Wednesday 26 October 2011

question is what are they hiding labour

the 1 main question that should be asked is what are they hiding


Councillors turn down request for more details into council deal with Mo Chaudry

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Friday, October 21, 2011
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RULING Labour councillors last night voted overwhelmingly to refuse a motion demanding clarity on Stoke-on-Trent City Council's deal with Mo Chaudry.
Independent councillors Lee Wanger and Dave Conway called on the council to declare full details of whether it made a private deal to close the Dimensions splash pool and pay the Waterworld owner £100,000-per-year to offer discounts at the Festival Park attraction.
Mr Chaudry claimed the deal was made before the council reversed its decision to close the pool in 2008 and threatened to sue the council.
He has been paid £21,850 to drop his legal threat, while the council has spent £22,500 on legal fees.
Lee Wanger told the chamber: "This whole situation has been brought about by a complete lack of transparency that goes back years.
"The council has apologised to the owner of Waterworld, admitting there may have been some confusion. Can I ask what that apology is for?
"Was any agreement reached, were contracts drawn up, was anything signed?
"If not, then what have we paid compensation for?
"And the real question is, if closing the splash pool was to save £60,000, how could giving £100,000-per-year to a rival business make a saving?
"It is nonsense. It doesn't add up and never has."
Council leader Mohammed Pervez instructed the Labour group, which holds 33 of 44 seats, to vote against the motion after advice from the council's monitoring officer Paul Hackney.
In total, 33 of the 43 councillors at the meeting voted against the motion being discussed while nine voted in favour and one member abstained.
Mr Pervez said: "While the lack of information on this subject is frustrating, the legal advice is clear."
Labour's Mark Meredith, the council's elected mayor at the time of the alleged secret deal, declared a personal interest before the discussion began.
Mr Hackney said: "Parties enter into the mediation with the expectation that confidentiality will be respected before, during and after mediation.
"Two agreed statements have been issued by the parties, Mo Chaudry and Waterworld Holdings and the city council, giving details of the settlement agreed following mediation.
"Under the terms of the agreement, any remaining information is confidential.
"Any further release of information on this subject that is not agreed by both parties could give rise to a serious risk of breaching the settlement agreement."

what a absolute disgrace

labour the party that represents its people ( what a joke ) now the criteria for a bus pass are as follows
1 if you suffer from any disability
2 if you struddle to speak orally in any language
3 if you are blind or partially
4 if you are deaf
5 if you have a learning disability
6 if the DLA have condemn you from driving any vehicle

 this does not include if you are alcoholic a druggie or a foreign national OK then if this is true why then have we got every druggies -alcoholics or even foreign nationals with free bus passes and a another question that should be brought up is what if you are asthmatic asthmas a illness that could kill ya going back to the issue which im on about one of my local residents as being refused her bus pass by this curupt council run by labour yet again our people are suffering through there negligence of this council labour need to get there priority's right instead of looking after there voters

more jobs set to go under labour in stoke on Trent

just a brief article on the jobs in stoke on Trent and yet again we see the labours council promises dooming to fail what a joke they are the labour council what a joke a do not represent the people of Britain and its time we told them so by out electing them in the elections