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• 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
• It is not Oldham’s ageing population impacting Oldham services DWP figures show 562 fewer pensioners in Oldham than there was in 2013
• 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
• Another huge crime increase in Oldham
• Labour Oldham admit that immigration is driving house-building plans.
• Prince’s Gate, Town Hall Cinema, Hotel Future and Foxdenton show Oldham Council’s financial and employment predictions for their town centre masterplan have no basis in reality
• Distraction thefts on the increase in Oldham
• We would join Oldham Council’s ‘one piece of rubbish’ campaign if they paid us £49,000 in nine months
• In 21 months Oldham Council has spent £2.1 million on its new human resource & payroll software system called the A1 programme
• Oldham is the 15th least competitive business place in the UK of 379 local authority areas
• More central Oldham school places are needed as migration puts huge pressure on Oldham resources
• Oldham’s OL8 postcode area is one of the top ten crash for cash insurance fraud hotspots
• Labour Oldham just like Labour central are hiding the impact of immigration and the cost of policy failures
• Oldham Council finally reveal they have wasted £418,670 of taxpayers money on the failed Hotel Future scheme
• Why we are critical of the Oldham live event
• Labour Oldham Council is being sued by one of its own Councillors
• It’s called the #YourOldham festival because your money funds it and many of the speakers sizable salaries and Community Interest Companies
• 55% of the rise in child numbers in Oldham in 2016 was a direct result of immigration
• Oldham has the same number of asylum seekers as the combined total in 347 other UK local authority areas
• Without its 350 million town centre plan Oldham Council will still pay out over half a billion in long-term debt and interest repayments over the next 23 years
• The Mayor of Manchester and the Oldham Council leader announce an initiative for OAP’s in the Oldham ward with the lowest percentage of OAP’s
• Oldham in bloom, bacterial bloom from piles of festering rubbish
• Oldham Council have been wasting public money for over four years on the failed Hotel Future scheme but the public have no right to ask how much.
• Oldham Council is cutting its losses at Prince’s Gate by selling the main plot of land and reducing the retail development by two thirds
• No place for hate in Oldham unless it is hate preachers
• 18 new PFI homes with over 80 bedrooms for Oldham’s no1 migration hotspot despite two developers pulling out of the gateways project
• Cases of robbery in Oldham have increased by more than 50% in a year and public order offences by 75%
• Six Greater Manchester areas have between two and six times more Green Flag parks than Oldham
• Why is Oldham Council’s agreed £200,000 building refurbishment spend to create a digital enterprise hub now six times over budget at £1.2 million?
• Oldham council’s ‘local plan’ update purposely manipulates population averages to give a false Oldham perspective
• Labour Oldham’s 2012 masterplan failed to deliver three of five town centre regeneration schemes and delivered a fourth at four times the original budget
• Oldham has the fourth highest tax credit payment rates in the country after Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Birmingham
• Deprivation management is the number one growth industry in Oldham
• 57 Oldham homes owned by social housing providers receive over £741,000 a year in housing benefit yet Labour’s Jim McMahon highlights the cost of private landlords
• On the day Teresa May grants millions of EU nationals the right to stay in the UK the population of England passes 55 million
• In just two years the number of foreign born children in Oldham schools increased by 372%
• The Brexit negotiation paper tabled by the EU that would create a UK benefits free for all
• More adult Romanians registered new national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses in the first quarter of 2017 than migrants from the other 26 EU member states combined
• In 2017 Greater Manchester continues to house a disproportionate 71% of all asylum seekers resident in the North West, 17% of the UK total
• Out thoughts are with the people and visitors of Manchester
• Labour Oldham council’s cooperative agenda costs the public purse another £22,928 in April including £9,928 to a Devon based brand marketer
• Benefit statistics show Oldham’s fifth highest UK tax credit payment rates are concentrated in the areas of high migration
• Police “Unable to prosecute suspect” for 38% of crimes committed around Oldham’s flagship regeneration area