Way back in March, 2025 - yes, 2025 NOT March this year - I made a standards complaint about a Labour Councillor at bent Sandwell. I put the substance in a blog post at the time without naming the alleged miscreant:
"On 27th January, 2025 Cllr Jag Singh was chairing Licensing sub-Committee 2. At some point an application for, as I understand it, the grant of a taxi licence was due to be decided. Shortly before the application an unknown Labour Councillor, believed to be Cllr xxxxxxxxxxx, made contact with Cllr Singh and attempted to suborn him, and to ensure that he and the sub-Committee granted the licence.
Cllr Singh acted very properly. He immediately informed one or more law officers of the Council of the attempt to unduly influence him. I understand that he was advised to recuse himself from hearing the application which he duly did. Cllr Fenton took the Chair.
Cllr John Giles was later informed of what had happened. I understand that he was appalled at this crass xxxxxxxxxx.
This was a disgraceful and egregious breach of the Councillor’s Code of Conduct by the Councillor - believed to be xxxxxxxx - particularly the requirements of Councillors to act in a selfless manner, and with integrity and honesty.
I attempted to seek information concerning this appalling incident from The Monitoring Officer and Cllrs Giles, Singh and Fenton without success, apart from a bland form of words from the Monitoring Officer. This has all the hallmarks of yet another Sandwell Council cover-up of Labour wrongdoing - hence this formal Standards Complaint which is made to ensure that this issue is dealt with in the correct manner."
[Full post - https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2025/03/more-sandwell-labour-corruption.html]
The alleged miscreant is Cllr Rizwan Jalil who is seeking the votes of the folk in Oldbury ward again on Thursday. Jalil vehemently denies the allegations and, indeed, some of his pals also took to social media to proclaim his innocence.
Normally, of course, this matter would be dealt with by Jones, the Council's Monitoring Officer but, as I pointed out at the time, Jones was directly involved in the incident and thus it was inappropriate for him to deal with the matter himself. Even he agreed with this and the case was referred to a Deputy Monitoring Officer - a solicitor called James McLaughlin.
Really this is the simplest of matters to deal with. All McLaughlin has to do was take statements from Cllr Singh, Monitoring Officer Jones and, of course, from Jalil himself. For good measure he could secure the correspondence involving Cllr John "Mr Blobby" Giles (and I have personally seen an email from Giles to other councillors wherein even he was disgusted at what had gone on).
Perhaps Jalil is innocent? Perhaps Singh made the allegations up - although this seems unlikely as he is said to actually be that rara avis, an honest Labour Sandwell Councillor lol! Perhaps Jones somehow misunderstood what actually happened and was too quick in having Cllr Singh stand down for the rest of the meeting to be replaced by Rent-a-Gob Fenton? Or perhaps Jalil was guilty, in which case surely the voters of Oldbury should be told even in a Borough as corrupt as Labour Sandwell?
And Jones told me as long ago as 22nd July, 2025 that McClaughlin had concluded his investigation and would contact me shortly. That was over NINE MONTHS ago!
[See also blog of 25th February, 2026: https://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2026/02/]
I referred this egregious delay to the Ombudsman who wrote to bent Sandwell in early March of this year telling Lal's outfit to send me an update and to deal with my complaint about the delay. Lal has ignored the Ombudsman. I wrote to him yesterday, and will shortly be referring the matter back to the Ombudsman. This delay is shocking even by Sandwell standards and clearly deliberate.
The most hilarious thing from all this is that Dim Kez and Co. reselected Rizwan Jalil despite the supposedly ongoing investigation but deselected Mr Blobby who, for once, did the right thing and expressed his shock at what he perceived, at the time, to be Jalil's misconduct. Only in corrupt Labour Sadders ...
(Image courtesy of the excellent Sandwell Corruption.)
Curiously Labour puppet, "Independent" Councillor Richard Jeffcoat - never a man to use a few words when a few thousand will do - has gone quiet although he is "in the know" about this. Remember, he may be an "Independent" candidate but, as the Americans would say, he caucuses with bent Labour. [Thus, in reality if not on paper, there are four "Labour" candidates chasing three votes in Tipton Green this year.]
For obvious reasons given what the corruption at Sandwell - which I have been disclosing for more than a decade - I had that "feeling" that Lal would not deal with this matter in the proper way and so I also reported the incident directly to pro-Sandwell Labour, Sandwell Police. I know they received the information but have heard nothing further. Maybe this is not surprising noting the boss's overt support for "Sicko" Sarah Coombes MP - including a disgraceful display of contempt for the war dead to provide Sicko with yet another photo op.
Sandwell keeps voting for Labour and gets exactly what it deserves with the likes of Jalil (who has personally threatened me for writing about him!)
And on the subject of copsuckers ...
This blog had, for many years, exposed the political bias of Sandwell Police and put up many examples of "copsucking" where officers are allowing themselves to be used to promote a deeply corrupt local Labour Party. Seeing that the boss is now at it too, it is perhaps not surprising that the lower ranks do the same.
Skidder Facebook Group members will be familiar with this recent abhorrent example of copsucking:
The officer out canvassing with Labour has been named by Skidder readers as PC Sukhmandeep Rai. I wrote to West Midlands Police asking them to confirm his identity and to say whether WMP was taking any disciplinary action against him.
Let me just digress a moment - the last Chief Constable, when trying to keep "the Jews" out of Brum, had to resign when he relied on what he claims was a false report generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now read on ...
I am not sure whether this response was AI generated but it came via a software company called Vuelio:
"Response: This was an event involving a number of members of the community on 12 March."
Honestly, that's it! Nothing about his conduct or any disciplinary action. Lets's just remember what Sicko Sarah Coombes actually said:
"We have been out and about [with the three Labour candidates for Charlemont & Grove Vale]. We did a walkabout with police ..."
I am now taking this to higher authority. Watch this space ...
WILL SANDWELL VOTE CORRUPT LABOUR OUT ON THURSDAY? SURELY 52 YEARS OF LABOUR FAILURE IS ENOUGH EVEN FOR SANDWELL?
AND REMEMBER - YOU CAN SPLIT YOUR 3 VOTES IF YOU ARE UNSURE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE FOR ALL THREE FROM ONE PARTY.
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