I am writing this in haste but not much further comment is necessary and you can see for yourselves the failure of the Tory Group of Councillors to act in respect of the Imogen Walker scandal (Skidders passim).
Email to all ten Sandwell Conservative Cllrs - 5th June, 2024 (partially redacted)
"Greetings all,
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I am concerned that myself (and Darryl) keep digging stuff up but you guys are not picking-up on it. I spent months on the Imogen Walker situation but - unless you have done something privately behind the scenes - you collectively appear to have done nothing about it.
I am going to send you - during the coming weeks - some suggested motions which you may care to put in at full Council. I will be sending them in Word so that you can alter them if you so wish but if you are not going to use them I do expect to be told the reason why not (within 14 days).
I really do think you need to be taking the political battle to Labour. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You have a bigger group now and I wish you all well for the battles ahead.
Jules"
+ Proposed Notice of Motion - Head of Leader's Office
"I move that the Chief Executive abolishes the post of Head of the Leader’s Office/Interim Head of Leader’s Office forthwith.
Submission
This Council has managed until recent times without a highly paid “Head of the Leader’s Office”. This post was specially created due to the inexperience and ineptitude of former Labour Leader, Rajbir Singh. The current Leader has retained the post for reasons which are opaque.
The Council has admitted via the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that the creation of an Interim Head of the Leader’s Office did not follow any or any proper Council procedure.
Further the purported use of Delegated Authority by the former Interim Chief Executive was unrecorded and unlawful. There are also very grave concerns about the nature of the appointment of the present incumbent - who lives in Scotland - and who was selected without a competitive process.
This Council has a colossal staff budget and this year - again - the Leader has raised Council Tax by the maximum permitted. Local people can ill-afford further high payments relating to a post which is both meaningless and unnecessary.
The Interim Post was secretly created to deliberately avoid proper SMBC recruitment procedures and other employment law such as the Equality Act. As the present incumbent has been in post since August, 2021 the appointment stretches the meaning of “Interim”. There is no written contract with the present incumbent and she has chosen to work on a self-employed basis. Accordingly, her position can be terminated forthwith with minimal further costs to the taxpayer."
I added this for the Tory Group:
Political Considerations
This Motion picks up on the extensive work I have done to flush out the facts about this appointment. It will force Dim Kez, or her nominated patsy, to “defend the indefensible”.
If the response is that this person is somehow “needed” there is an opportunity to say that Dim Kez is not up to the job of Leader, and to attack the expense involved.
This appointment is bent and Imogen Walker is a Starmer crony. I am told she has been trying for a Labour parliamentary seat in Scotland (although I hear she may have been rejected in one constituency). It would be further embarrassing for Labour if this motion goes in and it transpires that she is indeed hunting for a seat.
Of course, I am happy to discuss this with any Councillor putting this motion in.
Please respond by 5pm 20th June.
Jules"
But Walker IS now the candidate for the Scottish seat of Hamilton and Clyde Valley! Inevitable as a Starmer crony!
And the Tory Response?
Absolutely zilch. I duly wrote to them all again on 21st August, 2023:
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