Cooper Caught Again!

DUE TO AN ONGOING LEGAL DISPUTE, TWO FACTUALLY ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF DARREN COOPER HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY REMOVED.

There have been a host of complaints to SMBC about the use of Twitter by the xxxxx-xxxxxxxx xxxx [factually accurate description temporarily removed] who “leads” the Council, Darren Cooper, but these are batted away by the "Chief Executive", Jan Britton, and the Chief Legal Officer/Monitoring Officer Neeraj Sharma (and even by the joke “Standards Committee”) on the basis that the xxxxx [factually accurate description of Cooper temporarily redacted] is purely tweeting “in a personal capacity” and that this his account, er, @sandwellleader is nothing to do with the Council. This blog has repeatedly pointed out that Cooper advertises his account on his taxpayer-funded business cards, the Council itself actively promotes the stream of gibberish via its website and that Dickhead Daz has regularly used Council-owned equipment to disseminate abusive content.

Back in the day Cooper used covertly obtained film footage of a private individual, Darryl Magher, which he obtained from a Mr Andrew Hipkiss (see also in respect of a current troll account). This was used in an attempt to bully and harass Mr Magher who is a community activist. Cooper has a long history of harassment of Mr Magher and of being abusive on Twitter to him. Despite his appalling conduct, which they have ignored on many other occasions, the film footage was too much even for Twitter and they suspended Cooper's account. The curious thing is that Twitter re-instated the abusive account within a day which is a remarkably short time given how slow the Californians normally are with such matters. I suspected that Cooper had received help with his appeal to them and duly made a Freedom of Information request to SMBC. Here is the reply from one Maria Price which also included my original request:

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Maria Price <Maria_Price@sandwell.gov.uk>

Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:56 PM

Subject: Re: FOI REQUEST - 1-703784623

To: "thesandwellskidder@gmail.com" <thesandwellskidder@gmail.com>

Dear Mr Saunders

Thank you for your freedom of information request as detailed below,

Can you please state whether:

1. ANY Sandwell Council officer/employee made any contact by any means with

Twitter - either Twitter UK or Twitter in California or the Twitter Press

Office concerning the recent suspension of Cllr Cooper's Twitter account

@sandwellleader If yes please provide full details including the section of

SMBC which made the contact and the name of the officer/employee who

authorised such contact.

2. ANY Sandwell Council officer/employee made any contact within the last

28 days by any means with Twitter - either Twitter UK or Twitter in

California or the Twitter Press Office requesting the suspension of any of

my Twitter accounts or those of others. If yes, please provide full details

including the section of SMBC which made the contact and the name of the

officer/employee who authorised such contact.

I have made reasonable enquiries and I can confirm that I have found no officers or employees have made contact with twitter as detailed in your queries above.

(Etc etc......)

Yours Sincerely

Maria Price

Is this a lie in an official FoI Reply? Cooper himself seems to have contacted Twitter via his SMBC secretary, Jane Perham. Given how thick he is, one has to be suspicious that he has apparently written a long letter (with some long words) on his own without the usual catalogue of gaffes and errors. Her name mysteriously appears on the header. But even if she is sending a later copy to Maria or someone else it is absolutely clear that Cooper has used his official SMBC titles etc and also his official SMBC e-mail address to reinstate his allegedly personal account:

There are items which I have redacted next as they are grossly defamatory to third parties who may wish to take legal action against Cllr Cooper and/or SMBC. The letter ends with Cooper again confirming his position as SMBC Leader [sic]: Note also that Cooper and Andrew Hipkiss were communicating with each other back in February!

(What an arrogant pr*ck he is by the way - see the first line - as if Twitter are going to know he was "leader" of a basket-case Labour Council in the arse-end of the Midlands - “lol”).

Regular readers of this blog will know that in the bog-gate affair Sandwell council deliberately lied to me in a Freedom of Information Request.

Clearly Jan Britton needs to investigate forthwith whether Jane Perham or any other member of staff was involved in the sending of the e-mail or not.

And as for Cooper - when are people going to finally see through this dimwit? Britton and Sharma now need to re-open all the complaints they have rejected thus far on the basis that the account was nothing to do with SMBC (and also consider their own positions in this apparent cover-up). Cooper is most definitely NOT tweeting as a private individual as the above clearly proves and this may now have serious legal repercussions for SMBC. Perhaps someone senior in the local party like Spellar should also ensure that the Cooper disaster is ended as quickly as possible.

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Bristnall - Britain's Thickest Council Ward?

Back in Napoleonic times it is alleged that the inhabitants of Hartlepool hanged a shipwrecked monkey believing it to be a French spy. Thus the North-Eastern town became a laughing-stock right up to the present day. Now Bristnall is giving them a run for their money....

And so what of Bristnall - a poverty-stricken and heavily-polluted urban sprawl in the benighted Borough of Sandwell? I mean, this is an area that has done sooooo well under 40 years of the local Labour Party dictatorship hasn't it?

For the last four years the local residents have had to endure "representation" from the Labour Liar, Lucy Cashmore - a local resident from, er, South Birmingham. When she bottled out of facing the electorate again and having to face further investigation of her porkies, the ghastly local Politburo laughably put up as her replacement "The Debtor"- unemployed Carol Goult. This is a woman who was unable to manage her own finances and had to enter into an insolvency Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) but seems to think this qualifies her to help manage a large Metropolitan Council!

But Labour could rely on the dimwitted local electorate of Bristnall to deliver and 26.6% of them duly voted The Debtor in!!!!!

And though she has been subject to an IVA, Goult has immediately been placed on the Board of Management of a local charity, Barlow Homes! You couldn't make it up - er, well actually there is some precedent for this sort of thing as the shifty "socialists" also appointed ex-bankrupt Cllr Joanne Hadley as a trustee of their multi-million pound sports arm, Sandwell Leisure Trust! Scrutiny? What scrutiny?

I have said it before and I will say it again but Sandwell folk have no-one to blame but themselves for their basket case Labour Council but they just never learn. It is such a shame in Bristnall where there are some really amazing people working very hard to make a difference - with very limited resources but great heart. I wish them all well with their seemingly Sisyphean task.

Returning to the Liar Cashmore, I have now done a Freedom of Information request on your behalf and it transpires that whilst she was failing to disclose that she worked for First Personnel (where I believe her sister may also have worked) they were being awarded numerous contacts by - er, yes, you guessed it -  Labour SMBC! Most of the work was for "industrial temps", "commercial temps" and "drivers". This is what Lying Lucy put on her LinkedIn profile (which appears to have disappeared):

"As a Senior Branch Manager [of First Personnel], I oversee the Black Country branches, specialising in Industrial/LGV Driving/Commercial and Skilled Labour both temporary and permanent".

So is it credible that Cashers didn't know SMBC were a Client of her employers (who she should have declared in any event)? We will probably never know as West Midlands Police are determined to protect Sandwell Labour and are refusing, despite a clear prima facie case and evidence presented to them, to investigate Cashmore - presumably because of her connections (?) Perhaps, the mighty Express and Star Group will take up the matter? Or perhaps not - as Lying Lucy now works for them!!!

Of course, Cashmore can't remember where she and her children live so perhaps she is suffering from that well-known Sandwell "loss of memory" affliction, "Hussain's Syndrome". But at least she did not vote in both places she claims to live at the May election. Husband Dave (an employee of SMBC of course) toddled down to the polling booth in Brandwood, South Birmingham alone but did the Liar brave the dog-sh*t smeared streets of Smethwick to vote? Alas she did not. She had a postal vote from the address of her parents in Hall Road!!!!

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The Latest Cooper Troll Count!

For the benefit of:

(a)   West Midlands Police;
(b)   West Midlands Police and Crime Panel;
(c)   Twitter Support; and
(d)   The wilfully-blind local media (the Halesowen News excluded)

this is the ever-growing list of troll accounts which Sandwell's joke "leader", Darren Cooper, and/or his ally, Unite the Union's local rep Brian Rickers, have directly and deliberately chosen to associate themselves with.

These are the ones that have been closed down:

@crow-ian

@colinduval10

@OoOctavius

@bhamskidder 

@brumskidder

@tiviskidder

@kingsnortonlady

@Gemmawool15

@the1nformer

@ClownJames

@mrsskidder

@julesndlinda

@notukipsandwell

@OdgenW

So that is just FOURTEEN accounts which have been closed down so far. Then there are the troll accounts which are still, technically, live:

@kevinturvey61

@jason_wicks44 (aka The Skidder Team)

@wmskidder

@westbromskidder

@westbromwag*

@Ennabran (a/c formerly known as @andrewhipkiss)

Addendum 08/07/15 - The person behind the @Ennabran account is now purporting to be Mr Andrew Hipkiss. If it is, indeed, him then it was his covertly-obtained film of a private individual which Darren Cooper put on his own account to intimidate and harass that person and which caused his own temporary suspension by Twitter. The person claiming to be Mr Hipkiss claims to have "several mental problem" [sic]. Cooper is directly communicating with him.

The real Skidder team are also closely monitoring FOUR other likely troll accounts.

If the above does not constitute a sustained campaign of abuse, harassment and witness intimidation then will someone please explain to me what does?

There is a West Midlands Police crime reference number with regard to all this - 20BW/219129/14.

Stop Press - last night it appears that Cooper used his own Twitter account (for once) to bully and threaten a member of SMBC staff. Yet another new low......

*Of just 7 followers 2 are Rickers and the mysterious "Paul Reeves" (see blogs passim).

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Britain's Thickest Council Leader - 2016

It's back! The hunt is on again to find the thickest politician leading a British local authority.....

DUE TO AN ONGOING LEGAL DISPUTE, AN OBVIOUSLY SATIRICAL AND LAMPOONING NAME FOR CLLR DARREN COOPER OF SANDWELL COUNCIL HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY REDACTED TOGETHER WITH A FACTUALLY ACCUARATE DESCRIPTION OF HIM.

The closing date for entries is 20th March, 2016 and the winner will be announced on 1st April, 2016. Send your nominations to:

thesandwellskidder@gmail.com

I will award the Certificate in person anywhere in the UK.

The glittering prize for 2015 was won comfortably by Labour's "Dimwit" Darren Cooper (aka "The Xxxxxxxxxxxx") of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and he is already making a strong showing for the 2016 title!

Regular readers will already have been left feeling a bit "Moby Dick" after reading this classic spit (sent to a now-suspended troll account) at a fellow Labour party member:

But yesterday Dunce Darren surpassed himself with this little beauty. Leaving aside the inanity of the content from someone alleged to be "leading" a large Metropolitan Borough Council (although it is a disastrous basket case) AND the fact that it is sent to an anonymous troll account, he has managed to f*ck up three times in a single tweet - impressive even by his barely-literate standards [sic].

Needless to say, this moronic xxxx includes a threat against a private individual just for good measure....

He is certainly doing the enfeebled Labour Party proud now that they have lifted the pre-election fatwa against his tweeting! Any challengers from other parties?

So come on, Britain! Let's get this show on the road!

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An Ex-Police Officer Writes....

I am an ex-police officer.

When the Police Regional Fraud Team (RFT) were appointed to investigate various matters concerning Sandwell Council I contacted them with regard to what, if true, appears to have been a serious conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by a male Labour Councillor. My information - which I consider to have come from an extremely reliable source - was that the Councillor concerned had, on a number of occasions, entered the private “staff” areas of the SMBC offices in Oldbury and ordered the cancellation of parking tickets issued against his family, friends and/or associates. Staff at SMBC were too afraid not to comply with his requests/orders and a number of parking tickets were duly rescinded.

Many months ago and following my contact with the RFT, I was contacted by them and then interviewed at a location in Birmingham. I told the investigating officer the name of the Councillor alleged to have been involved in this activity and also indicated precisely where the Police would find written proof - at least that certain tickets had been rescinded by staff. I have received no further contact whatsoever from the Police with regard to this and the same informant has told me that to the best of their knowledge, the Police have made absolutely no attempt to recover the evidence which was available to them. Clearly there is now a high risk that, with the lengthy delay, the evidence has been destroyed.

I became aware that The Sandwell Skidder had made a similar complaint and duly contacted him.

AN EX-POLICE OFFICER - 1ST JULY, 2015.

THE SKIDDER ADDS:

It is absolutely correct that, independently, I passed identical information to the Police many months ago. I was particularly concerned at that stage that they took steps to, at the very least, secure the evidence which was said to be available in case it was to be destroyed/”lost”.

After a period of time I was informed that it appeared that the Police had taken no action whatsoever and so I specifically contacted the Police in writing and asked if I could blog about this. At the very least, it is indicative of the shambolic way that the highly-paid Chief Executive of SMBC runs his Council when certain Councillors were (still are?) permitted to have an “access all areas” pass and use them to wander the building interfering in the day to day running of the Council. I believe this access may have also been granted to Darren Cooper, the joke “Leader” of the Council, and, seemingly, he too was also content for others to be allowed the same ludicrous facility (something that is certainly not allowed in most other councils).

On 26th February, 2015 (ie OVER 4 MONTHS AGO) I received a written request from the RFT NOT to blog about this and, of course, I was very happy to comply with that. Regular readers of this blog will know, however, that the DI in charge of the Sandwell investigations has belated advised - and only after I specifically wrote to him - that the Sandwell enquiry has only a very narrow remit and that the Police will not be investigating this particular issue. I have, accordingly, given them written notice that this blog will be appearing.

Let us hope that the police failure to investigate is down to lack of resources rather than negligence/incompetence (I have to say that the officer who interviewed me appeared to be an exceedingly competent officer) although the layperson might think that the Police would jump at the chance to grab some “low-hanging fruit”. All this leaves a very nasty taste and does nothing to dispel the widely-held perception that parts of West Midlands Police are far too “pally” with Sandwell Council in general and with certain Councillors in particular. For example, see also their anxiety not to investigate Lying Lucy Cashmore etc and also Darren Cooper’s “purely coincidental” association with multiple troll accounts on Twitter (but then he is the Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel and so he must be protected at all costs mustn’t he!)

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Twitter Love Trolls #5

Twitter have been having a rough ride commercially in recent times and CEO Dick Costolo has been fired/forced to walk the plank. Advertising revenue is not what the laissez-faire Californians hoped for and is it any wonder when Twitter continue to allow trolls to run amok and discredit the whole enterprise?

In the fifth of an occasional series we look at another egregious "turning of the blind eye" by our Californian friends and, as ever, the case involves our local lover of troll accounts - @sandwelleader - who, unbelievably, actually is the Labour "leader" of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper!

Regular readers will know that Cooper associated himself with an account @OdgenW who went live using a fictitious name in early March. The primary purpose was to abuse (a) me and (b) UKIP and hundreds of posts poured forth from this troll. Cooper soon started following this troll and directly communicating with him (for it is a "him").

Cooper claimed not to know who the troll was but when "Mr Mole" and I set up a "sting" * my velvety friend sent me this on 27th March, 2015:

How strange then that two days LATER Cooper should tweet to a UKIP Councillor, Phil Garrett, claiming the exact opposite (surely deliberately and publicly giving a fellow Councillor false information is a breach of the Council's standards if nothing else?):









Cooper's constant lauding of the troll was risible even by his standards. As ever Twitter did take some action against the account but then saw fit to reinstate it - much to the "leader's" delight:

As the Labour Party hierarchy warned Cooper off his own account in the run up to the election he became brazen in his ludicrous support for the troll:

Curiously the now unemployed Cooper used to be a mental health nurse but was happy to continue with incessant communications with the troll even when the latter set up a "loony list" - attracting more complaints to Twitter:

(see further below).

Yet again Twitter refused to act on reports from myself and others and many hours of time were duly wasted until eventually even they "saw the light" and suspended @OdgenW. Right up to the moment of suspension Cooper was trying to direct traffic to the troll:

The moronic Cooper duly lamented Odgen's suspension (complete, as usual, with a missing apostrophe):

But, of course, as everyone bar West Midlands Police and Twitter can plainly see, as soon as one troll is suspended another one immediately pops up to continue the co-ordinated campaign. And this happened on the very next day when a semi-dormant account in the name of one @andrewhipkiss suddenly morphed into @Ennabran.

Now there is a real person called Andrew Hipkiss who supplied the covert footage of one of Cooper's enemies which the latter then immediately put on his Twitter account - earning himself a suspension in the process (the one and only time Twitter have taken action against bullying and abuse by @sandwellleader).

This was the Twitter profile for Hipkiss:

But when the account morphed into @Ennabran the profile became:

Suddenly this tosspot was claiming "disability" and when regular Sandwell Twitter watchers started to expose the account as yet another troll, the anonymous "Ennabran" started to whine that he was being attacked despite his alleged "condition". He claimed to have "several mental problem" [sic]. I am not sure what the policy of Twitter is to anonymous mentally-ill people running amok across their site (again, I am sure the advertisers are most encouraging of this) but the ludicrous troll tried to put up a ridiculous sob story that being abusive on Twitter was somehow therapeutic for his alleged conditions and to accuse people of bullying him!

 

Now Twitter may be taken in by this guff but the anonymous "Ennabran" does let his guard down. His real motive is to troll others and, if possible, to get their accounts suspended. As you will see from the above he has studied Twitter's rules and thinks he is clever enough to circumvent them (he is right so far). And there is more - setting out his true intentions:

And Twitter have received complaints about this guy but, once again, they have allowed this troll back into business. "Ennabran" - although remaining anonymous - claims to have sent his ID to Twitter:

So whose ID do Twitter have exactly and are they concerned that this self-confessed "mentally-ill" troll is telling the truth - particularly when this moron has been using Twitter to openly boast about his skills at forging ID documents!!!!!!

I am sure Twitter advertisers are also well-impressed that users "advertise" the ease of using fake ID documents!

As ever, @sandwellleader is directly communicating with the troll - in this example making yet another threat to me (he thinks it very clever as the leader [sic] of a large public authority to call me "#Skidmark"):

Once again the former mental health nurse Cooper is happy to keep following Ennabran despite his descriptions of people as "nutters" and "fruitcakes".

Of course, @sandwellleader has form for putting a covertly obtained photo of me on Twitter and another troll account - @notsandwellukip (also now suspended by Twitter) - put a covertly obtained photo of me talking to some UKIP candidates canvassing at the election and claimed this showed me as being a "Ukipper". Cooper and Ennabran then discussed this with the Council "leader" clearly approving this sort of clandestine street photography:

Now it seems to me there are three possibilities here -

1   The Hipkiss account was never the real account of Andrew Hipkiss but was set up to make us think that it is his account (sounds weird but there is some precedent for this is the web of Cooper-associated troll accounts);

2   Hipkiss is allowing his name to be used as "cover" for the trolls. If this is the case I hope he is not getting paid for this as the real Hipkiss claims to be unable to work and is reliant on state benefits;

3   Ennabran is Andrew Hipkiss. In which case was he also "Odgen"? Both accounts have more or less identical writing styles and use hundreds of photoboards/memes which must take hours of preparation (perhaps Andrew got some tips from his son, Ryan, who works for a digital tech company and who has been using such sites as Photoblip since 2011). I am sure Mr Hipkiss will wish to formally refute this and I look forward to hearing from him.

Clearly if Hipkiss is able to pour out literally hundreds of tweets in a very short space of time it begs the question why he is allegedly "unfit for work"?

The curious thing is that, despite complaints made, Twitter cannot seem to make the link between Hipkiss and Ennerbran and yet their own Advanced Search Facility does! Here is a search for UKIP + Andrew Hipkiss and look at the name on the tweets that pop up!!!!

The Ennabran account IS followed by Hipkiss's wife and by the son, Ryan. He is also a Facebook friend with, er, Councillor Darren Cooper!

West Midlands Police have been determined to protect Cooper thus far but why are Twitter so keen to do so? Perhaps if you have enough "followers" they simply don't care about his association with trolls...... I wonder if their advertising paymasters agree?

*  See my post - "Cooper Exposed":

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/cooper-exposed.html

For more on Ennabran see:

http://trollnemesis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/ennabran-as-at-11th-june-2015.html

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Cooper - "Conman Communicator"?

We all know that woman-bullying thug Darren "The Turdmeister" Cooper, the ludicrous Labour Leader [sic] of Sandwell Council, is not the sharpest tool in the box but I am grateful to "Mr X" for solving one little mystery about him.

Cooper was, of course, renowned throughout the land for his abusive Twitter account "@sandwellleader" until the Labour powers that be warned him off before the election. As he attempted to clean up his act on Twitter so there happened to spring up a whole host of "troll accounts" which he mysteriously associated himself with (one before it even went "live"). These accounts were too abusive even for the laissez-faire Californians at Twitter and most of them have now been suspended. Happily West Midlands Police are now investigating certain aspects of this sustained campaign of hatred and harassment.....

Unbelievably, The Turdmeister is trying to crawl out from the dog-turd smeared streets of Sandwell to try and resurrect his nose-diving career in the new "Greater Birmingham". Many senior figures in Brum are openly joking that this buffoon will not be allowed a significant role in the new "combined authority/talk shop" whilst allowing Turdy to act as the official cheerleader. Maybe they should learn some lessons from history - Von Papen springs to mind.

As Sandwell becomes increasingly mired in scandal and yet more failures (like another disastrous Ofsted report into their inadequate Children's Services and the Providence Place fiasco) come to light one has to wonder what the likes of Birmingham & Solihull hope to gain my allying themselves with this metropolitan basket-case but the ludicrous Turdy is trying to bounce them into a rushed and ill-thought-out "deal". There is an old saying - marry in haste and repent at leisure. Cooper should be personally well aware of this given his own disastrous first marriage but his egomania knows no bounds and he is desperate to use his flock of pliant comrades to support his promotion to a larger stage.

And so Greater Birmingham, you might as well start acquainting yourselves with the "real " Darren Cooper, the 2015 winner of The Skidder's national competition to find "Britain's Thickest Council Leader". Sadly, the unemployed Cooper pleaded an engagement elsewhere and was unable to attend out small awards ceremony at Oldbury's Stasi HQ:

But this moron quickly threw down the gauntlet to challengers for his crown in the 2016 competition with this little gem sent by him to one of his associated troll accounts OdgenW (now also suspended by Twitter):

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Apr 28

@OdgenW Don't forget he don't live here anymore. Just feel sorry for the poor folk in Wales now, having to put up with his whaling. #numpty

(Incidentally he is attacking a member of the, er, Labour Party who had the temerity to criticise him).

Cooper's childish behaviour knows no bounds and he thinks he can upset me (and my wife) by boasting about the bent Public deal and the destruction of the building by the Labour Council and Sandwell College and by mocking me for exposing the appalling "Three Degrees" statue scandal (see posts passim). Thus as Labour held on in the backwater of Sandwell, despite the meltdown of the Party nationally, Cooper immediately changed his Twitter profile and header photos after the election in a"statesman-like" riposte, though he didn't manage to align the header photo very well. You will see the laughing dimwit changed to a profile picture taken in The Public with the other £70m+ College building in the background. The header photo shows the disgraceful racist stunt when Labour Sandwell forced three black actors portraying three black footballers to be painted gold to advertise the private statue appeal of Jim Cadman where the allegedly cash-strapped Council are secretly pumping in thousands and thousands of pounds of public money. (Incidentally, for this particular stunt Cooper & Co paid for this by partly plundering monies received from the Arts Council for Sandwell Arts Festival [sic]). As it turns out, in a fitting visual metaphor, Cooper's header photo appears to show him placing his head as closely as possible to the groins of the three actors......

Spot the Dickhead!

The currently unemployed Cooper has now finally changed his false Facebook profile where he was claiming to still be employed by the NHS in the run up to the election but this semi-literate clown still claims to have studied at "Birmingham City University" - an odd statement for one who also used to claim that he had never read a book in his life. Nevertheless, dozy Daz still finds time to attack one of his most hated Tories for trying to maintain some standards:

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  7 hrs7 hours ago

Michael Gove is instructing his civil servants on grammar http://ind.pn/1GqYdWq 

A Curious Statement From "Mr Combined Authority" - "Lol"

Dunce Darren cannot string 140 characters together in a Tweet without f*cking it up and yet claims he writes a blog on behalf of Sandwell Council, the modestly-titled:

The Leader's Blog

Read the Leader of the Council's latest blog.

which is given prominent billing on the home page of the SMBC website.

Here are just a few examples of his pathetic boasts:

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Nov 5

Today's debate on devolution to be screened on BBC 1 tonight @bbcmtd see my blog post on Combined Authority's http://sandwellleader.org 

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Nov 7

@Hanpid No services or authorities will be amalgamated here's a bit more on my blog http://sandwellleader.org 

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Nov 10

The cold this morning reminded me that's its nearly time for our #snowchampion #scheme #Sandwell Details on my blog http://sandwellleader.org/2014/11/10/snow-champions-are-back-for-the-fourth-year/ …

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Jan 21

Action to improve Sandwell's academies! Check out my blog I'm not happy. http://sandwellleader.org/2015/01/21/action-to-improve-sandwells-academies/ … @sandwellcouncil

But Cooper is as thick as the canine-excrement he so often talks about and the blogs are, in fact, mostly written for him by the spin-doctors in the ludicrously over-sized and taxpayer-funded SMBC "Communications Unit". Whilst the Labour "socialists" axe front-line services and hundreds of their own staff they still manage to find half a million quid a year to fork out for this lot to send out rubbish tweets ad nauseum and to wipe Cooper's arse for him.

But avid followers of the Sandwell joke leader" always assumed that the long suffering Council press orifice were also responsible for Cooper's daily digest of topical subjects on Twitter (the Michael Gove tweet above being one such from today). Now we had already condemned as improbable fiction the prospect of the Smethwick Simpleton sitting down with a cup of Earl Grey and a tasty plate of Ukippers and scanning the august journals of the day before revealing partial, but occasionally erudite, insights. Turdy can probably manage "reading" The Beano and its reports of the antics of some of his fellow Labour Councillors, "The Cash Street Kids", but can he really manage "the papers" every morning? Indeed he cannot and does not but at least, for once, the taxpayer is not directly burdened by his deception.

Let us just look, by way of example at his inane Twitter account for 18th June, 2015. We have links to sundry newspaper articles with the occasional pro-Labour comment attached:

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Jun 18

F*** off and die! What Boris told cabbie in street row over taxi app http://dailym.ai/1G4Ga9n  <Rt The strain of being a back bencher.

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Jun 18

Labour leadership hopefuls clash but no clear winner in first televised debate http://gu.com/p/49qfq/stw 

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader Jun 18 Roaring pay growth could force Bank of England to raise interest rates | via @Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11682087/Roaring-pay-growth-could-force-Bank-of-England-to-raise-interest-rates.html …

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Jun 18

Margaret Thatcher's personal papers saved for nation after family donate them to reduce inheritance tax bill http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11682180/margaret-thatcher-personal-papers-

Cllr Darren Cooper ‏@sandwellleader  Jun 18

Scottish football fans given legal right to buy their clubs http://gu.com/p/49qfh/stw 

(Incidentally, most of these efforts are then faithfully retweeted by "The Tomb Raider", Labour's Cllr Sandars).

And so the good folk of Sandwell start their daily toil mightily impressed with the diligence and learning of their beloved Great Helmsman. Except that......

Spot the difference:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3128665/F-die-not-order-Boris-told-irate-cabbie-late-night-street-row-taxi-app-Uber-cycled-home-dinner.html  strain of being a backbencher starting to tell ?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/17/labour-leadership-hopefuls-clash-but-no-clear-winner-in-first-televised-debate

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11682087/Roaring-pay-growth-could-force-Bank-of-England-to-raise-interest-rates.html  so don’t feel too badly about your pay increase

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11682180/margaret-thatcher-personal-papers-saved.html  to avoid inheritance tax

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/17/scottish-football-fans-given-legal-right-to-buy-their-clubs

 And on and on it goes......

The fact is that Turdy is not reading the papers at all (as we always suspected) but simply doing a cut and paste job from a daily digest of articles - with and without the compiler's own comments - by local [MP] and ex-public schoolboy, er, John Spellar called "Spellar News - Early Bird" as shown in the five examples (of thousands) above. Spellar sends this out to any poor unfortunate in the Labour "movement" who will accept it.

Tweets - abusive and barely literate;
"My Blog" - a lie:
Daily News - plagiarised from Spellar.

Birmingham, Solihull et al - you have been warned......

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