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The latest from Labour's poverty ghetto - the hermit kingdom of Sandwell! Warning - contains "adult"content!

Crimewatch (Part 430)

In my last post I mentioned the tsunami of crime reported on Sandwell social media sites and that it is rare for the local cops to pick up the phone let alone investigate. There have been further recent reports of crime - a serious assault in Oldbury, two stabbings at The Hawthorns, operators trying to nick catalytic converters and much more. Thanks also to Chris Green for this delightful pic when someone torched a van:

We saw in the last post that local Tory MP, Nicola Richards, raised the crime wave in West Brom East in the House of Commons. The Government Minister responding said he found it "shocking" and asked Dave Thompson, the Chief Constable of West Midlands (see further below), and the ludicrous Labour Police and Crime Commissioner to pull their socks up.

The Sandwell Plod are apparently too busy to investigate actual crime but have the time to put an inordinate amount of, er, b*llocks on Twitter. The garland for the most prolific twitterers was formerly held by Smethwick "Police" although the Wednesbury Blues are seeking to snatch their crown. They have recently bombarded Twitter with shots of, er, empty locked-down streets which they boast of "patrolling to combat crime" where no-one is in sight! They also handily put up an image of how NOT to wear a facemask:

Curiously there have been a plethora of shots of Wednesbury cops diverting their apparently ample resources to patrol an almost deserted Gallagher Retail Park at Junction 9. Now the curious thing about this is that this is PRIVATE land. Compare and contrast with the Bullring in Brum where the owners pay for private security guards rather than have taxpayer-funded cops doing the job. 

More to the point, the media reported in 2018 that the shopping centre has been sold to a South Korean company in 2018 yet a Land Registry search shows that the main freehold is held in a company not in Wednesbury but in Luxembourg - a well-known tax haven. And so it looks very much like the owners are not "dodging" but are "mitigating" their UK tax bill ie. the very tax that pays for "public" services like corrupt West Midlands Police!

I sent the following request for info to Quadrant Estates who operate Gallagher Retail Park but they haven't bothered to respond:

"THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY

1. Are you still the managing agents for Gallagher Retail Park please?
2. If answer 1 is in the affirmative are you or the parks owners making payment of any kind to West Midlands Police for patrol services. I ask because WMP are persistently advertising that they are patrolling the retail park even though I understand that it is private property?"

 IT IS HIGH TIME LOCAL GROVELLERS STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS TOO!

Meanwhile, Wednesbury plod have sallied forth to restore law and order in the ghastly town - with a crime prevention stand In Mozzies lol! Two taken off the dog sh*t-smeared streets to dish out a few leaflets:

Interestingly even this large supermarket is not immune from nocturnal thieving in a town brought to its knees by decades of Labour failure since the white notice on the board to the right reads "No Cash Held On These Premises"!

Lest We Forget

There was "outrage" earlier this month when Extinction Rebellion held a "wreath-laying ceremony" at The Cenotaph ahead of Remembrance Day. A very poor show in my book although I am queasy about the ever-growing politicisation of an important national event. Who can forget the appalling antics of the absurd Labour Cllr Peter "Zorro" Hughes at the Wednesbury event a few years back - happily caught on video and also described in this post:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2018/11/labour-councillor-pisses-on-poppy-day.html

And Sandwell Labour must stick their logo on their wreaths to make sure everyone knows how empathetic they are to the deceased millions:

At least a laughing Cllr Giles dignified the solemnity of the occasion!

I cannot let this picture go by without mentioning the other Councillor in it, Labour's Laura Rollins. Readers will know that many members of the Labour Party have been expressing virulently anti-semitic views. But in an earlier post I mentioned that our Laura had mysteriously claimed to be "a rich Jewish trendsetter in a former life". As I believed this to be a lie I wrote to her on 17th September, 2020:

"You stated on Twitter that you "were" Jewish. Can you confirm what you mean by that please."

Alas she has not chosen to respond. Digging around though, it seems that she is the political equivalent of the Vicar of Bray and she has radically shifted her political stance. At first she was posting about a #FreeGaza event outside Tesco by Villa Park and urging folk to "educate yourself". She didn't seem over-keen on the State of Israel also tweeting a question about the Palestinians, "please explain how the systematic decimation [ie by Israel] of a people is ignorant or anti-Semitic?" 

But as with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin even the hardest of hearts can melt and soon after this strident gibberish Laura was able to publish these comments:

"I've decided I like rich Jewish boys." (Socilaists always secretly covet wealth lol!)

Jewish boys are lovely right"

There's a lot of very pretty Jewish boys"

Oy Vey!

Jo Hadley

This blog featured the extraordinary story of the suspension of Cllr Hadley by the Labour Party and the murky story behind it involving Cllr Mohammed Yaseen Hussain (aka "Billa"), Basharat Khan and at least one other.

 And since, in that dysfunctional Party, both Billa and Bash have also been suspended!

West Midlands Police are well aware that an ex-Labour Councillor and associates have been at the centre of an industrial scale social media trolling campaign againt me and others so that Twitter have removed a number of his accounts for "abusive behaviour". But as one is taken down up pops another. He is supported in all this by at least three CURRENT Sandwell Councillors.

It is a story for another day but the Police are also aware of his networks attempts to smear a current Labour Councillor and to interfere with/prejudice a forthcoming court case. One of his associates recently joined in on this using her own account. More anon.

The trolling stuff is known to a number of police officers and details have been sent to the Chief Constable himself. As ever with corrupt West Midland Police they are anxious to protect their pals at all costs and so they have done absolutely f*ck all - as usual.

The attacks on Councillor Hadley have been extremely vicious. Then an anonymous account started attacking the ex-Cllr and he somehow got it into his thick head that this was run by Cllr Hadley which I am absolutely sure is untrue. It is one of their tricks to claim that accounts belong to other people so that they can get away with continuing to harass them. Even given the adult content warning at the head of this post some of the stuff is just too graphic to put on here. If I tell you that the ex-Cllr's network's tweet, "Is there any man in Tipton that hasn't had you prick jo", is one of the milder attacks you will get the drift. There are - yet again as with me - direct (false) allegations of criminal activity too.

Once again the Police are aware of this but have done nothing. But this just encourages him and his associates and just take a look at this grotesque effort they have now put up:

THE TIME HAS COME WHEN THE BENT BLUES HAVE TO TAKE SOME ACTION! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Houston Twinned With Wednesbury

My readers are people of great taste and discernment but a few may be unfamiliar with the word "gerrymandering" (and there is a joke in there for the cognescenti lol!) This word describes the rigging of voting boundaries to favour a desired outcome and is particularly prevalent in the States where, until recently, the party in power invariably got to draw-up the electoral maps. Thus, instead of logical geographical or demographic divides, voting districts can be a rag-bag of disparate areas stitched together. In the recent US election I noticed this particularly egregious example in Houston, Texas where the Republican Party joined up various enclaves of their own supporters:

Seeing this brought back to me the unlawful Wednesbury BID scandal (posts passim and see legal notice below) where the bent Labour Council, together with the likes of expert female photographer Mike Maynard, Cllr Inane Elaine Costigan, Cllr "lol" Peter "Zorro" Hughes and the bent Blues of WMP, tried to force a "Business Improvement District" on what is left of Wednesbury businesses after 46 years of Labour destruction. But someone unknown rigged the vote and, thanks to local community activist Darryl Magher, the whole rotten edifice came tumbling down! Regular readers will know where I am going with this and remember how "yes" voters some distance from the Town Centre were suddenly discovered to actually be in the BID area. You couldn't make it up - er, yes you could and Labour and the cops did! When they said they were "forging ahead" they sort of meant it lol!

Costigan the Braggart

I made an aside above how most "socialists" I have met quickly abandon their warped ideology at the sight of a wad of cash.

In Sadders, Labour have trashed the six towns for 46 years and left many of the pathetic, spineless, populace mired in poverty and every other sort of deprivation (in lockdown one, Labour in West Bromwich East actually brought in bogroll from London as local arses were seemingly smeared in faeces!)

People like Cllr Costigan try to bullsh*t residents that everything is wonderful. Your life might be pathetically horrible but she will send you a box of sugar-coated products at Christmas and hire a ZZZ list "celebrity" to switch the Christmas lights on.

But Costigan does love a good boast about the riches of her son. First he apparently enjoys "hospitality" season tickets at The Baggies rather than ordinary seats, Then we had pictures of his Porsche. To cap it all was the picture of the "top floor penthouse" in Marbella. Presumably the Cllr thinks these chavvy displays of wealth are inspiriting for the yokels.

Of course, her son has done what anyone in Sadders with any money does and has moved out of the sh*thole Borough to bucolic Staffordshire. We wish him well particularly given the state of the economy and hope that his Mother will undergo a "Rollins-style" political conversion and start singing about the merits of capitalism and wealth-creation to the grunting proletariat of Sadders.

New Year - New Calendar?

My Sandwell-resident mate Andy Maxam has, as ever, produced a range of calendars showing old photos of the area. One is of "Old Smethwick, Bearwood and Warley" and is available for purchase via

http://maxamcards.co.uk/

(That's a pint of Citra post-lockdown please Andy!)

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Cops in the Spotlight + Piper and more...

There is some exciting news about a new-look super-dooper Skidder coming soon folks. Watch this space!

 The Friends of West Midlands Police

There has been a very worrying trend in the last few years of corrupt West Midlands Police (WMP) cosying-up to people and organisations in their police area. This is often done under the guise of "community policing" or working with "partners", whatever that means.

Leaving aside, ahem, the outright corruption in Sandwell where known criminals are allowed to carry on with impunity and where certain elements within the force itself are at pains to protect their own financial interests in drug-dealing and other organised crime there is a growing tendency of the blues becoming too close to the very people they should be collaring!

Obviously The Skidder has written at length about the corrupt links between WMP and bent Labour Sandwell Council so that Chief Constable Dave Thompson appears now to have granted total immunity from investigation - let alone prosecution - to Labour "partners". And we have seen that the likes of Rich Baker (who has moved on) and Sgt Gary Crapwell were the willing puppets of ex-Labour Council Leader Steve "Squealing" Eling and disgraced former Chief Executive [sic] Jan Britton. (Though to be fair to "Rich", as The Milkman called him, he did eventually see the light and tell him to "do one".)

I was present at a meeting when an officer showed Cllr Bob Piper what he described as "unredacted" intelligence of activity by criminal gangs in Sandwell at a Licensing Committee meeting. I am not suggesting Piper is corrupt (though he is an arrogant p*ss-taker) but what is going on here? 

Turning the situation around several sources have told The Skidder that bent cops are warning "their" taxi-driver mules of SMBC "spot-checks" so that they can avoid them.

The question for "Dave" and the bent blues is whether Sandwell Labour are the only ones getting preferential treatment in the Borough. I very much doubt it and the rule of law seems not to apply to certain individuals and companies. It's one rule for one...

All this partiality descends into farce eg. the five plus years the bent blues have been attempting to close this blog down and criminalise me and eg. when they put up incessant photos of themselves sat on their arses taking tea and biscuits with their "partners" at Sandwell College one day and then whining and giving themselves "special powers" when college kids run riot or shoot fireworks at them the next!

As above, I have had over 5 years of harassment (which is continuing even now) from this shower and it is obvious that many officers are bone idle. Anyone reading the excellent Facebook Group page, "I Live in West Bromwich" will be appalled at the daily litany of car thefts, attempted and actual burglaries, criminal damage etc. The running theme throughout all these reports is that the cops won't even bother to pick up the phone let alone investigate what are quite clearly some serious and traumatic incidents.

And you don't just have to take my word for the pathetic service:

Many of you will have seen that WMP had to issue an grovelling apology recently for their aggressive conduct towards a customer in the Oldbury Sainsburys. I wonder why they were in there acting as tapayer-funded security for the supermarket giant in the first place? Perhaps this astonishing tweet from Oldbury Police gives us a clue:

Just think about this effort - tweeted in police time - for a minute. WMP are bigging-up TWO private businesses. Why could Sainsburys' not simply donate the stuff direct to the foodbank rather than through a third party (and two carrier bags full isn't a bad return for having unpaid WMP security as above.) And why the f*ck are taxpayer-funded police employees going round delivering stuff instead of dealing with actual CRIME????

Because of their corrupt relationship, Sandwell Labour will not try to bring WMP to book and neither will the ludicrous Labour "Police and Crime Commissioner", Jamieson. But at least the new Tory MP's are beginning to find their feet and only the other day WBE's Nicola Richards asked a question in the House of Commons about the rampant crime in West Brom. The Minister for Crime and Policing responded thus:

Extract courtesy of Hansard.

So there you are - "it is a shocker" and Dave Thompson should "pay attention". The Tories MP's need to keep on top of this and you too readers should keep 'em peeled. YOU are paying for this police "service" so raise your voices and insist they do the job they are paid to do. If they don't - contact James Morris, Shaun Bailey or Nicola Richards if you live in their areas. If Labour's Spellar is your MP you can just go and f*ck yourselves!

Piper Offends Again?

Bob Piper is a vile man but he seems to have had a sudden conversion of late. Bob has been a virulent critic of all things Israeli on Twitter - possibly even worse than Cllr John "Jedward" Edwards. But as the Labour Party seeks to expel the antisemites Piper's Twitter feed has been mysteriously wiped by hands unknown and the last reference to Israel is in 2011! I am sure Bob is not "antisemitic" - he just doesn't like Israel or people who live their lol - and has only been espousing a pro-Palestian view point. 

Piper was, of course, caught out when, and I sh*t ye not, he was Chair of the Licensing Committee but walked into Oldbury Wetherspoons and made a Nazi Salute and shouted "Seig Heil". His "defence", as I understand it, was that it was this was directed at a non-Jewish "right-winger" but how he knew no-one else was Jewish in the crowded pub and very likely to be offended is beyond me. Happily it was not beyond his pals in the bent blues who duly let him off.

Wealthy "socialist" Bob cannot walk past anyone he dislikes (which is, seemingly, most of humanity) without having a dig. Now that he is apparently too scared to have a go at the Jews he has decided instead to mock and insult a Muslim man at prayer! What a piece of work eh readers?

Sandwell Day of Action - 3rd April, 2021

Various folk are planning events on the above date - which coincides with 47 years of Labour failure since the Frankenstein-like creation of "Sandwell" - to protest against the Dictatorship and offer a positive way forward for local folk.

Care must be exercised on two fronts. Firstly, any events, demos and protests should be planned with Covid social-distancing in mind as there may well be restrictions still in place. Secondly, any party political events should stick in their own factions since Labour will try and may adverse comments if parties act together. You may think this is weird in a democracy but this is what the sleazy "socialists" do. Just look at the trouble these sh*tbags tried to cause when the parties gathered to meet local people at Lion Farm objecting to Labour's bent plan to destroy the Fields there.

I hope we can have a communal gathering at some point in the day - possibly a socially distanced walk down West Brom High Street to the cop shop - before going off around the Borough to spread enlightenment.

If you are planning an event - and I hope all six towns will be participating against the Labour Poverty Ghetto - please let The Skidder know so that it can be advertised on here and other channels.

I was hoping to have the inaugral "Skidder Awards Ceremony" this November but am now planning to try and get a venue for the late afternoon on 3rd April, 2021 so that all participants in the Day of Action can wind down and have a laugh together!

I also hope that any Independent candidates standing in the Council elections next May will make themselves known to me and I hope to help them meet and greet folk in their wards on that day (see further below).

Just as a matter of interest the Green Party seem to have totally disappeared in Sandwell which is surprising noting that after 47 years control by Labour it is an environmental disaster-zone and their continuing desperation to destroy green spaces across the Borough. Does anyone know if they have any presence at all now locally?

The Independents

A couple of candidates have broken cover already. Firstly, Lisa Done is standing in Great Bridge. I hope to interview her and give you a short bio in due course but, in the meantime, you can follow Lisa on Twitter at @lisadone2012 and on Facebook.

Secondly, Wayne Trinder is standing in Friar Park. Many of you will know Wayne from his role - with a fantastic team of locals - in the community's great victory over Network Rail's plan (given the nod initially by Sandwell Labour) to plonk a concrete-sleeper factory next to housing at Bescot. Carol White and many others fought tooth and nail to destroy the Labour plan and, when the strength of local feeling became known, a few jittery Labour Councillors suddenly found it expedient to then oppose the plan! A small team, including Wayne, presented the community's objections to the Council planning committee quite brilliantly and won the day! Please consider befriending Wayne on Facebook! Wayne had a little problem accessing his old Facebook account recently and so send your requests to the account with this profile pic:

Info Please:

(1) Roway Lane Contact Centre

I am hearing rumblings of discontent about the working conditions for staff at this venue. If anyone needs to contact The Skidder the details below (including postal address.)

(2) Forces Support Charity Shop, Carters Green.

I have received a number of messages from folk who have attempted to drop off items at this unit and ended up with parking tickets from a private car park operator. You have been warned! If anyone has had a ticket please let me know.

Keep well, y'all!

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Baggies Charity Mystery on The Liquidator Podcast

Several years ago I wrote about my concerns (as a Baggies fan) about the lack of contibution by WBA FC to "its charity partner" (whatever that means), The Albion Foundation. As ever the local mainstream media took no interest.

Recently I wrote about the facts that (a) the Club appears (again) to be giving bugger all to the Charity whilst giving a contrary impression and (b) that the Charity in the last two financial years say THEY actually bought OVER ONE MILLION QUIDS WORTH OF TICKETS FROM THE FOOTBALL CLUB using its charitable funds.

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

I omitted to say that in the last two financial years the Charity also say that it has diverted over £100k from its charitable funds to the Club for staff kit and tickets.

The Foundation have not responded to my blog. I have also written to the Premier League who have made substantial donations to the Charirty but they have also failed to respond as yet.

I am sure most Baggies fans are listeners to the excellent podcast on all things WBA - The Liquidator. This is run by probably the only decent investigative journalist in the West Midlands, Adrian Goldberg (on Twitter at @GoldbergRadio), and author, lecturer and all-round good-guy Chris Lepkowski (tweeting as,er, @chrislepkowski.) There are a number of ways to listen to the excellent regular podcasts including via Spotify.

In the latest episode - linked below - there is an erudite but depressing post mortem on last night's debacle at Craven Cottage but at 26:35 minutes into the cast this matter is discussed. Adrian states that he has been in communication with the Club but, guess what, they too have failed to respond to legitimate questions.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/987004/6199996-bilic-out-charity-begins-at-home-who-s-yasha-ge

WE NEED SOME ANSWERS ON THIS AND I WILL NOW ALSO CONTACT THE CHARITY COMMISSION.

Just on a point of order, Adrian mentions on the podcast that he thinks the Charity has offices at The Hawthorns. I commented on this some years ago in the Jeremy Peace era when an official of the Albion Foundation (who wishes to remain anonymous) contacted me to say that the Charity had been "kicked out" of their offices by the Football Club and forced to rent at Ford Street, Smethwick - where they still reside paying a hefty £72,192 property costs per annum from charitable funds according to their latest accounts.

And finally,

We are used to the pathetic boasting (aka lying?) of bent Labour Sandwell Council and its weirdo self-publicicist "Director of Public Health" but as we all suffer another lockdown let us not forget what these pathetic t*ssers told us in August:

Stay safe y'all.

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