Save Station Street campaigners back smaller cock!

More soon on the National Trust's appalling and cowardly conduct in the various Station Street, Birmingham, campaigns soon. The story so far can be seen here:

https://crowmultimedia.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-national-trust-brum-conspiracy.html

In the meantime the "campaigners" seem remarkably shy about who is who in the campaign/campaigns. In the above post we speculated on the identity of the manic obsessive who puts out hundreds and hundreds of posts on X (formerly Twitter) apparently on hehalf of the "campaign". This person bizarrely seeks to maintain anonymity whilst advertising that s/he is running a "non governmental and non-profit organisation". But is his/her increasingly unhinged output really the work of a group, or solely that of a fanatical individual?

This blog initially thought that the author might be a notorious local Labour anti-car obsessive - particularly noting a compulsive campaign to ban cars from Station Street - an important city thoroughfare immediately adjacent to a major regional transport hub (New Street Station). It would appear that the X account is actually run by one Darren John. 

Crow Multimedia has attempted to contact others involved in the National Trust scandal, particularly as the anonymous X person continually uses "we" in posts. If others are involved in the "organisation" they might want to consider their legal position for the reasons set out below.

The Website "campaign" claims to be run by "Ken Preston" and "Zoe Bond-Pinner" from an address in Stourbridge (rather than, er, Birmingham). Crow wrote to them (by a real letter!):

"I am an investigative journalist interested in the secret involvement of the National Trust in respect of the ongoing campaigns relating to Station Street.

I would like to send some questions to you but cannot find an email for your campaign and I don’t want to use the open forum of the Facebook group.

Can you please forward appropriate contact details to the email address above please?

Can you please confirm whether you are also responsible for the “Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStation St” X (formerly Twitter) account and, if not, who is?"

They did not reply.

We also wrote in a similar vein to another of the National Trust's gang of conspirators, Ian Francis at Flatpack but, again, received no reply.

The Facebook group, "Save the Electric Cinema Birmingham" has two administrators, Zoe Bond-Pinner and Darren John.

Most of the campaign supporters are "socialists" and so they have no money. They keep insisting that taxpayers' money should be used to "save" the Electric and, more bizarrely, to re-open the Crown as a pub. They seem blissfully unaware that deadbeat Labour Brum has only just come out of bankruptcy or that 25% - yes, a quarter - of the city's working age population are on out of work benefits. The pub trade is in dire straits and The Crown shut down over a decade ago because it was a nasty sh*thole. Further there is now competition from a large Wetherspoons directly opposite. The X person is bombarding the Mayor of the West Midlands [who he? Ed] and the ridiculous Lisa Nandy in the hope they will waste taxpayers' money on his/her absurd schemes.

Incidentally, some of us remember how awful The Crown was before it happily shut. When a non-local campaign supporter queried this someone local posted this response:

There is a plan to turn this area into an "arts and cultural quarter" [sic] even though the dismal Labour Council is promoting Digbeth as an, er, arts and culture quarter! And despite the local legacy media pumping out endless Ozzy nonsense that hype will soon fade.

Not long ago, there was a fire at "The Flatiron" building in Hockley. In a flurry of posts the Old Station Street campaign accused the owners of neglecting the building and hinted that the fire had not been accidental. This was echoed by someone on X called "jordanbhx"".  The X person named the Company (based in the Virgin Islands) and also named the two beneficial owners, both Hong Kong nationals. S/he described them as "vampires". At Crow Multimedia this all seemed rather odd since the fire was said to have started in an office on the 4th floor - not the usual place for budding arsonists to choose. And, indeed, it was quickly confirmed by an enquiry to the WM Fire Service that the fire was indeed, purely accidental.

It is to be hoped that the campaigners do not face the legal wrath of the Hong Kong owners and maybe the campaigners need to think before they start making false allegations on social media. Perhaps this is why these proselytisers want to try and maintain anonymity? And quite why the National Trust wants to team up with such buffoons is beyond comprehension.

Interestingly, the X person took it upon him/herself to also become the self-appointed guardian of all of Brum's historic building and claims to now be speaking also on behalf of the Methodist Central Hall and other properties. S/he also uses the campaign to peddle a whole array of leftie claptrap - attacking Reform, Farage, the flag-flyers, motorists, Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters etc. etc. Again why the allegedly apolitical (though increasingly woke) National Trust wants to engage with all this is curious to say the least.

The obsessive X person rants over and over and over again about the proposed tower developers want to build in Station Street. S/he usually calls it "crappy" which surely means it will fit in well with the rest of Brum's contemporary architecture. The latest abuse is that the "50 floor" tower will be "phallic". But what's this? The Arora Group has planning permission for a 22 storey tower across the road from The Crown. The campaigners have suggested raising the £2m asking price and somehow finding the money to build a tower containing a "Brum Sounds hotel" full of memorabilia relating to Ozzy and others.

50 storeys bad and phallic - - 22 storeys good! How can anyone take these clowns seriously?

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