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• Oldham has three times more social housing demand than most of Greater Manchester and First Choice Homes Oldham is demolishing 247 rental properties to build 100 new homes
• MP’s including Oldham’s own Debbie Abrahams have signed a pledge not to report illegal immigrants to the Home Office
• Extra funding for the council to combat housing benefit fraud in the self-employment sector which has seen rapid growth since 2011
• The St Mary’s ward in central Oldham has 38% more universal credit claims, 41% more PIP claims, 45% more housing benefit claims and three times more carers allowance claims than any other area
• 43% of mothers in Oldham with dependant children do not work which is almost a quarter less than the England average and the lowest rate in Greater Manchester
• Unreported by the councils media partners two Oldham Labour Councillors have been suspended from the Labour party
• Feminist Labour MP Debbie Abrahams is spreading fake news blaming the benefit cap for a pregnant woman being beaten
• 77.5% more hostilities committed against fire and rescue personnel in Oldham than the average in the other nine GM authorities
• Oldham Council finds another £100,000 to add to the millions spent on Alexandra Park while other parks decay
• Immigration to Oldham in the first six months of 2018 is 5% higher than in the same period a year ago
• While violent crime and unemployment in Oldham have increased by the highest percentage in the country how does Oldham Council think its obsession with growing vegetables will have any significant socioeconomic impact?
• Unemployment in Oldham is double the England, Great Britain and UK averages and 47% above the Greater Manchester average
• Oldham Council is one of just five Council’s still wasting public money sponsoring North West in Bloom to win a trophy called the Oldham Council trophy
• Fewer children in Oldham live in fully working households than in every other authority in the UK other than Newham, Tower Hamlets and Brent
• Oldham Council is spending £450,000 creating a Geospatial information system team with 67% of the money being spent on three new high salaried positions.
• Oldham Labour Council leader Sean Fielding continues to demonstrate by his actions that he is little more than the public face of ex-leader Jim McMahon.
• Another huge crime rise in Oldham as possession of weapons goes up by 68%, violence by 58% and sexual offences by 40%
• First Choice Homes adds another £40 million in loan debt to the £55 million it already has
• Unemployment in Oldham has grown by five times the Greater Manchester average
• The gravy plane, Oldham Council spends over £65,000 on 317 flights since 2015
• Greater Manchester paid out over £1.5 billion in tax credits last year and Oldham continued to pay the fourth highest rate in the UK
• Unlike eight of nine other Greater Manchester areas more people are leaving Oldham to move to other UK areas than are moving to Oldham from other UK areas
• Oldham Council admits there is three times more demand for social housing in Oldham than in neighbouring Bury, Rochdale and Tameside.
• Oldham MP Jim McMahon is supporting plans for a discriminative new school where children with religious parents have twice as much chance of securing a school place
• Oldham Council is trading business ideas with countries that have no socioeconomic similarity to Oldham
• It is not Oldham’s ageing population impacting Oldham services DWP figures show 813 fewer pensioners in Oldham than there was in 2013
• Oldham Council’s “Love Where You Live” scheme took an entire year, failed in two of the five streets where it was trialled and cost £27,260 for environmental charity services
• Who exactly is running Oldham Council and is it a coincidence that the new deputy Council leader who was not even a member of the Council a few weeks ago also works for Jim McMahon?
• The number of asylum seekers in Oldham has increased by 25% in three years to 782 adults and an undetermined number of children
• Royton Moss is no longer a site of biological importance leaving it open to inclusion in the Greater Manchester spatial framework plan
• Labour Oldham are spending 60% of the money they receive from the governments Controlling Migration Fund creating four new high salaried positions
• Labour Oldham Council hiding behind nonsensical exploitation claims to mask their spending from the Oldham public
• On Tuesday Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton was ousted by her own local Labour group and MP Debbie Abrahams was sacked from Labour’s shadow cabinet
• Between spring 2013 and spring 2017 the number of foreign born children in Oldham schools increased by a staggering 777%
• Labour Oldham love to tell us about the broken Universal Credit system but are not so quick at pointing out which areas are claiming the most
• 82.9% of eligible voters in the Oldham local election did not vote for Labour
• Labour Oldham Council keeping its new “emerging communities team” under wraps till after the local election
• Well done Labour Oldham for creating the second least liveable area in the North
• Labour love demanding resignations so why have the three current Labour Oldham Councillors who broke the law while serving as Councillors never been forced to resign?
• Violent crime in Oldham up by 72%, weapons possession by 57%
• Labour Oldham to build 900 new homes in the area with the boroughs lowest household income and 44% more housing benefit claimants than anywhere else
• See where service cutting Oldham Council has been wasting dwindling resources this March including £10,000 spent projecting images onto the old town hall
• Oldham man believed to be the head of a major people smuggling network reaching all the way to Iraq is arrested in Oldham
• We estimate the number of foreign born children in Oldham schools increased by between 700% and 800% in just four years, it is time Oldham Council came clean on migrant pressure
• Labour Oldham are saddling taxpayers with the cost of building a hotel on the failed Prince’s Gate scheme site at Mumps
• Hypocritical Oldham Labour Council passed a motion at their meeting on Wednesday to tackle modern slavery while they continue to support a serving Labour Councillor who was found guilty of exploiting illegal workers in 2016
• Minority ethnic pupils now make up almost 50% of Oldham primary school pupils, are Oldham Labour Council deliberately misleading the public on the pace of population change?
• Oldham’s annual working age benefit bill is half a billion
• Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon is complaining about rising unemployment in Oldham but forgot to mention the 3,130 jobs he promised that never materialised
• Labour Oldham’s May local election leaflet actually details all the things they have not done for Foxdenton residents
• Oldham is responsible for 42% of the increase in unemployment benefits claims for all Greater Manchester in the last year
• Oldham Council commissioned a branding consultant to rename the Oldham Coliseum Theatre they came up with Oldham Coliseum and it cost £28,268
• Labour Oldham’s so called town centre Masterplan will deliver the entire housing element in the area which already has 44% more housing benefit claimants than anywhere else in the borough
• Oldham MP Jim McMahon continues to dishonour the sacrifices made by the suffragettes
• Even the government realised that self-employment rules were being abused to access huge amounts of tax credits
• Oldham Council intends turning the former Oldham magistrates court site in Oldham’s number one area for immigration into an housing development
• Silence from Labour Oldham and their local press partners as the relentless importation of foreign poverty into an already deprived central Oldham continued unabated in 2017
• Foxdenton development road widening means buses will now block the flow of traffic on Broadway
• Oldham council tax is set to rise by an average £80 as record demand for children’s services cost an extra £8 million more than planned in 2017-2018
• First Choice Homes Oldham Limited has had its viability rating downgraded because of declining surplus income and plans for a substantial increase in borrowing
• Labour’s Jean Stretton and Councillor Jabbar are part of the Coldhurst child poverty problem unwilling to tackle the real issues that create it
• We have a question for MP Debbie Abrahams, what are the social care, benefit and medical costs incurred as a direct result of congenital abnormalities and genetic disorders caused by multigenerational inbreeding in Oldham?
• Oldham has the second highest rate of home repossessions in the UK
• Fifteen months after opening construction costs at Labour Oldham’s Old Town Hall Cinema increase by another £700,000 with spending passing £40 million
• Cash strapped Oldham Council has spent £68,671 in 2017 with a Devon based brand marketer to promote its coop agenda
• Out of touch Oldham Council spends £33,573 on fireworks
• Just 1% of the health and social care workforce in Oldham are from the EU
• Oldham Council new years leaders blog updated with the facts she chose to leave out
• 300,000 visit the town hall cinema but that works out at just 23 people per screening
• Prince’s Gate was due to open in 2017 Oldham Council won’t make an announcement about the fate of the project until 2018
• Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire & Merseyside share 30% of North West asylum seekers, Greater Manchester gets the other 70%
• The number of adult Romanian’s registering as living in Oldham in the third quarter of 2017 was 28% higher than in the same period in 2016
• Oldham’s SEN services get slated by OFSTED but they are good at providing interpreters and consanguinity counselors to explain the genetic consequences of inbreeding
• Sixty percent more people receive carers allowance in Glodwick than in any other Oldham area
• Oldham has the highest percentage of unemployed benefit claimants and the greatest increase in all Greater Manchester
• With operational costs of £105,000 in October OMBC’S town hall cinema must be generating no income for Oldham Council
• Oldham Council is delegating some Oldham planning functions to another local authority
• Recent unprecedented levels of mass migration have created the most densely populated areas in Oldham
• 2017 is the twelfth consecutive year that Oldham average pay has been the lowest in Greater Manchester
• Four areas all with borders in the town centre account for 30.3% of all Oldham job seekers allowance sanctions