There is some really exciting news coming soon about The Skidder blog (thanks to the GMB we are expanding - watch this space!) And very soon your local newshound will be out and about on the dog-sh*t smeared streets of the rotten Borough doing some socially-distanced outdoor video work and so do come and have your say if you see me (and the new banner!)
Money, Money, er, Not Much Money
I mention incompetence again later in this post but you have to hand it to the corrupt Labour Council they are superb at spaffing money up the wall. Millions lost in the "brilliant" BT contract scheme; the Council accepting NO rent AND continuing to pay the maintenance on The Public; the proposed sale of Providence Place for MILLIONS less that Sandwell Labour paid for it - you get the picture. And when the comrades couldn't find a spot for the multi-million pound white elephant that is the Commonwealth Games Pool (having looked at many sites including Warley Woods) they decided to just plonk it on a greenfield site at Londonderry Fields. £73m is the latest figure for this financial and ecological disaster and this is bound to increase further.
Sandwell Labour hate business and enterprise. They believe in the hand-out rather than the helping hand. After nearly half a century of their control Sandwell is a sh*thole near to the bottom of most statistical tables of poverty, health and deprivation.
Yet in an incredible turn of events even by the standards [sic] of this socialist shower their response when Covid struck was to ask the very people they have screwed-over for 46 years to help bail them out! Then Leader, Red Yvonne Davies, Cabinet Member Danny Millard and notorious senior employee Dr Alison Knight (author of "The Knight Sh*te Report") asked the public for cash DONATIONS!
The good folk of Sandwell - bent under the burden of Labour's increased council tax, increased council house rents and (if the comrades get their way) charges to park their cars if they are lucky enough to have a job - rallied round and raised a massive, er, £2,608.50p! In a Freedom of Information request the comrades say they haven't decided what to sp*nk this huge sum on yet! Ideas on a postcard please!
If you were one of the absolute w*nkers who made a donation we would love to interview you (if your doctors will allow it) - contact details below.
Dead Sheep (Part 3)
Another Labour Councillor has died. Following on from Geoff Lewis and, sadly, Bob Lloyd - Chris Tranter has gone.
Most of you will know that pre-Covid I spent many an unhappy hour outside Oldbury Council House trying to interview the Sheep as they flocked into meetings (often in the company of local community activist, Darryl Magher.) This has been going on for several YEARS but not once in all that time has this ignorant man ever so much as utterred "hello" or made any other comment. We expect that from a pathetic cipher like Paul Moore but it is unusual for the Sheep to behave in this way (the ludicrous Peter "Zorro" Hughes does speak when asked a question but only to say that he is "reporting me to his lawyers". If this garrulous wind-bag does ever consult the leeches he should remember that they charge by the hour!)
In the bizarre world of Sandwell Labour almost every Councillor gets a "special responsibility" [sic] payment on top of the normal allowance. But our Chris was so ineffectual that in 2019/20 he was one of the small number who didn't! We watch with interest to see what the morons of Rowley Ward will do next May and whether they will vote again to perpetuate 46 years of Red Labour povery lol!
Here is a list of Tranter's achievements as a Labour Councillor:
- Er.....
- ... That's it!
Costigan and Zorro's Load of Bollards!
After 46 years of Labour poverty the corruption and cronyism of the Red Council is particluarly galling but then the Comrades are staggeringly incompetent AS WELL. This is mostly self-inflicted since the vast majority of Labour Councillors are as thick as two short planks and obsessively insular and tribal. And, as this blog has shown many, many, times a fair percentage of the staff are not up to snuff either.
A surprising number of staff are in family sinecures (or even directly related to Councillors.) Rather than jobs being open to competition, cronyism rules supreme so that "the Labour family" looks after its own. Anyone talented prepared to question the "socialist" dictatorship was dismissed (seemingly with the full connivance of the three trade unions.) No-one any good was ever likely to apply for a job under the now disgraced former "Chief Executive" Jan Britton (and two of the current most senior positions have been filled with highly-controversial retreads - Knight and Tour.) Thus a significant number of employees are (a) useless or (b) yes-wo/men (eg see the hapless Carter again!)
Wednesbury North has three of the worst Labour Councillors of them all - Inane Elaine Costigan, "Zorro" Hughes and Lachrymose Luke Giles. I am told that these rebels "lobbied" for a new traffic arrangement at Trouse Lane, Wednesbury and Sandwell's briliant Highways Department decided to install a mini-roundabout surrounded by, wait for it, no less that 60 (yes, sixty) stainless steel bollards. Costigan described the scheme of social media as "great" - though not alas for lorries trying to get round this absurd obstruction.
I am indebted to Messrs X and Y for photos and video footage. In the photo below you will see that lorries are constantly knocking the ridiculous bollards down (to be replaced by, er, cones) and whilst the lorry in the video manages to miss the bollards it only does so by mounting the mini-island itself!
For some reason the video is not linking to all social media so try this link if you can't see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq1jfffVpXg
Well done Labour for yet another monumental f*ck-up. Vote Labour folks for more #corruption, #cronyism, #incompetence!
Twitter Joke of The Week
With a massive child obesity crisis in Sadders it is now said that after 46 years of Labour poverty thousands of local parents are actually unable to feed their own children outside school term-time. Various cafes etc have been complaining vociferously that the Government are not doing enough to help them during Covid and many claim that they are not even able to pay their rent. And yet, suddenly, a number of these allegedly skint companies are able to offer free food for kids!?!
The most bizarre offer to date is from the cafe at, er, Sandwell Crematorium! Erudite Twitter wag @Bravo1Niner asked on social media whether it was going to be a BBQ - Boom, Boom!
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