Please, Please , Please Will You Empty My Bin!

Last night while i met up with a few friends at my local to watch that shower of sh*t that is our national team, i got approached by somebody who knows my interests, out of the blue said "I'm sick and tired of that f*cking council" now being a Tory activist, i always welcome people having a go at the Labour controlled group.
So i asked him what was up? and he said "Why are my bins only emptied twice a month?" i replied "that the council have to hit government targets regarding recycling"
He then said "I've worked all my life, paid my taxes, have children, who have grown up and they now have kids, and they stay at my house several times a week, so i have quite a bit of waste, from nappies to waste food, and my bin gets quite full quite quickly".
I don't mind recycling, i do all i can! i separate my glass bottles from plastic and put my newspapers in a separate bin but i still don't have any room as they go through nappies like mad, and if the bin lid is slightly up then the binmen won't collect"
It dawned on me that this man was right, it's an appalling system.

Yes recycling is important, but so are people, and their Families why should this man suffer?
I feel sometimes the environment is used as a smoke screen, for extra taxes just look at any response when you raise the question, they just say you are anti green, whether it's charging you for Carrier bags or congestion charge it's all extra money, which quite frankly could be spent else where.
The problem we have is all food in supermarkets are heavily packed with needless packaging, the government should instead of hitting families should be encouraging manufactures to come up with other ways of packing food, take a normal box of cereal? it has a bag inside the box why does it have a box? why can't they toughen the internal bag and put the printing on the bag other food items come in bags so why can't cereal?
All fresh meat come in trays from the supermarket, why can't it just be vacuumed packed? it's just simple ideas which the government should push.
This way when this gentleman like many others do their shopping for their family, they can buy their goods and when they throw things away after they have very little to put in the bin.

If all parties are serious about the environment? for benefit of the planet, and not their pockets. Then they must take this serious? as there are many people who have been let down, and it's it's people like this gentleman we really should be looking after, not just our own interests!

Darling must do road tax U-turn

George Osborne has called on Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown to back down on plans to increase the road tax on family cars.

Low-income households will be hit disproportionately by the increases in Vehicle Excise Duty announced in Darling's last Budget.George, the Shadow Chancellor, stressed, "At a time when families are feeling the rising cost of living, the Government would be foolish to proceed with a big increase in road tax on family cars."

He pointed out that we have consistently opposed Darling's road tax hike, saying:"We believe that any increase in road tax should be focused on the most polluting vehicles and offset by reductions in family taxes so that they are genuine green taxes, not stealth taxes."

http://www.conservatives.com/

Will This Be Number 3 For Man United?

Tonight is the Champions League Final in Moscow kick off 7:45pm.

Manchester United have been the best team in the country this year and i believe they deserve to win as they have the better team and play the game as it should be.

I think all the local pubs will be busy tonight so get in early, and i might even have a few pints myself.

Not too many though as i will be leaving early in the morning with Stacey Knighton (so much for her defecting hey Mr Taylor?) down to Crewe and Nantwich, and help Edward Timpson.

That reminds me i need to get a key cut.

Here's hoping the game is played with an attacking outlook, and the right result at the end of the game.

As long as the winners are Manchester United i'm happy.

Poor Show From Audenshaw's Newest Councillor

Last nights council meeting was an eventful affair.

We had the leaders usual speech which sent many people into the land of nod.The way Mr Oldham spoke you would have thought everything was Rosy in a time where cost of living is through the roof Bread is £1.20 per loaf, Milk is 50p per pint, and fuel is £5.00 per gallon.

He goes on to say crime is down, which is laughable, i really don't think this man lives in the real world.

He again slated United Utilities for their patch work quilt work on our roads, but what they're very quiet about is Tameside council are a major shareholder in Greater Manchester Pension Fund, who in turn are a large share holder in yes you've got it United Utilities.

After the council meeting, was the crowning of a new mayor, the chairman of the council meetings Jack Davies.
I don't know how he's going to balance the two jobs, but let's hope becoming mayor it gives him a new impartial lease of life? but i wouldn't hold my breath.
Anyway the council meeting was like ladies day at Ascot, with each female Labour councillor trying to out do the other.
Special mention goes to Lynn Travis, and had come as her very own Tameside in bloom, she looked as though her full outfit had been sponsored by Inter Flora.

There was a noticeable absence in the newest Audenshaw councillor Jean Brazil, here is a lady who fought her election on "if you value it? vote for it" and how she was going to make a real difference on the council.
On the council website it has the above picture, no photograph.
You couldn't make it up!
But i suppose you have to turn up for a photograph or maybe not, James Purnell didn't he has his picture super imposed at a later date which of course knew nothing about.

Well Jean the good people voted for a councillor who would represent them on council, which you promised, and you failed to turn up at your very first council meeting, that's real value Jean, all the other new councillors turned up Dawson Lane from Labour and Clive Patrick and Dorothy Cartwright from the Conservatives.

Special mention must go to Dorothy who had just come out of Hospital, but thought she must go to council and represent the good people who voted for her as she doesn't take her position for granted, she said she was in agony sat there during the meeting.
But i don't know whether it was due to her stay in hospital? or through Roy Oldhams drivel?.
We was told Jean had a cold, but that doesn't wash with me the meeting lasted less than a hour she could have dosed her self up and then gone home.
But just short of a month since the elections, she showed no effort to be there.
Is this a sign of things to come?

The Next Mayor Of Tameside Will Be From The Labour Party, Now There's A Shock!!

Jack Davis will be installed as the next Mayor of Tameside, on Tuesday 20th May 2008 at 7pm.

The good news for all us is, the lovely people at Tameside Council have allowed us normal people to view this grand event, on the Council website how lucky us peasants are?

Another reason to be grateful for living in the Republic of Tameside

http://www.tameside.gov.uk/mayor/making

Keeping on topic here, Tameside being a pioneer of democracy? and a shining example of how wonderful a council should be? (or so we're told by them) haven't had a opposition mayor since well they took control of the council in the 1970's, how democratic of them.

If they do keep with the current system should they have the position of Mayor on a proportional basis? there is 13 opposition councillors (10 Conservative and 3 Independents)

Isn't it time for Mr Oldham and his merry men and women to share the wealth?

Or would that upset the Apple cart?

Looking at London for example, who now have a Conservative Mayor in Boris Johnson.

The people of London had the chance on May 1st to democratically vote for who their Mayor would be.

They picked a Conservative, this maybe the reason Mr Oldham would never dream of having a vote on the matter.

Wouldn't this be a good idea for Tameside?

Shouldn't we as voters have a say in who our Mayor should be?

Or is this just another job for the boys? where they throw an extra few quid a year as a thank you for agreeing with everything the council leader says?

For those of you reading this who haven't heard of Tameside.

Tameside is in Greater Manchester, and not Zimbabwe.

Oh there's an interesting idea, maybe they would set up a trade link between us?

I've heard they do a lot of research into olive Stones for open fires.

The Draft Queen's Speech - David Cameron Responds

There are lots of things in this statement we welcome - not least because we proposed them.
"We welcome the constitution for the NHS - an idea we set out last June. We welcome the extension of the right to request flexible working.

We announced that in September 2006.

We welcome the independent exam regulator.

I raised and proposed that in 2005.

The list is enormous.

Simple saving scheme: The 2005 Tory Manifesto.

Regulatory budgets: in 2006.

"The list is almost as long as the draft Queen's Speech.
I hope when he gets up we'll get a bit of gratitude from the Prime Minister.
He can't really say we haven't got any substance when he's taken it all and put it in his Queen's Speech.
"We particularly welcome what he had to say about shared equity.
These proposals are being pioneered in record numbers by the record numbers of Conservative councils up and down the country.

And most of all we welcome the welfare reforms.
"The Prime Minister has stuffed Number 10 full of spin doctors and pollsters.
Why not just get a shorthand typist and send them to the Tory Conference to take it down? It would save a lot of money."

And now we hear that the Prime Minister is going to accept our proposals for elected officials to make the police accountable.

This is the proposal his Government called "completely daft". I think they meant completely draft.
This is a great idea - that officials who hold office and wield power should be elected.
Who knows, it might catch on.

One day we might just have an elected Prime Minister.

"Look at the Bills that are to clear up the mess of the last decade."

Haven't we got a Banking Bill because the regulatory system he created ten years ago failed its first test on Northern Rock?"
Haven't we got an NHS Bill because a decade after they promised to end mixed sex wards, they're still there, the promise has been broken and people aren't getting the care they need?"
Aren't we getting an Immigration Bill because the Government completely failed to prepare for or even anticipate the scale of immigration that is taking place?"
Aren't we having a Welfare Bill because after fifteen years of global growth, Britain has got five million people on out of work benefits?"

Let's be frank about what today's statement adds up to.

It's another relaunch.
And he's had to bring it forward. They're still struggling to implement last year's Queen's Speech. No solution to 42 days. Still rewriting last year's Budget. Whole Bills, badly drafted, still stuck in the House of Lords.
No wonder he wants to talk about next year's Queen's Speech."But this Queen's Speech has nothing to do with the long-term needs of the country - and everything to do with the short-term political survival of the Prime Minister."

I believe the truth of this Queen's Speech is that it reveals the Prime Minister's deeper problem. When it comes to the progressive goals we really need to achieve in this country - unblocking social mobility, beating poverty, taking people out of persistent deprivation - his ideas have run out of steam. "He doesn't have the solutions anymore.

Instead of more redistribution, more tax credits, more top-down state control, we need a government that tackles the underlying causes of poverty.

We need a government that fights family breakdown.
We need a government that breaks open the monopoly of state education.
We need a government that can work with the voluntary sector.

Isn't it the case he can't do that?
And we can.
"The one positive part of what the Prime Minister had to say is the claim he wants personalised public services.
If that's true, why doesn't he accept our plan to bust open the state monopoly in education and allow new schools to open?
"On housing, why doesn't he scrap the restrictions on right to buy, and accept our plans to extend it to all council and housing association tenants?
"The fact is this Prime Minister doesn't believe in giving people real choice and control over their lives.

If he did, he would have given us a referendum on the EU constitution.

"Watching this Prime Minister talking about personal choice, giving people more freedom and letting them have more control over their lives is completely unconvincing.
"The Supreme Leader just doesn't do freedom.Won't people rightly conclude that if you want a Government that gives you more freedom, choice and competition, you might as well vote for the real thing?

But then isn't there the negative side to what the Prime Minister had to say?

"It's his usual trick of political positioning, and setting these false dividing lines he's completely obsessed with.
When will he learn that it is this political positioning and it is these fake dividing lines that landed him in the mess he is in today?
"He is facing defeat on banging people up for 42 days without charge, not because it's the right thing to do, but because he wanted to try to look tough.
"He had the shambles of yesterday because his Budget wasn't about helping the poorest people; it was about posing as a tax cutter.

And that's why he's had to have such a big u-turn.

"There's one part of the Queen's Speech we will fight against tooth and nail. And that's his plan to enforce polyclinics and close GP surgeries up and down the country - although of course it will be noted there won't be any of them in his constituency.

"And we will continue to fight this Government's real agenda.Closing Post Offices - tearing the heart out of rural communities.Releasing prisoners - making our streets more dangerous.
And taxing businesses so they move abroad.

"After yesterday's u-turn, today's Queen's Speech is just another attempt to save the Prime Minister's skin. It won't wash.

"People can see a Government - not just a Prime Minister - that's run out of road, run out of money, run out of ideas.

Seven months ago the Prime Minister cancelled the election because he said he needed more time to set out his vision.
Now we can see there isn't a vision. So when can we get on and have the election?

"This morning we read about a new plan from this great man of substance - and it's to appear on a new version of The Apprentice.

The Communities Secretary said this is The Apprentice meets Maria, meets Strictly Come Dancing.

I've got a better idea for the Prime Minister.

Why not take part in a reality show that involves the whole of the country? It's called a General Election.

"Wouldn't it give everyone the chance to stand up in front of the Prime Minister and say "You're fired"?

Isn't that the only way we're going to get a Government that really gives people control over their lives; that really strengthens our families and our society; and that really makes our country safer and greener?"

The Advertiser

I submitted a letter to the local rag the Advertiser last week, in response to their story regarding CRB checks they have obviously declined to print this.
I suppose it intervenes into the Ireane Woodcock, and John Taylor weekly show.
Having thought the story which they printed which was near enough the same coverage of the entire 2008 election coverage was important to them, i thought they would appreciate feedback.

Below is the letter i sent to them, maybe in future i should move to Dukinfield or change my political allegiances to have something printed.

Dear Sir,

After reading your article regarding CRB checks, i would like to make a few points.
Who is actually paying for the CRB Checks?Is the Councillor themselves or is it the Tax Payer?
If it is the Tax Payer, then why does a Councillor have a yearly allowance? surely this should pay for the said CRB check?
I also notice CLLR Roy Oldham's statement "since Audenshaw councillor Peter Wright's hidden criminal past was revealed, the public have a right to be assured councillors are squeaky clean?"
No, that all sounds great but the CRB check is riddled with flaws, firstly a CRB check wouldn't have found Peter Wrights past as he was imprisoned in Angola in the 70's and would have also failed to stop Ian Huntley being employed as a School caretaker in Soham as the check only goes back 5 years.
I would also like to know if a CRB check does uncover any wrong doings in the past, what would happen to the said Councillor?
I also found Councillor Joe Kitchens remarks very petty regarding CLLR's Kelly and Dickinson saying they "should resign"Why should they resign for something which was voluntary for the said Councillors.
If Labour controlled Tameside council really wanted to make a stand for CRB checks then why don't they make it compulsory for ALL CANDIDATES in local elections to have one before standing.
Surely this would iron out any potential problems? But they won't, as they only make a stand, when it suits them for cheap political points.

Kind Regards

Gareth Quinn

I thought i made some valid points but when does having valid points matter to a weekly newspaper?

More Cuts By Labour

Andrew Lansley has condemned new plans to close at least three A&E and maternity units in the East of England.

The closures were announced in Labour's blueprint for the NHS in the East of England, which is the first wave of Lord Darzi's reconfiguration plans for the health system.

Andrew, the Shadow Health Secretary, said the decision to shut down viable and accessible services was "shameful":"There's no doubt that these changes aren't being driven by local communities; they're coming straight from Whitehall as a direct result of Lord Darzi's big top-down review." And he stressed: "We value our local NHS services and don't want to lose them. Labour seem to be getting more and more out-of-touch with that strongly-held feeling."

So the Labour Party the party of the people, the party of the NHS, the party of the Post Office, and what ever else they claim to be still the party of.

They still continue to close more A&E and maternity units, in an age where there is more and more people on this tiny island, we decide to cut more and more services.

That makes sense!

More people less services, but really what does make sense in the Labour Party anymore.

This is a party who campaign in their local areas to stop closures, then when it comes to vote in Parliament they vote for closure.

This is a party who scraped the 10 pence rate in income tax, then um and ahh over things and announced a pre election bribe to the people of Crewe.

How can we be sure that the latest changes are for the better or is this just another announcement which when broke down means people are worse off.

Today they announce several measures which the Conservatives have already announced but don't forget we are a party without substance aren't we?

Time to call an election Mr Brown or have you out lawed that as well in your Starlinist manner?

Gordon Is Most Definitely A Moron!

Gordon Brown this morning in what can be described as a weak interview.
(well that's the polite version)
Said he would relish to take on David Cameron in a General Election.

Anyone ,including the most die hard Labour voter, thinks at this moment that Labour will not win.
With the Conservatives 20 POINTS AHEAD, and the swing in Tameside being quite big from Thursday nights results, even James Purnell would be out on his ear.
Now if Labour lost Hyde and Stalybridge to the Tories, this would be one of two things, this would result in a 150 seat gain from Labour this would be massive, and secondly a hell of a message to Tameside council.
Now before you start thinking I'm jumping the gun here, maybe i am a little, but what i am saying if seats like Mr Purnells is now under pressure, it says how far behind nationally.

Gordon said "My first priority is to get on with the job" this thing is Mr Brown your own party don't think you're capable of doing it, they have no confidence in you.

If your own party have no confidence, how on earth are the general public likely to?

You have made so many mistakes, and can't remember on one occasion where you have accepted responsibility.

In fact i can't remember when you have answered a question directly.

You craved the job so much while you was Chancellor, while you maybe a good manager? your a really bad leader, a bit like Steve Mclarren as England manager.
He is a world class coach, but when it came down to the crunch of the top job he just couldn't do it.

While he may call David Cameron "a slick salesman" people are interested in what this "slick salesman" has to offer.
Back in 1997 Tony Blair came into power, because the country cried out for a change, as things became stale under the last Conservative Government and it was right for a change.
Now in 2008, after 11 years of Labour rule, people have had enough you are now THIRD in local government behind the Lib Dems.

This is a sign people want change, and if you are a man of your word? which you're not! and you're "confident of beating Mr Cameron" then call a General Election and see if the country agrees with you?

Your party doesn't agree with you
The media certainly doesn't
The general public think you are inept
Even the audience of Jeremy Kyle laugh at you

Only you do! you're are either full of it? or extremely deluded? i would go for the latter.

I can't see him calling one can you?

Boris Has Done It!

Boris Johnson has become London Mayor

With 1,168,738 votes

Get In!!!

Tameside Tories in election victory

Gordon Brown, Roy Oldham, Paul Dowthwaite, Mike Ballagher, Claire Francis, Bernhard Walsh and Pauline Harrison your Party took one hell of a beating.

Tameside Tories were celebrating last night, with gains in Stalybridge North and Staly/Duk bringing Conservative Councillors to DOUBLE FIGURES 10.

In other huge shock Richard Ambler gained a near 800 vote majority, i say this is a shock, we expected to retain the seat but not by that margin.
I personally think that the people of Ashton Hurst, realised what a mistake they made last year by voting for the useless Alan Whitehead.

On a sour note! the Labour Party in Audenshaw, were an absolute disgrace, with special mention to their candidate for the underhand campaign she lead.
Lets hope she will back up her pledges? but if we base it on the other two Councillors, i don't hold much hope.
Conservative candidate Stacey, lead a clean campaign and never got personal with the Labour victor, and should be proud of what she did and will continue to do in Audenshaw.

Derek in Hyde Werneth, won with an increased majority, i have been critical of the Labour candidate regarding what she put in her Election leaflet, and some of the blatant UN truths she had been advised to put.

But what I've heard she showed respect, and dignity in defeat, and for that i applaud.

I feel for Claire as she has had her head filled with magic, by people who many people including their own party don't hold in the greatest esteem.
This is an open invitation, to Claire to join the Conservative Party as we are able to look after our candidates, and wouldn't not have treated her like her own party did.

In other areas we did fantastic St Michaels, we reduced the Labour majority to just 6, and Denton West to 14 both will turn Blue in 2010.
Also Longdendale, we are breathing down Labour necks, CLLR Oldham we are coming to take YOUR SEAT.

In the words of Corporal Jones "They don't like it up them"