Another Sandwell Children's Services Shock

The Chief of Ofsted has listed Sandwell in a report as one of 20 councils that are unacceptably poor in children's services, so I ask, will our local Labour MP's condemn this Labour run council?

Barnsley,Bexley,Birmingham,Blackpool,Calderdale,Cambridgeshire,Cheshire East
Cumbria,Devon,Doncaster,Herefordshire,Isle of Wight,Kingston upon Thames,Medway
Norfolk,Northamptonshire,Rochdale,Sandwell,Slough,Somerset are the 20 councils


"Incompetent and ineffective leadership must be addressed quickly”. and
"These are shocking statistics are a national disgrace."are just a few of his comments


Commenting on Birmingham he said
"Why is it that nearly a third of children in the city live in households on low incomes? Why is it that infant mortality is almost twice the national average, worse than in Cuba and on a par with Latvia and Chile?
and "one of the worst places to grow up in the developed world".


Sandwell Tory said
Absolutely shocking, Once again Sandwell is listed as one of the worst authorities in the UK, this comes not long after Sandwell Labour moaned about Ofsted
link
boss-urges-rethink-on-sandwell-council-childrens-care-rating/

 I just hope the Government send in a team to run Sandwell Children's Services


Reference to read more at these links
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/15/child-protection-inadequate-ofsted-report
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/10/15/sandwell-council-one-of-worst-for-childrens-care/



Sandwell Conservatives previous comments
http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/inadequate-sandwell.html
http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/sandwells-childrens-services-will-no.html
http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/sandwell-childrenss-services.html
http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/sandwell-childrens-services.html
http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/childrens-services-shock.html

Red Ed's Gas & Electric Tax

Figures released today show Red Ed knows more about your energy costs than he's letting on, while he was in Government as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, taxes were introduced so about 9% of your bills are now green taxes. .

Your Energy (Gas or Electricity) Bills have these “Green Taxes" to pay for

The Greenhouse Gas levy £9

a Levy of Power plant emissions

The Green Energy mark-up Levy £36

This makes up the difference in renewable energy costs

Wind etc. is much more expensive to produce electric

The Insulation Levy £60

Energy firms have an obligation to spend on home insulation

The Carbon Dioxide levy £4.50

Electricity producers have to pay £16 per tonne of CO2 produced, while making electric

The Winter fuel top up levy £15.64

the Warm homes discount

Feed in tariff £9

People with wind or solar generators are paid more than the selling cost of electricity they produce.

 so you pay a subsidy to them

The Electronic metering Levy £3.46

You pay for other peoples smart meters

And these Taxes are put on your Bill

Sandwell Tory said

Remember the wind generator Labour wanted in Sandwell Valley ? your tax would have helped pay for it.

The sad thing is,  these Labour “green taxes “ are a now significant part of our Gas and Electric Bills costs and when added to the EU fuel taxes,  we are all in a bigger mess and taxes are planned to go up

Under Labour Gas and electric prices were going the same way as Labour's Petrol tax, UP.

just like Petrol, the Tax on Electric or Gas would have soon been more than the products actual cost.

Labour like to tax you then waste the lot.

Ask your Labour MP why Labour taxes your Gas & Electricity

so much?

Reference

Red Ed's great green obsession

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456760/Red-Eds-great-green-obsession--real-reason-YOUR-gone-roof-The-hidden-subsidies-household-pays-year-thanks-Milibands-laws.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Is Ed Miliband is economically illiterate ?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglascarswellmp/100237412/ed-miliband-is-economically-illiterate/

Cameron and Miliband clash over green energy policy

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2299608/cameron-and-miliband-clash-over-green-energy-policy

 

Great Bridge Parking nightmare

Sandwell Labour's obsession with the car strikes again, this time its Great Bridge traders who are claiming up to a 70% drop in trade under the new parking rules.

 

Great Bridge on a sunny market day (mind the Queue)

 just up the road a massive car park has been dormant 

for years since the council closed it  

Yes following on from Labour's disastrous doubling of parking charges in West Bromwich, its High street already devoid of business's was given a further kick in the teeth, now the council is repaving the pedestrian area in front of rows of empty shops, at a cost of £millions.

Labour now seems to want to spread the misery around the other towns in the borough, Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old hill traders have complained and got nowhere

meanwhile some councils have seen the light and try to help local businesses by lowering or scrapping parking charges 

Staffordshire car parking fees cut to 10p

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/09/19/staffordshire-car-parking-fees-cut-to-10p-in-trial/

Charges will not be introduced on free on-street parking bays in Cannock town

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/07/19/cannock-parking-charges-plan-off/

Charges cut to lure Walsall shoppers                                                    http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/08/12/car-parking-charges-cut-to-lure-walsall-shoppers/

but over in Sandwell ? 

the news is  "Car park charges are sent rocketing"

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/04/01/sandwell-car-parking-charges-are-sent-rocketing/

Sandwell Tory said

Well done Labour, traders say your parking policy is a total mess

ref : P7 E&S Sandwell Edition 7/10/13