Great news as Sandwell's very own Sarah James continues her meteoric rise from Tipton to, well, who knows where?
Little is known of Sarah's background and education but in 2008 she joined Sandwell Council. As we know it's an incestuous world in Sadders and her Dad, Rob Timbrell, had also been on the books. She started in the heady world of Customer Service where she remains to this day. I believe she has reached the heady heights of Band D.
I am not sure how or why her first marriage failed but Ms Nightingale, as she had become, began to associate with Darren James - a man with an interesting background with women if ever there was one.
The couple married in 2010 or 2011 - I disremember which. Alas, as predicted last year by a prominent local (female) Labour figure, things were not to last and "Dazza" was given the Spanish Archer.
In 2011 she first became a GMB Union rep. Like many who have not had a privileged upbringing this was the possible escape hatch from sh*thole Sandwell to the stars!
Darren - also a GMB union rep - and Sarah became close to Smethwick Scumbag Darren Cooper, the late and disastrous Leader of the corrupt Council. Indeed it was to Dickhead Daz Cooper Sarah turned on that fateful late December night in 2014 when she sought the "Leader's" approbation for her actions.
Nearly
everyone I have ever spoken to close to Sandwell Labour knew the stories of Cooper beating-up his first wife apart, seemingly, from Sarah who was happy to be photographed with him for her excellent charity work opposing domestic violence against women! Ooops - we all mistakes and I am sure that also explains why she was also following his most vicious troll account where he was constantly attacking my wife!
Readers may be able to help me fill in the bio - but at some point Darren and Sarah fell under the spell of that charismatic good-guy, Tom "Former Ten Bellies" Watson. Sarah was now living in his constituency. (More recently, Cuddly Tommy has been given the bum's rush by Len McCluskey/Unite the Union and, by happy chance, is now finding solace and cash from Sarah's very own GMB!)
Dazza found his way onto the local Labour Campaign Forum although that ended in tears when it was suspended amidst all sorts of shennanigans [surely not in Sandwell? - Ed] but Sarah and dear Tom bonded (non-sexually.) And as with other young (and not so young) women the kindly Watters has taken under his protective wing (Peacock, Gill etc) her upward trajectory accelerated. And we can now begin to chart this splendid story for posterity!
Sarah has been close/very close to some of the main players in the Sandwell disasters of the last few years - Cooper, Eling, Hackett (and Mrs H), Gavan "lol", Costigan "double lol" and, of course, the Supreme Leader himself, Watson. A normally reliable source even says she is friends with Mrs Eling but I assume that cannot actually be the case. And she is going great guns with the GMB. In addition to her branch duties she is currently the lead for women sitting on the GMB National and Regional Equality fora as well as being a member of the Regional women's group.
In 2015 Sarah was honoured at the TUC for her "imaginative use of communication" (something I can certainly vouch for):
Her branch has gained such power and influence that it has even been able to arrange unlawful covert surveillance of me via Sandwell Council although I am sure Sarah will not have been personally involved in that. (More to come on that story.)
Back in 2015 Sandwell Labour and associates were all for Tom Watson in his successful bid to become Deputy Dog of the Labour Party with Dazza J particularly enthusiastic:
And - one for the scrap book here - a photo of the arch-Brexiteer the Jezatollah at a "Remain" event with Sarah ( the old shagger Jezza even wearing an "In" sticker!):
And this was not the only time she was cosying up to the man Watson seemingly seeks to, er, destroy:
And when the terrorist-lover did one of his Nuremberg-style rallies in the heart of darkness, Sandwell itself, in November, 2017 Sarah was on stage directly behind the "leader":
And there are many photos of her with the former rutting-walrus of which this is one:
And in 2017 the self-appointed Nonce-Finder General praised Sandwell's Sarah at the #AskHerToStandDay at the House of Commons to promote the entry of more women into parliament. Watson has worked his magic with Peacock and Gill before - can he sway a seat for Sarah? Surely we all hope so?
Sarah has visited Westminster on other occasions and is a regular on the Union conference circuit. More plaudits came in 2018 when she was involved in the GMB's "Dying to Work Campaign". Apparently this is a significant problem and Sarah "persuaded her employers", Sandwell Council, to sign the Charter providing employment protection for terminally-ill workers. Here are Sarah and Dazza with their friend. the former Sandwell dictator, Steve "Squealing" Eling, whose political career was itself just about to take a possibly terminal turn for the worse:
And 2018 brought another award - The GMB's prestigious "Eleanor Marx Award" which brought her much well-deserved publicity.
No wonder Sarah is "one to watch" in Sandwell! And it gets even better!
In January, 2019 a mysterious honour was bestowed upon our rising star. Multistory are a local arts charity in Sandwell and, like most other local organisations are up the arse of the comrades., Multistory have their offices (presumably at favourable rent) in West Bromwich Town Hall and also receive direct funding from the corrupt Council. They put up a plaque naming the "women of Sandwell" 2019 and a cursory examination of the list shows the names of some of "the usual suspects". But when Multistory were asked what exactly Sarah had done to merit inclusion they said they received a single nomination (Costigan?) but they could not tell me who it was or what they were nominating Sarah for because of, wait for it, "data protection reasons". But I am sure we all think that whatever Sarah did it was more than sufficient to gain this recognition. Of course, this whole
charade event had the usual political overtones and the ill-fated former Deputy Leader of the bent Council, Syeda Khatun, was on hand to unveil the plaque!
During the Interregnum when Steve "Luvvie" Trow was - hilariously - the short-lived "Leader" of the basket-case Council they felt the need to deal with another pressing problem - supporting employees who suffer domestic violence. I am sure most of us support the victims of this form of abuse but were unaware that employers need a charter to assist them in helping employees in that horrible predicament. One imagines that if an employer like Sandwell Council became aware of such abuse it would assist the victim anyway but hey ho, the GMB says there must be a charter and so be it. In April, 2019 Sarah was sitting in the chamber itself during full Council and was invited up to sign this important document. On returning to her seat she took the chance to pat ex-Cabinet member Elaine Costigan, her friend, on the shoulder and have a few words. All this delighted her union:
(Bizarrely the incestuous Sandwell Council has a large number of employees who are inter-related. It is a wonder with so many "couples" working there plus the amount of casual shagging, that there are not outbreaks of domestic violence actually on the premises. Perhaps that's what the powers that be were more worried about! Also, does SMBC need instruction on this subject when it has been so assiduous in providing housing immediately to domestic violence victims where reconciliation is immediate but the family then has two houses? And what an event this would have been if the wife-beater Cooper had still been Leader and had been called upon to sign the Charter!!!!)
And who should also support Sarah in this campaign than another (toxic) friend in high Labour circles:
(Images from 2019)
(Curiously Jess Phillips is another campaigner against domestic abuse who has found forgiveness in her heart for the perpetrators of this appalling conduct. She became good pals with former wife-beater Cooper!)
Sarah is on YouTube addressing a union conference and is now a keynote speaker at other trade union events and so you can follow her string of successes on social media. She is on first name terms with the GMB General Secretary, Tim Roache, who seems to be taking a special interest in Sandwell as he recently "liked" a tweet from one of the many current troll accounts attacking this blog!
She has remained loyal to her friend Tom "One Belly" Watson. An attractive trait but a dangerous one in politics...
(2019 images):
And her loyalty has been rewarded in his personal fiefdom - West Brom East CLP - where just a couple of months ago her stellar progress continues and she was elected by local Labour members as CLP vice-chair - understudy to The Godfather, John Giles. A proud moment indeed:
Addendum - GMB "Family" 22/10/19:
Until recently, politics has been a rough old game and not one for the hyper-sensitive. Sarah has London-based Watson as a mentor and if she maintains her (non-sexual) relationship with him she will soon develop the hide of a rhinoceros. She is on the up and up at the moment but might reflect on the current fate of some of those named-above whose downfall has been rapid and, in some cases, shaming.
If Watson and/or the GMB cannot force her into a constituency at the forthcoming election will her opportunity be gone? Tom, so stylish in his ways, is as popular as a turd in a swimming pool with much of the Labour Party and her close association with him has not gone unnoticed by "the left". The Corbynistas are making inroads into the party structure and taking control in many areas. Strangely, WBE CLP is not one of them as Watson's pack of loyalist rimmers easily saw off a trigger ballot challenge recently. The left-wing Skwawkbox commented on the Friar Park ballot where Sarah is identifiable:
If she is forced into a proper selection process for a seat she is likely to face a Corbynista and in many places her close association with the former fat man will not go down at all well.
And there are other existential threats. Tommy's deeply-principled stand on remaining within the EU is at odds with this Brexit-voting constituents and many are very angry with him. In this febrile atmosphere George Galloway is threatening to throw his hat into the ring. There is a glimmer of hope that this seat-squatter may, at last, be beaten. And his power over the local Council is waning as the left and other anti-Watson elements gain sway. Her guide and mentor may not be around politically for much longer....
And the man who drove an innocent man to his death with false allegations of the vilest kind has already fallen out with, and lost the patronage of, Unite the Union. Whilst the right-wing GMB are prepared to pander to his tune their patience can also be stretched too far as this comment (quoted via The Skwawkbox) from their nominal leader, Roache, makes clear:
And Jess Phillips may be a grotesque freak show for the media at the moment but may yet prove to be mad, bad and dangerous to know....
But hey, we are here to celebrate Sarah - not to bury her! And she has just gone "national" again as a GMB rep at last week's Labour Party Conference!
The local GMB at least was delighted (as was another from the Watson School, Preet Gill MP):
The Labour Shadow Cabinet has no "big-hitters" (with the exception of Keir Starmer and, in a sinister way, the Commie McDonnell) but at least Sarah is hobnobbing with some of them eg image bottom left in the picture above.
As part of her GMB equalities brief Sarah has been very active recently working with LGBT+ folk. She has a new bloke (described to The Skidder as "very heterosexual") but dragged the love off to Warwickshire Pride where he can be seen in pics grinning from underneath the GMB gazebo. She has been schmoozing Sandwell Liberal supremo, Bryan Manley-Green, and was seen leaving Watson's trigger ballot arm-in-arm with Watson's pathetic greaser, Bill "Yellow" Gavan. So well done Sarah for your efforts to drag these good people kicking and screaming into the bosom of the thuggish GMB.
Yes, the last couple of years have been good ones for Ms James, that's for sure!
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