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 de-designated Royton Moss as a site of biological importance which is the only reason it was protected from the Greater Manchester spatial framework development plan which stated “Any development would also be…
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…
Oldham Council have removed the “cost centre” column from their monthly spending publications which they are not obliged to provide under central government regulations. This column has one simple purpose which is just to identify…
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…
Labour constantly complain about the broken Universal Credit system but never mention which Oldham areas are making the most claims so here is a graph we downloaded from the Department for Work and Pensions with…
Oldham Labour Council leader Jean Stretton stated that the election result showed that people continued to “trust us with looking after this borough and its future”. Here’s some perspective for Jean just 17.1% of eligible…
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…