This blog has referred before to the annual farce when, by law, the socialists are forced to have a statutory meeting with "all persons or bodies which appear to be representative of persons subject to Non-Domestic Rates" on the subject of the proposed budget. Many moons ago I described one such "consultation" with the old wife-beater, Darren Cooper. Only two hated "business" people turned up and it transpired that they were just apparatchiks of the local Chamber of Commerce. After that the general record was for NO-ONE to turn up at all! Just think about that for a moment - of all the businesses large and small in Sadders not a single person wanted to waste time being insulted and patronised by the Labour muppets - and why would they when their hard work and effort is derided by the sneering spongers?
Of course, the new Leader, Cllr "Red Yvonne" Davies is generally an improvement - from an extremely low base - on her two predeccesors (I ignore Steve "Luvvie" Trow's brief and ineffectiual interregnum.) She possesses a brain which is one up on the late Smethwick Scumbag and she lacks the malevolent nature and crazed paranoia of Steve "Squealing" Eling. Upon her coronation I urged her to become an ambassador for bringing business, jobs and money into the benighted Borough. I suggested she should be out and about meeting existing businesses to help them with problems and to urge them to expand locally. I pleaded for her to contact companies across the country (and beyond) to bang the drum for moving to the dog-sh*t smeared streets of the six towns.
Alas "Red Yvonne" subscribes to that perverted left-wing idealogy that promotes only state/soviet- control over the economy with no room for the private sector. In that sense she is possibly even more dangerous to the well-being of the locality that her hapless predeccesors. And what a slap in the face for hard-working businesses and, indeed, their employees. No wonder local folk are finally seeing the light and turning their backs on the failing Labour Party!
Last Wednesday, the consultation was due to take place. I was there with local community activist, Darryl Magher, and the whole Cabinet trooped in with hangers-on like Cllr "Lachrymose" Luke Giles and Cllr Paul "the Cipher" Moore. Some Directors of the Council were present - Darren Carter (soon to feature in a "Skidder Special") and Surjit Tour, the most dangerous man in Sandwell Council - with other staff.
The Cipher and Co paraded a male person into the room with an air of triumph. "Red" Yvonne could not have been more excited if Corbyn-clone Rebecca Long-Bailey herself had walked in! I waited as the guest was asked if he had questions and he started interroragting the comrades about, er, adult social care. This permitted the Leader to start on her favourite - and perhaps only - theme, Tory cuts. Now this threw me into total confusion as I thought this was a meeting about business. Such was my discombobulation I had to grab Darryl's copy of the agenda as I was genuinely unsure whether I was actually in the right meeting!
Now I don't know how this chap came to be present though he has form with Sandwell Labour. Remember when Pol Pot Cooper tried to eradicate the arts and culture in his thuggish Sandwell Year Zero? He and his Labour comrades diverted money from the Arts Festival to employ this chap's dance group to promote Jim Cadman's private statute money-making scheme! These men were paid by us taxpayers to "gold-up" to impersonate The Three Degrees (posts passim.)
I was challenged by Bogus Dogus Rimmer Cllr Jackie Taylor about recording this weird affair and took this opportunity to ask the Leader if the guest was, in fact, a business (non-domestic) ratepayer to which she replied "yes". I questioned this and pointed out that the guest runs a charity which is exempt from paying, er, business rates! Cllr Maria Crompton gamely leapt in to try and help the Leader saying "well he does live here" but I pointed out that this was specifically a statutory meeting for non-domestic rate payers to have their say and he did not, as a matter of fact, fit that bill.
The meeting ended very quickly after this!
(I should say that the guest will not be criticised on this blog for being one of the handfiul of providers of arts throughout the Labour onslaught against such provision over the last five years or so.)
As we left the meeting two Cabinet members kindly stopped for a chat and seemed to be saying that the guests presence was NOT a set-up and that he was nothing to do with the bent Council until I pointed out that Sandwell were actually giving him taxpayers' money! They both expressed incredulity at this. Just for the record he lists his main funders on his website. Number one on the list is, er, Labour Sandwell Council:
So once again the pathetic comrades couldn't get a business person to attend an important meeting - not even the likes of Ninder Johal who will normally attend the opening of a manhole cover (in DJ natch!)
The three Tory MP's - James Morris, Shaun Bailey and Nicola Richards - have to get a grip on all this. They need to take the lead here and start a dialogue to boost business and jobs locally (it goes without saying that Labour's Spellar is as useful as a chocolate teapot - remember nPower etc?) They need to go over the heads of the comrades and get things moving with the business community, the Combined Authority and others. The good news is that they are already at it - here's Nicola out meeting a local employer and taking an interest in what they actually do! A breath of fresh air in the stinking socialist miasma!
LABOUR'S REAL RECORD
There was a rare example of Sandwell Labour finally recognising how sh*t they are at last week's Cabinet - and lightning struck twice! Cllr Joyce Underhill confirmed that after 46 years of Labour dictatorship, "child poverty in Sandwell is statistically one of the highest in England". Cllr Danny Millard also publicly confirmed that after over four decades of "socialism" Sadders is the "12th most deprived area in England."
Proposed solutions include hurling money at the "voluntary sector" - where so much of our dosh has disappeared without any accountability whatsoever in the past - so set up your bent organisations now folks and fill yer boots!
WMCA GET IT WRONG!
In my recent post:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2020/02/skidder-shorts-39-sandwell-wmca-board.html
I criticised the arrendance of Sandwell Labour at the Board Meeting of local uber-talkshop, West Mids Combined Authority,
It transpires that the WMCA website was inaccurate. Taking the six board meetings in WMCA's "current year" "Red Yvonne" did attend four out of six meetings and sent Cllr Ali along as a sub for a fifth. The Leader informs me that Sadders have a policy of not bothering to send a second delegate - which they are entitled to do. This is not explained but presumably the comrades just can't be arsed.
WMCA's representative writes:
"... I must apologise that our website did contain incorrect information .....I am sorry that the website mislead you..."
Corrections have been made to the WMCA record. This now means that of the last 12 places Sandwell did sent five delegates - still less that 50% attendance.
And Finally:
You have to wonder what it is that the senior managers and directors of Sandwell Council actually DO all day. Some of them are purported to be experts in their own "specialist" areas. And yet whenever a new policy is being delivered the comrades immediately get out the taxpayers' cheque book and employ external "consultants" to advise them as the staff - some on well over £100k a year - are clearly not up to snuff.
But at least that gave us the big laugh of the week last week since it was announced, without irony, that a specialist "parks consultant" has been appointed (at unspecified cost) and this guru has, inter alia, recommended the introduction of "glamping" in local parks. For those that don't know what glamping is, it is posh camping. The bourgeoisie sleep in purpose built/designed shepherd's huts etc in attractive rural locations with all facilities laid on so that they don't have to sh*t in a bucket. This "expert" thinks it will be an attractive proposition to reside in a yurt or similar under the starlit sky with the druggies, muggers and doggers of Sadders. Good luck with that "lol"! As ever, the moronic comrades have bought this total b*llocks.
I am indebted to Twitter user "Sir Geoffrey Crapes" for an image of what the delightful sites may look like! Carry On Glamping y'all!
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