Library Cuts Threat

Yet another Labour disgrace on the horizon, this time its our libraries,with a threat to jobs.  SMBC just do not seem to have a clue what to do, perhaps its because almost all of the Councillors are socialist ?

Listen SMBC.

Most of your housing offices have closed,  yes?

There were massive queues all over the car park at Wednesbury housing office at the beginning of the month, Yes ?
( and I've been sent the photo's)

You closed down most of the Job Link system, Yes?

You hold educational courses in schools and other building, Yes?

You let out houses, Yes ?

Libraries have computers, Yes?

Libraries have very educated staff, Yes?

Bring in a number of different functions under one roof and recover your overhead


Sandwell Tory said
Labour this is the confidential and the special secret bit,

If you reduce the hours they are open, less people will use them, because the doors will be shut.
Reduce your Overhead not your staff (its simples) and called maths.
Don't forget 146 out of 151    
 http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/sandwell-school-row.html

see also
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/09/14/sandwell-libraries-face-jobs-axe-in-cut-to-budget/

They just don't get it

Sandwell's Obsession with parking fee's bites again, this time its at the proposed £11M leisure centre in West Brom

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/09/10/pay-to-park-scheme-at-new-centre-is-revealed/

this town already has a major Police station with no staff car parking , so the bobbies have to park in the street  ( where's the risk assessment on that one?)

With little or no parking for shoppers, Sandwell council should not be surprised when shoppers keep away and the news that takings from market stalls is dropping is a shining example of this parking fiasco.

Markets’ income falls by £50,000
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/03/05/markets-income-falls-by-50000/


But while shops close and Market traders shut up shop, Sandwell Council is singing all the way to the bank with news that it made £810,000 in parking fines the highest of the local authorities around

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/08/14/midland-councils-take-2-5m-in-parking-fines/#ixzz26CeTksvk


But on top of that it was released that Sandwell squashed a number of tickets this amounted to

4,500 parking fines unpaid

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport-news/2012/07/24/more-than-4500-parking-fines-unpaid-in-sandwell/


Sandwell's Obsession continues so Watch out Albion are they coming for you?

56 parking warnings issued on West Brom match day

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/2012/08/25/56-parking-warnings-issued-on-west-brom-match-day/


Sandwell Tory said

Well Done Sandwell, while you rake in the money our premier town suffers, but you can always blame the recession the Government or the weather or perhaps its just down to the Maths results?  

Sandwell School Row

I was amused this week to read that a Sandwell Council boss, is upset with Education Secretary Michael Gove MP. The Sandwell Labour Council Boss was quoted as saying

                 “I do not know what planet that guy is on to be honest. He's talking garbage.

This was apparently after comment made by Mr Gove on Sandwell Education. (see below)

This sarcastic comment comes from a Labour party that year after year has presided over almost the lowest academic results in England and this has gone on for almost a generation

But lets look at Sandwell Education a topic that has been mentioned a number of times on these pages

1, Labour have run this borough for over 30 years, with Labour also running the country for 13 years

2, For more years than I can remember Sandwell has been at the bottom of our countries league tables for educational achievement, not just for a few weeks but for over a decade our children's achievement as been lower than other local boroughs.

3, In the GCSE tables for Last year Sandwell ranked 138 out of 151 boroughs, a slight improvement, but in the “A” level ranking Sandwell moved down to 146 out of 151 boroughs

                                    Yes almost to the bottom of the whole country
 

Yet every year Sandwell Labour roll out a politician who says things are improving, but going down the table at "A"levels is a negative and not a positive improvement, I have to ask is this the state of Maths within our borough ? 

4, Sandwell Labour complain that they do not have enough school places for students

however Sandwell had a fascination for bulldozing schools or amalgamating some schools into new buildings or cramming the students into one school and re-naming it

remember these Primary schools?

Albion Junior, Beeches Infant,Blackheath Primary, Brasshouse Infant

Charlemont Primary, Corbett Infant, Cronehills Primary,Fir Tree Primary

Great Bridge Primary,Guns Village Infant, Hallam Junior, Hollyhedge Primary

Joseph Edward Cox, Kent Close Primary, Leasowes Primary, Locarno Primary,

Princes End Primary,Springfield Junior,Warley Infant

                                         Approximately 1900 primary school places gone

Perhaps Labour hopes you will forget?   but what about our local High schools?

Churchfields High, Brittania High and Hill Top High

                                       Approximately 2725 secondary school places gone

and yet Labour moan they are short of places ????? perhaps its simple maths ?

5, BSF, Labour used this idea to build, under what is called a PFI scheme   
( Borrow money,  Labour were very good at that and left us with a £145M /day interest bill)

  

This was to build schools because they were run down, one little tiny problem ?

Why had Sandwell not been repairing and maintaining schools over the years, the doors and

windows in their press photo's don't rot overnight ?

Mr Gove was quoted as saying he would like to see emphasis put on improving education and not just buildings. “What I would ask Sandwell councillors, have we seen enough emphasis placed on dealing with under performance in schools?”

Sandwell Tory said

Yes for years Sandwell children have had excuse after excuse from Labour, but we have not had one single offer of a resignation from any in the Labour party and I have to wonder if Mr Gove knows this and perhaps he knows much, much more ?

We will improve children's education in Sandwell, that's not a promise that’s a fact, increasing students opportunity for their personal betterment, despite Labour.

3, (1)You must treat others with respect.

Further reading

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement

reference

Express & Star Thursday September 6^th 2012 page 16 top left column

Express & Star Thursday September 20^th 2001 page 5 centre spread

 copies available on request

 Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/09/03/gove-says-%e2%80%98terrible-mistake%e2%80%99-was-made-in-sandwell-school-fiasco/#ixzz25uRuBjt0

If you have a problem

see also

http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200033/councillors_democracy_and_elections/369/councillors/5

This week's "Funny caption "

I was pleasantly surprised by the response to the last caption, so have decided to run it again

 

 Please e-mail in your comments and the best ( cleanest) will be published

Sorry folks on the last on I failed to put a close date and some continued to come in

so the close date is   31st Aug 2012

Traffic Problems

A viewer from West Bromwich has sent in this photo showing the traffic jam in West Bromwich.

 it seems that bollards have been placed by the bus station restricting the flow of traffic

to just one lane with three sets of traffic lights in just over 100 yards.

 She say's that some nights the traffic jam goes all the way round Bull Street and up to the Dartmouth park entrance

Sandwell Tory said 
So it appears we have solid traffic from Dartmouth Park to Carters Green island, I have to wonder if they will issue parking tickets?

Please continue to e-mail over your photo's  

key decision

I see that Erics made a "key Decision", yes it's to get rid of Labours "key Decision process" in council meetings which will enhance town hall transparancy.

Called the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012.

This new Law replaces systems introduced by Labour concerning  'key decisions', "quarterly reports" and 'forward plans' which will soon be history
Instead, a document must be produced saying what the decision is to be made and how to obtain the documents upon which it will be based.

Eric was quoted as saying

"Every decision a council takes has a major impact on the lives of local people so it is crucial that whenever it takes a significant decision about local budgets that affect local communities whether it is in a full council meeting or in a unheard of sub-committee it has got to be taken in the full glare of all the press and any of the public.

Sandwell Tory said

Let the people know

Sandwell Council Tax

Well its just over 12 weeks since the local elections and wow another Labour bomb shell, Council tax
increases could well be on the way.
The Government has protected Sandwell residents council Tax for the last 2 years by giving Sandwell council about £3Million extra each year to hold down the council tax bills, while the council sorts out its finance levels

Sandwell Tory said

What a coincidence,  there are no elections in 2013, lets see what excuses Labour come up with?

Answers on a post card   

Your photo's

Following our request for photo's, we have now had a few sent in

 This one is from Victoria Street , just 100mt from the main high street

Please send in a "Funny caption ", we respect your anonymity and the cleanest-funniest will by published

In a previous post we showed you Wednesbury's new pool 
 Is this is a new Pool for West Bromwich?

Sandwell Tory said 
                            Please keep sending them in

More Labour mess

I see we are committed to spending another £3Million to help foreign countries prison services this little jem was created in 2008 by the then Labour government.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman was quoted as saying
: "Foreign national prisoners should serve their sentences in their home country.

There's one little problem according to press reports a lot of them should not have been here in the first place and another report goes on to say : More than 11,000 of the 81,000 prison population are foreign nationals.

If you recall back in  2006 the then Home Secretary lost his job over the Home Office's failure to process the cases of 1,000 foreign national prisoners in England and Wales who could have been eligible for deportation.


One report quotes Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, saying
: ‘To some extent, this is the inevitable legacy of mass immigration of 3.5million people under Labour.


Read it for yourself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185675/UK-taxpayers-foot-revamp-jails-Nigeria-Jamaica.html


and a lovely bit from 2004

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/2004/may/24/prisons-foreign-nationals



Sandwell Tory said
Thanks Labour, two years into the new Government and were are still fixing your mess and I to wonder if these foreign cells have satellite TV and telephones ?

Europe's coming for your pension again

Under cunning new plans Brussels bureaucrats are coming for whats left of our pensions Called Solvency II, this new plan will force pensions providers to pump £Billions of your money into this latest scheme.



Older readers will remember that back in the 1990's the UK had the best pensions in the world
the private sector then took beating when Labour taxed private pensions £Billions a year

Back in 1997, 34 per cent of private sector workers had final salary pension scheme this has now collapsed to nine per cent


see more

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175135/Gold-plated-pensions-private-sector-collapse-record-low-9.html#ixzz22wQCZO2M

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184701/Gold-plated-pension-schemes-threatened-EU-bureaucrats-warns-Lord-Hutton.html


Sandwell Tory said

    In 1653 a man called CROMWELL said

YOU HAVE BEEN SAT TO LONG HERE FOR ANY GOOD YOU HAVE BEEN DOING. DEPART, I SAY, AND LET US HAVE DONE WITH YOU,  IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO, GO NOW."

    Should this apply to Europe?