In part one of "Steve Eling - You Are A F*cking Liar" I placed the entirety of Eling/Marshall's hate-filled message feed in the public domain (subject to a few unavoidable redactions). Eling and the financially and morally bankrupt Marshall originally denied the authenticity of the message feed (!) and so I wrote to the Sp*nk Brothers on 7th Nove
mber, 2017:
Dear Cllrs Eling and Marshall,
THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION
It has come to my attention from more than one source that you two - and particularly Cllr Eling - have been telling persons that the Whatsapp feed etc containing your campaigns against, inter alia, Cllrs Hussain and Ian Jones are fake and made up.
As you are both very well aware this is untrue and it is libellous.
I reserve my position, legally, with regard to the comments you have made to date.
Please be aware, however, that if you repeat these libellous statements then I shall commence legal proceedings against either or both of you without further recourse.
Cllr Marshall may, as a result of his bankruptcy, feel disinhibited and, therefore, able to repeat the libellous statements with abandon. This would be a mistake and he is advised to take legal advice. Whilst he is a man of straw and unable to pay damages he is still susceptible to an application for injunctive relief. Further repition may also amount to the criminal offence of harassment.
You should be well aware from your knowledge of me that I do not make idle threats. Make further libellous statements at your peril.
This communication will form part of my legal claims against you both if that becomes applicable.
Julian Saunders
Before we go on, let's just have a short history tutorial.... Let us go back to 2010/2011. The former Leader of the Council had been caught thieving. Four people came to prominence in the sh*tty and ineffectual Labour Council with disastrous consequences. Firstly, the man most Councillors even then knew to have a reputation for domestic violence and who had sh*t for brains - yes, the Smethwick Scumbag himself, Darren Cooper. Secondly, joint (very apt re Cooper....) Leader Steve Eling - the "go-to" man at Sadders and "the money man". Eling was employed - and still is - at basket case Rotherham Council and whilst owning a small property in the ghastly hell-hole that is Smethwick spent much of his time instead in the more agreeable surroundings of the Derbyshire countryside in a pretty cottage. Everyone says Eling knew "everything" that went on and "nothing happened" without his knowledge. In last week's Standards Hearing the bent and/or incompetent ex-employee David Willetts said in public that Eling and Hussain "controlled" the Asset Management and Land Disposal Committee totally with the other members, Cllrs Ian Jones and Simon Hackett, just being bit-part players. Thirdly, there was the other joint-Leader Mahboob Hussain who had the moronic thug Cooper under his thumb and members of his extended family embedded in jobs within the increasingly corrupt paid service including in Nick Bubalo's department and in the Legal Department under disgraced Solicitor, Neeraj Sharma. Last but not least, Jan Britton was appointed as "Chief Executive" "lol" despite a very thin CV and no obvious capability to fulfil that role. Happily Britton showed a malleability to the political will and a willingness to slag off the staff if they did not obey their "socialist" masters (eg the infamous 2012 blog - more anon - and the public dressing down of social workers in the horrific Sandwell Children's Services when the sh*t hit the fan. What could possibly go wrong.....
As Mr Willetts stated last week (though he is a proven liar) the Fab Four above declared that Sandwell was "open for business" and it soon transpired that Britton's bent staff were more than willing to facilitate fraudulent transactions (whilst Britton claims he was oblivious to what was really going on!) Very quickly, corruption, cronyism and incompetence became the order of the day.
Due to disclosures from this blog and some other concerned individuals pressure began to mount and, finally, corrupt West Midlands Police reluctantly had to agree to "investigate" the bent f*ckers. But Cllr Hussain was one of their "special friends" and, as we have seen many times in this blog, they had also cosied-up to many councillors through the "Sandwell Partnership" which top brass were reluctant to dismantle. Thus hardly a day went by when they didn't tweet favourably about the corrupt Council. People like Elaine Costigan became the unofficial WMP "Gold Commander" in Wednesbury and, it is alleged, was even allowed to park her car at the nick! Chief Constable Dave Thompson is still failing to apply the apply the law in the sh*thole Borough but then he was a big fan of the former wife-beater, Cooper......
What was to be done? A plan was hatched. Jan Britton would appoint an "independent" person to conduct "an enquiry" into a limited number of allegations (ignoring others like the Rouf house saga). For reasons that are totally unfathomable if malfeasance in public office was not occurring, WMP agreed to suspend their investigation whilst the "independent" one continued. This is criminal behaviour. The Police had a full panoply of investigative powers which the "independent" person did not but DELIBERATELY chose not to use them. Just by way of ONE (of many) examples - WMP only interviewed 4 people under caution- and two of them for a VERY short time. This blog believes that three of the four were Cllrs Hussain and Jones and Hussain's son, Azeem Hafeez. They did not interview under caution people like Jan Britton, Neeraj Sharma, Nick Bubalo and a number of other actors on this stage (and still have not done so to this day.) When the "independent" investigator took over, Azeem Hafeez simply refused to talk to him and thus the report that was prepared was totally useless. (Hafeez could have given "no comment" interviews to the police under caution but, contrary to TV dramas, that would have been a very risky strategy if he was charged later on.)
Jan Britton decided to employ Messrs Wragge and Co to prepare the report (the firm changes its name every other week and is now Gowling WLG but we will continue with Wragges). This is strange as bent Sandwell had already given the main Council legal contract to Ashfords (a "local" firm just down the road in, er, Exeter) but Britton and Neeraj Sharma were personally very "pally" with Wragges.
[An aside - this blog has shown that Neeraj Sharma was at a prestigious event in 2012 organised by Birmingham private school, King Edwards, hobnobbing with a number of partners of Wragges. The guest speaker - himself an alumnus of KES - was none-other than Andy Street - now the Mayor of West Midlands which no-one wanted. Mr Street has lost no time in promoting Wragges himself - also enjoying the hospitality of their Canadian branch as seen here:
Incidentally, since my earlier blog, KES have coyly removed the list of 2012 attendees (!) from their website though photos still show this City's "establishment" enjoying la dolce vita - including the BBC's Political Editor, Patrick Burns who has yet to utter a single word on the numerous scandals in Sandwell.]
This blog called it straight away and called it right. The appointment of Wragges was an attempt by crooked Sandwell to blunt the investigation (with, as we now know, the active connivance of a bent WMP officer or officers). The intention was that the Wragge Report would never see the light of day and Cooper, Britton and Eling were apparently determined that this would be the case (see further below).
Despite the useless report that Wragges eventually produced it did go much further than the comrades had intended - and pointed to many useful lines of enquiry for the Police to pursue though they chose not to despite their much more substantial legal powers.
As the "Maxwellisation" process dragged on [whereby named persons are given the opportunity to comment of the report before its release] the Smethwick Scumbag was worried. Anyone who passed Oldbury Council House in these months will have noted that instead of wandering the offices groping female employees, Cooper was perpetually outside pulling on a fag. And then the woman-bullying thug died in a drink and drug-fuelled "session" at his home at Easter, 2016 and Eling saw his opportunity to climb the greasy pole....
The Milkman has tried to portray himself as someone "draining the swamp" and clearing out the corruption endemic under Jan Britton's so-called "leadership". Yet Eling was one of the creators of "the swamp" and the guardian of the sluice gates throughout this period (see, for example, his heavy involvement in the proposed bent ice-rink deal). Like Britton, if he was not actively complicit in wrongdoing, he seems to have been so incompetent that he had no idea what was going on! But he (or his wife) saw that Hussain was finished and he could rule the roost (despite being one of the most boring men in Britain). Thus, in the Eling/Marshall papers exclusively exposed in this blog, The Sp*nk Brothers boasted that they had "forced" the eventual disclosure of a redacted copy of the Wragge Report in an effort to destroy Hussain (and Cllr Ian Jones at the same time.)
So was The Milkman really shining a light into dark corners for the benefit of the people in Sandwell? Or did he just have an eye for the main chance? The fact is that when Wragges were instructed Eling had NO INTENTION that their report would ever be put in the public domain. You don't believe me? Well here is his email - published as it is of considerable interest that it is in the public domain - he sent to Mahboob Hussain as late as 21st April, 2016 (!). The date is significant since it was after the death of The Scumbag so that Eling was Acting Leader [sic] and when the final content of the report was already known. Even
then Eling was determined to suppress it:
I will leave it to you dear readers to decide whether The Milkman is a champion of truth or a treacherous little sh*t!
I have made a Standards Complaint about The Sp*nk Brothers to Sandwell Council which the new Monitoring Officer, Surjit Tour, is trying to block. I will shortly be adding some other matters to it including this email since Eling had
no legal right to attempt to suppress the public disclosure of a Council report. It shows his total contempt and disrespect for the grovelling lickspittle Jan Britton but it was the joke Chief Executive who had nominally commissioned the report. In a properly functioning council where the chief executive has (metaphorical) balls and is not perpetually on his knees rimming the anuses of his political masters it is a decision for him/her to decide whether or not this type of report should be disclosed. Of course, we all know the reality in Sadders and why Britton is STILL in post after seven years of calamity but here, for once, we have stone wall evidence of The Milkman overstepping the legal mark.
[Mr Tour is a very busy man at the moment but took precious time to complain to Twitter that SMBC claimed copyright on a photo of The Milkman which has been widely used, eg by The Halesowen News and thus stopping a local media company from using it! This is what your Council Tax is really being used for folks....]
Returning to the subject of the commissioning of the Wragge Report - Jan Britton decided to flout the Council's procurement rules and not put the job out to tender. He agreed with his friends at Wragges that no-one else should get a look in so had no real bargaining position. Despite the comrades constantly moaning about alleged "Tory austerity" affecting Sadders rather than their 43-year history of failure, Jan Britton took it upon himself to agree a fee of - wait for it - £100,000 (yes, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) for it - just to stymie the police investigation and protect the corrupt Council. They are STILL refusing to say what the final bill was but The Skidder can exclusively reveal that Wragges started the job and, as "any fule kno" - then had the Labour tossers over a barrel so that pathetic Jan Britton agreed - without tender - to pay them an EXTRA £85,000 making the final bill AT LEAST £185,000!!!!!! (Clearly this joke had not learned anything from the IMPOWER contract cock-up which also went way over budget and in which HE was intimately involved.)
(There is a bizarre rumour going round Sandwell which surely cannot be true? It is that Jan Britton realises he has zero chance of getting another CEO position in any council that is not as corrupt as Sadders and so his grand plan is to "groom" (ahem) the charismatic David Stevens as his successor on the basis that Stevens will return the favour by giving him lots of "consultancy work". As ever, info welcome.....}
AND FINALLY....
This blog has frequently mentioned the sheer hypocrisy of Sandwell Labour's p*ss and wind brigade - the likes of self-proclaiming "socialists" like potty-mouthed Cllr Bob Piper and "socialist Landord" John "Jedward" Edwards - who spend so much time slagging off capitalism whilst Sandwell Labour Group cosy up to the likes of Interserve and give them multi-million PFI and untendered contracts.
Thus it was no surprise that the ridiculous Jedward would take to Twitter to condemn the Tories using Carillion, the large local construction firm which has gone bust this morning:
But who have been very vocal cheerleaders for, er, Carillion being given the multi-million pound contract (under yet another dodgy PFI contract) to build the new Sandwell Hospital in Smethwick? Yes folks, step forward the "socialists" in Sandwell Labour Group! You couldn't make it up....
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