Wasim Ali and the SEND contract + much more!

It's getting manic in Sandwell and some big stories are coming soon as bent Labour are involved in widespread corruption RIGHT NOW. Stay tuned folks for much more to come but here's some interesting (I hope) stuff to keep you going!

SEND Contract - What Did The Cabinet Really Know?

I recently disclosed the "internal report" of our old friend [sic] Peter Farrow (Skidders passim) into bent Labour's, at worst deeply corrupt, or at best totally incompetent, award of the multi-million pound SEND contract to two companies controlled by the same person.

Farrow stated at Paragraph 5.15 that officers effectively misled the Cabinet in August, 2020 by failing to tell it that the officers were planning (on whose orders?) to drastically reduce the number of operators undertaking the work to "a limited number of contractors". 

Fair enough you might say. But I have re-read Farrow's effort today and I cannot see any mention of what purports to be a Briefing Note to (then) Cabinet Member, Wasim Ali, dated September, 2020.

(Incidentally, Ali has vehemently denied in writing that he is related (albeit distantly) to the person who owns the companies which won the jackpot. He specifically denies in writing that his grandfather was a brother-in-law of that person's grandfather. There are, however, widespread rumours that, whatever his familial relationship, he is a close "friend of the family". This too he vehemently denies, and we must accept his word on this.)

However ... This is the marking on the "Briefing Paper" a copy of which was sent to me purporting to be genuine:

Cllr Ali was a Cabinet member at the time and the "Briefing Note" specifically warned against bent Labour putting all its eggs in one basket:

"Should all the contracts be awarded to one transport operator (Master vendor), the risk will need to be weighed up carefully regarding the Council's statutory duty being provided by one company*. In a monopoly market, the operator faces no competition, the Council may also be putting the smaller companies out of business. Should a situation arise whereby the master vendor is unable to fulfil its contract(s) the council would be in a very vulnerable position because there may be no other transport operators available to provide the service."

*Here bent Labour awarded the multi-million pound contracts to two companies though they are both controlled by the same person.

This raises a number of issues. Firstly, is the briefing note genuine since, if it is, the Cabinet were warned - via Cllr Ali - of the dangers of what actually happened back in September, 2020 but took no action to stop the provisional award to, effectively, one person. Either they were too stupid and thick to realise what was going on or they specifically ignored it - in which case there would seem to be no grounds to reopen the tendering process as it was lawfully made with Cabinet approval.

Secondly, if the Briefing Report was genuine, did Cllr Ali circulate it to his Labour Cabinet colleagues and why is it seemingly missing from the Farrow Report? I wrote to Cllr Ali on 13th December, 2021 (please note that date folks) sending him a copy of the Briefing Paper and asking him:

"Contrary to 'evidence' being presented to the public I understand that you personally received this Briefing Paper in September, 2020. Can you please confirm whether that is correct?"

Ali has chosen not to respond.

Thirdly, if the Briefing Paper is genuine and it was specifically sent to Cllr Ali in September, 2020, then another problem arises for him as he wrote to me on, er, 24th June, 2021:

"I can assure you that I am not involved and have had no involvement in the SEND contract process."

As above, he has been given the opportunity to comment whether the Briefing Paper is genuine or not. If it turns out that it is, he has clearly lied in his June, 2021 email. So come on Wasim, here is your chance to put the record straight for Skidder readers!

(I understand Chris Ward and Carol Wintle were two employees involved in this debacle but who have left SMBC. Angelina Dawson was heavily involved. I have been given two other names but can anyone out there confirm the identity of the employees involved here please?)

For the record, certain individuals in Sandwell enjoy high-level protection from West Midlands Police. The Skidder has also received countless allegations of Sandwell police officers being directly involved in criminal activity. In the circumstances, there appears to be no prospect of The Bent Blues looking into all this.

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!

A complaint was made to West Midlands Police (aka "The Bent Blues") as long ago as 11th May, 2021 concerning an alleged false declaration by a Labour candidate at the Council elections on 8th May, 2021. The matter was taken on by a Detective Inspector but no decision has been made concerning prosecution EIGHT MONTHS LATER!

We have been here before, of course, when the Bent Blues deliberately helped their Labour mates in Sadders and let the time for prosecution run out in respect of former Councillor "Lying" Lucy Cashmore.

The old law used to have a six-month limitation period and I wrote to the DI some months ago expressing concern that The Bents were "at it again". The case is incredibly straightforward and, interestingly, there was honest evidence given by a quite well-known Sandwell figure. The DI assured me that there is, in fact, a 12-month limitation and that enquiries are still "ongoing". Watch this space ...

Rats

One of Cllr Bob "Seig Heil" Piper's infamous, abusive, "jokes" was to rehash an old Labour quote that "Tories are worse than vermin". He put up an image of a rat saying "you are never more than 10 feet away from a Tory". Following the last General Election and the Council elections last year, I took delight that his joke may have backfired on the Labour Dictatorship of Sandwell as a blue wave started to wash the red scum away.

As it happens, many parts of sh*thole Sadders are infested with the real thing. Here are the local rodent hot spots - eeek!

Hackett takes the p*ss - yet again ...

I am very sorry to keep you all in suspense but the Hackett saga IS reaching its denouement and I will be reporting the outcome soon. The delay is due, of course, to bent Labour Sandwell who are delaying their response to a Freedom of Information request concerning the huge costs they have lost - again - in a court case arising directly from the pathetic Hackett's appalling cowardice.

There will also be a direct leafletting campaign in his Friar Park ward so that local morons finally realise how this guy has screwed them over the last few years.

Despite his reputation, Labour's Hackett presents as a mincing wimp but he has got some brass neck, I'll give him that. The Sandwell Slasher recently put up a photo on Twitter with comments concerning the bus stop by Lidl in Friar Park. He complained about "milk or something" poured over seats and the rubbish strewn around. But this grotesque hypocrite was, of course, caught by a Sandwell Council street warden blind drink and urinating an a, er, bus shelter. There was a massive and costly "cover-up" "lol" of his shocking conduct and he only escaped official censure since it was determined that he wasn't "acting in his capacity as a Councillor" when he gave the bus shelter a golden shower.

Even then this halfwit has no common decency. He has deliberately cost Friar Park and Sandwell literally hundereds of thousands of pounds but there was no chance of him going and cleaning up the shelter himself. No. The feeble "socialist" boasted of how he "reported" it for other people (aka "workers") to be sent to clean up the mess. Indeed he asked local voters if there were any other shelters they wanted him to report. The p*ss-maker has become - again - a p*ss-taker of local folk.

McNally and her Twitter Account

"Vicarious liability" is a typically poncey legal term to express a concept that is usually very straightforward. Without wishing to get technical and, applying the concept to bent Sadders, the Council is legally liable for the statements or actions of its employees except in very, very, unusual circumstances.

Readers will know that Lisa McNally, bent Sandwell's Director of Public Health, brought a mailcious claim against me which she lost on ALL grounds. This related solely to her personal Twitter account. If she felt she had a claim she should have found her own solicitor and paid for the case herself. After all she earns in excess of £105,000 per year (plus has a gold-plated pension). But Surjit Tour, David Stevens, and Cllr Maria Cromption conspired with her to force YOU to pay instead, and have screwed you for over £100,000.

Right at the very beginning of the case I asked - in writing - if SMBC were accepting vicarious liability for McNally's personal Twitter account (where, inter alia, I was able to show tweets to the High Court where she had abused other Twitter users and where she put out "work-related" information that was not readily available via official SMBC channels). Tour, Lynch, Price and Maher-Smith - the four solicitors (at least) who ran the disastrous case immediately realised the danger and so they refused to reply - even to my solicitor when he put the same point to them. They may have conspired to unlawfully fund McNally but there was no way they were going to officially accept legal responsibuility for a loose cannon. 

I pointed out after the case that although they had never formally accepted liability for McNally's Twitter account, SMBC may be found legally liable for her twittering by reason of their funding of her court case and the Labour Councillors backing her every utterance. Further, they have not tried to prevent her using work-based material on her personal account despite being given "the gyspy's warning" (no offence intended to the travelling community) and so may be estopped from avoiding liability if things go horribly wrong in Twitterland.

The time has not yet come when they are caught on the hook but the danger of their approach was shown the other day. A seemingly intelligent, bourgeois, woman in Sutton Coldfield (i.e. not a Sandwell Resident) was apparently too thick to use the internet but decided she "must" contact McNally for information (on a Bank Holiday) about the testing regime when workers might have Covid. (This had all the hallmarks of a "put-up job" but that's another story.)

I am not going to give McNally the oxygen of publicity relating to her immediate response but she went on:

"If LFT on Day 6 positive then keep taking LFT's 24 hours apart until you get 2 negatives. Return to work day after second positive. No more LFD tests required after the 10th day ..."

Astonishingly the moron is Sutton thought this obvious b*llocks was somehow wonderful and showered McNally with thanks.

The Skidder Team were onto this like a flash and alerted me. I pointed out on Twitter that the advice was wrong and dangerous since it should have been, "return to work after second negative" (not second positive).

Also many of the people in Sandwell are likely to be confused by references to lateral flow tests as LFT's and as LFD's (they are the same thing  - "t" is test and "d" is device).

The point of "official channels" is to check and authorise public information so that these sorts of errors are not made by individuals, to use another another quaint legal phrase, "on a frolic of their own". This is a term used in vicarious liability cases and Tour and his mob better start looking it up. It might come in handy one day.

Billa - Full of Sh*t (again)?

At the last Council meeting (December, 2021) a sweating  and "hyper" Cllr M. Y. Hussain - aka "The Tipton Green Tosser" (Skidders passim ad nauseum) - made a public statement that there had been Labour Party "racism" during the reign, as Leader, of Cllr "Red" Yvonne Davies.

I duly wrote to The Tosser asking him to back up these very serious public allegations but, guess what folks, he has failed to do so. Billa - put up or SHUT UP!

Planning Enforcement Sandwell-Style!

In 2019 a car sales company took over a green plot of land at Burnt Tree and, without regard to the wildlife present, started trading from the site - without planning permission. The company retrospectively applied for planning permission which was refused - the decision being supported on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. The miscreant was given 60 days to quit the site and return it to its original condition. It appears that Sandwell mysteriously gave him an extra 30 days on top of that despite complaints from the public.

On 30th November, 2020 a "planning enforcement officer" at the bent Labour Council wrote saying the matter had been referred to its infamous "legal team". Members of the bent paid service visited the site - where the car company was still trading - but told the principal complainant that despite eg. lavishing over £100,000 on the disastrous McNally case, the Council "couldn't afford" to take legal action!

The moral of the story so far is that if you are a business then you can set up in bent Sandwell and start trading without planning permission as the corrupt and incompetent comrades won't do anything. Indeed, emails seen by The Skidder appear to indicate that, rather than enforce the law, "officers" have bent over backwards to identify sites the miscreant may wish to move to instead! (Remember this nicey-nicey approach folks if this shower start getting heavy with YOU for some perceived wrongdoing).

But our intrepid complaint wouldn't give up. On 15th November, 2021 - nearly one year after the original complaint - the same "planning enforcement officer" said the miscreant had not moved (though was still trading from the site) as he had been back and forth to a named African country where he claimed his mother and sister had "died of covid".

Finally (?) on 2nd December, 2021 SMBC again stated they were helping this guy to find an alternative trading pitch but that they were now proceeding with a prosecution! Again, watch this space!

Bent Labour need to cut costs given their runaway spending and so perhaps they should consider cutting some staff in the planning department where at least TWO officers - and seemingly a manager - have been spending taxpayers' money helping someone who is very deliberately breaking the law!

Newhall Street, West Brom

I am told that local residents in this street are having a few problems but are being ignored. I did write to Cllrs Jackie "Jack of No Trades" Taylor, Randhawa and Walsall-resident Padda several weeks ago but they have not responded. If you are still having problems please get in touch and I will try and get the Toyr candidate in the May elections to help you.

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