Labour's Plan could lose Sandwell Pensioners £234

Under Labour's proposed welfare plans, Sandwell pensioners could lose out again, this time to the tune of £234.

following our posting on Labour's plan to cut the winter fuel payments

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and Sandwell Labour and the 25% council tax rate 

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Sandwell Labour then went on to lower the capital cut off limit for Council tax reduction from £16,000 to £6,000 , If you have saved for your funeral, Labour want your funeral money 

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For years it seems Sandwell charged bereaved families VAT for headstone work for cremated remains, then Sandwell found out some VAT should not have been charged ?

A number of people assumed they would get some over payment money back!

NO was the answer

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Is Labour ending the Council Tax discount?

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Sandwell Tory said

The last Labour governments policies helped bring this country into the mess its in and still their only solution is hit the people who have paid into the system the longest, the pensioners.

What is going on with Labour, why should pensioners pay for Labour's mess ?

Labour say they would cut welfare, Labour tell us why hit the pensioners? 

Come on Labour where will you cut?

We introduced the triple pension lock,  

The basic state pension rises by the highest of

Inflation

Earnings

or 2.5%

Labour are you going to cut pensions ????

 Remember This ??

Labour's last housing improvement plan

A blog reader who used to visit relatives down by the old Bush public house saw our photo in the
24th January 2012 posting (LINK)  and e-mailed over a picture taken approximately 2005-6 of what the houses looked like on the grassed area before they were demolished

 

As can be seen these were well made 3 bedroom homes

most of them had been modernised with central heating and double glazing 

a number of them were owned outright and private homes 

Reference

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/the-demolition-explosion/6518821.article

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/jury-still-out-on-new-deal 

Then along came a Labour Plan and a bulldozer and left this   

Mysteriously homes one side of the road were demolished,
but identical homes the other side of the road were classed as OK ??
Perhaps a Labour Councillor would care to tell us why ?

 Sandwells population was rising and Labour was turning Homes into grass fields

100's of good solid homes with off road parking, GONE

  

Sadly a well known and very liked gentleman passed away in the house on the right above

RIP  

Labours new way to reduce Empty shops in West Bromwich?

While other Boroughs look at removing pedestrianisation and scrapping parking restrictions to help their towns survive  Sandwell Labour have found a new way to reduce the number of empty shops in West Bromwich Bulldoze them.

Remember Bull Street 

This was once the home of a Brilliant Bicycle shop a furniture shop, and a top class hairdressers but no more will someone invite Mary Portas to give advice ? please,  please, please.

I have to wonder if they will turn the land into temporary car parks,  charge £4 and no one use them like
the Smethwick car park below?

Sandwell Tory said

Following Labour's very successful bulldozing trial, under the failed Homes pathfinder program where 1000's of Sandwell dwellings were bulldozed with lots of Schools closed sadly causing a shortage of homes and school places just as Sandwell population was rising,

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/the-demolition-explosion/6518821.article

They now turn their attentions and their bulldozers to our main town

I suppose the next national High street figures will show West Bromwich has a lot less empty shops, after all how can you have empty shops when you have bulldozed them

This is a Smethwick car park 
Hello Labour ?????  this is a simple business lesson 
There is a cost point when customers do not use your product. are you OK so far ?.
Double Parking costs, means less people park,  reducing your revenue. Do You Get IT ?
Customers then use out of town shopping centres and your Towns die.  

 A hive of activity at Double the price

A Great Bridge Car Park, fenced off for Years
such a help to local traders 

West Bromwich High Street
No Parking, Shops Closed , but the footpaths very nice 

Labour plan to cut pensioners winter fuel payments

So the Labour Party show their real intentions, not content with presiding over the biggest economic collapse since the 1930's, Labour have announced that if they were in power the heating allowance for 600,000 individuals could be cut - saving £100m a year to help pay for their mess..

Sandwell Tory said 

Well done !! Where were Labour when they were Bulldozing homes, schools and our Factories, then they left West Bromwich to rot for over 10years, now they want pensioners to pay for their mess ? 

You could not make this up?

reference

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/winter-fuel-payments-labour-announces-cut-044221117.html#tFTRST4

and still Labour deny the economic mess was their fault, apparently it was little old ladies, as under Labour they will have to pay and to top it all this move would reduce Labour's  "deficit" by just 1/1000 part