BLOOD ON THE COUNCIL CHAMBER FLOOR

Its that time of year again when the annual bun fight takes place at the labour group AGM.  Many have said over the years that this was the "Night of the Long Knives" more often than not we are told it turns into the "Night of the Long Yawns".

Not this time we are told!!!!!!!! Mr (I like a bet) Twomey made his bid for power, most likely ill advised by Mother Mrs (Gloomy) Twomey.  What did he go for you might ask?????   Chief Whip  lol, boy did he get a pasting, 15 votes to S Tarrys 32, thats got to be worth more than 4 pints of blood on the floor in anyones money, but we dont gamble, so we will leave working out the odds to our readers.

We bet Gloomy Twomey is doing her Lady Macbeth scene wringing and washing her hands cos sonny boy didn't win.

Another really odd position on the night, that of Master Rodwell, NO position at all, not a thing, we couldn't believe it, when you consider he was Lead Member on what is probably the most powerful select committee in the council that of the Public Accounts.............does raise the question why? don't it? has Rodwell finally woken up to the fact that being Lead Member doesn't mean you get to touch any of the money.

Were none to happy with the appointment of Letchford to Lead Member of Children's Services Select Committee, and would like to be assured that a CRB check will take place.

Other than that no real major blood letting, so Tweedledum (Rodwell) and Tweedledee (Twomey) are relegated to the back benches, well lads that gets you closer to the door.

WANNA BET

Since the Barking Mafia very quietly let it be known that they were having to fight a by election we have been running a book on who was most likely to be selected to fight the seat.

Before we go on lets just take a look over the past 2 years in the Goresbrook ward, firstly there was Lollipop Lil who had to fight to elections to get legally elected, and then had the brazen neck not to do a thing ,but, pick up her money for the next 2 years.

Then we had the manic depressive Letchford, you know him of the flashy shirts who doesn't believe in paying his rent and keeps getting evicted, by the way have a look at his friends on facebook the majority are very young women.

And finally Jim Clee nice old man but???????

So we opened the book, the bets started to grow running outright favorite was Gloomy Twomey, everyone seemed to be of the same mind that young master Twomey would bring his mummy back on to aid in his war against the Leader.

So you can imagine our surprise when it was announced that Simon Bremner had been selected. All we can say is that we feel great pity for the residents of Goresbrook Ward, they could well end up with a drunken mummies boy to go with the other two. No representation for the residents at all........

We are just pleased that we didn't ask Corals to run the book for us, we would have lost a lot of money. lol

GLOOMY TOOMEY AND HER TOTAL LACK OF INTEGRITY

We understand that many of you will know of young families who sit for months even years waiting for a 3 bedroom house.

Well not so for Gloomy Toomeys son, not too long after the birth of his 3rd child a little girl he got the move he wanted to a 3 bedroom house. He also collected the full amount if not a little more on the decorating allowance. All thanks to Mum eh,

so much for her screaming integrity.

CATFIGHT in BARKING

As many will know Laila Butt has believed herself to be the number 1 woman in Barking party, in fact this was supported by many within the party and at London Region, she was as well we understand being groomed to take over from Hodge as MP. Well not any longer, there is a new woman on the block, Saima Ashraf.

Who is she you may ask? well we have done a very quick investigation, Saima arrived in this borough from France with her children 8 years ago and was given a flat on the Gascoigne estate, we still trying to work out why the council housed her.

She works for the translation service in the borough. Just within the last few weeks she has been given one of the brand new show houses in the town centre almost opposite Hodges office. These houses are fully carpeted, fully fitted kitchen etc, in fact all she had to do was put her pictures on the wall. But, guess what she is now complaining that the rent is to high?????????

We want some questions answered, where is Mr Ashraf? why and who gave her a brand new house? does it have anything to do with the fact that Mike Haywood can be seen wearing out the path between his office and her home morning, noon and night??????

Seems to us it is understandable why Laila Butt is so angry.

GLOOMY TOOMEY

We were contacted early this week by a former Housing officer who is now retired. He is furious in fact spitting feathers would be mild. Why? he had read the comments made in last weeks Post by former councillor Gloomy Toomey as he calls her.

He is so angry that the integrity of council officers is once being brought into question that he wants to get out this true tale, so much so we understand he has written to the Chief Exec other senior officers and members.

It appears that several years ago housing officers were instructed to audit council garages, things appeared to be going OK, you know the usual garages with junk stored in them etc which had to be cleared.

Then they came to Stour Road, one of the garages had been let some 18 months to 2 years previously BUT there was no name on the tenancy agreement and NO rent had been paid at all for that period of time.

Officers were instructed to enter the garage and if necessary clear it out, which they did. The former officer told us that there were stacks of Artists equipment, canvasses, paints etc. As the equipment appeared to be in good order rather than dump the lot in a skip the decision was made to donate the equipment to a local primary school.

A couple of weeks later the s....t hit the fan, a phone call came in from former councillor toomey demanding to know who had removed her property from her garage.

The officer states that she was very nasty and abusive on the telephone and threatened to sue the council for £100s because of her loss.

He tells us that the matter was then taken out of their hands, taken to a higher pay grade, did the council ever get the rent money......we doubt it.........did former councillor toomey get the money to replace her equipment.......probably, everyone who has spoken to us about her has stated just how nasty, poisonous and vindictive she can be, don't matter whether you are an officer or a member.

So the old saying does come true People in glass houses should not throw stones, and we know there are more stones to come Gloomy Toomeys way.

CHANGES

Welcome back, some would say.........we have been quite busy over the winter months, we now have a number of new contributors spread throughout the council, the voluntary sector and other partner agencies.

We have also had sucess in 2 of our contributors gaining qualifications for a PI License which will of course stand us in good stead legally.

So with all this in mind we are going into the investigation business with all the Legal tools and protection we can.

Our first contribution from a former Housing officer now retired reflects the kind of reports we will be bring forward, and we have a list to come.

Enjoy

CAN YOU HELP?

We have been a bit tied up the last few days.........we are on the trail of the real life story of Stinkypants and we would appreciate our readers help, any piece of info no matter how little will go to making the bigger picture.

What do we have so far you may ask........well, cast your minds back to 2009 when Stinkypants first appeared, he claimed to have sent an email to M Hodge stating that he was coming back to Britain from Korea to help her fight the BNP. What utter rubbish, the nearest Stinkypants has been to Korea was his library borrowed atlas..........

Secondly, we have absolute proof that Stinkypants has NOT seen any military service, that is unless of course he counts his 3 week membership of the Boys Brigade.

Where do we go from here? you may ask, we are looking very closely into his alleged term as a councillor in another part of the country.

Now what we ask you to bear in mind in this investigation is who it was that brought Stinkypants into the borough, yep, Darren Rodwell, just how many of Stinkypants tall stories does he know.

We will not give up on this one, we understand that Stinkypants may be feeling a little vulnerable at the moment, and he don't like being called Stinkypants, but that's how its going to be until we unmask just who or what he really is.