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.