Brummies reading this will be asking, "who the f*** is Rajbir Singh?" He is the arrogant prick who is standing for a Reform seat on Birmingham City Council - possibly in Erdington. He also wants to be the Reform Group Leader on the Sh*tty Council if the Faragistes win some seats, and he even harbours the delusion that if Reform takes the Council, he will be Leader of the whole goddam thing!
But anyone thinking of voting for this joker needs to look at his record as, er, former Leader of bent Labour Sandwell Council, and start asking him the truth about his crashing fall from grace.
Having left Liebour for Reform the mystery is why a Party as vindictive as Labour is not shafting him? Alas, all of The Skidder's efforts have failed to reveal the answer, but this post will raise at least some of the questions other candidates, and the voters, need to be asking him. And the fact is that the Labour Party DOES know the answers. Why is it not using the info or is Labour waiting until his candidature is confirmed?
Brummies may or may not know that Sandwell is one of the most corrupt Labour Councils in Britain - where incompetence and cronyism is even greater than in the "Third City" (formerly the "Second City"). But even seasoned watchers of the Labour doings within the Black Country's "Heart of Darkness" were shocked when, after years of civil war, Labour appointed tyro Councillor Rajbir Singh as Leader of the Council in May, 2021 (just three years after he first became a Councillor).
The Sikh community is, quite rightly, very politically active in sh*thole Sandwell. They propelled the utterly useless Preet Kaur Gill to Westminster, later to be followed by her arch-enemy, the grovelling "Socialist Landlord", Gurinder Singh Josan. And even though he had virtually no experience on the Council, they propelled Rajbir to the top spot, locally.
Skidder readers were truly shocked at this promotion and it immediately became apparent that Singh was completely out of his depth. This blog quickly dubbed him "The Boy Blunder".
Singh soon blotted his copybook with an inept sacking of the admittedly appalling Chief Executive, David Stevens. Like all top [sic] councillors and employees at bent Labour Sandwell he used secret communication channels to avoid scrutiny and the Freedom of Information Act. Thus he set up a secret deal with the pathetic Local Government Association (LGA) to replace Stevens with surely the richest man in local government, Kim Bromley- Derry. The Skidder forced some of the WhatsApp messages from the LGA via the Information Rights Tribunal (more anon).
In September, 2021 Singh also appointed Imogen Walker as his "Head of the Leader's Office" despite the fact that at the time Walker was claiming to live in Scotland - over two hundred miles from the toilet that is Sandwell. Once again the secret deal was brokered by the LGA. Like all good "socialists" Walker used the tax-efficient method of self-employment to take taxpayers' money for this newly created - fake - position. Walker is now a Labour MP for a Scottish constituency.
Walker is (or at least was) married to Morgan McSweeney. He was a Peter Mandelson protegee and led Keir Starmer's winning election campaign. He then became Sir Woodenarse's Chief of Staff. But when Starmer's insane decision to appoint Mandelson as our US Ambassador inevitably went horribly wrong, Starmer did the decent thing and sacked him so as to cover his own arse. (You will have seen the story in the last few days that McSweeney claims his phone was stolen - and along with it, any incriminating date thereon.)
In November, 2021, another bombshell exploded in Oldbury when Singh suddenly resigned his leadership AND his Council seat. Just like that! Sandwell Labour propagandists, the BBC, unquestioningly accepted his version of events i.e., that he had resigned for "personal reasons". The Boy Blunder himself claimed that the heavy demands of Council leadership were too much and he had to think of his young family and businesses. Even if that was remotely true - which it isn't - that wouldn't explain why he also gave up his seat. There are very many in Sandwell Labour who do almost nothing all year in return for taxpayers' allowances.
Singh is in a form of marriage with Harnoor Bhullar. In true Sandwell Labour-style she too was found a seat on the bent Council. She remains a Labour Councillor whilst Rajbir is now with Reform. This odd couple status seems to be confirmed by constant reports from members of the Sandwell Sikh community that the Smethwick Gurdwara offers her considerable sympathy and support given Rajbir's "lifestyle" - whatever that actually means.
The Skidder did a vox pop in Smethwick about the real reason for Singh's shaming degringolade, but to no avail.
The first rumour was that there was a "discrepancy" concerning his businesses (he has a Costcutter in Edgbaston and now also operates a dry cleaners next door). Whilst Singh and Bhullar refused to answer questions about this there is no evidence whatsoever that there was any wrongdoing. An appropriate response from the pair would have scotched the persistent rumours. Bhullar has, since, 2023 had no legal involvement with the main company, Ample Foods. Singh is the sole owner of the business which showed a loss in the latest published accounts. Indeed the value of fixed assets is the only thing apparently keeping it solvent. Mind you, lack of financial acumen has never been a prerequisite of Birmingham Sh*tty Council! And if Singh really left Sandwell Council to concentrate on his business (at least until he joined Reform) that isn't really working is it? Surely hanging on to his Council allowances for next to no work would have helped out?
The second rumour was that there were "concerns" about Rajbir's lifestyle. The rumours - and they are nothing more than that - are lurid. A meeting was supposed to have been held at the Smethwick Gurdwara involving (now) MP, the slippery Gurinder Singh Josan. Singh then resigned. Josan and Singh declined to comment on this rumour but it is important to note that the Gurdwara specifically states that no such meeting occurred at its premises. Accordingly there is no evidence whatsoever of any truth in this.
The third rumour - which may or may not be connected to the "lifestyle" issues - was that Singh was summoned to a meeting in London at a high level within the Labour Party. He resigned before he was pushed out. This is coming from a number of sources. As above, Singh declined to comment on the cause of his resignation.
The vast majority of the information received on this has come from Sikh folk. The rumours have been persistent and, as above, Singh might have done well to nip them in the bud rather than burying his head in the sand. Some issues have been placed openly on social media (not by this blog, of course).
The one thing that is certain is (a) that many Labour Sandwell Councillors know the real reason he resigned; (b) Gurinder Josan knows (and he is also a member of Labour's National Executive Committee as well as being a major Starmer rimmer); and (c) people in the top echelons of Labour know.
In any event, Singh was a hopeless "leader" of bent Sandwell and was so bad he had to have a Scottish babysitter. Does that fill you with confidence Brum voters?
And don't forget to ask him about all this if and when he bothers to campaign.
Oh, forgot to mention that Josan has form for shafting a fellow LABOUR councillor. Why the reticence now Gurinder? Is Gill right?
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