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Cllr Ian Robertson Walsall Labour South 25 Jan 11
I read that Walsall council have ‘saved’ over £1million each year on the contract for recycling by renegotiating it…we learn that there are negotiations to reduce the cost of the Serco contract…we had the Amey contract…we have the Tarmac contract…cuts to libraries, swimming pools, Walsall music service, debt counseling and domestic violence services.
What sort of borough and council will we be left with?
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The Plastic Hippo 24 Jan 11
Searching for the online presence of the Labour Party in Walsall can lead to some rather interesting places and some others that are best avoided.
Typing “wclg.org” (Walsall Council Labour Group) into the search engine of your choice will take you first to the east side of Chattanooga, Tennessee and the World’s Church of the Living God. There you can join the flock of Bishop WC Hunter and “learn how to walk in a way that pleases God”. If that is not to your taste, move on to Morgantown, West Virginia and have a listen to WCLG-FM, the rock station, featuring a mix of classic and contemporary heavy metal tracks.
If you are able to resist those delights, you will eventually find the Walsall Council Labour Group home page. Go no further…
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Cllr Tim Oliver, Letters Advertiser 16 Dec 10
The conviction of Ali Munir is deeply worrying for all involved in the democratic process in Walsall.
It’s not enough for political parties to wait for the police authorities to catch any bad apples…
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Valerie Vaz, Letters Advertiser 16 Dec 10
Last Thursday (December 9) I voted against the Government’s plans to treble tuition fees.
The fee increase is not necessary, not fair and not good for higher education. The short-term need for deficit reduction does not justify a long-term change in Higher Education (HE) funding…
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Express & Star 16 Dec 10
Labour was today back in charge of Wolverhampton City Council after seizing power from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
A vote of no confidence, unprecedented in the history of the council, returned Labour leader Roger Lawrence to power after 32 months in opposition…
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Cllr Ian Shires 6 Dec 10
There’s a couple of questions I’d love to hear Labour answer. The first being, just how did they get away with introducing Tuition Fees back in 1997 having being totally opposed to such a policy prior to the election of new Labour in that year?
Labour had an overall majority back then so did need to share power with others along with the inevitable compromises that that means.
Back in 1997 Labour inherited a strong economy, not the £1 Trillion debt the Coalition Government is having to deal with following 13 years of New Labour under Blair and Brown…
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Express & Star 24 Nov 10
A stalwart of the Conservative Party in Sandwell who stayed with it even when he was one of its only councillors has quit – to campaign for Labour.
Bill Archer, who recently stood down as a councillor at the age of 83 to care for his wife, has now resigned from the Tories completely…
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BBC Black Country 19 Nov 10
The Conservative Party has lost a council seat in Sandwell it had held for 36 years.
Labour candidate Peter Hughes won the Wednesbury North by-election with a 679 majority.
Mr Hughes received 1,322 votes with Tory Mike Warner getting 643, on a 21.4% turnout of the electorate…
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Ian Robathan Labour News 2 Nov 10
In Walsall we are quite used to Mike Bird after many years of seeing him in and out of charge of the Tory party here. I am ‘lucky’ enough to have him as my local councillor after some Tory gerrymandering a few year back and wouldn’t it be good to see him suffering from cuts as we all do (though he lives nowhere near our estate).
So after the Tory hypocrisy by Mike Whitby as exposed a few weeks ago you would think Bird would have learnt but of course not…
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Adam Lumley The YamYam 20 Oct 10
Voters in the Rushall-Shelfield ward go to the polls on Thursday 11 November in a Walsall Council by election resulting from the sad death of Albert Griffiths. The popular councillor died aged 73 following a short illness last August.
The Rushall-Shelfield seat was scheduled to be contested next May and it is thought that a “gentleman’s agreement” existed between the three main parties to leave the seat vacant until then. However, the Official Monster Raving Loony Party exercised its right to trigger the by election by responding to the “Notice of Casual Vacancy” which requires two registered voters in the borough to request an election.
Councillor Griffiths retained the ward in 2007 with a majority of 579 over second placed Labour. The BNP finished third and the LibDems came fourth ahead of Democratic Labour. In the elections last May, Councillor Rachel Walker (now Andrew) kept the seat for the Conservatives with a 900 vote majority. The LibDems came third with a creditable 956 votes.
The November by election sees the return of the BNP, the inclusion of a Monster Raving Loony candidate, UKIP and veteran Labour former mayor Richard Worrall. But the main talking point will be the decision by the Liberal Democrats not to field a candidate.
It is not clear if Walsall Liberal Democrats have been influenced by the partnership between the national leadership and the Conservatives in government but the 956 people who voted LibDem in the ward in May could turn to any of the others parties and overturn a healthy Conservative majority.
Leader of the Walsall LibDem group, Councillor Ian Shires stated that the decision not to contest the ward was taken by the constituency Aldridge Brownhills Association and gave his assurance that there is no “pact” between LibDems and Conservatives in Walsall.
Richard Worrall, the Labour candidate, told TheYamYam that “the glaring absence of one of the parties of government” was an indication of the reluctance of “LibDem hopefuls hurrying to come forward and face electors on the door-step at this particular time”.
The YamYam invited Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Aldridge and Brownhills Association, Bob Pearce, to issue a statement but none has yet been forthcoming.
The candidates standing in Rushall-Shelfield are:
Mark William Beech – The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Tim Melville – UKIP
Lorna Jean Rattigan – The Conservative Party
Bill Vaughan – The British National Party
Richard Vernon Worrall – The Labour Party