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• 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
• 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