Walsall market

Yes I know this is a Sandwell blog but you have to give Walsall Council praise for opening a night market
to help bring in trade to the Shops,Pubs & traders. Our last party blogger was posting these ideas years before I took over this blog and years before Portas review!
 
That's the way to help trade!   
and it doesn't hurt the day time traders

( Click) Night Market in Walsall 

 Do you think Sandwell Labour will listen ?

Free Parking in West Bromwich

Yes after all there is free parking in West Bromwich


http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/01/28/free-staff-car-park-at-hq-of-west-brom/

lets see Labour roll free parking out to all traders and customers, because I bet the small shop keeper or shop worker paying £20 a week to the council just to park by their shop in the town is well cheesed and
sick of the tax on jobs 

Labour Scrap parking charges for all and let our town economically boom. 

Do you think Labour would like that ?

Sandwell's EU referendum

Its simple

The Conservatives will give you a YES -NO vote on Europe

Labour & the Lib dems wont let you get near a ballot paper

“My position is no – We don’t want an in out referendum”

Ed Miliband 23 January 2013.

Now the scare tactics will start, the gloom and doom merchants and then the threats just like last time.

Why? because they want you money

We all know that Europe's a mess!,  ( Source USA, Must Read)

In Spain youth unemployment rate is 52.9pc, with the Greece youth unemployment rate showing 55.4pc of young people were out of work. (Source UK

Yet in the UK unemployment falls again 

Do You want to stay in a Europe which tells you what to do ?

Do you want to stay in a Europe that dictates local policy?

Do You want none-elected EU officials running the UK ?

Even the Euro problem has not gone away, they are still printing money!

Most old folk now what to do

even Old Labour knows what to do ,

but Do you think the so called one nation New Labour will do what their masters tell them?

Its your call

Sandwell's Gritters

 I speak as I find and to all of Sandwell Gritting team
WELL DONE 

I've seen them gritting all day 

Its now late Sunday Evening and the teams are still out.

Sandwell Streets to be Gritted (SMBC)  

                                   

WBA Parking

I hope Sandwell Labour are proud of their latest attack on the motorist. Our Town decays, shops and industry move out or close, but there's one common factor

Labour's obsession with Parking?

This time its Match day supporters at the Albion, with 128 parking tickets issued.

Some boroughs help such a prestige club to bring in money to their towns by helping away supporters to park, few towns or cities in this country have roughly 30,000 potential customers once a fortnight then ignore them, worse still fine some of them.

Free parking in the town centre with a return of the supporters buses to the ground is one idea, but I doubt Labour will even consider it.

So I ask Sandwell council “How many of the 128 nicked were away supporters?” who then went home telling friends and neighbours all about Sandwell's welcome & hospitality?.

This action is reported as raising just £3,955 in fines, which is part of £8.6 million of Tax payers (Your) money to be spent on traffic measures around the borough.

When they are cutting other vital services!.

£3,955,  just a few weeks work for a Council consultant

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/01/19/128-drivers-ticketed-with-new-parking-rules-near-west-bromwich-stadium/

Red Ed's Europe Referendum problem !

Deja vu strikes Ed again, just what is this man babbling on about ? With his own Labour MP's ringing local Radio stations saying we should have a referendum, Red Ed says we shouldn't!.

Doesn't  he know what going on in his own party?

It must be hard for multi millionaire Ed with a nice house in London to understand what the people in Birmingham and the Black country feel about Europe.

In interview's on both the Radio and TV, he parrot phrases what the Prime Minister has said and once more avoids answers

Listen to this interview with James Naughtie

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9786000/9786061.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21003095

“We want a "flexible Europe" where areas of policy could be negotiated. he said

Well done Einstein, didn't Cameron say that ?

on immigration ? We (Labour) got it wrong

So, No Referendum under Labour? or is there?

He could ask his MP's they seem to know

Listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012y6k8 time setting 1:40.00

Close the Public or have a Rent Rise?

A good question, just 3 days after our post that the last Labour government spent all the money, and a month or so after award winning Sandwell Homes went back in to council control, Sandwell Labour announce plans to hike everyone's rent by about £7 per week

Is that why they wanted Sandwell Homes Back?

yet at the same time they fund the public!.

So while the residents of Sandwell endure the proposed rise they can rest in the knowledge that they are helping to pay for the increased visitor numbers at the public.

yet Labour still blame others

The Coalition has given Sandwell £M's for housing yet sadly at a new project in West Bromwich you get a free push bike if you have a new home.

Is that because the parking is £4 per day ?

So I wonder what the people would want
Close the Public ?
have a rent rise ?

While your thinking about that one, I'm reminded about an article in the E&S page 11, 19th Oct 2012

Not content with tea and biscuits, Sandwell Council was considering Mexican fajita's or Dim Sum at its meetings

and here's a further report on Councillors Pay
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20967913


Is it Let them eat cake ?
  

see also
http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/10164463.Sandwell_Council_housing_tenants_face_rent_hike/?ref=rss


http://www.expressandstar.com/news/property/2012/12/07/delight-at-plan-for-750-sandwell-homes/

Dear Tories, sorry we spent all the money

Just 2 years ago this was all over the press

Britain is Skint 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2976845/Labour-Treasury-chief-left-a-letter-admitting-Britain-is-skint.html
The UK was in a mess, after years of Labour spending the “Money pot” was empty, Labour would let you believe it was all the Bankers fault, but who runs the Bankers? 

Back in June 2011 a confidential document presented to the Labour Cabinet in January 2006 , which was printed in the press, asked.

"We've spent all this money, but what have we got for it?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8569367/Labour-spending-Gordon-Brown-and-Ed-Balls-ignored-warnings-and-wasted-billions.html

Brown ignored the advice and started a £90 billion increase in spending, just after he became prime minister
  
You must read this 
The Ed Balls database

Now we roll onto 2013 and Labour talks the talk but doesn't do the walk, now they say they have an answer for every problem, but refuse to tell you what the answer is.

Sadly Labour legacy lingers on, this time on your Electricity Bills. Labour's push for wind generation has cost the UK £17 Billion.

 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261562/Cost-offshore-wind-farms-add-17bn-household-energy-builds.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

So Labour's wind farms has cost you about £33 a year on your bill, but not content with sticking these all over the country our local Labour party were going to stick a full size one in an area of beauty called Sandwell Valley, at a cost of £ Millions,

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/02/24/wind-turbine-plan-for-sandwell-valley-revealed/

Strangely enough Sandwell Labour's first wind generator installed at a cost of £1000's in Oldbury produced just a few £'s worth of electricity (£39 in one year at 2010 prices) and who do you think paid for that ?

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wind_turbine#incoming-163689

Sandwell Tory said

Thanks Labour, your debt will linger on for years, just blame everyone else

If you had £3miilion, would you spend it on schools or a wind farm?

 

Sandwell's Health Budget

After so many nasty comments from Labour about delays, Sandwell's health budget allocation has been announced and the coalition Government has increased it by 10%


Sandwell Council being allocated £20,816,000

https://www.wp.dh.gov.uk/publications/files/2013/01/Public-Health-Grants-to-Local-Authorities.pdf

http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/10154392.Government_announces_long_awaited_public_health_budget_for_Sandwell_and_Dudley/?ref=rss

But a big question remains

Now they have the money to spend on poor health preventative measures

How much of the pensions money is invested in Tobacco companies?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/councils-told-to-stub-out-big-tobacco-pension-deals-6293702.html

With Respect

It is with sadness that I head of the passing of Lord Tarsem King of  West Bromwich.

He always had the time for a chat whenever you met him

Respect 

and our sincere condolences go to his family

Labour Finally has a Policy! on Cornflakes

Wow, Labour spent all the money, let BL and countles companies close, built less social housing than Maggie, let imigration go crazey, cut your 10p tax rate , doubled your Council tax and taxed a number of pensions out of existance

but Labour have a new policy to correct the mess they left our country in

there's to much sugar in your breakfast cereal

have I missed something ?

Will lowering the sugar & salt level of cornflakes fix the mess they left behind?

Will lowering the sugar & salt level of cornflakes fix the Housing problem ?

Will lowering the sugar & salt level of cornflakes fix the Economy?

see

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/05/ban-sugary-cereals-child-obesity

Sandwell Tory said

Yes there is a problem with obesity, specifically child obesity and we will change the laws if necessary

but I ask

Why where so many school playing fields sold off under Labour?

Why talk about cornflakes now, when Labour were in power for 13 years ?

Forgive my cynicism but

Do I see a new Labour Jammie Dodger Tax ?

I found this on the net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmRE919QB8

Sandwell Council Tax

Not only has the Coalition Government frozen council tax for another year, but the the old days of paying your council tax over 10 months is to change, if you want.

Eric pickles has announced that from this year (2013) you can pay Council Tax over 12 months instead of 10 months, so you can make 12 lower payments instead of 10, this will lower an average payment for "B" by about £17/month.

The total amount paid per year will remain unchanged


Problem is
You have to make the request to change to 12 individual monthly payments

http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=108301