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…
Suffragette champion MP Jim McMahon along with Council leader Jean Stretton and MP Debbie Abrahams never publicly spoke up for his assistant Arooj Shah after she was ousted as a St Mary’s councillor by Muslim…
20,442 adult foreign nationals have registered national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses in the last 16 years with 28% doing so in the last 3 years of which 35% came from Romania. 2015, 2016 and…
In her leaders blog Council leader Jean Stretton writes “COLDHURST has been in the headlines this week after a national study was published on child poverty. I asked Abdul Jabbar, Oldham Council’s Deputy Leader, to…
Does the headline strike you as direct and un-pc, good it is meant to shock. Doing research over a long period of time can eventually reveal an underlying connection between information that initially seems completely…
The last 12 months have seen some genuine highlights and progress for Oldham. A personal favourite was confirming all the funding is in place for our exciting plans for a new Arts and Heritage Centre…
More evidence of the huge pressures placed on Oldham infrastructure and services by mass unskilled migration was delivered this week in the form of the ONS 2016 “output area” population statistics. Output areas (OAs) are…
Prince’s Gate scheme failure, the Town Hall Cinema four times over budget, Hotel Future became Hotel Failure and Foxdenton job predictions cut by 55% all show that Oldham Council’s financial and employment predictions for the…
Yet more school places needed in central Oldham as the ludicrous levels of unskilled immigration and uncontrolled birthrate within high fertility communities create huge pressures on Oldham’s infrastructure. Alexandra Park Junior School in Glodwick proposes…
Not saying Labour Oldham Council are predictable when it comes to suppressing information they don’t want in the public domain but we knew when we found the link governor network document freely available on their…
In 2016 39.3% of births in Oldham occurred in families where either one or both parents are foreign born. When you add the increase in foreign born school aged children arriving in Oldham to the…
More homes to be built in the heavily subsidised Primrose Bank area under the guise of PFI homes for sale but following on from the disastrous first phase of PFI housing at Primrose Bank that…
Tax credit statistics released today show that in the financial year 2015/2016 tax credit payments in Oldham increased by over two and a half million (£2,531,400) compared to 2014/2015. The total claimed in Oldham was…
Lost count how many times over the years we have made the statement that deprivation management is the only growth industry in Oldham and here’s more evidence that it is true. So far there has…
The UK population grew by unsustainable 538,000 in the year to mid-2016 with 62.4% of the increase due to immigration and 89.5% of the total population increase occurring in England. The population of England has…