Green space in Sandwell has been under threat for years. The population density of people remains the highest in all the local Black country boroughs, and well above the national average- it isn’t fair and the regions politicians of all mainstream parties appear to like it that way. 

We have seen the destruction of Londonderry playing fields to make way for the bankrupt Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the threat of Lion Farm fields hanging in the balance for years, and more recent uprooting of wildlife from the Tipton Coneygree site, left abandoned in ruinous condition by a bunch of con-artists. All of these supported wildlife habitat and yet the demise will see it lost forever.

I’m not a fan of golf courses as they tend to be elitist and anti-wildlife by definition, but the Brandhall Golf course closure and subsequent building of houses on that site is another net loss of green space. This was opposed by a large number of people, but money talks with SMBC.

At Friar Park, the council have been in cahoots with environmental terrorist water company Severn Trent into bringing forward land that is also green space and has been for decades. Severn Trent as I have previously exposed have a track record of never remediating land in their ownership which they admittedly “landbank” and have made millions out of the same con– the con in that it is the taxpayer who appear to have to meet the remediation costs of this privately, but once publicly owned land.

Added to these sites, the destructive Midlands Metro has destroyed a re-wilded corridor between Dudley and Wednesbury all thanks to the Midlands Riddler chump- Andy chu chu four points man Street and his undemocratically unmandated “West Midlands Combined Authority”.

His  sinking it in the brown first agenda is an even bigger threat to local wildlife, though not his greenbelt mates in rural Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire who get to land bank their shit agricultural land for another day. He seems to think it acceptable to fund clean up of contaminated private land that the polluter never paid for, and allowing conman scum to profit from the sale of such. Look into land banking Mr not so Quality Street and you will find a pattern of tax evasion in the Channel islands and beyond.

Labour controlled SMBC as we know have a terrible wildlife legacy. 😥

A recent Sandwell council tender invited parties into

A current consultation document the so called “The Sandwell Plan”, is even more brazen about the sale and destruction of green space and wildlife habitat. This plan for housing and land use allocations up to 2041 is a mandate for developer land banking and the destruction of remaining wildlife habitat.

Their big idea and the scam is to use so called “biodiversity credits” for uprooting and evicting wildlife from one area so long as developer scum plant some token trees somewhere else.

The wildlife protection garbage policy in the plan is easily defeated by using this scam and it is clear to see that definitions of “harm” , “benefits”, “minimised” and “mitigation” are not identified. It is a plan for allowing development therefore whatever designation has previously been granted, so long as the scum can tick some useless boxes.

“Where, exceptionally, the strategic benefits of a development clearly outweigh the importance of a local nature conservation site (Sites of Local Importance for Nature Conservation), species, habitat or geological feature, damage must be minimised. Any remaining impacts, including any reduction in area, must be fully mitigated. A mitigation strategy must accompany relevant planning applications. Compensation will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances.”

Even more alarming is that another policy, SNE2 cites “The Local Nature Recovery Network Strategy”,  and “The Black Country Local Nature Recovery Network Opportunity Map.” This is code for another meaningless tick box exercise where the planners pretend they care about protecting what is already there.

The idea that nature can be somehow “measured” by calculation is ludicrous, but perhaps a part of the current Government’s interest in the environment and how it can be exploited for developer gain.

Someone is Sandwell council appears to have put figures into their twat computer let’s call it and come up with a collection of shit sites that they claim can be used as fall back to allow the rape of others- particularly it seems in the Tipton/Tividale area.

Whoever came up with this crap- please fuck off and die now! All of these areas already exist- nothing is being created so let’s just drop the mass tree planting bullshit and concentrate on areas that have good potential like Rattlechain area and the canal network connected to Sheepwash Nature Reserve, which is threatened by development in this shit plan. 

“Menzies open space” does not exist and appears to be a newly created area that the former demolished school, now in private ownership did not want. Apart from the ugly fencing which has closed off much of the once open area, this site includes the heavily polluted Millpool- contaminated by the so called “clean up” of a brownfield site that housed the WH Quays. This operator made bitumen products and the  site was heavily polluted with said material in the soils. The conman outfit Mar City Developments came along- a company run by two Irish nationals- The Ryans who appear to make a very nasty habit of going into liquidation only to re-emerge as a new phoenix entity with basically the same initials of Margaret Anne Ryan.  The millpool via The Groveland Brook took the impact of the “remediation” environmental fraud and was “marred” by the bituminous crap that got flushed out from that process, and I will be looking at that story in the new year, as I have quite a bit to say on that. Safe to say that SMBC and the EA cared nothing for the evidence that was put to them at the time, the contaminated birds that had to be rescued, and let the con-artists do what they liked on site to create housing. So much for environmental protection policy there!

The cracker has always been basically a pikey horse parking area. Tividale park a drug dealing chicken shop Mecca. Where was the strategy in choice of these sites?! Is this the extent of Sandwell Council’s ambition for wildlife?

Please object to the ideas in This plan. You have just one week until December 18th to register your objections, and the best way to do this is to create an account at the link below and comment on the speech bubble oportunites. Unfortunately however it appears that whatever the scale of public opposition, SMBC will ignore you and create habitat for developers to soil with their shovels. Expect a hard hat wearing wanker on your doorsteps for a photo opportunity where once wildlife thrived. 😥

“Draft Regulation 18 Sandwell Local Plan”

I’ll keep this one brief. This is your opportunity to tell the policy makers what you think of angling in Sandwell. Personally I don’t think much of it at all, except it consumes a great deal of my time, caused by some lazy fucking bastards who do not care. The issue is with free fishing which needs to be stopped. 

Please do fill out the form below before 24th November.

Consultation on the draft Fishing Policy – Sandwell Council – Citizen Space

I have completed a submission to Relevant officers and Cabinet members at Sandwell council. You can read this below.

Sandwell fishing policy 2023 swanwatch response

WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS ONE ACTIVITY CAUSING EVIDENTIAL HARM TO WILDLIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE COUNCIL MUST ACT TO ENFORCE ITS OWN POLICY, THAT UP UNTIL NOW IT HAS FAILED TO DO. 

For some 25+ years now I have been raising and attempting to get the powers that be at Sandwell council to enforce and manage this recklessly practiced activity on Sandwell’s council owned pools.

When trying to campaign you go through all of the motions of writing letters, emails, presenting visual evidence and more of late posting these via social media. But in all of that time, the only thing that has struck me is that councillors in this borough and their officers could not give a shit about the wildlife affected, whatever they claim to be, whatever they claim to be “animal lovers”. Because if they were all of that, they would pass and enforce policy wouldn’t they- based on the irrefutable evidence based information that I have systematically set out?

In 2002, I set about conducting a survey of the council’s pools regards fishing issues, “An assessment of Sandwell Council’s fisheries management and its effects on wildlife and the environment” and quantifying the problem of discarded line and tackle, and the consequence of wild birds becoming injured through this. This was to be a 60 page report. My thanks to Darryl for scanning this for inclusion in this post.

Sandwell council fishing report

If you don’t want to read the entire thing, then the executive summary will suffice.

A number of recommendations were produced. We collected large amounts of tackle and fishing line from many sites across the borough and combined this with rescue statistics of birds that were injured as a direct result of angling activity- i.e that which could not be refuted.  As a matter of course, all of our rescue statistics were sent to The National Swan Convention ( an umbrella group for rescue organisations),  who collated figures for the Environment agency study and campaigning. The conclusions drawn from our report were

• 1633 yards of fishing line was collected in just 9 months from Sandwell sites, with 1007 yards of it from Victoria Park Tipton alone!
• multiple instances of illegal sized lead shot were collected as well as barbed and treble hooks which were supposedly “banned” on Sandwell’s pools
• 36 birds had tackle related injuries, 14 of them pigeons
• Little regulation and enforcement by Sandwell council with free fishing and alcohol consumption being rife
• Fishing on non designated pools was occurring threatening wildfowl that shouldn’t have been

Above all it was noted that free fishing was a serious issue related to anti- social behaviour and litter issues and that this was a problem across Sandwell- because the council did not charge and allowed free unregulated fishing.

I further after many years of emails to numerous councillors and officers put in FOI requests which clearly evidentially prove that the council makes nothing from the policy which they enacted.

More recently, a “lockdown litter” campaign was introduced, and yet there was a meaningless response from Sandwell council at this time, with clearly very little interest in engaging with this issue. IS THIS BECAUSE OF PAST ISSUES WHERE THEIR GOOSE CULL WAS EXPOSED AND THEIR OFFICERS EXPOSED AS LIARS? IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN IT IS CLEAR THAT POLICY AND ITS DIRECTION IS NOT BASED ON EVIDENCE, BUT ON PERSONAL PREJUDICES AGAINST THOSE WHO WITNESS INJUSTICES THAT THE POLITICAL CLASS ARE NEVER GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE. 

WE CONTINUE TO BE LET DOWN WITH FALSE TIMESCALES, PROCRASTINATION AND UNANSWERED EMAILS FROM SENIOR OFFICERS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. IF THERE ARE ANY LEADERS IN SANDWELL COUNCIL, IT IS TIME THAT THEY REVEALED THEMSELVES NOW TO BREAK THIS CYCLE OF LETHARGY ON THIS ISSUE. 

After 21 years in 2023, it is the same old story, in the same old places.

West Smethwick Park

Sheepwash Nature Reserve

Victoria Park Tipton

INVESTIGATION AND OPINION

THE UGLY , REALLY UGLY WORLD OF BERNARD MATTHEWS AND CO 

Irish Independent February 2007

I have previously outlined how “avian flu” (H5N1), entered this country by the trade in importing birds into the UK by pathetic individuals. A second case occurred just a few months later in a whooper swan in April 2006,- a wild bird, but where had it been?

There was later speculation that this bird had in fact never arrived in the UK at all, but had washed onto the coast, being badly decomposed with a strain similar to birds found in Germany. You can see from that article that we get the same bunch of “experts” banging on about “potential” to infect humans. Well it never happened did it! 

The third recorded case of avian flu in the UK occurred at the Suffolk premises of this Turkey twat in January 2007. A number of points arise from reports about this at that time.

Irish Independent

• The Matthews factory had close links with Saga Foods in Hungary. This was a subsidiary of his company. This site had had an outbreak of H5N1 the month previous.
• There had been reports of the animal husbandry at the Suffolk plant being rubbish and hygiene standards also poor. Access for wild birds (gulls) was reported feeding from the uncovered remains of turkeys- IE A TRANSMISSION SOURCE and route FROM FACTORY FARMED BIRDS TO WILD BIRDS, AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  
• The firm delayed reporting the outbreak to DEFRA by a couple of days after the first dead and ill birds were found.
• They attempted to deny links with the filthy Eastern Euro premises by blaming wild birds. The issue was a PR disaster for Matthews and his company, and he was not wheeled out to face the media, as its head and well known face until the press had started to ask questions about the denials. Even then, his apologies were pithy and insincere. 
• It would later emerge that it was the same strain of avian flu as at the Hungary plant, meaning that it was almost certain that this was the source of the outbreak arriving in the UK- IE THE POULTRY INDUSTRY VIA BERNARD MATTHEWS HAD BROUGHT AVIAN FLU INTO THE UK FROM ONE OF THEIR ALLIED COMPANIES IN HUNGARY WHOSE HYGIENE STANDARDS WERE ALSO SHITE. 
• Confidence in the sector and in this company in particular nosedived and there was a massive drop in sales of turkeys and loss of a reported £77 million.
• British exports of poultry were banned.
• The Blair Government’s incompetence of handling the situation mirrored their earlier failures of foot and mouth in 2001.
• Some 160,000 turkeys were slaughtered- the same mass culling as had happened with foot and mouth- despite claims that if you cooked the food it would not harm you. Would anyone really buy that shit ?
• Once again as now, the same “experts” reported doom and gloom in 2007

Same old chestnut project fear-  never happens but they spend the rest of their academic lives using public money to try to make it happen.

The 9th February 20th Irish Independent confirmed the link to Hungary. 

The 17th February 2007 Irish Independent speculated that the plant boss could face charges. Defra ruled out the wild bird theory in a report and said the most likely source was from Hungary. This country of course attempted to deny that, but no one really believes that do they? 

The most astute comment from the Liberal Democrat MP, is the essence of the issue, and that which I will reflect in this post.

“Allowing wild birds to feed on raw poultry meat left in the open is highly irresponsible. The impression is of organisations still in denial about the seriousness of events at its plant.”

It is this large scale farming which creates large scale illness and disease, not just in birds but in every other farmed animal. We have had dozens of scares and supermarket recalls, all involving meat and dairy products over the last thirty years in the UK. The industry is not safe and neither are their products and yet no politician of any party will address this issue. 

It should come as no surprise that birds packed into cages or sheds eating one another’s shit and then their body parts shrink wrapped in plastic to be eaten as convenience for some pathetic “cook” die suffering for another “animal” to then consume and ultimately become death themselves. 

There is nothing nutritious about the Matthews “turkey twizzler” or “chicken drummer” except they offer a pauper’s meal where the boss of the death camp gets fat feeding like a leech off their affordable ease of purchase. Supermarkets too are part of this problem. 

Matthews may as well have pulled down his trousers and pants, assumed dog scooting carpet arse wiping position,(legs aloft up to shoulders), and invited customers to stick their twizzlers in his arsehole for a turkey dip; literally they were eating his shit anyway! 

Intensive farming mutates illness in factory farms, not in the wild, and yet this industry always promotes the fantasy that their premises comply with laws and that it is some unseen invisible outside threat of wild birds that cause their losses. 

It should come as no surprise about the type of person that would work in this sector and with this company, and those like them who probably arrive in the UK on a boat with little language but are dead from the neck up. A year before two BM workers were filmed playing bat and ball with turkeys at his plant at Felthorpe near Norwich. Once again the source  I use is The Irish Independent of 8th September 2006. 

The Hillside animal sanctuary who captured the footage, and not of course any Government agency in their failed jobs, alleged that they had been targeted by this company with trackers and surveillance themselves. 

The most despicable part of the 2007 story is that these poultry killing cunts were granted £600,000 compensation by New labour for losses. So what then is the point of fining them for poor health and safety practices when this is the reward? What is the point of the Foods Standards Agency, The APHA and all the rest of their .GOV ilk? It seems very much the case that these fines pay the wages of these increasingly bone idle work from home snivel service workers. Perhaps they don’t like being cooped up in a warm office environment eh?

But this is not the end of the story. A 2009 outbreak at more of Matthews Treblinkas was not alleged to be of the highly pathogenic form, and yet none the less Bird Flu Bernard made the news for the wrong reasons. A year later, the helmsman got stuffed himself at the age of 80, and good fucking riddance to that!

The ghastly Boparan chicken empire appears to have consumed the bones of Bernard and is now a part of that Asian cuisine source. 

 In 2022 up to the present then, more evidence that the 2007 lessons had not been learnt, and that a pathway exists from this sector to contaminate and infect wild birds through their shite animal caged death camps. 

It is also the case last year that the HSE dealt with two cases where BM workers were badly injured by unsafe working practices, as though the source of meat through the metal grinders is jumping from bird to human transmission almost. 

“Colin Frewin was left permanently paralysed and spent six months in hospital following an incident at the company’s Suffolk manufacturing plant.

Mr Frewin suffered multiple serious injuries, including a pierced left lung, several broken ribs, four fractured vertebrae and a spinal bleed. He was put in an induced coma for three weeks and is now classed as a T6 paraplegic and has been diagnosed with autonomic dysreflexia (AD).”

The problem with all of this is that those in the Government agencies calling the shots are complicit and support this economy of death and disease. They are apologists and not enforcers- they are also consumers with a penchant for farming themselves. Their bias is therefore clouding their judgement. 

The whole focus of the unfolding recent avian flu farce has been centred around the economic interests of the poultry production industry, but more so on the “public health” façade spearheaded by the UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA. This body were formerly just known as “The Health Protection Agency” and before that “Public Health England”, but the new name suggests a more authoritarian approach, which is likely all a part of the plan.

A recent video has shown what the  industry they are protecting lies about and how it is a risk to public health from organisations like KFC and the pound shop Ghetto “innit” chicken box establishments , which probably use mice if they run out, not that the retards who consume such meals would even notice the difference. I tend to find that those who eat fried chicken have low intelligence and are not worthy of much to society as a whole. This is a must watch. Embrace it and reason that there is a serious problem. 

BREAKING: KFC & Niko Omilana EXPOSED in Shocking Scandal!! – YouTube

This then sets the standard of what Middlemiss, Brown and the shit stains at the Animal Plant and Health Agency, another part of the problem, are trying to “protect”, by the lie and false claim that it is wild migratory birds that cause disease and death amongst captive birds that are dying by the bucket load in close containment , from er, disease and suffering. They are nothing more than the servants and shills of this maximizing space for profit sadistic industry. I also question those “scientists” from Hungary working on avian flu today who may well know more than we do about the origins of the Matthews 2007 import to the UK. 

If as a consumer you are happy to continue eating such birds from an industry which does not care and is not safe then you do so at your own risk, but also a risk to wild birds in the future. 

Birmingham City Council fail again. 

Once again due to pathetic environmental management of its inner city parks, birds are dying on a lake “managed” by an authority which does not care about their fate.

I have set out a long history post about Brookvale Park in Erdington and the issues that were occurring there due to certain procedures not being followed- principally the fluctuating water levels which can see the water levels drop by a foot to expose silt and brick material where botulism thrives in hot/wet conditions.

A summary PDF of the issues can be read HERE-and please do take the time to read this before reading on……

Last month I noticed some dead birds and ill ones at this lake, in conjunction with the same dramatic emptying of the water due to the ancient siphon that lets out water not working properly. THIS STRUCTURE AS BCC STATE DATES FROM 1880 FFS! 

This is a repeat occurrence, and the system is not fit for purpose, at least without the manpower of regularly clearing the area of debris, which is just not happening at present.

In 2020, the following statement was made by Joe Hayden of BCC in relation to this, and we were provided with the attached diagram and picture for explanation.

Brookvale syphon overflow details (1)

“The Siphon at Brookvale Park

Please find further details attached for the syphon arrangements at Brookvale Park.

There is a letter box weir and eight syphon pipes in this location. When water level rises in the pool and covers the shorter top water level pipes, the system is primed and the water will be automatically sucked until the water drops below the level of the slightly longer syphons, at which point the connection is broken, and the water level will start to rise again in the pool. By eye, the longer pipes appear to be about 150mm – 200mm longer than the shorter ones, and so this will be the maximum variance in water levels caused by siphon operation. The system has been effective since built (circa 1880) and as designed, with any major changes likely to affect marginal planting and the various inflows further upstream in the system.

Birmingham City Council do not manually regulate the water levels, as this historic arrangement has been in place for many years and it would take sizeable time and investment to amend the water level management arrangement. Any changes would likely have adverse impacts on upstream water levels, freely discharging outfalls and would increase flood risk elsewhere.”

When bottles or other obstructions- (of course there was no plastic in Victorian England when the park was created), the siphon goes on emptying water due to thinking that the siphon pipes are still above water, which they are not. The council cannot grasp this concept and do not provide any clearance of this to stop this from happening on a daily basis. 

In connection to this there are large amounts of dead wood in the lake and the trees on the islands have collapsed, again perfect breeding ground for botulism in hot weather and fluctuating water levels. This has also been mentioned before, but the debris remains there.

branches of trees on the islands are now touching the water- adding an “energy source” to the thriving botulism

Added to this, some contractors appear to have been doing some tree works around the edge of the lake, and have chucked the debris in the lake!

Just plain stupid!

It’s been there for years

I would once again draw the reader of this blog post to the APHA guidance about dealing with issues surrounding botulism outbreaks on areas of water. THIS INFORMATION WAS REPEATEDLY SENT TO BCC OFFICERS BY THE APHA, THE RSPCA AND MYSELF, AND TOTALLY IGNORED , PARTICULARLY BY ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO NOW APPARENTLY THANKFULLY NO LONGER IS EMPLOYED BY THE COUNCIL, BUT IT IS QUESTIONED AS TO WHETHER HE STILL LIVES IN A PARK HOUSE BASED IN SUTTON PARK WHERE SUCH ISSUES DO NOT OCCUR? 

Birmingham City Council did none of these in 2019 and continue to do none of these in 2023- which is why the problem recurs.

The council have failed to remove dead birds from the island or lake itself- WE HAVE, and thus they would be still there to continue the cycle of infected maggots being ingested. Carcases on the island were riddled with fresh maggots, which is how this illness spreads.

See the video below taken on the island which shows this process.

Video (facebook.com)

A dead swan left in the water, would still have been there if we hadn’t removed it

We have gone above what the third sector should have to do. Every bird found alive so far, bar two have recovered after botulism treatment with charcoal. Indeed the APHA PDF confirms at page 2 concerning situations like this-

“Treatment regimes, including careful oral administration of warm water to flush toxin from the gastro-intestinal tract in early cases, and nursing can be effective.”

This has nothing to do with avian flu, indeed, the only case recorded in wild birds on the APHA website in the BCC area in 2023 so far was a peregrine falcon in week 4. Let’s cut the wide eyed crap about what is killing these birds and not hide behind bullshit. Let us also remember that this is not really “avian ” botulism, but a symptomatic effect caused by manmade issues- notably of course in Smethwick due to Severn Trent Water’s sewage pollution. It is noted that STW were digging up the road in George Road near to this lake a few weeks ago, the second time within the last year. Maybe unconnected, but I don’t believe in coincidences anymore- not with that company.

We understand that someone from BCC collected birds retrieved by ourselves on one Sunday, some 48 hours later , in which time post mortem predation by a fox had occurred on a bagged up swan. This is not good enough, and the council are not fulfilling their responsibilities.

We even retrieved 15 FIFTEEN, life rings from the pool, which are bloody useless anyway quite frankly on an area of water that size.

We are aware that this council being badly run politically and by officers who appear incapable of acting prudently with public money is near bankruptcy. This article also reveals that public sector workers were allowed “task and finish”, including it states those in parks maintenance, and that BCC’s debt mountain may be being paid off by those outside this bone idle sector for decades.

In the strongest terms  we can only say that things must improve with the management and debris clearance of this lake.

The remaining birds need to be protected and things MUST improve at this site.

1 The weir/siphon need to be checked daily and cleared of debris regularly- particularly in hot/wet weather when levels fluctuate.

2. The debris in the lake and trees must be removed. BCC cannot give the excuse of “we would disturb the silt” if we did. The pool is dying and so are the trees. Are the city council content to leave it in this state, knowing full well that it is contributing to the deaths of wildfowl on the lake?

3 There IS “something meaningful to be done”- unlike the rubbish that a previous park manager for this area was misinforming elected members about with botulism. Birds can and do recover, and they need to be removed as soon as possible.

4 A boat needs to be based on site, and regular checks made on areas to remove dead birds. This is not the job of the RSPCA and the third sector. The council spent and wasted enough money on the CG22 and yet in our experience have the worst managed pools in the West Midlands, an observation made by others. For example Shock as dead geese found in filthy lake at Small Heath Park | I Am Birmingham

INVESTIGATION AND OPINION

H5N1 in the highly pathogenic avian variety first visited the UK in 2005, and wild birds did NOT bring it here. It came from imported birds from Taiwan and South America at a privately owned “quarantine facility” in Essex, Pegasus Birds Ltd.

There is a considerable back story to this establishment and its criminal owner BRETT HAMMOND which I will look at in this post. It is a story of tax evasion, a network where smuggling birds from the wild in foreign countries causes unimaginable suffering to the few that even survive the journey and a threat to already persecuted species when they were sold as fake “captive bred” birds in the UK. The issue was notably dealt with in The Cook report exposing the network where the pre bird flu Hammond makes an appearance. 

Collections such as this are created by people with extreme personal vanity and narcissism , and as with zoos, they offer absolutely NOTHING to these animals except caged suffering. The “conservation” fraud is for the personal gain of individuals and “charities” who hide under the banner of “conservation” or “education”. None of the breeding programmes in these collections result in releases back into the wild of animals or birds in their natural countries of origin of these endangered species , as presumably some Neanderthal Chief Chirpa would kill them like they have for decades or some big white game hunting prick would instead. No, these animals and birds are pimped for money, with the offspring forever moved around establishments to continue the fraud of “conservation” and breeding programmes.

They should not be in this country and do not belong here, and the collections usually die off through being kept in unnatural close proximity, such as those penguins at Dudley Zoo in the link above. It is like the poem by Shamus Heaney, blackberry-picking where greed and avarice only results in a crop dying off.

“Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.”

If you contribute to this through the gates as a punter, or “adopt” anything YOU ARE VERY MUCH A PART OF THIS CYCLE OF SUFFERING AND THE FRAUD IT ENTAILS. 

The 2005 doomed “avian flu” birds came to the UK, not by their migration flight, but by cargo plane, no doubt a flight assisted by some greasy slant eyed sloth and Pedro chihuahua fuckers who would be involved in people smuggling if they could get away with that too. They and their trade and all the gophers involved in it are nothing but pathetic backward retarded scum, and they are worse than human slave masters.

The following report was carried out by DEFRA, via the then Veterinary Laboratories Agency a then fairly new Quango set up after the disastrous MAFF foot and mouth debacle. What is astonishing is that Hammond’s dodgy  establishment was actually adjacent to the traced source of the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001! What a fucking backward animal disease bearing shithole Essex must be as well as being the stomping ground of wannabe gangsters with Turkey teeth! 

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The report showed that mesias, a type of Asian finch imported from Taiwan , were the most likely source of the infection, which then transmitted to a parrot from Surinam, originally thought to be the “bird zero”. What we see hear is the start of the problem. Imported birds that would never have come into contact with one another in nature arriving in a country that they would never naturally visit. Hammond brought disease and death to his fake “quarantine” centre. He brought avian flu into the UK. 

Additionally, in death the birds were also mixed up with some never even tested. This also rings alarm bells with what I have said before about the amateur methodology of the department scientists and their acumen.

In my dealings with the VLA at around the same time as this, I found them to be an extremely thick organisation in terms of identifying the obvious chemical poisoning pollution at Rattlechain lagoon, and you can read that story HERE. 

The worst part of the tale in Essex was that those that had even survived the flight were automatically put to death, even those that never had anything wrong with them. NOT ALL THE BIRDS HAD AI. This is another major criticism of DEFRA to this day and their sledgehammer mentality of murder everything to cover over their failed surveillance and scrutiny of why cunts like Hammond were even able to operate in some wooden shed hovel in a field. 

The following report is taken from The Irish Independent of 16th November 2005, and discusses the findings of the DEFRA report and issues I have raised above.

The most telling point in the report is that the real origin of the strain originated in China.

“13. Subsequent laboratory examinations revealed that the isolate was H5N1 and not a strain that the Avian Virology Unit at VLA Weybridge have isolated previously. The strain most closely resembles an isolate from wild ducks in China earlier in 2005.“

Though these are classed as “wild ducks”, the farming practices of this shithole overpopulated country are once again the origins of animal disease running rampant. The curiosity of scientists to store and experiment with such viruses in laboratories around the world then also offer an alarming opportunity for escape via more unnatural means. Perhaps the lack of any crack down on this trade by the authorities is all part of the plan to allow such pathways to exist so that the vaccine profitability is more plausible.

“MR BIRD FLU” HAS FORM FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY. 

When news of the phoney “quarantine” centre flew out, it was not long before at least some due diligent journalists began to look at the owner of Pegasus Birds. We also see the utter hoax of the “conservation” bollocks spoken of previously.

‘Mr Bird Flu’ is convicted fraudster | Daily Mail Online

The daily Mail piece stated

“Mr Hammond, who has refused to answer questions about the case, trades in rare and wild birds for collectors and zoos, but in 1997 was sentenced to 18 months jail – later reduced to 12 months on appeal – for VAT fraud.

His ramshackle premises, in West Horndon, Essex, are next door to the Orchard Farm – not connected to his company – where foot and mouth disease was first spotted in 2001.

It is understood that the divorced trader, who lives in a luxury home in Upminster, Essex, had kept the parrot in quarantine at a separate site, where it was infected by a bird imported from Taiwan.”

“It also emerged Mr Hammond was confronted in 1992 by TV reporter Roger Cook, who was investigating allegations of bird cruelty and illegal importing in the trade. Mr Hammond walked away from the camera without answering questions about fellow traders.”

The crooked Hammond was indeed jailed when coming up before the beak, as other sources prove. The 10th October 1996 Dunmow Observer revealed how the budgie smuggler was not alone in the crime and accomplice Eric Foster had also been charged. Oddly, they had been remanded, so must have been considered a “flight risk” if you’ll excuse the pun. No records were kept of sales, though obviously, many birds died before even being sold. 

Once again with this I would ask, why was the taxman more interested in this aspect than the animal cruelty? Where the fuck were the RSPCA or police wildlife crime officers from Essex?

The following year, The favourite paper of this fraudster reported his sentencing on 20th February 1997. Both got 18 months , though this was later reduced as reported. 

What an absolutely gob smacking pack of lies from his solicitor.

Not only was this crook a danger to birds, but so were the individuals who called themselves his clients. The Sunday World paper exposed another Irish dealer Richard O’Brien, (not of Rocky Horror Show fame), in a special report who had bought birds from Hammond and was also a bird smuggler.

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Another Guardian article is interesting in revealing how much money some firms would make from a round of DERFA culls of Avian Flu took hold, as with Foot and Mouth.

Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK | Health | The Guardian

It also states the backstory to Hammond

“Brett Hammond, 43, is at the centre of the first H5NI virus case in Britain. Yesterday his firm, Pegasus Birds Ltd, in Horndon, Essex, one of the UK’s biggest wild bird importers and retailers, hired extra security to patrol its aviaries. The firm has been watched by the RSPCA for several years. In the past Mr Hammond was jailed for not paying £650,000 of VAT. He has declined to comment since a parrot died in quarantine at his firm.”

It is incredible that the RSPCA were just “watching” as so many birds died. They too have blood on the hands from their failure to act to stop this vile trade in death. 

“PITY POLLY”- THE COOK REPORT. 

Roger Cook is a journalist to be admired, and not one of those propagandists who reprint the lies of corporations and politicians. His 1992 documentary exposed how rare and exotic birds at the centre of the later avian flu outbreak were being smuggled into the country after being caught in the wild. Please do watch the youtube video below.

Images and main points of the programme.

An African savage boasts to camera how it catches wild toucans using a dead hung Toucan as a decoy fixed to a branch

Cook meets Phil Dobinson, a man who on his linked in profile today claims that he grew up in Zambia and Zimbabwe, posing as a responsible bird dealer where caged birds can cost thousands of pounds. You can tell with the facial distorted expression tells when this lying piece of crap tells a falsehood or is talking out of his arse, and Cook would have been astute to this, as would anyone with NVC familiarity.

Phil Dobinson of the smuggling bird front “safari select”

Dobinson claims that rain forests are being destroyed which threatens the birds, yet his direct involvement and dealers like him are the real cause of birds being stolen and becoming extinct.

Cook then visits Guyana, a primitive South American jungle country and meets a retard who likes catching macaws using decoy macaws to sell as well as damaging them.

The scum renders birds flightless by damaging and clipping their wings. Someone should cut off its dick

A consignment of caged stolen birds from the wild arrives in the UK

Some 170 of these birds were bought by Dobinson to be housed in a “quarantine facility”- Pegasus birds owned by Hammond. It is claimed that this site is “ministry approved”, and yet on a visit to this place, it is revealed that many are dying due to an unnamed “highly infectious disease”. 

The close proximity of these wild birds would not happen in nature, but the quarantine and shipment is entirely responsible for their demise. All 170 birds it is stated died or were put down by Ministry vets. 

Andy Jones of RSPB investigations states that almost a third of imported birds to the UK die in transit.

The Cook report receives a tip off from an ex copper revealed to be David Neville.

The Zimbabwe front bird laundering connection

Dobinson was laundering birds using Zimbabwean Danny Swart whose set up was a wild bird captive breeding front for Dobinson’s business.

Goffin’s cockatoos aka Tanimbar corella    are only found on remote Indonesian islands. Cook traced  shipments  from Singapore to Zimbabwe to Swart who then exported to Dobinson. The false narrative is that the birds were captive bred- they were stolen from the wild. 

Someone in a dodgy bird business in Singapore lets slip what Dobinson is doing

The Cook team buy a cockatoo in poor condition, with the age also being a lie. It is deemed to be a wild bird.

Swart is confronted in Zimbawe about the stolen laundered birds and Dobinson’s sham operation. He says very little.

Dobinson then confronted by Cook at his Safari company sham.

Dobinson tells ridiculous lies and it is revealed that he is a repeat criminal who has 13 convictions including cruelty to birds and selling them without correct paperwork- ie laundering them.

Ex Copper David Neville spills the beans about his former associates dodgy illegal business.

I have to say I find Neville’s involvement with this a little strange. Having done some research the article below from two years earlier connects the two individuals at this point in time.

How odd that a bookkeeper would be required for this tax evading business.

21st September 1989 Newspaper: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser

Not only were there “thefts”  but also “accidents” where even more birds died. The Horley and Gatwick Mirror of 1st February 1990 revealed how a storm had caused carnage. The advertisement on the right is quite ironic, and I have included it here.

I find Nevilles distancing from Dobinson unconvincing. He must have known the crook that Dobinson was, or could have found out. Why the fuck would he have wanted anything to do with him in the first place in business let alone suddenly have grown a conscience?

Cook then reveals all the amazon parrots died in Hammonds fake quarantine business fraud operation that launders feathered cargo stolen from the wild.

Hammond the “conservation” fraudster is collared by Roger Cook about the death of several birds. 

A scum accomplice in wildlife crime has nothing to declare- like his taxes. Hundreds of bird deaths are down to him and his activities. 

I have researched Hammond further going back to his fake bird dealings as early as 1989, where he was apparently looking for a golden eagle that had escaped him. The origin of this bird is questionable, and I would also state that this type of bird should not in my opinion be captively allowed as some type of ornamental  sideshow doing tricks or to return to a human arm. I have low regard for falconry in general, as many of the individuals behind it have a trouser problem and use their plastic birds illegally in wildlife crime or for their own personal gratification and low self esteem. I have seen this; I have reported it to relevant authorities. Cook did another great investigation into this trade in birds going the other way, usually to tea towel heads in the far east with stolen peregrine falcons which you can see HERE. 

What this shows early on is that Hammond was a shite animal husbandry Walter Mitty character who knew nothing about bird welfare needs. The lavish lifestyle of this twat would continue to grow as he traded in the feathered slaves that he imported to Essex.

31st May 1989 Daily Mirror

As well as Golden Eagles, we see that this man had for some time been importing birds that had no place to be in this country, except the old excuse of “conservation”. As I mentioned earlier, Toucans and how they were trapped using dead decoy birds and their wings cruelly cut would make an appearance of course in The Cook report.

If you were a zoo or or private collector supplied by Hammond or Dobinson, you are fucking scum, and are a part of the trade in wildlife crime from which they profited.

20/1/1989 Brentwood Evening Gazette HAMMOND IS A LIAR

What we then see is the cover trail of covering up bird deaths, due largely to the import of them into the country. A number of “thefts” were reported by Pegasus. In one report I saw, Hammond claimed to be using micro chipping of birds to prevent “crime”- of them being “stolen” from his crim business. I’m not sure how a wildlife thief can get burgled? Was it an insurance fiddle or was his business that unlucky, sorry, I mean were the birds that had been stolen from the wild unlucky as they were the only ones who actually suffered any form of loss?

Always with these characters there is talk of “stock” and the value of money and nothing else. The 13th January 1989 Brentwood Gazette makes the astonishing claim that “bird burgling is big business according to Brett Hammond. ” A wildlife thief stealing from a wildlife thief is not a crime- it is the same practice. 

A similar story the following year in 16th March edition of the same paper.

Perhaps these reports alerted the authorities into the dodgy dealings going on at Pegasus, though not it appears crucially the animal welfare concerns.

Incredibly, even though apparently on the radar of the RSPCA- (what the fuck were they actually doing?) his spell behind the bars he so deserved did not end his dealings in the trade. It is incredible, and shoddy journalism and editorial by the Brentwood Gazette, that they failed to even mention his past form and that he had served less than half his term for tax crime.

11th December 1997

Today in 2023, it appears that Hammond is no longer directly involved with bird smuggling and has attempted to reinvent himself as a respectable antiques dealer. One can only hope that none of his exhibits are , erm, stuffed parrots, or come from hawking, and he won’t be appearing on the Antiques rogue, (sorry for the Freudian) Road show anytime soon.

Dobinson has relocated to Zimbabwe, and its just a pity that Mugabe didn’t catch and bag him with a noose on safari. 😆

The most telling thing about the Cook investigation and the cancer that still lingers today is that bunch of bureaucratic, undoubtedly woke as fuck suit wearing political globe trotters known as CITES .

This organisation is a waste of fucking space and does more to fuel the trade in illegal bird and animal smuggling than it does to stop it.

The more endangered a species becomes or is classified as being such by them, the more lucrative the value in profits that will be made in selling them.

As with the UK authorities, these office based plankton are no doubt all signed up to the globalist one health bollocks looking for zoonotic opportunities to produce vaccines. One wonders to what extent secret esoteric societies of academia are joined in the criminal trade in animal and birds- probably the kingpin slave masters at the very top of the tree. 

There is no doubt at the moment that supermarkets are ripping off the public by their overnight price hikes in food. This is not just limited to human food, but animal food as well, and for those that feed wildlife and birds like myself it means making some tough choices.

Even the “budget” stores like Aldi and Lidl have raised prices which are extortionate and items like 1kg bags of porridge oats to which I regularly feed the birds went up by 14p without explanation (70p to now 84p). Six pence also went on a loaf of bread.

Young geese are able to feed on grass from almost the word go, so long as they can get out of the water to feed. Cygnets however are more difficult to cater for, with their parents attempting to retrieve submerged food where there is often none at all. This is certainly true of many of the Victorian parks in Sandwell.

Unfortunately, too much emphasis was put into Green flag status parks by this council in the last 20 years. Some parks such as West Smethwick have undergone “restoration” schemes that have destroyed the greenery that was there, as well as the cowboy contractors who carried out the work and damaged the aeration cables which have still not been fixed after a year out of action. Why the council have not sued this company I do not know, but if they ever get another lottery grant, (and that body must now be somewhat weary), it can only be hoped that they will block Casey from applying any tender, because they are the very worst shoddy shit. 

An absolutely rotten “restoration” of the main lake

For cygnets in such parks where they cannot gain access to grass, I would suggest finding a source of willow tree leaves, which usually grow by water, but are often out of reach for the parent birds to pick. This early spring food source is a natural food of choice for swans. 

Don’t pick leaves that are overhanging or within reach that the adult birds could reach, but ones which are not in their reach. Strip downwards along the length of the stem and then remove any stems to leave just the leaves.

It is then best to grind up the leaves and throw them towards the adults, who will probably pick them up and drop them again to show the cygnets that it is food to eat. They may also start paddling their legs in the water to bring up weed. 

Another good cheap food source are small peas, which are just 28p at present in Aldi and I have found that these are well liked. Either put these on the side, or throw them in one at a time, and they will dunk for them. 

Of course, we will continue to be on the case of our local council and hope that they will plant more natural food in their pools, especially where works have left a clear vacuum of available survival for our birds. 

Severn Trent Water became a privatised company in 1989, and ever since then they have been progressively flogging off land once in public ownership primarily for housing. This toxic cycle is confounded by the fact that such “crap sites for residential” just add into the network to which they do not invest , but which they claim to but are not with their combined sewer nightmare being inflicted on the environment on a daily basis.

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Sewage Work sites such as Tividale and Roway Lane went this way early in the process, with the former being one of the most controversial planning applications ever considered in Sandwell, and where the council turned down numerous applications before a dickhead planning inspector reversed it. The site was built next to the notorious rattlechain lagoon, even described by a planner in Sandwell as being “a crap site for residential”.

During this process, one individual from this company made it his business to attempt to subvert the planning process even though they had already sold the former works off to a bunch of cowboy foundry sand dumpers- even demanding a meeting with the chief executive of the council when it looked like the planners were going to turn it down. The cheeky fucking bastard him! Obviously there was some get out clause at work here if the site did not get planning permission, and no doubt would screw the deal leaving STW stuck with the site. I wonder how much He stood to lose as a bonus if the deal went tits up?

STW did nothing or spent next to little to remediate this crap abandoned land which caused blight and misery for local residents for years. This is a theme which reoccurs with STW owned land , whereby it seems that the public purse pays for their soiled leftovers, through some bent entity like The Black Country Development Corporation, or of late The West Midlands Combined Authority. NEITHER OF THESE BODIES HAVE OR HAD ANY PUBLIC MANDATE FOR THEIR CREATION- THEY ARE THE INVENTION AND  HOBBY OF POLITICIANS WHO INVARIABLY INVEST THEIR OWN PERSONAL WEALTH IN THE HOUSING MARKET OR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, OR WHO ARE PRIVATE LANDLORDS . 

One recent site at Friar Park which I also looked at HERE, saw some pieces of SMBC land tacked on to STW land for a sale package, and this too will be met with remediation from the public purse, and not STW’s. The “consultation” for this proposed scheme has been a corrupt farce and has also suffered from a ghastly PR firm trying to convince locals that it is a good idea, when they will only get 100’s of new houses added to their local area, and of course coming with it will be the shite that each house produces.

From an earlier time before they were privatised, we see the legacy of industrial landscaping by dumping toxic dredged waste from The River Tame dumped on this land now being proposed for housing. The Friar Park Water Reclamation Works were dumped upon due to that old chestnut of “preventing flooding”. This absolute fraud has been going on for decades, and still they lavish money from the public purse again on this fake and falsified claim, even building houses on this very flood plain itself! There’s an “emergency” don’t you know.  🙄

STW applied to SMBC to demolish tanks and fill over the site with all the crap which had gone into their network , and likely flooded the Tame with sewage over a long period of time. They were not killing birds, though they of course have been caught out doing this, but killing two turds with one stone, by dumping crap from water to land. The deluded individual from SMBC is of course part of the problem, and how incredible that this authority itself should end up having to now clean up the site again to “make it safe” FFS!

Sandwell Evening Mail November 14th 1986

This sell off of sites appears to have operated under Severn Trent Water Holdings, but the following company was incorporated on 10^th March 2011 to handle 11 sites which they still had control of, based at their headquarters in Coventry.

There are four current directors, Gemma Eagle, Shane Anderson, Robert McPheely, (who has no less than 93 other appointments as a director of STW offshoots also based at the same location address), and Alan Durham.      .

Most of the people at the top of the pups at STW have a background in the banking industry or utilities, and so are well placed to squirrel away the pocketed money from this “buying and selling of own real estate”. They certainly have no background in environmental matters.

Midlands Land Portfolio represent the very worst of land banking, that political immoral creation championed by the privateer capitalists who no doubt own all the shares and stand to gain from the dividends. Little investment as possible- maximum sale is what it is all about.

Even MLP themselves admitted that they are land bankers in 2012 to describe their 300 acre area of land not available at that time of course.

A bunch of bankers

Another article reveals that they partnered with Northern trust to pursue the marketing of this land, a firm controlled by the late Billionaire property developer and race horse owner T J Hemmings.

A rolling scrutiny of MLP’s annual returns to Companies House reveals the scandalous wealth building of how this land they are sitting on, once in public ownership has grown in value for them and their parent company, who continue to fail to invest in the infrastructure they are polluting water courses with like in Smethwick. This is profit for their scummy shareholders and for the CEO Fatcat Garfield also.

2012

For the first year period ending in March 2012, we see this company explain its raison d’etre and the key statement that its 11 sites were at this point valued at £7,127,100. Remember this figure, which I will compare it to at the end of 2022, some 11 years later. 

2013

This report confirms no sale of any of the 11 sites, yet look how the value of land banking has paid off for them with a rise of nearly a million squid to  £8,049,000

2014

This report confirms that one of their sites was sold in this period for £2.25 million. 

Despite this, look how much their land had made them. They had sold one site out of 11, and yet were up on what the value of 11 sites had been some two years earlier. £7.272,000

2015

This report confirms that another site was sold in this year for £2,251,000, thus leaving 9 sites left. 

The value of these 9 sites still stood at £6,620,000

2016

In this year, this report confirms that this entity was no longer just concerned with flogging off its own land. It was now buying sites as well, perhaps to bolt on bits to others in their portfolio? Another site was sold, leaving 8 from the original, though the extra five now meant that they were standing at 13 sites. This sale garnered them another £3.025 Million. 

They now call this land “inventory” in the report, and confirms that the 13 sites were now worth £10, 258,000. Remember they had started with 11. 

2017

This report confirms they sold none of the 13 sites in this year, but bought another 5 , now making 18!

This now put them on £16,292,000

2018

In 2018, MLP sold two sites, thus leaving 16 now. This gave them another £4.182 million. 

The value was now £20, 492,000

2019

This year saw MLP cash in 4 more sites , with talk of one site generating a stream of income over 5 years. I wonder where this is? All in all, this disgusting entity made over £21 million from this, in the year when they first came onto our radar in polluting Smethwick Hall Park and killing birds.

The total assets now stood at £16.680,000 and still owning the 12 sites.

2020

Another flog off was made during the plandemic with a further 5 sites cashed in, thus leaving 7 remaining.

This saw another figure of around £8.5 million into the squirreled away coffers of the Coventry Crapsters. 

For some reason, the land value had now rocketed to £22,833,000

2021

This must have been an Annus horriblis given that they sold no sites. Therefore still retaining 7.

But pity them not, as despite this, the land value had gone up, now standing at £25,625,000. 

2022

The most recent statement to hand shows that another two sites were sold, thus leaving five left. This gave them another £7,837,000. 

The land value had also now gone up to £27, 056,000

MIDLANDS LAND PORTFOLIO TOTALS UP

2014 £2.250,000. 

2015 £2,251,000

2016 £3,025,000 

2018 £4,182,000

2019 £21,327,000

2020 £8,465,000

2022  7,837,000

A GRAND TOTAL OF £49,337,000   FROM  16 SOLD SITES  IN NINE YEARS.

WELCOME TO THE PERVERSE WORLD OF THE PRIVATISATION OF THE WATER INDUSTRY, WHERE A COMPANY LIKE THE DISGUSTING SEVERN TRENT INVEST NONE OF THIS BACK AND PAY PALTRY FINES FOR THE GRIME THAT THEY ARE SELDOM CAUGHT OUT ON, WHICH IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH. 

So there you have it. No matter what claims are made about investment in the future, their insincere “apologies”, or the ear ringing currently going on in Parliament or elsewhere, they have spent years making money out of once publicly owned land and polluting more of it. Whilst this water industry sits on its land bank, it shits in our water. 

Striking image, but the truth is that politicians of all parties are currently talking shite about sewage.

You cannot of late escape the sudden interest in an issue that we have been dealing with for some time regards the failure of the privatised water industry to stop the pollution of controlled waters with raw sewage. Unfortunately, it seems that only when political characters start throwing turds at one another in a blame game of pass the poo parcel that the media become interested in the issue, except their interest is in the politics of it rather than the real problems that it causes like the bird deaths in Smethwick.

The Labour Party appear to have launched a cascade of memes and accusations about how this very longstanding issue is a Tory cause like the one above, and yet appear to forget that they had a decade in power between 1997- 2010 when successive general elections resulted in majorities of: 1997 (179), 2001 (167),  2005 (66) for them, and yet they made no attempt to renationalise this industry or hold it to any form of account during their years in power. Let us also remember that the first 13 years of the useless Environment Agency failed regulator also occurred on their watch. 

Why then should we believe anything that they spout when in doing so the entire focus appears to be to blame their political rivals, rather than the water companies and their abysmal fat cat CEO’s like Liv Garfield?  When is Garfield ever put under any real pressure from either Government or shadow Government. She just isn’t, and that is the point. 

Severn Trent Water and their staff have persistently lied about issues in this part of the world and the fact that “avian botulsim” was really just botulism caused by their network failures over many years.  This is not a political issue, and nor should anyone have the temerity to claim that it is the fault of another political actor. WHY FOR EXAMPLE, HAS THE MP FOR THIS AREA, JOHN SPELLAR, FAILED TO EVER MENTION SEVERN TRENT WATER POLLUTED LAKES IN HIS OWN CONSTITUENCY, AND FAILED TO EVER CONDEMN THIS ACT BUT SOMEHOW BLAMES THE TORIES GENERALLY FOR THIS ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE? THE LOGIC IS SHITE AND IT IS ALSO LAZY. 

All very well, but not a single local Labour politician IN SANDWELL have condemned Severn Trent Water publicly or pressed them through legal means for compensation.

For these reasons I do not trust politicians. Full stop. Until they grasp that brownfield building is the cause of the issues surrounding failure of capacity in the water industry networks, until they stop doing corrupt deals with companies who leave behind polluted land like that at Friar Park for the tax payer to clean up and then turn them into more homes to pollute the network then I will not be voting for any of them, they can fuck off.

The media can also fuck off, especially the Express and Star who persistently offered not a shred of criticism of the polluter and printed their lies without scrutiny, but when a politician speaks, it is somehow more relevant than those who are actually having to save lives on the ground because of their failure to act. The sewage “crisis” is very reminiscent of the toxic dumping  cyanide “crisis” of the early 1970’s in the way in which the media are behaving. I have looked at some of this on our sister blog.  One wonders that any knee jerk reactions of promised legislations or policy to stop water companies dumping sewage will similarly fail in every regard to solve the problem.

The latest Rivers Trust mapping report makes depressing reading in Spellar’s constituency and are relevant to previous issues we have mentioned of raw sewage polluting the Smethwick parks and water courses which feed them.

Permit number: T/09/35149/O 

In 2022, this sewer storm overflow spilled 27 times for a total of 0.58 hours , discharging into the Stony Lane Brook.

Permit number: T/09/30212/O 

In 2022, this sewer storm overflow spilled 5 times for a total of 3.14 hours , discharging into the Stoney Brook Via Sws.

Permit number: T/08/35704/O 

In 2022, this sewer storm overflow spilled 11 times for a total of 71.45 hours , discharging into the Thimblemill Brook

Nothing will change on May 4th or at the next General Election either, it is all just a pile of steaming shit and hot air and political sewage. 

Politicians are more concerned with wiping the backsides of the privatised water industry. Pucker up.

“Detected in wild birds” The truth is- a mere handful, and was this their real cause of death?

not necessarily domestic partner but the state on its own people

Local authorities typically employ many people and use them to try to persuade others how to behave, or to “change their behaviour”, with some telling people how they should vote in complicity with their political paymasters. Unfortunately, they are also guilty of parroting a particular narrative, particularly that of top down “public health”- which is the biggest coercive control attempt of all.

But this mind bending comes directly from Government itself and its quangos like the former “Public Health England”. If you don’t believe me then read the document below, “Achieving behaviour change: a guide for local authorities” written in part by the Communist Witch SAGE member Michie among others in attempting “interventions” in the way in which people behave. Principally, this is based on their “behaviour change wheel”– which includes the word “coercion” as you can clearly see.

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We have seen these “interventions” throughout the “covid 19 pandemic”, see page 38 onwards for example….

Truly evil people

But recent messaging from local authorities reveal steps towards the next grand human health hoax- avian flu. The playbook written in November 2020 includes very familiar scenarios like the ones below. Basically, get everyone to comply with something and punish those who do not and use the media to do this. It’s a communist technique, but so of course is the vile co author.

When this issue first arose in neighbouring boroughs, I asked Sandwell council to take certain measures, (perhaps you could call these “interventions” except their behaviour was weak), but which following the poor advice from DEFRA et al would according to their logic mitigate what they claimed was happening- transfer of virus from bird to bird via droppings through oral routes.

I asked for increased road sweeping in the park settings. This item had been discussed and agreed with former SMBC officer Max Cookson some time ago as a means of dealing with perceived bird droppings in parks and on pathways, when he stated at the time that these sweepers would not cost extra money to deploy in parks.

The purpose of doing this is that so called “Defra guidance” warned of not coming into contact with bird droppings to members of the public. This in the document mentioned above would come under “Provide clear, precise, credible guidance about specific behaviours”. Of course other wild birds would also not want to come into contact with infected bird droppings. You would think therefore that SMBC would want this outcome wouldn’t they?

It transpired that despite claims the sweepers were being deployed once a week, they were obviously not being. I also asked why this could not be increased as required- if the council wanted to mitigate risk from this pathway. It was stated by one Grounds maintenance officer that there may be cross contamination issues using these sweepers, which seemed to me like a feeble excuse for just not giving a shit about the so called “public health” issue. I then put in the following FOI request to SMBC.

Street sweepers and cleansing for use in parks – a Freedom of Information request to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council – WhatDoTheyKnow

My questions in blue, and their response in red.

(i)Please provide the following information. How many street sweepers does
Sandwell council/Serco own?

10 sweepers in total, including 5 large and 5 small.

(ii)How many of these are deployed within park settings?

The parks are cleansed with sweepers on a scheduled basis. There is not a
specific parks sweeper, but the smaller vehicles will be used in parks
with small paths.

(iii) How often are the brushes on these sweepers cleansed, and what
disinfectant is used to cleanse them?

The vehicles are jet washed with water every evening when they are
returned to the depot. Brushes are used across the Borough on a daily
basis, therefore they wear out very quickly.  The brushes will be removed
and replaced on a weekly basis at the depot as part of their maintenance.

(iv) How does the council satisfy itself that bio hazardous human bodily
fluids and other animal waste materials are not spread from one point to
another by cross contamination when using said machines?

Serco road sweepers spray out a jet of water along the road/path as it is
moving. This assists in reducing dust and aids the mechanism of collecting
detritus. It is  an industry standard system.”

Discussion. 

This request confirms

• The council have the tools and equipment to perform the task specified.
• The council only jet wash the contaminated sweepers and do not use disinfectants! This implies that human wastes and bodily fluids swept up as well as animal waste remains on the brushes and is capable of being “spread around” and cross contaminated on a regular  basis between points A and B before they are jet washed at the end of the working day. This arrangement continues all week before the brushes are changed when they “wear out”.
• The council/Serco cannot stop biohazardous wastes being cross contaminated except using water jets which appears to be more of a dust suppression reason than anything else.

There is therefore no specific reason to justify the officer’s claims for caution, in that anything including the fabled covid 19 could be being spread by these machines- you either except that they may cause illness to spread and do not use them, or use them to prevent spread in the first instant. Avian Flu is not as contagious to humans as many other illnesses so the UKHSA et al claim.

THERE IS NO REASON THEREFORE THAT THESE MACHINES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN USED, EXCEPT IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY WERE NOT,  IT ALSO IMPLIES THAT THEY DID NOT WANT THE SPREAD OF AVIAN FLU TO BE PREVENTED WITHIN SANDWELL’S PARKS AND OPEN SPACES INCLUDING THROUGH BIRD TO BIRD TRANSMISSION VIA FAECES. DESPITE THIS , WE SEE THE SMBC SIGN AND HOW FUCKING HOLLOW THE STATEMENT IS IN ATTEMPTING TO COERCE THE PUBLIC. 

“The public should avoid contact with wild birds, including  their feathers and waste.”

Compare and contrast the messaging with the situation at Smethwick Hall Park and false signs about human waste being “mud”. This was long after children had been playing in the water and the silt after a confirmed contamination that had happened before and is still happening due to combined sewer overflows being, shit. Were any of them sick after this, they would not have known the cause?

More multi agency fake statements after Severn Trent Water had turned down the SMBC application to remove all the contaminated silt.

I also wrote to The Director of Health at Sandwell at this time, yet on this serious public health matter did not receive the courtesy of any response. 

This also appears to be the case then that when it comes to economic interests of private water companies which are to blame for death and disease as they were at Smethwick Hall Park and elsewhere, the council and its public health managers appear to go rather silent, as do the UKHSA, the APHA, the RSPCA and just about every other of the organisations engaged in private zoom meetings talking fucking bollocks about how not to tell the public basic truths and information. Zoonotic diseases it appears are money spinners when you can develop a vaccine strategy to go with it. I did ask for minutes of the meetings held between these agencies, and yet unfortunately despite going to the information commissioner on this topic, this body is content and therefore complicit in allowing minutes of these discussions to remain hidden in case it prevents “the free and frank exchange of views” between these different bodies on this topic.

Other council’s have parroted the same message via the useless UKHSA and the examples are shown below as to how similar their coercive message is in trying to separate the public from wild birds, just as they did in attempting to separate people from those who were dying during their covid 19 health hoax- but not of the fake illness in hospitals, whilst the likes of Matt Handcock were shagging their fancy women and not following their own senseless rules.

Birmingham City Council.

This authority I have dealt with before concerning its complicity with ruddy duck culls, and also the issues surrounding “avian botulism”– of course another attempt to link manmade botulism creation via the sewage network  with birds as though it belongs to them and they were the origin of the event- which they were certainly not.

Their pools are without doubt the most dirty litter strewn piss and shit receptacles of all the West Midland authorities, meaning that they harbour disease and illness for anything unfortunate to live amongst the floating fermenting debris, and their obsession with life rings means that these useless orange objects are regularly chucked in but never removed from the water by their lazy staff. They also allowed the Commonwealth Games fireworks debacle to be launched from one of their lakes resulting in harmful chemical fallout over it.

The message even though they state the risk to be “very low” infection regarding people is to tell them NOT to do something in bold lettering, and then telling them to do something if they do. It is not “vital” then for any particular reason is it if the risk is “very low”? This is the first coercive attempt then at turning people in OCD nutters, whilst attempting to create the impression that birds are dirty. Don’t be fooled by it. The chances are that you are more likely to acquire an illness from a person than any bird in Birmingham, particularly on public transport, which they want you to use instead of cars, and that is a fact. CONTINUE TO USE THE CAR AND REJECT THEIR LTN BOLLOCKS! 

If you see a dead bird call the council, of you see an ill one, call the RSPCA is the message- with all birds regardless of how they came to be “ill” treated as though they have avian flu. The truth of the case could not be further from the fake narrative being presented here. Birds have long been ill on Birmingham City council lakes through a variety of causes usually linked to their own poor officer management.

An update of this then used pathetic cartoons just to insult people’s intelligence even further, illustrated as geese.

FUCK OFF!

Wolverhampton City Council

This authority was the only one to respond to the lockdown litter campaign without having to prompt, but issues of angling on some pools remain a problem. The signs below are subtly coloured in the colours of Wolverhampton Wanderers, with the “do not” text in yellow. This obviously attempts to connote the sense of place and another form of coercion in that it is linked to survival in a microcosm area. In the background there is a watermark upward arrow as though in the shape of an “A”, which anchors the message of Avian influenza as though it belongs to the birds. This crap was of course repeatedly used in the pandemic covid 19 hoax by political liars like Boris Johnson and big pharma shills like Chris Witty standing on a lectern and  also conveys a hazard symbol.

There is also the use of cartoons with the goose standing in silhouette in the black text box. The anti feeding message and avoid contact message is of course central in the text.

We see through the intervention manipulation.

Dudley Council.

This authority miraculously escaped any confirmed cases of avian flu between 2021-2022. Unfortunately however and rather suspiciously, in October 2022 it arrived at various locations including Himley Hall- or at least birds became ill at these locations. I was suspicious of the use of pesticides in this and other authorities so pointedly asked an FOI request as I remain of the view that symptoms of convulsions reported in some birds as “avian flu” are nothing of the sort and these birds died by manmade circumstances or from Newcastle’s Disease. I am one of very few people in the world to have seen white phosphorus poisoning in wildfowl and I know the symptoms of that with bitter experience. The symptoms of circling to me suggest a nerve agent type of substance, and not any natural toxin. Other birds have demonstrated bent necks similar to lead poisoning. My questions in red, their responses in blue.

(I)Could you please reveal a list of the pesticides, herbicides, insecticides,
neonicotinoids and chemicals used for weed/crop management in parks and green spaces within the borough of Dudley.

1. Chikara 50g glyphosate additive, No mix Glyphosate Pro bioactive,
Katoum Gold, No MixDual, Crossbar, Eco Plugs, Rose clear insecticide, No
mix G CDA.

(ii) Are pesticides/ chemicals used near children’s play areas, areas of open water or are there any areas where they are restricted from use- and for what reasons?

2. In all areas a buffer zone of two metres away from watercourses and
play areas is actioned. Water courses is to prevent water contamination
and play areas is to prevent over spray onto the play areas.

(iii) Please indicate when said chemicals were last sprayed/applied or used in the following locations to the nearest accurate date
Himley Hall and park
Lakeside- Withymoor
Mary Stevens Park

3. These areas are not sprayed with any chemicals on the grass areas.
Although highways are sprayed, these were sprayed in the month of
September. Himley Hall was sprayed in September as well around the pool is
not sprayed or by brook courses, only trip rail and shrubberies and
building curtilages with Glyphosate. The highways are also sprayed with
Glyphosate.
The most telling thing from this is that “avian flu” occurred in these areas on the month following spraying. I would suggest that any use of glyphosate- a proven carcinogenic chemical is bad news, wherever it may be sprayed or leech into. I remain highly suspicious about this “outbreak” in the areas concerned and doubt that “avian flu” occurred there in the way in which they would have people believe. 

A later sign included the usual bullet point text boxes.

The message of this council was completely blown out of the water by their own avarice by putting on a fireworks event at Himley within weeks of this “confirmed” outbreak, and inviting people to do exactly what they told them not to or making it impossible to do what they wanted them to do. As for the ill birds that they knew about- the decision makers here could not give a shit.

The petition against launching fireworks from this site and relevant links showing the harm that fireworks cause to wild birds is still active and can be signed HERE. We will be promoting this in the run up to this years November activities in attempting to change Dudley Council’s behaviour on releasing harmful chemicals into the environment!

South Staffordshire County Council

This authority literally borders Himley Hall at Baggeridge and it was rather bizarre to see two separate signs just metres apart, but basically with the same misguided message. We see with this a full on attempt at coercion, suggesting that people are “protecting birds” if you do as they say. YOU ARE NOT, SO IGNORE THE MESSAGE AS IT IS COERCION TO SUGGEST THAT IF YOU DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO THE MESSAGE THEN SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN AND THE BIRDS WILL NOT BE PROTECTED. 

There is no direct evidence that feeding spreads the disease, as if this was the case then they would all be dead already. As for not attempting to rescue any ill birds, I would also ignore this, as they may be tangled in line and more likely ill from something else. It’s delay and indifference that costs birds’ lives, and protecting them is doing something sooner rather than later. On the dogs on leads issue however, I do agree with that, but not for the reasons hinted at here.

Staffordshire County Council

And so the very worst I have saved until last. I have already looked at what happened at Chasewater Country Park when these liars took over and closed the former duck pond. They first attempted to string people along that it would be reinstated claiming that it was to clean the pool, only then to come up with a different story and fill it in when challenged on the matter. 

The issue of lead poisoning and botulism on this site has also been going on for years, and in the former case, this is preventable if they took certain remedial measures, which they have not.

When the “avian flu” situation first occurred in the area, this site was heavily hit by bird deaths, though many never tested for avian flu. An FOI request to this council asked them a series of questions about this, and what became a theme of stopping people from feeding the birds at the site, even after avian flu had faded from every other area in the Midlands region. Their messaging about when people could resume feeding the birds and “assuming” that all bird deaths were caused by avian flu, when there was not a shred of any scientific evidence to confirm this was clearly becoming more difficult to fathom, and unfortunately, the gaslighting message made some people whose life was made purposeful by feeding and caring for the birds have been mentally destroyed by their ranger diktats.

With this in mind, and with NO DEATHS in neighbouring authorities, I challenged this authority to come clean about the bollocks they were spouting and the continued behaviour change crap that I recognised they were insulting good people’s intelligence with. Part of my FOI request asked the following, and please note their highlighted response at that time.

“…is the case that you intend to stop members of the public from resuming feeding forever, by the means of using “avian flu” as an excuse – a seasonal and this year supposed “unprecedented” event, then please reveal what legal basis you have to enforce this, again referring to communications as stipulated in part(ii) of this request? It is noted that where other local authorities advised on not feeding birds, after a period of time of no deaths, any such notices have now been removed. When do you intend to remove yours?

“Our approach is consistent with other authorities – there is no intention to stop people feeding the birds permanently. We will wait until we have a few clear weeks and then notices will come down. We had cases on 31 March / 1st April so are still being cautious but hopefully we will soon be able to remove AI information from the site.

We do have concerns about feeding birds in some areas of Chasewater as it can attract the birds to areas where they can be exposed to lead poisoning, among other issues, so we would not actively encourage feeding. This is however a separate issue and will be communicated as such.”

Once again, the silly cartoons with stop/go red and green imagery

Prior to this, I was amazed that in spite of claiming that there must be something harmful in the water- i.e infectious material spread by the birds, no one at this authority was stopping water sports, whereby members of the public unprotected, were coming into direct contact where birds were supposedly dying, even though local observers did not see any dead birds whatsoever, or ill ones either at the site.

One event held annually is the so called “ironman” competition triathlon across this borough, and whereby the first discipline of swimming is held at Chasewater- I.e hundreds of participants enter the water and remain in the water bathing where birds are supposedly ill or dying and should not be fed to reduce this- so their messaging claimed.

Even the leader of this authority, Conservative Alan White is a participant, and noted that in social media output from this council was promoting the event, without any mention of avian flu restricting it or human contact with the water being harmful. Indeed, could human contact with the water not spread disease to the birds, following the UKHSA hypothesis?

3000 people can enter bird flu infected waters and swim 1.2 miles within it- now that is a different kind of message is it not?

The leader participates in the swim

Straight from the horses mouth with subtitles

He has been training hard- does this mean swimming in the lake at Chasewater as well?

“The swim, (in Chasewater lake) is 1900…..”

…metres in Chasewater….”

From what I have researched through his results, maybe he needs some more training.  🙂

Finished 630th, and he stayed in the water (at Chasewater) for 44 minutes and 22 seconds. 

What this means is that this authority and its most senior politician were quite happy to put on and participate in an event which no doubt makes them thousands of pounds in revenue despite putting out messages of doom, and outright lies about safety concerning “avian flu”. The message is bollocks, cannot possibly be defended, and shows the lie for what it is. 

A response from SCC was received by a member of the public and can be seen as their view at this particular time AUGUST 2022, when they were still claiming that feeding could resume if there was a period of time with no birds deaths. Actually, there were none at all during this time, but it is another lie on their part.

I then had this response, after delay, and had to send them a reminder to get this. It continues the story from September 2022. 

The problem with liars, and corporate organisations which lie to and mislead the public like Staffordshire County Council is that their lies eventually become impossible to defend when put under scrutiny.

“Thank you for your email below regarding your correspondence to the Council in respect of the feeding of birds at Chasewater.

I can confirm that initial enquiries were made with staff at the Country Parks Team in respect of the issues that you raised in September 2022.  A further update was also provided in November to our team however we have checked our files and can see that whilst a reply was drafted for you, this was not sent out to you as it should have been. 

I have set out below the information that was received

September – Country Parks advised that signs asking visitors not to feed the wildfowl at Chasewater were put on display due to the previous Avian Influenza outbreak.   It was always the intention to remove these as conditions allowed and replace with signs encouraging visitors to feed the birds responsibly.   There was no intention to enforce any no feeding policy and they were aware that many people are ignoring signs and have continued to feed the wildfowl over the last few months.

Country Parks had been operating on a skeleton staff for many months and are aware that a few things across the Country Parks are not in the condition that they would like.  This includes the replacement of signage.

In respect of Avian Influenza, should another outbreak occur on site they would have to display signs and information along the guidelines from DEFRA.  At that point in time it was hoped that this would not happen.

November – A further update on the situation was provided by the Country Parks Team in November whereby it was confirmed that there were cases of Bird Flu at one of the country parks in North Staffordshire.  Signs were displayed at that particular park to request that people did not feed the birds along with the safety guidance and a contact for reporting any dead birds.  Whilst at that point (8 November) there were no confirmed cases of bird flu at Chasewater, the decision was taken to ask that the birds were not fed to discourage birds grouping together for food.

Current position – In light of your email below I have asked the Country Parks Team for a further update given the time that has passed.  They have now confirmed that new signs are on order which will outline the Council’s policy and requests that going forward, visitors to country parks do not feed the birds.

I am very sorry that you have not received a response to the issues you raised back in September 2022 and I hope that the above is of assistance. 

Yours sincerely

In other words, this local authority has used the mantra of Michie and co to gaslight the public with behaviour change of not feeding the birds at the site at all in the hope that one day there would be a point in time, (never intentioned by them of course) where they could . They constructed the fake narrative that by feeding the birds, then you would harm them, but dismissed any risk that entering the water would not affect in any way Alan White and his chummy bunch of floaters. Their plan to restrict this by rule making follows the change, and the rest of it you can deduce with a reminder of the BCW table below.

The latest signs at this site once again use the same daft cartoons as well as gaslighting the public and even has one of those three phrase platitudes at the end of the message. This council may have “pride” and “purpose” in ridding the site of wildfowl so that water sports can prosper, but they are certainly not “with you” if you prefer wildlife.

There is NO risk, and people do not spread it.

The message is clear from this council in that they are about promoting water sports which makes them doe and removing wildlife from this site which does not, and have used underhand tactics and “avian flu” as the mechanism and excuse for this , just as they did to remove the duck pond before this. Staffordshire County Council, you are without doubt the most underhand crooked council I have ever had the misfortune to deal with, and that is saying something with the ones that I have! 

So I return then to Sandwell and its “public health” message. I was written to by the Director of public health, now gone, as well as some bloke from the UKHSA with something like the name “Dr Chapati”. I do not take kindly to people who assume that they are more intelligent than I am and can put one over on me, especially ones who are not even real doctors of medicine and promptly binned it.

They attempted to suggest that as “an advocate of birds” , (appealing to my nature and personal ego), that I should advocate their message to the public about not feeding birds or touching birds and all of the other crap associated with the scumbags from SAGE. I declined to respond, GIVEN THE VAST RANGE  OF ISSUES MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT THEY COULD NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT CHANGING IN SANDWELL WITHIN THEIR OWN PORTFOLIO BRIEF, but I will say this and say it as clearly as can be made publicly whether you unfortunately reside in a Tory authority or Labour one where there is no difference….

• CONTINUE TO FEED THE BIRDS
• IGNORE BEHAVIOUR CHANGE WHEELS AND INTERVENTIONS AND DO NOT BECOME A HAMSTER IN THAT WHEEL OR ANY LAB RAT IN ANY STUDY. 
• IGNORE SIGNS OF DOOM AND COERCIVE MESSAGING AND ALWAYS QUESTION THE LANGUAGE USED AND WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU DO OR NOT TRYING TO MAKE YOU DO. 
• DO NOT CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOUR
• CONTINUE TO FEED THE BIRDS.