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.

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   Hilda Healy, whose suffered problems with damp at her home, supports the voucher scheme.

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."

Obama admits hes a Muslim

Is this what we face from Cameron and milaband will they bow to a Muslim king I wonder Islam is taking over every single one of the country's and people are letting this happen  the question is labour/ conservatives allowing this to happen because they want Britain as a Islamic state under sharia law I wonder please ask yourself this IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT

This is Labour cheap foreign labour that as replaced young British lads and girls in jobs

Just a small article on how immigration has shot through the roof and people wonder why the  British cannot get jobs  and we have mass unemployed all this because of the labour party's negligence and one thing i wont say is it the immigrants/ foreign EU migrants  fault because it is simple not its the fault of the passed and present governments for allowing them to come here we should of closed our borders we SHOULD be putting our people people first in all circumstances  not like the con/lib/lab traitors who have taken it on themselves to over populate us and to make our people third class citizens in there own country now onto the article

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IMMIGRATION SOARS 20% IN A YEAR

A total of 575,000 people moved to this country in 2010 with only 336,000 departing for overseas.

Friday August 26,2011

By Martyn Brown, Political Correspondent

THE number of foreigners coming into Britain surged by a massive 21 per cent last year, shattering the Government’s pledge to bring immigration down.

Official figures yesterday showed the number of immigrants soared to 239,000 – up from 198,000 in 2009.

A legacy of Labour’s open-door policy, it was the second highest annual figure since 1991. A total of 575,000 people moved to this country in 2010 - the equivalent of one every minute - with only 336,000 departing for overseas.

The Office for National Statistics also said that the number of people granted settlement –the first step to full citizenship – in the UK also reached a record 241,000 last year. A total of 195,000 were granted British citizenship, down from the record high of 204,000 in 2009, but more than double the level of a decade ago.

The number of people applying for asylum also fell last year but has started to rise again, with 4,800 applications between April and June, mainly from Pakistan and war-torn Libya.

This gives a lie to all those silky promises made by David Cameron at the General Election.

Gerard Batten, Ukip’s home affairs spokesman

The majority of immigrants arriving in Britain – 300,000 – were from outside the EU. But net migration – the difference between those arriving and leaving – from eastern European countries rocketed to 39,000.

Britain’s total Polish population is now to 532,000, which is the same as the fifth largest city in Poland, Poznan.

Campaigners last night warned the Government will struggle to fulfil its pledge to slash net migration to tens of thousands by 2015.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the campaign group Migration Watch UK, said: “These figures lay bare the legacy of the Labour government. The Coalition will have to face down some vested interests if they are to get anywhere near their target.”

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Gerard Batten, Ukip’s home affairs spokesman, accused the Government of “losing the plot”.

“The rise of 21 per cent tears a gaping hole in any pretence that this Government has the faintest idea of how to deal with runaway migration,” he said.

“This gives a lie to all those silky promises made by David Cameron at the General Election. They have lost the plot.”

But Immigration Minister Damian Green defended the figures, saying that the rise in net migration covered a period before the Government’s immigration reforms were brought in. “The figures stabilised in the last quarter,” he said. “The Government radically changed immigration policy, from our first months in office, to drive the numbers down with a limit on economic migration and changes to student visas.”

Study remained the most common reason for coming to the UK, with three in four of the 228,000 student immigrants from outside the EU.

Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva, a senior researcher at Oxford University’s Migration Observatory, said the rise in immigration from eastern Europe “raises the question of whether Government policies to cut net migration from outside the EU may be stimulating a demand for more EU workers”.

The figures came as an audit by MigrationWatch showed that Labour spent £2million every day on a shambolic asylum system.

The audit showed how up to £10billion was spent on processing applications as officials struggled to cope with a surge in numbers.

But only one in four of the 660,000 decisions made on asylum claims between 1997 and 2010 led to the applicant being removed.

TJ Hughes as gone with the loss of more jobs

Going back to a article i posted earlier here we have it TJ Hughes have closed and yet more jobs have gone and i feel sorry for the people that have lost there jobs whos to blame lets start with the conservative goverment going right down to councillor level and the labour party see all that labour party can do is create work schemes ( jet )what use is that we need to start making stuff like pottery steel bring coal up from these unused pits that are lying empty but until it registers in the brains of lab/cons/lib party that we need to start creating and making stuff and they give us a referendum and we stop bowing down to our EU dictators and stop immigration this will keep happening   ( heres the article )

As TJ Hughes closes, what's in store now for key site?

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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SHOPPERS picked up a bargain before a doomed city centre store closed its doors for the final time.

Items in the TJ Hughes store in Hanley were reduced by up to 90 per cent before the shop closed at noon yesterday.

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   Closed: The TJ Hughes store

And even some of the fixtures and fittings were up for grabs as the former Woolworths store was completely cleared.

The department store's closure has resulted in 43 staff losing their jobs.

The Liverpool-based discount chain collapsed in June and Ernst and Young was appointed as administrator.

The Hanley branch, – which opened in 2009 following a £1 million refit, is among 12 nationwide that have closed this month. About 30 of the firm's 57 outlets had already closed.

Now, calls are being made for a retailer to step in and take on the unit.

Richard Day, of the City Centre Partnership, said: "It's a large store and will create a void in the city centre. That was the problem when Woolworths closed.

"It's important that it is promoted and another tenant can be found as soon as possible.

"It is crucial to continue to address the public realm in the city centre as an attractive environment will help attract a new tenant."

North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce chief executive Bryan Carnes believes the emergence of the proposed East West Shopping Centre will further attract investors.

He said: "It's a key site and as such should be desirable for any retailer who wants to open a business in a busy shopping area. Hanley has a very high footfall.

"But we must realise the retail industry is not in a healthy state."

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has confirmed it will help market the property to new investors.

City renewal director Hardial Bhogal said: "We will be looking to promote the future use of the building in the city centre as we continue to look for ways to attract businesses to Stoke-on-Trent.

"We will also offer support to those staff who have been made redundant and work with the local job centres to help where we can."

Susan Thursfield, owner of Kerryhill Nurseries, runs a flower and plant stall opposite TJ Hughes three days a week.

Susan, from Bagnall, said: "The staff were all in fancy dress and it was quite busy as they have been knocking a further 10 per cent off the items every day.

"I hope somebody takes it on soon. I remember that when Woolworths closed it was really depressing to look at, especially during the winter nights."

Meanwhile, shoppers are hoping to see a new firm take on the vacant store.

Debbie Wallbank, from Stone, said: "I would like to see something like a H&M store or something like that.

"I wouldn't want to see an outlet that we already have elsewhere in the city centre.

"It's a big building and there is scope to have perhaps smaller units in there, along with a coffee shop or something like that."

Sandra Riley, from Tean, is sorry to see TJ Hughes close.

The 56-year-old said: "I would like to see something similar open in its place as it was useful having a shop which sold a variety of things."

Leah Booth, aged 24, from Packmoor, said: "I would like to see something like a Nando's or a Wagamama as it's something we need here."

Unemployment on the rise in stoke on Trent

I would like to pull your attention to a article in the sentinel on Thursday well labour are failing with there so called mandate not creating much are we Mr Perves  ( liebour party leader ) of stoke on Trent and we have stores closing all over ( TJ Hughes  as of Wednesday and all hes creating is work schemes )jet labour fail fail fail

Unemployment is rising again

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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THE number of people claiming unemployment benefit in Stoke-on-Trent has risen again after four consecutive monthly falls.

Latest Government figures reveal 7,756 residents were claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last month, up from 7,622 in June.

In Newcastle, the claimant count rose from 2,358 to 2,406, while in the Staffordshire Moorlands it was also up, from 1,088 to 1,157.

In South Cheshire, the number of people claiming JSA increased from 1,189 to 1,327, and the figure also rose slightly in Crewe and Nantwich, from 2,405 to 2,474.

The Office for National Statistics figures revealed that nationally, the total number of people claiming JSA showed its biggest monthly rise in more than two years, increasing by 3,100 to reach 1.56 million.

And overall unemployment, which includes those not eligible for JSA, underwent an unexpected rise.

Between April and June unemployment increased by 38,000 to 2.49 million.

Smallthorne kebab house extend of opening hour denied

one of the kebab houses in smallthorne as requested a extension on there opening hours as being denied i wonder why as it got back that i was breathing down the local labour councillors neck and i would of campaigned on the matter its still not over yet there's still campaigns around the smallthorne area that i will be taking forward i have attached the letter to the wall for your attention