Crompton's Dirty Secret Revealed + much more

I used to quite like Cllr Maria Crompton until I found out what she is really like. She is an ineffective Labour Councillor and as thick as mince, but she seemed honest. In the usual incestuous Labour-style her partner, Peter Allen, was also a Labour Councillor until the Party shafted him and others who had questioned Leader [sic] Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael's suppression of the explosive Cox Review into the controversial Wragge Report.

I didn't have Crompton down as a coward but she has consistently refused to say why she authorised the disastrous funding of former Director of Public Health, Lisa McNally's, absurd and vindictive litigation against me. Further the Council blocked all information too - seemingly with the approval of the Government Commissioners brought in to sweep the excrement from the Labour stables. Bent Sandwell refused to answer a Freedom of Information Request and I had to instigate proceedings via the Information Rights Tribunal before they caved in (at yet more cost to the taxpayer).

I have written detailed blogs on the case brought by "The Mouth of the Mersey" and it is known that she conspired with disgraced Chief Executive David Stevens and highly controversial Monitoring Officer and Head of "Legal", Surjit Tour, to use taxpayers' funds rather than her own money to bring her malevolent case. 

But why did Crompton - then "Acting Leader" at the time - approve this fraud on the taxpayer - particularly when Stevens and Tour's funding arrangement was illegal? I know that she had communication with the now sacked Stevens but it now transpires that Tour was the (mis)guiding light behind this scandal. 

Remember when bent Sandwell set up a £300,000 fund in 2018 to destroy me and this blog? I now know that an Opinion was received from Anya Proops QC (now KC). Strangely no litigation was forthcoming at that stage. But bent Sandwell informed me in the Tribunal case that Tour used the three-year old Proops Opinion to inform the dimwitted Crompton that she had stated that it was perfectly legal to indemnify an employee in respect of matters arising from her use of a personal Twitter account. With respect to Leading Counsel this is b*llocks, and it would be helpful if Proops would publicise the case law on which she based her Opinion. It is also interesting that Proops seems to have the gift of being able to see into the future since she was seemingly not instructed in matters relating to employees acting outside the course of their employment! Tour himself is refusing to disclose Proop's Opinion.

For those of a legal bent there is a fuller description of this matter via our associated blog:

https://rottencouncils.blogspot.com/2023/04/anya-proops-kc-extends-scope-of-local.html

Of course, Crompton was too thick to question Tour why McNally could not fund her own litigation in respect of personal matters, and also ignored that Stevens and Tour both purported to give "evidence" on behalf of McNally -  a very clear indication of their conspiracy with the Claimant. This led to the taxpayer losing £100,000. No wonder Crompton was ashamed and tried to hide her own role in this scandal!

West Bromwich BID

Hurrah! The BID has made a (tiny) surplus in its latest (2022) accounts. But ...

For those new to this Blog, "BID" stands for "Business Improvement District". Back in the day, many high streets and the like had traders associations wo/manned entirely by volunteers who did their best to promote their respective areas. But it was decided that voluntary effort was insufficient and local areas could vote for "BIDS". If a majority of traders in an area voted for the BID, EVERY business was obliged to fork out extra tax - known as a "levy" - to pay for "professionals" to come in and promote businesses.

Around the country this has become a jobs for the boys and girls racket. BIDS do very little to promote local businesses bar hold a few supposedly "free" events each year and put up a few signs. Worse, they have become taxpayer-funded arms of the local police. Whereas they formerly had "ambassadors" on the ground supposedly promoting local shops now they have folk wandering the streets in paramilitary-style uniforms. These muppets are paid by the extra "levy" to be police informants, and often even "patrol" with the real cops.

In Sandwell Labour jumped at the chance of taxing businesses more and set up the local BID as a front organisation. Curiously all the voting records approving the BID went "missing" (although it is only fair to say that local traders in West Brom are making so much money - despite national bricks and mortar retail armageddon elsewhere - that they have continued to support the BID).

The original BID was run from a stall in West Brom's derelict indoor market but as soon as the money started rolling in they moved to posh offices in St Michael's Court, Victoria Street paying £12,223 per year in "establishment costs" (rent, rates, insurance, heating etc.)

The latest (2022) accounts state an average of two employees although the current website boasts five. The two "ambassadors" constantly use social media to show themselves in paramilitary garb with WM Police officers and PCSO's. To the general public this hardly inspires confidence in WB being a safe area to shop but reinforces the reality that it is a high crime sh*thole.

Remember that wealthy West Brom traders are already paying business rates for street cleaning, policing etc. but the services are so poor they are voluntarily paying an astonishing £35,503 for extra street cleaning to the BID!

The BID rakes in £218,939 extra tax from West Brom retailers but overspends that sum. To make up the shortfall it competes with charities and other non-profit organisations for grant funding. Oh, and of course, bent Labour Sandwell Council also gave it £17,900 of OUR - taxpayers' money - as well! Thus the BID scraped a surplus of £876 last year!

What is sick is that this organisation not only claims to be a key partner of Sandwell Police but its boss also gets a seat of the local Police "Independent Advisory Group" - a toxic Labour Party-controlled organisation. The cops are refusing to say who is in the Group which is supposed to reflect all sections of the Community, but is the catspaw of the likes of Labour's Gurinder Josan and Pam Randhawa. May I urge readers to follow this link to my recent Freedom of Information Request asking for the members to be publicly identified:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/identification_of_members_of_san#incoming-2306095

And Hurrah for The Gamblers!

Regular readers will know that gambling addiction in corrupt Sandwell Labour Council's staff is now so widespread that Labour and the Unions have had to create a "Charter" to combat the problem. Perhaps getting them out of their living rooms and back into their offices might help?

Meanwhile the only Labour MP currently left in the bent Borough, John Spellar, has, as I have shown, been taking very expensive hospitality from the bookies and their trade organisation to attend sundry top-class sporting events. At least this greasy scumbag repays the gambling industry with plenty of supportive comments in the House of Commons. Contrary to the severe problems amongst Sandwell staff The Gnome of Bromley told Parliament last year, "millions of people enjoy gambling perfectly safely and that abuse is going DOWN."

This greedy Labour so-and-so was at it again in the House on 27th April when he bigged-up gambling as a "major" British industry. 

Celebrate Bearwood - with a sh*t at the back of Aldi

Apart from The Midland pub, Bearwood is a ghastly place. The main street is in Spellar's constituency but is, of course, riddled with gambling establishments (see above). Now bent Labour have wasted more of our money on ridiculous posters "celebrating" 49 years of Labour's disastrous dictatorship in Sandwell. If you am "bostin" for a crap this is THE place!

A Peaceful Demo

It's the mayor-making Council meeting on Tuesday 23rd May and this is a chance for the oppressed of Sandwell to voice their issues with bent Labour in front of the great and good of the benighted Borough, who are invited in force to the taxpayer-funded shindig.

Inside sources say the barriers are coming out again to prevent the public getting too close to those supporting more Labour corruption in the year ahead.

I hope there will be a good turnout from Brandhall and other groups. Come on Lion Farm folk to save your Fields - get yourselves down to Oldbury. Remember that the new law permits peaceful i.e. non-violent demonstrations, which doesn't mean they have to be quiet ones!

Sad News

Two recent deaths. Barry Cotgrave has left us. He was a doughty anti-corruption fighter against the corrupt Labour Council and a great friend of the blog. Thanks Barry for your emails and info and my sincere condolences to family and friends.

Anyone who enjoys The Midland in Bearwood will know Phil "Blind Phil" Walker. One of life's true characters who got through into his eighties mostly on beer and fags. How I shall miss his Scottish brogue and the extended "oooooooooooo helllllllllo Jules" whenever we met. Phil's funeral is at Lodge Hill on 24th May at 13.45 with drinks later at The Midland.

Tides of Skidder History

This is the first in an occasional series looking back at The History of the Skidder since this blog started in 2013. Today we remember the appalling thug and wife-beater, the late Darren "The Turdmeister" Cooper. Incredibly, this vicious, bullying and trolling scumbag was the Labour Leader of the Council.

Given his criminal misconduct it is astonishing that Cooper became Chair of the West Midlands Police & Crime Panel, and I duly attended one of their meetings to hand out this leaflet to many of the attendees:

I sat in on the meeting. There was a scruffy and very mouthy person sitting next to Cooper, constantly (metaphorically) rimming The Turdmeister, and at that time I didn't know who she was. When the Chief Constable started to deliver an important Report she just stood up and went and made herself a coffee making plenty of noise as she did so. I was astonished how anyone could be so rude in a public meeting and "googled" her. It turned out to be none-other than the longstanding friend of the wife-beater Cooper, Jess, aka "Mess", Phillips!

Incidentally, and whilst the bully-boy Cooper was still alive, I asked Black Country Women's Aid (formerly Sandwell Women's Aid) why they sucked up to Turdy and why, in particular, they loved him given his history of domestic abuse? I further asked whether their silence (and that of Phillips who used to work for them) had anything to do with the fact that they received substantial funding from bent Labour Sandwell Council. Not only did they fail to reply they immediately blocked me from all their social media sites and even their email account! Better to shoot the messenger than criticise a wife-beating benefactor!!!

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