With one major exception - which I will deal with below - there is no point in voting for the do-nothing Sandwell Liberal Democrats and their crazed, dictatorial, "leader" Mark Smith. Please read on below the caption ...
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Skiddder Election Coverage - Impolite Public Notice
If you are a Labour Party Official or Candidate my contact details are below.
Since 2013 I have continually exposed corruption, cronyism and incompetence by the Labour Party in Sandwell. Things have got so bad that the Government has had to intervene and put the bent Labour Council into "special measures". YOU will be paying the costs of that.
If, despite the fact that Labour have been systematically f***ing Sandwell for 48 YEARS, you still intend to vote Labour on 5th May you are a thick c*** and I would PREFER it if you don't read this blog (if, in fact, you CAN read) and that you don't engage with me or this blog.
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The Sandwell Lib Dems are like a spring cuckoo. You don't hear or see them all year but a few of them pop up and make a bit of noise just before the May elections. If you were to go back through this blog to 2013 you will see a whole host of exposures on bent Labour's corruption, cronyism and incompetence but I do not recall any support from these jokers whatsoever. Major campaigns have popped up: anti-corruption, Save Londonderry Fields, Save Lion Farm Fields, clean up local cops, make the Council accountable and transparent, depose Eling, sack Jan Britton etc etc. Has Smith and his Party done ANYTHING on any of these matters - NO! There has been no community involvement by them AT ALL. Clearly the national Party thinks this strategy of intense inactivity is wonderful as they let Smith lead his troops into the barbed wire year after year. WTF?
It's actually worse, in that Smith is so rabidly anti-Tory he has deliberately refrained from criticising 48 years of Labour failure and corruption in case it helps the Conservatives! He is not unintelligent but I'm afraid he's a total w*nker and completely out of touch. You could not make it up but he even criticised the Government putting the bent Labour Council into "special measures" even though many of us on the ground - from a wide range of parties and political views - have fought for this for YEARS.
Smith himself is standing in Great Barr and Yew Tree (GBYT) not because he has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but because he wants to stop the Tories taking the seat. He would rather see the useless Labour criminal, Steve Melia, elected than have a hardworking Tory actually try and do something in that ward!
You might think the local leader of a Party with the word "liberal" in its name might be, er, liberal but he rules the local group like a petty tyrant - at least according to a couple of members (one a former member because of Smith). He has control of the Twitter account etc. This is probably why almost EVERY recent tweet is anti-Tory. You would imagine from reading the Twitter feed that Sandwell hasn't been f***** over for 48 years by a LABOUR dictatorship. What a weirdo!
Given one Labour disaster after another in recent times - BT, The Children's Trust, Providence Place, Oracle, Sandwell Leisure Trust, the Cox Review, huge waste on the Commonwealth Games and much, much, more - one might think the Liberals would have been out there on the streets drumming up support and actually trying to shield local people from Labour's corruption. But not a bit of it. Even the 5-year old Twitter account has only 440 followers and a very high percentage of them - 90%+ - are from outside Sadders. There are virtually no locals at all.
Smith managed to scrape together just 10 candidates last May and despite Labour's collapse into "special measures" he has only managed to find 9 this year! How crap is that?
One candidate last year complained bitterly to The Skidder about the despotic Smith. Although most candidates stood as "Liberal Democrats" (which is what they were) Smith mysteriously renamed himself and another candidate as standing for the "Liberal Democrat Focus Team". The other candidate said he had no knowledge of this until it appeared on the Notice of Poll and that he was deeply embarrassed when people were asking him what the "focus team" was, and he had no idea!
A correspondent recently recounted how Smith was moaning about this blog to anyone who would listen. He resented this blog's local readership. Well matey, get off your arse and do a tenth of the work I have done for 9 years and you might find people actually appreciate your efforts! What a twonk ...
As above, such is Smith's contempt for GBYT residents that he wants to try and ensure the crim Melia wins. The guy has been a disaster for the Ward and told the Court recently, when he was cravenly begging for leniency, that his political career was over. Smith will be delighted to foist a thick, ignorant, lazy, criminal scumbag on the ward - one who will earn between £49,308 and £80,000 if local folk are stupid enough to vote for him. You see, crime CAN pay unless you vote for Connor Jones, the Conservative Candidate, and spoil this obscene game.
Voting for this 8 of this lot is a waste of time as none of them has a chance and they have all been completely anonymous until they suddenly want your vote. The one exception is Clive Heywood in Langley Ward.
I have got to spend some time with the footie-mad Clive due to his work with the excellent Save Brandhall Green Space campaign. He is a good bloke - intelligent and VERY hard-working - and not one to take any nonsense from the hapless Smith. I have no doubt he will be an excellent, diligent, Councillor if Langley folk elect him.
Clive will continue the good fight to Save Brandhall from the Labour concrete mixers but he has also pledged to overturn Labour's corrupt deal to destroy Lion Farm Fields too. And he is the ONLY candidate in Langley who will work to save the Fields.
Labour have put up the vile Bill Gavan again (Skidders passim ad nauseum). The pathetic former arse-wiper of the grotesque coward, Tom Watson, Gavan promised to attend a public meeting some years ago to explain the bent Labour deal to local people but p*ssed his pants at the last minute and bottled out. He also attended a memorable public meeting at the Crosswells when Phil Shakespeare was leading a campaign to stop the destruction of the "green corridor" behind Asda. He insulted everyone at the meeting and nearly sparked a riot!
Foul-mouthed Bill was, with the equally odious Cllr Paul Moore, two of the main Labour Councillors responsible for forcing through the destruction of Londonderry Fields.
Gavan is also the **** who joined the Tories online but when they found how they sensibly kicked him out - whereby this creep suddenly decided he was some sort of left-wing firebrand. You couldn't make this up! Do NOT vote for this truly nasty man under ANY circumstances unless you want to be sick over yourself.
Unfortunately, the Conservatives have also shot themselves in the foot with their choice of candidate. For several years - even before they were elected - a core of local Conservatives have, unlike Mark Smith, been unstinting and unswerving in their support for saving Lion farm Fields. People like Cllr Scott Chapman has always given excellent support.
This is all slightly strange since Labour did the deeply corrupt deal to destroy the Fields with property developer, Jeremy Knight Adams - a major donor of the Conservative Party! Nevertheless - and unlike bent Labour - local Conservatives stood firm and upheld the views of the vast majority of locals and others determined to save green spaces from the Labour bulldozers, especially Lion Farm.
The position was complicated with the election of Andy Street as Mayor who dodges questions on the issue whilst acknowledging his relationship with "Jeremy", as he calls Mr Money-Bags. You can judge for yourselves his demeanour on this video from last May's election:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZZc3OSuOI
There are persistent rumours that Street backs Labour's bent deal and that the new Labour "leader", Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael has been elevated to wear the tarnished crown with promises to (a) bury the Cox Review; (b) ensure the destruction of Brandhall, and (c) also complete the corrupt violation of Lion Farm. As we have seen in an earlier post (see legal notice below) she lied twice in public within minutes of becoming Leader and so there is no point in canvassing her views on any of this.
But Andy Street suddenly popped-up in local campaigning literature claiming that he was "continuing" to stand up for Sandwell green spaces, including Lion Farm Fields, and so I wrote to him as follows:
"THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION
"I have been sent some Conservative Party campaigning material. An irate Sandwell Resident referred me to this piece.
"When exactly have you "stood up" for Lion Farm Fields? In my few meetings with you on the subject you have equivocated and mumbled that it is a planning issue etc. Your only positive comment was speculating what "Jeremy" might do - Jeremy being a major Tory donor who wants to destroy the Fields.
"I would remind you that of the Tory Councillors you have left in Sandwell they have all told me to my face that they do NOT support development on Lion Farm Fields.
"If you have undergone a Damascene conversion and now support the retention of this vital green lung then please confirm and we will be happy to welcome your support. If your position remains as before, please confirm that you will destroy all copies left of this grossly misleading campaign material and issue an appropriate correction.
"I am sending a copy of this email to Mr xxxx of the Warley Football League whose pitches your friend "Jeremy" wants to destroy."
This was sent on 3rd March, 2022 and one of his minions promised me a reply. I'm still waiting!
All this is somewhat academic as the Conservatives have selected former Labour Councillor Sharon Davies as their candidate. When she was Labour this non-entity fully supported the plan to wreck this huge green space! I wrote to her about this on 6th April but she too has not answered. I am taking it from that this newly-minted Tory, at least, is still keen on Labour's crazed plan!
Dear Ms Davies,
Re: Lion Farm Fields
THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION
I note that you are the Conservative candidate for Langley in the May elections.
When you were a Labour Councillor you were in favour of the destruction of Lion Farm Fields for a shopping centre. Is that still your position and, if not, why did you change your mind?
So there you are Langley - you can vote for a ghastly Labour sh*t with a penchant for destroying green spaces who tried to join the Tories but was kicked out. Or a cipher who was Labour but HAS joined the Tories yet still wants to buck the local policy and violate the Fields. Or a sensible, good, intelligent bloke - Clive Heywood - who will work tirelessly to save the Fields (and Brandhall) and work tirelessly for the local community too! Come on folks - you know what to do!
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