Basharat Khan and The "P*K*" Slur!

Nothing is ever straightforward in bent Labour Sandwell. Yesterday the comrades hit the headlines again for all the wrong reasons with what appeared to be a straightforward allegation ie that Labour Cabinet member Jo Hadley was secretly tape-recorded using the expressions "asian politics" and "P*k" (she says the tape has been doctored and before you pooh pooh that, read the whole of this post.) There are more twists to this tale than a Curly Wurly bar and so make yourself a cup of tea, sit down, and prepare to be astonished. If I can just ask you one thing - please note specific dates here...

The Numbers Game

Sandwell has been a Covid 19 hotspot. You might think the comrades would suspend their bitter civil war unleashed by Steve "The Squealer" Eling for the good of the community but the Labour dictatorship has sh*t on the Borough for 46 years and so why stop just because of a global pandemic? 

The death of Jess Phillip's mate, the wife-beater and former "leader" Darren Cooper split the Labour Group between the Eling/Watson/Spellar faction and the rest (a substantial minority.) As soon as the vicious Squealer was in power he set about trying to eliminate all opposition which included other Labour Councillors and some employees of the Council. Eling and Marshall met with me and asked me to collaborate in this endeavour. They set up the infamous WhatsApp feed. There they asked me to give a very senior employee, Assistant Chief Executive Melanie Dudley "a kicking" and Eling forced her out when she refused to kowtow to his tyrranical demands - at enormous cost to us taxpayers. Melanie was not only a senior employee but also a prominent figure in the local Labour Party (she stood as their candidate for Dudley North last December.) Melanie gave a statement to the bent Blues about this pair and says she was also verbally abused by Eling at Bill Archer's funeral (which he denies.)

On their WhatsApp feed they envisaged one of their main targets, Labour Cllr Ian Jones, "sp*nking over Cllr Maria Crompton in her bikini" as this would be more preferable than him "doing" his wife, also a Labour Councillor. The thing here is that Maria was not only a fellow Labour Councillor but also an EMPLOYEE of the Party and yet was subjected to this horrenous attack.

If this is the sort of thing they were doing to their own people what were they prepared to do against their political enemies? Eling was eventually suspended from the Labour Party for various alleged misdemeanours and has been trying to come back ever since (although he lives for much of the time in North Derbyshire.) Tom Watson tried to filibuster a Labour NEC meeting but in trie Tommy-style f*cked up and only succeeded in making things worse. Even though Eling, aka the Milkman, caused bitter division in the Sandwell Labour Group John Spellar MP (Labour's sole MP in the Borough now) and his puppet Gurinder Josan are campaigning to have him exonerated, seemingly with the active support of Pete Madeley and Jamie Brassington of the Wolverhampton Express and Star who have been busy plugging his absurd statements recently. (They peddle the myth that he "doesn't know" what he is supposed to have done wrong (!) without ever mentioning that he employed a top and expensive solicitor in London with a very high reputation for dealing with Labour Party issues!)

Even when Eling was suspended by the Party he tried to stay on as Leader of the Council before even the comrades had had enough and booted him out - replacing him with Spellar/Watson rimmer Cllr Steve "Luvvie" Trow. Luvvie considers himself to be an "intellectual" but is as deep as a pool of p*ss. He was heavily involved in the scandal surrounding the Stalinist Show Trial of Ian Jones. This feeble character soon threw in the towel and, indeed, recently gave up altogether and left the Council. Unfortunately he is far too weak a person to now blow the whistle on what has been going on but good riddance all the same.

Just as Eling's appointment split the Group down the middle as some saw the light of what he was trying to do, so did the appointment of Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies. As with Eling she appears to have made no attempt whatsoever at conciliation with some of the more sensible rebels. Thus right from the off the "Elingites" were determined to bring her down. Here is a list of the 26 hardcore rebels (now reduced to 25 by the demise of Luvvie Trow):

This contains the names of the usual suspects, the really vile people like Costigan, Zorro Hughes, Jedward, Piper and Paul "the Cipher" Moore plus Sandwell's new "brightest star" the ludicrous, sweating, sniffing Mohammed Yaseen "Condom Man" Hussain aka "Billa" (of which much more anon.) At least four of this shower are currently being investigated by Sandwell Council for alleged misconduct ie Hackett (of course), Lachrymose Luke Giles, Syeda "Friend of Derek" Khatun and Condom Man Billa himself! The rebel plan was to increase their gang in the May elections, topple Red Yvonne and immediately stop these enquiries - which even before Covid were mysteriously proceeding at snail's pace under David Stevens and Surjit Tour. Why?

But Covid stopped the May elections. Two Councillors have died and two (including Trow) have simply buggered off. This leaves 68 live [sic] councillors. But four Councillors are not now Labour and so cannot vote (yet) for the rebels leaving a Group of 64. Technically the rebels need 32 plus one to ensure the complete destruction of the Borough. But not all these may vote in any leadership election eg at the last full Council before lockdown Cllrs Steven Jones and Mo Rouf had to physically support one comrade into the Council House, a situation made more pathetic by his trousers falling down in the process! Thus the rebels are still - possibly - short even if the 25 attract a few waverers.

Accordingly the rebels have worked on 2 tactics. Two of the "independents" are Cllr Bill "Nonentity" Cherrington and nasty Caroline "Caz" White, the girlfiend of ex-Cllr and "King of the Sandwell Trolls", Dave Hosell. The three are very active in a network of trolls on social media (with others) and frequently attack Cllrs Yvonne Davies, Maria Crompton, Jo Hadley and Wasim Ali. Caz and Cherry attempted to set up the "United Sandwell Party" to attack Yvonne and were assisted by none other than the suspended Labour leader, Steve Squealing Eling himself (we have the proof which has been sent to the Labour Party.)

I am not sure if even the hardcore rebels could stomach Caz back in their ranks although she is close to Costigan. There have been attempts to bring back the absurd Cherry.

Julie Webb is an enigma. I have always found her very likeable and I can't even remember what she is supposed to have done to merit suspension. She has told the Skidder directly that she has hopes of returning to the fold. She usually seems to me to be sensible and so you would think she would stand up against the rebels but who knows? (If you would like to tell us Cllr, please get in touch.)

That leaves blowhard buffoon, foul-mouthed, Bill Gavan. Now relieved of his duties as Tom Watson's personal grovelling manservant "Alka Seltzer" Gavan has Spellar's personal backing for an instant return to boost rebel numbers. Billy Boy flounced out of a meeting saying he was leaving Labour but then changed his mind lol. He then changed it again and DID leave. Then he ACTUALLY joined the Tories online but they didn't want him and threw him OUT! Why on earth would Labour want this plank back (and this is without discussion of his other myriad failings.)

The other tactic is to reduce the number of the opposition by getting Councillors suspended from the Party. Labour nationally is in total disarray at the moment following it's own deep division between the normal people and the Corbyn crazies but the mere mention of anti-semitic or racist words seems to merit instant suspension with no proper investigation at all by the General Secretary. The rebels know this... I hope the Party is ready for some big legal bills!

I will write further on the Red Yvonne situation in another post but it seems Paul Moore (a former Watson employee) put in a complaint about her allegedly anti-semitic comments on social media (ignoring those of fellow rebels like Jedward and Piper - although the latter has expunged his account of his frequent derogatory comments on "Israel" and "Zionists".). It is said that part of the complaint was about comments made about George Soros - a hate figure of the anti-semites. But even a cursory check by Labour's General Secretary - had he bothered to make one - would show that Red put up a number of Tweets calling out the attacks on the Hungarian for the ridiculous hate-filled conspiracy theories they are!

I know this sounds amazing but I am told this plot goes right to the top of the Labour Party. A senior figure has assured my that Keir Starmer is, unbelievably, friendly with the London-based Spellar and is taking a personal interest in Sandwell. I am told that the useless  Spellar, who has done so much damage to the Borough already is Iago, dripping poison into his Captain's ear. Starmer is said to want the rebels to succeed and wants another nonentity Watson rimmer, Cllr Liam Preece, to be the next Leader. Thus he is said to be comfortable with Spellar and his allies engineering suspensions of LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS! The corollary to this is, logically, that he also wants the investigations to be stopped against Hackett and Co which is a pretty extraordinary two fingers up at any concept of justice by a former Director of Public Prosecutions!

The Jo Hadley Plot

The rebels think that if they can get another two Councillors suspended they can win the day. They had even pencilled in next Monday for a Labour Group meeting to mount their coup but have pulled this since they are not quite there. But having disposed of Red Yvonne they have targetted Jo Hadley.

What can you say about Jo - the archetypal "Black Country Wench" who refers to herself on Twitter as "the Gob". I have got to know Jo during many hours as a journalist standing outside Oldbury Council House in all weathers to bring you happy people stories. Jo is a smoker and so we have some comparatively long chats. It is fair to say that, as with myself, her language is "industrial strength" and that I have heard her use "the f-word" on many occasions. Over many years I have never heard her use "the c-word" and neither have ANY of the many people I have spoken to over the last 24 hours, although it is claimed she used the word in the covertly obtained "tape".

Many of the cowardly comrades complain about me behind my back but, like Red Yvonne, Jo is one of the very few Councillors who will give me both barrels if she thinks I am wrong. She has phoned me and expressed her views stridently. Two recent examples - when I made a comment on social media about the cost of her scheme to replace doors across Sandwell with "secure" ones she phoned me and strongly supported this decision. This alleged "racist" also phoned me to complain about my articles about Cllr Iqbal Padda and she was cheering his appointment, and that of Rajbir Singh, to the Cabinet and celebrating its diversity.

She has never uttered a single word to me - of many thousands lol - which is in any way "racist" or derogatory of BAME identifiers and, again, neither has anyone I have spoken to been able to come up with an example.

Cllr Hadley can be strident and direct - again as with Red Yvonne - and a lot of insecure men (of ALL faiths and none and of every ethnicity) can't handle that. She would be the first to admit that she is not great at expressing herself in written form and does sometimes make a fool of herself with her expressions but so what? Hardly a crime?

Jo is also suing the Council on matters which will shime a light on the activities of Hackett and Eling. The case is sub judice and I cannot say anymore at present. But she has also been attacked for this by the Hosell troll network.

Unfortunately she is hated by Cllr Mohammed Yaseen Hussain - a man who sat next to me at a recent Sandwell Council Cabinet meeting and whispered to me when Cllr Wasim Ali was speaking that he is a "f*cking tw*t."

Billa is actively communicating with the troll network of Dave Hosell, Caz White, Cherry and others and is represented on Twitter by his spokesmen (note "men") Basharat and Vika Khan (who are related.) His rise in Labour Party ranks has been meteoritic despite the impression that he gives out (and which must be an act) that he is as thick as two short planks. Most of the Labour group are also aware of the lurid stories about his personal life and we can only assume that they believe the allegations are untrue. That includes WM Mayoral candidate Liam Byrne who, nothwithstanding all this AND his current behaviour during lockdown, appointed him to a ridiculous Covid "enquiry" (ROFLMAO) as a BAME "community leader."

There is much speculation about how the unemployed Billa portrays an aura of affluence - at least by Tipton standards. But this blog exclusively disclosed his antics during lockdown when he suddenly morphed from being unemployed to being a "key worker" - allegedly flaunting his Sandwell Council pass to "prove" this. We saw in my post:

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

that he was cadging PPE from a nursing home which he then filmed himself donating to Sandwell Hospital (who, at the time, had enough and were themselves donating PPE to, er, nursing homes!) The unemployed Billa stated publicly that his wife was complaining how much money he was spending on PPE to give away. In another post I showed that this moron was donating "his" PPE to a major multi-million pound company that is based in a tax haven! (see posts passim and legal notice below.)

Bash Khan is another interesting and controversial character. He too has appeared in this blog not least for his public threat before the General Election that the folk from Tividale and Tipton Mosque would not vote Labour if the Council refused to sell them some green space to the side of the Gate Street premises:

Rather curious behaviour the General Secretary of the Labour Party might think from a, er, Labour Member.

Labour sources in Sandwell claim that he has also threatened unspecified "consequences" if Labour Sandwell do not push the sale through but, until recently, Yvonne Davies and Jo Hadley stood firm against the deal (those two eh? You don't say!)

Bash used to be a Tory (as did Jo Hadley and her late husband, Dave.) Bash has stated in writing that he has known Jo since 2003 but did NOT "know" she is an alleged "racist" until he heard the tape - seemingly in December, 2019. At that time he was bombarding social media about litter on private land behind his shop. It is not the place here to go through his ridiculous conduct there but suffice to say he had a public spat with Jo about rats supposedly causing a problem for another local business. Cllr Hadley tried to explain that Sandwell Council were not responsible for exterminating every rodent in the Borough and that the other local businessman should consider hiring Rentokil. This enraged Bash who wrote to me on 17th December, 2019:

"Got something very good on Joe [sic] Hadley in time will expose her."

He has written that his complaint against Hadley is not related to the Mosque land deal but that "it started with the rats tweets and she got carried away". There was nothing whatsover "racist" that I have seen in any of those Tweets.

Bash has told the BBC that he was "shocked" at Hadley's alleged use of the word "P*k*" but not apparently so shocked that he made an immediate complaint. Note that it is Bash himself who says that he has the information and not Billa. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS DATE THOUGH - 17th December, 2019 which, at the latest, was Bash's "date of knowledge".

Bash refuses to say HOW he came by the tape. Every single person I have spoken to has pointed the finger one way - at Billa!

When he was a Tory Bash was Jo's mate. In January this year - after the infamous tape was circulating and he had said he had this to bring her down "at the right time" - he was accused of trying to usurp the WBW conservative branch and responded (without the deletions in the offensive word):

28/01/20: No I didn't usurp anything I was elected chair of WBW by the way Joe [sic] and her husband Dave both supported me. I drifted away Bcz I became aware that  P*k* members were not so welcome at the conservative club."

So even though Bash was shocked at Jo's "racist" comment he is not stating it here or in any of the following:

28/01/20: Love you really Joe [sic]!

11/01/20: Joe [sic] it's always a pleasure to engage with u, it always ends in a result and satisfaction Xxx.

12/02/20: I really agree that at least she [Jo] engages good or bad #jo4MP I've known Joe [sic] since our days in the Tories together many years ago."

01/03/20: .... saying that Jo does work hard, she seems to get upset with me for no reason.

The person who made the covert tape suggested "mediation" to which Bash replied in a manner which suggests he was not screwed up dealing with a foul "racist":

01/03/20: No need for mediation jo is well known to me just her late night tweets can be a bit foolish at times!

Back to dates: Billa and his associates had their hand temporarily stayed by Covid but decided that the Labour war inter se was far more important than dealing with the crisis when people locally were dying. Thus Bash made a written complaint about Jo Hadley to David Stevens and Surjit Tour at Sandwell Council copied to a Solicitor and to two officials of the Labour Party including the then General Secretary. He has shown me the heading of the complaint but refuses to show be the content of the letter dated 10th March, 2020. (Incidentally the BBC reported Sandwell Council as saying they had received no complaint about Cllr Hadley as of yesterday. Given what Bash has shown me, this appears to be untrue. I have written to the Council about this and await a response.) 

At the same time the efforts to get rid of Red Yvonne had started.

Asian Policitcs

Part of the alleged complaint against Jo is that she used the word "Asian Politics". Here Bash has a point since many in Sandwell who are called "asians" are, of course, English born and bred. Care should be taken in using that term. Having said that it is widely used. There are also live concerns in Sandwell about infiltration of certain groups into Labour and many of my informants from the local Muslim community contact me to complain vociferously about this. 

All other parties have complained about postal voting results in Sandwell (although not Labour natch) and the BBC (employers of Mr Rob Mayor) contacted me to see if I could help with a possible documentary about Muslim women being compelled to vote in a certain way by the "head of the household". The Labour Party itself has been concerned and actively intervened in Sandwell to curb suspiciously sudden and/or large membership applications and subsequent packing of meetings. Even the sainted Billa seems to have attracted many new Labour adherents to the Party - no doubt due to his selfless example of socialism in action.

Hitherto, former Cllr Mahboob Hussain has been very influential politically within the local Muslim community but Billa and Bash claim to have taken over from him as the "community leaders" in some areas. Indeed Bash was able to openly boast: "We [Billa, Mushtaq Hussain and himself] CONTROL Tipton and Tividale now!"

If, Jo used the term "asian politics" it is a bit rich Bash complaining since this, for example, is something he wrote to me:

"I'm asking Mushtaq [Cllr Mushtaq Hussain] here not to forget this patch... I bet Billa doesn't even know this sh*t is happening. Its asian politics being played by mushtaq..."

Oops!

The Tape and Media Coverage

Mr X made a recording of a conversation with Cllr Hadley. He is renowned for secretly recording conversations. This is not generally illegal if for personal use. Subject to certain exemptions it IS illegal to make such tapes public. He has been spending a lot of time in the company of Billa in the last few months. As above, Bash won't say how HE got the tape.

Mr X told the story that three people visited him at his house. A current Labour Councillor, a former employee of WM Labour and an unknown person. He went out to buy pizza. When he returned his laptop was open. He thought they had somehow found the tape and stolen it. (I sh*t ye not.)

He now tells the Skidder that "I'm not aware how or who got it". He says that he has known Jo for many years, likes her and has vnever heard her use racist language. His exact word - and he made the tape - are:

"This is all politically orientated."

Cllr Hadley seems to be saying that she may have used the word "P*k*" not as a perjorative term but as a quotation of what someone else said to her. She believes that the tape has been tampered with to at least distort the context of what she was saying. (Sandwell Council itself has form for tampering with video tape, of course.) What she claims is that she repeated that person X used the term "P*k*" but the tape has been edited to conceal that.

Dave Hosell and others have been going wild on Twitter recently saying that Hadley was to be "taken down". How did they know if there was not a plot? The tape was passed to a Sandwell Labour-friendly (in my honest opinion) journalist, Rob Mayor of the BBC. He approached Cllr Hadley who put out a press statement which is worth reading in full:

It must be unusual for the BBC to consider using a covertly obtained tape which is also said to have been stolen AND tampered with. As far as I am aware Mayor did not attempt to speak to Mr X. A media outlet needs to show that playing such a tape or relying on it is overwhelmingly in the public interest and it seems they got cold feet. 

In the meantime George Makin got the story. He is an old leftie and close associate of Sandwell Councillor Bob Piper, a leading trouble-maker. George writes incessant puff pieces about the brilliance of Sandwell Labour that would make Joseph Goebbels blush. The good news is that we are all paying for this b*llocks since he is employed via the Local Democracy Reporting Service [sic] which is funded by the BBC. As his stories [sic again] are published by the likes of the Express and Star and Birmingham Mail they too would have been reticent about running the story given the alleged problems with the authenticity and provenance of the tape.

Enter Adam Smith, a trained journalist and thus expected to know the law. Smith has the self-deluding belief that he is a hard-drinking "gonzo" journalist in the style of Hunter S, Thompson whereas he is a shambling, if rather amusing, p*sshead (rather like myself) always cadging drinks and money of folk in pubs (unlike myself). He now writes for that mighty organ, the Erdington Local. More to the point, he used to be the mouthpiece for ex-Sandwell Councillors Mick Davies and John Tipper and for the likes of serving Councillors Hackett and, that man again, Bob Piper. And he recently spent time in Bearwood renewing old acquaintances...

Despite his knowledge of the law this "professional" wrote two abusive tweets. The first made serious allegations against current leader Maria Crompton and the second was about this story. He ended his Tweet with this abusive message to Cllr Hadley (without any deletion of the swear word):

#SoSueMeYouThickPieceOfShit

(Bizarrely "Erdington Local" is part-owned by a local arts charity which is supposed to be apolitical. I think the Charity Commission may be investigationg very shortly...)

I sent a message via Twitter to Rob Mayor asking if the BBC put Smith up to this but he has not responded as yet. But Smith IS big mates with Makin and they were arranging a drink together today. Unfortunately Makin won't speak to me and so I can't ask him whether HE had foreknowledge of what his drunken mate was up to.

Anyway the BBC and MSM publishers of Makin's output seem to have taken the view that thanks to Smith the information was now in the public domain and so they started running the story - again, seemingly, without any further checks whasover! This has got to be a new nadir for the biased local media and sets a very dangerous precedent. The moral of the story is to make allegations via fake social media accounts and the BBC and local papers may well report it too!

Maria Crompton

The next target for the rebels.

In the list of rebels above the Giles family feature. And Luke Giles is one of the people under investigation for alleged discrepancies with his election expenses (innocent until proven guilty.) Luke hit back by making a complaint against Yvonne Davies. This lumbering oaf claimed that in the inevitable horse-trading before the leadership election Red said she would not look favourably on the Giles clan for positions of influence if they were not "on-side". This sort of thing goes on ALL the time in politics but Lachrymose Luke classed this as "bullying" and in went the complaint. With Yvonne gone but the investigation continuing Luke changed tack and changed the complaint so that it ismagainst Maria. Now Maria does have a rather strict and sexy-schoolmarm demeanor but she is small in stature. Cry-baby Giles claims that she was the messenger from Red Yvonne and thus she too bullied him. The picture of the this dolt defecating with fear into the back of his pants whilst the elfin Maria laid into him is just to ludicrous to contemplate even by Sandwell standards.

Go and take up crotchet Lukey - you're in the wrong game!

However, the rebels are plotting against Maria. As ever Costigan is involved. Despite the years of service she has given to the Party both as employee and councillor and the abuse she suffered from Eling and Marshall the rebels are determined to bring her down. They think if they can get her suspended too they are in with a fighting chance.

We saw above how Bash claimed Jo as a friend but has tried to f*ck her over. Watch out Maria since he wrote that it was his "good friend Maria Crompton" who got him back into politcis and the Labour Party!!! 

Keir Starmer - you want to stop listening to Spellar and grow a pair. Are YOU prepared to let Sandwell Labour continue with corruption. cronyism and incompetence in this vile manner?

And Finally, Back to Bash...

The big problem with Bash allegedly being so upset by (also allegedly) being called a P*k* is not just the many months he waited before the outrage was so strong "lol" that he felt he had to speak out (whilst joshing with Jo herself) but that he often refers to himself as one. He used derivatives of the word Pak with a former business including, "Pakeeza Travel" (!) but also set up the "Paksnip" blog.

Despite his alleged long-simmering distress and Jo's alleged use of the word (with all the caveats set out above) he was NOT distressed to hear football fans singing it in an obviously abusive manner:

16/02/20: "singing I'd rather be a P*k* than a Villa fan... not saying the word P*k* hurt me as all that means is PURE... "

It seems that in Bash's world there are degrees of purity.

But, of course, we cannot leave this without mentioning Bash's oft stated tribute to, ahem, my goodself when he has referred to himself often as "the P*k* Skidder"! He has even put it in writing (without the deletions of the offensive word) eg:

17/12/19: I've been referred to as the P*k* Skidder @SandwellSkidder if highlighting corruption and incompetence gives me that name then I'm proud of it.

Bash: what I am doing and the game you are playing are two very different things mate!

STOP PRESS

Bash told me yesterday that he had conveniently blown the whistle NOW at a crucial stage in the new leadership battle and as he promised to do last December because Sandwell Council weren't doing anything about his March complaint. Sandwell Council have confirmed in writing just minutes ago that contrary to the BBC report they DID receive Bash's written complaint sent at nearly midnight on 10th March, 2020 and duly wrote back to him on 11th March, 2020 asking for full details which he then couldn't be arsed to supply. Nothing more was heard until this leak. Odd that isn't it folks?

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Iqbal Padda's "Domestic Difficulty"!

 A small starter before the main course. For some years now I have been a journalist researching stories and presenting them to you. Mostly this has been via this blog but sometimes I have worked with the "mainstream media"(MSM) too. I systematically engage in collecting news about the disastrous, corrupt, Labour Council in Sandwell which is (mostly) disseminated in electronic format. The blog has had over one and three quarter million views despite the esoteric subject matter (and, I am pleased to say, is growing.) The most dangerous man in Sandwell, Monitoring Officer Surjit Tour, actually wrote an infamous letter to me which, inter alia, complained that I hung around outside Oldbury Council House trying to get stories. Yes, exactly what journalists used to do before the MSM just became a giant clickbait factory.

This blog has brought you dozens of exclusive stories from the Boggate saga to the recent scandal of 5 Labour Councillors - who claim to be spokespersons for the BAME community - cramming into a restaurant for a meeting about Kashmir despite the Covid restrictions. I have been under relentless attack from the comrades right from the off. The curious thing is that many (though not all) "Sadwell" Labour Councillors deny that I am a "journalist" which is not based on fact and seems to be wishful thinking on their part. Thus they get very upset when I do "journalistic" things like, er, investigating stories about them.

The fact is that with the exception of helping to save Lion Farm Fields I was getting close to calling it a day. I told former leader Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies and Sandwell's Chief Executive, David Stevens, this at a meeting in Oldbury last year. Quite simply I (a) needed to earn some money and (b) have a couple of projects I want to work on before I die. As it happens the GMB Union destroyed my financial position and I hover on the brink of bankruptcy. There is absolutely no point in me working a whole week just to earn enough to pay lawyers for one hour's work. The comrades were cheering the GMB Union on but the fact is that whilst I am broke I also now have time on my hands. Thus I have been giving them fair warning for a few months that I will be intensifying my journalistic efforts and placing them under greater scrutiny than ever before. And judging by Cllr Padda's pant-wetting yesterday they don't like it up em Captain Mainwaring! Unfortunately Covid has made life more difficult but,as ever, I am grateful to my small team of helpers and my brave informants for keeping this blog going. (Though there are some big surveillance "stake-outs" starting soon on certain "persons of interest".)

May I just mention a couple of things? If you are on Facebook please consider joining the Skidder Facebook Group which you will find at "The Sandwell Skidder - Speaking Truth to Power." Most applications to join are accepted but I do have to be careful because there have been attempts by infiltrators to join and cause trouble. If you have only recently opened a Facebook account please email me first before applying via the app. There are smaller sub-groups for the six towns but these are still under development. Watch out for news of these if and when things return to something like "normality".

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Now to business! On 7th July I posted about the mystery of Cllr Iqbal Padda's residence (see link and legal notice below.) He and his wife own a nice house in Walsall where he has been seen. But he couldn't use that as an address to be a Sandwell Councillor as it is outside the Borough. Thus Padda, who is usually immaculately turned out, claims to be living in a sh*thole on Bromford Lane, West Brom. There is a man living at the house who is not Padda. 

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2020/07/iqbal-padda-residence-mystery.html

Padda now claims that (a) he is living in and renting the dump on Bromford Lane and (b) that he has been living there since 2017 when he left the Walsall address due to "domestic issues." Let me say that I was "sceptical" about this yarn.

As journalists did in the old days, I applied some shoe leather to the canine excrement-smeared streets of Sadders and visited Surbjit Kaur, the owner of the Bromford Lane property (and Padda's alleged landlord.) It has to be said that people close to the comrades usually clam up and refuse to speak to me but, strangely, she could not have been more helpful! She told me that Padda has been renting the property with one Surbjit Singh since February, 2017 - over a year before he stood for election.

Padda must be a very busy man since he has not been at the Bromford Lane property whenever I have called nor has his car - with distinctive personalised reg - been seen anywhere in the vicinity.

He has been regularly seen at the Walsall property (including by me personally sans turban waving his wife off to work at, er, 8.10 am.) Thus a kind friend drove me to his small cul de sac yesterday and I started to try and quiz the neighbours. Unfortunately everyone seemed to be out (although I left contact details) except the neighbour two doors away. He confirmed to me that Padda lived at the Walsall house. When I asked whether he had seen him recently he said "not for a couple of days". I questioned that statement and he repeated it. I then told him that Padda is saying he hasn't lived there since February, 2017 and he was visibly stunned. He then said he wouldn't answer anymore questions.

I had only been there for a matter of minutes when Padda turned up in his car and started berating me. I said I was doing as a good journalist and checking out his story. He absolutely insisted he was living at Bromford Lane with Surbjit Singh and had been since February, 2017. He refused to say what his relationship was with that person. He said he "regularly" visits the Walsall property. He had turned up coincidentally yesterday when I was there "to deliver some things".

I had assumed that his alleged "domestic difficulties" concerned his relationship with his wife although they appeared happy enough when I saw him waving her off to work. But he told me yesterday that, in fact, he had left home because of difficulties with his CHILDREN! He refused to elaborate further but said this twice. He is no spring chicken and I assume that his children are adults so that it is unusual for a parent to move out of his own house because of problems with adult kids but that is what he is claiming!

Foolishly I did not leaflet the four houses opposite his house as Padda told me that they were all occupied by this "relatives".

As I returned to the car a ranting woman came out of Padda's house and over to us on the opposite side of the street. She started berating myself and my driver saying she was a solicitor and she was going to call the police for harassing her in HER house. Padda cowered behind her and refused to even say who I was etc when she asked. I kept saying that the quivering Padda knew exactly who I was and how to contact me but I gave this person my contact details anyway having nothing to hide. I sort of assumed she was Padda's daughter but she refused to identify herself. I am not sure how I can harass someone I do not know and did not know was even in the property (which I did not visit and which is NOT hers either as it is most definitely owned by Mr and Mrs P!) Presumably this is not the child, if she is a daughter, who has driven Iqbal to live in the run down Sadders hovel miles away...

All very odd! The investigation continues...

DAVID STEVENS

It was well known that former Leader "Red" Yvonne looked favourably on David Stevens. In her short reign she threw the disastrous Jan Britton out on his ear. David has managed to keep his head down and not get publicly involved in the maladministration of Britton, Tour, Bubalo, Scarrott, Sharma x 2, Carter and others. If he was involved either by commission or omission he seems to be teflon-coated. For reasons unknown he has, however, refused to say whether he has ever had a business relationship with his sidekick, Stuart Lackenby.

Red gave him the top job on an interim basis and promised a competitive recruitment process for the permanent £150k+ a year permanent post. In January even the MSM were shocked when he got the job with no other candidates applying. A Freedom of Information has thrown a little more light on this outrageous decision. When are the Tory MP's going to get stuck into this nonsense?

Before continuing may I just remind you of (suspended) Darren Carter's appalling conduct in the suspension of the Cabinet secretaries. This grovelling moron claimed that he had taken "expert" HR advice before making his catastrophically-bad decision. Presumably this was from his buddy, the unpopular HR supremo "lol" Richard Luckman who recently left instantly without warning. (I have had some emails and calls about Luckman - more welcome as is any contact detail for the man himself.) But in that affair Carter and the "expert" HR sh*t the nest bigtime!

Red decided to game the system and give Stevens the job. No headhunters were appointed to try and encourage other candidates nor was the post advertised. Cllr Davies claims she was trying to "save money" and that she took "specialist" HR advice on the whitewash process. Stevens and the other three directors were invited to express interest in the top job. Let us just look at the other three candidates:

Lesley Haggar - boss of Sandwell's disastrous Children's Services. Now I don't know much about her. She appears to have a lengthy and succesful spell in Leicester before a short stint at the disastrous Children's Services in Northampton. I don't think she can be blamed for that as she wasn't there very long but perhaps Sandwell Labour thought having someone with knowledge of another absolute basket-case service would fit in well in their disaster-zone. As far as I know - and I will be happy to correct this if she contacts me to the contrary- her experience has all been in Children's Services and so she does not appear on paper to have had the range of experience to make her a serious candidate for the top job (yet.)

Darren Carter - see above about this arse-licker extraordinaire! This joke (even by Sandwell standards) could never have been considered as a challenger. Of course, Jan Britton's bent paid service tried to conceal the truth about the secretaries but I forced disclosure by starting Tribunal proceedings. Stevens himself and Red Yvonne were very well aware of what Carter had done (although some Councillors seem to think he should not face instant dismissal!) He was a total non-starter. As it is he is currently suspended!!!!!!!!

Dr Alison Knight - see blogs passim ad nauseum (and legal notice below.) Knight was previously employed by the bent Labour Councillor and was a major player in the "Click Sandwell" disaster. Despite this she was mysteriously re-employed. It is claimed that she is one of the diminutive group, The Friends of Mrs Milkman. As soon as she was appointed she wrote the infamous "Knight's Sh*te" report on Lion Farm - including information not from her own research but from, er, the developer seeking to destroy the Fields. Her performance at an Audit Committee meeting about the Fields was a total car crash and an embarrassment to all in the room. It is a mystery how Knight is even in her job let alone being allegedly touted for top dog!

And so the process was rigged so that Stevens would inevitably get the job. The invitation to apply was sent on 20th December until a closing date of 31st December ie mostly over the SMBC Xmas shutdown!

The Minutes of the meeting approving the appointment contained the massive lie that the appointment was made after a "competitive" process. This is the sort of deceit which was prevalent in the Cooper/Britton era. Cllrs Crompton, Ali and Underhill put their names to this absurdity and I wrote to them asking why they lied in formal Council minutes.

Shortly afterwards I was, er, hanging around outside OCH when Cllr Crompton (the current Leader -although Costigan is trying to destroy her) when Maria saw me and had the good grace to come out for a chat. She made a very telling remark when I said she had lied. She stood firm and said that the competitive process was what she and the other two Councillors had been "told" at the meeting. She was also told that specialist HR advice had been taken. She did not say who spun them this nonsense.

Later that day after making further investigations she confirmed that Lesley Haggar and the two above-named deadbeats were the only other potential candidates and they could have applied. Therefore this fiasco WAS "competitive". She also confirmed that the "specialist" HR advice was NOT an external source but, wait for it, from Sandwell's own jokers! (Councillor Underhill agreed with these farcical views about theoretical competition but Wasim Ali has failed to respond.)

For any external candidate it would be a brave act to apply for such a sh*t job with the bullying comrades interfering in the paid service whenever they want. Despite the money. Britton soiled the reputation of the Borough for years. I think David seems a competent person so far (despite him shafting me big style) and it may be that he would have been the best person for the job in a genuine process. However, the manner of his appointment has tarnished his authority already and he will have to work hard to see if he can bring genuine improvement after the corruption, cronyism and incompetence of the Britton era. We shall see...

AND FINALLY...

With the ridiculous Commonwealth Games plans falling apart the Comrades have offered millions of pounds of our money for another specialist sport eminently suitable for the streets of Sadders:

(Image from the brilliant Private Eye Magazine. Buy it NOW!)

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West Brom BID W*nkers LOSE £56K!

Retail businesses have been having a tough time for some years. In forty-six years of the business-hating Labour dictatorship of Sandwell the six towns have become shadows of their former selves. The retail experience is, generally speaking, vile. The night-time economy is positively non-existent in the centres unless you are very brave. Then Councillors (and former ones) like Steve "Squealing" Eling, Bill "Alka Seltzer" Gavan, Paul "The Cipher" Moore and "Red" Yvonne Davies decided to finish-off struggling shops across the Borough by forcing through the bent deal destroying Lion Farm Fields for a brand-new mega complex away from the traditional centres. Indeed the pathetic Moore could not (apparently) see a glaring conflict of interest and (metaphorically) removed his tongue from his then employer Tom Watson's anus to both promote the BID AND the bent Lion Farm deal from the original 2-minute Cabinet meeting to promoting "Knight's Sh*te" - the sexed-up dossier of 2017!

About the only thing you can say that the corrupt "socialist" Council is good for is holding out the begging bowl. It has been adept at securing millions of pounds of funding which has then been sp*nked up the wall or distributed to organisations controlled by comrades and/or cronies. Thus Sandwell Labour were anxious to jump on the Tory idea of "business improvement districts" or "BIDs".

Whilst not exclusively intended for retail areas the idea is that business rate-rate payers in an area can join together and vote to form a BID. If a majority agree then EVERY business ratepayer is forced to pay an additional "levy" on top of the tax many are already struggling to pay. The plan is that the money will be used to improve the local trading environment so that alleged increased trade benefits all traders in the long run. What they lose on the roundabout of extra "tax" they will gain on the swings of increased sales. 

Now Sandwell Labour hate private enterprise and anyone who makes "profit". The likes of Red Yvonne pushed out endless Corbyite claptrap - a man urging the end of capitalism and a socialist paradise. But hang on a mo, the comrades thought. If we set up a BID we can get a Government loan. We can also apply for other loans when yet more millions are periodically thrown at "saving the high street." We can ensure expenditure on nice fluffy things like honking jazz bands, Twitter campaigns and such like. We as a Labour Council can claim the credit for these nice things whilst they are not paid for (directly) by voters. BIDs are deeply undemocratic but as long as we keep "the big boys" on side we can do all this "off the books" and without tossers like "The Skidder" putting in Freedom of Information requests and holding us to account.

Some of you may be scratching your heads here. Surely, the likes of Tesco and Morrisons (who were involved in the bent Wednesbury scheme - see further below) spend zillions on marketing and employ plenty of experts to drive business through their doors. And older readers will recall that many High Streets and the like always had informal traders' associations to have the odd carnival or other promotional events without the hoopla of extra tax, bureaucracy and compulsion. Bur Sandwell being, er, Sadwell this was NOT a scheme brought forward by the traders themselves. The scheme to force them to pay extra tax was officially promoted by Labour Sandwell Council! These tosspots were suddenly experts on retail marketing - perhaps after their success with the taxpayers' money they blew on the homoerotic invitation in New Square which they justified, incredibly, as being a major "tourist attraction" for the sh*thole town:

Now the plot thickens! In February and March 2015 Sandwell Council ran the ballot. They said their proposal won! Now we have seen, thanks to community activist Darryl Magher, that the Wednesbury ballot was bent and turned out to be unlawful. It was quashed despite massive hype from the likes of ghastly people like Cllrs Inane Elaine Costigan and Peter "Zorro" Hughes:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/08/wednesburys-second-chance-to-fck-itself.html

As with Wednesbury the BID was supported by corrupt West Midlands Police. You might wonder what the bent blues know about retail marketing - although they are rumoured to have monetised the dealing of Class A drugs, money laundering and prostitution in Sadders - but as business ratepayers they incredibly get a vote. And so a publicly funded and deeply corrupt organisation is able to "partner" with their dodgy mates at SMBC and help impose extra taxation on hard-pressed local traders! And the West Bromwich BID area was, as in Wednesbury, deliberately rigged to include those well-known retail emporia, the cop shop and the leisure centre:

In August, 2015 a CIC was formed - West Bromwich Town BID CIC. A CIC is a non-profit company set up to benefit the community or for a social purpose. Fat chance of that in Labour Sandwell! Three of the first directors were Sandwell's former Director of Regeneration Nick Bubalo (who has still not been interviewed by WMP under caution - see posts passim ad nauseum), a senior copper Matthew Morgan (high income & gold-plated pension) and the ludicrous Anthony Paul Thomas James (I sh*t ye not) Moore.

As with the scam in Wednesbury, Mr Magher could smell rodent and asked, inter alia, for a list of all those who had voted for the BID which was refused by Jan Britton's bent paid service on the basis that these important documents had been destroyed OR handed to the CIC! As above, the CIC is not subject to Freedom of Information and so Moore and the cops could conceal the facts! How good is that?

No doubt WMP and BID members will now insist the CIC fully disclose the facts...

In the meantime, West Brom BID blocked me from commenting on their activities via social media. Something to hide?

Many of the BIDs around the country employ a couple of minions to tramp the streets (informing on locals to the cops) but are otherwise vehicles to employ the bourgeoisie in nice comfy jobs. Of course, as soon as the money comes rolling in it flows straight out again. The BID originally shared office space with SMBC's market manager but this was clearly not good enough for middle class folk and so they have blown some of the loot and rented their own smart offices:

These are considerably smarter premises than those of many businesses in West Brom being forced to pay the "levy" to them! And clearly not everyone was happy about forking out for this bullsh*t since, by the time of Darryl Magher's enquiry, £10,533.74 of the additinal tax was unpaid and the recalcitrants referred to "collecion agencies".

So how much does it cost to buy a few balloons and have the odd event? Not much one might think. Someone - presumably the Government of the Council - has lent it £90,000 which remains unpaid. And despite raking in A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS a year these jokers managed to LOSE £56,583!!!!! Some of the current Directors are managers of the shopping centres but I wrote to the allegedly "independent" directors asking how this bizarre situation could have arisen and questioning certain items eg why Labour Sandwell Council are failing so badly with street cleaning that people already pay business rates for, the BID has to pay so much extra for this! Here is my letter:

To:                                                                                                                    2nd August, 2020

Ms R A Jenkins, ℅ West Bromwich Town BID,  4 St Michaels Court, Victoria Street, West Bromwich B70 8ET (via email.)

Mr James Mattin, Bond Wolfe, West Plaza, 8th Floor, 144 High Street, West Bromwich B70 5JJ (via email.)

Mr Paul Ramsey, McDonalds, 244-246 High Street, West Bromwich B70 7QG

Churh Singh, ℅ West Bromwich Town BID, 4 St Michaels Court, Victoria Street, West Bromwich B70 8ET (via email.)

Dear All,

Re: West Bromwich Town BID CIC Accounts

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION

I am writing to you as the four supposedly “independent” directors of the BID company. You know who I am as you have taken steps to try to silence me.

As at least three of you are serious “business people” can you please comment on the BID’s latest accounts which make shocking reading - particularly for a CIC, a Company that is supposed to be working in the community interest. I am writing a piece on this for Sandwell Skidder readers and would like to give you the opportunity to individually comment on the state of the accounts dated 30th June, 2019.

Despite the fact that the BID has screwed local businesses for over a quarter of a million pounds via the BID levy you have contrived to make a LOSS of £56,583. How and why has this extraordinary situation arisen?

I note that you moved from sharing SMBC offices to your own premises with all the costs associated with that. Curiously HM Land Registry do not have a property title for your address. To whom do you pay rent please? Is it St Michaels Court (West Bromwich) Limited?

In the accounts you show staff costs but then account for a single extra lump sum figure for the so-called “Ambassadors”. Why?

Even though you blew £22,265 in the y/e 30th June, 2018 on “signage” you spent another £22,000 on this in y/e 2019? Why?

As above, you are experienced business people and so why did you need to spend £10,200 on “consultancy”. Who were the consultants you felt the need to advise you and on what subject?

Your members are entitled to street cleaning via their normal business rates via SMBC and yet

you blew an astonishing £28,055 on this? Why? Who received this largesse? Have you advised members to seek rebates on their normal business rates from SMBC if the job they are legally obliged to do has fallen short?

Even though you have a large income via the levy you have borrowed the sum of £90,000! I sincerely hope the lender was not SMBC but please confirm the identity of the lender and why you needed a loan in the first place?

It would be helpful if, when replying, you could let me have photographs of yourselves for the forthcoming article. 

Finally, the addresses given to Companies House for Ms Jenkins and Mr Singh appear to be out of date.

The BID have responded without making any attempt whatsoever to answer the above points but did send me a copy of their "business plan" lol!

Covid is ravaging what is left of retail in Sandwell and the tossers who run small businesses and voted to pay extra to this shower must be well pleased! (If you are one of them please get in touch. The same goes for those that didn't want to join in the first place!)

And right on cue today the BID advertised one of the businesses in this crap scheme, Trespass in Astle Park, er, closing down. That's less money for the bent Council and the BID! It's grim up West Brom!

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Labour Sh*t on Sandwell Again!

I keep saying it but Sandwell folk deserve to be taken for c****. They are too thick or indifferent to care what happens in their sh*thole surroundings and so Labour continue to rub their faces in excrement at every opportunity. One day they will get off their knees and raise their faeces-smeared, er, faces towards a brighter future. But until then...

When Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies became Leader for a brief period she mouthed the usual platitudes about sorting out the fraud, cronyism, incompetence and corruption of the Cooper/Eling/Britton era. She glibly trotted out the usual guff about "greater transparency" and so on. To her credit she did fish the huge floater that was Jan Britton out off the cesspit and send him on his way (without a pay-off) although that pathetic rimmer was unable to resist a small gloat when she herself was shafted...

(It is widely believed that Red Yvonne was referring to Britton in particular in respect of at least one of the most lurid allegations in her political suicide note!)

You might think that after getting rid of this disasterous rimmer the comrades would have taken care in appointing his successor. But it was immediately said that Red Yvonne had a close working relationship with David Stevens and he was instantly appointed as "Interim Chief Executive".

Although he has shafted me good and proper in respect of a certain matter I don't have anything "bad" to say about Stevens (yet.) He has been on the periphery of a number of stories but is teflon-coated at present. The only real blot on his copybook so far has been his inexplicable and concerning refusal to say whether he was ever in a business relationship with Stuart Lackenby (posts passim.)

BUT who would become the Parkie's replacement on a permanent basis? The Wolvo Express and Star (wink) assured us on 13th July, 2019 that "the Council's political leadership [sic] [is] keen to ensure the right candidate is recruited to take the role over the long term." NOTE the date - July, 2019. And the Star is always right lol!

We have seen the difficulty Sandwell have in recruiting talent and they have even had to re-appoint retreads to make up the numbers like Surjit Tour (the most dangerous man in Sandwell Council whom Red Yvonne foolishly refused to sack) and "Dr" Alison Knight (who was heavily involved in a major Sandwell Labour disaster first-time round but was given another go!!!!) This blog has pointed out many times that surely no-one of high calibre would want to work "under" Jan Britton and risk the reputational damage that was likely to ensue? But with the grovelling greaser gone maybe someone fancied the job and the £148k pay package?

And so any normal public authority would have started a recruitment process to at least test the market and see if there was a better candidate than Stevens. And. after all, there were questions to be asked of Stevens how HE too let down the people of Sandwell by failing to notice and or call-out what was going on in the Britton era (to be absolutely fair - as I always am - he did tell me to my face that there were things he was involved with he was "not particularly proud of." 

So did the dysfunctional Labour morons advertise the post nationally or employ headhunters? Er, no!

Now here's a funny thing. In the Council Chamber in Oldbury is this board:

This is an old photo and I am not able, due to Covid, to get in to take a new one. Remember that Jan the Man was flushed out in July, 2019 yet a few months afterwards I noticed that David Stevens's name had appeared even though he was allegedly still only "interim" leader. Via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request bent Labour have now confirmed that they paid to have the board changed in August, 2019 ie BEFORE Stevens got the top job! This looks very much like Red Yvonne p*ssing all over our faces eh readers?

(I should add here that I have been campaigning to have Britton's name taken off this board as it is an affront to the people of Sandwell that it should remain there.)

So how did the recruitment process go? Red Yvonne and Labour refused to look at outside contenders. The post was only advertised INTERNALLY to 4 people! And wait for it, wait for it - the FOI states the process was only open from 20th December, to 31st December, 2019 ie almost exactly contemporaneously with the Council being shut down for Christmas! How can this even be allowed to happen and when is SOMEONE going to sort these bent f*ckers out?

There was only one applicant ie the white male whose name had been painted up in the Council chamber since August. So much for unions (again) in Sandwell and equality legislation! 

On 10th January, 2020 there was a meeting to confirm the appointment chaired by Red Yvonne but attended by Cllrs Ali, Crompton and Underhill. The "Interim Director of HR", Sue Stanhope, prepared the Report for the meeting. This "professional" said that expressions of interest were sought from "the four substantive Executive Directors". This joker makes no reference to any external search for candidates whatsover and the FOI confirms none was even attempted.

Incidentally, the "four heads" include the hapless Knight and also Darren Carter who has since been suspended but who we know should be sacked outright for his conduct in regard to the suspension of the secretaries - posts passim!)

Yet Red Yvonne had this massive lie minuted - and, presumably, agreed by Ali, Crompton (the new Leader) and Underhill:

"Following a competitive recruitment process that was open to all those directly impacted , one expression of interest was received and the applicant met the criteria on the person specification."

I think we need an explanation from those three Councillors don't you readers?

When are the Tory MP's going to get some action going about this shower?

And once again Sandwell - you get exactly what you deserve from Labour!

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BREAKING NEWS - "Councillor X Named!"

The Information Rights Tribunal has finally rescinded an order banning me from naming "Councillor X" before a case to be heard by video link on 15th and 16th September, 2020 together with one on the proposed (bent) Lion Farm development.

The "Councillor X" case relates to allegations that the former "leader" of corrupt Labour Sandwell Council, Steve "Squealing" Eling, Tom Watson MP and others interfered with investigations into the conduct of "X". Incredibly, I have been writing about these matters since 2016 (!!!!) but four YEARS later the cover-up continues. Alas, because of the forthcoming hearing I cannot say too much about this at present but anyone who searches back through this blog will find plenty on the subject. This affair also relates to the effective "dismissal" of former Assistant Chief Executive Melanie Dudley by The Squealer and Jan Britton at colossal cost to the taxpayer.

Councillor X has cost Sandwell HUGE sums in respect of this affair. Firstly, the cost of the initial investigation. Secondly the huge costs of getting rid of Melanie when she stood up to the tyrranical Eling. Thirdly, the legal costs of contesting this Tribunal case (including the use of expensive London counsel). Fourthly, the costs of a re-opened investigation at Sandwell into this affair. 

It is the desire by Eling, "X" and others to stop the latest enquiry that is one of the reasons Leader "Red" Yvonne Davies was recently forced out. More on this anon.

Many of you will guess who the pathetic snivelling sh*t "X" is but, drum roll please..., I can confirm it is Simon "The Sandwell Slasher" Hackett. It says a lot for "information rights" in this country that I have been prevented from naming him for many months. Anyway, more on Hackett too after the hearing....

Sandwell Council are now using the £300,000 legal fund referred to elsewhere to attempt to censor this blog post. As I have no money nor legal representation at present I am voluntarily and temporarily removing the matters complained of pending resolution. This is done STRICTLY WITHOUT ANY ADMISSION OF LIABILITY whatsoever. Indeed, I am defending the oppressive claim against me.

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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Since then xxxxxxxxxxe has gone into overdrive and has been plastered (unquestioningly) across the mainstream media. xxxxxxxxxxx criticised the Government and has now hit the headlines xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that Sandwell Labour are setting-up their own "track and trace" system (nothwithstanding that Labour have a 46-year history of monumental incompetence and couldn't organise a p*ss-up in a brewery.)

After my article appeared xxxxxxxxx blocked me on Twitter. But xxxxxxxxxxx also started blocking anyone who follows me too. Thus lots of Twitter users have been posting that they have never had any contact with xxx whatsoever but have now been blocked by xxx! And so if you too want to join the "Blocked by xxxxxxxxxxxxx Club" please follow MY twitter account "lol" @SandwellSkidder!

Meanwhile, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sadders has become a major Covid hotspot...

Bad News For "No DSS" Landlords Like Jedders!

Left-wing "Sadwell" Labour firebrand "lol" John "Jedward" Edwards was exposed via this blog for topping up his wealth with a share in a rented flat in Oldbury whilst castigating the "greed" of landlords. The gobby "socialist" specified "no DSS tenants" since he wanted a steady cashflow - as mosts rentiers do. Happily he sold the place before a recent court case supported by housing charity Shelter, which ruled such arrangements, er, discriminatory. 

To paraphrase Dick Emery (who he? - says anyone under 60):

Ohh Jedders - you were unlawful! But we still don't like you!

Labour Limo Madness

After 46 years of Labour dictatorship, Sandwell may be a sh*thole but at least it still likes to "cut the big" with TWO chauffeur-driven limos. Last year a Cabinet member excitedly told me that the limos were on the way out. Another cabinet member, Jackie "Who Are You?" Taylor "lol" posed in front of Oldbury Council House aka "the Heart of Darkness" boasting that electric cars were coming in and peddled the usual Labour b*llocks that the comrades were going to somehow "save money" with new transport arrangements.

But take a look at this from last winter (remember that) when the limo arrived at a full Council meeting without actually bringing the Mayor or anyone else! As folks say about the disastrous spendthrift Labour comrades, "what the f*ck?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QX01QHjX1I

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