Monday 5 September 2011

Another excellent leafleting day with stoke bnp

well done to all stoke bnp today after another excellent leafleting session and we have had a excellent response to one of our top activists leaflet out lining  the closer of the will field gym and community education  centre exposing labour lies and deceit of the residents of bentilee labours pre-election promise was to keep the centre open where they clearly lied and have gone back on when will people see that voting labour is voting for liers and people that have only got there interests and pockets to heart  and not the residents of our once great industrial city  below i have a copy of daves leaflet for your attention


 

Labour council yet again -Council decorating vouchers under threat

Is this something that the residents of stoke on Trent are going to lose as well apart from all the jobs that perves and is little drone party ( labour ) are suppose to be creating which we are yet to see like the lose of 43 jobs at t j Hughes is this something else that they are taking from the residents of this once great proud industrial city now i no that this is going to affect residents through out what happens when you have work men in rewiring or re-plastering the people are going have to pay for all decorating materials which isn't going come cheap trust me i no what is this so called peoples party going replace it with i wonder or are they going to screw and lie to the residents again

   

Stoke-on-Trent tenants get £800k for DIY

Saturday, September 03, 2011
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ALMOST £800,000 of taxpayers' money has been paid to tenants in two years – so they can redecorate their council houses.
Figures obtained by The Sentinel show £787,280 has been paid out in DIY vouchers by Stoke-on-Trent City Council since April 2009.
The £40-a-room vouchers are paid to tenants to help cover the cost of materials needed following repair work at any of the city's 19,000 council houses.
Rooms with ceiling damage qualify for £50.
The vouchers can be redeemed at B&Q and Wilkinsons.
Now council officers are reviewing the use of the vouchers.
A breakdown of the vouchers paid out by staff across Stoke-on-Trent's housing offices reveals:
£191,910 paid out to tenants in the Abbey Hulton area;
£15,490 paid to tenants in the Bentilee area;
£71,220 paid to tenants in the Blurton area;
£123,960 paid to tenants in the Chell Heath area;
£65,550 paid to tenants in Stoke and Fenton;
£58,170 paid to tenants across Hanley;
£85,090 paid to tenants across Longton;
£101,920 paid to tenants across Meir;
£80,260 paid to tenants across Tunstall.
The vouchers can be used to redecorate kitchens and bathrooms.
They can also be redeemed if tenants encounter electrical or central heating problems.
In Abbey Hulton, the £191,920 payout was shared between up to 1,100 tenants.
It comes as hundreds of tenants have given their views on the future of the DIY vouchers.
Suggestions have included only giving out the vouchers if major work has been carried out, and council staff redecorating rooms with the same pots of emulsion paint.
Council tenant Hilda Healy, of Meir, believes the scheme should carry on.
The 64-year-old of Goodwin Road, said: "These vouchers are needed because people cannot afford to put things right and the money doesn't cover everything.
"I was given £10 for a new roll of wallpaper for my chimney because of damp, but it ended up costing me more.
"The council should do the work for you, because elderly and disabled people probably have to have people in to do it, and that costs even more money."
The DIY voucher review is part of a wider overhaul of council house repairs, which includes plans to make a DVD to show tenants how to carry out simple repairs themselves.
Councillor Gwen Hassall, cabinet member for housing and neighbourhoods, said: "The city council issues decoration vouchers to tenants for redemption at DIY outlets to help cover the cost of decorating materials.
"These vouchers are issued to tenants as a form of compensation to recompense them for decoration damages caused by major improvement work and day-to-day responsive repairs and to help new tenants.
"We are always looking at ways to improve our service.
"The current system is under review and no decision about the scheme's future has yet been made."