What we get under the Tory government....

http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/hunger-crisis-revealed-1-6342341

What we got under the Labour government...

Time for change, time for Ukip

EU enlargement

How can wigan labour party support food banks and feeding the homeless on Christmas day but also support the EU giving Turkey £753,638,240.00 in 2013.

Ukip wigan says 'wouldn't the money be better spent within the UK helping those in need?'

Makes you wonder who the Turkeys were over Christmas!

Turkey - financial assistance

Daniel Hannan

Daniel Hannan is the author of 'How we Invented Freedom' (published in the US and Canada as 'Inventing Freedom: how the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World'). He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes the EU is making its peoples poorer, less democratic and less free.

'Hands Off Our NHS': the attitude that led to the horrors of Mid Staffs

and a happy new year

Happy Christmas

Andy Burnham changing position on HS2?

Is Labour MP Andy Burnham starting to change his tune on HS2? 

The estimated total cost to the taxpayer for a train station at Leigh is £100 million....

Read the Wigan Evening Post artical here

Wigan Evening Post 13th Dec 2013

Nigel Farage on the Radio

Worth a listen to, on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXtEJcpGwRw#t=12

Wigan Council makes you sick...

Labour Party mismanagement saw Wigan Council become the sixth worst performing authority for sickness absence in staff out of the seven Greater Manchester authorities.

The total cost in 2012/13 was £4.3 million attributable to sick pay.

To combat this they have created an ‘attendance reward scheme’, which rewarded staff who turn up for work all the time (100%) with recognition letters, quarterly cash prize draws and additional leave.

So as Ukip understands it, if you turn up to do the job you are paid to do, you receive a cash prize and additional leave. Doesn’t giving you extra annual leave for turning up to work sort of defeat the object of the exercise?

Forecasts predicted that at the end of the current year 2013/2014,  10.9 days would be the average days lost, which equates to £3.8 million.

Read the full minutes of the meeting here

Council tenants hit with rent hike by Wigan Labour Party

Wigan Labour party has announced that it has decided to hit Wiganers with a whopping 5.6% rise in council rent, that's double the rate of inflation.

The Labour fat cats will be hitting the least who can afford it when they agree the rise at the full council meeting on 15th January 2014.

See the story here

What will the council do with the extra £4 1/2 million they will make? Spend it on a pay rise for it's own councillors of course.

At the same time as the rent increase was announced Cllr Paul Kenny husband of Labour MP Yvonne Fovargue also announced an increase, an eye watering 35% in his allowances!

Wigan Labour Party Gravy Train

Caught on Camera, Wigan Labour councillors actually on a real life gravy train!


Choo Choo

Billinge by election result

UKIP Wigan says well done to Laurence Allen, UKIP St Helens, 24% of the vote from a standing start.

Dennis MCDONNELL (Labour Party Candidate) 936 (50.7%)
Laurence ALLEN (UK Independence Party) 442 (24.0%)
John CUNLIFFE (The Conservative Party Candidate) 248 (13.4%)
Sue RAHMAN (The Green Party Candidate) 94 (5.1%)
Alan BRINDLE (British National Party) 73 (4.0%)
Noreen KNOWLES (Liberal Democrat) 52 (2.8%)

Looking at the figures UKIP's target needs to be the 80% of voters who consistently do not go to the poles.

In the Winstanley by election only 3% separated UKIP in Wigan from Wigan Labour party.

   

Billinge by election

Good luck to Laurence Allen tonight in the Billinge ward by election for St Helens Council, looking to put a dent into the labour majority. The candidates are

Laurence Allen (UKIP)
Alan Brindle (BNP)
John Cunliffe (C)
Noreen Knowles (LD)
Dennis McDonnell (Lab)
Sue Rahman (Grn)

May 2012 results were  Lab 1802 C 536 Ind 371 Grn 140

Council relations hits new low

Given the latest spat on Wigan council,  this time between staff and councillors how can anyone say UKIP can't do better?

Click on the link for the full story from today's WEP

Council and Councillor locked in explosive dispute

What the inside story to this is anyone's guess, but this is the same Councillor that Lord Smith insulted at the last council meeting. That Councillor and others made a complaint, days later staff refused to work with him and he is front page news...

One things assured UKIP Wigan will lead the way and work with staff and Councillors from all political parties in a polite and professional manner.

Lord Smith of the Labour party ....

Lord Smith of the Labour party throws an insult in the direction of a disabled independent councillor in a public meeting.

Not exactly a credit to Wigan, is it a surprise he closed 'The Pines' resulting in 24 disabled people having to move from a place they called home.

Click on the link for the MEN's report.

Stand-up row: Town hall boss accused of mocking ill councillor

HS2 Phase Two Route Consultation Roadshows

If you're curious as to where £80 billion of your taxes will be going in the next 10 years then the HS2 road show is taking place at;

Leigh Sports Village Stadium on Friday 22nd November 12pm – 8pm
Sale Way, Leigh, Manchester, WN7 4JY

A report by the Institute of Economic Affairs released today supports the UKIP position that HS2 is a costly and unnecessary project that should be scraped.
The report predicts that the final cost of HS2 may run to over £80 billion. At a time of tremendous economic difficulty for Britain fueled by a bloated state and increasing national debt, this is simply not viable.
"The High-Speed Gravy Train" report also points out that much of the lobbying done for the project to go ahead was done by special interest groups with a vested interest, with the economic case for High Speed 2 not being properly taken into consideration.

You can read the report here.

Well put....

Labour fraud

Labour councillors are very keen to criticise people committing benefit fraud at the moment.


http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/benefit-fraudster-ordered-to-pay-back-25k-1-6240661
Coun Terry Halliwell, portfolio holder for corporate resources and customers at Wigan Council said: “Wigan Council takes benefit fraud very seriously, as demonstrated in Mrs Dyson’s case and the numerous others we’ve 
successfully prosecuted this year

http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/120k-benefits-cheat-jailed-1-6126482

Coun Terry Halliwell, cabinet member for corporate resources and customer services at Wigan Council, said: “There are people in our communities that go to work every day and pay their taxes - yet struggle to just get by. “Then there are people like Ms Higgins who fraudulently take what is not theirs. “Justice has been served in this case.”

Although not surprisingly they lose their voice when its their own...

http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/union-official-in-benefit-swindle-1-174822

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/18/denis-macshane-pleads-guilty-expenses-fraud

The Wigan Labour Party isn't what it use to be

Says a Wigan Labour Party Councillor in today's evening post....

Winstanley Ward By Election

Well done to  Andrew Collinson in the Winstanley Ward by election coming 2nd place from a standing start.

BARNES Stan (Community Action Party) 326
BOWKER David William (Independent) 27
COLLINSON Andrew (UK Independence Party) 421 
HEYES Steven Charles (The Green Party Candidate)  55
MORGAN Marie Teresa (Labour Party Candidate) 746 Elected
SKIPWORTH John Charles (Liberal Democrats) 19
WINSTANLEY Michael (The Conservative Party Candidate) 180