who will rid us of this tory blight?

Local elections now loom with an opportunity for us ordinary folk to cast a vote for whom and which party they feel will run Walsall and their ward in the best interests of local people.
The liberal democrats are now totally discredited selling themselves for a number of pieces of silver, totally ignoring their electorate in order to feel they have power which is actually no power at all.. just putting themselves up as a potential blame punch bag to get the Tories off the hook for introducing excessively strong cutting policies which have already cut our growth as compared to other European countries.
Here in walsall we have a Tory run council ( sorry I meant a Council totally run by Cllr Bird) with a ruling ethos that 'the market will decide' hard luck on those who are not bomb proof in economic recessions.. They shalt be fed to the wolves.
Your libraries are not safe... no way can the Tories propose cutting £700,000 off the budget without closing libraries.. just wait until after the elections for a conversion!
Locally in the NHS we will have a total ripping up of the system at enormous cost to give 2 groups of doctors almost complete control of how local spending . in their interests to keep costs down and no policy of ensuring the best and most appropriate treatment is provided. So our NHS is in reality on the way to beong privatised , running the risk of being run by profit first health later group.
Cuts to the police force of 20% cannot fail to reduce numbers of front line bobbies giving the criminals an uninterrupted field to commit crimes.
Education maintenance allowance abolished whcih will mean 16 to 18 year olds will be discouraged in continuing in education.. if they aspire to go to university they will be hit by massive debt with cost of up to £9000 a year in tuition fees alone.
Cuts to winter heating allowance of £50 to pensioners and £100 for over 85's
cuts to child benefit and a drop of start limit for the 40% tax rate which will mean another 750000 people will pay higher tax rate.
still going ahead with some of the sale of our forests
pension age going up to 66; cuts in workling tax credit amounts
cuts too far and too fast....

Your potholes now often the size of wagon wheels, will stay like mini mine shafts despite a small amount of extra funds thrown at them
We continue to spend over £220000 to employ a chief executive ( including pension contributions) along with another 6 at over £140,000 for directors.. while many local residents are facing unemployment.
Taking £7 million out of social services cannot fail to hit the most vulnerable in our society and if we aspire to be sensitive to the values of a civilised society, this Tory council fails miserably.
The voluntary sector is a vital part of our society and is run by some golden people but overall  is disorganised, inefficient and makes poor use of the resources available. sections of the voluntary sector need to unite, work in partnership and pool resources.
this Tory council is hell bent on off loading as much of the responsibilities of a council onto the private sector.. leaving the well off  still well off but those who are of more limited incomes left to try and fend for themselves.
Someone has had a bright idea to have a referendum on viting methos at a cost of £250k.. some crumb to keep the Liberals happy?
Those of us in the Labour party care passionately for a fair society , a end of serious health inequalities in this Borough and cutting the serious waste of money running into millions that have been made by mistakes and errors.. £1.5 Million wasted by poor record keeping in European grants, £7 million wasted due to poor contract clauses in providing replacement lighting columns, £3 millions on aborted contracts with external contractors, £2 million in unnecessary legal claims in employment tribunals and many millions in legal costs due to mistakes in handling other claims against this council.
time for a change for those who have your interests at heart.. please show your support on 5th May.
We even have the opportunity of defeating the Great Dictator in Pheasey!!.. after desecrating theGreat Barr Hall and finding the house sales did not go as well as expected.. we have WHG handling the letting of those left to social housing... I bet those residents who bought their homes their are not such happy bunnies now?
We have tories leaving the sicnking ship ... Cllr OHare in Aldridge Central and the current Cllr for St Matthews for the second time in her career jumping ship this time to Paddock worried that the voters might not support her... shows a total lack of respect for you the voters and I hope those in both St matthews and Paddock wards will show teir disgust by not voting for the tories!

Cllr Ian Robertson
published by electronic means by Ian Robertson Bellamy House Wilkes Str Willenhall on behalf of Labour candidates in walsall .

the tories come from planet Zog

The Tories live on planet Zog

Residents of planet earth may have noted the visit from planet Zog of George Osborne sent to save us and this part of planet earth called the United Kingdom by delivering his budget.

Those of us who have their feet planted on solid ground will note that Britain is falling behind other countries in Europe with growth down and unemployment up by 200,000. This unemployment rise will push up social security benefits, already up £12.6 Billion in this Parliament.

A tiny number (less than 1%) will be helped onto the first time buyer ladder, a few (1%) of the young unemployed will be helped to get an apprenticeship

While the effects of the VAT rise to 20% will take away far more than the crumbs handed out such as the 1p cut in fuel tax



For those millionaires who come from planet Zog, the plight of ordinary average folk is a million miles away…. Please get back to your planet, never to return again and take your liberal co –conspirators with you.

cllr Ian Robertson