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Walsall Labour Party 26 Feb 11
Walsall Tories have passed a budget which only promises more pain for residents and communities.
Conservative councillors pushed through a budget that will result in the loss of 430 jobs while refusing to reveal when, and on which services the axe will fall.
Walsall Labour group leader Cllr Tim Oliver said the Conservatives are hiding the true scale of the cuts to avoid voters’ anger during May’s local elections…
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BBC News 25 Feb 11
More than 430 jobs are to go as Walsall Council aims to save £23.5m over the next year.
The figure includes 102 compulsory redundancies and the same number of voluntary redundancies at the Conservative-controlled authority. A total of 138 posts are vacant and the remaining jobs have been relocated.
Council leader Mike Bird said…
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Pheasey Park Farm Labour 24 Feb 11
For Walsall Tories in general to try and take credit for the council tax freeze is pure political opportunism.
We all know central government froze the council tax as a political gesture as it would have been awful to see cuts and at the same then see council tax rises… …and unlike other councils it is not clear where the cuts will actually fall…
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Cllr Ian Shires 24 Feb 11
Given the financial mess the country has been left in after 13 years of Labour Governments, this year’s budget will probably be the most difficult that the council has had to face.
It will be even more difficult than the one back in 2000 when, after a period of disastrous Labour administrations which saw balances reduced from £42million to virtually £zero, Walsall Council was adjudged to be the worst in the country.
The good news today is that …
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Express & Star 23 Feb 11
Twenty-two toilets in the West Midlands have been closed over the past decade and more are set to shut as councils cut funding according to the British Toilet Association.
In Walsall over the past 10 years three public conveniences have ceased to be. People who are caught short in Darlaston need to use the Asda supermarket toilets instead…
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Jonathan Walker B'ham Mail 23 Feb 11
Police forces will need to make massive reductions in bureaucracy as they struggle to cut police numbers without letting crime go up, MPs have warned.
A powerful Commons committee expressed concern about the dramatic cuts facing forces including West Midlands Police, after quizzing the Chief Constable, Chris Sims…
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Pheasey Park Farm Labour 18 Feb 11
On Thursday the council will announce the full range of the cuts that the central Tory led government are forcing on us, not that you hear any condemnation from Mike Bird and his fellow Tories of course.
If you want to see the range of cuts they have been published here as part of the documents for the council meeting.
Of course it is a very dry document and a lot of words like renegotiation and rationalisation spring up so you would think the Council have some idea can be completed as to the plan.
The biggest savings are …
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The Plastic Hippo 19 Feb 11
It would be a fair assumption to think that this humble blog does not hold a high opinion of either the coalition government or the ruling Conservative group in Walsall.
It would also be reasonable to assume that the juvenile, vitriolic badinage contained within these pages considers the opposing alternatives with only slightly less contempt. However, the Tories can claim an unbeatable advantage as they are blessed with the genius of sublime irony.
Attempting to deflect the gathering storm of protest against library closures in Walsall, the empty-headed heavy-weights in cabinet were wheeled out to categorically assert that all libraries would remain open. Proof, if proof were needed, of a caring, listening council. Not quite…
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Pheasey Park Farm Labour 18 Feb 11
It was very interesting to come home today from work and see the second Conservative leaflet in just a month after having so few recently.
You have to ask if it was rushed out after our open letter was published on the YamYam (sadly to go) and today in the Walsall Advertiser and Great Barr Observer…
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Mark Cowan B'ham Mail 18 Feb 11
Police chiefs have spared the coffers of householders by agreeing to freeze its council tax precept despite the swinging budget cuts it is facing.
The decision was made in order to take advantage of a Government grant paid to council authorities that hold off tax rises for the coming year. It is thought the additional grant could be worth up to £2million on top of its £577m budget…