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• Jim McMahon happy once again to attend gender excluded hustings where women are not required
• Immigration lawyer Zaffar Iqbal another religious conservative hoping to pervert the Oldham political landscape
• The Oldham East candidate for the workers party in the general election Shanaz Saddique is a convicted financial fraudster who illegally obtained £360,000 while serving as a magistrate
• Nick Buckley anti-abortionist, supporter of conversion therapy a man critical of women’s hard fought human rights is yet another moral dodo seeing political opportunity in disjointed Oldham.
• Years of public apathy means it is too late to save Oldham
• Labour hypocrites painting themselves as champions of the old Oldham Coliseum building
• The Oldham Group a wolf in sheep’s clothing
• Excluding refugees, asylum seekers and children nearly 7,000 adult migrants arrived in Oldham in 2022 and 2023
• The Egyptian room the most expensive part of the old town hall development to renovate will finally open over 8 years late
• Labour Oldham rebrand St Mary’s Way to distance their new housing developments from the socioeconomic problems of the ward
• At last nights council meeting Labour Oldham had a 30 minute break for Ramadan and debated Gaza for over 30 minutes leaving no time for a motion calling for an inquiry into CSE in Oldham.
• Oldham Council’s town centre district heating network will cost at least £120 million
• George Galloway’s manifesto includes building quality public laundries to enable women to take part in work
• Speeding convictions, disqualified drivers, drug dealers just some of the people applying for a taxi license in Oldham this month
• 29,600 people have applied for the right to settle in Oldham under the EU settlement scheme
• Oldham Council civic centre making way for 600 homes in what already is the top Oldham area for housing benefit claims
• There are over 110 wars & armed conflicts around the world, if you’re only interested in the one you identify with and as a result you want to subvert British politics until it bows to your priorities then your outrage is just a manifestation of your discriminatory ideology.
• Five Labour Oldham leaders failed to deliver the flagship Prince’s Gate retail scheme which is now to become a housing development
• Approximately 25% of households in Oldham don’t pay council tax.
• Oldham Council continues to deliberately mislead the public with its green claims at Broadway green
• Labour Oldham left embarrassed after supporting anti-Semitic Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali
• Seven Romanians charged in connection with Oldham modern slavery and exploitation case
• Oldham Council wastes £23,000 on fireworks
• The National Secular society call out Hulme Grammar School for celebrating world hijab day
• The Labour council leader, the career criminal and the religious misogynist
• Deluded Oldham residents turn out to welcome charlatan faith healer Haq Khatteb Hussain
• Arooj Shah replaces traditional Merry Christmas greeting with “a happy time”
• Arooj Shah continues to demonstrate some equalities in her equalities portfolio are more equal than others.
• Are Arooj Shah and Sacha Lord abusing their positions?
• Jim McMahon already talking nonsense as he rejoins the shadow cabinet after resigning less than three months ago
• After being called out for snubbing Jews & Hindus while only promoting Islam Arooj Shah is now championing multi faith
• Improvement notice issued to Oldham Council after damning Ofsted (SEND) report
• Too many people, too few houses and unscrupulous landlords see private rents increase by 12.3% in the North West
• It only took 20 years to build the great pyramid but Oldham council have spent over 11 years on their Egyptian room
• Oldham sending gender segregated coaches to the million march for Palestine
• Arooj Shah continues to demonstrate her cultural driven priorities
• In the year to June 2023 police recorded 12,936 violent crimes against people in Oldham and 5,328 crimes of stalking and harassment.
• Labour members should be worried that their party thinks Arooj Shah is the right person to chair the Labour Party disciplinary committee.
• The fact that events and attitudes in the Middle East are influencing attitudes and the outcome of Oldham’s 2024 local elections is unacceptable.
• The press should be asking why Oldham Council has only acknowledged one of three recent major religious celebrations.
• Arooj Shah continues the policy of her predecessor’s by misleading the public with unsubstantiated economic claims
• Countering Extremist Threats in the U.K. and Oldham
• Councillor Shaid Mushtaqk’s Alexandra ward has 76% more under fives than the England average
• The percentage of Oldham adults who work has fallen over the last decade with just 2 in 5 adults working in some wards
• Oldham Council celebrating yet another pointless status recognition
• Arooj Shah uses the Civic Centre as a personal resource for her friends and allies, females not required
• Oldham Council still trying to sell a town centre park just a mile from Oldham’s biggest Park as a much needed resource
• After avoiding every pride celebration in Greater Manchester the GMCA portfolio holder for equalities Arooj Shah needs removing from the post
• Oldham independents online presence is an haven for conspiracy theorists and the economically illiterate.
• Labour Oldham still trying to push the positivity of 2,000 new homes in the area which already has the highest number of housing benefit claimants
• Arooj Shah promoting the betrayal of everything Oldham Council promised 12 years ago at Foxdenton
• The Oldham clique and backslappers club
• Record numbers of adult migrants arrive in Oldham in the first six months of 2023
• 12 years after Jim McMahon promised an high end business park at Foxdenton only a coffee shop and budget supermarket have signed up
• Man tries to grab a child next to South Chadderton Metrolink stop
• Oldham’s Council leader who is also the GM portfolio holder for equalities snubs Oldham’s three day pride celebrations
• Oldham’s first government funded family hub opens
• Who is queuing up to buy one of thousands of new homes in the number one Oldham area for benefit claimants?
• The Oldham times not a newspaper just a socialist mouthpiece with no Oldham journalists or offices
• Oldham Council leader Arooj Shah’s local election leaflet in the ward that elected her doesn’t include any local issues
• H&M the latest business to show no confidence in Labour Oldham town centre plans
• Oldham Labour Council is adding 2% to council tax for adult social care despite spending £12 million less on adult social care in 2020/2021 than in 2019/2020
• Labour Oldham’s religious council leader and unelected faith groups interfere in the secular policies of an independent academy
• Oldham continues to pay the third highest average amount of tax credits in the U.K.
• Labour Oldham’s media team masking the abysmal Covid-19 vaccine take up in central Oldham
• Labour Oldham hoist the Pakistan flag as the Pakistani backed Taliban take over Afghanistan
• Food business which Oldham Council scored 5 stars for hygiene closed for blocking sewer and contaminating public footpath
• Labour Oldham leader Sean Fielding now has his own website which missed a few of his achievements
• Oldham Council and NHS partners continue to mislead the public with their 14 week second Covid-19 vaccination messages
• Oldham is openly violating government vaccination prioritisation rules allowing anyone to get vaccinated unchecked while elderly face second dose delays
• Labour Oldham use government safe high streets grant funding to commission an animation to promote their developments
• Arrogant Labour leader Sean Fielding’s blatant use of public finances for self-promotion ahead of the election
• Labour Oldham Council adopted an anti-semitism policy in 2017 to protect Jews from persecution they adopted an Islamophobia policy in 2021 to ostracise critics of Islam from politics and defend endemic discrimination
• Labour Oldham Council paid a project manager £66,400 to manage the ludicrous Northern Roots scheme in 2020
• Oldham is by far the worst place in Greater Manchester for households fly tipping bags of rubbish
• 580 adult migrants arrived in Oldham during lockdown in 2020
• Oldham Council has spent over half a million in 13 months with an HR and payroll software specialist despite wasting £2.1 million on a new HR system called A1 in 2017
• The usually vocal Sean Fielding, Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams remain silent about Andy Burnham’s failure as crime commissioner
• Covid-19 vaccination rollout in Oldham poorly thought out and executed
• Labour Oldham want another £41 million for the town centre for a series of unimaginative schemes with no benefit for most Oldham residents