From Tesco to the Ukraine - it's all in The Skidder!

Tesco Back Bent Sandwell Labour!

Remember the other week when the "leader" of Bent Labour Sandwell Council, Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael, hadn't got a clue on the multi-millions of our money she and her comrades sp*nked up the wall on the Commonwealth Games?

With a 35% child poverty rate in Tipton, rampant deprivation issues after 48 years of Labour, and a Borough riddled with crime, Dim Kez thought your money was better spent on a few days of swimming'n'diving. Incredibly the "socialist" scum have now gone to Tesco - yes, Tesco - to cadge some money off them, having shafted the taxpayer for multimillions!

Some readers may not shop in Tesco but they have a scheme to help local charities and non-profits. Often these are very small groups - local play groups, Scout troops etc. The cashier dispenses a blue token and one gets to choose between three local charities requiring funding. Astonishingly, bent Labour Council has tried to elbow the little groups out and grab money from the supermarket for itself -  a body run by a large, corrupt, taxpayer-funded bureaucracy packed with Labour cronies.

Here is a photo from local Community Activist, Darryl Magher, taken in the New Square, West Bromwich superstore:

Addendum 13.09.22 - A correspondent has also sent pictures showing that this arrangement is also in the Tesco store at Stone Cross.

Carmichael has taken the slot of local, small, fund-raising groups and set up the bent Council in competition against Sandwell Litter Watch (ironically, itself a Labour front organisation) and Action for Children.

Tesco seems to have been only too willing to support Labour corruption in Sandwell. The corrupt wifebeater, Darren Cooper, was given suitable plaudits at the opening of Tesco, New Square for the "help" Labour gave to the shopping centre development. The supermarket also proved that Every Little Helps by surrendering the small plot of land for Jim Cadman's pathetic "Three Degrees" statue - another bent Labour deal.

But the press office of the supermarket giant came over all shy when I asked them why they are overlooking small charities and groups via this scheme in favour of one of the most corrupt councils in the Country - one that was placed in "special measures" by the Government just a few months ago? They passed the buck to their "charity partner" in this sh*tshow, Groundwork UK.

Now Groundwork locally have had banners up at various Sandwell events which I have seen with my own eyes and so I asked them if they had themselves received funding from SMBC. They deny this but in a very suspicious and legalistic way, saying that Groundwork is a "federated" charity and that the national charity doesn't receive SMBC funds.

So back I went asking them about their relationship with Go Play which does receive funds from bent Labour Sandwell. They have failed to respond and so, incredibly, I have had to put a Freedom of Information Request about this:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tesco_blue_token_scheme_sow_and

For the record, Go Play say they are funded by SMBC but describe themselves as "the Go Play team at Groundwork West Midlands". I am sure Groundwork told Tesco the correct position before shaking them down for the deeply corrupt Council. 

Tesco needs to fess up about what has gone on here and ensure that only genuine small organisations and charities get funding via their scheme, not deeply corrupt councils where folk are already paying though the nose for services via tax, rent etc.  If they have given money to Dim Kez and Co., the Skidder will be happy to suggest a deserving cause in Sadders to whom they should pay an equivalent amount. Any suggestions folks if there IS a group in Sadders not controlled by "the Party"?

SCIPS

Staying on the grasping charity theme, I am doing some research into SCIPS given their overt political stance in Sadders and any information about what they actually do, and how this is actually "charitable", will be welcome.

SCIPS claim to be "the leading voice for Sandwell's tenant movement" but I have been told - to my total amazement - that they don't actually do casework for the many tenants having problems in the sh*thole Borough. Instead, they are yet another w*nk outfit which does no direct work for tenants at all.

It is said by many that SCIPS is just another Sandwell Labour front organisation and it is noteworthy that it has refused to condemn the appalling bullying of Council, er, tenants by Labour - threatening complainants with eviction. A rather odd stance from a charitable "voice of the tenants". I wrote to them about this but despite their ample funding and jobs for the boys and girls they have failed to respond.

Cllr Rizwan Jalil "Anti-Drugs Campaigner" - Who Knew?

In a Skidder exclusive, Labour Cllr Rizwan Jalil has revealed that he and Surjit Tour, bent Labour Sandwell Council's highly controversial Monitoring Officer, have purported to use legal powers to conceal his address and business interests - and those of his wife Cllr Aqeela Choudhry - because he claims he is a major anti-drugs campaigner in Sandwell. His hitherto well-concealed "war on drugs" has, he says, brought him to the attention of "drug-dealers in Tividale" who wish him serious harm. Apparently Sandwell Police are fully au fait with "the situation". 

I have spoken to a couple of senior figures in the Muslim Community who are also completely unaware of Cllr Jalil's unstinting community work on drugs, especially one who expressed surprise and opined that, "he's like a child". Curiously, another informant told me that Jalil has been upsetting two (named) persons in Tividale/Tipton who are said to be drug dealers and who have also been very closely involved in, er, Sandwell Labour politics! How's that? And yes, the local Police are aware of the allegations against this pair, although they are seemingly immune from prosecution.

Children need protecting and we must all work to safeguard this young man and woman and help with his great work of clearing the streets of the scourge of drugs, especially as elements within Sandwell Police seem so keen to actually facilitate the evil trade (at least for certain "friends"). Perhaps the good Cllr would also be on safer ground exposing the Class A drug habits of certain influential members of the Council's own bent paid service instead.

ITMA! Jalil slams Commissioners!

Labour were running Sandwell so badly the Government had to put the bent Council into special measures and appoint Commissioners to run the sh*tshow at huge cost to local morons.

When the Government asked for representations whether Sandwell should be placed on the naughty step or not, bent Labour simply had no response. They knew they had finally been caught with their pants down. They made no attempt to contest the Intervention and simply sent the Government a pathetic - wait for it, wait for it - SEVEN PARAGRAPH LETTER claiming that despite f***** everything up they had an "Improvement Plan" in place. In a bravura example of arse-licking, corrupt Sandwell Labour told the Government how much they were looking forward to the Tories helping them on their "improvement journey"!!!! Indeed, in just 7 paragraphs they used the words "improvement journey" a toe-curling FIVE times.

And in public Council meetings Labour expressed no shame for their appalling conduct but "accepted" the Intervention and promised to "move forward". Aside from one comment from the Wednesbury weeper, Cllr Luke "Wet Pants" Giles,  bent Labour quickly had the white flag flying above OCH.

Alas there is one dissenting voice in the Labour camp - yes, that of the Anti-Drug Czar himself, who has put in writing that the whole thing is a put-up job by the Tories to distract from what he perceives as their failings, and nothing at all to do with Labour's well-documented disasters! He does not accept the shocking findings of the bent Council's external auditors and, unlike his comrades, doesn't see the need for an "Improvement Plan" either.

Is it right that Jalil is bucking the Labour Party line with this meretricious nonsense - and in writing too? So much for Party discipline ...

Mystic Bob

Judging by his social media output Cllr Bob "Seig Heil" Piper's visceral hatred of the State of Israel is matched only by his great affection for the former - communist - Soviet Union. He was unconcerned when his Russian pals invaded the Donbas (Eastern Ukraine) in 2014. Indeed he made the truly astonishing statement (even by his "standards") that Putin sending people across the border to kill Ukranians was, er, "nothing to do with Ukraine" but a "currency war". Apparently it was all the fault of the Yanks since they wanted to "destroy the rouble", which was "posing a threat" to the Dollar.

Russia has occupied parts of the Donbas ever since and, of course, also seized Crimea under force of arms. Piper informed us that this was simply because Putin and Co, "wanted" a warm-water port. Oh, so that's alright then!

Happily Mystic Bob was able to forecast on behalf of his Russian pals, "I doubt there's any possibility at all of war beyond the skirmishes in East Ukraine."

Severn Trent & The Commonwealth Games

Our old friend Ian Carroll (aka The Gooseman) pointed out to those who could be arsed to listen during the ruinously expensive "Games" that the z-list competition had "partnered" with polluters Severn Trent to help greenwash the circus. This was outrageous given Severn Trent's appalling environmental record, especially in Sadders.

The Gooseman and friends distributed a number of leaflets around Sadders during the (no)jam-boree, but if you didn't get one - here you go: 

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