Good to see in his first speech yesterday that the new Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding continued the policy started by Jim McMahon and maintained by Jean Stretton of keeping record unskilled immigration pressures in…
Oldham Council has been given £602,000 from the government’s oddly named “Controlling Migration Fund” to deal with pressures from high volumes of migrants and in true Labour Oldham style they are spending 60% of the…
On Tuesday Oldham council leader Jean Stretton has been ousted by the council’s Labour group, Failsworth Councillor Sean Fielding will become the new leader on the 23rd of May. Councillor Fielding took to twitter on…
Here’s Oldham Labour Council’s response to our freedom of information request on the numbers of foreign born children in Oldham schools. Apparently the Council the body who oversee school admissions don’t actually collect any data…
No Oldham Council press release and no mention in our biased local press. Labour Oldham Council are setting up an “Emerging Communities Team” with an emerging communities manager, a Romanian Roma outreach worker, a Czech…
In another new report to add to the long list charting the demise of Oldham our borough is named as the second least liveable Northern area by the your housing group. So its well done…
Local and central Labour politicians thrive on demanding resignations within any political opposition party when a scandal is exposed so it makes you wonder why the three current Labour Oldham Councillors who broke the law…
Today’s crime figures release for Oldham show that in the year to December 2017 the number of public order offences grew by 127%, violence by 72%, weapons possession by 57%, stalking & harassment by 54%,…
Government statistics released today show that the 014 area of Oldham has the joint 7th lowest household income in England & Wales. This is the area which already has 44% more housing benefit claimants than…
An international law enforcement operation has disrupted what is believed to be one of the most significant people smuggling networks operating between Iraq and the UK. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers arrested three suspected members…
Oldham Labour Council have been debating a motion on adopting a modern slavery policy at their Council meeting on 28/03/2018. Now this would be admirable had it not been that one of their own Labour…
Schools census stats from January 2017 show minority ethnic pupils now make up 46.5% of primary school pupils in state-funded Oldham schools & 39.8% of pupils in state-funded Oldham secondary schools. According to Oldham Council’s…
We have all seen the report on the BBC about child poverty in Oldham which concentrated on tugging at the heart strings and chose to completely avoid an assessment of Oldham’s socioeconomic landscape or the…
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon is moaning about the latest employment figures for Oldham. This serial failure forgot to add that 3,130 minimum wage jobs he announced with a fanfare of press releases when serving…
Oldham Council is yet again searching for yet another development partner for its ill thought out Oldham town centre masterplan. Quote from the latest press release from Oldham Council “Oldham Council is set to formally…