Five Councillors Resign from Labour

What is going on in Middlesbrough as five councillors have resigned from the Labour Party and will stand as independents.



Cllr Pervaz Khan was quoted as saying he felt “ashamed” for belonging to Middlesbrough Labour Group which “is treating some of my Asian family and friends in a manner which they perceive to be racist and, incidentally, so do I”;

Link to Evening Gazette

Link to BBC

Mean while Labour MP Alex Cunningham has said sorry for saying Gillian Duffy 'was a bigot'

Remember the Labour Prime minister saying the same ?

Link to BBC Alex Cunningham story

Link to Specator Is Labour a racist Party ?

Sandwell Tory said 

What is going on with Labour is it the Milibland jitters ?

Red Ed's Swindon Mess

 

Once again Ed shows his stuff or better still the lack of it when interviewed by a Radio Station

poor Ed did not have a clue on who the Labour leader of Swindon was

When asked if he thought Jim Grant was doing a good job and then pressured into answering if he knew the Labour leader of Swindon Miliband replied: "You'll enlighten me, I'm sure.

After all that Swindon is a Conservative run council 

Listen to a well briefed Red Ed

Sandwell Tory said I wonder if he knows who Cooper is ?

Reference

Link to .bbc.

Will Labour kick out Red Ed?

While Labour's distraction machine talks of others, their own internal disloyalty to their Leaders failings continues to mount, an article in the Independent says Miliband is damaged goods, meanwhile the Telegraph talks about Miliband is a problem to voters, is his leadership on borrowed time?

Will Watson or Cooper jump to their leaders aid ? 

Or will they wait for the balloon to go up ?

Sandwell Tory said

I feel Ed Microbland has the potential to damage the whole UK, with Labour's ill-conceived and at times

dangerous sound bites simply designed to con voters 

But I want him to stop as leader till after May 2015 

 I must ask Diane Abbott about her George Clooney comment ?

We are back

Since the 11^th February 2014 we have been off line, but now we are returning to let you know what Labour are up to in Sandwell,

Sandwell Tory said

Its good to be back

West Bromwich Disaster

 

Following years of failed commercial decisions concerning its High Streets, Sandwell Labour have now chalked up another grand messy failure , West Bromwich Town is the 2^nd worst Town in the UK for empty shops.

This Council goes from failure to monumental disaster

Sandwell Labour, a few questions for you? 
Why did you allow an out of town shopping centre to be built 100 yds away from your 

premier town?

Why did you spend £millions pedestrianising the pedestrianised high street that few walk on?

Why did you move the bus station to where few people can walk to ?

And most of all

Why did you raise your parking charges so high no one uses the town ?

                                        Its £4 to park to see this ?

 Labour are you ashamed ? 

Smethwick is little better 

Cars queue up to park here 

Labour here's a few tips on business

CENTRO's buses go to the wrong part of the town

Open up Roads that go nowhere 

Remove you parking fees

Open up the High Street to vehicular traffic

(Handsworth high street works fine and business is good  )

Sandwell Tory said

WHEN WILL LABOUR STOP BEING

ANTI BUSINESS?

The report does not say if the analysis includes the shops that Labour have bulldozed,.

After all, if Labour bulldoze every empty shop, it makes the figures look so good

Lets wait for the excuse "Its the bankers" they haven't given Labour enough to waste

Ref E&S p4, 11^th Feb 2014

Link to express and star

Labour’s spending spree

Yes that's correct, as stated in an article in today's Times, Labour’s spending spree to cost £25bn
Their plans for spending are already eye watering and where do you think Labour will get the money from ? Yes its you !

In Sandwell, hard pressed families in council homes are already looking at a massive Labour set rent rise and after years of the Conservative government holding your council tax at 0% residents are now waiting to see if Labour raises the council tax by more than 2% triggering a referendum 

Its so good to know that just months after taking Sandwell homes back into council control, which they said 
would save £Millions, that Sandwell's "socialists" now  look after peoples welfare by increasing their charges   


Ref
Link to The Times article 


 

Sandwell Parking fiasco

I hate to say I told you so, after years of telling Sandwell Labour that their parking policy was a total failure and damaging business in the 6 towns, Labour seem to have finally listened to our comments, we now wait and see if they have the guts to follow our free parking charge plan in full?

Labour here's a clue, you have allowed an out of town shopping centre to be built just 100m away from its premier high street town, West Bromwich. 

 Do Labour actually class this as a success ?

The next step will be to dig up the pathetic pedestrianised areas allowing vehicle traffic, this will bring back passing trade to Wednesbury and West Bromwich and help bring them back to life?

Sandwell Tory said

The Socialist ideal of get em on public transport, bicycles and walking, has helped destroy our towns, driving people to out of town shopping with free parking, but free parking is simply not enough to repair the damage, the paved areas have to go as well

reference

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/11/11/sandwell-parking-fees-may-go-to-boost-trade/

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