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

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.

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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

Drugs raid in smallthorne

news to my hears there has being a drugs raid in Smallthorne going back to my leaflet this is absolutely brilliant we need more of this happening plus what we need to do now is to stop the anti social behaviour happening  i have added the article from the drugs raid which happened in lord street now back to business i have being informed that in the early hours of the morning between 2-3 am  there is a bunch of youths walking around my estate plus ive being told that some of these youths are smoking drugs by the cemetery and using abusive language a local resident as approached these youths and was verbal abused and was threatened as well what is the local labour councillor doing about these incidents nothing we have started a local action group if any one from the area would like to get involved please contact me OK

another successful leafleting campaign underway

Today stoke bnp started the smallthorne campaign to out line the antisocial behaviour on smallthorne i bared the flue to leaflet to show my residents that no matter what i am there to support them and to  if they need to sort any issues out that the smallthorne action group will assist them were as the residents associations along with the sitting labour councillor dont want to no so if you want to join onto the action group please ring 07926532922 or      
smallthornevoice@hotmail.co.uk

labour and the officers not representing the people of stoke on Trent

ive just picked up on a article on another nationalist blog site about the cemetery gets being left open at night now i find this disgusting and disrespectful to the relatives of the deceased and to say that the labour council represent us that something that's left to be desired not just the labour held council but the officers down at the civic these officer are on a lot of money and the council say they cant afford to pay a firm to close these gates pull the other Mr perves this article is also on bentilee patriot please take a look

Thieves steal from boy's grave

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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MOTHER-OF-TWO Lydia Price is demanding a council stops a trial policy to leave cemetery gates unlocked overnight after thieves stole ornaments from her dead son's grave.

Mrs Price said she was shocked to discover beads and decorations at her son Vito's grave in Tunstall cemetery had been stolen in an overnight theft.

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   OPEN: The cemetery gates. Above, Lydia Price at the graveside. Pictures: Mark Scott

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is leaving gates open overnight at eight of its nine cemeteries until Saturday as a trial. They are usually closed shortly before sunset throughout the year to keep out thieves and vandals.

But the council said the cost of securing them, which is handled by a private company, has increased and is now costing too much.

Mrs Price's son Vito died of natural causes at the age of five on Christmas Eve in 2007.

His grave was targeted overnight between Thursday night and Friday morning.

The 34-year-old, who is also mother to Jason, aged 14, and Alisha, aged 12, said: "It is really upsetting, not just for me, but for my other children as well.

"I go to the grave every day, sometimes in the morning and at night. They have taken holy beads and also ornaments.

"It was fine when it was left on Thursday but by Friday the items had gone. Things are only going to get worse now that people know the cemeteries are being left open all the time."

Mrs Price, of Tunstall, added that it is not the first time graves have been targeted and that security must be improved.

Campaigner Peter Chadwick. chairman of Stoke-on-Trent Graves Action Group, said: "We are getting more complaints now the gates are unlocked.

"Clearly the trial is not working out. The cemeteries need to be locked at night. Some people just take pleasure in smashing things up."

Residents in Burslem have also raised concerns about cars cutting through the cemetery as a short cut because of gates being left open.

Only Carmountside cemetery is being locked overnight as several council environmental staff are based there.

Tony Oakman, director of adult and neighbourhood services at the council, said: "We understand that it is extremely distressing for the family to have items stolen from the grave of a loved one.

"So far we have not had any complaints of anti-social behaviour in our cemeteries since we introduced the trial scheme. We do need to know if people have experienced any problems so if any items have been stolen we would recommend they contact both us and police."

Yet more antisocial behaviour around smallthorne

At about 830am yesterday morning i was sitting having a drink of coffee in my living room and to my amazement 3 school lads aged about 12-13 yrs old 1 of the young lads went up my neighbours  path and stole a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk its not the first time this as happened a couple of other neighbours   have  had the same stolen but hanging baskets have being stolen as well dog ornaments but what is the sitting labour councillor doing about this ( NOTHING ) in the near future i will be starting action group up so anyone from the smallthorne ford green area wishing to join please feel free to contact me on my email address or even come up to me in the street and let me no