For the third consecutive financial year on the trot, 2019-2020, Oldham paid out the third highest average amount of tax credits in the U.K. with only Hackney & Tower Hamlets paying more per claimant. The…
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Oldham Labour Council’s spin doctors are continuing to mask the abysmal rates of COVID-19 vaccine take up in central Oldham despite a massively disproportionate allocation of hours and resources in those areas. The adage is…
Why is it people in their late seventies in Oldham due their second doses are being told by their NHS health practices they have no vaccine stocks yet pop ups like the Millennium Cultural Centre…
I’d call it a misuse of government funding because it is! This shameless promo ignores the government brief and is targeted at promoting Labour developments. To go along with its recent public funded self promotion…
Another story of expensive Oldham Council incompetence not covered by their friends in the local press. Chronic-Oldham covered the disastrous rollout of Oldham Councils new HR and Payroll system in 2017 which went over budget…
Cash strapped Labour Oldham Council who currently have the begging bowl out spent (wasted) at least £2.1 million of public money on a new human resource & payroll software system called the A1 programme which…
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…
Good to know your local socialist MP’s who constantly tell you they can identify with their constituents problems Oldham’s very own austerity champions Jim McMahon & Debbie Abraham’s claimed £50,000 in accommodation expenses in a…
By October 2017 cash strapped, austerity challenged Oldham Labour Council had spent £2.1 mill on its new human resource and payroll system it now plans on spending another undisclosed six figure sum on a human…
Announced in 2014 by serial regeneration scheme failure Jim McMahon the “Prince’s Gate” development at mumps was described as “a ‘gamechanger’ regeneration scheme aiming to transform the town centre’s eastern gateway with new shops, quality…
Labour Oldham Council are hiking council tax by nearly 4%, cutting 24 full time staff, removing the £45,000 grant to the dial a ride service but will maintain their marketing team which has seen no…
Today’s NI figures release shows that adult immigration from the EU to Oldham was at the same level in 2018 as it was in 2017. This contradicts figures that show migrant numbers from the EU…
In the last 2 years the number of households on Oldham council’s social housing register has increased from 10,000 to 24,118 more than triple the number in neighbouring local authority areas. As a result Oldham…
“Oldham night time economy task force” not the latest superhero movie but another publicity opportunity chaired by the same inept politicos who have in recent years failed to deliver four out of every five town…
Oldham Council that wonderful institution that champions equality and an inclusive society, those forward thinkers who removed funding and green flag status from five of the boroughs parks because of budget cuts but then continued…