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

Anti social behaviour hitting smallthorne

Its being brought to my attention that young youths are drinking in the cemetery and by near by shops  on ford green road in the early hours of the morning some of the elderly residents are scared and will not confront these youth through fear of retaliation which in no manner should  its the councillor or the residents association or the police that should be dealing with this   what is the sitting labour councillor or the residents association doing about this ( NOTHING ) the sitting labour councillor does not live on the estate for a start so he wont see what we see like he would be bothered he comes under the party liebour so that should say a lot  with in the next week or so ill will be producing a leaflet for a action group highlighting all the issues with in this estate smallthorne and ford green road anyone wishing to join please contact me on my email address

bnp demo in Shrewsbury town centre against the Muslim sex grooming scandal

this is the leaflet that we were giving people today outlining the sex grooming scandal with the 9 Muslim men all in all a very good day and a good response

Shrewsbury sex grooming demo

the above picture is the council uaf worker 

Just like to thank all that turned out for the demo with the British national party down in Shrewsbury today and i would like to thank the gentleman and the nice old lady who came up and spoke to me its nice to know there are still people out there that do support us and what we stand for the news is all 9 of the Muslim sex grooming paedophiles will be retrialed  and and it shows us that all the hard work we can make a difference we did have some hostile university students which nick dealt with by speaking to them and showing that he is the only politician that will come out onto our\ streets and face the public unlike Cameron clegg milaband   who are too busy dragging our once great country into more debt and sending more foreign aid over to other country's we are showing as a political party that we do care about our young old disabled people that they have got a alternative party that stands for the interest of the people and the country on the bad side we did have a uaf supporter who Shrewsbury  council pay a good amount of money to work in there crime disorder unit who sympathises with these Muslim paedophiles who actually asked me if i wanted him to pose for a picture heres is is picture other than that it was a brilliant day and thankyou to all that attended

                                                    some of the stoke bnp team with nick griffin

                                          1 of the hostile university students with her bill board

Uaf /hope not hate what a bunch of state funded clowns

the uaf- hope not hate clowns are the ones that Cameron and milaband fund with taxpayers money now i have found a video with the leader of the uaf Weymouth bennett telling so many communist lies the foam is pouring from is mouth now what he doesn't inform people is that Blair and brown were photoed shaking hands with gaddafi now every election passed and present you get the likes of uaf hope not hater spreading there vile about nick griffin suppose to of asked gaddafi for some money but they fail to show these pictures of the ex labour party leaders and prime ministers labour uaf hope not hate ( search light are connected )  and as for Cameron Libya welcomed him with open arms i wonder why that is

People of smallthorne and surrounding area please be aware there are a bunch of young lads going around trying to steal dogs especially staffys

Earlier today two unknown lads tried to walk off with my Staffordshire bull terrier  outside a shop in smallthorne the lads where in there  early twenty 1 was a white British lad short in  height and with shaved hair the other one was a half cassed lad tall with dreadlocks in his hair anyone with information could they please contact me on my email or on 07876219679 as this incident can not go on this is the area in which this incident took place and i would like to stop this incident re-happening thankyou

a really good barbaque with stoke bnp

stoke bnp had a barbaque with about 25-30 stoke bnp members turned up it was a really good day good surrounding and everyone enjoyed the day good to see like minded people enjoying laughing playing games heres some photos from today events

remploy facing jobs cuts

it deeply saddens me that the disabled are getting hit by this uncaring untruthful goverment that's seems to think it can hit the poor the disabled and the elderly when really it should be hitting the rich and completely stopping immigration foreign aid in times when we are faced with mass unemployment they seem to think that its OK to take the disabled jobs away from them i was down at the remploy factory about 3 weeks ago and these people depend on there jobs it not only give them the freedom but its giving them independence and there are getting paid a wage as well   i was speaking to two employees down and they forewarned me this was going to happen and the conservative plus labour are saying that's they need to make these cuts but hitting the vulnerable now that's just beyond a joke but its OK for these party s and its mps they live a life of luxury at our expense

labour finally admitting

heres a article from the sentinel in stoke on Trent about liebour  now Ed milaband as admitted that is party through negligence and lies have spent to much money they have not served or will serve the people of this country  that's why we are now being ruled a by a labour run council here in stoke on Trent that is in denial and that why things will not improve they will only get worse heres the article for your viewing

More job loses in the city well Mr perves your mandates not working is it

yet more redundancies in the city this time its HR Johnstone tiles  when will this stop can labour not see that its not working there little mandate isn't working i wonder what Joan walley saying now i can remember being down there working on a agency when she visited the factory when they opened the new kiln this time its HR where next  i wonder

Johnson Tiles to reduce workforce

Friday, September 16, 2011

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JOB losses are being proposed at Johnson Tiles.

The Tunstall manufacturer has confirmed that it is currently holding a 30-day consultation on potential redundancies.

It has refused to reveal the figure that is being considered, but by law a company is obliged to run a 30-day consultation period if it is proposing between 20 and 99 redundancies.

Johnson Tiles, which employs more than 400 people at its Haregate Street base, said the changes are necessary to combat the increasing cost of energy and raw materials.

Managing director Stephen Dixon, pictured, said: "Following a review the board has decided to reshape the company's structure and business focus.

"The resultant changes are required to mitigate recent rises in energy and raw materials costs and at the same time recognise market uncertainty and weak consumer confidence.

"The changes will involve simplification of business processes, delivering improved service to customers.

"Regrettably these will result in job losses and job restructuring."

One employee, who asked not to be named, said news of the potential cuts came as a shock to the workforce.

He said: "We were called into a meeting where we were told there were going to be redundancies, but they haven't told us how many.

"We were under the impression the company was doing well, but they said that because of the rising cost of energy they were having to change the running of the business.

"It is a shock because everything we read seems to suggest Norcros is doing well; we are all shareholders now and all the communications we get seem to say that."

Johnson Tiles is part of the Wilmslow-based Norcros Group, which also owns fellow Tunstall business Norcros Adhesives, Triton Showers in Nuneaton and a number of companies in South Africa. In its most recent trading update in July, Norcros said group revenue for the 13 weeks to July 3 rose by 10 per cent compared with the same period last year.

At Johnson Tiles, sales rose by 19.5 per cent. UK revenue was up 25.5 per cent, but export sales dropped by 10 per cent.

In June, Norcros posted a 60 per cent increase in trading profit for the year to the end of March, from £7.3 million to £11.7 million.

Sales reached £192.4 million, up 13.4 per cent from £169.6 million.

It did not reveal separate figures for Johnson Tiles, but said annual sales at the company rose by 12.4 per cent.

Garry Oakes, assistant general secretary at ceramics union Unity, said: "We're pretty well-recognised at Johnson Tiles and we've been told there are going to be some reductions, but we haven't been told a figure so we won't know the details until we've had some talks with the company.

"What we will try and do then is reduce the number of redundancies through various means.

Council trying claw back rent arrears from the deprived city of stoke on Trent

the local city council are trying to claw back rent arrears despite they being no jobs in the city but lead councillor mr clown perves does not understand this oh no he thinks money grows on trees its OK for him hes not short of any money oh no hes quite comfortably  financially secure its like the labour party in general and the conservatives they don't live where we live they have nice big posh houses out of the city away from areas that are deprive as soon as 5pm comes they are gone except we have councillors that think they no what happens on these estates but they haven't got a clue and to top it all off they are now leaving the gates open  to the local cemetery's to save money 1 this will create anti social behaviour 2 why don't they set a couple of people on that have being on jsa for a while to unlock and closed the gates at night give them there sia  licences ( security )  on a basic wage problem solved anyway enough said heres the article

Fury as arrears rise £115k in one month

Friday, September 09, 2011

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UNPAID rent owed by tenants to Stoke-on-Trent City Council has soared by more than £115,000 in the last month.

The authority has formed an action group to tackle rising council tax and rent arrears as it implements budget cuts of £36 million.

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   ACTION: Mohammed Pervez says the council is trying to sort out the arrears.

But figures disclosed at a meeting of the full council yesterday show the amount owed in rent by current council tenants climbed to £1.7 million at the end of August.

Just four weeks earlier the total owed was £1.58 million.

Councillor Mohammed Pervez, council leader, said: "We're doing everything we can and are committed to addressing the issue."

The authority is also owed £1.75 million in rent by former tenants.

Details also revealed at yesterday's meeting show the council is owed £8.85 million in unpaid business rates – a total that has accumulated since 1995/96.

It is in addition to the total £36 million the council is owed in unpaid council tax, rent and sundry debts.

Mr Pervez said the council is already improving its efficiency in collecting taxes and business rates.

He said: "The issue of council tax arrears, business rate arrears and other debts is being looked at.

"A task and finish group is looking at how we can improve the situation and I have also asked council officers to look at this to make sure there is sufficient capacity to resolve it.

"We are 100 per cent behind trying to collect the council tax, rent and the other arrears owed to the council and we'll make sure we progress it as actively as possible."

The council is also to begin publishing the amount it is owed in rates, taxes and rent in every financial quarter.

The move follows criticism from opposition councillors that the authority is losing track of how much it is owed.

The move will allow officers' progress in clawing back the cash to be monitored.

Mr Pervez said: "The figures will be published so people can see our performance."

Councillor Dave Conway, leader of the opposition City Independents group, said: "It's a disgrace, every bit of it.

"People of the city paying their bills will want to know what is going on and why this money is not being collected.

"If things continue at the current rate, with an increase of £115,000 in one single month, we are going to end up in a far worse position at the end of last year than we were last year."

Last year, Stoke-on-Trent City Council had the worst record in the West Midlands for council tax collection.

Not good enough children centres should be left alone

not good enough children centres should be left alone labour should not be taking any funding from this areas they should be cutting back on the council officers wages not taking it from an area that is well needed these centres are well used and people from all back grounds use them for some of the mothers that use them they are a way of socialising whist there kids play its a  time out i only hope that the people that voted for these curupt councillors have now come to  there senses heres the article

Cuts deal was 'missed chance'

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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A SCRUTINY panel responsible for examining cuts to children's centres has recommended budget reductions go ahead.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to cut the children's centre budget by 20 per cent, 10 per cent less than the £2.25 million it planned.

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   'TOO LATE': Dave Conway hit out over the cuts to children's centres.

It follows a citywide consultation with centre users and a series of high-profile protests by families.

The council's children and young people's scrutiny committee yesterday recommended cuts go ahead.

It also recommended that cuts to the centres in the budget for 2012/13 are capped at a maximum of a further 20 per cent.

And members also agreed to recommend the centres are rebranded as "Children and Family Centres."

But councillor Dave Conway, chairman of the children and young people's scrutiny committee, criticised the council for arriving at a compromise it could have chosen a year ago.

He said: "Protesters and staff have said from the very beginning that they could manage with 20 per cent but not 30 per cent.

"If we'd done this in the first place we'd have looked far better in the public eye."

Labour doing the dirty on stoke on Trent residents again

labour council do it again hit the vulnerable

 DO THE LABOUR COUNCIL NOT CARE THE DISTRESS CAUSED WHEN LOVED ONES GRAVES ARE DAMAGED OR DEFACED FOR GODS SAKE HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT TAKE TO LOCK A GATE.
I IMPLORE EVERYONE READING THIS TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLOR AND PROTEST
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO HURT THE GOOD PEOPLE OF STOKE ON TRENT



CEMETERIES across Stoke-on-Trent are being left open all night because of the rising cost of locking them.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has launched a month-long trial in which gates at eight of the nine cemeteries are not being secured in the evening.

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   GATES OPEN: Eight out of nine cemeteries, including Tunstall cemetery above, will remain open at night.

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They are usually closed shortly before sunset throughout the year to keep thieves and vandals from entering overnight.
But the council said the cost of securing them, handled by a private company, has increased and is not economical.
Only Carmountside cemetery will have its gates locked as several council environmental staff are based there.
Now residents are warning the cemeteries could become "villains' hideaways."
Retired Mavis Blurton, of Sneyd Hill, lives in a house which backs directly on to Burslem cemetery.
The 70-year-old is concerned she will be disturbed by youths entering the cemetery at night, and that the grave of her husband Terrence will be damaged.
She said: "I don't understand why we should have to put up with yobs being allowed in to drink around the graves.
"There are also going to be cars cutting through as it is a shortcut.
"The council changed the gates a few years ago and I don't understand why they have spent all that money if they are just going to leave them open.
"Already I have had to face litter and beer bottles when visiting my husband's grave and with the gates left open all night it can only get worse."
Jim Keogh, of Hanley Road, next to Burslem cemetery, said: "There have been many incidents there already, that's why they have already installed cameras.
"They will become villains' hideaways if people are allowed to come and go overnight.
"Part of me wants something to happen so the council can see the error of what they are doing, but on the other hand it is a beautiful place."
Councillor Gwen Hassall, cabinet member for housing and neighbourhoods, said last night: "We are, at this point, only trialling leaving the gates open at city cemeteries overnight.
"Increases in security costs have made it difficult to provide the service in its current form.
"This trial has been running since the start of September and, so far, there have been no reported incidents of anti-social behaviour.
We will continue to monitor the situation over the next month to see if it is appropriate to continue."

Yet more job losses to the city

i no its dated November 2010 but there's a 18 month time line in which these jobs could go and its looking as if its going go this way as now we have a labour controlled council and that's says it all going by the passed couple of months t j Hughes carpet right when will this stop when will we get proper sustainable jobs that people can go out and earn a decent wage just like we used to be able to

400 jobs at risk as Royal Mail considers shutting customer service base

Friday, November 12, 2010

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HUNDREDS of jobs are under threat in Stoke-on-Trent as Royal Mail reviews its customer service operations.

Union leaders claim Royal Mail wants to shut its Etruria centre with the loss of 400 positions over the next 18 months.

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   Lee Barron, Midlands regional secretary at the Communication Workers' Union.

It follows Royal Mail's decision to transfer 700 jobs out of the region by shutting sorting offices in Stoke and Crewe in the past year.

Now a campaign is underway to try to save the Royal Mail call centre from closure.

Royal Mail today confirmed it is reviewing its customer services facilities across the country. It adds that no decision has been made about the Etruria property.

But Lee Barron, pictured below, Midlands regional secretary at the Communication Workers' Union (CWU), says employees have been told verbally that the centre will close in 12 to 18 months.

Mr Barron said: "We want to know if Royal Mail has some sort of vendetta against jobs in Stoke-on-Trent.

"Over the last decade, 800 to 1,000 jobs have been taken out of Stoke-on-Trent by Royal Mail and now it wants to get rid of another 400. We say enough's enough.

"We have to keep the Stoke-on-Trent customer resource open for the local community, the local economy and local jobs."

During the day, the Media Way premises are used by customer care staff to answer telephone calls and correspondence and to work on sales and promotional campaigns.

From 5.30pm, Royal Mail data entry workers use the building to decipher addresses which cannot be read by mail machines.

Mr Barron added: "The Etruria site has capacity for growth so Royal Mail should be looking at bringing more work here."

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We are currently reviewing customer services accommodation across the country and have been keeping our team at Stoke-on-Trent informed.

"No decisions have been made about the outcome of the review and certainly the information we have provided should not be interpreted to indicate the closure of the centre in 12 to 18 months' time."

North Staffordshire's Labour MPs are backing the CWU campaign to keep Etruria open and are lobbying the business community for support.

Earlier this week Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Tristram Hunt, whose constituency covers Etruria, asked the Government if it had assessed the possible impact on Stoke-on-Trent of Royal Mail's restructuring, only to be told it was "an operational matter for Royal Mail".

Mr Hunt said today: "I will pressure the Government to consider the harm this could do."

Benefit shake up this is what's going to happen soon in stoke on Trent

I no its dated July but still this is coming to our once great city and its not just unemployed that's are going get hit its disability and pensioners losing there weather payments bus passes and what are labour going do nothing  apart from lie and deceit the British public but what will people keep doing voting labour and conservatives

Benefits shake-up 'will damage city'

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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CHARITY bosses say Government welfare reforms will take millions of pounds out of Stoke-on-Trent's economy and increase homelessness.

Stoke-on-Trent Citizens' Advice Bureau and Hanley-based Brighter Futures have issued a joint report on the impact that cuts to benefits will have on people living in the city.

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They say cuts to employment and support allowance (ESA) alone will take at least £13 million each year out of the local economy.

And the report predicts that changes to housing benefit will lead to increased homelessness and a reduction in the number of private landlords in the area.

Gill Brown, chief executive of Brighter Futures, said: "The proposals to change housing benefit are designed to solve problems in London and the south east.

"Housing conditions in those areas are completely different to those here and the effect of imposing these cuts on Stoke-on-Trent will be to make many people homeless and to make it difficult for organisations like Brighter Futures to offer the individually tailored packages of care that we design to help people cope with the effects of mental health problems, addictions or criminal behaviour."

Simon Harris, chief executive of Stoke-on-Trent CAB, said: "Often, people currently dependent on welfare benefits could be helped back into work by the regeneration strategies of central and local government.

"We fully support these efforts to create new local jobs. However, we recognise that they will not create instant jobs and we believe that, even for those who can be helped into work, they need a decent benefits system meanwhile."

Figures in the report show 10 per cent of all people aged between 16 and 64 in Stoke-on-Trent are unemployed.

A total of 33,500 people of working age are receiving benefits in the city, which is 22.7 per cent of the local population.

Of these 10,392 are either receiving Job Seeker's Allowance, or are single parents who do not need to be available for work. The remaining 23,108 are unable to work because of illness or disability.

The report says the proportion of people receiving either ESA or incapacity benefit in Stoke-on-Trent is almost twice the national rate.

The city currently has 14,000 people claiming incapacity benefit, who will all be reassessed.

The charities say that half of local people could lose some of their benefits after being reassessed, resulting in an average loss of £28 a week.

The report says: "This change could double the number of unemployed people seeking work.

"The impact of these cuts will fall disproportionately on Stoke-on-Trent as we have a disproportionately high number of people claiming incapacity benefit."

Proposals to change the benefit system also include introducing a maximum local housing allowance rate people can receive of £146.54 a week.

In the past people could claim £219.23 a week for a five-bedroom house.

The report says: "The introduction of this cap to LHA could result in unexpectedly large numbers of people becoming homeless or getting into rent arrears.

"As a result more people will turn to the council for help."

Tristram Hunt, Stoke-on-Trent Central MP, pictured left, said the changes to the benefit system could be the equivalent of a large local employer closing down and would hit businesses in the city hard.

He said: "The changes attempt to impose a single 'one size fits all' solution on towns and cities which are facing starkly different economic challenges.

"This means that in a city like Stoke-on-Trent they will represent a false economy and will give at best only short term savings to the public purse and reduce economic activity."