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LOCAL ELECTIONS 2008
May 1st 2008 your last opportunity to vote in local elections
for 2 years (do not forget if you have a postal vote you should receive on
about 17th April) Have your say against New Labour and the Tories before the
general election is called! New Labour and the Tories
have given us:- ·
High council tax and rents way above inflation
for 10 years. ·
Waiting lists in our hospitals ·
No action on anti-social behaviour ·
Reduced numbers of real police on our streets ·
Congestion charges ·
Congested roads ·
Poor public transport ·
High prices for gas, electricity and petrol ·
Streets full of rubbish ·
Neglected education and a lack of young
peoples facilities You can make a difference if you live in one of the wards where a Community Action Party Candidate is standing. Community Action Party candidates May 1st 2008
The Community Action Party will hold New Labour to account
both inside Wigan Council and in the community at large. The Community
Action Party will continue to expose the lies of New Labour in Wigan and will
ensure that the people of
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The Community Action Party has forced New Labour to react to our exposing of their lack of action on all of the issues of public concern such as supporting Remploy workers, carers and the elderly and vulnerable in our society. The Community Action Party have co-operated with the police and the community protection department to help achieve an overall reduction in crime in the Borough. Community Action Party councillors have proactively helped alleviate youth and nuisance problems. We have fought for openness within the Council and its departments, questioning value for money and planning and engineering decisions. Community Action Party Councillors have ensured that the New Labour Cabinet is held to account on their decisions that affect our everyday lives. The Community Action Party is still set to take control away from New Labour in their heartland and bring honesty and integrity into our local politics. Public accountability has given way to secrecy and New Labour have hidden decisions such as the decision not to pay for school uniforms for those who cannot afford them, shooting our local wildlife and not providing the promised performance venue within the regeneration of the Wigan Pier area. In order to look as though New Labour are achieving something they undertake badly planned “flagship” PFI (Private Finance Initiative) projects which may leave us in debt in the future, without any significant benefit. Major road schemes costing millions of pounds which will solve no traffic problems and half hearted flower planting to try and win awards for themselves whilst destroying the hard fought for improvements made by Community Action Party Councillors. Each election the Community Action Party will give the electorate the chance to change things for the better and ensure public accountability in the Borough of Wigan. New Labour will lose; they have no credibility or authority. New Labour Councillors blindly follow the Party line whether or not they actually agree with it. The local New Labour MPs are no different. In this each local election and by-election a vote for Community Action is a positive vote for change, a change for the better and a signal that you will not be satisfied with the status quo offered by the three major National Parties.
NORTH WEST LABOUR PARTY REGIONAL ORGANISER ON FORGERY CHARGES
The offence - under the Forgery and Counterfeit Act 1981 - is
said to have taken place on 28th May 2006 at Grunwald is alleged to have made a false instrument, namely a declaration by a candidate as to an expenses form with intent to deceive St Helens Council's electoral service officer John Welsh. Grunwald, who was election agent for Councillor Marie Rimmer, the former leader of St. Helens Council, did not enter a plea. The allegations were made by members of the For further information click on the link: http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/st-helens-news?articleid=3081808
After a delay of more than five months since she was first
charged Wigan Constituency Labour Party Chair, Dorothy Abbott, has finally
admitted her guilt when she appeared at Ms. Abbott is one of the most influential figures in the Ms. Abbott is also employed as a Senior Officer in Wigan Council's Chief Executives department and is also the GMB union convenor. Astonishingly Ms. Abbott is still on full pay by New Labour Controlled Wigan Council and the GMB. That alone is estimated to have cost Wigan Council taxpayers and GMB union members at least another £50,000 in just over five months in addition to the £28500 that Abbott has admitted to swindling from the department of Works and Pensions over a four year period. Both Wigan Council and the GMB remain silent on the issue and (as of 17-07-07) are continuing to pay Ms. Abbott in spite of her admission that she is a fraudster. Also silent on the issue are Ms. Abbott's New Labour cronies MP Ian McCartney, MP Neil Turner, MP Andy Burnham and Council Leader Lord Peter Smith
Abbott's many other roles, past and/or present, include: Chair of the Wigan Constituency Labour Party election agent. Chair of the Chair of Wigan Constituency Labour Party candidate selection committee. Promoter of Wigan Labour Party newsletters and election leaflets. Chair of Chair of the board of Governors of Mere Oaks Special School. Member of the board of Governors of Brookfield Community High School. Member of the board of Governors of Oakfield Community High School. Member of Chair of For further information please click on the link. http://www.wigantoday.net/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=66&articleid=3034814
CHEAP DEAL
WITH CONSERVATIVES KEEPS NEW LABOUR IN CONTROL OF THE GREATER Conservatives rewarded with Deputy Chair of the Bus Shelters Sub Committee At the commencement of the Annual General Meeting of the GMPTA held on 22nd June 2007, with no party having an overall majority * the 5 member Conservative Group sat on their hands and allowed New Labour to keep control of the GMPTA for 2007/8. The meeting then had to be adjourned as New Labour's proposed allocation of seats on committees, which sought to give New Labour half the seats on every committee, was illegal and their revised proposal was also illegal. When the meeting was re-convened the Conservatives voted for a third New Labour proposal which gave them control of the two major committees, “Policy” and “Transport Network”. In return for their support the Conservatives were given a few miserly crumbs by New Labour, namely the Deputy Chair of the Bus Shelters Sub Committee and the Chair of the Audit Committee. It appears that the Conservatives have sold themselves short and are neither ready nor fit for serious office in Greater Manchester. Conservative voters in Greater Manchester must be wondering why they voted Conservative when they could have just voted Labour in the first place and cut out the middlemen. Conservatives in West Yorkshire and the West Midlands are outraged with the capitulation to New Labour of their Greater Manchester colleagues because this shabby deal leaves New Labour with a 4 to 2 majority of the Chairs on the combined group of the six English conurbation Passenger Transport Authorities** which lobbies the Government on transport policy and funding. Conservatives silent on Congestion Charging Consultation The major policy debate at the GMPTA meeting was about the consultation process on the proposed Congestion Charging scheme – and not a single Conservative Councillor spoke on the issue. Liberal Democrat Leader Councillor Richard Knowles re-iterated the importance of securing a massive £3 billion investment*** to transform Greater Manchester's public transport system. However, he said this can only be achieved if there is clear public and business community support for Labour's congestion charging proposals in time for them to be included in the TIF Bid at the end of July. Community Action Party Councillor Peter Franzen said “I welcome a possible £3 billion investment in Greater Manchester's public transport system which after ten years of a New Labour Government is long overdue, but this should not be conditional on the introduction of congestion charging.” Councillor Peter Franzen then slammed congestion charging as yet another unwarranted tax on motorists and the public at large and questioned the claimed investment programme. He drew attention to reported comments by New Labour Government Minister MP Andy Burnham in the Wigan and Leigh press in which Mr. Burnham called for “a new railway station at Golborne with services to Manchester” and stated “Congestion charging on Greater Manchester roads is a non-starter without a major investment in Leigh's public transport.” Councillor Franzen stated “we want real investment in public transport instead of New Labour crocodile tears, lies and spin. As Mr. Burnham should well know, his Labour party cronies on the GMPTA, including Wigan Councillors Audrey Bennett, Joe Shaw and Mark Aldred all voted against a new railway station for Golborne.” *Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority (GMPTA) has 33 members representing the 10 district councils. 16 Labour, 11 Liberal Democrats, 5 Conservatives and 1 Community Action Party. ** Greater *** claimed to be about £1billion from the Government's Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) and £2billion from the profits from Congestion Charging
PARKSIDE IS NOT A JOB CREATION SCHEME CONTRARY TO THE CLAIMS OF THE DEVELOPERS AND THE NEW LABOUR
SUPPORTERS such as the local MP Andy Burnham the proposed largest freight and
warehousing development in The development is the New Labour Government giving in to
transport companies who prefer large freight transfer and warehousing sites
within a small area of each region, making it easier for them to plan lorry
journeys and transfer freight from vehicle to vehicle. The speculative
developers Astral and other similar developers always prefer The new proposals include removing even larger areas from green belt, the removal of an important motorway junction which will divert heavy traffic elsewhere and cause increased havoc on our local roads and at the other already congested motorway junctions. Access, by local traffic, to the M6 motorway will not only be further but more congested and difficult to get to, not a local benefit. As we all know, even the smallest problem on our local motorways results in gridlock, increasing travelling time for commuters, diverting lorries onto our already congested local roads, increasing pollution by both noise and exhaust emissions. How anybody can give even tacit support to these proposals is beyond me, vehicle weight restrictions on local roads would prove difficult to enforce. Local people and bodies, such as Wigan MBC's planning department and the Lowton and Golborne Township Forum, are engaged in putting in objections to the Regional Assembly's Regional Spatial Strategy which includes the identification of such intermodal freight exchanges. The policing of the HGV's using the site, being restricted to the M6 new junction, will not be either legally or practically enforceable. The fact that the rail movements will be limited to the night time is something that we felt obvious from the outset given the lack of a suitable direct rail link. To be a real and practical rail freight development it would be essential to have direct mainline rail access at all times in order to maximise the removal of freight from our local road network. It may well be the claim of reducing some road freight by transferring it to rail is possible from these proposals but the benefits would not be seen in the North West Region, only in the South of England, all we will have is gridlock more often. If this development goes ahead and whilst work is in progress the roadworks alone will cause immense problems for local transport for at least two years and that is before the tens of thousands of new HGV movements promised by the developers arrive. Screening from outside view will not stop the intrusive and ugly sight of the development from local residents for miles around as well as noise and exhaust pollution increasing beyond reasonable levels. The power from below ground gas could still be used to benefit the local area and businesses without any further industrial development. The suggested use of bio-diesel (still 90 per cent diesel as far as I know) and bio-mass for power generation for the site would need further detail to allow examination of potential benefits and deficits. As for green areas within the site having
been increased in the latest Astral plans, without the development the whole
site could be developed for leisure activities as green open space and could
be used to create some guaranteed jobs with no adverse environmental impact
at all. The number of open spaces available to the people of Wigan, Please click here to see a local map showing location of proposed freight interchange.
Grieving Parents Slam PM The parents of soldier Jamie Hancock, the Hindley Green
teenager who was killed while on duty in Mr. Hancock said he decided to put pen to paper when he was
told that some of his views he had put forward relating to “A week ago our dear son Jamie died in What I write is not disloyal to that tradition. I see the most fantastic, best selling brand name. It is Labour. We now have a group of people in power that have highjacked that much loved party, pillaged, plundered and assumed its identity and emerged as NEW LABOUR. People of this great nation, it stands in no way for the values we hold so dear. We have an administration that is depressive and oppressive. A party machine that is all spin and any dissent from any area is met with ridicule or character assassination. I see Reg Key ridiculed at Sedgefield for having a one item agenda, but to be told the truth by a Government is the absolute key factor in a democracy. It is led by a brilliant orator. It is said that he is sincere. If that is the case he must be the most naïve person in the land. Parliament today is a self care society. The welfare of our nation is not a key priority any more. In its considerations we have a First Minister who has no qualms in standing at the dispatch box and telling the people who elect him a total pack of lies. This character, surrounded by a small group of desperate ministers whose only job qualification is to be a ventriloquists dummy. We have seen the American people give a strikingly similar character a positive rejection this week. I beg each and every one of you to put this destructive Prime Minister of ours under the same scrutiny. Against all advice from informed strategists, top military
advisors and UN weapons chief Hans Blick, this deluded man embarked on a war
which was centrally a personal agenda. In four years we have killed more than
50,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children. Initially liberating them, a further
600,000 have died in most awful circumstances, plus we have lost in After all that he still deludes himself that he is a world
leader. In fact he has made this great nation of ours a laughing stock. A man
with no credibility at all. A man that is dead but won’t lie
down.People of this great nation take pride in our national identity and help
put the G back in
Following secret negotiations by New Labour, Network Rail and
Astral Developments, plans have finally been revealed to build a colossal
warehousing, storage and distribution depot on the former Parkside Colliery
site and adjoining If New Labour and their fat cat cronies are allowed to get
their way they will dump the biggest freight terminal ever to be built in If it is not stopped this scheme will be the biggest man made disaster to hit the North West of England for years and will have a detrimental effect on our villages, towns and local communities for generations to come. Please click here to read more about the proposed PARKSIDE development. Visit the website for the latest news.
In the past 3 years the Community Action Party has changed so much from very small beginnings to where we are now with 18 Councillors. Everything we have achieved over this period has been largely due to the support of you, the people of the Borough. We have massive support throughout the whole Borough, although we are now looking for new volunteers to help with our forthcoming campaigns for the General Election. We are therefore looking for people to help with door to door canvassing or leafleting. If you would like to assist us in this respect or are interested in helping the Community Action Party in other ways, why not become a member of the Community Action Party or make a donation towards the cost of our campaign? Join us now and be a part of the change that is sweeping throughout the whole Borough. |
Barrie
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Labour Plans For A Colossal Freight Terminal On Our Doorsteps Exposed!!
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Us Bring Honesty into Politics !!!!!!!
