Some good news to end this awful Sandwell year! "Dr"Alison Knight is another casualty of the latest "Night of the Long Knives" - the clear out of some of the dross from the bent Labour Council's paid service.
This is a long-ish holiday read but I have still had to cut-out many horror stories from the years of Labour corruption, incompetence and cronyism.
It is worth just trotting through some of the facts - especially for the growing number of new readers (who are most welcome!) Without going too far back in history we start with the late wife-beater, Cllr Darren Cooper, who made the under-qualified groveller Jan Britton "Chief Executive". When Cooper died in 2016 I was asked to attend a secret pub meeting with Cllr Steve "Squealing" Eling aka "The Milkman" (blogs passim ad nauseum and see legal notice below). The Squealer laughed heartily when I urged him to "fish the turd out of the pool" but accepted that Britton, who he himself had supported all along, was on thin ice. But, of course, Britton was as adept at rimming the new Leader as he had been with Cooper and found himself professionally [sic] able to use the paid service to feed Milko's increasingly paranoid and tyrranical regime.
One of the first casualties was Assistant Chief Executive, Melanie Dudley, who was hounded out by Eling, at huge cost to us taxpayers, because she refused to exonerate Cllr Simon "The Sandwell Slasher" Hackett over his politically-motivated disclosure of a child's personal information. In a WhatsApp feed set up by Eling and (then) Cllr Marshall after the secret pub meeting they laughed about their appalling conduct towards Ms Dudley:
"Can you believe she is calling us 'bullies'."
Melanie had also held the statutory position of Monitoring Officer ie the person supposed to be policing the bent Council. In the WhatsApp feed the dreaded duo said they wanted to replace her with a "bastard". They ended up with another retread (ie someone who had worked for the bent Council before) the highly controversial Surjit Tour who, incredibly, remains in post to this day!
The Milkman was known for his evil temper before he became "leader". Since accepting the tarnished crown he is alleged to have misbehaved at a funeral (which he strongly denies. I hold an email wherein Elaine Costigan appears to say that the complainant was lying even though Costigan did not witness the incident!) Again I refer to many previous blogs (and the legal notice below) regarding the shocking further conduct of Eling. He teamed up with his wife, Marshall, Costigan and a lowly pro-Labour employee, Sarah James, to make a series of complaints to West Midlands Police whilst Britton did the same via his Oldbury puppet, Sgt Crapwell. Milko and his wife physically threatened me INSIDE an election count just feet away from WMP officers. He spent large sums of taxpayers' money ringing the Oldbury Council House with barriers and security prior to supposedly democratic public meetings and a YouTube video shows how I was thrown out of OCH by Britton's thugs on his direct order. I was also barred from a public meeting (on the order of Britton according to David Stavens) and the bent Council eventually had to issue an apology for this unlawful conduct in the High Court.
Milko denies involvement in the vicious attack on the Cabinet secretaries but the "shouting" Councillor involved has never been identified. As we have seen he was also tried to get John Spellar, the joke Labour MP for Warley, to get the CPS to prosecute me. His finger prints are all over the outrageous decision to spend £300,000 to silence me and this blog (further blog coming soon). With the help of Surjit Tour he was able to subvert the standards investigation into, inter alia, himself.
In the WhatsApp feed he and Marshall envisaged fellow Labour Cllr Ian Jones "spunking" over the current Acting Labour Leader "in her bikini" as this would be better than him "doing" his wife, who is also a Labour Councillor. Spellar, Gurinder Josan and others are, I sh*t ye not, actively campaigning for this vile man's suspension from the Labour Party to be lifted. If you are bored with lockdown you may wish to read a letter to Sir Keir Starmer which mainly deals with the shocking misconduct of the GMB Union but where Sir Woodenarse has been personally appraised of just some aspects of Eling's many misdeameanours:
http://crowmultimedia.blogspot.com/2020/12/gmb-union-official-raped-labour-mp-claim.html
Since Eling was booted out kicking and screaming there have been some imperfect improvements to governance. It is worth remembering and saying that SANDWELL COUNCIL ITSELF reported Jan Britton to his pals at West Midlands Police after unearthing documents concerning my proscution in the absurd "C*sucker" trial. Needless to say the Bent Blues took no action but Britton was still kicked out without compensation, other than that to which he was contractually entitled.
Jan Britton - A Digression
I was on the phone a little while ago to a female Labour figure and she made an extraordinary remark about Britton. She mentioned that he was in love with "anyone with a penis." I was rather shocked by this and initially misinterpreted what she meant. It is known that Britton is a family man and that he had his female favourites within the Council like Tara and Liz (please note that I am specifically NOT suggesting by plain speech or innuendo any sexual activity there - indeed Eling and Marshall (a keen amateur swordsman himself) infamously stated in the WhatsApp feed that, "He's [Britton's] not Lothario material"). The caller reassured me that she had not meant that he was a player of the pink oboe but that he went weak at the knees when confronted by what he perceived to be alpha males or "big swinging dicks". Thus this groveller abased himself even further - if that is even possible - when confronted for example, by (1) Mark Greenburgh - the self-confessed Zionist who made racist remarks about Muslims when appointed by Britton to prepare the infamous Wragge Report at a colossal fee; and (2) Jeremy Knight Adams - the Tory donor property developer whom Labour wants to concrete over Lion Farm Fields following the infamous "deal".
It is well known that lardarse (yes, I know, pot/kettle) Britton used to metaphorically crack one off the wrist at the mere mention of the appalling former WBE MP, Tom Watson. Even after his own disgrace Britton could not resist licking the royal bottom, thus we had this from him in January about "Watson's" slimming book:
As with everything "Sandwell" even this is odd as Britton claims his vast wobbling bulk is actually due to thyroid problems and prescriptions he takes for a medical condition rather than gluttony and idleness.
(Perhaps I should add here some other great news recently when the grotesque Watson was again rejected for a peerage!)
Back to the Future...
When Cllr "Red Yvonne" Davies - herself now also suspended by the Labour Party - was in charge I pleaded with her to get rid of Tour but she declined. Red Yvonne is notoriously unwilling to listen to advice and so I had a hollow laugh when Tour was shown sitting in (background left) on her explosive regisgnation speech:
"Red" rigged the recruitment process for a new Chief Executive. Whilst she initially claimed that headhunters would scour the country looking for top talent, in a grubby, typically Sandwell Labour move, David Stevens was given the nod after senior colleagues - including the ludicrous "Dr" Knight - were asked, over the Christmas Holiday last year, whether they wanted to express an interest (which, amazingly as they had no chance of getting the job, they didn't). I think the dickhead, now dismissed, Carter was another mock "candidate" lol!
Mr Stevens has many critics and is perceived by some to be Machiavellian. With the backing of "Red" he shut the "no-solidarity" secretaries up from exposing the full story and he gave personal evidence at Tribunals to halt any further diclosure about the Hackett and Lion Farm debacles (more coming soon...). He has, to be fair, made quite a bit of documentation public after the deliberate concealment of the Britton years.
Stevens refuses point blank to say whether he was ever in business with his big mate Stuart Lackenby but, in a surprise move, the latter moved on recently to Northamptonshire Council. Nevertheless, and despite the Covid crisis, David has been rewarded by being given the chance to alter the top management structure and mould it to his own requirements.
Regulars readers will know that, until recently, the pathetic Darren Carter was the finance officer of the bent paid service. After his astonishing behaviour in the secretaries scandal he was suspended for months on full pay (from our pockets) despite his appalling conduct not least because 26 Labour Councillors actually supported him! He finally left recently with the line from David Stevens being that he had "taken redundancy" which suggests a large taxpayer-funded pay-off when he should have been instantly dismissed months ago. An erudite reader pointed out that Carter was actually the s.151 Officer which is a statutory post and, therefore, that position is required by law and cannot be made "redundant". Again this suggests that sleaze is still alive and well in the bent Borough even under Maria Crompton and our Dave!
I have repeatedly pointed out that Sandwell is such a sh*thole that most senior officers eg Britton and Stevens don't live there. One senior officer was actually living in, er, Sunderland but he is also out in the restructure. (Of course, two recent political leaders, Eling and Davies, also have delightful country retreats to avoid having to rub shoulders with local scum).
Whilst all right-thinking Sandwell watchers were anticipating Tour would be out, Acting Leader Maria Crompton has seemingly, and very foolishly, kept him on. But we can, at least, celebrate the departure of the hapless Knight.
"Dr" Knight is another Sandwell retread. As regular readers will know she was a major player (though not the only one) in a disastrous scheme called "Click Sandwell". She left but - incredibly - was brought back despite metaphorically sh*tting on the OCH carpets before. It is said that this was because she was a friend of Eling's wife which seems improbable as Mrs Eling/Pulsford is not known to have any friends (at least locally but maybe there are some far away in her Derbyshire village home?) Indeed many Sandwell Labour Councillors and Party members - including women - refer to her by a derogatory nickname and in all the years of writing this blog only one person has had a good thing to say about her - Cllr Liam Preece astonishingly, and seemingly without irony, described her as "a lovely lady"!
The disastrous "Dr" had only just been re-employed when she put her name to the shocking "Sh*te Knight Report" on the bent Lion Farm deal. In the limited time available and under pressure from Eling and Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore she produced an effort so bad that a schoolkid would have been embarrassed to present it. It has taken a long time and a Freedom of Information Request to establish that far from trying to ascertain the facts, the principal source of her information had been Jeremy Knight Adams, the developer benefitting from the bent deal! Not surprisingly the developer provided numerous reasons why the destruction of The Fields is a good thing lol. I have campaigned ever since for her instant dismissal for this alone but she has hardly covered herself in glory in other matters. At the ludicrous Liam Preece-chaired meeting to polish this particluar turd her answers from members were truly cringeworthy. Alas you cannot see this properly yourselves as the bent comrades "accidentally" switched the video and audio recorders off for this agenda item!!! (Jan Britton was hiding from view under the public gallery overhang but specificially denies that he had any part in the highly-convenient failure to record the session).
In another classic when I was in the public gallery she was caught like a rabbit in the headlights and a junior colleague had to run round and whisper the correct answer in her ear. Meanwhile she was quick to don the high-vis jacket and pose for publicity photos when the Covid crisis started but she also put her name to the astonishing public appeal to Sandwell people - who are already being well and truly shafted by Labour - to donate cash to a "socialist" body blowing £73M on a vanity project swimming pool and £300k to screw me!
Don't lose any sleep for the good "Dr" as the venal local government system looks after its own and is happy to reward failure - just look at Jan Britton! Knight will probably be raking it in on £100k plus again soon especially as she is publicly claiming that her departure was somehow "voluntary" - which must be true:
Of course, we recently also saw the very sudden unlamented departure of Carter's mate Richard "Apple" Luckman, the Head of HR. They are going down like ninepins...
Under Britton it looked like career suicide to join his bent paid service but is it any better now? We recently saw Amy Harhoff arrive and leave quickly and, as above, the high-flying Lackenby flew away too. It is difficult to envisage any existing employees stepping up given their craven collusion during the Cooper/Eling/Britton era. But who would want to join this deeply corrupt authority if they were any good? No doubt Mr Stevens will follow his boasts of increased openness and tell us the current position as soon as the Bank Holiday is over! Watch this space...
One other bit of, er, good news! I make no allegation of specific fraud by Britton and his top [sic] staff but I have repeatedly asked why corrupt West Midlands Police have never interviewed Britton, Bubalo, Scarrott and others under caution about their knowledge of the fraud on their watch. Someone knew what was going on! It was pointed out here that sources close to Scarrott alleged that one reason might be that he was "in a relationship" with a WMP Inspector. The duo seem to have now gone public on the liaison with social media photos appearing of the loved-up pair in Venice (although it's not known whether Adrian took his guest up the Arsenale). Anyway, you will be delighted to know that this Cop has now been transferred to - drum roll please - Sandwell NPU! No doubt normal non-service will be maintained...
Billa and the Nursing/Care Homes Part 149...
This blog exposed Cllr M Y Hussain, aka the Tipton Green Tosser aka "Billa", for his monstrous self-publicity at the beginning of the Covid crisis. I noticed this piece the other day criticising "the big four" operators for lack of effort in letting relatives see loved ones:
Note that HC-One are named. They are a large company ultimately owned by a tax haven company in the Cayman Islands but "socialist" Billa kindly attempted to boost their profits by delivering PPE to them which he claims to have bought himself! To each according to his needs...
Air Miles Johnnie!
He may have done f*ck all for his moronic constituents in Sandwell but John Spellar MP has been an assiduous advocate for the State of Israel. This London-based Greaser-Extraordinaire may not have been banging the drum for sh*thole Warley but he has enjoyed plenty of foreign jollies - often discussing Israeli "security" and "culture" in exotic locations.
Since 2005 alone the gravy plane has taken the ex-public school boy to the USA (2005), the USA again (2007), Kuwait (2008), Israel (2008), Singapore (2011), Israel (2012), Japan (2012), Singapore & Indonesia (2013), China (2013), Israel (2014), Egypt (2014), Germany (2015), Israel (2015), Israel (2016), Australia (2017), Saudi Arabia (2018), and Singapore (2019). Phew - no wonder he hasn't had much time for pathetic local scum...
A couple of trips stand out in particular. Whilst the Labour Party pretend to be against private education this alumnus of Dulwich College felt able to fly to Egypt to attend the opening of top public school Malvern College's new facility there!
Most of us are rather appalled at the Saudi regime. Personally I am not keen on folk being flogged on the streets. Or beheaded. And a dissident was recently murdered and dismembered in the Saudi's own Turkish consulate. But when it comes to Greaser John they are prepared to forgive and forget. In a seasonal 2015 jibe the Boy from Bromley appeared to mock the Saudis and their rigid Wahabbism (note exclamation mark!):
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