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taken from local Labour Party news sheet doing the rounds
The Local Voice:- the voice of doom and gloom

what did Middlesbrough Labour Party do?
beg steal borrow over 125 million £££'s from the public purse
to demolish 125 houses in Gresham / Middlehaven
fantastic value for money

Middlesbrough Labour Party News Sheet
Headline:
Labour Investment Threatened by Savage Cuts Tory Cuts Target our Town
The savage needless and unfair Tory Government Cuts have as usual hit Middlesbrough harder than anywhere else in the country. The Tory led government is imposing a budget cut of 8.8% on Middlesbrough the highest in the country
when the average is half of that.

So the Coalition was RIGHT, Ed?
Balls admits Labour would NOT reverse tax rises and spending cuts... and public sector pay freeze is here to stay
• Shadow chancellor now says he accepts freeze up until 2015
• Refuses to commit to the next Labour government reversing tax rises or spending cuts
• Union conference likely to vote on whether to remain affiliated to the party
• Bob Crowe: Balls has betrayed Labour's union supporters
• Tories: 'Balls and Miliband look like they’re conceding defeat'
By Daniel Miller
Last updated at 2:11 PM on 14th January 2012

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1jSEdK71y

Labour MPs revolt against 'Barmy Ed' and 'Weak Ed' for caving in to Tory agenda
Bookies say Ed Miliband is odds-on to step down as Labour leader before next general election
By Brendan Carlin
Last updated at 10:21 PM on 14th January 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1jVoj0tC5

Labour 'would have cut school building scheme'

15 January 2012 Last updated at 11:52
Some schools awaiting rebuilds rely on temporary classrooms
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg has admitted that Labour's school building programme
"didn't always deliver absolute value for money".
He also told the Observer he would have cut £2bn from the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) budget if re-elected.
The coalition government scrapped the £55bn BSF project in July 2010, arguing it had been beset by
"massive overspends" and "needless bureaucracy".
At the time, Labour described the cancellation as "a tragedy".
Under the BSF scheme, every secondary school in England was to have been be rebuilt or refurbished.
But Education Secretary Michael Gove cancelled projects at more than 700 schools, sparking complaints from
teachers, pupils and unions.
'Greater efficiency'
In the newspaper interview, Mr Twigg said:
"I have accepted that while BSF and other capital programmes did some brilliantly good things -
and I have been to some of the schools built under that programme - it didn't always deliver absolute value for money.
"There is scope to do what BSF did at a lower price and there are lessons we can learn from BSF
and other projects to achieve greater efficiency."
Mr Twigg is the latest in a number of senior Labour figures to accept some spending cuts
A government-commissioned review published last April said BSF delivered consistently poor value for money
and savings of up to 30% could have been made, for example, by standardising the design of all new buildings.
Mr Twigg's comments are the latest in a number by senior Labour figures accepting some of the government's spending cuts.
Earlier this month, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said
his party would also have made £5bn of government cuts to the military.
And on Sunday, Ed Miliband told the BBC he agreed with a public sector pay freeze imposed by the coalition.
Mr Miliband said Labour was "determined to show it would be fiscally credible in government",
but insisted ministers were still cutting too far and too fast.
For example, he said his party was in favour of a 12% reduction in the police budget - compared with the 20% currently being implemented.
Mr Twigg told the newspaper: "I think this is a very, very good example where I can rise, in a sense,
to the challenge Ed Miliband has set for all of us in the shadow cabinet."
He also said he supported government plans to make it easier for schools to sack poorly performing teachers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16566635

U.K.’s Labour Seeks to Emulate Cameron Plans to Aid Credibility
January 16, 2012, 4:32 AM EST
The U.K.’s opposition Labour Party sought to emulate Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans for lower spending and higher taxes after 2015 in an effort to rebuild its credibility on the economy.
Even as he argued ruling lawmakers are cutting the budget deficit “too far and too fast,” opposition leader Ed Milband said yesterday the next government will likely need to tackle record borrowing after the 2015 election and so couldn’t now promise to reverse tax increases and spending cuts.
“The prospects for what we will inherit if we win the election in 2015 look pretty grim, frankly, and we are showing that we understand those circumstances,” Miliband said on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s “Andrew Marr Show.”

Middlesbrough:- "The Local Voice" of Doom & Gloom

barks out "The Local Voice" news shit again

Middlesbrough Labour Party in charge of Middlesbrough for eons use sad excuse to oppose resident parking charges

Middlesbrough Labour Party:- proud in their creation of

“town centre wards which were among the most deprived in the country”

The petition has been supported by Labour councillor John McPartland, Middlehaven ward; Pervaz Khan, Middlehaven Ward; and Sajaad Khan, Gresham ward.
They said that the Labour Group opposed the proposed charge and they were confident the mayor would not agree to the charge when the final decision was taken.
They pointed out that the resident parking zones were in town centre wards which were among the most deprived in the country.

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danniboi
11:56 AM on January 16, 2012
It makes you wonder WHY the Evening Gazette sit back and do very little, A local paper such as the Gazette could have added many more signatures to that petition had they bothered to maybe add it to the website, or even in the local paper with a return address. Ever keen to print a story yet not so keen to get involved, would rather let the pensioners do the work I guess. Good luck to Mr Fawcett and the Middlesbrough Senior Citizens’ Forum, they have done more already to highlight the issue than the local paper.
Read More http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... z1jczLw5AD

tripehound
5:21 PM on January 16, 2012
Does Mr Mallon live in Middlesbrough yet?
If not he should move to the town he rules and pay his council tax, that should add a bit to the town hall's coffers.
He could also take a wage cut but I know he'll never do that
Read More http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... z1jhqXUAnY

Read more:-
Labour didn’t care who landed in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... itain.html

The foreigners being paid £2billion in benefits a year including 371,000 on the dole (and 5,000 claiming £42m in illegal handouts)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1jzv0VjLt

By Robert Winnett, Political Editor
10:00PM GMT 19 Jan 2012
1845 Comments
The migrants, who can claim unemployment, housing and incapacity benefit, are costing taxpayers billions of pounds a year.
In other countries, many would have had to return home after their visas expired or their employment ended.
But Chris Bryant, shadow immigration minister, today blamed the Government and said the situation would only get worse due to lax border controls, rising migration and increasing unemployment.
He said: "Tory ministers are resorting to rhetoric and misinformation to hide the reality of their failures on immigration and unemployment.
"Far from strengthening immigration control the Government is returning fewer illegal migrants and net migration has continued to increase. And at the same time increasing numbers of people born here and abroad are on out-of-work benefits because the government's failure on the economy has pushed unemployment up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -dole.html