In May, the folk of Princes End threw useless Labour self-confessed pothead, Jenny Chidley, off the Council only for the thick morons of Wednesbury South to re-elect her in the October by election! Despite 48 years of Labour disasters in Wednesbury, 8.3% of the sh*thole ward voted for Puffing Jenny, but that was enough for her to win as only 16.33% of the grunting ignorami bothered to vote at all. The Sandwell Scum Counter has been amended accordingly:
https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2022/06/sandwells-scum-in-numbers.html
Puffing Jenny’s first major public outing was a belter. Lest we forget, Cllr Peter “Zorro” Hughes p*ssed on the Remembrance Day commemoration in Wednesbury a few years ago. As this blog revealed, he inappropriately tried to make himself the centre of attention when he dashed forward to lay a wreath before the Tory representative. But the tosspot is still allowed to play a formal role in this solemn occasion!
Now here’s a photo of the recent Remembrance Day. One might think that Chidley has partaken of a couple of spliffs the way she is laughing her head off next to her grinning Councillor comrades. In fact the explanation for her wholly inappropriate behaviour is seemingly that she is simply a stupid moron.
Sources claim that this Labour quartet laid their wreaths but, in a moment of sickening disrespect, picked them up again for this photo “opportunity”. Certainly the photo shows wreaths already laid behind them. I duly wrote to them - Cllrs "Lachrymose" Luke Giles, Zorro, Ian “Horror of Chambers” Chambers (though not Chidley as I was unable to contact her) - on 28th November:
“THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY
I have seen the photo opportunity you embraced on remembrance day when you were in a line with two others.
It is alleged on social media that you had laid your wreaths but then all picked them up again for the photo. Is this true please?
Who paid for your wreaths?”
All three have not replied, but then we know that these smears have absolutely no shame.
McVittie Takes the (Tesco) Biscuit
In a recent post - link below - I explained that Tesco runs a “blue token” scheme in their stores whereby small charities and organisations can get some dosh. The sums are fairly small, but a great help to Girl Guide troops and such like. Astonishingly, multi-million pound taxpayer-funded Sandwell Council stuck in a claim themselves. I can now disclose that bent Labour screwed the supermarket giant for £500!
The Tesco scheme is operated by a charity called Groundwork which describes itself as a “federation” of charities operating under the Groundwork “brand” (WTF? - Ed). When I asked Tesco why they were funding one of the most corrupt Labour Councils in the country they simply passed the buck to Groundwork.
I asked the part of the "Charity" dealing with the Tesco scheme how much it receives from bent Sandwell. They stated in writing that Groundwork UK receive nothing - technically true as "UK" is the national umbrella body but, at best, a disingenuous reply (or at worst, a deliberately deceitful one).
The fact is that this grant application was cooked-up between Cllr McVittie and Groundwork West Midlands of, er, Tipton. (Regular readers will know that The Biscuit is no stranger to highly controversial Sandwell grant applications.) The application was to expand an existing (though very tiny) taxpayer-funded project run by the corrupt Council’s Sandwell Family and Adult Learning section (SAFL) whereby a very small number of “adults and children” grow fruit, vegetables and “herbs”. But I was intrigued that the application specifically referred to “mental health issues” which, of course, is the obsession of a well-known Sandwell employee based in Jack Judge House. Curiously, in a heavily redacted document that address in Oldbury is mentioned. I duly wrote to SMBC:
"If I understand things correctly Groundwork somehow contacted Cllr McVittie. He did not refer this to SAFL but to someone in Jack Judge House - presumably "Healthy Sandwell"/Public Health. A person whose name you redacted then sent the disclosed email to sundry councillors and others (quite why you have redacted details is unclear). Is this the correct position please?"
They replied:
"In response to your follow up question, we can confirm this is the correct position."
Any guesses who at Jack Judge House was also involved in this shakedown?
And Groundwork West Midlands DO get LOTS of dosh from the bent Labour Council - nearly half a million pounds in the last three years as part of the “Go Play” scheme:
2019/2020 - £165,655; 2020/2021 - £157,212; 2021/2022 - £157,212.
No wonder Groundwork want to keep bent Labour happy and encouraged them to screw Tesco via another arm of their own organistation! What an absolute shower but as we know in Sadders - sh*t sticks to blankets.
Cllr McVittie has declined to explain his involvement in this shameful scam.
The Shites of Wednesbury
The deeply unpleasant town of Wednesbury is bedevilled with secretive mafias which control so-called “community” organisations - often with the involvement, somewhere, of the poisonous “Inane” Elaine Costigan. Typically these outfits produce no public accounts so that the “community” they purport to serve is kept in the dark about how much money they raise and spend, and, perhaps more importantly, who the lucky recipients of the spending are.
Once such concern is the reticent Knights of Wednesbury, aka “The Shites”. But there is news. Since July The Shites - run by the ubiquitous Jill Turner with Barry and Donna Martin - are now a registered Charity!
The good news is that The Shites will now have to publish annual accounts. The bad news is that they will no doubt apply for grants all over the shop - including from us taxpayers via the likes of the bent Labour Council - but, alas, the money will be long spent by the time the accounts are published. Definitely one to watch!
The Lights Are On - But Nobody’s In!
When Covid struck, bent Labour claimed that the “team” of employees had changed the habits of a lifetime and were pulling out all the stops to serve the people of the benighted Borough. As this blog revealed, however, there was actually an outbreak of mass absenteeism.
I am told that many employees are still “working” from home. It is not clear if that includes the one who allegedly spent the pandemic servicing a Labour Cllr in comfortable surroundings.
Following on from staff cocaine use (the Police have some names) a new problem has arisen with the unions describing staff succumbing to serious gambling addiction. I assume that gambling is not normally allowed when people actually turn up at work, and so the question arises whether the devil is making work for idle hands at home. But the unions say the problem is now so serious that us taxpayers will now have to pay for Council schemes to help these well-paid addicts! You couldn't make it up.
But it is obvious from any visit to Oldbury Council House (OCH) that the place is semi-deserted even in the daytime. This after bent Labour has just spent millions refurbing The Kremlin!
There are stories of much long-term sick leave (and further details will be very welcome) especially in “procurement” - and it is well-known that the corruption surrounding the award of the SEND contract mysteriously led to a wave of long-term illness.
One person “S” (first name) is said to have been absent for months and “M” (first name) for a whole year. Meanwhile sources claim that Kim Bromley-Derry is signing-off payments for individual fairly low-level agency workers at £500 a day. (Kim Kerching himself is "only" on £1,200 a day plus expenses.)
Meanwhile, instead of getting rid of some of this dead wood, Local Authority workers have been given a pay rise of £1,925 a year … pass the sick bag Alice!
On top of extra staff costs the Council faces soaring energy costs although you would never guess this if you go past OCH in the evening. Here is the Marie Celeste at 18.39 on 12th October:
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And again on 16th November at 18.58, OCH seemingly in competition with Blackpool Illuminations:
Still, what does it matter to this “green” (my arse) Labour Council where Leader [sic] Kerrie “Dim Kez” Carmichael can just dream up a new charge to shaft dimwitted locals with? Labour have increased rents, garage rents, Council Tax (in the highest increase in the Country) and have now hiked parking charges exponentially whilst introducing a £35 green waste charge. But this is what Sandwell dross want so suck it up, losers!
And Finally - where are the figures Kez?
Remember by interview with Dim Kez, aka “Imogen”, on 25th July when "the Leader" hadn’t got a clue how much Labour had thrown at the Commonwealth Games and the Aquatic Centre (aka “The Scrotum”)? It’s now December and she has still not presented the figures. Where are they Kez?
