Finalised figures released in May show that in 2013/14 more than one in every four Oldham households received an annual average £7,508 in tax credits. This not only means that in real terms these households…
In it’s latest set of filed accounts Oldham Council chooses to base it’s analysis of the social context of Oldham on the outdated 2011 census statistics which allows them to deliberately leave out of the…
Oldham Council and the CCG have already hijacked hundreds of thousands from the public health budget to supply demographically selective new central heating systems in target areas whilst many people struggle to get doctor, dentist and…
The Labour party’s election manifesto was all about families and protecting benefits for families whilst single people, who suffered the brunt of detrimental Conservative social and benefit policies in the previous parliament, were afforded no…
46,000 Romanian and Bulgarian (EU2) citizens immigrated to the UK in 2014, proving that migrationwatch immigration inflow modeling was accurate yet again. 641,000 people immigrated to the UK in 2014 and new National Insurance number…
Despite Labour Oldham’s latest election leaflet telling people how lucky they are to have Council Tax bills frozen for the second year, after Gateshead & Liverpool, Oldham has the highest Council tax of any authority…
The FTSE 100 index closed 36.33 points down at 7060.45 on Wednesday as fears mount that Greece could default on its debts as early as next week. In more EU news in the three months…
Statistics released today show that UK productivity is at a lower level than it was in 2007 prior to the economic recession; this seven-year period has shown the lowest levels of productivity growth since the…
In the second quarter of 2014 A8 Eastern European UK worker numbers grew by 178,000 from a year earlier the 2nd highest increase ever taking the total to over a million for the first time…
The Charity Commission is investigating Human Aid UK which has offices in Oldham & London.The regulator is investigating concerns about the charity’s management, including concerns about poor financial controls and record keeping, including inadequate fundraising…
52% of all UK households now get more in benefits than they pay in taxes, 37.9% of non-retired households get more in benefits than they pay in taxes. The percentage rate for Oldham is far…
Today saw the release of the ‘Migrants in low skilled work’ report from the Migration Advisory Committee some of the most relevant issues & observations to the Oldham population will be highlighted in bold: “Migrants…
“Having discovered that the 2011 Census found nearly half a million more East Europeans in Britain than the immigration figures had suggested, the ONS have at last adjusted the official statistics in today’s release 28/02/2014….