Flower Power for Foul-Mouthed Rollins
The rules are that employees of bent Labour Sandwell Council must not put out Labour propaganda themselves but leave that job to the £852k per annum "press office". Which makes it strange that potty-mouthed (yes, I know - pot/kettle) Cabinet Member (ROFLMAO 1) Laura Rollins should have allowed an employee at Sandwell Valley to run a propaganda piece for the "rich Jewish trendsetter in a former life" (Skidders passim and see legal notice below). [Note that this was an offensive antisemitic trope written on Twitter when Rollins was hunting for "rich" Jewish boys to meet. She is not Jewish.]
Of course, Sandwell folk like to parade how thick they are, and so what could possibly go wrong when lamprey-hating Laura posed for her promotional plug on social media? A person purporting to be a member of Sandwell Valley staff put up a picture of herself and Rollins in a sunflower field. In an astonishingly illiterate puff piece the employee used the word "you" twice in succession whilst also describing the sunflowers being at "there" best. The horrors continued as the dimwitted author excitedly advertised that, "Counciler Rollins has been to visit today to fined her perfect flower"! WTF?
I wrote to Rollins asking if the staff member was an employee of the bent Borough. Also, whether she and the employee (if she be such) were aware of the rules and, if so, why they were broken? Further, was the employee also the author of the illiterate piece, and is the particular social media site operated by the corrupt Council? She has not responded.
It is "somewhat ironic" that Rollins should choose to promote herself in the lovely green space that is Sandwell Valley given that just a few weeks ago (20th July) she was one of nine Labour Councillors who voted to destroy a large part of Brandhall Green Space! She is not just extremely unpleasant but a xxxxxxx hypocrite too!
AECOM
I couldn't help noting that the Brandhall Report was prepared by AECOM - a very expensive firm of consultants. Whilst they do have an office in Birmingham they are an American Company hitherto based in California. How come skint Sadders went for such a costly "Rolls Royce" firm especially when they are hoping to make lots of cash from building on the former golf course? I think we should be told don't you readers?
AECOM did significant work for Cannock Chase District Council including a "strategic environmental report for the Hednesford Local Plan" in 2017. The "Managing Director" at Cannock at the time was Tony McGovern - now Director of Regeneration and Growth in Sadders since September, 2021 and tasked with destroying Brandhall and Lion Farm. How nice that he can become acquainted with old friends again. (Incidentally, McGovern was also in charge when Cannock built a huge "luxury shopping village" just a few miles from Lion Farm! Strange but true.)
You may or may not be aware that many firms are escaping "leftie" California for gun-toting, anti-abortion Texas. There is a rush of companies moving to the ultra right-wing Lone Star State which levies no personal income tax and has a "business-friendly" outlook. Happily, for a firm undertaking strategic environmental reports, Texas offers far less, er, environmental regulations to encumber AECOM than The Golden State. I'm sure this news brings much joy to Citizen Piper and Co.
Brandhall - great work but a touch of nimbyism?
One of the major faults of Sandwell is its parochialism. The bourgeois Berghaus bolshies of North Harborne (aka Bearwood) are as alien to the folk of Tipton as Martians. I am delighted to say that since this blog started, some folk have got up off their knees and campaigned hard on local issues - sometimes with success- against the corrupt Labour Dictatorship. But it is very difficult to get genuine cross-Borough campaigns going and this allows bent Labour to pick off groups one by one.
People like Ian Carroll (The Gooseman) have highlighted environmental degradation and the destruction of wildlife right across Sandwell for many years. Many others work tirelessly to polish the Sandwell turd. But these toilers seldom get the support they deserve for their amazing work.
Others, including myself, have tried to point out that what little green space is left in Sadders - outside The Valley and Warley Woods - should be precious to ALL locals given the urban dystopia they live in (not to mention climate change). I have advocated that Labour's policy of attacking one green space at a time should be contested Borough-wide and not just by neighbouring residents. Like Nato - an attack on one is an attack on all. Tory Councillors like Jay Anandou and Scott Chapman get this, as does 2002 Liberal Candidate, Clive Heywood, but, unfortunately, many don't.
Labour destroyed Londonderry Fields. Labour then turned on Brandhall and, via Labour Cllrs Costigan, Hughes and Luke Giles, Goldicroft Park. Lion Farm is next in line after Brandhall.
(Sickeningly, when a campaign is successful there is usually a mass outbreak of c***-sucking with locals falling on their knees to pleasure the same Labour Councillors who tried to f*** them over in the first place! Take, for example, the Walker Grange and Goldicroft campaigners for their shocking displays of gratitude and obeisance.)
The Brandhall Campaigners have been tremendous in many ways and have just won a short stay of execution for their important green lung. They have bent Labour running scared but face the same difficulties as other groups. The Dictatorship has got away with murder in recent years in the full knowledge that after 48 years of Labour stewardship, Sadders people are poverty-stricken, uneducated and morally weak. Labour fear legal challenges but no-one has the money to take them on (except me - via borrowing - in the McNally case). Other campaigning groups around the country trying to save green belt etc. are constantly fundraising to pay for legal help but this just doesn't happen in Sadders. In their plans [sic] to destroy both Brandhall and Lion Farm Fields bent Labour have actually mentioned their fear of Judicial Review proceedings being brought against them (for different reasons) but they gamble that no one can afford to challenge them.
We saw in the Sandwell Scum Counter* that only 14.9% of local morons voted Labour in May but the Comrades crow that they have a clear democratic mandate to impose their brutal will - even where, as in Brandhall, a mere 83% of those responding to the consultation OPPOSED Labour's planned destruction of the lovely green space.
Unfortunately, this does not, of itself, mean much IF Labour Councillors and the bent paid service do not try to corrupt due process (as they have done with Lion Farm). I am no expert on judicial review but JR is not about the decision per se but how the decision was made. Was it made lawfully and reasonably? In the past no-one has cared and so bent deals went unchallenged. But sooner or later the corrupt Council will have to be taken on - and given the corrupt paid service's penchant for failing to keep records, destroying documents and using the likes of WhatsApp to keep conversations secret they will have difficulty putting one over on a High Court Judge (though they are prepared to simply lie and give false evidence as we have seen in at least three cases to date).
At the end of the day campaigners have to show, inter alia, that evidence used to support a decision was wrong, misinterpreted or incomplete.
It is a testament to the tenacity of the Brandhall Group that they have forced further scrutiny of the Cabinet decision. It is quite incredible that a joke like Labour's Peter "Zorro" Hughes should be in charge of all this in the first place, and should sit at a Cabinet meeting trying to be "statesmanlike" (ROFLMAO 2) and pretending that Labour had been diligent in exploring a range of options before wielding the axe on a large part of Brandhall. Just 4 weeks later this pompous prat told Local Democracy Reporter Rhi Storer that a significant part of the b*llocks he spouted on 20th July may, indeed have been just that!
The puffball claimed that further investigation (remember since 20th July!) indicated that "the information available to Cabinet in making the decision to approve may have been incomplete". WTF? This is a MAJOR decision. The bent Labour Council is now being run at huge expense by Government Commissioners and so how on earth could the original report to Cabinet have been allowed to be presented in the first place? The "Lead Commissioner" is a property developer and understands these things so that he should surely have raised concerns?
But all this alleged "scrutiny" has been started by a Labour Councillor. Is this simply a ruse to try to head off a possible JR claim? Is this a scam so that the Comrades can say, "Oh yes, we double-checked everything!" We shall see. But the political will is to destroy a large part of the site and we have seen for years in this blog that bent Labour always prevail.
It was also interesting, in a car-crash sort of way, that when Labour tried to shaft Brandhall at the Cabinet meeting they mentioned "the new Friends Group". Some of us were confused whether they were referring to the existing campaign Group or, perhaps more typically, a brand new Labour front-organisation stuffed with Councillors and cronies a la Brunswick Park, Goldicroft etc.? Frightening if the latter!
In the course of screwing Brandhall, Labour also maintained that - contrary to the views of WM Mayor, Andy Street - there are NOT enough brownfield sites in Sadders to meet housing needs. The clear implication was that Labour has its eyes on MORE green spaces for destruction. [Incidentally, most places with (alleged) space constraints build upwards. No-one wants a return to the worst excesses of high-rise development but there is an argument for homes in taller buildings - with good architecture and proper planning - as many cities worldwide are showing.]
When I interviewed Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael, a Cabinet member in Squealing Eling's deeply corrupt regime and an enthusiast for destroying Lion Farm -
https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-dim-kez-interview-demos-cllr-rizwan.html
- I asked her whether it is better for her bent Council to blow millions on The Games or on food and housing. She replied:
Dim Kez: Honestly people who need houses will be allocated houses when we have them available but we haven’t got the land to build that many houses on (laughing).
There you have it again folks - another direct hint that more green space will be destroyed by Labour ha ha ha!
(She refused to answer a question previously raised by Conservative Wunderkind Cllr Will(iam) Gill about the large number of Sandwell Council houses standing empty at any one time.)
Alas, during the Games I was trying to organise a small peaceful demonstration near the Games Pool. Ian Carroll was up for it but only very few others were. People living in the Londonderry area - many of whom were apathetic about the destruction of their Fields in the first place - were totally indifferent again. Other Sandwell campaigners couldn't be arsed.
Most astonishing was the reaction from the Brandhall Group who barred me from putting a notice on their Group site about the demo. The Group hierarchy decided that individual members should not have the freedom of choice to decide for themselves whether they personally wished to demonstrate against the wider environmental and wildlife issues locally and the very corruption which the Brandhall Campaign has been on the receiving end of itself!
I was told by Group members that the leaders did not want members to be associated with a demo "at such a prestigious event"! WTF???? The prestigious event was on (Labour-destroyed) green space - which they claim to be fighting to save but only, it seems, in their manor. Not in MY backyard but f*** Londonderry and other green spaces in Sadders? I hope not. And why does bent Labour seek to build 190 houses to pay for the new school at Brandhall - because it has just sp***** millions up the wall on, er, "the prestigious event" some Brandhall residents are w*nking about. You couldn't make it up.
Solidarity Sandwell! Solidarity!
Lion Farm
On the same theme I recently put out an urgent message about Labour moving again on the destruction of 19ha of Green Space at Lion Farm Fields:
https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2022/07/major-breaking-news-bent-lion-farm-deal.html
The silence has been deafening.
The Scum Counter for Langley ward (May, 2022) is 8,603* and so we can probably assume locals want to see the Fields go. But, if that is not the case, they need to mobilise now! The current "Managing Director Commissioner", Kim Bromley Derry, is a property developer (and is said - though this is only rumour and unconfirmed - to have held direct talks with Andy Street's pal, Jeremy Knight Adams - the multimillionaire seeking to make big bucks from the rape of the Fields). WAKE UP LION FARM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
[Incidentally, I am being told that I cannot drive at more than 60 mph through Sh*thole Sandwell on the motorways because of "air quality issues" so perhaps having a large green lung close to the M5 might be a good thing. Somewhere like Lion Farm Fields perhaps?]
Coyne Road residents shafted!
You have to laugh at Sandwell folk. The Sandwell Scum Counter (May, 2022) for Greets Green and Lyng ward is 8,526*. These people support or condone Labour corruption but have suddenly started whining about Labour shafting then by dumping what is, in effect, a homeless hostel in their road at Manifoldia Grange. Cllrs Pam "Sh*t-scared" Randhawa, John "Godfather of Greed" Giles and the ever-useless Jackie "Jac of No Trades" Taylor let the corrupt Council fire ahead in their ward, with local residents only being informed of the "plan" by "short notice" letter on 15th July.!
You wanted bent Labour Coyne Road - you've got 'em, and you can't say you didn't know what they are like!
Have Your Say - Sign This Petition
This blog has shown time and again how useless some of the Sandwell Councillors are - notably the Labour sheep who occasionally waddle in to the odd meeting and vote as they are told. Many do little or no casework other than simply forwarding emails to the corrupt paid service to do the donkey work.
There are THREE councillors for each of the 24 wards of Sadders and this should be reduced to two - especially now that an extra tier of local government has been forced on local people i.e. the West Midlands Combined Authority.
IF YOU LIVE IN SANDWELL please sign this petition to get a leaner, cheaper, and more accountable bunch of Councillors:
https://www.change.org/p/reduce-sandwell-council-from-72-to-48-seats
Please tell your friends about it too!
What happened to the Glamping?
Bent Sandwell Labour kidded folk that so many people would require overnight accommodation during the Games that they were considering introducing glamping (posh camping) sites around the dog sh*t-smeared Borough.
Of course, and as predicted here, even the competitors - let alone visitors - didn't want to stay in the ars*hole of the West Midlands, and everyone stayed in Brum.
Back in 2020 I forecast that the only tents appearing around Sandwell would be these:
* https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2022/06/sandwells-scum-in-numbers.html
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