PETERBOROUGH LABOUR PARTY

The electoral wards for the Peterborough constituency are:
Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and
Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton,
Werrington North, Werrington South and West.
These changes will increase the electorate to 70,640.

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Full Council expenses

Peterborough City Councillors vote to increase allowances and expenses by £70,000

Local campaigner and Peterborough parliamentary candidate Ed Murphy attended last night's full council meeting in Peterborough to present petitions raised by local residents on the sale of the crem and anti social activities in Ravensthorpe. Ed was astonished to see elected members spend a large part of the meeting arguing about who should get what in extra allowances, payments and expenses – they even argued over free car parking. Ed Commented “I have been contacted by local residents who feel the Tory councillors have not been listening to their concerns and are just in it for number one. I myself witnessed several councillors get up and make speeches about how they needed more money for carrying out public duties. They should remember that there is such a thing as public service as a tradition in England and that politics should not be seen as a way of getting rich. They voted to increase their own allowances by £70,000 and to back date this for some from April 1. This really was local Tories playing catch up with their tory MP chancer Jackson who has so far claimed over £66,000 for his second home. “Residents should not have to put up with a council that does not listen to them, a council which has come up with plans to dispose of too many council owned assets in a half baked attempt to find the money needed to meet a massive revenue shortfall in the current budget, in order to pay excessive salaries to the top management team and to fund unnecessary schemes, expensive consultants and hundreds of thousands of pounds each year in councillors expenses”.

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hugh jones

Message left at 10:02 am, Wed 12th Aug 2009

It's very easy to become seduced by wealth and comfort, particularly now that society appears to be dividing into those who do and those who do not live in gated communities. (Care for a swim?) It's pretty easy to see some of what is happening in PB. The taxpayer is subsidising food prices, by keeping the indigenous able-bodied on benefits while imported labour services the crops, living in overcrowded conditions, caught between the gangmasters and the landlords, obliged to put up with a standard of living that breaches the UK employment regulations. I have no doubt that members of the current administration are complicit in this. And the consequence is a breakdown in local community relations, and further costs falling to the ratepayer to attempt to mend the situation. I don't know whether the current Labour Government intend to offer themselves up for re-election just as they are. And I don't know whether the next phase of the economic collapse will arrive before or after the election. As things stand Jacko will be relected. I say this because there is not very much in the way of open debate going on in PB. There isn't much in the way of conscioussness raising. Personally I would rather see you elected, simply because you have stood on our doorstep and convinced us that you are sincere. It's a case of voting for candidates rather than for parties. It's a local media issue. Discussion on the ET website is frequently stifled. Comment opportunities are only intermittently offered. I think they spend a lot of time watching out for libel. Usenet is dead. Peterborough.net is, as I understand it, unable to host an open debate, for reasons I won't go into here. We have lost the Herald & Post. I am sure that the present Council administration do not want a more open debate. That in itself should be good enough reason to push for some. Regards.

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