So many people have worked so hard to bring enlightenment to the corruption-loving morons of bent Labour Sandwell, but all to no avail. After brief glimmerings of hope that things might change, all hope is lost and the Six Towns face unmitigated disaster on 2nd May when a tiny number of local residents will bother to turn out and vote to keep the Labour dictatorship in power despite its half-century (yes - 50 years) of failure, corruption, cronyism and incompetence. This will be the blackest day for Sadders since this blog started!
For what it is worth we shall look at some of the "runners and riders" on the ballot for 2nd May and discuss here some of the wider themes which should influence this election - none of which constitute constitute good news for Sadders. There is no point in exhorting Sandwell people to get off their knees since that's where the majority of locals want to stay (as my annual "Scum-Counter" enumerates). Good luck folks - you're going to need it! Labour will be triumphant in most, if not all seats, and Michael Gove's Commissioners have shown them how to screw people over without opposition. Democracy has been in very short supply in Sadders, but will be extinguished on 2nd May for the foreseeable.
Tories Out - Including Street!
Before we look at the wards we need to look at a slightly bigger picture. The Tories nationally are in disarray, and are imposing the highest taxes on us (or, at least, on those of us who pay taxes, which excludes many in the poverty ghetto of Sandwell) for decades.
I have never been a Tory nor voted for that Party, but was delighted when they gained some MP's and Councillors in Sandwell. At last here was an opportunity for some real opposition to, and scrutiny of, the Labour fraud machine. Alas, these inexperienced, naive and duplicitous individuals decided that rather than doing what is right (in the moral sense), they would "play" politics instead. Local community activist, Darryl Magher, and I offered to do research for this shower so that they could attack Labour corruption, but a close Conservative source tells me that Shaun Bailey and Nicola Richards ordered that our services must not be used. Thus the local councillors - when they have bothered to turn-up for meetings - have embarrassed themselves with a string of pointless questions and motions on pathetic issues whilst ignoring the "elephant in the room" - the Labour corruption! Meanwhile allegations of racism rend the air as Tory factions fight each other rather than do the job they were elected to do.
West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street has been a pernicious influence on Sandwell Toryism, also sowing division between his (metaphorical) rimmers and the rest. He is up for election in May and so Sandwell also has the opportunity to get rid of him - which it should take.
Given Street's penchant for braggadocio it is no surprise that he is as big a bullsh*tter as Boris Johnson, and the pair have much in common. Both have used the very high taxes imposed by their own, Tory, Party and blown a lot of the loot on projects which they believe make them likeable - or,at least, good.
That highly respected publication, The Economist, recently wrote about The Master Blagger (as someone recently called Street on social media). Despite his years in office and constant stream of Borisonian boosterism and bullsh*t The Economist says that he "has barely begun to move the dial". The mythical "Midlands Engine" has not stuttered into life, he didn't get Channel 4 to come here and the ruinously costly z-list Commonwealth [sic] Games contributed to the bankruptcy of Birmingham (and also saddled bent Sandwell with probably the most expensive leisure centre in Britain - stuck up a backstreet and disastrously expensive to operate).
Don't shed any tears for Street when he loses. Rishi Sunak will be publishing his departure "Honours" List soon as he leaves Downing Street for California when there will be every chance Street is ennobled, and then able to purvey his particular brand of b*llocks from the red benches of the House of Lords.
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I put up with a lot writing this blog but was absolutely disgusted when the Tory Group of Councillors sat mute whilst bent Labour shafted me up the derriere. People who had tried to use me were only too happy to sh*t on me. That's the sort of people we are dealing with here. Thus I have personal experience of how two-faced and dishonourable these people are (although, it has to be said, just like their Labour counterparts).
The apogee of all our collective work against Labour corruption came with the appointment by a Tory Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of Commissioners to sort out Labour's mess. Besides the enormous cost of this to us taxpayers, the local Tory MP's and Councillors simply abdicated any scrutiny of bent Labour to the Commissioners who duly went ahead and showed the Dictatorship how to force their perverted policies on the benighted Borough more quickly and efficiently than before. Rhi Storer, one of the few local journalists of any worth, pointed out the bloated nature of Council meeting agendas. Sometimes there were over 20 substantive issues per meeting being forced through on the Labour nod. The Tory Councillors - or at least those who had actually bothered to turn up - sat in total silence and just let it happen. It is clear from conversations that Darryl and I have had with local Tories that many of these jokers had not even read the Council papers before these meetings, and so were in no position to even attempt to raise objections, meaningful or otherwise. Shocking laziness and incompetence.
Shaun Bailey MP was as guilty as the Tory Councillors. He wrote to a constituent (who was so disgusted s/he sent me a copy of the letter) wherein he feebly moaned that he was "disappointed" with the Commissioners. Well what the f*ck did he, James Morris MP and Nicola Richards MP do about it? Nothing that is in the public domain, that's for sure, and the feeble Council Tory Group did nothing either.
The Tories supported a pay-off for Surjit Tour instead of campaigning for his instant dismissal (and even though he p*ssed all over them on a number of occasions!) They allowed Labour to give away land to crony charities. They have not raised any serious questions relating to the whole Aquatic Centre/Leisure Trust fiasco (possibly on the instructions of Street?) There is much, much, more in this shaming record of inactivity and failure.
Even worse, I was outside many Council meetings when Tory Councillors pretended to support the Save Brandhall Campaign. Some spoke regularly to campaigners whilst others made "thumbs-up" signs to them which everyone naturally took as gestures of support. But whilst (former) Tory Councillor, Jay Anandou, backed the campaign to the hilt his colleagues, especially Cllrs Fisher, Chapman and even Dunn, were preparing to shaft local residents - 80% of whom, in a poll, had opposed the development on beautiful green space. Here are Tory Cllrs Fisher (second from left) and Gill allegedly supporting the campaign before the Tories publicly sh*t on the campaigners:
The local Tories have always paid lip-service to protecting Lion Farm Fields but given how they f*cked-over the Brandhall people it is probably better if they keep their noses out. Indeed the Labour plan to destroy the Fields is still on (as recently confirmed to me directly by the Commissioners) yet Labour have also earmarked the site for at least 200 houses in the Local Plan. Why haven't the useless Tories been all over this? Again, total silence. Of course, this may be down to the evil influence of Street again since readers of this blog will know that he has always been silent on this issue - refusing to condemn the corrupt plan by developer Jeremy Knight-Adams to destroy 19 ha of green space. This, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with Street's property developer pal, whom he always refers to as "Jeremy", being a significant donor to the Tory Party! As with Brandhall, it makes Street's "Brownfield-first" policy look like the b*llocks it actually is.
There is much more I could say here but without wishing to make this post too long I cannot move on without referring to the general conduct of the Tory Councillors. We will come back to Fisher's racist outbursts below, but the local Conservative Party has not been able to control itself and has split asunder. Cllrs Anandou and Kalari were forced out of the Tory Group and the traitorous Cllrs Williams and Wilkes have defected to Labour despite knowing that it is hopelessly corrupt locally! We have long known that a number of Tory Councillors have been (metaphorically) fellating the odious Labour Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore for reasons which are wholly inexplicable to all watchers of Sandwell politics. But we do now know that Fisher and his colleagues were not rocking the Labour boat since they were attempting to negotiate a status for their enfeebled and divided Group with some of them being officially named as a "shadow Cabinet" - thereby feathering their own nests. Absolutely sickening.
The local Federation is said to have over 200 members yet so few people turned out for the recent AGM that the meeting was inquorate - in other words, there were not enough people there for the meeting to go ahead under the Federation's own rules. But, shockingly, the meeting still, er, went ahead! When I raised this shocking situation Cllr Dunn told me to mind my own business! Thus the local Party is not even prepared to abide by its OWN rules and so is clearly unfit to be any part of the political process.
This omnishambles continued with the selection of a guaranteed loser to contest the parliamentary seat of West Brom East (see further below) being vacated by Runaway Richards. At one selection meeting a local Federation clique tried to force a candidate from Milton Keynes on their colleagues and, allegedly, packed the meeting with supporters. Alas, it is claimed that many were not current Federation members and the meeting had to be abandoned!
Last week there was a re-run. Even given that most local Tories must be absolutely disgusted with the conduct of Richards, this is still an important decision and one where the local constituency has real power and influence. It was initially claimed that only NINE members actually turned up. This was publicly denied by Cllr Dunn. The Tories selected a bloke (don't bother with the name since he will get hammered at the General Election and you will never hear of him ever again) who apparently comes from Surrey and gives his address on LinkedIn as "London area" (although the Labour candidate is another blow-in too - but she got the gig thanks to being a - metaphorical - handmaiden of Tom "Twatson" Watson). This is the embarrassing picture the Tories put up on social media of the great crowd (lol) of members cheering the victory of a man not known to have any Sandwell connections and who lives 100-plus miles away. Oh and I forgot to mention that he was actually trying to get the seat in Middlesborough South and Cleveland East oop North! As of Wednesday 17th April his website still shows him campaigning for that area! What an absolute joke - and a sick one at that.
Besides the candidate (third from left doing a "Donald Trump") there are nine party members in the photo. On the original there is - possibly - someone's arm on the far left and someone took the photo. That brings us to a possible 11 members who turned up. In fact, sources now tell the Skidder the full compliment was a massive, er, 13 members!
If even the local Party members are washing their hands of the Party why the hell should Sandwell people vote for it? If you are still minded to, then judge them by their record which you can read on the back of a postage stamp. Oh, and the Tories couldn't find sufficient candidates for the 24 wards of Sadders and so a number of candidates are purely paper candidates only, who will not receive sufficient funds and/or help to campaign properly. Disaster looms and so it should.
As we saw in a recent post, Michael Gove's Commissioners had a free hand in Sandwell with no Tory opposition/scrutiny, and his junior Minister for Local Government, Simon Hoare MP, publicly rimmed (metaphorically) Dim Kez the Liar and her colleagues when the intervention ended with, er, the Dictatorship considerably strengthened (especially with a pliant statutory auditor in place). We also saw the same Minister, Hoare, also publicly humiliate Shaun Bailey in the House of Commons in respect of his barmy "scrap Sandwell" plan. Even the Tories nationally think the local Conservative MP's and Councillors are a joke!
I am not sure many people think the Tories are doing a good job nationally, but the Conservatives in Sandwell are not fit for purpose. I will be sorry if young Will Gill goes off the Council since he has been a breath of fresh air but, alas, his youthful enthusiasm and verve have been slowly tempered by Bailey, Fisher and the Party apparatus. This guy has a lot to offer, but needs to develop his own voice rather than simply being another puppet.
The Left comes out with all kinds of claptrap and often trots out (pun intended) the inane phrase, "Never Trust a Tory". Although a silly and stupid utterance I am afraid it's is getting perilously close to becoming accurate in respect of Sandwell Conservatives. Not only is there all the above nonsense (and much more) but the appalling behaviour of Nicola Richards MP in WBE is the rancid icing on the putrefying Tory cake. I have written about this at length in other posts. The Tories did magnificently to win "Red Wall" seats in 2019, but have now given the finger to Labour voters who switched and voted Tory. Now it's payback time.
Incredibly, top Tory, Penny Mordaunt, has been involved in this shaming degringolade. There is also a very bizarre rumour going around - emanating from Tories - that the weasel Street initially backed Richards's plan to shit on West Brom and go for the (supposedly) safe Tory seat in Solihull, where Street also wields considerable (malign) influence. Street is the archetypal chancer, and having realised, so it is said, that he has made yet another error it is alleged he is not even speaking to Richards. Whether this is true or not I cannot say. Most local Tories grovel before King Andy but there are still a fair few who can see through him. Maybe it is true or maybe it an attempt to smear him, but the story does fit in with Street's character traits i.e., to blow whichever way suits Andrew John Street.
Liebour - cronyism rules supreme
The usual suspects are put forward by bent Liebour in the full knowledge that local scum will ensure they are elected to continue the corruption and incompetence which has marked 50 years of Labour failure in sh*thole Sandwell. (See the annual "scum-counter" on this blog.)
The Lying Leader, Kerrie "Dim Kez" Carmichael, herself is up for re-election. A major (metaphoprical) rimmer of the tyrannical former "Leader", Steve "Squealing" Eling she was part of his Cabinet and fully supported him and CE Jan Britton when they institutionalised and organised extensive corrupt practices in Sadders. This blog showed how she was unable to control herself actually inside an election count and how she lied twice is a full, public, Council meeting within MINUTES of being elected Leader. You can see Lie Number One here:
In true incestuous Sandwell Labour-style a close family member also works for the Council and so the taxpayer is filling the Carmichael family pot in grand style.
Besides her involvement with the Eling/Britton corruption, Dim Kez has appointed two of the most corrupt Labour Councillors to her own, current, Cabinet - Simon Hackett and Syeda Khatun. That should tell you all you need to know but, just in case you are unconcerned, look at this endorsement "lol" of Dim Kez from two years ago:
Sandwell Labour are notorious for their "shit to a blanket" approach to candidate selection. Liebour Councillors agree to support corruption in the safe knowledge that if they lose their seats they will be slotted-in somewhere else next time around. Thus, this year, pathetic people that local electors threw out in the past because they are so useless ,"Puffing" Jenny Chidley and Elizabeth Giles, are being forced upon voters in Wednesbury South and Friar Park respectively. There is a reason these people were thrown out but the residents in these wards are probably too thick to comprehend this, even if they care.
They may be useless halfwits but the Giles family knows how to milk the taxpayer big-style! Not long ago there were FIVE of these grunting morons representing Liebour on the Council. Their influence is totally bewildering, but then they support Labour corruption locally through thick and thin. As above, Charlie Ward threw out the pathetic Elizabeth Giles last year but Labour wants her back with her snout in the trough. Unfortunately, most residents of Sandwell actually like all this and want more of the same.
One person who has been deeply involved in the corruption, cronyism and incompetence of bent Labour for well-over a decade is the odious Cllr Paul "The Cipher" Moore. A person who publicly states he is in a relationship with Moore, Connor Horton, is now the candidate for Great Barr with Yew Tree despite being a current Labour Councillor in, er, Walsall. I wrote this to Horton but he has declined to respond although he HAS deliberately concealed his Sandwell address from voters!
"THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION - PRESS ENQUIRY
I understand that it is confirmed that you will be standing in Great Barr with Yew Tree in May despite being a Labour Councillor in Willenhall South. The Walsall Council website states that your current stint started in 2022.
Have I missed something here but doesn't your current term still have some time to go? When were you due to face the electorate again?
I note you are concealing your address in the Walsall Register of Interests and my understanding is that you live at Paul Moore's residence in Sandwell. You qualified to stand in Walsall by dint of your employment there. Are you claiming residence in Sandwell to qualify to stand in GB with YT?"
Notice of Poll:
And the big wheel of Liebour cronyism keeps on turning. One of Labour's very biggest failures was collapse of Children's Services. Things got so bad under Eling and Hackett - and so many kids were being mentally, physically and/or sexually abused - that the Service [sic] had to be taken out of bent Labour's hands and run by a Trust. Of course, the couldn't care less people of Sadders were indifferent to child abuse and continued to back bent Labour.
Who better to have as another crony Labour Candidate than the son of former Labour Mayor and Alderman, Ahmadul Haque? Yes, the lucky folk of the toilet known as "Great Bridge" can vote for Muhammed Khurshid Ul-Haque (Khurshid Haque on the ballot). I mention his full name since if you Google it (or just read an earlier Skidder post) you will note that Haque was struck off the register as a senior social worker in 2013 for unlawfully operating a boarding school (whilst, natch, being employed by bent Labour Sandwell Council). The disciplinary panel found that there were no fire extinguishers/smoke alarms, crowded conditions, potentially hazardous electric wiring, a blocked fire exit and insufficient washroom facilities. Proper criminal record checks on staff had not been completed. The disciplinary panel chair said, "Mr Haque had put the residents of the boarding house, most of whom were children, at risk of serious harm." This on top of his taxpayer-funded day job. Surely even the morons of Great Bridge are not going to vote for this joker?
I cannot say anymore (yet) on the worst candidate of all - Peter "Zorro" Hughes (Skidders passim ad nauseum). Everyone knows what this **** is like - and up to - in Wednesbury North but keep voting for him. And this guy and his bent wife, former Labour Councillor Pam Hughes, have got Sandwell's Chief Executive, Shokat Lal, in their pocket (also Skidders passim). Pam Hughes would have been subject to a conduct enquiry for failure to disclose material interests had she not come off the Council, but Lal doesn't care and takes them out on taxpayer-funded p*ss-ups
Greens make another futile gesture
Apart from, admittedly low-profile, Mark Redding there are no Green candidates with any track record whatsoever in Sadders. Indeed they do absolutely f'all in Sadders for twelve months, but then have the chutzpah to expect people to vote for them each May. More particularly, they have been totally anonymous on "green issues" in Sadders - notably the Labour plans to destroy green spaces at Londonderry Fields (now destroyed), Brandhall (soon to be partially destroyed) and Lion Farm (under Labour threat).
I have occasionally voted Green, but when I mentioned their lack of involvement in Sandwell on X (formerly Twitter) the Party simply blocked me on their account! That is apparently the way they like to treat their supporters and so who knows what their policy is to win over undecided voters! ROFLMAO!
There is a fallow year next year (I think) in Sandwell with no Council elections. Wait and see the Greens do two solid years of local campaigning before you even consider voting for them.
Liberals: "Fuhrer" selects troll for Oldbury Ward!
The Liberal Democrats have a decent record in local government elections and have some decent councillors dotted about the country. This make it all the more surprising they do so badly in Sadders. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, like the Greens they do f*ck all in between elections. They have been entirely silent on Labour corruption for many years and have not involved themselves in ANY important local campaigns. Each election time they put up a list of complete political unknowns and/or done-nothings and, like the Greens, somehow think they are deserving of votes. No chance!
Secondly, despite posing as a "democratic" Party the local Lib Dems are under the control of crazed Fuhrer, Mark Smith (Skidders passim ad nauseum). This guy is so rabidly anti-Tory he has said absolutely nothing over the last 11 years about Labour corruption in Sandwell. Indeed, he and his colleagues (with the exception of Clive Heywood who was involved in the Save Brandhall campaign) are not known to have said anything about anything. As with the Greens, don't bother to vote for these non-entities until they have done a couple of years of daily campaigning in the rottenest of rotten Labour Boroughs.
Smith was made aware a while ago that one of his enthusiastic new recruits is the known-social media troll, Wikas Khan. Nevertheless, the absurd Smith thinks he is a suitable LD candidate for Oldbury!
Wikas is believed to be related to Basharat Khan (Skidders passim). Bash says that Wikas is NOT his nephew, but they are close. Wikas is said not to have two brain cells to rub together and is the puppet of Bash (and, as we shall see, he was keen to echo Bash on social media). Bash has other interesting family connections too. In one social media post Wikas referred to Bash as "our beloved leader"????? Here they are together at the cricket:
Bash had Tory connections (and I believe - though this is unconfirmed - that he was once a Tory candidate in Tipton Green). He then tried his hand with Labour where he was eventually suspended by the Party after this blog exposed his vile antisemitic tweets. Now his proxy is standing for the Lib Dems!
Bash ran two long-standing campaigns against the Council (Skidders passim). Firstly, to get the taxpayer to give some extra land to the Mosque in Gate Street, Tividale and, secondly, to get his hands on a plot of land behind his shop. In the first case he notoriously told a Labour parliamentary candidate in writing that unless he helped the Mosque get the land all the worshippers there would not vote for him!
Bash and Wikas also have connections of a dubious nature - not least with former Labour Cllr Mohammed Yaseen Hussain (aka Billa, aka The Tipton Tosser). Smith will know that Wikas used to sing the praises of Billa on social media, but he is so detached from reality this is not ringing hundreds of alarm bells!
Bash was also involved in the evil plot to bring down (then) Cllr Jo Hadley
Bash and Wikas ran extensive trolling campaigns on Twitter and involved themselves in ones run by others, including ex-Labour Cllr Dave Hosell. Bash was suspended for "abuse and harassment" whilst Wikas violated the rules relating to "hateful conduct":
Wikas is to liberal thought what Vladimir Putin is to democracy. Smith knows this but must have reasons of his own for selecting him. What are they, Mark?
And how strange that supposed lefties with social consciences who have moved into the Fuhrer's bunker like Clive Heywood, Richard Jones and Richard McVittie are happy to be photographed with this poisonous guy? An absolute disgrace for a democratic Party.
Incidentally, the Lib Dems have produced an electoral leaflet pointing out the depravity of Sandwell folk where crime, physical and sexual abuse is prevalent. The imbecilic Fuhrer put out a leaflet attacking the Tories and Labour for the 50 years of, er, Labour failure (!) but pointed out that the benighted Borough is scarred by "pockets of depravation". At least this fool got that bit right!
I have asked the questions many times. If Smith loves Liebour so much why the f*ck doesn't he just join them (although he seems to like being a minnow in a tiny puddle)? And why does the Party nationally not intervene to stop this pathetic annual charade and actually start taking an interest in Sadders?
The Lunatic Fringe (happily in some wards only)
The far-right is represented by the so-called "Reform" Party although quite what these headbangers want to reform is anyone's guess. The "saviour" of Lion Farm "lol", weirdo extreme right-winger, Pete Durnell, has found another berth to spit his bile from. Seek medical help before voting for this lot.
The hard-left is represented by the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition which has been making a nuisance of itself outside the Oldbury Council House during the Gaza protests. Their main schtick is that Keir "Sir Woodenarse" Starmer is useless and a traitor of the "left". If you like Deep Red on Light Red attacks these are your banner-waving boot-boys.
Independents and Ultra-Fringe Parties
I have written previously about Richard Jeffcoat the independent candidate in Tipton Green. Richard usually garners over a 1,000 votes so that bent Labour put in an extensive operation to defeat him. This is the one ward where you CAN make a difference. VOTE JEFFCOAT!
Sam Harding is a standing for the UK Independence Party although that ship has sailed (straight onto the rocks ...)
Good old Colin Rankine stands again in Friar Park. Not a chance of more than a handful of votes but a lovely guy.
There are a couple of other Independents but I know nothing about them. Are they to do with Gaza protests? Answers on a postcard please.
Addresses
The Skidder does seem to have had a minor influence on the candidates since last year as a few souls have put their home addresses on the ballot. But the metaphorical eunuchs are in the ascendancy with the majority of cowards deliberately choosing to hide their addresses from voters.
Liebour has been slightly braver than last year. Of 24 candidates eight HAVE given their addresses. Sixteen have chickened out. The standout omission is, as described elsewhere, the liar Parbinder Kaur.
The Tories almost all hid their addresses last year and used the ruse to corruptly conceal that one candidate lived a long way from the benighted Borough and was legally ineligible to stand. Out of 24 candidates this year only a pathetic THREE have given their addresses. 21 are too cowardly to tell you where they live and you should make your own mind-up what that tells you about them.
Despite 12 months of total inactivity the Fuhrer has fielded 14 losers for the Lib Debs of which only four have provided addresses. They will all lose and as these people are almost all complete non-entities unknown in the Borough, nobody should care. They don't.
The Greens are, as above, like the Lib Dems, completely off the radar in Sandwell until they suddenly spring up just before an election and expect you to vote for them. Mind you, a reasonable number have not chosen to hide from you and this may be the nucleus of a team that can actually start getting involved in Sandwell communities. The Greens field 17 guaranteed losers but a very creditable 11 have let you know where they live.
The Trades Union and Socialist Coalition purport to be tough guys and the "storm-troopers" of the left but of 6 candidates only two have provided addresses. Bullies usually are cowards.
The right-wing headbangers of the Reform Party provide a laugh. This bunch purports to be anti-woke and yet the vast majority have decided to hide addresses from you. They might spout b*llocks, but only three out of 18 candidates actually (metaphorically) possess them.
Both ultra-fringe party candidates have supplied their addresses. Of the five Independents seeking your vote three have supplied their home addresses.
Ward by Ward
Abbey Ward: Tom Blewitt is standing for the Tories. He is the only local Tory doing a magnificent job in exposing Sandwell Labour corruption but, alas, has no chance in this reddest of red seats. A shoo-in for Bob "Seig Heil" Piper's handmaiden here who has been completely anonymous and ineffectual since the ridiculous poseurs in this nastiest of Sandwell wards, er, voted her in last time she stood. Result - another victory for Labour cronyism
Blackheath: As above, an easy win for the Liebour Liar, Dim Kez. My friend, Bob Dunn, stands for the Tories. A great guy who would be an excellent councillor but, sadly, destined for defeat. Result: the people will indicate by voting for Dim Kez that they love her lies and Liebour corruption.
Bristnall: an easy win for mouthy Liebour candidate Ellen Fenton (one of the Labour candidates who has chosen to conceal her address from voters). Despite her claims of "independence" and her undoubted spirit she always backs the Party Dictatorship. Result: more of the same from Liebour.
Charlemont and Grove Vale: Hopefully a big scalp here since Tory "Leader" David "Call Me David" Fisher - ROFLMAO - faces defeat. We saw the revelations from Rhi Storer after he was elected of his racist and offensive social media output causing him to stand down as Tory Group Leader for 5 months before, inexplicably, being allowed to return to the top job [sic]. Charlie has swung Tory in recent times, but all to no avail and we have seen how "Keep The NHS White" Fisher has been completely ineffective in holding Liebour to account whilst trying to feather the nests of Tory Councillors. He is said to have also been heavily involved in the disastrous meltdown of the Tory Group with four Councillors leaving for one reason or another. There are six candidates in this ward and so plenty of alternatives. Take a look at Nicola Richard's record too if you are even thinking of voting Tory. Result: Fisher out?
Cradley Heath & Old Hill - The W*nker Ward: This ward is the biggest joke in Sadders having elected the notorious masturbator John Tipper - then of Liebour - last year (Skidders passim ad nauseum). Tipper then sh*t on these morons and, er, left Liebour although he has not had the b*lls to stand down and fight the seat again as an Independent. He needs the money - OUR money. Curiously, after he left the Council originally, having used a Council phone to film himself w*nking, he set up a supposedly "non-profit" business with Vicki Smith to win contracts from his bent Labour friends still on the Council. The corrupt cronies and the taxpayer duly gave Smith and Tipper money to put on Christmas-light shows in Blackheath and in CH. As everyone knows - this pair couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery and the Blackheath event turned into a very dangerous fiasco. Nothwithstanding this, the local w*nkers thought Smith and Tipper worthy of election. Smith stands again despite being a completely anonymous and useless Labour Councillor. Result: the voters in this ward are SO thick and moronic this will be an easy win for the useless Smith.
Friar Park: it may be a vile cesspool but I have met a surprising number of very pleasant and sensible folk in this ward. They do not just dislike Tory Cllr, Scott "F*ck Brandhall Green Space" Chapman, but actually hate him. "F*ck Brandhall" does, of course, also work for the treacherous Runaway, Nicola Richards MP who has, herself, done virtually nothing for her constituents in this ward or wider constituency. The problem here is that the voters face an invidious choice since the Labour candidate is one of the Giles Greed Machine (see above). Dear old Colin Rankine stands again - will he make double figures this time? Result - Chapman out!
Great Barr with Yew Tree - aka Scumbag Central As above, a current Labour Councillor in Walsall, Connor Horton, is standing here. He claims to be in a relationship with the appalling Labour Cllr Paul Moore. This is one of the scummiest wards in Sadders where morons preferred to vote for a criminal as a Councillor. Result - another win for Labour corruption and cronyism. Jobs for the boys.
Great Bridge - see above re the appalling Labour crony candidate, Haque. If any Tory deserves to hold onto their seat it is Will Gill. Result: grave danger that Labour corruption and cronyism will win the day.
Greets Green and Lyng: an easy win for the ubiquitous Pam Randhawa, the mouthy figurehead on the Council for left-leaning political Sikhism. Result - easy Randhawa win.
Hateley (aka Hateful) Heath - all four candidates have deliberately concealed their addresses from voters but then would anyone actually want to admit to living in this ghastly area. Then again, I don't suppose any of the candidates do. Result - easy Labour win.
Langley - as with Hateful H all candidates have concealed their addresses from voters. An incumbent, Caroline Owens, stands again despite her minimal track record. She is a close friend and associate of Tipper the Tosser. Result - more of the same from Labour. An easy win.
Newtown: once again all candidates have concealed their addresses. One of the most unpleasant wards in Sandwell will vote for Labour corruption and cronyism and to enrich yet another member the Giles Greed Machine (see above). Result - lovely jubbly for the ghastly Giles's.
Old Warley: Another ward Labour has sh*t upon but where the locals smear the excrement all over themselves and cry for more. Many locals are also disgusted at the Tory Group's treatment of Cllr Jay Anandou and the Blues will lose yet more votes. Result: Labour win.
Oldbury: Again all candidates have concealed their addresses. As above, don't vote for Wikas Khan (Lib Dem) even though the thuggish Rizwan Jalil stands again for Liebour. A thoroughly nasty piece of work yet locals will re-elect him. Result: a win for Labour corruption and a very unpleasant candidate.
Princes End: This was the sewer of Sandwell, but switched from all bent Labour to all Tory. The Labour candidate is the treacherous sh*t Archer Williams but will probably win due to the failures of the Tories nationally and locally. Result - a win for Labour's newest corruption-lover.
Rowley: a mystery here. Bent Labour selected a guy called Wade Taylor to fight this seat. But they suddenly dropped him like a hot potato. Ejected Tory, Laured Kalari stands as an Independent but has no chance. Result - an easy win for the Labour sub.
Smethwick: an easy win for Labour Liar, Parbinder Kaur. This useless person was found to be in breach of standards for lying about her property interests. It is said that she actually lives in Birmingham despite having an official address in Smethwick. Curiously she has deliberately concealed her current address on the ballot papers. Result: in the land of the blind the one-eyed wo/man is king. Massive Labour win for a ward that LOVES Liebour corruption.
Soho & Victoria: Labour weighs the votes here rather than counts them. Result: a massive Labour win.
St Pauls: only two candidates in this very safe Liebour seat. Result - a massive Labour win.
Tipton Green: VOTE JEFFCOAT who lives in the ward - although Labour will throw the kitchen sink at winning this seat. Result: if there is any justice in the world and Tipton folk have any sense of decency this will be a Jeffcoat win. But it's going to be a tight contest. GET OUT AND VOTE IN TIPTON GREEN.
Tividale: despite her manifest inadequacies Maria Crompton is mysteriously popular in this ward and will win comfortably as the Tory vote here falls away. Result: Labour win.
Wednesbury North: as above, the thick morons in ugly Weds North will vote for the most poisonous Labour Councillor of them all (now that Costigan's gone). Expect Hughes to do the dirty on them again before very long. Result: A vote for more Labour corruption, cronyism and incompetence.
Wednesbury South: as above, useless Pothead Chidley is standing here and local imbeciles will vote for her. Result: an easy Labour win for a disastrous candidate.
West Brom Central - a crime hotspot where a child was recently murdered on the streets. But the locals want to keep things just how they are i.e. Sh*t. Another ward where folk positively love Labour corruption. Result: a big vote for Liebour corruption.
And finally - a quick anecdote
I was outside Oldbury Council House recently when I bumped into a white, bourgeois, woman who was there to attend a Gaza demonstration. It was inevitable that if she lived in Sandwell - and many of the demonstrators didn't - that she lived in the bile-fuelled Abbey Ward. "Ah", I said, "the ward of the great Israel-hater, Piper".
There are many - and I mean many - who allege that Bob "Seig Heil" Piper, is a raging antisemite, but I have never found ANY evidence of this. He treads a fine line, however, since he is rabidly anti-Israeli in many of his crazed pronouncements.
Having used the words shown above - and specifically NOT alleged that Piper is antisemitic - the woman herself volunteered, "He's not antisemitic you know?" I asked if she had any evidence to bolster her claim and she added, "He attends the anti-Holocaust memorial every year".
And so there we have it folks - the definitive line on Piper's views from one of his local rimmers.
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https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/candidates2024
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