It looks like the whole benches on John Merrys side are lining up to fight for the Mayoral position
it seems Mr wheeler is on board which one we seem to have mixed reports will keep you updated…
I wonder who’s next Hazel
i wonder how Johns feeling tonight.
Just a thought say you had a company for example peacocks that’s what we will call ours today,your company gets into financial difficulty it needs cash flow,its debts needs restructuring and breathing space. So you go to see your bank for help,that bank is one of the main banks to be bailed out by the tax payer but that bank takes away your credit and you close putting 9,500 people on the dole. Question if we bailed out the bank in the first place and peacocks could offer a plan to turn around the business would it have not been more sensible to try to keep the company afloat. If we bailed these banks out why have we no say on how they are running? the money is in the banks but they choose to sit on it only working with central banks,are we going back to square one. Greece looks likely to pull from the euro and others must follow,QE Is doing little but weaken pensions so what’s next. Condems cut and Labour shout from the sides!! it must be time for something different.
But at the meeting i spoke with the organ Grinder i can’t see the point in talking to the monkey can you
last year one Liberal Democrat complained bitterly about councillors not being local,the funny part if i can believe the phone call i received last NIGHT is true,is that he has his house up for sale. So i wonder where will he be standing this year
The average council tax per household in Salfords labour council is £1015.00. So for that your expect services like any other business, could you imagine going to the butchers and paying £6.00 FOR TWO LAMB CHOPS AND TODAY ONLY GETTING ONE? well to be honest under Salford’s Labour Council that’s what’s happening the services you thought you where paying for are going the same way only Cllr Merry will expect you to carry on paying premium lamb prices and getting Mutton.
Salford council approved budget cuts of £42m – described by council leader John Merry as ‘unfair’. The devastating cuts will see the Proms in the Park event axed, libraries closed and all staff told they will now have to pay for parking. Street cleaning will also be slashed and volunteers could be asked to help run Salford Museum and Art gallery. Just under 600 jobs will be lost at the town hall, but most will be through voluntary redundancy. The budget was passed at 3.20pm today at the Civic Centre in Swinton after five hours of heated debate. It was voted against by all Conservative councillors with two Liberal Democrat councillors abstaining. An alternative budget was put forward by the Conservatives but was voted down by Labour. Norman Owen, Liberal Democrat leader of the council, criticised the council for not including them in the building of the budget programme.
All this from a group that stopped independents from sitting on the budget scrutiny committee and took the place themselves ,and then abstains,How can you offer a view when you can’t be bothered to offer one yourself?
Louisa Peacock 12 June 2009 11:00
A senior HR official at Salford City Council has become embroiled in a £70,000 expenses row after he claimed for 80 toy men to use as props in a training exercise.
David Horsler, assistant director of HR, spent £163.91 on the Hair-ee Magno Man rope figure toys, with magnets for hands and feet, to use in classroom-based training.
His claim was exposed after Manchester Evening News revealed 18 top officers and two leading councillors claimed £68,768 over the course of 2008-09.
The expenses, classified by the council as “corporate costs” separate to the personal expenses claims and allowances officials make, were run up on bank purchasing cards.
The claims included a restaurant bill of £846, and claims for luxury hotels and first class train travel, including one receipt for £591 on train tickets for three council delegates to attend a government conference in London on unemployment. Officials also used the money to recruit staff, the paper reported.
The council has agreed to publish bank statements detailing each transaction after the local paper was leaked a table of expenditure using the cards over the past year.
Councillors’ normal annual allowances and expenses are already published on the council website.
A council spokesman told Personnel Today the Magno men were a “valid expense”, stating the toys were “re-usable and available to any city council employee who needs them if they are delivering training”.
He added: “The corporate costs incurred were for a range of all sorts of things, for example the procurement of staff. The claims were for corporate costs, the officials were not buying something for themselves.”
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20.01.2012
Unemployment – Regional: Economic Indicators page
Over the period September to November 2011, the North East had the highest unemployment rate, at 12.0% of the economically active population. The lowest rates over the same period were 6.5% in the South West and 6.4% in the South East.
19.01.2012
Youth unemployment statistics
In the period September-November 2011, 1.04 million young people aged 16-24 were unemployed, up 52,000 (or 5.2%) on the previous quarter and up 93,000 (or 9.8%) on the same quarter in 2010.
Keep on file ready for the leaflets,16,000 leaflets to get out next week hope the feet are up to the walking,Any one can help your welcome to join in. You don’t see that many punters from Salford on TWITTER but it makes great titbits when you start to shove stuff through the door,my favourite from Cllr Warmisham Unfit to serve
go well together those two don’t you think.
