Many of you are still reeling from the stunning - maximum - Council Tax increases at bent Labour Sandwell Council. The corrupt Labour outfit needs to cover losses from massive scandals and to recoup the multi-millions the "socialists" are wasting on the Commonwealth Games.
Bent Labour Sandwell has even been singled out in Which? Magazine as the only authority where Council Tax will rise by more than 5%:
Of course, the corruption, cronyism and incompetence is SO BAD at Labour Sadders that the Government has recently had to put the sh*tshow into "special measures" with Commissioners appointed to put a stop to the fraud and constant malpractice. If you still vote for Labour in May you are either part of the corruption yourself and/or a a stupid ***t!
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In submissions to Michael Gove MP, The Secretary of State for Levelling-Up, before he ordered the Commissioners in, myself and community activist Darryl Magher, urged mass sackings at the bent Council to include, where applicable, the large number of useless employees who are Labour cronies and/or actual relatives/friends of Labour Councillors. We submitted that all those who had been involved in malpractice should face suspension pending full investigations - and then dismissal if appropriate (especially those involved in the SEND disaster). Corrupt employees have no place in the bent Borough if the clean-up is to succeed.
The employee reported to have been working from home, but on her back servicing a Labour Councillor, should be the first out of the door!
Certain employees have also been behaving badly towards the new group of Conservative Councillors, prioritising work for Labour Councillors or even failing to deal with matters at all for Tories. Some have gone further and are actively maligning these Councillors in various ways. We have a little list ... It has to be "bye bye" to these jokers too.
Before I go on, I must declare an "interest": I am the only journalist in the WHOLE WORLD banned from communicating with bent Sandwell's Press Office! Before being made one of the two Government Commissioners, Kim Bromley-Derry, the eye-wateringly expensive Interim Chief Executive, supported keeping the ban in place.
The fact is that I am banned from dealing with the press office because I am dangerous to the corrupt regime (although that decision should legally be made by the paid service not corrupt Labour Councillors). Further, I have pointed out regularly over the years just how crap the press team are!
[Of course, these people are not "independent" journalists in any way, and so pathetically and slavishly do whatever their political masters tell them.]
Right back to the days of the former Leader and wife-beater, Darren Cooper (deceased), I pointed out that all Press Office did all day was tweet about dog-sh*t and write Cooper's blog for him as he was too thick to string a few words together himself. They churn out absurd propaganda which would make Joseph Goebbels blush.
The Press Office is heavily unionised so seemingly immune from productivity targets. Back in the day I pointed out that their output was minimal and could not possibly justify the half MILLION pounds a year Labour was wasting on it.
Recently the new Conservative Councillors tried to get a small grip on this by trying to close down the Sandwell Labour propaganda edition of Pravda known as "The Sandwell Herald", but Labour voted them down and vowed to continue wasting money on that particularly crap effort. According to labour Councillors Sandwell Council are too thick to use telephones and the internet to access Council Services and so sit and wait for three months at a time to somehow "obtain information" from the quarterly propaganda sheet. Yes Sandwell People are, statistically, much thicker than most of the country (why else would keep voting for Labour to screw them?) but surely they're not that stupid????
Now, bent Sandwell have produced stunning figures showing how little these jokers have actually been doing. From 2019 to 2021 inclusive over 10 full-time equivalent employees have only dealt with small numbers of media enquiries:
2019 - 523; 2020 - 888; 2021 - 803
Let's look at these amazing figures a little more closely. A "normal" worker doing a 5-day week can expect to work just 252 days a year in the UK (365 - 105 weekend days and 8 public holidays). Of course, unionised local government get away with higher levels of absenteeism than other workers, but lets take the 252 figure. That means 10.6 employees only deal with:
2019 - 2.07 enquiries a day; 2020 - 3.52 enquiries a day; 2021 - 3.19 enquiries a day.
This is stunningly bad when Sandwell Labour are failing in so many other areas and should surely mean cuts? Surely a reasonably competent press officer should be able to handle at least one enquiry AN HOUR?
Years ago, I suggested that this service should be outsourced to a hard-working professional media firm and these laggards booted out. When I see how hard the likes of Rhi Storer of the Local Government Reporting Service work, I reckon she could do this feeble level of output on her own! [Would you take the job Rhi for, say £400k per annum lol?]
So are cuts coming whilst you are forced to pay ever more for this crap? Not a bit of it. Labour are actually INCREASING the number of employees in the press office, now to be called the "Communications and Corporate Affairs Team" - and lets hope the emphasis won't be on "Affairs" lol!
Even though Labour are shaking you down for every penny they can get, Cllr Maria Crompton (who was directly involved in the plot to unlawfully pay Lisa McNally's £100k+ legal costs) commissioned expensive "consultants" to review this shower. As Labour lie and lie and lie about contracting with "local" businesses they appointed Promodo of, er, Durham, to report. Curiously the Promodo report was not before the Labour Cabinet in February and nor has the cost of their Report been disclosed. (I am on the case).
But even though the dog-sh*t scribblers have - as shown above - been doing f all at great public expense. Promodo found that they still weren't doing the job adequately! "The existing arrangements offer only a partial coverage of the range of communication activities required with deficits" in a number of areas, said the experts.
But Kerry "Dim Kez" Carmichael, the new Leader [sic] (currently covering-up racism and much else - often arising from HER previous stint in Cabinet) and Crompton somehow got hold of figures from, yes you guessed it, the Local Government Association, saying that compared to other metropolitan councils, bent Sandwell's press office is under-staffed! There should be as many as 18 people twiddling their thumbs instead of 10! And of course, Labour are desperate to cut the big for. er, two weeks having chucked your money at the pointless Games and want to throw money at extra staff.
Instead of making the existing crew work harder, these Labour muppets decided that this failing department should be increased in size and given more or YOUR! You really couldn't make it up!
The bottom line, as Labour screw you on tax yet again, is that the current budget of £536,900 is to be raised by a colossal, wait for it - wait for it, £305,100. Yes, the "socialists" are cutting services but increasing their propaganda machine to p*ss down your leg and tell you it's raining to a stonking £842,000 a year. This is, quite simply, obscene.
And finally ...
Meanwhile, Labour Councillors are, themselves, unwilling to provide information to the public. Cllr Thabiso Mabena has been given roles as vice-chair of the Licensing Committee and chair of a Licensing sub-committee. These bodies deal, inter alia, with matters relating to taxi licences. What is curious here is that this Labour Councillor is alleged to have applied for a taxi licence himself but then mysteriously withdrew the application. He won't say why and below is my email to him of 31st January, 2022. (Incidentally he is also on two West Midlands Combined Authority Committees.) the question I have been asking this guy is, basically, if you yourself did not think you should receive a Sandwell Taxi Licence is it appropriate for you to be adjudicating on taxi licences for others?
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