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STAFFS POLITICSLABOUR & TORY WAFFLE IN EAST STAFFSBy Craig Chapman - Popular AllianceThe By-Election fliers handed out by the Labour candidate suggest that their actions saved the County's Care Homes, whilst it was precisely down to Labour's own budgeting and decisions to try and close them all in true jack boot style in the first place. Who are you trying to fool, Us or Yourseves ? The Labour County Councillor for East Staffs has brought no joy regarding traffic safety to Stretton for years, despite endless promises. When you consider that the 3,400 Stretton households contribute approx £4,080,000 rates per annum, there is very little to show in return. The Tories list a whole bunch of Parish Council achievements during the past few years, whilst their candidate is only 1 of 12 of the present council and was not part any of the work that achieved those results. For a group who pompously stress that the local Parish Council is not a place for polictics in no uncertain manner, they are moving a lot of goalposts for their own political aims here. Most of those "Tory claimed" achievements were made under a LibDem chairman, who subsequently stood down from the Parish Council through frustration. He is now standing in the Borough By-Election and as a staunch Liberal is worried about how little effect our local police have in stemming the tide of local yob behavoir. Yes, the community police have been moved elsewhere. He is of course right to lamment, however it the influence of the very same party that he represents, with their namby pamby guilt offensive that has pushed both consecutive Labour and Tory Governments into taking away all deterrants to stop this kind of behavoir and attitude in the first place. Talk about glass houses and stones !! Forget Yellow and Orange, the LidDems have glorified and exploited the colour Grey in all its shades, much to the detriment of our nation and all it once stood for. Laboured, Conswervative & the LibDums have all isued 2 sets of leaflets, all full of claimed achievements made by councils and committees that include a cross section of all parties. At a time when we are driving to a paperless workplace, trying to reduce waste, is it a good idea to enforce so much unnecessary paper on the people of Stretton. The Tories even have a car full of leaflets following their delivery boy up and down each street - very similar to Mr Cameron's brief case following his bicycle to work !! Now that IS consistency for you. We also have a BNP candidate who lives 2 villages away, though who he aims to represent or oppose in Stretton is a mystery, they are just using this as an opportunity to get people around the Borough table and have no interest in what Stretton needs. Please read details and pledges (see our Election News menu) put forward by Brian Buxton, who is standing for Popular Alliance and Stretton residents. Brian initiated and leads regular meetings with Burton Police, to try and get the attention and coverage that Stretton needs. His efforts alone have so far attracted 21 Special Constable applications to fill 6 part time positions in the area. Brian has played a very active part on the Traffic sub-committee which is almost having to bully County Councillors and Staff into getting things done that are blindingly obvious. Brian & fellow PA Councillor Craig Chapman hold monthly Local Issues Surgeries for local residents to come, highlight and discuss local problems that blight their lives. SO, does Stretton just want a Borough Councillor who is dictated to by their London based Party and just moans and blames the other parties when things don't get done - or do they want someone who is actively getting things changed for the better, as we speak ?
MP answers complaint over employing familyby ED HILL - Burton MailBURTON MP Janet Dean has hit back at a constituent who criticised her for employing members of her family.
The attack came in the wake of the Derek Conway controversy, after it emerged the Tory whip made substantial payments to his two sons, one of whom, full-time student Freddie, was paid an annual £11,773 salary and bonuses of more than £10,000. His other son, Henry, lived a champagne lifestyle at college funded by a £32,000 salary from his dad - paid out of the public purse - for work never done. Following the story, the Mail received a complaint from Nawaz Ahmed, of Blackpool Street, saying Mrs Dean should not be allowed to employ members of her family. One of the Labour MP's daughters, Sandra, works at her Burton office three days a week, while her other daughter, Carol, used to work for her in London before moving into teaching. Mr Ahmed said: "With all the talk over dodgy donors to the Labour Party, cash for peerages, and a Tory MP paying his family hundreds of thousands of pounds, isn't it time we stopped these kind of practices? "Most people in Burton can only imagine that kind of money. We should stop all MPs from paying their families thousands of pounds. "Being a politician isn't a family business - it is time we got all of the snouts out of the trough. After all, it's our money they are spending." However, Mrs Dean hit back by saying her daughter - just like the other four full and part-time staff she employed in Burton and London - worked "extremely hard". She said: "There's quite a difference between that and Derek Conway paying his son for work that was not done. My daughter works extremely hard, and in the past has done unpaid overtime, which I would not ask other staff to do. "When I was first elected, the amount of money you got to employ staff was so much less, you were glad for family members who would work extra hours for no pay." Although the names of MPs' staff are currently published, there is no indication given of whether they are members of their family. Mrs Dean conceded that perhaps the relationship between MPs and their staff should be made clearer to boost public confidence in politicians. South Derbyshire MP Mark Todd, who has never employed any member of his family, said "regrettably" independent checks should be carried out in cases of MPs who do. Popular Alliance can understand how any Labour MP needs a whole army of assistants, just to handle the number of complaints that we alone manage to send them !! We cannot however believe that they need research assistants, they are too busy following the bossy lead of Mr Slackjaw !!
LONE COUNCILLOR TO LOSE COMMITTEE SEATALEX KELLER - LICHFIELD MERCURY - 24 January 2008Controversial Councillor John Walker has been booted off Lichfield District Council's planning committee in a downsizing revamp.
From this May, the committee's membership will be slimmed down from 56 to between 15 and 25 councillors.The shake-up was agreed last year in a bid to make the panel more efficient. But that is cold comfort to Cllr Walker, who claims the shake-up will freeze him out of important decision-making because he is a lone independent - and a party must have at least two members to be represented. |    |
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