum roll please - Sandwell NPU! No doubt normal non-service will be maintained...

Billa and the Nursing/Care Homes Part 149...

This blog exposed Cllr M Y Hussain, aka the Tipton Green Tosser aka "Billa", for his monstrous self-publicity at the beginning of the Covid crisis. I noticed this piece the other day criticising "the big four" operators for lack of effort in letting relatives see loved ones:

Note that HC-One are named. They are a large company ultimately owned by a tax haven company in the Cayman Islands but "socialist" Billa kindly attempted to boost their profits by delivering PPE to them which he claims to have bought himself! To each according to his needs...

Air Miles Johnnie!

He may have done f*ck all for his moronic constituents in Sandwell but John Spellar MP has been an assiduous advocate for the State of Israel. This London-based Greaser-Extraordinaire may not have been banging the drum for sh*thole Warley but he has enjoyed plenty of foreign jollies - often discussing Israeli "security" and "culture" in exotic locations.

Since 2005 alone the gravy plane has taken the ex-public school boy to the USA (2005), the USA again (2007), Kuwait (2008), Israel (2008), Singapore (2011), Israel (2012), Japan (2012), Singapore & Indonesia (2013), China (2013), Israel (2014), Egypt (2014), Germany (2015), Israel (2015), Israel (2016), Australia (2017), Saudi Arabia (2018), and Singapore (2019). Phew - no wonder he hasn't had much time for pathetic local scum...

A couple of trips stand out in particular. Whilst the Labour Party pretend to be against private education this alumnus of Dulwich College felt able to fly to Egypt to attend the opening of top public school Malvern College's new facility there!

Most of us are rather appalled at the Saudi regime. Personally I am not keen on folk being flogged on the streets. Or beheaded. And a dissident was recently murdered and dismembered in the Saudi's own Turkish consulate. But when it comes to Greaser John they are prepared to forgive and forget. In a seasonal 2015 jibe the Boy from Bromley appeared to mock the Saudis and their rigid Wahabbism (note exclamation mark!):

But in 2018 the House of Saud let bygones be bygones and rolled out the red, non-blood stained, carpet big-style for Warley's absentee advocate. Greasy John claimed that the flights - presumably first class - alone cost an astonishing £6,932! Very nice "work" if you can get it!

Make it in Sadders!

After 46 years of Labour disaster, Sandwell Labour remains resolutely anti-business and enterprise with Red Yvonne and her ilk regularly spouting virulently anti-capitalist tripe.

And who can forget Spellar whining when nPower made many redundant in Warley that they hadn't consulted with him? It's hardly surprising that when local Labour keep expressing hatred of business providers they don't want to speak to the grasping comrades.

Yesterday Spellar travelled from his London home to, er, London to participate in the EU "debate" where he lurched to his feet and incoherently ranted about "making things in Britain" as if saying it will make it happen and ignoring the local manufacturing decline during the 28 years (kerching!) he has purported to "represent" Warley! 

With no self-awareness whatsover, anti-business Sandwell Labour have been boasting about how poor local people are. They have been w*nking vigourously about local foodbanks, the number of kids on free school meals and having to deliver bogroll to dirty locals unable to wipe their own arses. They do this with a sense of pride rather than shame!

Thus I was rather surprised when viewing the bent Labour Council's website to see them advertsing expensive cashmere sweaters - "the quality you deserve"! Apparently local morons are waddling around with faeces smeared around their buttocks but are seen as targets for the purchase of expensive designer knitwear:

David Stevens and his "elite" are mostly on over £100k a year and can probably afford a nice bit of luxury cashmere courtesy of us taxpayers as can wealthy Councillors and former ones like Eling, Red Yvonne, Jedward and Bob "Seig Heil" Piper. And look John Spellar at the .co.uk address for "Maison Cashmere" - Labour are doing what you seem to now be saying and promoting British, though not local, firms! Sadly no! Click through and you will discover the comrades are not only rubbing the noses of sinking poverty ghetto Sandwell in the sh*t but are pushing an outfit in that affluent local fashion centre, Milan!

If you still think these w*nkers could run a whelk stall you deserve everything you (don't) get! And it won't be a Happy New Year in Sadders unless locals can manage to get up off their knees!

Stay safe dear readers - it's dangerous out there - although not according to Sandwell Labour of course as the bragging Comrades had licked Covid last August...

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Labour MP Signs Off On £1m WBA Football Ticket Ruse.

Preet Kaur Gill, the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, signed off two sets of annual accounts with her fellow Trustees (!?) of a charity, The Albion Foundation, which show that it was making huge annual "purchases" from West Bromwich Albion Football Club.

This scandal is growing by the day and is actually getting worse. For the full story so far, which you can read at your leisure, go to the following links:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2020/10/has-wba-fc-profited-from-albion.html

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2020/11/baggies-charity-mystery-on-liquidator.html

In a nutshell, the charitable Foundation is based in the horribly corrupt Labour fiefdom of Sandwell where Gill used to be an inconsequential Councillor and was widely perceived as being "not very bright". It claims to be the charitable "partner" of the football Club, currently in the Premier League. The Club gets great kudos from association with the Charity but, financially, donates sums to it ranging from very little to absolutely f*ck all.

This blog exclusively revealed that far from a rich football Club being charitable towards the Foundation it making huge sales of tickets, kit etc to the Charity thereby boosting its own profits! These payments have come to light in the last two sets of accounts where they are specified as "related party transactions" between the Charity and the Club.

Labour's Gill - who is still an "ambassador" for the Foundation according to her Parliamentary Register of Interests - signed off on accounts showing that the charity bought over a MILLION POUNDS worth of tickets etc in the two years when she was a Trustee. The Trustees agreed the 2018 annual accounts on 18th March, 2019 which showed under "related party transactions" WBAFC fleecing the so-called "charity" for £605,895. They agreed the 2019 accounts on 21st March, 2020 and another colossal payment of £507,890. As a Baggies fan myself I find this absolutely sickening.

It is not known whether Gill could be arsed to attend the Foundation's meetings (it is no good me asking her as she refuses to communicate with me) but her name is on both sets of annual accounts.

If you follow the above links you will see that the "Community Director" of the Foundation, Rob Lake, denied in writing this grotesque expenditure by the "charity" which is somewhat surprising as he holds the legal position of Company Secretary of The Albion Foundation Limited! He, as Company Secretary, and the "boss" of the Charity claimed that the expenditure was just around £50,000 ("just" £50k) for staff kit ("just" think about that for a minute folks!) When confronted with the evidence in the accounts Lake lost his tongue and has declined to explain the apparent shafting of the Foundation by WBAFC!

Whilst I attempted to make further enquiries of the Foundation, Adrian Goldberg and Chris Lepkowksi of the excellent "all things Baggies" Podcast "The Liquidator" tried to get information from the Club. But answers came there none. To date the mainstream media are ignoring this, at best, outrageous use of charitable funds.

Now I can exclusively reveal that it seems that large purchases may have been going on for much longer although they were hidden in the earlier accounts. At least one other mammoth payment of £879,559 has come to light. Sorry if this gets a little complicated but prior to the 2018 accounts the Foundation was using Crowther Beard Accountants of Worcester as auditors and in the 2017 accounts they specifically said that there were NO related party transactions. But there were - £879,559 just in that one year! We know this because the Foundation changed accountants and the "new lot" decided it was not appropriate to conceal these huge sums so that in the 2018 they have given the game away. (Curiously though a Mr John Painter was the same auditor named for both firms so either he moved firms or there was a takeover). Even though Mr Painter said there was no purchase in the 2017 figures his own 2018 accountsspecifically show that there were - WTF!: 

The Trustees of the 2017 accounts (which did not include Gill) approved the seemingly entirely incorrect claim that there were no related party transactions which is odd as the two trustees who physically signed the accounts were Martin Goodman and Martin Swain, the (then) Chief Exec of the Football Club and the Director of Communications! This pair are referred to as "related parties" in the accounts but their employer took £879,559 from the Charity and two Directors/Trustees  signed of fthe charity accounts which did not refer at all to this sum:

Even before I discovered this major discrepancy I had written to Mr Lake asking him to pass on my email to all relevant trustees (including Gill) and have them explain what they knew about the related party transactions:

"Dear Rob,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY

Can you please forward this email to the Albion Foundation Trustees named in the 30th June, 2019 accounts ie.

M C Swain

Ninder Johal

S King

S Topper

P C Band

Brendon Batson

L W Cooper

Preet Kaur Gill

M Miles

J Verrier

I understand that some of the trustees have now relinquished their positions but I imagine that you still have contact details.

Dear Trustees (as at 30/06/19),

As Trustees you agreed the accounts of the Albion Foundation for year end 30/06/09 which showed that in that financial year and the previous financial year the Charity had purchased over £1m (one million pounds) worth of tickets from WBA FC by way of related party transactions.

At the material time four trustees were also employees of WBA FC ie Martin Swain, Simon King, Lee Cooper and Mark Miles.

There seems to me to be a very obvious conflict of interest in the transfer of these huge sums from charitable funds to the football club. Are you able to say how this extraordinary situation came about?

Did any trustees who were also employees of WBA FC recuse themselves from meetings when these very large related party transactions were agreed and, if not, why not?

Which trustees were actually minuted as being present at meetings when these related party transactions were agreed?"

As above this was sent before I knew that this scandal goes back further still but in any event no-one at all has been decent enough to reply. This is a Charity and the lack of response is absolutely disgusting. Any "professional" body of trustees would have demanded an immediate inquiry but, hey, we are in bent Sandwell. Since July, however, the new Tory MP for West Brom East, Nicola Richards, has become a Trustee and I am writing to her to get her to demand (a) the truth about when these deals started and the total amount involved, (b) the identities of the Trustees involved and (c) whether it is in the best interests of the charity for these "related transactions" to continue and, if so, why? Ms Richards will herself now be responsible for agreeing the 2020 accounts and I am sure she will be concerned whether she can legally do that in accordance with her own fiduciary and other duties to represent the Charity's best interests.

Just in case Ms Richards cannot obtain the truth I have, in any event, made a formal report to the Charity Commission asking them to launch an investigation.

Postscript:

1. As with any charity or body in corrupt Labour Sandwell they have made sure the Council or Labour is involved in the governance of the organisation. Besides Gill the ghastly and scandal-prone Cllr Simon "The Sandwell Slasher" Hackett was also a trustee (2010 - 2017);
2. It's also no surprise that since 2016 Sandwell uber-greaser Ninder Johal is a Trustee; and
3. The Foundation now mired in sleaze is trying to do a deal for new premises - no doubt with taxpayers on the hook - with, er, mired in sleaze Labour Sandwell Council! 

I am sorry to say this, but be very careful before you give any of your own money to this lot until they get round to telling us the truth about what they have been up to.

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He's Finally Gone - Darren Carter OUT (+ more!)

BREAKING NEWS: CARTER OUT!

At long last the pathetic s. 151 Finance Officer of bent Labour Sandwell Council has been booted out BUT HOW MUCH HAS THIS COST YOU? Darren Carter (pictured standing without a tie) was a pathetic grovelling rimmer of the Labour Dictatorship and there was surprise when he was given the top Finance job by disgraced former "Leader" Steve "Squealing" Eling. As ever the suspicion was that his promotion owed more to the use of his (brown) tongue rather than the use of his brain.

Even in "the day job" there have been questions about Carter's ability and the very considerable delays in the presentation of the audited accounts - a matter of great concern for a Labour Council tainted with widespread corruption. fraud and incompetence. But, as exclusively reported by this blog, it was the unlawful suspension of the Cabinet secretaries which put the skids under him (posts passim as nauseum).

You can read the full tale elesewhere in this blog but Sandwell's nasty and highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, held a "private" meeting with Labour Councillors on the Standards Committee the day before they were due to preside over the show-trial of Cllr Ian Jones. This shocking action was leaked and a witchhunt started to find the leaker. The Cabinet secretaries - with over 100 years of service between them -were fingered as the guilty parties. A male Labour Councillor with access to the executive areas of the Oldbury Kremlin was heard shouting "I want the f*ckers [ie the loyal secretaries] out and I don't want the f*ckers back!" It is hard to imagine who would be physically proximate to all this and have the power to abuse these women in this way and Squealing Eling has been widely touted as the piece of scum responsible for this vile outburst although he specifically denies any involvement.

Jan Britton, Darren Carter, Lousie Lawrence, former employee Stuart Taylor and other employees became involved to seek retribution for the leak of Tour's actions and Carter took the lead in the absurd decision to wrongly suspend the unfortunate women. As regular readers will know the likes of Cllr Yvonne Davies (another defenestrated leader) and David Stevens (appointed Chief Exec by Davies after no proper competitive process) then fought tooth and nail to prevent disclosure of the truth at a Tribunal hearing with Davies and Stevens actively pushing the line to the Tribunal that it was the women themselves who didn't want full dislcosure of the truth! Nevertheless, the process DID flush out a considerable amount of evidence and the fingerprints of Carter himself were everywhere.

The strange thing is that Carter himself decided to take the blame for this shaming degringolade and to protect his political masters at all costs. He too has persisently stated that there were no councillors involved (which is not true anyway as the documents show "briefings" etc) and that the incredible and monumental disaster was entirely due to his own stupidity and ineptitude and that of the "expert" SMBC HR Department. As soon as this started to become apparent this blog immediately - and rightly - started calling for him to face disiplinary action and dismissal without compensation.

We know that Sandwell Labour run a dysfunctional and corrupt outfit where loyalty to the Party trumps any attempt to act in a proper way and it seems incredible that Carter would have admitted that he seemingly has sh*t for brains unless he had been given the nod that he would be "protected". And when the excrement began to hit the fan a whole bunch of pathetic "socialists" - including women - signed a letter to try and prevent him facing disciplinary action for his shocking treatment of female employees. When you see these arsewipes out and about ask them why on earth they supported the pathetic plank:

As it is the highly-paid Carter has been suspended on full pay for many months and so WE have picked up the tab for him to sit at home during a time of crisis. SMBC have now stated that he has left by reason of "redundancy" which almost certainly means he has also received a pay-off despite his appalling conduct! 

Carter is not out of the woods yet. It certainly looks like he was directly involved in setting up a secret £300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand pounds) fund to destroy me and this blog and he may well face serious repercussions from that too. And maybe the comrades have paid him off (with OUR money) to ensure he keeps his mouth shut as per many other examples...

Sandwell may be mired in poverty after 46 years of Labour but thanks to taxpayers the Carter family won't be down the foodbank any time soon! Kerching!

The Lying Nurse

There are documented historical examples of manias breaking out during plague periods and the absurd glorification of the NHS during Covid seems to be one such. Don't get me wrong, I support a (reformed) NHS (mostly because the economic case at present is that it would be too expensive to switch to a different funding system). 

Before Covid (remember that?) anyone of my advanced years will tell you many stories of wonderful treatment from the NHS but also many horror stories. Personally I have mostly had superb treatment though there have been some bumps in the road. And in the final years of my mother's life her extensive treatment veered from the astonishingly good to the appallingly bad.

A few days ago Labour Cllrs (and rebels against the current leadership) Kerrie Carmichael and "Inane" Elaine Costigan were pleasuring each other with tweets singing the praises of Russells Hall Hospital. Almost simultaneously, er, Russells Hall Hospital apologised for their shocking misdiagnosis of a man who then needlessly died of sepsis. We have recently seen very poor maternity services pilloried at Shrewsbuty/Telford. And who can forget kindly old Dr Harold Shipman?

But now neighbours are shunned if they don't stand on their doorsteps and applaud the NHS and even the Tories cannot stop saying how marvellous it is. There is no objectivity in any of this. The NHS may be good but it is far from being the world-beater oft claimed. Indeed it was 18th in the world via the latest WHO efficiency rankings. And many countries that do not have a "free at the point of delivery" system like ours have performed very well indeed during Covid without any congratulation from our mulish and insular populace.

So yes, support the NHS but help it improve where you can. Unfortunately, however, the organisation is such a political issue that any attempt at reform is seen as an "attack" on the organisation's principles. This is absurd and has to change.

The NHS is a massive employer and it is inevitable that there are going to be some rotten apples in the barrel. And Labour and the Unions have thousand of stooges within the Service ready to push their perverted ideology irrespective of the facts. Thus we come to an extraordinary incident early in the pandemic when someone who claimed to be a nurse at Walsall Manor Hospital tweeted that the angels there were desperately short of "refreshments". This immediately seemed odd to me given that morons were queuing outside hospitals to present often grossly obese staff with boxes of sweets and biscuits.

Various official and unofficial enquiries were duly made and the NHS itself and others confirmed that the story was TOTALLY UNTRUE. That should have been the end of matter - just another crazy on Twitter spreading "fake news" - except that the then Leader of Sandwell Council, Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies saw the tweet...

Red Yvonne has many admirable qualities and, unlike many of her "comrade" councillors has some intellect, integrity and personal bravery - which is probably why the likes of Costigan, Hughes, Edwards and Co despise her. But as with anyone who is prepared to live their life accordingy to the diktats of a warped dogma the "red mist" came down and Cllr Davies said that she was going to immediately ensure that food in the Council's Hub would be diverted from the needy and vulnerable of Sandwell and delivered to local hospitals (where our heroes were well-stocked and all on full pay).

SMBC now refuse to identify the nurse but say that he or she was working on Ward 2 of Walsall Manor Hospital (and I may be wrong but I somehow thought that this building was not in Sandwell!) Furthermore Sandwell Council say that they not only confirmed the identity of this lying f*ckwit but contacted him or her (again, even though Walsall Manor is not in Sandwell).

I will soon be writing about Sandwell Labour's "fake" charity "Sandwell Leisure Trust" (SLT) but suffice to say here that, legally at least, SLT is a completely seperate organisation from the Council (although wholly reliant on it). SLT was closed down by Covid and so "donated" the contents of its vending machines to the Council's food hub. On 20th April, with the permission of SLT, Sandwell Labour decided to f*ck over Sandwell residents yet again and delivered refreshments which were NOT required to Walsall Manor Hospital. All this from a false and poisonous tweet!

With no other evidence of need these t*ssers also sent SLT stuff to Russells Hall and New Cross Hospitals which are also outside the Borough!

I keep saying these people are morons. When are you finally going to listen Sandwell?

(PS can anyone identify the nurse please?)

Sandwell Leader Maria Crompton Refuses to Condemn Vile Abuse

Councillor Joanne Hadley has been suspended by the Labour Party in respect of complaints based on a very dodgy tape "acquired" by Cllr M Y Hussain ("Billa") and his grovelling sidekick and self-appointed spokesperson, Basharat Khan. Since making their complaint this pair have ALSO been suspended by Labour in this rottenest of Rotten Labour Boroughs! Khan has been putting up tweets singing the praises of the woman he has tried to destroy. Here is the latest:

Despite the dubious complaint and the retractions the national Labour party has not removed the Councillor's suspension and seems intent on involving its funders in yet another costly legal disaster. In the meantime, in a recent post I referred to the astonishing abuse of Cllr Hadley on Twitter from troll accounts connected with someone I can now name,  ex-Labour Councillor David Hosell. I sent this email to the Interim Leader asking if she condemned the attacks on a Councillor but once you are out of Labour you are out and there has been on response from Cllr Crompton.

"Nov 26, 2020, 3:13 PM

Dear Cllr Crompton,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY

I am writing to you in your capacity as the current Leader of Sandwell Council. I appreciate that Sandwell is completely tribal and that Labour only acts in the interest of itself. Also that Cllr Jo Hadley is currently suspended by the Party.

However, you arguably have a wider role in acting for the whole community of the Borough and also ensuring the lawful governance of the Council. As Leader you surely have a moral duty of care to all Councillors irrespective of their current Party status. Or do you disagree?

I am sure you will be aware that ex-Labour Councillor David Hosell and others have been running an extremely abusive social media trolling campaign against a number of people (including myself). West Midlands Police are fully aware of this but have chosen to do nothing.

Recently the Hosell network has poured forth an incredibly obscene and abusive stream of invective to harass and demean Cllr Hadley - again with no action from WMP.

I could send you many screenshots the Skidder team have collected but this recent one stands out as being particularly offensive.

Do you condemn this sort of repulsive attack on a Sandwell Councillor?;

Noting that the Chief Constable of West Midlands is refusing to investigate the Hosell trolling network will you use your office to refer this police inactivity to the four local MP's, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and the Home Secretary? If not why not?

I believe I am right in saying that Hosell is a tenant of SMBC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

I am sure Skidder readers will be interested in what action, if any, you take in this matter."

We have seen time and time again that the Bent Blues are determined not to police the Labour Council. Why they want to protect someone as awful as Hosell is anyone's guess although this picture of Dave with Jan Britton's Oldbury Police puppet may or may not be instructive.

Bescot Planning Fiddle

Rather late in the day the bent Labour Council are sending me a large dossier about the crazed scheme to build a factory next to housing at Bescot (exciting Christmas reading lol!). The plan was backed and promoted by bent Sandwell Labour until the local peasants revolted and a brilliant campaign by Carol White, Wayne Trinder and many, many, others defeated the plan.

Whilst I await the dossier here is a letter from the corrupt Council I came across recently from their pals at the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership - a bunch of unelected greasers like Ninder Johal - who unfortunately have influence in the planning process. Even though there was a huge local campaign against the absurd plan here are two sentences from a letter these "enemies of the people" sent in support of the planning application.

I think we need to start to monitoring these sh*tbags don't you readers?

Letter to Sandwell Council Planners - 19/09/19

I am writing to confirm the support from the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership for the Bescot Sleeper Factory in Sandwell...

The BCLEP are happy to work alongside Network Rail and Sandwell MBC to promote this scheme and support this through the planning and delivery stages to ensure the facility opens in September 2021.

May 2021 Elections

The bent Labour Council has confirmed that it erases the records of persons nominated for elections once the election is over. It is interesting for Sandwell-watchers to view these documents and given real concerns that, once again, Labour candidates are getting away with giving false addresses at election time (more anon!) So take a print folks if there is anything dodgy going on...

STOP PRESS - SANDWELL DISGRACED AGAIN!

Whilst writing this local Tory MP, Shaun Bailey, popped up on the TV asking a question in the House of Commons. Quite rightly he was asking why sh*thole Labour Sandwell is currently BOTTOM of the league table for school attendance. Shaun pointed out that in Sandwell - where, incidentally,  the Labour-appointed Director of Public Health has been a very vocal critic of Government policy - the recent attendance was just 37%. Even the left-wing Guardian mentioned this:

This is even worse than other Labour sh*tholes like Rochdale, Oldham and Tower Hamlets!!!

Sandwell Labour have recently been boasting about how poor and deprived the Borough is after 46 years of their control. They know that a lot of Sandwell parents are as thick as two short planks (not least because they vote Labour or just can't be arsed to vote at all) and they must now discourage these people from visiting their own failure upon their children.

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SKIDDER EXCLUSIVE: Labour's £300k Fund To Destroy This Blog!

Deeply corrupt Labour Sandwell Council set up a secret £300,000 fund to destroy me and this blog it can be exclusively revealed! In an extraordinary admission the bent Council has confirmed in writing that the giant fund was officially budgeted for but hidden in "financial reserves" and a VAT exclusive sum of £50k was actually spent on external lawyers - including a QC - on top of internal legal costs.

For the benefit of new readers Labour Sandwell Council has tried to destroy me and this blog for many years. In the latter part of 2017 I published material which was the catalyst for the eventual defenestration of the vicious Labour "leader" Steve "Squealing" Eling. His pusillanimous elected colleagues circled the wagons around this tyrant despite the evidence against him and he clung on to the leadership "kicking and screaming" for several months aided and abetted by grovelling members of the deeply flawed paid service including Jan Britton (the now disgraced former Chief Executive), Darren Carter (the now-suspended s.151 Officer - possibly on his way out if recent rumours are correct) and the highly controversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour (who has been active in subverting the complaints system against elected members - see posts passim and legal notice below).

Eling and his puppets lashed out at me as he clung onto office by his finger tips but he was eventually suspended by the Labour Party itself. Even then he refused to go until his colleagues reluctantly passed him the pearl-handled revolver.

For the many years this blog has shone light into the corrupt corners of this bent organisation the elected members have kept up a constant refrain that my many exclusives have been "all lies" without ever putting up any sort of rebuttal. But The Squealer knew I had severely wounded him politically. 

The bent paid service are refusing to say (a) when the secret fund was set up, (b) who the s.151 Officer was and (c) who the Cabinet Member for Resources was who signed off the £300k expenditure.

There are proper procedures for expenditure in a "normal" Council ie. one not run [sic] by the hapless Jan Britton. It is highly likely the s.151 (Finance) Officer was the grovelling rimmer Carter and, whilst we do not know the date this sick arrangement was made, it is highly unlikely that he had the power, "delegated authority", to authorise a secret fund of this size. Now Eling himself retained the position of Cabinet Member for Resources for at least some of the time he was Leader but it is currently unclear whether he himself approved this fund as part of his personal vendetta against me.

It is highly likely that this all happened on his watch since, as we shall see, there is reference to Howard Kennedy Solicitors and I know that Britton's bent paid service used them to try and subvert a subject access request from me in early 2018. As above, the corrupt Council is currently refusing to provide details. (I am writing to the three local Conservative MP's since they MUST demand an inquiry here and the heads of anyone involved still within the organisation).

Eling was replaced temporarily by the weak as p*ss Labour Cllr Steve "Luvvie" Trow and he too has questions to answer about all this.

Sandwell itself has a large and expensive legal department under the highly-paid and equally highly controversial Tour. the current Law Society website says they employ a stonking 21 solictors but they are seemingly useless as external lawyers are constantly instructed to do much of their work - at great expense to us taxpayers. David Stevens, the new Chief Executive who was promoted without any sort of proper competitive process, will not say at present how much time and public money this lot spent on this vendetta.

Surjit Tour himself wrote to me (the very day James Morris MP raised the corruption at Sandwell Council in the House of Commons) saying he and the Council were out to get me and that external lawyers were also being appointed to shaft me. As it was this dirt-poor deprived Borough spent the following vat-exclusive external sums of OUR money on top of their own resources:

QC - £10,882.00

Other barristers: £9,498.50

Howard Kennedy, Solicitors (a vey posh London outfit): £13,756.00

Bevan Brittan, Solicitors: £15,857.00

So on top of their own solicitors they spent another £49,993.50 ex vat on external lawyers!

(This info from David Stevens may not be complete since Surjit Tour took an external firm with him to a meeting with the equally corrupt West Midlands Police chaired by an Assistant Chief Constable no less and their fees are not shown.)

Ask yourselves why I am feared by these Labour sh*tbags so that they will look to spend £300k of OUR money to hide the truth? And keep reading THE SKIDDER for the truth the local mainstream media won't tell you!

It is curious that Cllr Yvonne Davies claimed she was going to root out corruption in her time as Leader but never said a dicky bird about this heap of sh*t! And you can see that David Stevens is carrying on the "traditions" of Jan Britton by STILL trying to keep as much of this scandal secret:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sandwell_skidder_legal_fund#outgoing-1090675

 

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Breaking News - Brunswick Park Lodge Con + More!

BREAKING NEWS - Brunswick Park Lodge Scandal

I am indebted to a reader for discovering the latest horror story from the Wednesbury Labour mafia.

Despite some Labour Councillors having two homes these money-grubbers have been vociferous in claiming that the housing crisis in Sandwell is not their fault despite their failure over four and a half decades in power. They persistently scream about the need for more council housing ignoring the scandals relating to allocations over the years, the "right to buy" fiddles, the lack of new-builds and the poor quality of some of the existing stock. 

The bent Labour Council had some houses let on "service tenancies" - rented to staff - and sometimes in desirable locations, at least by Sandwell standards. Who can forget that the former Parks supremo John Satchwell Snr managed to buy one which he did up and put on the market for a very tidy sum.

People are beginning to ask why the Lodge at Brunswick Park (pictured) appears to be empty when there is such need for housing in the Borough. And if Labour think it is too good for rent then sell it and use the proceeds for something shittier for what they perceive to be local scum to live in.

The reader has discovered that the property has been empty since 2019 (which seems to indicate for AT least one year) and it has not been offered to tenants or for sale on the open market. My tenacious correspondent then discovered that the reason for this was that Wednesbury Labour front-organisation "The Friends of Brunswick Park" want it for some sort of community use! In other words, it is wanted as a taxpayer-funded loss-making plaything for the likes of Costigan, Zorro Hughes and the ghastly Giles clan!

This Labour Front now only shows one trustee, a Terence Mcdermott (which is unusual for a charity) but we all know who is pulling the strings and Sandwell Council definitely know so how are they trying to force this bent deal through? I don't know if Terry Mc was the only Trustee for the last three years but whoever they were they failed to file their accounts with the Charity Commission for 2017 until 568 days late and were 204 days late for the 2018 numbers. This blog and others made the late filing public and the trustee(s) filed the 2019 accounts on time. The Charity Commission is not publishing the full accounts now on the website but the total income for the year was just £5,746. And so this is a pisspot organisation with a sole trustee and a history of very poor govenance negotiating to steal a valuable asset from us taxpayers.

(The usual modus operandi of Wednesbury Labour is to get a grant from the Council and then show to grant-making bodies that there is already money in the bank toleverage more out of them!)

In any event Sandwell is awash with "community spaces". Many pay no rates. Indeed it is worse since there are no endowments with these properties and so the bent Labour Council doles out money to keep them going whilst they scratch around for other grants (often from other taxpayer-funded outfits.) It is noteworthy that at one of the meetings when Labour decided to f*ck you all over with the Commonwealth Games paddling pool Cllr Bill Gavan "lol" was asked what would happen to the redundant Smethwick Baths. Of course, none of this had even been considered in the desperate rush to blow your money on a vanity project and he muttered that it might be suitable for some sort of "community use" - so another massive hidden cost of the disastrous "socialist" w*nk for years or even generations to come.

After all the fraud and the cons set out in this blog are Labour trying to do another backdoor deal instead of using the house as it was until last year as a residence or selling it. Lets see if Chief Executive David Stevens has a bigger pair of balls than Jan Britton!

If you want to rent it or buy the lodge contact Sandwell Council as they have a legal obligation to get the best price possible if they dispose of it. Keep a record though since, in the past - especially during the Jan Britton years - such offers mysteriously got "lost" (eg. on the plot of land sold to Cllr Rouf's son - posts passim as nauseum).

Carters Green

There is nothing the bent Labour Council likes more than to blow its own trumpet despite their obvious failings over a mere 46 years. Who can forget that at the height of the corruption under Jan Britton and Nick Bubalo (who didn't see or know anything) they were awarded a prestigious, er. planning award! Now they are bragging about an award for the "redevelopment" at Carters Green - the area of West Brom where a friend of mine is afraid to walk alone at night.

But all the PR from the comrades didn't cut much ice with users of the excellent "I Live in West Bromwich" Facebook Group. Here are just a few of the comments:

AH: Waste of money less parking and has caused more congestion

JW: What a load of crap completely spoilt carter's green causes traffic jams on the big island every day a complete waste of taxpayers money

SM: Even if its Paved with Gold revitalised is a bit strong for ruining

LE: Absolute dump of an area

KPO: Load of [double turd emojis] and a waste of money!!

CB: worse than before.

WT: It is horrible there now when you think how it used to be, such a shame.

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI!

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Hate Mail

The pathetic "comrades" of Sandwell Labour are adept at smearing people - including their own side. Back in the days of the late Smethwick wife-beater, Darren Cooper, we saw that "anonymous" letters were received and used to try to destroy (then) Labour Councillors Mick Davies and Jayne Wilkinson.

They are still at it today as the Labour Group is torn down the middle in a bitter civil war which continues to rage despite the small matter of a global pandemic actually killing Sandwell folk. 

It's ancient history I know but I just happened to come across a classic example of the sheer vindictiveness of this lot recently and the sheer stupidity of some of the opposition parties in Sadders who think Labour will box by Marquess of Queensberry Rules whereas they need to learn that they are in a cage fight with these sh*tbags.

And the opposition should start to acquaint themselves with the contents of this blog before they cosy-up to this hate-filled bunch.

Labour drove Jayne Wilkinson out but she joined the Green Party and even though, at that time, she had no chance of winning a seat with them Cooper and Co still wanted to destroy her completely.

Thus a Mr Paul Kerton wrote to Aldo Mussi of the Green Party making inane insinuations about Jayne and claiming that he was considering "voting green at the next election" but was not now going to do so. Mr Mussi took this complaint seriously and raised the matter with Jayne in December, 2014. But if Mr Mussi had read a Skidder post in August, 2014:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2014/08/twitter-troll-no-1-paul-kerton.html

he would have immediately realised that Kerton was a foul-mouthed weirdo troll close to the Smethwick Scumbag and told the Labour stooge to "do one!". Incredibly back then and given his vicious, abusive, trolling, Kerton was an employee in a Sandwell school! Oh yes, and he and his step(?) brother Labour Councillor Stephen Frear (another big pal of the Turdmeister) shared a council house together.

I thought of this the other day when one of the local Liberals was gallantly letting Labour off the hook for 46 years of sh*te and wondered whether the opposition would ever "get real". There's an election next May and so time is running out...

Photos Please

Part One:   The Skidder is expanding and there will be some exciting news soon. I am always looking for interesting photos of Sadders for use on this blog and across a new suite of social media sites. You can help by letting me have pics with confirmation that I may use them. If you wish me to credit you when using your image please say and I shall be very happy to do so.

Part Two:   A Labour Councillor and her associate in West Brom are trying to harm this blog and stop you reading the truth about the Rotten Borough. I am dealing with them but they have attempted to claim copyright for photos which they have put on social media or otherwise in the public domain. 

I have now written to ALL Sandwell Councillors asking then for either a photo I can use or permission to use their image as used on the Sandwell Council website. Incredibly only four Councillors bothered to respond. Cllrs Yvonne Davies, Ian Jones, Olwen Jones and Joanne Hadley all gave me written permission to use their website photo. But they are only elected members and so they have no say and the bent Council's highly conroversial Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, has directly countermanded their instructions (without consultation with them!)

In the circumstances, if YOU have any photos of Sandwell Councillors either on council or political party business that you can let me use, please send them to me. PLEASE NOTE THAT COUNCILLORS DO HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND SO PLEASE DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH THEM WHEN THEY ARE OUT AND ABOUT CONDUCTING THEIR NORMAL BUSINESS (UNLESS THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING PUBLIC INTEREST EG WHEN FIVE COUNCILLORS ATTENDED A MEETING AT A BIRMINGHAM RESTAURANT IN BREACH OF COVID REGULATIONS.) The golden rule is council or party business only please.

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Liam Byrne's Massive Porkie!

Sheeple of Sandwell - this post may be about a Birmingham MP but Liam Byrne is the Labour candidate to be the West Midlands "Mayor" next May and so you need to decide whether (a) you can be bothered to vote at all (and most of you won't which is why Sandwell is still an absolute sh*thole despite 46 years of Labour control) or (b) you will actually cast your vote for someone with such poor judgement and who lies to you.

In passing it is worth remembering that almost no-one in Sandwell wanted a new West Midlands Combined Authority and Mayor in the first place. Another multi-million pound taxpayer-funded tier of government has been foisted on local people yet the local authority has not been pruned to compensate. Bent Labour Sandwell Council still has 72 councillors and a massive staff which YOU also continue to pay for.

One thing about Labour is that they NEVER learn from their mistakes. When the first mayoral race took place in 2017 the grotesque Tom "Lazy Tom" Watson forced Labour to take as their candidate his absurd Rimmer-in-Chief, Sion Simon. Simon didn't even live in the West Midlands Combined Authority area proper but Labour don't care about things like that. Simian Simon ran a disastrous campaign. (I was fortunate to be present when he spectacularly imploded at a meeting of pro-Labour "arts" professionals with an old chap from the Arts Council actually standing up and shouting at him!) He lost, of course, to former soft-furnishing salesperson Andy Street, who got out of John Lewis's just before its precipitous decline (leaving a colossal white elephant building perched above the still-fumed clogged New Street Station - a classic case of bullsh*t style favoured ahead of substance).

Blairite Byrne is notorious for his infamous "joke" when leaving his post as Labour's Chief Secretary of the Treasury in May. 2010 when Labour were finally kicked out of office after trashing the economy. How Byrne - an MP since 2004 for yet another Labour sh*thole, Hodge Hill in Birmingham - ever achieved office in the first place is a mystery but as we teetered on the brink of financial destruction he left his successor at the Treasury a note reading "I'm afraid there is no money!" Like most good jokes it was based on the truth and his conduct in office should have been a matter of deep shame rather than levity.

Having f*cked up so spectacularly you might think Byrne would be more diligent thereafter but, earlier, this year he appointed "The Tipton Green Tosser" Cllr M. Y Hussain (aka "Billa") to what was claimed as a serious - amateur - investigation into the effect of Covid 19 in BAME communities in the West Mids. 

Sandwell readers will be familiar with Billa's antics and that he must be a good actor since he exudes the persona of being as thick as two short planks. Sniffing, sweating Billa is also surrounded by a miasma of lurid allegations (he even has a parody Twitter account @BillaSweating!) 

Billa has interests in at least two houses but claims to be "unemployed". Nevertheless, in the first lockdown he was travelling far and wide despite the regulations - often crammed in a car with other members of the BAME "community" and Brian Rickers, a former Regional Organiser of Unite the Union but now also unemployed. It is alleged - and I put it no higher than that - that this unemployed man used his pass as a Sandwell Labour Councillor to ignore the lockdown rules by claiming to be "a key worker"(which he has yet to deny) but what is definitely correct is that complaints have been made about his behaviour to, inter alia, Sandwell Council itself.

Byrne himself let the cat out of the bag in a press release when he set up his own farcical, non-scientific, "inquiry" saying:

"Councillor Hussain has spent the entire lockdown supporting individuals and families right across the region with the effects of the coronavirus crisis".

This blog showed that Billa was claiming to donate PPE to nursing homes etc which the unemployed man said he had "paid for" from his own money. Yet he cadged PPE from a nursing home and then "donated" it to Sandwell Hospital - all recorded in self-publicising social media posts to the glory of the greater Billa.

On 7th October, 2020 I sent this email to Byrne who had appointed this man to his "inquiry" after all this infomation was already in the public domain (unfortunately certain matters have to be redacted at present):

"Dear Mr Byrne,

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - JOURNALISTIC ENQUIRY

With regard to Sandwell Councillor Mohammed Yaseen [Hussain], "Billa":

1. There have been very widespread allegations for some considerable time that Billa is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. When did YOU first become aware of these allegations (please provide a date)? Do YOU believe that the allegations are untrue and, if yes, do you have grounds for that belief which you can share?
2. There have also been allegations of Billa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx When did YOU first become aware of these allegations (please provide a date.) Do YOU believe that the allegations are untrue and, if yes, do you have grounds for that belief which you can share?
3. Have you ever read The Sandwell Skidder Blog - "Cllr M Y Hussain - Tipton Green Tosser" (link below)? If yes, when did YOU read this and do YOU believe that the allegations therein are untrue? Once again, do you have grounds for that belief which you can share?"

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2020/05/cllr-m-y-hussain-tipton-green-tosser.html

Byrne did not reply and so I was about to post the email to him in a letter when I bumped into him in Kings Heath High Street (that's in Birmingham for Sandwell troglodytes) where I put the letter directly into his hand. But he still hasn't had the courtesy to reply. Why not?

The point is that Byrne appointed a moron to his "inquiry" AFTER most Labour people locally were fully aware of the serious allegations swirling around Billa and after the Tipton Tosser's personal behaviour during lockdown had been called into question. Yet another catastrophic display of poor judgement by the man who wants to lord it over Sandwell and the rest of the West Midlands.

But the icing on the cake is that after Billa was appointed by Byrne he was SUSPENDED BY THE LABOUR PARTY! You couldn't make it up lol. And Sandwell - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

But it gets worse folks...

All of the above points to Byrne being an "A-Grade" Tw*t but now he is actually lying to people. He is putting out press releases holding himself out to be "the Shadow Mayor" of the West Midlands (whilst still raking-in from US his MP's salary and expenses):

This is a blatant lie. There is no such position as "Shadow Mayor". This is a deliberate attempt to deceive voters in the West Midlands including Sandwell.

And just in case Byrne tries to make out that someone else wrote the press release here is his own Twitter account profile (where he is pictured with Keir "Sir Woodenarse" Starmer) where he LIES again:

Curiously I believe that local Tories are aware of this blatant lying but have not publicly commented as yet? And I am sure other candidates will also have something to say about this to the Electoral Commission and elsewhere.

Even more curiously, the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards says that, despite all the b*llocks spouted about MP's having to act with honesty and integrity, to lie to the public in this way is NOT a breach of the Parliamentary code of conduct. MP's cannot lie in the House or on Parliamentary business but they CAN lie to voters and/or us mere scum. This is what the Parliamentary Standards office told me (although perhaps with buttocks clenched):

"I appreciate why you are disappointed that Mr Byrne refers to himself as the ‘shadow Mayor’.  However, it is not for the Commissioner to decide whether someone’s self-styled ‘title’ is valid or accurate and, I have to reiterate my earlier point that I do not believe the Commissioner can investigate this matter.  I should also explain that, even if she is unable to investigate, this in no way means the Commissioner endorses any comments or claims that may have been made.  It is open to you to challenge Mr Byrne directly regarding his claims, as I believe other members of the public have done." 

No wonder the public have such little faith in this institution when scumbag members can lie with impunity.

(It is interesting to note that I am apparently not the only complainant about Lying Liam!)

There we are Sandwell - this is the sort of guy you are being asked to vote for. But noting that many of you persisently voted for the likes of Watson and Spellar you are probably thick enough to do so.

(Just for the sake of completeness Byrme has been very actively campaigning for the election next May on top of being paid as an MP in the biggest peacetime crisis for generations. Obviously he has f*ck all to do for the lucky residents of Hodge Hill during Covid but, interestingly, he has not yet made any mention of funding for the mayoral tilt in the Parliamentary Register of Interests. We must assume from that either he is funding his campaign himself (sorry, I just wet my pants laughing) or the Party is divvying-up and is therefore also fully behind his pathetic lie that he is "the shadow mayor"!)

And finally, the cherry on top of the icing. Here is a Byrne election leaflet showing "local supporters" (including the former Ten Bellies Watson) which includes Watson's former driver and bagman "Cllr" Bill Gavan - no stranger to porkies himself as the bent Lion Farm deal shows (see posts passim and legal notice below.) Foul-mouthed Billy said that although a Labour Councillor he has never supported "the left" and he subsequently flounced out of the Party (or, to be accurate, he flounced out then begged to be let back in before, er, flouncing out again when he tried to join the Tories who wouldn't let him in!) We do love a good laugh don't we readers?

Note to Manistream Media

At least one local media outlet has repeated the lie that Byrne is "shadow mayor" and a formal complaint is in. This will be winging its way to the regulatory authorities ere long. You have been put on notice now of the true situation... I appreciate that most of you are pro-Labour propagandists but peddling this egregious lie will be challenged!

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