Are they seeing the light?

  The welfare reform bill voted through Parliament the other week run by this coalition of tories and liberal democrats   will penalise a number of our residents who are recovering from cancer treatment and will lose many of their support benefits . Is this the kind of society this lot want where we kick those who are fighting to get back to normality after their traumatic chemotherapy only to have vital support removed them?

Sandwell's Liberal Democratic Mayor was so disgusted she tore up her Party membership and joined the labour party... thank goodness for people with principles.
I suppose it goes with the flow when you have another Tory suggesting that those who are disabled should be offering themselves for a job at a discount, somehow suggesting they are damaged goods... how insulting!
There are some cracks appearing in this coalition made apparently in hell where you abandon a good chunk of your election promises and bring forward another manifesto that no-one voted for..
thank goodness hopefully   a bit of compassion will appear before we send all the weakest to the wall..


 A Liberal Democrat peer with responsibility for the party's welfare policy has said there must be exceptions to the proposed £26,000 benefits cap to provide "fairness" and "justice".

Lord German suggested child benefit could be excluded from the limit.

He said: "There must be an exception in order to provide fairness and justice for this relatively small group of people."
And so (should) say  all of us.

Cllr Ian Robertson
Blakenall Ward Walsall

I have a list of society offenders who would not be missed!

 The words of a Gilbert and Sullivan song which when written they had no doubt  as many local issues as we have today if not more. 

Who would we get 'rid ' of?

1) those anti social people who tip rubbish onto open spaces. these anti social people should be caught and given orders to spend their time clearing up the neighbourhood.
2) those who prune trees or offer to remove your rubbish cheaply and tip this in your street near by.


3) those who operate scrap vehicles from their home address, break up the scrap, burn off the cable to reveal the copper at their home address.


4) even worse those who steal metal from roofs, electrical sub stations, railways and underground telephone ducts to sell for cash.


5) those non caring dog owners who allow their pet to foul the pavements and do not clear up after them

6) those who are such dreadful parents that they allow their young children to run riot in the street while they lounge in front of their plasma TV apparently obvious of the mayhem their kids are generating outside

7) a special fast track for all those involved in drug dealing

8) those who burglar our homes.

9) those nasty husbands ( mostly) who ill treat their partners

10) those who have no notion of the nuisance they generate to the community by operating off road bikes or drive at high speed in residential areas or even worse consume alcohol and get to the wheel of a lethal weapon.

11) those who keep horses near private houses, with no thought at the smell, potential danger and nuisance to those who wish to play on that space.

I do not think that list involves many people.. the rest of all the decent people can get on with coping with the real battles of life and hopefully enjoying a decent amount of their spare time!

I wonder if you have some more to add to the list?

regards
Ian

Cllr Ian Robertson