Hammersons, a footsie 100 company, owner of Birmingham’s Grand Central development is also owner of a slice of land near Sandwell and Dudley station, slap bang between the town centres of Oldbury and West Bromwich.

Whatever trust and confidence Sandwell electors placed in their Labour councillors is not shared by the Labour party nationally.

Today is St George’s day and our patron saint and Englishness will be celebrated in West Bromwich with an annual parade on Sunday 28th April. For a time, it looked as if the parade would not take place. The organisers claim that the council was imposing impossible costs.

We’ve had an e-mail from the “Grauniad”.

Ever vigilant to enforce political correctness and to assist the left wing thought mafia to combat opinions which do not treat any anti-social minority as a protected species, that campaigning newspaper has woken up to 2 blogs on our website.

Perhaps as a result of a visit to Sandwell and his West Bromwich East constituency, Tom Watson MP has discovered a plot and, surprisingly, not one of his making.

Sandwell’s socialist council is proving yet again its lack of real concern for the environment.

Yet people power deployed against the council’s plans to destroy valuable green space in Sandwell can be successful.

It’s nasty to tread in something. It’s even more revolting to have to get it off the shoe. This problem has recently confronted the Labour party nationally and locally.

Recently, West Midlands Police force has consistently had a bad press.

The socialists of Sandwell Council can’t stand cutting waste. They have the Blairite obsession with spend, spend, spend; and look where that got the country. We want to applaud their recent decision to scale back expenditure on their anti smoking programme, even if it fails to go far enough.

Last year Sandwell’s councillors pocketed a staggering £1,253,478.

This coming year it will be more as the greedy trots keen to see a redistribution of wealth from council tax payers into their wallets and handbags have voted themselves a pay increase.