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Wednesday 29 March 2023

BREAKING RUMOUR - Bent Sandwell Labour Council Buys Union Official's House! (And More!)

The sickeningly close relationship between deeply-corrupt Sandwell Labour Council (aka "Sadders") and various trade unions appears to have taken a new twist as the Council appears to have bought the house of Sandwell Council employee and Unite the Union rep, Matt Law! You will be glad to know that YOU pay for Law's full-time union work at SMBC via Facility Time.

Thanks, as ever, for the tip from an informant. Having just returned from holiday I have undertaken a search at HM Land Registry which indeed shows that bent Labour bought the employee/Union rep's house for a stated figure of £188,000 on 29th June, 2022. As Law was on the electoral register there until 2021 it appears that the purchase was direct from him.

If this is true, it's very nice to see the Government Commissioners - currently supposed to be in charge of the corrupt Council - making sure that "the Labour family" continues to look after its own!

Addendum - it appears that Law and another may have bought the house via "Right to Buy" as there was an agreement of 2020 between SMBC & Law (and another). Then it appears SMBC has kindly bought the house back two years later.

Rollins loses voice

While local morons live in a poverty ghetto the exodus of Labour Councillors seemingly continues. Let's face it - who would want to live in the Labour sh*thole bar people who can't get out to somewhere more pleasant?

Former Labour leader "Red" Yvonne Davies (currently suspended by the Labour Party for allegedly antisemitic tweets) shuffled off to her near half-million pound Herefordshire dacha whilst still a Councillor. A hearty advocate for the destruction of the lovely green space at the former Brandhall Golf Course she has bought a home (pictured) so surrounded by extensive woodland it is difficult to actually see it. Alright for some!

On a brighter note the poisonous Cllr "Inane" Elaine Costigan has moved out of ghastly Wednesbury to the Staffordshire countryside where she flaunts her enjoyment of her son's wealth. That's one of the vilest Councillors on the way out, but there are still plenty left ...

Now mystery surrounds the current residence of West Brom Central Councillor, Laura (F*ck the Lamprey") Rollins (not suspended by the Labour Party despite what were widely perceived as antisemitic tweets!) Several sources say La Rollins (pictured left with a laughing Cllr Elizabeth Giles at, er, a Remembrance Day event) has sensibly got away from the Labour cesspit whilst continuing to preach to local scum how fortunate they are to live in the Labour paradise lol!

It is said that Rollins is running the social media output for the Sandwell Labour Dictatorship but, whether this is true or not, she appears to have lost her ability to communicate in other ways. Here's an email I sent to her on 16th February, 2023:

THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY

I am informed by a number of sources that you moved out of Sandwell some time ago. Is this true and, if so, when did you move?

Having not received the courtesy of a reply I put the question to Rollins outside Oldbury Council House last night. As you will see from this 17 second short video she declined to answer! Why?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GtMu8II4X-I

Coombe Ride With Me

Darryl Magher has been an indefatigable community activist in Sandwell and does heaps of work which often goes largely unrecognised. Whilst I do not share some of his general political views (and vice versa) we seldom disagree on local issues, but the topic of the 45 bus is one such.

Many of you will know that Diamond Buses plan to axe the 45 bus service from Walsall to West Brom which also serves the Yew Tree. Darryl has been campaigning hard - including detailed correspondence with Diamond - to save the service.

The Sandwell Skidder Scum Counter* shows there are 8,455 morons in the midden that is Great Barr with Yew Tree ward who prefer to accept the appalling status quo and continue to support local Labour corruption. These people don't want to do anything to improve their communities or improve things for future generations and so why should their miasma of misery be spread around the Borough via Diamond buses? Last year local scum decided they preferred to be represented by a useless, ineffective criminal, Melia. These are not "normal" people and should be shunned and isolated from the rest of wo/mankind. As it is, and despite 49 years of Labour control, the local residents haven't got a pot to p*ss in, and can't even scrape together bus fares to pay for travel. Diamond is not a charity and can't be expected to ferry the economically-inactive around whilst losing money themselves.

On the same subject anyone local who uses social media will have noticed that in lots of Labour propaganda photos there is someone up from London called Sarah Coombes. She is a hotshot lawyer in the Capital who, inter alia, advertises that she works with the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (another Labour politician who has done much to wreck the transport system on his manor!) What is this clearly intelligent person doing rubbing shoulders with shoulders with retards in local Labour?

It is said that she is - still unofficially - the next Labour parliamentary candidate for one of the West Brom seats which may explain why this person from 110 miles away started a petition to, er, save the 45 bus! WTF? Does she even know where the Yew Tree is?

It seems that she is being pushed as a candidate by the odious GMB Union - one of whose officers was alleged to have raped a female Labour MP!

At the last election the absurd Gammon, Jeremy Corbyn, parachuted the hapless Ibrahim "Bogus" Dogus (pictured with Red Yvonne) into the contest for West Bromwich East which the money-smuggler and sleazebag duly lost. Labour better hope that lightning doesn't strike twice lol!

Clearly Labour can't find a local candidate with enough brain cells to fight West Brom seats. But then Skidder readers will already know that!

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Friday 10 March 2023

SKIDDER NEWSFLASH - Lion Farm/Stone Cross Fraud Latest

The other day, thanks to an informant, I established that at precisely the same time Labour Sandwell Council were agreeing a bizarre and bent deal with a property developer, Jeremy Knight Adams, for him to get the sole rights to destroy the massive green space at Lion Farm Fields, the corrupt Council was also flogging him the old Stone Cross Neighbourhood Office.

My recent post is a very important read. The contents have been forwarded to the Government Commissioners currently running Sandwell because of Labour's multitude of failures, and to West Midlands Police:

https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2023/03/breaking-news-bent-sandwell-labours.html

The Commissioners have yet to furnish me with details of the Stone Cross deal, but I have seen a couple of documents which I will describe below.

It is important to note that there is a pattern (what old lawyers called “badges of fraud”) in the dodgy transfers the likes of Cllrs Eling, Hussain, Hackett and Moore were pushing through the Council at this period (although they apparently deny any wrongdoing - on the Lion Farm Fraud and Rouf/Hussain related transactions anyway). I will give each issue an “number”.

Firstly, the public was excluded from the meeting (1). Secondly, the details of the transaction were heavily redacted (and, in the case of Labour’s bent Lion Farm deal, deliberately concealed by a misleading description of the site) (2). Thirdly, the deals were to be done with only one interested party - all others having been excluded for no good reason - or there were other alleged "bidders" who were, in fact, connected with the eventual purchaser. (3). Fourthly, the land was to be sold either at an undervalue (which is usually unlawful for a Council unless certain special exemptions apply) or, alternatively, there was to be a rigged sealed bid process overseen by the former (and later disgraced) Head of Regeneration, Nick Bubalo (4). Fifthly, the deal was to be tied up legally by Bubalo and Neeraj Sharma - the Head of Legal (also later disgraced) (5).

And what do we have here? The Asset Management and Land Disposal Committee met on 20th June, 2012 - at the same time Labour twisters were trying to screw Lion Farm. Ex-Cllr Hussain was chairing, Cllrs Squealing Eling, Corrupt Liar Simon Hackett, Ian Jones (later subjected to a vicious vendetta by Eling and others), and Derek Rowley (the disgraced former Mayor involved in a scandal selling SMBC-owned portakabins - and other issues).

The public were excluded from the meeting (1).

The bent Labour Council had already done a private deal with Jeremy Knight Adams via a Company wholly owned by him and his wife. It APPEARS that the site was NOT advertised to the world at large but only to other departments of the corrupt Council! WTF? The details were redacted so that the public were unaware that Shite Adams was involved (2):

The scum running this bent deal then tried to give a cloak of legality to a bent deal with a favoured third party. They hint that the site may be sold at an undervalue (3):

The deal was left to be tied up by Bubalo (4) and then signed off by him and Sharma (5). This is straight out of the bent Labour Sandwell playbook!

On 11th July, 2012 the Cabinet received the minutes from the Land Disposal Committee and went into private session. The Cabinet had, by then, agreed the bent Lion Farm deal with Shite Adams. This time those present were Cllrs Cooper (the now deceased wife-beater), Badham, “Sp*nk Brother” Eling, Hussain, Ian Jones, Hackett and Moore (the latter having played a large part in the proposal for Adams to destroy Lion Farm Fields).

Almost immediately, Shite Adams applied for planning permission to demolish the old Council building although he used a different Company name on that application, Hampton Properties, rather than the one used in the actual site purchase. Clever that!

I am sure there is plenty more to come on this one but I am calling on the Conservative MP’s and Councillors as a matter of urgency to ensure that this matter is properly investigated, this time around, by the Bent Blues.

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Wednesday 8 March 2023

Corbyn Mega-Rimmer, Piper, Shafts "The Poor" - and more ...

I have said it before, but I will say it again. Since becoming involved in Sandwell Council I have met some of the vilest people I have ever met in my 64 years. Cooper, Eling, Moore, Gavan, Hackett, and Billa immediately spring to mind to name just a few plus, of course, Cllr Bob "Seig Heil" Piper (the soubriquet arising from the time when he was Chair of the Licensing Committee but walked into a crowded pub and shouted "Seig Heil" whilst giving a "Nazi" salute).

What is particularly nasty about the wealthy Piper is his snide way of going about things. He cannot walk past me, for example, without making a dig about my weight (except he has never tried it when he has bumped into me in pubs - I wonder why not?) Like most cowards he is a stab-in-the-back merchant.

This moron sees himself as some sort of intellectual and a fully paid-up member of the Brahmin Left, like many of the other pathetic Bullsh*tting, Bourgeois, Berghaus Bolshies in Harborne North (aka Bearwood). The fact is that he is incapable of critical thinking as he is a slavish adherent of every crackpot leftist/Marxist/socialist ideology or concept going. Small wonder then that he was one of the biggest local rimmers of the imbecilic, Jerry "Jeremy" Corbyn. Every utterance of the dimwitted Islington Gammon had Piper ejaculating with, er, delight! This, I'm afraid, shows the "smallness" of the man.

Sh*thole Sandwell is the fourth poorest area in the Country after FORTY-NINE years of Labour dictatorship. This Smear has been a Councillor since 1999 (WTF? - Ed) - going on for 24 years of shocking Sandwell decay and decline. In that period bent Sandwell Labour has become synonymous with corruption, cronyism and incompetence - such that the benighted Borough (including ghastly Bearwood) has been placed into Government Special Measures - at a cost to us taxpayers of at least £2 million. Did Piper speak out at any time about what was going on. No Bearwood, he did not.

If this is not all worrying enough, it is said that Piper, as Deputy Leader, is effectively running the Council as "Leader" Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael is so thick (and, as we have seen in this blog, a liar to boot - Skidders passim and see legal notice below).

Time and time again this blog and the likes of local community activist, Darryl Magher, have warned Sandwell that local Labour Councillors are too venal and vacuous to even read Council papers, let alone to understand them. I am indebted to Darryl - who was at the actual meeting - and to "Sandwell Corruption" (Twitter: @CorruptSandwell and on Facebook, YouTube etc.) for bringing this to my attention.

On the agenda at the February Cabinet meeting was an item about the 2023-24 Local Welfare Provision (LWP). As Labour have spent nearly half a century grinding Sandwell into the ground so the need to grab money from workers to pay for those forced into grinding poverty. The LWP is a scheme to tax money from workers and to provide "vulnerable residents" with subsistence and financial support. As these discretionary payments are not made by Labour Councillors themselves the Sandwell scheme offered LWP payments even where applicants had savings of £16,000.

I am afraid you simply have to see the video placed on YouTube by Sandwell Corruption where it is plain for all to see that the idiotic Piper thought he was INCREASING the savings threshold but, alas, neither he nor Dim Kez had bothered to read the Council's own reports on this. The incompetent Bearwood buffoon thought that there was a mistake in the papers and sought help from the Head of Finance, Simone Hines. In fact, to the astonishment of Bob and Dim Kez THEY were reducing the savings threshold to £3,000 and thus shafting anyone with savings between £3 - £16k. They did not know THEIR own policy lol! On one hand this is comedy gold, but on the other hand it is sickening that Labour are shafting the very people they "claim" to care about. Here's the Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoT5rSeeKR4&t=5s

If he was capable of articulating a comprehensible statement I wonder what "Jeremy" would say!

Again, we have warned you not just about corruption but the sheer incompetence of these venomous halfwits!

Death and Taxes

As I have pointed out previously, Sandwell folk may live in a sh*thole Labour poverty ghetto but at least they have the consolation (!? - Ed) that their life expectancy is poorer than most places and so they are statistically likelier to depart the hellhole sooner than people living outside it.

Male life expectancy (from bent Sandwell's own figures) is 76.9 years against 78.9 years for the West Mids and a stonking 79.8 years nationally.

Women's life expectancy is 81.1 in the sh*thole compared with 82.7 years regionally and 83.2 years nationally.

The downside of this good (!? - Ed) news is that the statistics also show that residents of the Black Country's Socialist Paradise will suffer additional years of poor health before they die than elsewhere. Still, it's what people seem to want after 49 years of the same. Or perhaps not as Sadders has a higher suicide rate that regionally and nationally.

As Labour ramp up all local taxes, screw the poor (see above), raise parking and other charges, and introduce a new green bin tax to extract even more money from you, Carmichael has stated - wait for it - an "ambition" that:

"Sandwell is a place where we live healthy lives and live them for longer".

Why the f**k wasn't this an ambition for this Scum over the last 49 years????

John Spellar - he's a xxxx ain't he?

Regular readers will know that I have been highlighting some of the bizarre questions the greedy little Gnome of Bromley has been asking in Parliament to make it look as if he is actually doing SOMETHING for his dosh and foreign jaunts. Spellar lives in Sarf London, but purports to represent Sandwell's Warley constituency. The only Labour MP left in Sandwell - the fourth poorest area in the Country - Spellar has been asking loads of ridiculous questions lately - most of which have f*** all to do with Sadders.

Presumably he is claiming expenses for staff and researchers but, whoever these jokers are, they are apparently incapable of doing Google searches. This is one of his latest efforts lol:

Has The Gnome been nibbling at the magic Toadstools?

Right-winger Spellar masquerades as some sort of "socialist" and, like many of that ilk, he is an economic imbecile (except, of course, when it comes to personally enriching himself). Thus The Gnome is constantly banging on about various form of "protectionism" - the simplistic, and long-discredited, economic theory that domestic industry will thrive if international free trade is stopped or diminished by tariffs and other legal barriers (a policy also much favoured by Donald J Trump). It was a crap idea, as Ricardo pointed out two hundred years ago, and remains one now.

But this greaser has been banging the populist drum in Parliament in favour of protectionism although, curiously, he appears to have been silent on the proposed move by gambling behemoth, Flutter, to set-up a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange, with the choice of abandoning its London listing altogether and moving its primary listing to the Big Apple in due course.

Two people have done more harm to sh*thole Sandwell in recent years than most - former fatman and MP, Tom Watson (now back on the gravy train thanks to Keir Starmer, Lord Twatson), and Spellar himself. Will they be demanding that Flutter remains listed in London? If the bookies move Stateside will they clamour for legal barriers harming Flutter's businesses here. It seems unlikely as Twatson is a paid "Adviser" to "Flutter UK and Ireland", and one of three recent luxury jollies enjoyed by The Gnome - a trip to an England International at Wembley worth an astonishing £1,961 - was paid for by "Power Leisure Bookmakers Limited" (better known as Paddy Power), a subsidiary of,er, Flutter.

Careless Liberals

Many of you are probably unaware that the Liberal Democrats claim to have a presence in Sandwell. To date they have been studiously indifferent to the shocking conduct of the bent Labour Council and, to an outsider, seem content to allow the failed Dictatorship to continue their dismal record of failure beyond their 49th anniversary.

There sole reason for existence seems to be to attack the Tories despite the fact that it is Labour which has been in total control of the sh*thole Borough - the 4th poorest in the Country - for half a century! But recently, they turned their attentions to myself and local community activist, Darryl Magher.

A tweet from Sandwell Lib Dems appeared to seriously defame the two of us by suggesting that we had been involved in criminal and wrongful activity in Oldbury. We could not allow this damaging and inaccurate smear to be left uncorrected, and consulted m'learned friends.

Happily the matter has, with the assistance of the national Party, been resolved. We have been assured by Mark Smith, the local Lib Dem supremo and the author of the offending Tweet, that the unfortunate wording was accidental and that the intention was to convey a different meaning.

Accordingly, Darryl and I have accepted this signed apology from Sandwell Lib Dems:

AND FINALLY...

If you are still going to soil yourself and vote Labour in Sandwell at the May elections, I still have a quantity of badges if you want one. Email or message me!

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Sunday 5 March 2023

BREAKING NEWS - BENT SANDWELL LABOUR'S "OTHER DEAL" WITH PROPERTY DEVELOPER

I don’t know how we all missed this one! It now transpires that at exactly the same time bent Labour Sandwell Council were doing the corrupt deal to sell Lion Farm Fields (a colossal 19 ha green space) to Jeremy Knight Adams (a major Tory donor) they were also flogging him the old Council offices at Stone Cross!

The bent Lion Farm Deal - the early story

2004 - the son of former labour Councillor Mahboob Hussain - Azeem Hafeez, an employee of SMBC eventually working directly in the “regeneration” Department (also responsible for Planning) under Nick Bubalo - bought The Rickshaw Restaurant in Dudley adjacent to Mahboob’s taxi firm for £85,000. At some point Jeremy Knight Adams decided he wanted to redevelop the whole site which brought him into contact with Cllr Hussain. On a date unknown, Mahboob Hussain agreed to “introduce” Knight Adams to corrupt Sandwell Council. Needless to say this was not declared or recorded in any way.

2012 - Knight Adams paid Hussain’s son £470,000 for the Rickshaw Restaurant - a massive profit for the humble Council employee (who left and now runs most of Sandwell’s SEND transport via a multi-million pound Labour contract).

2012 - At around this time a senior Councillor told me - on condition of anonymity - that Cllr Hussain walked him around Lion Farm Fields and tried to persuade him that it would be a good thing to destroy the Fields and build a shopping centre there.

15th August 2012 - Bent Labour started a series of secret meetings with Knight Adams. This may not have been the first of those meetings but this one was attended by Darren Cooper (the now-dead bully, wife-beater, and Labour “leader”), Mahboob Hussain, now disgraced former Chief Executive Jan Britton, and disgraced Head of the Regeneration Department, Nick Bubalo. This quartet deliberately chose not to keep any records of these secret meetings (of which there were at least two).

19th December, 2012 - At a meeting of the Land Disposal meeting on this date a secret agenda item under the deliberately misleading title “Junction 2 Development” the Committee decided to grant Jeremy Knight Adams an exclusive option to purchase the entire site. The only two Councillors who bothered to attend the meeting were Hussain and the deeply corrupt liar (Skidders passim ad nauseum and see Legal Notice below) Cllr Simon Hackett (who, incredibly, is back in the bent Council’s Cabinet). Cllr Hussain failed to declare any interest in this matter nor his connections with Knight Adams. Had he done so the Committee would not have been quorate and Hackett could not have approved the Option agreement on his own. As it was, there was a detailed agenda of 8 items which these two got through in just 7 minutes - yes SEVEN minutes. One of the other agenda items was an approval of the sale of the former Coroner’s office at Crocketts Lane, Smethwick - which, happily, was later bought at a very reasonable price by Cllr Hussain’s son, the aforesaid Azeem Hafeez!

13th January, 2013 - The bent Labour Sandwell including disgraced former Leader Steve “Squealing” Eling, the corrupt Hackett again, and Paul Moore (who did so much to try and force this bent effort through later on) approved the corrupt deal. These jokers got though a very heavy agenda in just 2 minutes - YES TWO MINUTES. When the minutes of both of these meetings were published they were very heavily redacted so that the public had no idea that the Option related to Lion Farm Fields. This, of course, was absolutely deliberate by Labour.

21st May, 2013 - without putting this huge green space up for public sale bent Labour gave Knight Adams an exclusive option to buy Lion Farm Fields and, astonishingly, he STILL has that option 10 years later thanks to yet more Labour corruption detailed elsewhere in The Skidder. The current Leader [sic] Kerrie “Dim Kez” Carmichael has been heavily involved in the continuing plan to destroy the Fields and continues to try to force the bent deal through. She has now managed to get her own mother selected as the Labour candidate in Langley at the May elections to help f*ck the locals over.

Here's a picture of "Shite" Adams (holding the plan) with his pal, West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street:

Before the “Breaking News” I will just mention two things. All of the above was reported to corrupt West Midlands Police at the time of the Regional Fraud Team investigation but the Bent Blues failed to investigate. WMP wrote this to me on 9th July, 2018:

“I can state in 2015 West Midlands Police were aware of Cllr Mahboob Hussain’s association to the developer for the Lion Farm Estate [sic] but this matter fell outside the remit of the Regional Fraud team investigation.”

WTF????? What does this even mean. And I have been asking WMP FOR years which Officer(s) agreed the “remit” and why? There has been a cover-up here, pure and simple.

Interestingly, The Wragge Report raised questions about the legality of the bent Option and even queries whether there had been contravention of the Bribery Act. Bizarrely, at Mahboob Hussain’s High Court legal action bent Sandwell itself was keen to inform the Judge that Wragge’s had exceeded their remit (yes, that word again) in even referring to this matter. Again WTF? This was raised in the Cox Review which Dim Kez and Grant Thornton (supposedly bent Sandwell’s “independent auditors”) have been fighting to keep secret from you! Once again - a monumental cover-up going on here. Although Eling, Britton and others were desperate to nail Hussain they didn’t want THIS affair discussed at all.

Many moons ago the mainstream media were - as now - on their knees rimming Sandwell Labour at every opportunity, and it was down to The Skidder team and this blog to EXCLUSIVELY Report on deals involving the Hussain family, including Azeem Hafeez. While the local TV and media did f all the Skidder broke the Boggate, Lodge Street and Crocketts Lane scandals. One interesting feature of the Hussain family property dealings at this time was that they invariably used an agent in their planning matters, one Anthony Hope. Now read on …

BREAKING NEWS - FORMER SMBC OFFICES, STONE CROSS

When bent Labour set up a new computer system they deleted many of the old records from online viewing. This includes the minutes of the Land Disposal Committee before 2015. (I wrote to Kim Bromley Derry the errant former Interim Chief Exec and currently the Lead Government Commissioner at bent Sandwell and thought that the old records were to be restored, but that has not happened.)

Until we can see the actual minutes (and I have written to the Commissioners about this today) I cannot be totally sure but believe the Committee declared the site of their own neighbourhood office at Clifford Lane, Stone Cross in the summer of 2012. This would have been at exactly the same time Hussain was “introducing Knight Adams” to SMBC and the secret Lion Farm meetings were being organised. Subject to seeing the minutes it is likely that Cllr Hussain was on the Committee, along with corrupt liar Hackett, Derbyshire-resident Eling (who institutionalised corruption at bent Sandwell and was forced out in disgrace), and Derek Rowley, who this blog disclosed was involved in the sale of Council property via one of his mate’s on Facebook. [Stop press - this matter was definitely before the Land Disposal Committee on 20th June, 2012 when Eling, Hackett, Hussain and Rowley were in attendance. Many thanks to X for the info.]

What I can tell you from official Land Registry records is that just 3 days after Eling, Hackett, Moore and others agreed the bent Lion Farm Option to Knight Adams they sold him (via one of his Companies) the former Council Offices at Stone Cross for a modest £170,000 (£300k less than he paid for the derelict Rickshaw Restaurant). The Land Registry title MM15217 shows that on 16th January, 2013 SMBC sold the land to Alpha (Stonecross) Limited (owned by Mr and Mrs Knight Adams).

Planning documents show that Knight Adams (and another) applied for planning permission for 13 houses on the site in 2018 which was granted subject to conditions. He received “pre-application advice from SMBC staff” - indeed the same person involved in the Sahotaville affair.

The agent for that planning application was a Birmingham architect.

In 2021 Knight Adams applied - under the name Bowerbird Homes - to discharge the conditions from the 2018 planning consent. Now he has a new agent - none other that our old friend Anthony Hope! Yet another one of those amazing Sandwell coincidences!

I am writing to the Commissioners and to West Midlands Police again, but there must be an urgent investigation into all this. At the precise time Labour were (secretly) pulling the bent deal on Lion Farm they were flogging the same bloke the old Council offices. In particular, the sale of the Stone Cross site was left to the later disgraced Nick Bubalo - at a time when he was personally in other secret, unminuted meetings, with Knight Adams. The legal work was then to be handled by also disgraced Solicitor Neeraj Sharma. You can read the Wragge Report to see what this pair were up to …

And Finally - an urgent reminder

Please remember that if you want to save Lion Farm Fields and other spaces in sh*thole Sandwell please respond to the "consultation" exercise by 20th March! Further details here:

https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2023/02/sandwell-urgent-public-notice-important.html

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