Bent Sandwell Labour has resurrected the corrupt deal to destroy Lion Farm Fields - as I warned they had before the May elections. But as The Sandwell Scum Counter* shows, there are 8,603 scum in Langley Ward who actively support, or else condone, Labour corruption in the Borough and seemingly don't give a sh*t about losing this vital green space.
I was the first journalist to spot Labour's Lion Farm bent deal and initially brought it to the attention of Sandwell in 2015. This blog has regularly featured the fraud, and so there is no need for me to rehearse the story in detail. A brief outline will suffice.
Jeremy Knight Adams (JKA), a property developer, Tory Party donor and friend of the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street (who constantly refers to him as "Jeremy"), bought property off the son of a former Labour Deputy Leader of the Council. JKA was duly "introduced" to Sandwell with a view to buying a colossal green space - Lion Farm Fields:
From 2012 Sandwell Labour tried to force the deal through and granted JKA a legal Option on the basis he would destroy the Fields and build a "luxury" shopping village on it. The site is NOT in a planning zone which permits development of this type.
Right from the start, some of the Labour Councillors who have featured so heavily in this blog were inevitably involved - notably Simon Hackett and Paul Moore. With their cronies they tried to hide what they were doing by heavily redacting the official minutes of meetings and referring to the fraud as "Junction 2 Regeneration".
As I have repeatedly pointed out, JKA did NOT fulfil his obligations under the agreement but, nevertheless, Sandwell Labour has consistently lied that he did. I took them to an Information Rights Tribunal which cravenly upheld their rights to keep the documentation secret.
The sh*t hit the fan when Cradley Speedway applied to make the site an Asset of Community Value. By now, the Labour "leader" was Steve "Squealing" Eling, who institutionalised corruption in SMBC to a remarkable degree. Eling and his cronies - including the current Leader, Kerrie Carmichael - attempted to polish this turd by purporting to give the bent deal RETROSPECTIVE legality.
Eling re-employed Dr [of Education] Alison Knight as Regeneration Supremo. As I have stated elsewhere, (see Skidders passim and legal notice below) Knight had been a disastrous employee in a first stint in the Rotten Borough. It was widely stated that Knight was a member of that vanishingly small group, "the friends of Pam Pulsford" (aka Mrs Steve Eling) although I am sure that would not have influenced The Squealer in any way.
She was only re-employed about 4 weeks before a rigged Cabinet Meeting and, together with Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore (as above, in this sh*tshow from the beginning), produced a shockingly inaccurate report upon which the Cabinet made its decision (Skidder passim) to continue with the plan to destroy the site. Just by way of ONE example, she and Moore falsely stated in the Report that JKA had purchased adjoining land to facilitate the development when he had not. As I later showed via some solid journalism, the hapless Knight had done little or no work herself on the Report but had obtained all the information she used from, er, Jeremy Knight Adams! Nevertheless, despite Moore and Knight's grossly deceptive Report, and the whole deal being tainted with fraud and illegality, Eling's Cabinet agreed to let JKA's Option continue.
The Labour Councillors who are still on the Council who voted for the bent deal in November, 2017 were:
Kerry Carmichael; Simon Hackett, Paul Moore, Elaine Costigan and Ann Shackleton.
[Incidentally, Knight was eventually forced to re-apply for her job which she didn't get - although she may have received a huge pay-off. She sought revenge on me and gave instructions to Surjit Tour and the other solicitors involved in the McNally conspiracy to f*ck me over in the High Court - more on that soon.]
It is now 2022 and JKA's Option is over a decade old. But at the January Cabinet meeting - after the press and public were kicked out - there was a curious agenda item concerning discussions with "JKA". I have been trying to find out what has been going on. There is a totally unconfirmed rumour that Interim Chief Executive/Government Commissioner Kim Bromley Derry, himself a property developer, has been in personal talks with JKA - which I am sure he will wish to confirm or deny.
BUT - JKA HAS been having cosy chats with the Comrades and now has until December to formulate a plan to destroy the Fields and here's the actual proof:
Needless to say bent Labour are YET again keeping this whole thing secret. Sandwell scum will be the last to know.
Strangely, given that JKA is a Tory Party donor, the local Conservative Councillors have, to their credit, always spoken out AGAINST the development (unlike Andy Street) yet they have not said a word about any of this to me nor, as far as I now, anyone else. Why not?
The anti-development Campaign Group was hijacked by right-wing serial election failure, Pete Durnell, who has also been totally silent on these recent developments.
Hypocrites like Labour Cllrs Rich Jones (the current Mayor) and Ellen Fenton bang on in the next-door ward about the importance of saving green spaces with the full knowledge that their Party is trying to destroy Lion Farm Fields! Not to mention Busted Bostan! And nice to see Tankie Bob Piper brown nosing a Tory donor!
On the day before the election I was down on Lion Farm with my megaphone. I also did a publicly-available video interview with the Liberal candidate in Langley, Clive Heywood, from the actual Fields. We both warned local people that a vote for Labour was a vote to destroy this vital green lung in this heavily urbanised area. But no-one listened.
Bizarrely, Eling and Jan Britton banned the Solicitor investigators who produced the deeply flawed Wragge Report from investigating the bent deal (although Wragge's did mention the possibility of illegality in a short reference to the fraud). Why did Eling and Britton do that?
Dave Thompson, The Chief Constable of West Midlands, who has bent over backwards to protect corrupt Sandwell Labour, also refused an investigation into what has gone on here. He is going soon and so perhaps there is a tiny chance a more independently-minded Top Rozzer will take up this case?
Lion Farm and people of Sandwell who value the ever-shrinking green space - you must now organise and fight this Labour dictatorship with all you have got!
Demonstrations
I have been in communication with West Midlands Police about having a small designated area near to pool at the Commonwealth Games for two demonstrations about (a) Labour's destruction of green space in Sandwell (which, of course, includes the pool site), and (b) the multi-million pound losses Labour are incurring with this handjob event.
There are also people who want to demonstrate at the baton relay and I will be pleased to discuss this with any interested parties. Perhaps the taxi drivers, Brandhall campaigners, other environmental groups and any Lion Farm folk who give a sh*t can join forces?
* The Sandwell Scum Counter:
https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2022/06/sandwells-scum-in-numbers.html
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