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• Oldham Council has wasted £6.5 million on abandoned versions of Prince’s Gate and a new Coliseum theatre
• Is Oldham council deliberately delaying providing answers to the freedom of information request I made because it will make Labour MP Jim McMahon look bad before the general election?
• Over three years after opening the cost of the town hall cinema development continues to increase by hundreds of thousands
• Oldham schools continue to expand just to cope with the ongoing record numbers of foreign nationals arriving in the borough
• The number of OAP’s in Greater Manchester fell by 12,708 in 8 years and the population grew by 130,869 in 7 years so how is it the ageing population are blamed for pressure on the NHS?
• When Jim McMahon’s “Our House” store entered administration just four months after opening it owed Oldham Council £161,414
• 37.5% of all housing benefits paid out in the entire EU are paid in the UK
• Labour Oldham Councillor Shoab Akhtar appearing on UK44 TV telling people that a vote for Labour should mean an increase in your benefits
• Three years after opening Jim McMahon’s Oldham Town Hall Cinema legacy is a £32 million overspend, £8 million in unrealised wages and two empty units that have failed to generate rental income and business rates contributions for three years
• Oldham MP’s Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams continue to do everything in the their power to subvert the referendum result
• Labour deselect a loyal Oldham councillor because of his opposition to housing on Oldham’s greenbelt
• After just four years of freedom of movement Romania has replaced Poland as the second most common country of birth for non-UK-born fathers and the third for non-UK-born mothers
• The government help secure jobs at Ferranti in Oldham while the council leader panders to pressure groups targeting the Oldham factory
• Nothing quite conveys austerity more than Labour Oldham spending £48,000 on fireworks for bonfire night
• Less than two weeks ago we identified why Labour Oldham refused to disclose the cost of park thefts and to confirm our hypothesis they just announced spending £80,000 on a Northern Roots garden
• It didn’t take Oldham Labour Council long to refuse our freedom of information request regarding thefts from Oldham parks in light of the recent £60,000 theft from Alexandra park
• Figures released today show the number of adult migrants registering as living in Oldham between April and June 2019 is the highest number ever recorded for any second quarter time period on record.
• 2017 to 2018 government figures show only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham
• 44,000 Oldham library books have been misappropriated in 25 years so the Labour Council have decided to remove fines after discovering offenders are concentrated in the most deprived wards
• Oldham’s number one NIMBY Labour Council leader Sean Fielding
• Oldham’s immigration hotspot recorded a 22% increase in the number of children in tax credit recipient families in just 2 years
• The town hall cinema was supposed to cost £10 million and create 233 permanent jobs it cost at least £42 million and created 100 jobs Labour leader Sean Fielding calls that a success
• ONS figures show the population of the town of Oldham grew by 10.4% in 8 years and employment actually fell while in Chadderton employment grew by 38%
• Immigration is the largest contributor to population growth in Oldham
• Cash strapped austerity challenged socialist Oldham Labour Council is advertising two jobs one paying £13,000 a month and another paying £10,500 a month
• The unsustainable population of England continues to rise by over a million every three years, ten times the combined rise in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Labour Oldham council hypocrisy selling council land for a religious temple in an area of high unemployment, overcrowding and fertility rates
• Manchester has become the first city in England to develop more than a third of its Green Belt
• Labour Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams continues to post fake statistics and stories on social media to bolster her wish for a second referendum
• A delusional Labour Oldham using alchemy to take failure to a whole new level
• Sean Fielding’s Labour Oldham administration is funding institutions whose members reject evolution and are campaigning against LGBT lessons in Oldham schools
• The ruling Labour group secure just 13.4% of eligible Oldham votes in the local election as two thirds decide not to vote at all
• Another huge crime rise in Oldham with 6,922 acts of violence committed in a single year and 2,622 burglaries
• While Oldham residents continue to pay one of the highest council tax rates in the UK the austerity challenged Labour council pays consultants up to £800 a day
• Oldham residents Council Tax social care precept charge which is the second highest in England would be 39.6% lower had the Labour Council not diverted a £701,000 adult social care grant to another department in 2018
• Oldham Labour leaders silent on residents inciting civil unrest on primetime BBC claiming that same sex education in Oldham schools will cause riots
• Oldham MP’s Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams claim £50,000 in accommodation expenses in a single year
• Oldham Labour Council who already spent over £2 million on a new HR and payroll system 2016 to 2017 now intends spending another six figure amount on an HR and planning system
• Too Lidl too late
• More cuts as Labour Oldham pull £45k funding for the dial a ride service but can find nearly £35k for fireworks in a month and over £70k every year for a Devon based marketing firm
• The number of adult EU migrants arriving in Oldham in 2018 was the same as in 2017 bucking the UK trend and raising lots of questions local politicians don’t want asked
• Council houses in Oldham will now only be rented to those ‘in need’ meaning nearly 80% of households on the social housing waiting list will be kicked off by Labour Oldham
• Labour Oldham policy is an endless merry-go-round of announce a scheme, spend a fortune, fail to deliver that scheme, pretend it never existed, move on to a new scheme
• The irony Oldham’s getting an Eco-Hub to promote sustainability serving the areas with the highest birth rates, immigration rates and benefit dependency in the entire borough
• Oldham Council waste £30,700 of public cash on fireworks in December
• 59% of adult migrants arriving in Oldham in the first nine months of 2018 are from the EU with 53% identifying as Romanian
• Oldham Council have already had to increase the cost of Royton town centre regeneration by 50%
• Another of Jim McMahon’s regeneration projects bites the dust as plans for the new £27m Coliseum theatre in Oldham are scrapped
• As previously predicted Labour Oldham will be adding Councillor Paul Jacques wife to the Failsworth clique in control of Oldham Council
• We now have three fewer Labour Oldham councillors than we had a few weeks ago but absolutely no explanation why
• Every year Oldham Council pushes regeneration projects further into the future with no delivery dates, plans or funding, why is the press not holding them to account?
• 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