Houchen and Stilts want to take over the council

[newyddion]

And yet the class traitors and easily fooled keep advocating and voting for them.

‘The class traitors’ - it seems like nobody understands class in this country anymore!

If you have to work for a living.. you are working class.

The idea of being middle class seems so intoxicating.. unfortunately it’s not realistically you can achieve.

 

[newyddion]

A disturbingly high proportion of people still want to vote for a strong man who says he will get things done by simply bypassing then barring all opposition. The unthinking still voting for demagogues in the 21st century.

People wanted to vote for Labour under Corbyn.. but our own representatives would not back the manifesto, the membership or traditional Labour Party values.

This was magnified in 2019 with brexit.. Corbyn campaigning for remain.. Keir Starmer painting Labour as the party of remain.

 

[JonnyHistory]

‘The class traitors’ - it seems like nobody understands class in this country anymore!

If you have to work for a living.. you are working class.

The idea of being middle class seems so intoxicating.. unfortunately it’s not realistically you can achieve.

The owners of around 60% of Britain's land can trace that ownership in their family back to the Normans.

There is inherited wealth ... and then the rest of us. Earning 60-100k a year makes people think they have climbed the social strata, the reality is you can just buy a bigger telly.

 

[newyddion]

People wanted to vote for Labour under Corbyn.. but our own representatives would not back the manifesto, the membership or traditional Labour Party values.

This was magnified in 2019 with brexit.. Corbyn campaigning for remain.. Keir Starmer painting Labour as the party of remain.

Houchen got in on the back of the airport
he got back in on the back of the steel industry.

Labour shouldn’t have sold off the Airport.. also putting an eco warrior, surfer chick again Ben was a poor choice.

Labour being crap is why they don’t win.
Conservatives being really crap is the only way Labour get in.

 

[JonnyHistory]

Houchen got in on the back of the airport
he got back in on the back of the steel industry.

Labour shouldn’t have sold off the Airport.. also putting an eco warrior, surfer chick again Ben was a poor choice.

Labour being crap is why they don’t win.
Conservatives being really crap is the only way Labour get in.

Tories also have their client media and bigger budgets.
Houchen can outspend any labour candidate by a factor of 10 .. that goes a long way.

There is a reason they have just upped the limit on campaign spending and donations!!!

 

[dorivasmiddlefinger]

Yeah 14 years. Not 9. And the worst numerically by a distance were the first five. I’d like some of you centrist granddads to remember that next time you suggest to me that I should vote LibDem as a compromise.

No idea who you’ll vote for if you don’t like centrist / right leaning politics. We have no alternatives

 

[newyddion]

No idea who you’ll vote for if you don’t like centrist / right leaning politics. We have no alternatives

Corduroy Jacket, Leather elbow patches.. job done

 

[sambaDTR]

This might not be such a bad thing guys, someone needs to get a hold of the finances, even with the proposed cuts there is still a 6M shortage. I really don't want to pay 40BAR for disposing of my grass cuttings

Just do what you used to do. Put it in your black bin.

 

[TheLodger]

This might not be such a bad thing guys, someone needs to get a hold of the finances, even with the proposed cuts there is still a 6M shortage. I really don't want to pay 40BAR for disposing of my grass cuttings

The 3 councils that the Tories have put commissionaires in so far have increased council tax at 15%, 10% and 10%.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Nero]

The points.
The council is ready for audit, the auditors are not.
Credit card spending referred to year 22/23 ending April 23- We have stopped it! Mieka Smiles, who was executive in charge of children's care has signed this, her department was responsible for 74% of the credit card spends.
47% of our budget has been slashed by the Tories- Simon Clarke is a senior member of that government.
The present Government have insisted that all councils should empty bins at best once a fortnight, they requested that councils should think about once a month.
No assets have been sold, and if any do get sold, consultation would have to take place beforehand.

When people vote in a general election next year remember this key point:

The Tory scum government has cut local government funding by 47%! That is a massive amount. How do people expect Local Authorities to survive that deliberate attack!

There is no wonder roads all over the country are in a terrible state. Local authorities can’t afford to maintain them.

For 13 years the Tories have made everything worse. Please remember and do not fall for their diversion tactics.

 

[JonnyHistory]

See Nobby has dodged the question again, do the Tory party pay you to be a shill or are you just a true believer?

 

[JonnyHistory]

When people vote in a general election next year remember this key point:
ember and do not fall for their diversion tactics.

Clarke et al try and claim its up in real terms as well, and people buy it over and over.

They are snake oil salesmen nothing more.

 

[Nero]

Clarke et al try and claim its up in real terms as well, and people buy it over and over.

They are snake oil salesmen nothing more.

They do. Johnson’s myth that was “levelling up” was all about creating a narrative. How can an area that has seen billions in funding removed be “levelled up” with a few million?

It’s all another Tory con trick. Force austerity on people, cuts services, blame the EU for how **** things are, leave the EU and then get away with turbo charge neoliberalism.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

This might not be such a bad thing guys, someone needs to get a hold of the finances, even with the proposed cuts there is still a 6M shortage. I really don't want to pay 40BAR for disposing of my grass cuttings

Idiot alert

 

[BiggEggo]

See Stilts just landed a £40k donation from JCB Lord Bamford.

Political commentators reckon its for his leadership campaign [chuckle].

Like a deckhand on the Titanic asking to be promoted to captain when the only thing visible above the waterline is a propeller.

They will need to find him a safe seat first, because he's burnt his current one to the ground. And he knows it.

Smiles and Preston are hugely complicit in causing the council's financial plight. Who the F wanted them to buy The Crown with a million of our quid? They couldn't even get a survey on it to gauge its really value. Clowns.

 

[Juninhoburger]

Ben Houchen, handing out Christmas Cards (at the cost of us taxpayers, natch) with an advertisement for his airport and a lovely 10% off offer.

He's an absolutely F***ing shameless ****.

 

[newyddion]

See Stilts just landed a £40k donation from JCB Lord Bamford.

Political commentators reckon its for his leadership campaign [chuckle].

Like a deckhand on the Titanic asking to be promoted to captain when the only thing visible above the waterline is a propeller.

They will need to find him a safe seat first, because he's burnt his current one to the ground. And he knows it.

Smiles and Preston are hugely complicit in causing the council's financial plight. Who the F wanted them to buy The Crown with a million of our quid? They couldn't even get a survey on it to gauge its really value. Clowns.

£750k wasn’t it?
What is it’s real value?
Fair play with the crown imo

Lots of finger pointing here.. but each side have had their fair share of overspends and cokc ups. Getting hold of the issues and making right the wrongs is what is needed.

 

[JonnyHistory]

£750k wasn’t it?
What is it’s real value?
Fair play with the crown imo

Lots of finger pointing here.. but each side have had their fair share of overspends and cokc ups. Getting hold of the issues and making right the wrongs is what is needed.

Only one party have slashed public expenditure and local budgets and inflicted austerity for purely ideological reasons.

This both sides are the same narrative is complete codswallop and exactly what the Tory's want you to believe.

 

[LessoftheLip]

This was magnified in 2019 with brexit.. Corbyn campaigning for remain..

My memory is not what it used to be but I'm certain this did not happen in any way, shape or form.

 

[newyddion]

My memory is not what it used to be but I'm certain this did not happen in any way, shape or form.

Yeah pretty sure it did.. he looked awkward as fook and clearly didn’t want to be doing it.

Then there was that interview where he let Philip Schofield tear him a new one! Where do you stand on Brexit.. urr err urrr

Why won’t you just apologise.. well, urr, err..