37.5% of all housing benefits paid out in the entire EU are paid in the UK
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…
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Labour Oldham Councillor Shoab Akhtar appearing on UK44 TV telling people that a vote for Labour should mean an increase in your benefits
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…
Three years after opening Jim McMahon’s Oldham Town Hall Cinema legacy is a £32 million overspend, £8 million in unrealised wages and two empty units that have failed to generate rental income and business rates contributions for three years
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…
Oldham MP’s Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams continue to do everything in the their power to subvert the referendum result
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…
Labour deselect a loyal Oldham councillor because of his opposition to housing on Oldham’s greenbelt
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…
After just four years of freedom of movement Romania has replaced Poland as the second most common country of birth for non-UK-born fathers and the third for non-UK-born mothers
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…
The government help secure jobs at Ferranti in Oldham while the council leader panders to pressure groups targeting the Oldham factory
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…
Nothing quite conveys austerity more than Labour Oldham spending £48,000 on fireworks for bonfire night
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 we identified why Labour Oldham refused to disclose the cost of park thefts and to confirm our hypothesis they just announced spending £80,000 on a Northern Roots garden
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…
Figures released today show the number of adult migrants registering as living in Oldham between April and June 2019 is the highest number ever recorded for any second quarter time period on record.
Figures released today show the number of adult migrants registering as living in Oldham between April and June 2019 is the highest number ever recorded for any second quarter time period on record. Don’t expect…
2017 to 2018 government figures show only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham
Today’s government release of tax credit figures for 2017 – 2018 shows that only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham and 3 Greater Manchester areas…
44,000 Oldham library books have been misappropriated in 25 years so the Labour Council have decided to remove fines after discovering offenders are concentrated in the most deprived wards
Labour Oldham have cancelled library fines the decision “was made to encourage more people to use the 12 libraries across the borough and increase literacy levels among young people.” The Council’s press release just casually…
Oldham’s number one NIMBY Labour Council leader Sean Fielding
Labour Oldham leader Sean Fielding telling everyone on Twitter (he hasn’t blocked) what a wonderful councillor he is when what it really shows is his nimby attitude to his own ward something he and his…
Oldham’s immigration hotspot recorded a 22% increase in the number of children in tax credit recipient families in just 2 years
More evidence of the impact of recent high fertility immigration on both the benefit system and early years provision. Government tax credit figures show that in the 2 years between August 2014 and August 2016…
ONS figures show the population of the town of Oldham grew by 10.4% in 8 years and employment actually fell while in Chadderton employment grew by 38%
Interesting facts from the 2009 to 2017 ONS figures for employment and population growth released today that you will not be reading in the sanitised local press. Chadderton has seen Population growth of 4.9% and…