OUR CARING LABOUR GOVERNMENT SHOW THEIR TRUE COLOURS

Once again we see the true colour's of our labour Government.

They send our brave troops to a fight in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN often without the proper equipment expect them to put their lives on the line every day then fail to look after them if they should be injured or die.

But our caring wonderful political correct Labour government Pay a Iraq boy who was Injured accidentally by a British soldier £2000,000 yes 2 Million Pounds.

Yet our own Soldiers who get Killed or Injured get a maximum of £250,000 if they are lucky and usually have to fight for every penny.

Is not about time we sent a very strong message to them that enough is enough neglecting our own and pampering to every one else.

You can send this message on MAY 1st by using your vote and vote for change.

LABOUR TAKE CONTROL OF LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS

Once again our devious underhanded local labour activists take control of our local community groups.

They are so paranoid of loosing control and having to answer to you the tax payers they will go to any length to take control of the community.

By high jacking local community groups set up originally by hard working local people who have their local area's and community's dear to their harts.

Meadows Community Partnership

This group was set up around 4 years ago by a small dedicated team of local residents with the help of Independent Councillor Caven Vines.

This group slowly under the chairmanship of Local resident Mrs Carol Dobson
raised funds to put on two community fun days for the residents of Meadowbank, and the rest of the Meadows Community area.

They drew down funding for security devises for the older residents of Cain Gardens. This together with drawing upon Objective 1 funding to bring childcare to the area through the local school at Kimberworth.

They also had a representative on the Housing Path finder project which was to decide what was required to be built on Shrewsbury Terrace. This linked to the Consultation the Partnership did with the local people on the needs of future housing in the Meadowbank area.

From this the overwhelming view of the local community was to see affordable rented two bedroom bungalows built on the site so that people who had a need for such accommodation would not have to move from the area they lived with their families close by.

But this did not meet with the labour Controlled Councils plan so they altered the rules so that the chosen Representative from the Meadows could not attend the meetings. The local labour councillors then devised a plan to take over control of the group. By turning up at the annual general meeting with labour activists who had never been near the place before and out voted the hard working group . and Guess who they put in the chair?

Yes their chosen Labour Candidate Cath Sims. So now they control the community partnership and guess what their is no plans to meet the peoples wishes to provide Bungalows.

Also since they have taken control no funding has been obtained and not one activity has been carried out . All they want is to control the area not do anything for you the community.

Local area assembly they decided that they needed a person to Represent the Community in North Rotherham. so who do they make sure gets voted on a Ian Jones the Chair of the Richmond Park Tara Group and one of the Sponsors of Yes you got it Cath Sims the Labour Candidate

you really must ask your self just who do these so called community representatives really represent one thing is for sure Its NOT YOU.

and we thought Communism was dead

IS ROTHERHAM COUNCIL RUN BY PRIVATE PROFIT MAKING COMPANY'S

Is this the reason we have to pay inflation busting council tax increases so we can ensure record profits for these private company's running our council services.

• Schools Built by private companies (at what cost to the tax payer)
• But at what cost to the tax payer Private companies work to make a profit
• Why can't the council build and run the schools then they would save the profit
• they are paying these companies and reduce the council tax.

• Waste collection By private companies (at what cost to the tax payer)
• Now they only collect the waste every two weeks and will not take extra waste in bags
• How much do the actually recycle how much of the Green bin content goes to landfill
• How much extra is it costing you the tax payer for this reduced service.

• Grass cutting and park maintenance By private companies ( at what cost to the tax payer)
• We only have to look around at the state of the Grass cutting and the state of the flower beds that's if you can find any. Most of our parks have been funded by local community groups with the council taking up to 10% fee from the funding then not maintaining the equipment then trying to claim the credit at election times when it was Local People working hard for free Groups such as Friends of Bradgate Park who did all the work.

• Council Tax collection, Purchasing, Call Centre. Plus many more services are run for the Council by RBT ( British Telecom ). But at what cost to you the Tax payer.
• Just how efficient are these services, are we getting a second rate service.
• How many times have you rang the call centre but could not get through
• How efficient are they at collecting the Council Tax, and other services they have taken over.
• Again is it a case of running on a shoe string to make more profit.
• Remember private companies don't work for you they work to make a profit for their share holders.
• We must ask the question why do the Council employ so many highly paid directors of services and department heads when most is contracted out why are they not capable of running the jobs them selves they get paid more than enough to do it.
• Or is it that the Ruling Labour Group (Labour Councillor's ) are not capable of knowing how to run the show, it makes me wonder. No wonder they keep things secret.
• ROTHERHAM THE FREE BANK
• If they are so short of money and have to cut services and have to put up our council tax to balance the books.
• THEN HOW CAN THEY FIND THE MONEY TO LEND OUT FREE OF INTEREST AND NO PAYBACK TIME SCALE TO PRIVATE ORGANISATIONS.

LOCAL COUNCILLOR'S ARE THERE TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITY

CAVEN VINES
Helping at a local community fund raising Gala Day

A key role for any local councillor is to help local the community. With individual personel problems, or group community activity's such as fund raising, giving help and advice on how to improve the local environment and local issue's. Being their to represent the Local Community in the Town Hall Raising awareness to local issue's working for the the local community and all the people in the ward. Not being a puppet to some faceless political master who is there to enforce on the community what they want and not what

the community wants you the tax payer Your local councillor should be your voice and answer only to you.

HELPING AGE CONCERN

With our carring Labour Controlled Council withdrawing the much needed funding from our Old and Vunerable citizens and putting more and more on the already hard pressed Charity Age Concern They need all the help they can get.




CAVEN VINES HELPING

AGE CONCERN FUNDRAISE

WHAT ABOUT OUR OLD AND VULNERABLE

Roger Stone Leader of Rotherham Council Jets off to Nashville for a very nice Jolly.

Surely Roger when you are taking over £40,000 a year from the Tax Payers could you not afford to pay for your own holiday.

Then you come back with a £400,000 scheme funded by the Tax payer's to give all children in Rotherham a free book every month for five years, Most of the children targeted can't even read at that age. And then you all have a nice lunch with Dolly Parton, What a brilliant Idea what a brilliant way to spend our hard earned council tax.

But I thought they had provided our children with 21st century schools I thought the schools taught children to read. What do we have library's for don't they lend books out to the people I am sure last time I looked they had a childrens section.

But what about the Old and Vulnerable in our community the most who have worked and paid their due's and demands into the system but now they need our help what does Our Council Leader do? Withdraws the funding for the day centres puts the council tax up puts up their heating costs. Kick's them in the teeth.

£400,000 would go along way to improving the quality of life for some of our old and vulnerable they have paid their dues and demands now we should give a little back Roger don't you think.

So lets get your priorities right for once.

But of course this is New Labour at their best.

Perhaps Age Concern should have taken him and his cronies on a nice Jolly? I hear Barbados is nice this time of the year.

WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE IT FAIR FOR ALL

In many elections it is far too easy to go in for vote fraud.
On 18 March 2008, it was reported that a UK politician, Eshaq Khan, had been found guilty of involvement in vote fraud. (BBC NEWS UK England Berkshire Councillor guilty of voting ... / Postal voting cheats are threat to May elections - Times Online)In 2007, Eshaq Khan (Conservative) beat Lydia Simmons by 119 votes in Slough council's Central Ward. But Khan was 'incompetent' and too 'blatant' and got caught using fake postal votes.Khan and his Conservative team (1) created hundreds of false names and entered them on the electoral register. (2) Then made applications for postal votes for these "ghost voters".
Judge Richard Mawry QC said: "Despite the 2006 Act, the opportunities for easy and effective electoral fraud remain substantially as they were on 4 April, 2005."Mawrey said that postal voting on demand was “lethal to the democratic process”.
He said that the current system made “wholesale electoral fraud both easy and profitable.”
Mawrey concluded: “There is no reason to suppose that this is an isolated incident. Roll-stuffing [packing the electoral roll with fictitious voters] is childishly simple to commit and very difficult to detect. To ignore the probability that it is widespread, particularly in local elections, is a policy that even an ostrich would despise.”
It was in 2000 that postal voting on demand was introduced in the UK
In April 2005, Richard Mawrey, QC, said electoral fraud in Birmingham would “disgrace a banana republic.”

ELECTORAL SERVICES HAVE A DUTY TO CHECK ALL VOTES NOT JUST A FEW AND MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR FOR ALL

The Secret Council

This Labour Council claims to be open and listening the reality is somewhat different. Information is power so we are denied access to even the most basic information. Below is a list of questions that come to mind in our ward, it is not exhaustive.

• Why do they not keep is informed of developments in our area?
• What is going to happen to Kimberworth School?
• Why have we not been told of the South Yorkshire plans to build a waste incinerator and in who's back yard?.
• The Council is run more like a Masonic Lodge than a part of the Labour Party.
• What has happened to the Sports Centre proposed for West Hill?
• What greenbelt land do the council propose to use for development?

This Council does not accept that, in a democracy, disclosure of information is a fundamental part of democratic accountability. Indeed they now propose to publish a newspaper to keep us informed, no doubt, at our expense. There is little chance that it will be editorially independent they should call it Pravda.

I believe that a major part of the work of an Independent Councillor will be to ensure that all the information that should be made available is accessible for all to see.

Caven Vines says 'If elected, I pledge to do all I can to ensure that decisions of the council are made in the public spotlight'.