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• 580 adult migrants arrived in Oldham during lockdown in 2020
• Oldham Council has spent over half a million in 13 months with an HR and payroll software specialist despite wasting £2.1 million on a new HR system called A1 in 2017
• The usually vocal Sean Fielding, Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams remain silent about Andy Burnham’s failure as crime commissioner
• Covid-19 vaccination rollout in Oldham poorly thought out and executed
• Labour Oldham want another £41 million for the town centre for a series of unimaginative schemes with no benefit for most Oldham residents
• For the third time Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding sets a bad example during the pandemic as he travels to Derbyshire for recreation purposes
• A huge 8% increase in school aged children forecast in Oldham over the next 5 years
• Sixteen football teams allowed to enter a charity football tournament in Werneth Oldham’s no1 hotspot for Covid-19 infections
• Labour Oldham’s healthcare decisions have put the safety of people without Coronavirus in jeopardy
• Labour MP Jim McMahon wants people in Oldham to be able to meet in parks despite the infection rate at 022 Alexandra park being a huge 968 per 100,000
• Oldham Councils track and trace is just as shambolic as central government’s
• Oldham Council paid OCL £375,148 more in lockdown March to June than it did for the same period in 2019
• The relentless importation of foreign poverty continues unabated during lockdown in the Oldham areas most vulnerable to Coronavirus infections
• Almost a third of all people applying for the EU settlement scheme in Oldham are children under 18
• Labour Oldham loading the development dice in their favour with the proposed Chadderton partnership
• Labour Oldham Council who spent over £2.1 million on their troubled HR and payroll system made the decision to replace it just two years later
• After failing to let the Egyptian room for almost four years Labour Oldham are spending more money on the already £32 million over budget old town hall development
• Oldham Council bailing out partners but charging market traders unable to trade full rent
• Oldham received the second highest number of migrants ever recorded in the first 3 months of 2020
• Foxdenton parks newly restored cafe vandalised and set on fire before work is completed
• The Oldham eateries with dubious hygiene procedures
• Oldham’s tech hub has become another underperforming over budget Labour Oldham undelivered promise
• Thanks to Oldham Labour Councils housing priorities 171 people will be paying the same Council tax as less than 60 people in average Oldham housing
• Oldham has the worst productivity rate in Greater Manchester
• In 2019 over 2,000 adult migrants arrived in Oldham the second highest rate ever recorded
• Moral and political coward Labour MP Jim McMahon continues to attend gatherings where women are surplus to requirements
• 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