So in April, this abysmal environmental polluter were once again responsible for a faecal attack on another Sandwell Park- this time the upper pool at Redhouse in Great Barr. This has happened before at this “green flag” park, and to cut a long story short, a local resident has supplied me with bundles of letters he sent to this company over many years, the consumer council for water, and Ofwat about related matters. All of this has been forwarded to Sarah Coombes MP , who has advised me that she has still to receive an official response from STW after all this time.

Like all previous events , the pollution arose from a STW asset which feeds into the pool and serves a large catchment area. A penstock valve operates flow into the upper pool, and it was apparent that a billowing soup of shite was pouring out of here and spreading outwards, once again threatening wildlife, though STW like to pretend that this is down to something else.

Friends of Redhouse Chair, Dave Fisher was quick to post a video showing this which can be viewed below. He also contacted the council, and calls were put in to the EA from day one, including those I made myself.

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Unlike the dismally slow attendance at Smethwick Hall park in 2019, on this occasion more stops appear to have been pulled out, perhaps only because they knew that social media was watching. This however was not immediate, and there is some dispute as to when STW were actually informed and responded, with my location report being inaccurately plotted.

A boom was put in place around the offending stench and then pumps installed to oxygenate the water.

These pumps ran for some days with 24/7 attendance by contractors Adler and Allen. Following this I made communication with STW asking for answers. I eventually got a response, which was more inflated pr and denials. The full responses are set out below, STW response in red, my rebuttal in black, and their subsequent response to this in blue. Judge for yourself if you believe them.

#”We were first altered about a suspected pollution in this area yesterday when the Environment Agency contacted us.  We attended quickly to find all our assets operating normally and no environmental impact.  As with all pollutions, we reported this information back to the EA. “

And yet Sandwell council claim to have contacted the EA a week earlier about this incident- so can you confirm if you attended then and you also failed to identify the correct location at this time- thus the issue has been happening for at least two weeks? 

“This was first reported to us by the EA on the 17/03/2025 at 14:55 and we attended site at 16:27.

We are made aware of pollutions through a number of routes:

We identify them ourselves and self-report them.  This is formally measured by the EA, and we have been green on this measure since 2013, self-reporting 89% of our incidents.

·                     EA officers spot them and call us directly.

·                     Customers call the EA who then call us

·                     Customers call us directly.

All pollutions are picked up by our 24/7 control centre who dispatch a crew immediately.  We attend the majority of pollutions within 2 hours”

SO EITHER SANDWELL COUNCIL OFFICERS WERE LYING OR SEVERN TRENT ARE HERE. 

#“Following your mail and helpful videos and photos, we realised this was actually a different location but in the same area so we re-attended and found a blockage in our sewer.  This is quite common in this area, and we often find the cause to be third party – either damage to our pipes or things being put in the sewer that we are not bound to receive.  Sometimes these items alone can create a restriction, but it is often made worse by mis-use of the sewer (fats, wipes, nappies, etc).  We complete extensive CCTV work to identify the cause and then use our team of Network Protection Officers (residential properties) or ECAS (commercial) to help educate customers and hopefully prevent future incidents.”

This is very generalised PR spin and I have to tell you that my BS detection limits are calibrated to very low. Why is it common in this area? What frequency of surveying is carried out by STW in this area or catchment, when was the last occasion this was carried out and found to be no issues or clear and why is there only ever reaction to events like this? Why do you always blame the public, rather than consider if your investigations or even detection of the reported pollution location arisings are accurate, as was not in this case? 

“Across our network we removed 28,062 blockages last year and we survey 30,000-40,000 pipes per year to proactively cleanse and fix pipes where needed. The number of blockages is improving every year due to proactive inspections and cleansing areas where historical data tells us we have a problem plus the extensive work we do to educate customers through our network protection team and in local schools.  On average we clear 59 blockages a year in the B43 postcode.  

Last year, of the 1,256 pollution incidents we attended, 274 were caused by Severn Trent assets and resulted in a minor impact on the environment. Any pollution is one too many and we are investing in our assets and our response capability to significantly improve this.  We remain sector leading, but are constantly striving to be better.

In the B43 area we have attended 24 reported pollutions since 2017 and 1 was attributable to Severn Trent.  The rest were either confirmed as ‘no impact’ or 3rd party.”

I AM NOT BELIEVING WHAT STW CLAIM TO BE “MINOR IMPACTS” GIVEN THEIR FAILURE TO ADMIT THAT THEIR RAW SEWAGE CAUSES ALL AVIAN BOTULISM ISSUES WHERE IT OCCURS. THEY MAY NOT WANT TO MAKE THE LINK, BUT I WILL. 

“This particular blockage resulted in a minor trickle of discharge into the pond which has now been stopped and we have started investigations upstream to identify the cause.  I will personally review the outcome of these investigations and ensure all appropriate actions are taken to ensure we prevent further blockages.”

What volume of “discharge” as you conveniently describe human excrement and toilet flushings do you estimate went into the lake, and how are you able to measure this please? Is this a combined sewer overflow and do you have ANY discharge consents, yes or no will do. 

What were the oxygen readings in the lake on your first attendance? What were the ammonia/nitrate levels? 

What are they now, and what do you expect them to reach following this minor incident as you appear to claim it was, when pumps have now been operating for over one week by Adler and Allen? 

“In regard to this specific incident, it was caused by third-party misuse of a sewer on a nearby road. A circular concrete pipe cap (not related to any Severn Trent work) was removed from the sewer by our operatives which was causing a restriction on the line. The event did not take place on a combined sewer nor any combined sewer overflow as the sewer system is separated in this area – foul water and surface water is carried through different systems.

In terms of measuring the volume or flow of discharge, there is no monitoring in the area to be able to provide a specific number or total volume.

In reference to the oxygen readings and ammonia levels on the lake, these were collected at the time and over the subsequent days to help track the health of the waterbody. As we don’t manage the lake we don’t hold information in terms of background levels. As you mention, we did instruct Adler and Allen to support as a specialist Environmental Consultant to ensure our response was adequate and to leave the waterbody in an improved condition.

Whilst the incident was caused by a third-party, it is still under review with the EA as part of the categorisation process. This process is usually concluded relatively quickly so would be happy to share more specific readings and levels with you at that point.”

NB NO FURTHER INFO HAS BEEN SHARED WITH OR COMMUNICATD BY STW TO MYSELF. 

“We are proud of our Environmental performance.  We have been awarded the Environment Agency’s highest standard of 4 star status for the last 5 years.  Our teams are committed to not only protecting but improving the environment.  So, whilst on site, we carried out a further assessment and noticed the water body was being impacted by a clean water leak. which we have raised to South Saffs (SIC) Water who are on site currently. We also noted an algal bloom and whilst we wait for the EA to attend, we have instructed our own contractors to complete an environmental assessment.  We will also work with all parties to ensure the pond is left clean.”

I substantially beg to differ in opinion to yours on your company’s environmental -performance having reported dozens of incidents over the last 20 years- particularly in Smethwick. How convenient it is that you cannot find pollution when reporting back to the EA, and then only when people persist and keep ringing them do you come back and find it down the line. I wish I could mark my own work, but that is the state of how dire the privatised water industry is in that this is allowed to happen with weak political regulation. 

What does “clean water” have to do with this, it appears to be a rather desperate attempt to drag another water company into your pollution. One may take the view that clean water is probably doing good to combat your company’s sewage rather than causing harm? 

Algal bloom- do you think that people are that stupid that they do not associate this with raw sewage, and that this event has obviously bee going on for some time and has caused this bloom to occur, or is a substantive causal factor? 

“The Environment Agency (EA) measure our, and the other water companies’ Environmental performance using a set of 7 metrics. In addition to reporting the total number of pollutions that we’re accountable for, we also are measured on how many of our incidents we “self-report” i.e. we tell the EA about before they’re informed by anyone else. We have been “green” for this metric since 2013, self-reporting 89% of our incidents in 2023 and 89.7% in 2024.  We have achieved the highest level of performance against these 7 metrics – receiving the top 4* award for the last 5 years. 

In relation to the clean water leak that we’ve reported to South Staffs Water, the Chlorine used to make sure the water is good to drink, can disrupt ecosystems as it reacts with organic matter in the water to form harmful by-products and subsequently degrade water quality.

Whilst sewage escaping into a watercourse can create algal blooms (commonly known as sewage fungus), it’s not the only cause of algal blooms, other nutrient rich discharges also can create algal blooms (i.e. fertilisers) and that’s why we need to explore all contributors to this watercourse.”

“Thanks you again for raising.  I will be back in touch when we have understood the true cause of the blockage and will happily share the work we undertake to prevent this happening again.”

As those who signed a petition to ban catapults and their sale together with ammunition will know, the UK Government “responded” to this with a standard civil service pile of bullshit. In the past there have been petitions about controlling air weapons, only for this pro hunt blob of fucking lazy scum in Westminster to claim that it is the right of people to “enjoy their property”, or be unrestricted in what they do because of law breakers whom the token bacons that are not interested in wildlife crime should be arresting.

“Make the sale of catapults/ammunition and carrying catapults in public illegal.”.

So out of touch are these corrupt pro fox hunting pillocks that they have no concept of the damage that the weapons wielded by council estate white trash are having on wildlife- particularly urban wildlife.

The response to this petition is set out below, and I will offer my thoughts and experiences on this in rebuttal to the shit who wrote and prepared this. I just wish they had put their name to it, because I would call them a shit to their face, where no doubt the swill would soon be set upon me for offending the poor snowflake.

Government responded:

“The Government will keep this issue under review, balancing the concern over the need to protect wildlife from the minority who misuse catapults, with respect for their legitimate use by anglers.

In other words, “piss off”. Where does the petition mention “anglers”? The type of catapult being used by the majority are so called “vermin” catapults, hidden up the sleeve and carried around in the pocket, and not static at the waterside. The respondent to this is obviously a pisces stabber with a guilty conscience, as well as knowing exactly who are misusing them in relation to waterfowl being targeted, because they are of that mentality for their pathetic “sport” being ruined by a passing bird.

The Government shares the deep concerns raised by the petitioners over the appalling spate of incidents of swans and other wildlife being attacked with catapults, and we condemn the thugs responsible for such vile and cowardly crimes.

So how many more do we have to document, before you take action? Why do you task us with compiling this evidence, and yet at the end of that exercise fucking ignore all of it with crap blanket statements like this?

Catapults should never be used for illegal purposes, whether against wildlife, people or property, and there are already a range of laws in place to punish those who do so. For example, under provisions in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and The Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996, the police have broad powers to deal with offences where unnecessary suffering and injury is inflicted on wildlife, including cases involving the misuse of catapults.

What a fucking joke. They are ONLY used for criminal damage, that is their purpose to fire projectiles like bullets at targets. The WCA is a joke, it protects farming and agricultural interests and that is what it was set up for. I looked at the history of this shite law HERE. The bacons are pro hunt supporters with no interest in wildlife crime.

However, it is also the case that catapults are also routinely used by members of the public enjoying legitimate pastimes, in particular for anglers when propelling fishing bait. In considering this petition, therefore, the Government has to balance the entirely legitimate objective of the petitioners to see catapults and catapult ammunition kept out of the hands of individuals who will misuse it, with the equally legitimate desire of anglers and others to continue using catapults for normal pastimes and leisure pursuits.

Who are “the others”. What “legitimate” pursuit are they carrying out, and what are they firing? These weapons can kill, and are not designed to be some type of fucking toy and used as a “pastime”.

At present, the Government believes the current legislation in this area strikes the correct balance between these two objectives, and we therefore do not intend to accept the petitioners’ proposal at this time, but we will continue to keep this issue under review, including all relevant legislation that applies in this area.

The Government is wrong. The legislation is none existent, and the enforcement of the law is not happening. 

In the meantime, the Government is determined to crack down on attacks on wildlife and other types of crime that have gone unaddressed for too long in rural areas.

Then enter “rural areas”. I could not give a fuck about rural crime. That is all they are concerned about, because as I said, they are pro hunt scum, where the pro hunt scum all live. Ironically of course, they do not care about the law being broken, but have filtered in loopholes designed by the liar and murderer Blair who allowed hunting to continue. THE MAJORITY OF WILDLIFE CRIME BY NUMBERS OCCURS IN URBAN AREAS- FACT. 

The Government is currently working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council on the new iteration of their Rural and Wildlife Crime Strategy, which is due to be published in the coming months, and we are also continuing to support the work of the National Rural Crime Unit and the National Wildlife Crime Unit, which provides intelligence, analysis and investigative assistance to forces and other law enforcement agencies across the UK to support them in investigating wildlife crime.

Could not care less what this bunch of freemasons are doing in rural areas. Until they enforce the law regards hunting, they will nit have any respect from me. The PCC’s in the wider Midlands area are known corrupt in office, members of the countryside alliance and have vested interests in keeping hunting going. 

The National Rural Crime Unit will receive £365k from the Home Office in the financial year 2025-26, the first new funding since the unit was established in 2023, and the National Wildlife Crime Unit, will receive funding of £450k from the Home Office in the financial year 2025-26, a 21% increase on the previous financial year.

Home Office

AND NOTHING FOR URBAN AREAS. 

Here below are a collection of just a few wankers with their weapons. Not one had any fishing equipment upon their person. I rang the police about every one of them, and most incidents had no attendance. They were sent the pictures after the event, and on most cases did not get back to me with anything of interest. DO NOT TELL ME THAT THE LOCAL POLICE ARE INTERESTED IN WILDLIFE CRIME. I HAVE 28 YEARS OF KNOWLEDGE IN THIS AREA. HOPEFULLY ONE DAY, THESE WILL BACK FIRE AND KILL THEM AND THE CHILDREN THEY ARE WITH. 

Not for the first time have this council been complicit in the destruction of living things and their habitat. This post serves as another reminder of that on the border of a local nature reserve, and is being shared here for informative purposes. 

It is with a very heavy heart, that our worst fears about the Sandwell Plan are now arising and a sense of Deja vu on the former Duport’s Tip and surrounding roads has seen the mass destruction of hundreds of mature trees and the associated wildlife that lived there.

The previous operations and planning saga on this site were outlined in this post, but this perhaps serves as the direct sequel as to what is to come, and so we all must fight on to try to stop that from happening.

By way of history, the article below was written in 1995, and confirms that the area planted that has now been wrecked in just two weeks was a publicly funded urban forest that at this time was used as a propaganda tool by the then Black Country Development Corporation. This body were a despicable shill organisation for new build development, but used token planting like this to try to attempt to convey green credentials using our money. We can now see this fraud for what it was and that of their successor – The West Midlands Combined Authority.

BCDC-forest-Sandwell Chronicle -3rd-Feb-1995

I was contacted by a local resident who alerted me to the presence of diggers on the site in a Pearl Harbour style attack on the areas wild space. I visited on 11/1/2025 on a cold foggy morning, and in the mist I could see and hear the clattering of fallen trees as two diggers were on site. The video below captures some of this. Trees were piled up and they had obviously gained access from Gladstone Drive- the new front line of the war on wildlife.

Digger in the mist

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By the afternoon, the two vehicles were parked up at the entrance, and it was clear to see that both were branded “DSM”. This was quickly found to be a company called DSM Demolition based in Saltley Birmingham.

It was clear to see the destruction that had been wrought on the site from above on the mound. I observed no site safety notices nor anything to prevent the public from accessing where I walked from off the canal- indeed this site has been used regularly by residents, dog walkers and the general public for many years after the Hurst family had abandoned it- save of course for their tatting for metal exercise in 2010 which I looked at in this post. Trees were piled up, and it struck me that it was their intention to remove any trace of ecology off the site so they could attempt to claim there was nothing there.

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Also piled up at the entrance were remains of the butile lining of the French Drain, installed as a planning condition on account for the landfill gas associated with this site. One therefore ponders as to what pre application advice or guidance had been sought from Sandwell council- of course they had questions to answer?

Local residents had started to contact me about the work, and I immediately put in an email and contacted those in the council, including the deputy leader and Oldbury ward councillor for this area Suzanne Hartwell. Needless to say, I have yet to get any answers or even the courtesy of a response from this individual. 

Over the course of the following week, the destruction continued daily after the Sunday rest. Where was the recent tree survey, where was the recent ecological survey for protected species, let alone the recent soil tests bearing in mind that this is a contaminated former landfill site and that earth is being moved around by the vehicles on site? In fact, what type of site even is it, bearing in mind that it is not a site that has had any planning permission granted and no conditions to safeguard the public or the environment?

Looking across the lagoon, and the invasive filth on the hill

They were visible from the lagoon side just plucking trees out of the ground without a care.

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Also exposed were remnants of waste packaging and scrap that had previously been unearthed then reburied during The Hurst family tattaphon in 2010. 

The sun sets on the Tividale Urban Forest, as a darkened shadow malice descends

A rotary cutter destroys some more vegetation

The site now resembles a Viet Cong garden circa 1968 after being sprayed with agent orange, or perhaps the analogy of an Irish garden during potato famine may be more appropriate in this case. 

View from The Rattlechain Bridge canal basin

This desolation

The new barren landscape off Macdonald Close.

Sandwell council- treachery, Public relations lies and complicity. 

It is clear to see that the landowners, whom I will be scrutinising in an upcoming post had a clear intention of removing natural habitat and known and recorded species from their soiled “development opportunity” “brownfield” site. I have said in the past what this term means and it is political doublespeak for where the poor people can live, and “greenbelt” is doublespeak for where the rich people can live in splendid isolation. Anyone who wants to protect the so called “greenbelt” and who lives in urban areas does not have a fucking brain, and is so clueless it is not worth me even trying to explain concepts like this and the gaslighting of the political class who of course live in their splendid “greenbelt” isolation oasis.

The Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust also objected to the loss of open space and this area is still within the area known as “The Local nature area recovery network.” It is difficult to see what opportunity there is now, but certainly we know what was there, and this has been recorded. If the landowners come out with some latter day report written by a claimed environmental consultancy, that consultancy and their professional credibility will be put to the sword.

The forest may be gone, and the wildlife for now, but earth works, not sanctioned by any valid permission is a direct threat to public health. The council know this, and are obliged to protect us, even though they have failed miserably in that regard over many years.

OPINION

Or maybe names of people who are full of shit!

We have of course for a long time now been attempting to get answers as to the state of Smethwick Hall Park and the pollution to this and other local water bodies caused by the scum water company Severn Trent and their failed under invested network. Sporadically, and coinciding with visible pollution entering the site in Margaret Gardens/Londonderry Lane , we get botulism bird deaths which disappear when the pollution disappears. This was the case in July 2024 when I last wrote about the issue, and please do read this for the context of the saga which explains how botulism is created by dirty contaminated water. 

Numerous emails have followed these events as well as telephone calls- all to fuck all avail when the powers that be do absolutely nothing to stop it- either flat denying there is a problem or failing in regulation to take action. I set out here below these communications in full and the responses from the first two individuals so that everyone can see what we are dealing with here. It is dishonesty, lies, apathy and gross incompetence. Above all however it shows the disastrous failure of Thatcher in privatising the water industry and creating a free for all profit for shareholder fucking filth whilst the environment is poisoned by corporate greed and shat into rivers, streams and pools. 

LIV GARFIELD

The bloated fat cat CEO of the Coventry cunt flush mafia.

Garfield has openly lied to Parliament. I made several calls to this scum company who failed to get back to me. Reference numbers were taken and yet still no response, so I copied in the fat cat setting out my stall.

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I have spoken numerous times to customer services about the continuing pollution and botulism issues caused by your companies failure to stop pollution misconnections going into Smethwick Hall park. Each time I am told that someone called James is aware and is going to contact me. HE HAS FAILED TO DO SO AT ALL. Birds are dying on this lake and you have failed to communicate anything whilst also lying about the continued pollution. Your company are a bunch of lying scum, and do not care about the birds you are killing. This email is not confidential and neither will be your reply.

Ian Carroll swanwatch”

This drew out a response , obviously written by her PR, and I make comment in my follow up regards the bullshit being spewed from the Coventry network.

“ST Classification: OFFICIAL PERSONAL

Dear Ian,

Thank you for getting in touch and for raising your concerns about Smethwick Hall Park.

Firstly, I’m extremely sorry to hear of the recent bird deaths – this is of course absolutely awful, but I need to be clear that this isn’t as a result of Severn Trent activities or our assets in the area. My teams are constantly checking, sampling and monitoring in and around the pool.

When we were made aware of the bird deaths, we immediately took further ammonia samples, which all came back as normal, indicating there was no sewage pollution. We are committed to making sure we’re doing everything we can to improve the water quality in the lake and will continue our monitoring and sampling programme. This includes regularly checking all our assets in the area. We will also work with everyone involved to support their efforts to improve the health of the pool.

Following issues at the pool over five years ago, we worked closely with the Environment Agency to help improve the water quality by pumping clean water in to improve oxygen levels. We also made improvements to our network to prevent future issues and our work has helped to improve the water quality in the Park.

Thank you again for getting in touch – I hope I have been able to reassure you that the recent bird deaths are not connected to any Severn Trent activity.

Best wishes

Liv”

I responded below, also copying in Kerrie Carmichael leader of SMBC.

“Dear Liv Garfield,

Thank you for at least responding to my concerns about pollution in this lake, but I note that neither customer care or your frontline operative have bothered to do so to date.

There is undeniable pollution entering this lake. This is in the form of misconnections as I pointed out during every report I have made to the EA and your company. The smell of washing machines and white water is clear evidence of this, and this issue is well known to your company at this site, entering the pool via the brook course which is very much your asset. The sanitary towels in the lake come from where exactly?

I understand that Sandwell council employees have independently of myself taken pictorial evidence of the white water, and it is after these events that birds are becoming ill from botulism. The condition and environment of the lake are very poor, and in truth have never recovered from years of pollution caused by your company, sewage releases and these uncorrected misconnections. There is a direct connection between this awful water quality and the bird deaths and illness. You do not reassure me at all that STW activities are unrelated to the bird deaths, indeed in 2019 following the sewage pollution your company also denied that the bird deaths had anything to do with that, which is totally dishonest and risible, as are your claims now that the water quality of this lake has been improved. Have you visited the site yourself?

Can I therefore ask if your company monitor this site as you claim as to how many misconnections they have identified still entering the lake? Previous claims by your company as to how many there were are supplied for your information.

I was keen to get this figure from James your catchment lead as he is mentioned in the 2019 NIRS report from the EA for your information. This stated “The crew have been out and confirmed that there is a misconnection at the location. The property in question, Margaret Gardens. Approx. 20 properties which connect to a foul line which then leads to a surface water line that then leads to the outfall. There is a lot of misconnection work to be done.”

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The email from Amy Robinson of SMBC was relayed to me in 2021 from information from STW, but with no further updates. This stated that there were still 11 identified misconnections at this point, so can you tell me how many of these were corrected and are now not misconnected to your assets and therefore not causing pollution? Can I further ask how many properties you have surveyed following this recent spell of pollution, and how many misconnections you have since found? How many more properties have you still to survey?

If you do not consider it your company’s remit to prevent these misconnections or identify them, then who do you propose its remit it should be? The EA appear to send your company out every time to check pollution, leaving you to mark your own work and claim there is no pollution. This stinks and it cannot continue when there are denials at every stage following environmental sentinels dying from polluted water. Can you confirm what tests were actually taken, including oxygen levels and PH, , where on the lake they were taken and give these in actual figures that can be scrutinised please? The area of most concern is the inlet tray that first enters the pool from your asset, where you have a sign asking people to report pollution they see to your number. I would ask if you do not consider that dirty water entering this pool is not your problem, then why do you have these signs stationed at this point?

Can I therefore for one last time reach out to you to personally intervene in this issue and fix it. Otherwise I hope Sandwell Council will take whatever appropriate action is necessary to force you to. Perhaps you can outline your concerns Kerrie, as leader of SMBC as to how you see the issue putting pressure on your staff and the third sector in Sandwell like myself trying to help ill and dying birds?

Regards Ian Carroll

“Dear Ian,

We have firm commitments (Get River Positive pledges) to transform the health of our region’s rivers and we believe that is important for everyone to play their part to protect the environment.

We haven’t found any high ammonia levels recently but will continue to take samples of the water quality at the lake.

Although we are not responsible for the bird deaths. We appreciate your efforts to reach out to inform us about what you have seen recently at the park, especially the water colour changes and smells.

As part of the 2019 investigation, we did find several private properties which we believed were responsible for the misconnections.

 We were not responsible for the bird deaths then, but we decided to further improve our network for the future alongside working with the Environment Agency to improve the park’s lake.  As you have correctly identified, misconnections are commonly from faults as part of connecting equipment such as washing machines or toilets to the surface water drain.

 Unfortunately, we cannot control what individuals choose to flush down their system,  but we have been strongly campaigning to raise awareness on what should and shouldn’t be flushed down (3 P’s: Pee, Poo & Paper).

We have been supporting more recent campaigns on stopping Microplastics and wet wipes being flushed down as well. The misconnections exacerbate blockages and result in items such as sanitary products ending in the water course.

Resolving misconnections are more complex when it is located on private properties, because we do not have the legal power to force the private property to make any changes – we can only inform them of the issue and provide recommendations.

 At the time of the investigation, we notified the properties so that they were aware of the issue, why it is a concern and how they could fix it.

 We provided the relevant authorities (EA and Local Authority) with all the details of our investigations and have continued to support the work they do to help protect our environment.  

 Thank you again for your email and I hope to reassure you that we have a passion and drive to work alongside others to reduce harm to the environment.

 Best Wishes,

Liv”

Liv Garfield (Pronouns: She/Her)

Chief Executive

As can be seen here, this “she/her” failed to answer my questions. I did not respond further as I am dealing here with a pathological deluded liar who is on personal bonuses for telling untruths and obviously revels in shit mostly emitted from her own posh gob hole. #TURD

KERRIE CARMICHAEL

The redundant and increasing clueless leader of Sandwell Council.

I will always give people a fair crack of the whip, despite what opinion they have garnered of me from others, but when they fail to engage, respond to emails or give me any type of courtesy or respect, I will call them out as a fucking waste of space.

After the abysmal replies of the scum, Garfield to the issue, I copied in Kerrie Carmichael in the hope that she would finally instruct officers of the council to take legal action against the liar from Coventry and her network of turds.

“Dear Kerrie,

You are aware of the situation at Smethwick Hall Park and the involvement of council staff. This is a time constraint on them, and an expense to tax payers which is regrettable in that a privatised water company are causing the problem.

I am well aware of Labour’s condemnation of how these privatised water companies have been acting, and agree with the line stated in the manifesto and the talk leading up to the election. What I am not clear on however is the politicisation of this and then the silence when Labour is in power. Why is that? I heard nothing in the public domain condemning Severn Trent from Maria Crompton or Yvonne Davies and I have also heard nothing, seen nothing from the three ward councillors, or from John Spellar on his own patch.

This is disappointing, and I wonder if you will now address my direct concern and practice condemnation of the source rather than politicking?

This situation is a disgrace and cannot continue. Birds can be saved, and we have saved a coot and duck from the pool who have made a full recovery. Many others however have perished. I am grateful to what the council are doing, but this is now in your hands and I am not going to ignore another political silence without criticism on my blog about this very fact.

Can you therefore give me your thoughts on this matter and how they affect you, and what action you intend to take against Severn Trent and what discussions you are going to have with their CEO Liv Garfield? She is remember paid millions in personal bonuses for her failure to prevent pollution.

I would like to see her visit this site, and be summoned to do so by the new MP, whom I do not know or have had any dealings with. Perhaps you can brief Gurinder and as he is not my MP initiate a meeting at the site where I can explain the situation and he can see and smell the dirty water entering the pool from the Severn Trent asset, for misconnections they appear incapable of stopping. I enclose the situation as it stood in 2021, but wonder what progress they claim to have made since then, when the problem is evidentially still there, as your officers will hopefully have told you, separate to my concerns which do back up my claims.

Regards Ian”

NB, This email was sent on 17th July 2024.

She responded on 26th July 2024. There was not much to this as can be seen, but she did promise to get back with a more substantive response. 

“Apologies Ian for my delayed response.

I will definitely look into this and sort some correspondence out – I agree that it is not good enough that our wildlife and natural flora is being depleted.

I will get back to you.

With best wishes

Cllr Kerrie Carmichael

Leader of the Council”

Despite this, I heard nothing except from whoever Joanne Davis is at the council on 1st August 2024. This response sounded more PR than anything, but again promises were made to get back to me with a fuller response.

By the 29th August 2024, and well after the 10 days that Joanne Davis had stated in her email, I had still had no official reply so sent a chaser.

This was again ignored, and so I also copied in Joanne Davis on 1st September 2024

Imagine my surprise therefore when I got two pingbacks from this. The first from the leader claiming she was unavailable! WTF?

And more bizarre still, Joanne Davis claiming that she had already left Sandwell council altogether!

On 3rd September 2024, and after posting something on social media, which obviously promoted a hasty response, Carmichael claimed that she had written to Severn Trent and was awaiting a response. I have no idea of the contents of that communication. I am also baffled that she did not appear to know that Joanne Davis had also left the council by this time!

I HAVE HEARD NOTHING FURTHER FROM HER SINCE NOR FROM ANY OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL ABOUT THIS MATTER!

I last sent a reminder and asked what the response was on 27th November 2024. 

Despite being briefed by officers who told me they were briefing her, the council have done nothing about this issue, as they did nothing in 2019 with the initial pollution. I have been told that some group within the council has been set up, and yet the elephant in the room appears to have ignored the issues of Severn Trent and be more concerned about people leaving plastic bags on the railings along Londonderry Lane. There have also been new signs put up warning people of being fined for feeding birds. Pity they don’t think about taking action against real polluters.

The last time the council tried to threaten bird feeders, it made the national press after fining a single mother with a toddler.

The issue of feeding has continued throughout the year, and yet when the pollution into the pool stopped, so did the bird deaths. Do you therefore Sandwell council/Kerrie Carmichael think that there is a causal link between the pollution and deaths or feeding and no deaths when the pollution stops? If you or your officers are really that fucking stupid in not making a direct connection, I really do think that I am wasting my time. 

But not resting on her laurels, the leader it was announced during her long silence on this matter “won” an award from the RSPCA.

Sandwell Herald propaganda.

There’s more to the “award” for Sandwell council’s leader than meets the eye, and five minutes of internet search reveals that. The pawprints award scheme is basically a self nomination award scheme run by the RSPCA for their own PR and that of public sector bodies. The “Massingham award” named after Gertrude Speedwell Massingham, nee Black is an opportunity for mutual self promotion. Massingham was NEVER an MP as falsely stated on the RSPCA website, she stood for election in 1929 Petersfield constituency finishing last as a labour candidate. She was taken in by trade unionist Clementina Black, her aunt after her father murdered her mother and brother and then himself. Perhaps these abandonment issues stirred some instinct in the lady in question?

What work she did for the RSPCA, and for animals I do not know, and there has to be a ring of Rachael Reeves about her CV given the lie about her career but at least tell people factual info and not bullshit RSPCA “public affairs”. In fact, and as further evidence, there is not a single mention of this lady in Hansard, so what she actually did for animals is not even recorded there. Fuck, even I myself have one more mention in Parliament than this woman. 😆 😆 😆

Carmichael is not the sole “winner” but actually one of four “winners” of this award this year, and I wonder how many entries there actually were and how many were unsuccessful? Public relations is the action of telling people lies and dishonest statements dressed up with a cherry on top.

KIER STARMER

The useless tool Prime Minister

I can not in my lifetime remember a Government that has entered power becoming so unpopular in such a short space of time as this arseholes! The tragedy is that people believe that voting for the other party, only two will ever get in of course in this “democracy”- , will bring “change”. There  are in reality a choice of two dictatorships where billionaire corporations and the civil service retain their power.

Starmergeddon has already failed people and his minions are liars and make up personal boasts on their cvs whilst emptying your bank balance. The biggest betrayal when it comes to the theme of sewage is the failure to reverse privatisation of this corrupt industry, so that lying scum like Garfield can retain all of their bonuses as well as paying dividends to the cancerous vermin who own the shares.

Labour has not got tough on sewage pollution, it has failed. It has failed to stop the pollution, and now it appears that instead of getting Garfield and co to cough up, it is the taxpayer who will foot the bill to repair networks that are decades out of date, as a result of Thatcher’s privatisation failure.

The buck stops with Starmer and no one else. #TURD

WHAT THREE TURDS

LIV.KERRIE.KIER

It was with some sadness that I learned of the closure of Wychbold swan rescue after nearly 50 years of rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife. I first had dealings with Jan Harrigan after a number of birds were hitting powerlines at my local nature reserve, with some of the survivors going there to have their broken wings amputated. She was lucky to have two main vets, one Jason Waine who was one of the top avian vets in the country and the other Barstow who specialised in wing injuries. This second chance for these type of man-made casualties was so different to the eugenics of the RSPCA and other organisations I could mention. Swans that were put back into the wild CAN have a good life and have bred again.

When I first met Jan and going to the centre for a day to volunteer, based in her own farm and business setting, I somehow ended up going shopping with her to the local supermarket and she was welcoming and maybe a little probing into why I was interested in birds. I got the impression that she liked to size people up and know what they were about.

Birds from a very large area of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands and even South Wales were patients at Walkmills Farm, with Worcester having its own river “sanctuary” where fishing was not allowed, and many birds were released here.

Wychbold were also involved in the casualties from Rattlechain lagoon, and at that time we were all still clueless as the cause of death from that place, which we later would discover, though without any thanks to the liars from Albright and Wilson/Rhodia as to the systemic poisoning from white phosphorus in the waste that THEY put there.

She attended several meetings that were held at the Oldbury offices, and even though the liars never gave away their secrets, it was good to have an ally of such formidable experience and knowledge in your corner.

A swan taken in that had been on rattlechain, and whose mate had died after being poisoned on there.

Jan’s major campaign was about lead shot from fishing where she would give talks about the issue and was involved in a pioneering blood lead test funded by the Environment Agency in partnership with Keele University. Unfortunately, this quango body is an angling funded waste of space, and so whatever results were shown, whatever changing new targets they set, those at the top would not reach any conclusions put before them, and eventually the study was dropped despite the efforts of many who tried to expose the truth and not the avarice protection of the angling trade.

Jan was also a vociferous voice for mute swans at many swan convention meetings at Stratford which were interesting, and the same issues frequently came up there with regards to the impact of lost and discarded tackle on wildfowl.

Many a time a call to Jan was made in relation to contaminated swans on the millpool, birds that had been shot or attacked by dogs, and sometimes the usual glut of fishing related problems- Wychbold dealt with them all when arrangements were hastily made to get them down to Junction 5 of the M5.

Not everything went well at Wychbold. Aside from the outbreaks of DVE and more latterly “avian flu”, I did sometimes feel that she had taken too much on and the facilities were looking dated and not large enough- especially the hospital pen. These were however greatly improved and a new “Pershore place” pool housed many birds that we took in there for short periods.

Jan was awarded the MBE in 2004 for services for the protection of swans, and I think that she would be the first to say that keeping the swans and other birds afloat and the arduous work of cleaning them out and giving treatments was not a “one woman’s battle”, but the efforts of many who shared her passion for helping these creatures, including some who are no longer here.

Worcestershire Weekender July 2003

I first met John Stewart and his wife Phyl, the long term lieutenants at Wychbold on a rescue at Trittiford Mill in Birmingham that involved botulism in 2001. There would be many more outbreaks of this in this pathetic run local authority on many of its pools, and unfortunately they still occur. They have passed on their knowledge of swans to others and it is fair to say, that in the last few years, they have kept the place running.

I am perhaps not surprised by the closure given Jan’s age, though still spritely, but the pressures of the draconian Defra and APHA diktats and control of wild birds with their “pandemic” human hoax nonsense have made it more difficult for people who care to operate to save wildlife. Bureaucrats and civil servants are only in it for themselves, or backhanded by corporations to pass through legislation to profit their aims. They will never get that some people are in it altruistically, and they have no concept of the struggles of those who try to help others. 

The future without this centre looks increasingly bleak for wildfowl, given that other wildlife centres are not focussed on specific species but many other wild animals as well as birds. The West Midlands County is barren of any wildlife centres of this scale and it will be increasingly difficult to cater for injured birds that need specialist treatment.

This is where someone will hopefully step in to pick up the baton where Wychbold lit the flame of hope. If only those lottery numbers came up eh……..

With just two countryside rangers managing nine local nature reserves in Sandwell, you can see how highly this local authority values its designated sites. You can also see that in planning policy terms, and planning officer terms, they have also demonstrated that they do not even know where these areas are located or following relevant policy of material planning considerations when delegating reports in that regard.

The Sandwell Local Plan (SLP) is a manifesto for house building and offers nothing for wildlife or its remaining fragmented habitat. Unfortunately it mirrors a national policy made by corrupt political scum of all main parties who have made it this way by classifying wildlife in terms of “units” and “credits” which are transferable to tick a box. We are therefore introduced to the terms “biodiversity net gain”, “biodiversity credits” and “nature recovery strategy maps” which are meaningless theoretical bollocks allowing desk jockeys for environmental consultancies (planning enablers), with not much time on their hands to spend outdoors, but plenty of time to drink their lattes in a cosy warm office preparing  shite like this.

Two terms are defined and are important to this post,  but they are largely theoretical and wordy . I have underlined the statement below which is crucial.

Biodiversity net gain definition

“An approach to development and land management that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand. The objective requires the biodiversity value attributable to a development to exceed pre-development biodiversity value by at least 10%. Post-development biodiversity value may comprise onsite habitat, offsite biodiversity gain and biodiversity credits.”

Nature Recovery Network definition

“An expanding, increasingly connected, network of wildlife-rich habitats supporting species recovery, alongside wider benefits such as carbon capture, water quality improvements, natural flood risk management and recreation. It includes the existing network of protected sites and other wildlife rich habitats as well as and landscape or catchment scale recovery areas where there is co ordinated action for species and habitats.”

The SNE2 policy that the council have produced in the SLP is shown below and explains their rationale.

I put in an FOI to Sandwell council regards the nonsense they had spouted about certain sites they had considered in a cabinet report prior to the publication of the current plan out for consultation. I wanted to know which consultancy had drawn up the garbage as well as the methodology used to produce the eight listed sites.

The council replied and gave me a link to the study below conducted by an entity called “Lepus consulting” who also are behind the sustainability appraisal for the SLP.

Sandwell_Biodiversity_Net_Gain__BNG__Strategy__September_2023_ (2)

So let us interrogate this document and see it for what it is, which is a very weak report full of theory, very little practical surveying and omissions of certain sites which do not make sense.

“Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) has commissioned Lepus Consulting to undertake a study to identify and undertake an assessment of habitats within council-owned sites in Sandwell to establish their suitability for use as potential habitat banks for the delivery of BNG.”

The first thing to point out is that SMBC ignore privately owned sites- the ones that are most likely to be built upon and which are also the most likely to be destroy wildlife habitat that has naturally re-wilded, like the ones off Rattechain SH35 and SH36.

“In the State of the Nature Report in 2019 headline data indicated that the abundance and distribution of the UK’s biodiversity has, on average, declined since 1970, with a 13% decline in average species abundance3 . This is attributable to a number of pressures including intensive farming, climate change and urbanisation which have led to pollution, habitat loss and degradation.”

3 State-of-Nature-2019-UK-full-report.pdf

I do not argue with their opening statements, but the threat of “urbanisation” is exactly what the SLP is proposing in real terms.

We learn that Sandwell has nine nature reserves, including Sheepwash which is also a SINC but looking at a map of these sites on page 32 of the PDF  you can see how grossly disproportionate nature reserves are in Sandwell with only one in Tipton and none at all in Wednesbury, Smethwick or Oldbury- this makes up four of Sandwell’s six towns!

The meat on the bones of this pathetic report is revealed at 6.2 onwards.

• They only visited sites once due to “time constraints” Why is time a factor in this report, as it seems that this was done by the council on the hoof to attempt a hurried justification of coming up with random sites they could use.
• They visited in the summer months when nature is probably at its most secretive with increased footfall of people. Different species are obviously present at different times of year, and passage migrant species do not appear to have even come into the equation of “biodiversity”.
• They do not appear to have used any Eco record reports, or local information of groups like sandnats, or certainly Friends of Sheepwash to inform their observations or knowledge of sites. They undertook no “bio-blitz” of any site.
• They could not even map some areas

• They do not even attempt to investigate water habitats at all, again due to “time constraints”.
• “Further assessments” needed- because theirs was not good enough.

• The worst part about this whole “strategy” is the failure to even look at privately owned sites. These are the ones of course like SH35 and SH36 on the doorstep of Sheepwash and in the nature recovery area map that the council expect will be boosted by a 10% increase in on site biodiversity. Has it not occurred to these idiots that they do not have any knowledge of what nature exists on these sites but they expect developers will be honest about what is there so that their paid liars of environmental consultants will produce a report claiming that they can boost BNG by 10% by creating a token hedge or swale (dirty surface water ditch ) like the one on the picture below?

• The cracker can best be described a “a pikey horse and car dumping shithole”. There is no point boosting biodiversity in such a place as the frequent weed dumping disposal in buckets is the only thing growing there,  and they have only created this for political reasons due to Princes End ward being a swing seat area.
• The Menzies open space contains the contaminated Millpool or Milky- contaminated by Bitumenous waste that was not prevented from being further polluted ironically when the site was turned into housing! The remediation fraud of the developers were not protected by any body including the EA and the useless officers at Sandwell council, harming wildlife and causing significant pollution to an already contaminated water body. The cover up by all concerned was massive and a disgrace. 
• I set the Millpool story out in four parts which offer definitive proof of why post reclamation of industrial sites and brownfield land destroys nature and habitat.

Millpool West Bromwich#1 The Major Bitumen dumping ground of W H Keys | What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

Millpool West Bromwich#2 The Meltdown of W H Keys | What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

Millpool West Bromwich#3 MARred by historic pollution and fake “clean up” – Part 1 | What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

Millpool West Bromwich#4 MARred by historic pollution and fake “clean up” – Part 2 | What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

• Of course Lepus know nothing of this as they do not have time, but do not even look at improving the water habitat at the pool either!

• There has to be concern that this very point has already surfaced with the planning application at the Coneygree site in Tipton- owned by the same entity who now proposes sites SH35 and SH36 and previously by the conmen foundry sand dumpers who abandoned it and left both sites in the state they are in and future dependent on money from the public purse.

‘Wildlife buffer zone’ to be removed to make way for industrial warehouse in Tipton | Express & Star

The council had no policy when this farce unfolded due to national policy failure, but they do not appear to recognise they will have no basis of knowledge as to the real nature value of these private sites.

As it is, we are aware that the former Duport’s Tip area next to Rattlechain contains a rare butterfly- the small blue, (Cupido minimus), Britain’s smallest butterfly as well as the associated kidney vetch which its caterpillars eat. It is protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981 and a priority species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. I had a site walkover with naturalist Darrell Harrison who found the butterfly and several unusual plants on the site of local rarity.

Of course such sites already connected to Sheepwash and the wildlife corridor of the canal could be used as habitat banks, but if only someone would tell Sandwell council that instead of wanting to shove more trees into dog shit parks like Tividale to tick a box.

It is also interesting that just this week the leader of Sandwell council has proposed an animal welfare taskforce policy. I have concerns that this will be nothing more than a pontificating talking shop like the unsound policy SNE2 above, but what is interesting is one of the claims in the new vision Notice of Motion – 29 October 2024. 

Animal Welfare

“Council notes that:

Protecting wildlife and natural habitats is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ecological balance.”

Words are cheap eh when your planning policy overrides it! 

This blog originally appeared on our sister blog What lies beneath Rattlechain lagoon. 

Earlier this week there was an announcement that read like an apocalypse had befallen The Walsall Canal with a “chemical spillage” considered so dangerous that 12 miles of surrounding connecting canal towpaths were closed and boat traffic shut off, effectively stranding anyone on a narrow boat from moving up or down three sets of locks.

As someone who is obviously acutely aware of the damage that chemicals can do in the environment and how these incidents destroy wildlife, I was very concerned about what had happened and feared the worst due to the measures being taken that the authorities were considered necessary. Other people were contacting me about the situation and were concerned about the effects on bird life on the canal system in the area.

What transpired was very poor information being released, particularly about WHAT chemical had been released into the canal, the circumstances and the QUANTITY and SOURCE, and the PATHWAYit had taken to reach the water.

It was all a bit vague but it appeared that multiple agencies were involved including Walsall Council, the CRT and EA as well as The bizarre UKHSA- formerly Public Health England. For some reason, they were very keen that people did not touch the water, eat any fish from the canal or walk along the towpaths.

Eventually it was claimed that Sodium Cyanide had entered the canal, but no source or company named. This chemical obviously rings alarm bells with the public as a deadly poison, although it is actually less poisonous than white phosphorus found in Rattlechain lagoon, and which of course was spilt liberally into the canal system on route from Trinity Street to Rattlechain via the upper BCN toxic trail route. Were the canals closed then, and the boats stopped? NO THEY WERE NOT AS BRITISH WATERWAYS AS THEY THEN WERE WERE TOTALLY COMPLICIT IN CAUSING THE POLLUTION AND ENCOURAGING IT, EVEN USING ALBRIGHT AND WILSON’S VILE SHIT HOLE THEMSELVES AS A MEANS OF DUMPING THEIR OWN DREDGINGS TO CONTINUE THE GHASTLY BOAT TRAIL POLLUTING SPECTACLE. 

As for protecting public health, what a fucking joke when people involved in carrying the toxic waste by canal boat were harmed in the process, so what hope for any other bugger that touched or came into contact with the water, let alone any wildlife or fish?

Fast forward to 2024 and the Canal and Rivers Trust are now a charity and corporate PR brand. They are largely funded by fishing licences or fishing rights being sold and of course boat licences. The latter regularly cause widespread damage to wildlife with their toxic snail diesel and hydraulic oil releases- particularly in the Walsall area. Even recently this occurred and many birds died and yet no boats were stopped from moving by the CRT on some bloody “explorer cruise”- basically a jolly for elder people along a stretch of canal ending with a fish and chip supper at some pub. The hypocrisy could not be more stark, given that this particular incident did not effect any fish in the canal, just wildfowl. 

The EA are of course a longstanding joke also, as I regularly evidence in my unfortunate dealings in reporting issues to these hapless, unknowledgeable and talentless individuals. They were and are happy with a bunch of wankers dumping toxic waste under water under a useless licence auspice, even pumping it back into the canal blissfully unaware that they were doing so given they have no means of testing the water for the toxic chemical, but when some fish deaths occur it is suddenly a red alert for them.

Enter the bullshit classification system they use, which I looked at HERE. Of course when fish die they claim a “category 1” incident. For other areas that have no fish and no fish deaths they don’t care- hence Rattlechain and also Smethwick Hall Park caused by Severn Trent Water’s sewage pollution and failure to trace and stop misconnections entering the water. The hypocrisy and interest over the money making source for the EA and CRT could not be more stark. Fish matter because they are keeping these individuals in jobs, birds are not, and that is the bottom line. 

SODIUM CYANIDE- AN INFAMOUS POISON FROM THE PAST. 

I have previously looked at this chemical and how “deadly barrels” of it were dumped in the early 1970’s leading to the authorities starting to take environmental dumping more seriously. The West Midlands served as a particular hotspot with National news running a series of scares about what had in reality been occurring for too long. Marl holes and tips and brooks were easy dumping grounds for “people of the road” paid by scum companies to deposit their waste with no questions asked. Tatters with tippers were a common menace.

Both Rattlechain and Gower Tips had dumpings, with Albright and Wilson feigning ignorance which I frankly do not believe.

The following information is given by The UKHSA.

Sodium/Potassium Cyanide General information.

Sodium/Potassium Cyanide Incident management.

The properties of cyanide mean that it produces highly toxic breakdown chemicals when in contact with water.

Anochrome Limited- who are they?

Eventually and after an uncomfortable lack of information on the source, an electro plating company based a scant 100 metres from the canal were named. This industrial concern based in Reservoir Place, Walsall claims to have been operating on its website since 1946. It has three current directors, at least two of whom appear to be successors of a family line. Managing Director Mark Jones appears to have taken over from his father Andrew. Secretary Andrew Keery, and Robert Gray complete the triumvirate.

They have a number of subsidiary companies, including Wolverhampton Electro plating Limited based in Wolverhampton. It is of note that all three directors are now giving a care of address for this company rather than the one in Walsall. I take some interesting observations from this concerning the state of their finances and the future of “Anochrome limited” as an operation.

Historically, this company have form for polluting the environment via criminal negligence.

The 12th December 1978  Wolverhampton Express and Star reported how they had been fined a rather paltry £245 for cyanide and toxic metals going down the drains

In 1981, and via The Sandwell Evening Mail  of 27th June , we see a repeat performance of this , on this occasion a whopping £280 for illegal trade effluent discharges including zinc. This particular metal is of concern as it is a neurological poison to wild birds and people and is very similar to lead poisoning in high levels in this regard.

In 1992 there was a fire sparking another chemical alert with two staff needing treatment.

A more recent event reveals this company were fined by The HSE for breaches under The Health and Safety At Work Act. This was in 2018.

Of course, the three directors are ultimately responsible for all that goes on here, all that goes wrong on their site and anything that occurs illegally or by “accident”

Their parent company in Wolverhampton also has form for health and safety breaches. 

I am not certain if they are the electroplating company mentioned in THIS article concerning cyanide dumping, but it confirms the absolute lack of integrity of this industry at large in terms of failing to protect the environment and adhere to laws. Ultimately, they argue about quantities within “legal” limits. THE LIMITS OF COURSE SHOULD BE ZERO.

MY DIRECT OBSERVATIONS AND HEAD SCRATCHING ABOUT THIS INCIDENT BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ISSUES. 

There are some questions and issues which do not make sense to me about this incident which almost made me question as to if it is a hoax and a multi agency training exercise, just to keep the public under fear about something which is not really there.

• Police tape and plastic barriers stopping people from going down the towpath. If there was some deadly gas being given off or prospect of such then fair enough. BUT the road in Reservoir Place remains open to the public.
• Businesses in this road near to the canal were carrying on as normal. People were at work.  People stationed above the bridges stopping people going onto the towpath were not wearing any breathing apparatus, PPE or gloves. There sojourn there for a length of time is similarly puzzling if there is some major danger in this “epicentre” area. How were they measuring levels of gas being evolved- I saw nothing to monitor this.
• Work on the highly contaminated former Copper Works immediately next to the claimed effected canal continues apace with vehicles and staff coming and going from John Hunt who are carrying out the work to facilitate industrial units on the reclaimed “brownfield” site. Of course, what fate the canal has when these industries move in next door we will have to wait and see. Hopefully they will not be dealing in chemicals, FFS!

• The Anochrome building appears to be being decommissioned. This ties in with the change of C/O address on the Companies house website for the directors. There is Heras fencing blocking the site, and people again wearing only  basic PPE and not hazmat suits, including a security guard obviously there to stop journalists asking pointed questions of anyone there. Crap was being loaded into a skip, and I do not believe that this had anything to do with any spillage of a company still at work in this building.

• There were the press and people from CRT giving interviews on the bridge without any apparent danger to health, and certainly no adverse health effects were observed by myself when I was there.
• A few dead fish. I have seen major fish deaths along canals- caused by boaters stirring up silt and by pollution from Companies like Robinson’s– again this was The Walsall Canal. Having cycled from  Walsall town centre I saw no dead fish, and none in any distress. Only on reaching Reservoir Place were there any dead fish, and these were small. To suggest that this has been a “major” fish kill as it stands is not supported by factual evidence, is misinformation and a made up lie. 

• I observed no dead or ill birds, either on route to the epicentre or at it itself. Indeed, ducks were dabbling right next to the few dead fish, making me question if the spillage is one of bullshit and little else?

• It was stated by someone from the CRT that they had been told they could not remove the fish because of the toxicity of the water and the fish themselves. I asked if any dead birds had been seen or removed and the answer was in the negative. This is of concern and questionable, as would not fish eating birds be poisoned if they eat the “poisoned” fish?
• Compare this to the rather slow testing they claim to be doing on the canal at various locations. Surely if they thought there was imminent risk they would have a much quicker turnover of results now days later?
• The only gas I could see being emitted is one of gaslighting the public that something major has occurred here affecting such a wide area. That is not my direct observation and the evidence does not support that it has.
• Just to state that any pollution issue like this is a disgrace and the book should be thrown at Anochrome and its directors for their failure.
• Is this an opportunity for certain players to blow their own trumpets, like the covid 19 hoax frit civil service, who for the last 4 years hiding under a rock and shirking from home pop up to attempt to justify a pay increase that they have some actual importance in society when a magic money tree Labour Government get in? Of course, good socialists , junior doctors and anyone involved in the mysterious world of fake doctor “public health” want everything you have in the private sector on top of their gold plated pensions- that is except your job which would involve them doing some actual fucking work where they might be sacked if they had the amount of time off that they  have on permanent maternity leave or some other stubbed toe or bad back/”long covid”/mental elf made up condition excuse.
• I’m just waiting for some fucking clown to link or attempt to link this incident to “climate change” Give it time- they usually find some bizarre and irrational means of doing so to justify their warped insane cult of doom and “faith” in scientists and academia saving them.

We live in an age of fear mongering, of “forbidden zones” and scenarios like the film The Village where instruction not to do something appears with asinine bellows of “you shall not pass”. It is the liberal left – those in the civil service, who appear to think we are fucking stupid and should not question their bizarre nonsensical diktats like not crossing a line of tape because The Emperor’s new calamity will befall us and to “trust the science” because that is unquestionable. Well it is questionable and I question it for the reasons stated above which do not add up. This is not “conspiracy” it is common sense, something which appears to have gone out of the window of late and is fuelled by a media clamouring for such events to report on. They should be questioning this as I am, but they don’t because they are crap and parrots of the New World Order that is being forged.

Many sections of the canal have now been opened back up, and it remains to be seen what will happen with the area still closed off and under scrutiny. 4,000 litres of chemicals were spilt according to the latest EA update, which is roughly about 22 baths worth. For the birds, they will carry on probably affected more by the boats that will now be moving again and spreading their shite as rainbows on the water. Will the CRT or EA care about that? So long as no fish are affected will they fuck.

The issues at this site have been going on for years……

So after five years, we come again to this unresolved issue of a failed privatised water company, unable to stop it claims, houses that are misconnected to their asset pouring vile water and other detritus into this small pool in Smethwick. In 2019 Smethwick Hall Park saw raw sewage enter the lake resulting in the deaths of dozens of birds.

This pollution as it transpired had been happening for several years before this, as an FOI request to The Environment agency revealed. 

Here’s a reminder of what the EA found when they tested the sediment back in June 2019. And also what they reported officially at the time of the incident.

Note that 20 misconnections were identified in the EA NIRS report based on info given to them at this time by STW

The catchment for this brook which enters at Margaret Gardens is claimed to be large, and runs through both culverted and unculverted sections including the allotments in Manor Road. We know that this has seen sewage as well as oil like substances pollute the lake and impact birds terribly. For much of that time, we have been fighting a battle without any political help.

There are numerous strands to this story, and so first the latest issue, where not long after spotting a dead mallard in the water, I then saw several ill birds as well as dead ones a few days later. This and the clinical signs are typical botulism- as was the case in 2019. The water stank of washing machines and was white at the outlet where it enters the pool.

A goose, a couple of coots and two ducks were rescued alive, with others picked up dead on the island. It was clear that the lake supposedly desilted in part by an SMBC contractor after STW shafted the council and turned down a £250,000 bid to their so called “community fund” was not a very good job I am afraid to say. The silt levels are too high, and in the dirty bath attempt at an interceptor to call it, this I had to complain about at the time of these works was not done because the mechanical digger could not get in there properly. This was later done by shovelling it out by hand, but it needs to be done regularly I believe due to the garbage that settles in here from the STW asset. Another problem is that the contaminated material was just banked to land. This was not the right thing to do with regards to botulism, which remains in soil and can reactivate in hotter conditions. Worms enter soil, birds eat the worms, and thus begins the process again.

The public were misled by these signs during the contaminated silt removal- it was not “mud” !

BOTULISM – The true manmade pandemic affecting wild birds. 

The fact is is that these deaths do not occur on all pools in the summer, and do not occur as a result of “climate change” or anything else. They occur due to linked pollution events where sewage and human waste enters waters where it never should have and this then starts the poisoning of the environment by the die off of small invertebrates which are then ingested by the wildfowl.

A duck clings to life surrounded by human rubbish in the pool

Another not lucky enough to survive dead on the island

Severn Trent water and their ghastly lies. 

The sign below was put up by this failed water company after the 2019 shit show. It claims that it wants people to help them protect the environment by calling their number to report issues. What the reality is is that if they report issues to the EA before the EA report issues to them they can escape being fined more heavily. Never ring Severn Trent. Report matters to the EA direct on 0800 80 70 60. 

When you do report matters to them, they claim it is not they who are responsible for the pollution- hence private residencies polluting with misconnections should be dealt with and enforced by the EA.

Dirty white water that smells sitting in the collection overspill that goes into the lake.

sanitary towel floating in SHP.

I have so far put in two complaints to STW, and I am still awaiting someone called James- “catchment lead” to call me, this after being stated I would be contacted within 24 hours. This did not happen. This Jimbo is obviously aware of the longstanding issue, given someone by that name is named on the 2019 incident report. (See top of this post). 😮

For show, this turned up and appears to be a sub contractor of STW, no doubt to try to collate data to get them off the hook. Follow the money and who pays for the science rather than the science is what I would say.

Sandwell council at my request have now put up better signage rather than “report dead birds”, which suggests that the birds may be dying from avian flu, to an uninformed public.

Just to be clear, there is no avian flu circulating in the country or the area, as I have repeatedly pointed out. Just 14 cases in the UK recorded this year in wild birds and none since April which puts it in line with 2020 records.

Check this fact out at the link below.

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2024 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

This all comes as recent reports reveal increases in sewage releases into waterways. 

Garfield’s Severn stench racked up a recorded 440,000 hours of spillages of sewage, the fourth worst. SO LET US HAVE A LITTLE MORE SINCERITY ON THE INCREASE IN BOTULISM ISSUES IN WILD BIRDS RATHER THAN FAKE AVIAN FLU. 

Credit, DAILY MAIL

Meeting with STW and others in 2019 for context

I am now putting on public record a meeting which took place at Shidas Lane organised by Sandwell council after the issue arose in 2019. This meeting was attended by several organisations, and it is noted that the EA were conspicuous by their absence- just like their environmental protection and attendance at incident reports like this.

This gives information as to what STW were claiming back then, and some points I would like to clarify.

V 2 Park Pools meeting notes 26.11.2019 (2)

“TB presented slides which showed mis connections/intermittent connections, 1400 properties in the current catchment area.  Severn Trent currently undergoing continued investigations reliant on weather conditions working with SMBC to gain entry where necessary.”

This was at the time when these two claimed to be working together. 

“TB produced map showing scale of pool and feeds into the pool area. TB stated depth of pool is shallow reducing oxygen levels, in turn warms the water quicker.”

I would certainly agree with this statement, but it ignores the fact that debris is coming out of the STW asset. 

“TB clarified avian botulism not found in domestic sewage.”

This is a typical non denial denial. Sewage creates avian botulism in pools such as this where conditions exist. To claim that sewage does not contain avian botulism is not the issue here, but it attempts to divert attention away from the lie that it is not causing the bird deaths. 

“IC stated that raw sewage had entered pool water as described in National incident Reporting Scheme ( NIRS) reports he had obtained via FOI from the Environment agency , and was also present in the silt, as confirmed by the tests carried out by the environment agency taken at the last meeting, Further explaining that human excrement was found in this water and he gave examples of bird deaths in pool containing raw sewage.”

All of this information is in the public domain already and on many blog posts on this website. 

Of particular interest with sources is where I corrected STW’s lying spin about sewage and its interface with botulism. 

“TB stated Severn Trent were not eliminating that the misconnections had contributed to the poor water quality which, in turn, had contributed to the bird deaths.”

So in a nutshell, here we have a STW employee state the truth that misconnections CAN cause the birds serious harm, but in a totally disingenuous way. 

The statement below from the APHA is of great interest regards avian flu deaths and cases in the UK over the last few years.

botulism is killing birds in the UK, in large numbers but why are the public so misled regards bird flu being the big killer?

It should be stated that just as “avian flu” testing was ramped up in the UK, so avian botulism testing appears to have been shelved. I am certain that many many birds that died from botulism have been falsely attributed to AI as the ludicrous twats at Birmingham City Council attempted to do to cover up their shite abysmal management of lakes. 

As someone with over 25 years of monitoring birds, I consider myself fully competent at diagnosing clinical signs of botulism. Many of the birds caught alive have made full recoveries, based on being identified early. 

A subsequent request to SMBC later on from this meeting revealed what STW had claimed to have done up to that point.

“Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you, we are still waiting for a formal response letter to be sent through regarding the issues discussed in our meeting with STW in early September. We contacted them to chase this and at the same time asked them for an update regarding the current situation with misconnections.

The information provided by STW is as follows:

• STW are still working on identifying misconnections and to date have surveyed 181 properties with a further 61 properties remaining  to be surveyed. Since our last meeting with them they have surveyed 36 properties.

• Out of the properties surveyed, 11 misconnections have been formally identified, to date 3 have now been corrected. STW are still waiting for residents at the remaining 8 properties to rectify their identified misconnections.

• STW have installed 3 cages on the system to catch any debris that might be flowing through to the pool, we understand that these are being maintained every 2 weeks. The cages/ screens are a temporary measure while they are still surveying surrounding properties.

In addition to the above update, we can also confirm that contractors have carried out the additional sediment removal that you highlighted during our site visit.”

THIS WAS 2021, SO WHAT DID STW DO SINCE THIS, AND HOW MANY MISCONNECTIONS ARE THEY CLAIMING ARE STILL PRESENT? 

PERHAPS IT IS TIME THE POLITICAL LEADERS AT SANDWELL COUNCIL IF THERE ARE ANY, STARTED ASKING SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS OF THE SCUM FROM COVENTRY? 

OPINION

It is now five years since the disgraceful episode affecting Smethwick parks and the wildlife killed by Severn Trent and Sandwell council’s poor management regime.

Like with many other things, I had to investigate the sheer lies of this corporate privatised polluter myself to get to the truth of what had happened. 

Their and the wider water industries combined sewers are a national disgrace, and one orchestrated by the scum in Westminster- OF ALL PARTIES who sit on their arseholes only to defecate more mistruths that they actually care about the environment. 

They are all in on it together with their mates. 

Severn Trent led by their liar PR merchant Liv Garfield are one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with, and nearly as bad as Albright and Wilson/Rhodia in their denials that their operations directly led to the deaths of wildfowl. They have a longstanding shameful record which I looked at HERE. They discharge years worth of sewage into watercourses every year, and it is not getting any better, whatever the claim.

“64 years worth of raw sewage dumped into rivers and streams by Severn Trent”

2020 figures and the “proud” bint sips from her bottled water in political company

The latest press offers more shame for this failed CEO and her garbage environmental terrorist company. The Mirror thus reported

“Severn Trent was responsible for more than 60,000 sewage spills last year, as the amount of wastewater discharged by the company rose by a third.”

Garfield’s personal wealth increased by £3.2 million in 2023 as did the rotten shareholder scum. If you are a STW shareholder reading this, then I hope you die of cancer, it is that simple.

Of course, STW fit hand in hand with the corrupt politicians and their land banking and construction industry house building brownfield fraud. They buy and sell land for this purpose, as I investigated HERE. 

The Express and Star recently interviewed the lame duck joke Sunak with one question regard the increased interest in sewage spills. I have to say this paper were not in the least fucking interested in reporting the truth in 2019 on their own patch about STW and just regurgitated their lying spin rather than listening to what I was saying. At least there is some momentum now in this regard and a little less protection of these bastards from Coventry.

Disgusting water industry lies promoted by mainstream media

In this snippet from that interview, for some reason, the “journalist” asked Sunak about The River Severn- not in any way a part of the Black Country area. I digress, E/S however appears to be dying out as a title, and the smart money is that it will fold in its current form very soon indeed. They appear to now front an “East Edition” whilst on social media they now hide most articles behind a paywall and something called “national world”- nothing to do with this area either.

Sunak reveals himself to be a bare faced fucking liar- no surprise there. The EA have not been given any powers, as I have already pointed out, they allow the polluters to mark their own work. They fail to take action by using the useless NIRS scheme downplaying anything non fish related as a lower ranked category of incident. They allow sewage pollution to continue with pride and I question many who work for this organisation and their integrity in public office.

The EA like this Government are not fit for purpose, and the truth is after being set up by Labour and run by that Government for many years after, they never have been a competent authority. Ofwat similarly are an industry shill joke. The politicians have made it this way. THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT. 

Scumdog millionaires

One incident recently linked to the disgraceful botulism deaths in the Erdington area suggests that there was a sewage spill into one of the lakes in question according to a local. A pipe way into the pool is very suggestive of what we also saw in Smethwick and the adjacency to the so called “eco hub” built quite recently may also suggest a misconnection to further shame and embarrass the useless fucking Labour council who built and approved it.

The EA of course did not attend, but a so called “supervisor” from STW rang me back claiming that the ammonia levels were low. I did say that the spill had been claimed to have happened a few months earlier coinciding with the first noted deaths. It would therefore not be unreasonable to believe that solids may have sank weeks later and that birds could have ingested these when feeding. Once this botulism cycle starts, it continues long after the sewage floaters have sunk. As with the rattlechain story, they don’t test water when it is the solids below it that are the  problem. This joker also told me that they did not test oxygen levels as some types of algae skew the results. What absolute fucking bollocks!

Sewer serves part of this estate apparently

He also mentioned their River rangers scheme, with one based in Sutton Park. I did remind him that his company had been fined half a million for polluting that place with raw sewage, but he claimed that he did not work in the area at that time. 😆

Another incident I reported definitely involved sewage as I could smell it. This watercourse, The Hockley Brook I am unfamiliar with, but it appears to also originate in the Smethwick area leading towards Birmingham and joining The River Tame. The view from Cuckoo Road shows the stained brickwork and sludge- growing green algae. I wonder if this type of algae skews the oxygen results? 😆

Despite this, and reporting the same a few weeks later someone claiming to be from the EA claimed that I had reported the wrong location and it had not been put through, also stating that there were no Severn Trent assets in the area. Well “Angela”, are you talking about the several miles of this brook. I do not enjoy being gaslighted by Severn Trent “assets” planted within the public sector.

These issues in both Smethwick and Birmingham show how botulism is entirely caused by sewage releases and environmental poor management. Botulism is the truth of death that fake “avian flu” is being constructed to hide. The politicians are keen to promote fake bird flu as it forms a distraction away from the public health farce of the failed privatised water industry which they created. Botulism has killed and continues to kill more wildfowl in waterways than avian flu. The authorities have just created a system where the real cause of death is not tested for. They cover up the truth as do the media. Their globalist “one health” agenda steered by the Microsoft child jabber weirdo is geared towards another pandemic hoax like covid 19. 

Once again, we are asked to vote for the scum in Westminster next month. I decline, I am not going to participate. Just as they attempt to say we should be prepared for some emergency eventuality that they suggest may happen, (including packing bottled water not from the tap) 😉 such as a climate change hoax, a plandemic hoax or WW3 hoax, they also pass laws for ever more draconian fascist enterprise to feather their own nests by resetting industries to which they have invested their money. If you cannot see this by now there really is no hope for you.

We are taught history as being simply “good guys” and “bad guys” and that point of view is based upon the victors view of the world after war. They press us with D days dabbing their eyes plotting to send more young men to die in some foreign country camel dung shit holes  and talk of how our freedoms were won by this previous generation which is nothing more than messiah religious bullshit. Victory in 1945 merely spawned a whole host of Adolph Hitler imitators planning a one world Government agenda from the shadows. Cenotaphs and memorial days serve as recruiting sergeants for an equally fooled next generation that freedom can be won whilst they are in charge. The present political class appear to paint themselves as good guys, but it is not their view to make. At times in our history there have come moments when the ballot box is simply no longer a valid means of overcoming oppression. Maybe the only thing we should be packing in our grab bags for freedom are the bomb and the bullet- history has taught us that it is never votes that change anything.

WE ONLY GET RID OF TURDS IN THE WATER WHEN THOSE IN THE ETERNAL SEA ARE ERADICATED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. 

INVESTIGATION AND OPINION

Corrupt Thieves are among us

Just in time for Easter, new developments in the avian flu hoax recently have once again thrust the spotlight on those in Defra, The APHA and the UKHSA who are attempting to introduce controls and regulations to further take away the spotlight from the Nazi farmer concentration death camps of the poultry industry, virulent with diseases and infection amongst unnaturally housed birds, and instead put the blame on the general public for keeping a few chickens in their back yard.

A scam consultation by this ailing dead duck Tory wank show supposedly asked if all birds should be registered, instead of the compulsory number of 50 or above. The issue is covered well by the brilliant UK Column, and see video below, who during the Covid 19 poison vax hoax gave statistics and commentary of reason and scepticism which were well founded, where the mainstream media simply copied and pasted the narrative of proven liars and fake virologist talentless “scientists” like Neil Fergusson.

It is interesting, as I have pointed out before that Newcastle’s Disease– one entirely caused by the poultry death camp industry is now being seamlessly linked in with “avian flu”.

“This will help to manage potential disease outbreaks, such as avian influenza and Newcastle disease, and limit any spread.”

UK Government published symptoms of the poultry industry killer virus, and the one that has morphed into “avian flu”

I have always believed due to the symptoms of the latter, that DEFRA and the UK Government have lied and covered up  the real cause of death of birds in the wild over the last two years, having had it spread to them by the poultry industry through release of faeces and infection into water courses like The River Wye.

The BBC article in the link above identifies that this river has along its catchment 25% of the UK poultry industry, and I am aware that one of the swans thought to have infected premises at Wychbold swan rescue during the first cases in 2022 came from this area. The river is being destroyed by chicken farming, and yet the apologists in DEFRA are putting up a smokescreen to protect and lie about this industry- possibly because they are getting back handers from it , or maybe there is an outside role in the industry when they inevitably “retire” from the public sector. 😉 

Their protection of this economic genocide machine knows no bounds, and a scapegoat of “uncontrolled” birds is a very easy narrative to con people with. When will the public wake up to how this industry is poisoning them and the birds it produces are harmful to human health? 

We have seen how when the Bernard Matthews factory was spreading avian flu in the early 2000’s, how public confidence in this sector fell apart and sales went through the floor. They fear that if the truth got out, and that the public knew it was this industry that was responsible for “bird flu”, then it would never recover again.

The purpose legend of the fake consultation was as follows.

Engineered for control purposes and not animal welfare and human health- of which there is no issue

Of course, the civil service scum, shills of the agricultural industry want to protect this industry at all costs, and so do the political class many of whom have farming interests. The outcome of the CONsultation had of course already been decided by this corrupt cabal. The biosecurity leaks are entirely due to the poultry industry, like the Bernard Matthews incident I looked at HERE which directly brought avian flu into the UK at an earlier date. 

Yeah, let’s see how “careful” you were…..

It is incredible that organisations such as the vile CUNTryside alliance and the Two (ugly) Sisters  were given the opportunity to comment on legislation that ones like the latter are entirely responsible for causing. Their premises are the ones that are shite, as are their joke “welfare” standards.

We see the result of the main question saw 75% of respondents want to keep the do nothing option, and reject the Government- shill poultry industry position of forced compliance.

Of course, we do not live in a democracy where the majority win- except of course the poisonous politicians who get in first past the post, and are there usually till death- which cannot ever come soon enough. Government spin in face of not implementing the will of the people saw them construct the following bullshit.

“We understand that the majority of the respondents felt the proposed changes are too bureaucratic and onerous.….. BUT We have carefully considered the responses on the options to extend the current poultry registration requirements, including the ‘do nothing’ option. The government recognises that although most respondents to the consultation disagreed with making changes to the current mandatory poultry registration requirements, there was agreement from a number of respondents to reduce the registration threshold from 50 birds to one or 10. “

“A number of respondents” were no doubt the cunts who are farming birds in cages in bulk numbers for their death camp trade.

“FARMER” BROWN RETIRES

One positive piece of news is that academic shill Ian Brown has now “retired” from the APHA. I looked at him and his work and the manner in which his obscene conflicts of interest were a disgrace to public policy HERE. His steering of this issue can be seen in the article below. He has clearly served his purpose, and one can only speculate if he will reappear in some other form like another marionette “expert”  at The World Hoax Organisation for example. Good fucking riddance.

Bird flu rise is blamed on trend for keeping chickens in gardens | Daily Mail Online

AVIAN FLU IS DYING OUT IN UK WILD BIRDS- FACT- BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THIS UNDENIABLY. 

The whole thrust of these liars choices concerns the theory that wild birds are spreading the illness and are therefore capable somehow of transmitting this to humans by some as yet undetermined pathway- but probably through the food industry and farming-“the next pandemic” so the scary headlines read, and thus the research funding mechanism by which this scum pour poison into the ears of the thick policy makers, who are themselves corrupt to the core.

The UKHSA recently put out guidance via a series of  scaremongering  legacy media articles. Be in no doubt that this was deliberately timed to coincide with the four year anniversary of the Academic led imprisonment covid 19 hoax. What is worse is that the RSPCA were supportive of this. This organisation has shown itself at its very worst during the last three years, they are complicit in the spread of this lie and in the murder of wild birds without any compassion or treatment. They have forgotten their role in tracking and investigating wildlife crime, and are now active participants in that endeavour. 

So let us fact check evidence of avian flu circulating in wild birds in the UK over the last 6 years, and specifically, the situation in the first three months of those years to see what exactly this “increased threat” consists of.

Social distancing is back (but not how you might think!): Health bosses urge Brits to stay 2m away from ALL wild birds, including pigeons and seagulls, amid avian flu pandemic fears | Daily Mail Online

This Daily Mail scare line, there were others of the same ilk,  makes numerous statements suggesting that avian flu is somehow out of control, which it is not. .

FIGURES FOR AVIAN FLU IN WILD BIRDS 2018- 2024

These results are direct from the APHA wild bird surveillance figures, and so let us use them against them for objective discussion.

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2018 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2019 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2020 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2021 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2022 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2023 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Avian influenza in wild birds: 2024 – GOV.UK (publishing.service.gov.uk)

SUMMARY OF POSITIVE CASES IN WILD BIRDS IN FIRST 12 WEEKS- SOURCE APHA, SEE FIGURES EVIDENCE IN LINKS ABOVE

In 2018 96 POSITIVE TESTS

In 2019 0 POSITIVE TESTS. IN FACT IN THIS YEAR THERE WERE ZERO CASES FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR!

In 2020  0 POSITIVE TESTS. There were no positive cases up to week 44. 

In 2021   22 POSITIVE TESTS

In 2022 374 POSITIVE TESTS!

In 2023  234 POSITIVE TESTS

In 2024 10 POSITIVE TESTS

What can be seen in 2024 is that in the first three months of the year there were a total of just 10 cases up to week 12. This therefore demonstrates that far from increasing or being endemic in the wild bird population, avian flu is dying out and is at the same level as it was in 2020. How can the scientists account for this, and furthermore, why are they trying to portray something which simply is not supported by their own fucking evidence? No credible media outlet, journalist or anyone else with any credibility can claim that avian flu is increasing in the wild bird population in the UK, so let us drop the lie. There was a clear unexplained spike, and a terrible one which suggests a leak or contamination that was never there to date by migratory routes, and is not there now. 

Headlines like the one below accompanied by pictures of people wearing masks appear to be a more sinister suggestion which is not based on any objective evidence.

The “experts” have been spreading lies and misinformation for years to keep their academic research theft from the public purse going.

Of course, they are desperate to keep the pandemic hoax of covid 19 going at all costs.

Utter fucking lies