Unemployment rate is now down to 8.5%

Only 6 months ago the West Midlands had the highest number of job seekers in the whole of the UK
But the latest information released by the ONS (Office of National statistics) may come as a bomb shell to the Labour’s (gloom and doom, spend some more, you’re doing it all wrong) 
  
Why ?, the answers simple unemployment fell by 32,000 to 226,000 in the West Midlands in the last three months. It was one of the largest drops in the UK.

In London the unemployment rate is 9.3% in the North West its 9.8% but in the West Midlands the unemployment rate is now down to 8.5%

Business leaders have welcomed the improvement and it’s the hot topic on the TV and local press with manufacturers saying they are picking up work

More good news
inflation – was 4.2 per cent in June, down from 4.5 per cent in May.

Sandwell Tory said
Manufacturing is returning to our area with traditional industries leading the way, but we need well trained and skilled people to fill these new jobs and we are still finding the time to pay off Labour debt

Take a look your self

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=19

£2 trillion in debt

The old saying

If you wait long enough the truth will come out, seems very true

                                                                                                                

It’s now revealed that the debt left by Labour is over £2 trillion; yes £2 trillion, that’s the same as saying each family in the country, owes £78,000.

Now I know why a lot of people have said our kids, kids will still be paying off this debt

But the rescue mission on our economy continues, dealing with this huge deficit we inherited from Labour was the single most important step towards our recovery and growth, while sadly other European countries that carried on spending are in a mess.

Remind me just what political party kept saying we were doing it wrong and we should spend??

Other good news is that the indicators are now saying that our manufacturing is taking off and over 500,000 new jobs have been created in the last few months and this month’s unemployment figures are down again, getting our people back to work.   

West Bromwich Town centre

We asked and then we begged “please help West Bromwich Town Centre”  

Then we asked “Is West Bromwich a healthy Town?”

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-07T11%3A10%3A00Z&max-results=5

Then we used a form issued by a Government department called BIS for monitoring High streets

take a look here  

http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/business-sectors/docs/h/10-1224-healthy-high-street

Then the local press ran a story “Ghost town fears”

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-16T23%3A54%3A00Z&max-results=5

Your local Conservatives asked the council to open up some roads so as to make vehicular access easier as traders said parking was becoming a serious issue to their business's 

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-14T22%3A00%3A00Z&max-results=5

All to no avail

Here is an extract of the bis.gov document

Car parking

The crucial issues are quantity, location, quality, pricing, security and management. Don’t underestimate the problem: car parking issues are important but can be difficult to resolve.

Much research has shown how closely parking costs are linked to travel choices although the extent of the impact can vary. Often the pricing structure can be significant – eg: varying with time of day. Are you maximising the opportunity for shared use of parking spaces? Measure the peaks and flows, the time of day used, dwell time, etc. Is there always sufficient availability of good quality, secure parking? If not, it’s probably affecting visitor frequency. Check too that car parks for retail outlets aren’t filled with commuter vehicles and, conversely, that railway car parks aren’t taken over by local shoppers’ bikes and cars.

Bomb shell

Now we have the latest bomb shell from property consultants Colliers that shop rents are falling in West Bromwich town

Quote

Nick Round, Colliers’ Birmingham-based national head of shopping centre leasing, said: West Bromwich is one of the worst performing locations in the UK. The drops in retail rents there have been staggering.”Prime retail rents there dropped by a staggering 28.6% to £50 per sq ft.

Meanwhile rents in Birmingham average £139.60 per sq ft, compared to Manchester's Market Street fetching £149.60, while London's Old Bond Street achieves £598.65 per sq ft.

Sandwell Tory said

But again we have to ask

Were can you park ??? give us a clue ??

Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/07/06/west-bromwich-town-centre-is-one-of-uks-worst/#ixzz1RhtOYrHo

Spend , Spend , Spend

It now appears that the last Labour Government were warned that their spending

Was being wasted.

Leaked documents have revealed that a civil servant asked

“We’ve spent all this money, but what have we got for it”

But Brown & Ed Balls pushed ahead with their spending and as they say

The rest is history but they left us and our kids, to pay off their Debt in the future.

How much longer can Labour continue to deny this financial mess is down to their

Management

Ask David he seems to know      

Tax Freedom Day

I see the TPA have announced that we have just celebrated Tax freedom day.

The first 149 working days this year were spent paying taxes to local or central government

We’ve already had a go a lowing this by Raising your Personal tax Allowance. On top of the rise in the personal allowance from April this year, the personal allowance for under 65s will increase by a further £630 to £8,105 in 2012.

The combined impact of this increase, alongside the £1,000 increase announced at last year’s Budget, is to benefit 25 million individuals by up to £326 a year in cash terms and it also means that a total of 1.1 million people will be lifted out of income tax altogether.

Sandwell Tory said

The way the Tax freedom day was going under Labour it would soon be Christmas Day Labour seem to want to take all your money

Another look at Labours Debt

We are paying £48.6 Billion in Debt interest, but remember this is only the interest.  

Without this massive debt, this is money that could be spent on public services.

 The £48.6 billion in debt interest payments this year is equivalent to the cost of:

48,600 new MRI scanners,

1.5 million extra nurses,

1.2 million new teachers,

1.1 million new police officers,

or 399,000 extra doctors.

Or

5 Olympic Games,

Or if we look to our armed forces

19 Aircraft Carriers,

45 Type 45 destroyers,

38 Astute class submarines,

701 Typhoon jets,

Sandwell Tory said

This is £48.6 billion of our money leaving our country to pay for Labours debt, but its only this year’s debt interest. We still have to pay next year’s, the year after and the year after that? The chances are our kids; kids will still be paying off Labour debt

It’s getting better

Let’s hear it one more time for    “it’s getting better”.

This time it’s all about truancy in Sandwell Schools 

In the whole of the West Midlands Sandwell come top of the truancy table with 1.79%

With Stafford coming in the lowest with just 0.5%

With National rates for school truancy about 1.04% Labour say  “it’s getting better”

Sandwell School results near the bottom of the national tables with   “it’s getting better”

West Bromwich town centre “it’s getting better”

Sandwell council employee’s having 10.58 days off each year sick “it’s getting better”

Sandwell Tory said

After Labour ruling in Sandwell for 30 years is “it’s getting better” the best we can get   

Labours Debt

Just in case you forget I've made this simple picture of what Labour left us

They don't tell you that on election leaflets do they

Sickness shocker

Its reported that employees at Sandwell council had 109648 days of during 2009-10

A Labour representative said its getting better

This is the same as every employee having 10.58 days off each year sick

That’s 2 full weeks

Sandwell Tory said

“Only in Sandwell could they say that’s getting better, in 2008-09 it was 120735

Or 11.39 days off each, mathematically the spokesman was right.

But my question to them is

Is the reporting of sick up to scratch?

What private company could afford these rates? 

Read more at

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/05/26/103-council-staff-off-for-six-months/

Are Red Ed’s days numbered

The rumours are rife that Red Ed made a big mistake coming out to support AV, the very  electoral system that got him elected, by the act of supporting a failure it now seems to have damaged his political power.

After former Prime Minister Blair allowed Scotland self rule they never dreamed that they would lose their Labour seats up there.

But lose they did big style

Sandwell blogger said

Labour please keep Red Ed as your Leader   
Trust me; you know I have your best interests at heart.

  

Read it for yourself

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/may/06/edmiliband-nickclegg