We love an oddity in the mainstream media and are slightly perplexed by offerings featuring local Labour politicians yesterday from Lidl/Aldi house "newspaper", The Birmingham Mail. The pieces were "penned" by the Mail's "Politics and People Editor", Jane "SH" Haynes, who occasionally lifts her head from between the thighs of Jess Phillips MP to spit vitriol at "the Tories" and glorify the Labour Party in general and "leftish" women in particular.
Like many on "the left", SH is a poverty junkie and has been muttering on social media and in the paper -between the multitude of adverts from capitalist companies funding her wages - about the "scandal" of "badly-run, unregulated hostels" in our City. This massive puff-piece for Labour gave SH the chance for some heavy-duty rimming of a batch of dismal "socialists" ie. Liam Byrne, Jack Dromey, Preet Kaur Gill, Shabana Mahmood, Steve McCabe, Khalid Mahmood, Tahir Ali and, inevitably of course for a SH piece, Jess Phillips. Gill was also prominently shown in a photo accompanying this Labour "advertorial".
It was beautifully ironic that as we read this Labour campaign document online yesterday via the Mail website an advert flashed up from "EverFX Regulated Brokers" exhorting cash-flushed Brummies to all invest (or risk) £250 each in, er, uber-capitalist Amazon!
On the very same day SH featured - with photo - Cllr Sharon Thompson, Labour's Cabinet Member for Homes and Neighbourhoods bragging about the skint Council's brilliant deal with "Staywell Hospitality Management"(SMH) who have sought a slice of the very lucrative council-funded B&B business during the Covid calamity with an "offer" to put-up folk in their, er, deserted "prestige hotels". Red Shaz was beside herself and hailed this a "great move in driving-up standards".
Bizarrely, SH updated her effort later in the day and all reference to SMH suddenly disappeared to be replaced with references to Birmingham City Council having partnered instead with "Switch Hospitality" - complete with a quote from Switch's "Managing Director" except there is no limited company registered in the UK called by this name. Confused? We were and the Staywell website muddies the waters still further:
Depending on whether you are sane or an adherent of the warped idealogy of socialism, Red Shaz is getting into bed with one of the most successful or alternatively the most rapacious capitalists in Brum, Harj Mattu. Perhaps SH and Cllr Sharon regretted making it so obvious that the taxpayer was about to start shovelling money at a very wealthy businessman and his empty hotels?
Harj Mattu is connected with a huge non-limited company operation, Seven Capital, and you will have seen his large property developments springing-up all over our City eg. the Park Regis Hotel (and look for the black "Colmore Tang" boards). As most entrepreneurs do, he operates through a whole web of companies, not all of which are "limited" and thus required to file public records. But the parent Company of Staywell - which SH and Red Shaz intially claimed the Council has contracted with - is Harj's Colmore Investments Limited. So why would there by coyness and a sudden "switch" to, er, Switch? Surely this cannot be that the posturing "socialists" of the failing Council and Red Shaz don't want you to know that "the ultimate controlling party" of Staywell is none other than Acc Sino Group Limited based in the infamous tax haven of Guernsey!
So well done comrades for doing your bit towards enriching an offshore tax haven Company. At least Red Shaz says the unfortunate punters will get free wi-fi. Power to the people!
Oh and by the way, Labour's Preet Kaur Gill MP has declared a donation of £4,000 from "Capital Seven" in her Parliamentary Register of Interests. By coincidence the address given in Park Lane, Mayfair, London is that of "Seven Capital" and Harj's Colmore Investments Limited. I am sure this was merely an error by the hapless Gill and not done with any intention to deceive (although she has not amended the error). And let's hope wealthy Harj is now a member of the local "Labour Family" and will show his support for the comrades in the time-honoured way...
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