I now have the official figures (surprisingly) from freedom of information requests I made in October and the cost of the failed versions of Prince’s Gate to Oldham Council is £3.3 million and the cost…
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Oldham Council should have responded to my freedom of information request within 20 working days with the information requested or refused my application for information. My request was about the costs of abandoned versions of…
Despite already spending well over £42 million of public cash on the town hall cinema, a development originally supposed to cost £10 million, Oldham Labour Council are spending another undisclosed amount over £250,000 to fit…
Another quarter of a million allocated for new school places in just four Oldham schools due to ongoing record levels of international new arrivals. Migration already used up all spare Oldham school capacity with a…
Between 2011 and 2019 the number of OAP’s in Greater Manchester fell by 12,708, between 2011 and 2018 the population of Greater Manchester grew by 130,869 we all know what is really creating the strain…
When Jim McMahon’s brainchild “Our House” store was declared bankrupt just four months after opening in 2015 it was clear that Labour Oldham’s business acumen and suitable partner procurement protocol was clearly in question. Who…
The EU’s own Eurostat figures show that 37.5% of all housing benefits paid out across the 28 countries that make up the EU are paid in the UK and 81.5% are paid out in the…
You really couldn’t make this up Labour Oldham councillor Shoab Akhtar appearing on UK44 TV channel telling people that a vote for Labour will mean an increase in your benefits. UK44 is part of the…
Oldham Labour poster boy MP Jim McMahon’s Oldham Town Hall Cinema Opened 3 years ago today on 21/10/2016 let’s celebrate his success and the accuracy of his cost and outcome economic assessment which promised a…
Let’s play the democracy card by ignoring the biggest democratic mandate in UK history and order another referendum which will hopefully go the way I want. “Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP for Leave supporting Oldham East…
The nodding dogs at Labour have had their instructions and deselected loyal Labour Oldham Councillor Stephen Hewitt for next year’s local elections. We are sure its got nothing to do with him leading the opposition…
Romania rose up the rankings and replaced Poland as the second most common country of birth for foreign-born fathers and the third for non-UK-born mothers in the UK in 2018 just 4 years after being…
In his relentless hunt for votes Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding recently said he would like to help Ferranti at Greenacres move into green technologies rather than military contract work despite Ferranti never asking for…
Ironic at a time when the public are sick to death of out of touch politicians Labour Oldham who cut the entire £45,000 annual funding for the dial a ride service will be wasting £48,000…
Less than two weeks ago, after refusing our freedom of information request, we pointed out that Oldham Council refusing to disclose the cost of theft from Oldham parks after the recent £60,000 theft at Alexandra…