Les Jones Conservative Candidate for the PCC

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Candidate

I'm so pleased to hear a good old Conservative stalwart Les has been selected to be the Conservative party 's candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner.

First elected as a Councillor back in 1999, Les has a large amount of experience in a number of portfolios

and was the former Conservative leader of Dudley Council, over the years Les as worked with a number of Councillors from all over the West Midlands

Following the sad passing of Bob Jones, the election for W Mids PCC will be held on Aug 21st 2014

blogger said

Les is a fine and excellent man

Sandwell Councillors Hide

If you've got a problem don't try to find a Sandwell Councillor,  they are hiding

Following  the announcement that your Forums are reducing to the odd one every year 

Where can you go with a problem ?

You could try hanging on the phone with the call centre that should ring up a nice bill 

You could have complained about the lack of forums but you would have to buy a computer first 

as the consultation was "On line Only" 

then this council said the consultation was for just 2 1/2 days

We now await the results of this "consultation"   lol 

A SMBC press statement said the Borough was going to have 24 new Ward officers to deal with complaints 

But we await contact details,

so at the moment  If you do not have a computer or a phone

You cant complain about Sandwell

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 and a national disgrace."are but 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".

Blogger said

Absolutely shocking, Once again Sandwell is listed as one of the worst 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 Leaders Training

While council staff lose their jobs, they can reflect back at their leader who was using Fairy dust at £2700 a year to help him communicate better.

blogger said

Yes £2700 a year of your tax money that's the same as saying 270 people in Sandwell would not have to pay the spare room subsidy for one week if this money had been used to pay it.  Labour call it a bedroom tax, Gordon and labour like the word tax they raised the tax for the poor

Reference E&S 13th Sept 2013 p11 Sandwell edition

Hateley Heath travellers

We were e-mailed a range of photo's of travellers on Hateley Heath school playing fields and we are very impressed that the travellers were moved on so quickly

We were even more impressed by Labour's leaflet the morning after they arrived 

the bit that realy impressed us was 

Is Tom still  in Australia?

The Guardian Tom-Watson-news-corp-murdoch 

This is what a Section 61 notice is 

Link to Gov uk

Another week in Politics

The end of another week and things are looking much better

House prices are rising at their fastest rate for years,

Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23177576

UK new car registrations jumped by 13.4% in June

Link to article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23181867

UK service sector growth 'fastest for two years'

Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23158587

Business confidence in the UK is at its highest level since 2007

link to BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23141396

and Red Ed & Labour Party are in a total mess

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5001289/Labour-Unite-crisis.html

Blogger said , Labour are in the same mess they left our country in

Labour's Plan could lose Sandwell Pensioners £234

Under Labour's proposed welfare plans, Sandwell pensioners could lose out again, this time to the tune of £234.

following our posting on Labour's plan to cut the winter fuel payments

LINK to Sandwell Conservative

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/labour-plan-to-cut-pensioners-winter.html

and Sandwell Labour and the 25% council tax rate

LINK to Sandwell Conservative

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/labours-death-tax-iii.html

Sandwell Labour then went on to lower the capital cut off limit for Council tax reduction from £16,000 to £6,000 , If you have saved for your funeral, Labour want your funeral money

LINK to Sandwell Conservative

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/sandwell-s-death-tax.html

For years it seems Sandwell charged bereaved families VAT for headstone work for cremated remains, then Sandwell found out some VAT should not have been charged ?

A number of people assumed they would get some over payment money back!

NO was the answer

LINK to Sandwell Conservative

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/death-tax-ii-vat-rebate-refusal.html

Is Labour ending the Council Tax discount?

LINK to Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321620/Labour-plots-Bridget-Jones-tax-Party-accused-demanding-end-council-tax-discounts-singletons.html

Sandwell Tory said

The last Labour governments policies helped bring this country into the mess its in and still their only solution is hit the people who have paid into the system the longest, the pensioners.

What is going on with Labour, why should pensioners pay for Labour's mess ?

Labour say they would cut welfare, Labour tell us why hit the pensioners?

Come on Labour where will you cut?

We introduced the triple pension lock,

The basic state pension rises by the highest of

Inflation

Earnings

or 2.5%

Labour are you going to cut pensions ? like Dear Gordon did to the Private pensions?