First and foremost, many thanks to you dear readers. This journalism about the fraud, cronyism and corruption at an obscure Midlands Council - bent Labour Sandwell - has hit two million views. Ironically this has happened when Labour and Sandwell's bent paid service under "Chief Executive" David Stevens are trying to close me down (again!) And, of course, many thanks to my small band of helpers who work tirelessly behind the scenes to alert me to the latest scandals and more.
Help Please - Part One
Can anyone spend an hour and a half next Wednesday - 7th July - to ride shotgun with me at the Sandwell Cabinet meeting? Usually Darryl Magher is around, but he is just recuperating from his op (all looking good, I understand). Unfortunately the top echelons of Stevens's paid service are targetting and harassing me - including making allegations which are totally false - and although I am now armed with recording devices I still need someone to "watch my back" against these liars. I can't pay but can buy you a couple of drinks at the Spoons! Meet at 3pm for 3.30 meeting start - Oldbury Council House. Contact details as ever below! Ta.
Help Please - Part Two
Regular readers will know that I ran three Information Rights Tribunal cases against bent Labour Sandwell. They will also know that under the disgraced former Chief Executive, Jan Britton, all emails of departing staff were frequently deleted immediately eg. Melanie Dudley's. Stevens himself turned up at the Tribunals and told them that the "old" Sandwell computer system was not very efficient in "re-instating" the emails the bent paid service itself had deleted! He kept on about how SMBC had spent extensive time and resources (and our money) "interrogating" the system to find documents said by Britton's team (including Council solicitors) to have never existed or to have been permanently deleted! (Incidentally, Stevens is now setting up a new system to make sure old emails are again deleted which the new Tory councillors need to question - I mean, what could possibly go wrong at an Authority where corruption is endemic?)
In a new twist, I wrote earlier this year to a Director of SMBC via email. This email was very important and yet not only was there no reply, but the Director alleges it was not seen. Even though every single email I have ever sent to SMBC "got through" the system it is alleged that this one went direct to the Director's "junk box". No screenshot of the junk box has been supplied to back this allegation up. And how did the Director know it was in the junk box if it was not seen?
I am not a techie but does anyone out there have knowledge of the system used by bent Sandwell? If the Director "found" the email in the junk box I imagine that it (a) it is still there (and so a screenshot can be supplied), or (b) the Director moved it to the Inbox or (c) the Director deleted it in the full knowledge that it had become very important. Surely in the cases of (b) or (c) there must be some sort of record in the computer system showing the action taken and the date/time this was done or am I being naive?
[There are other very suspicious aspects to this matter of which more in due course!]
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Red Yvonne's Latest Bombshell
I make no apologies that the main story today is something of a "repeat" of my last post but, whilst the subject matter is similar, the details this time come from a former Leader of bent Labour Sandwell Council, Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies, who has direct personal knowledge of the events described.
As I have said before, Red Yvonne has many admirable attributes but also some less attractive traits - notably extreme stubborness. The message below is tainted - in the view of her many Labour enemies - by her close relationship with ex-Cllr Hussain but, from what I myself am hearing, there are very considerable causes for concern from what she says and Rajbir Singh, David Stevens and others APPEAR to be engaged in another massive cover up.
It is a shame that Red Yvonne is teasing here, and as she is no longer a member of the Labour Party and is sitting as an Independent, it is high time she put up or shut up. And, of course, she chose to ignore advice and did not demand the sacking of Surjit Tour, the Monitoring Officer and Head of Legal at bent Sandwell, whilst she rigged the appointment of Stevens as Chief Executive with no external (or , indeed, in reality, internal) competition. They played her like a fiddle but I think she still can't see this (yet!)
Local trade unions were out to get her as we recently saw that local GMB lardarse (yes, I know ...) Ian Cooper lectured her on what she shouldn't do as Leader (he had his Labour Party hat on but his Union comrades were out to get her as Stevens had expedited a Subject Access Request concerning one of their own - more on this anon).
This week I have also seen an internal Unite the Union email which makes this startling allegation to a National Officer about the bent Labour Sandwell leadership election in 2016 (of course, this is only an allegation and may NOT be true but why are Unite involved in this at all):
Here is Cllr Davies's explosive - and very long - public letter from yesterday. The scumbag who made the allegations against her is widely believed to by the vile Labour Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore. Stick with the read folks, because this is important stuff!
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