Sandwell's big parking announcement

I see in the local paper that Sandwell is giving free parking on Saturday & Sunday in the three weeks run up to Christmas.

One little problem Sunday's have always been free, or is that about to change?
Oh and the cost for parking will double.

yes up to 80p/hour to park, with talk of up to £4 per day in some of our towns !


Blogger said
I can only think that out of town shopping centres and local supermarkets car parks will be packed with Sandwell residents enjoying free parking all year round with some open till 10 pm, in the run up to Christmas.


Well done Sandwell  !!

Thanks for nothing, yes nothing is what the traders and people have got for Christmas
How many more will follow WBBS and close before Sandwell see the light

see also
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/10/29/free-parking-for-shoppers-in-west-bromwich/

Labour and your Petrol

Just in case you forget

When Labour came to power in 1997 the fuel duty on unleaded petrol stood at 36.86p per litre. When they left office in 2010 it had risen to 57.19p per litre

(HMRC, Hydrocarbon oils: historic duty rates, link).

Now Labour jump up and down at the pump price

but this is what Labour idea of a stabiliser did to the price of petrol when they were in office

12 rises, with plans for another 6.

1.02/07/97 – fuel duty rose to 40.28p per litre

2.17/03/98 – fuel duty rose to 43.99p per litre

3.09/03/99 – fuel duty rose to 47.12p per litre

4.21/03/00 – fuel duty rose to 48.82p per litre

5.15/06/01 – fuel duty rose to 48.82p per litre (having briefly been 46.82p)

6.01/10/03 – fuel duty rose to 50.19p per litre

7.07/12/06 – fuel duty rose to 51.52p per litre

8.01/10/07 – fuel duty rose to 53.65p per litre

9. 01/12/08 – fuel duty rose to 52.35p per litre (having previously fallen to 50.35p)

10. 01/04/09 – fuel duty rose to 54.19p per litre

11.01/09/09 – fuel duty rose to 56.19p per litre

12.01/04/10 – fuel duty rose to 57.19p per litre

Labour also planned for six further fuel duty rises after the election.

Labour's March 2010 Budget, delivered by Alistair Darling set out six further rises

(HM Treasury, Budget March 2010, p. 8, link).

13. 01/10/10 - 1p rise

14. 01/01/11 – 0.76p rise

15. 01/04/11 – 1p rise in real terms

16.01/04/12 – 1p rise in real terms

17. 01/04/13 – 1p rise in real terms

18. 01/04/13 – 1p rise in real terms

We have scrapped most of Labour's rises, But ask yourself would Labour really scrap them?

See our original posting at

http://sandwellconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/labour-and-petrol.html

"The BBC apologised “unreservedly”

For a Newsnight report that falsely implicated a former Conservative Party treasurer in allegations of sex abuse at children’s homes in Wales.

The Guardian.

Dailymail. BBC-apologises

blogger said

Now the legal action starts 

BBC News. 

Labour MP's career Finished

I see a Labour MP for Rotherham has now resigned !!!

reference

http://aggbot.com/UK-News-Feeds/369/article/18199290

Blogger said

I have to ask just what seems to be going on ? as only back in August

to quote the BBC 

"Rotherham's Children's services, was rated inadequate, as was leadership and management".

reference

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-19218601

What is Good Business Sense?

While Sandwell Um & R about a few days free parking, or have meetings to decide if parking charges should go up, I see that a forward looking shopping centre is extending the opening times of business over Christmas period and they also offer FREE parking.

This will undoubtedly help their traders still suffering from Labour's mess and give a welcome boost to jobs for local people.

Hold on ??? before you get in the car and rush off and risk getting a parking ticket, its not one of the 6 towns of Sandwell, sadly its the old favourite Merry Hill.

Blogger said

I wonder who else will move to Merry Hill ?, its simple maths

Come On Sandwell Council give us Free Parking for Christmas

Other Boroughs have shown their intentions, What About forgetting your anti car Policy
for a week or two.
It might even boost trade in our towns !

 I wonder why the West Brom building society moved the Merry Hill?

Setting the level

In the days of old (1960's) the UK was a world beater, we had the TSR2, Blue streak,English electric Lightening, Concord,  

We had Electrical companies like GEC, AEI, BICC, English Electrical, Ferranti , Bush, McMichael, RGD, Decca, Hotpoint etc the list is to long 

We even had a few car companies as well, Rolls, Rover, Austin, Morris , Ford, Vauxhall, Triumph , Riley, Reliant, Morgan, Jaguar, Landrover, Hillman and not forgetting a company in East Anglia called Lotus.

The UK produced the best quality rolled steel in the world and our Tool steel was was a big export.

For our younger viewers sit down first and Google any of the above and you will find what the "Great" meant in Great Britain.  

Most of the older politicians sat "O" levels or "ordinary " and then went on to "A" Level or advanced level, a few like me sat CSE's or "Certificate in secondary education" and some like me were double entered for both the CSE's and "O"levels, just in case.

a CSE grade 1 was the equivalent to a grade c "O" level and very well respected, you had to sit a number of core subjects and a few self chosen.

Then we had the years of madness (1970's) with Strike after strike , bread strikes , sugar shortages , Electricity blackouts, Petrol stikes, and the dead were not buried, yes not buried , then the Fire brigade went on strike and the Army in their Green goddesses Army Fire Engines patrolled the streets. 

Slowly but surely education was changed, at the time they said it was for the better but then reports came in that the UK was slipping down the international education tables. Strangely enough the countries that were overtaking the UK in the education stakes were the very same countries we had given our old Matriculation system to.

They were using the British system and it was us that had changed. the French called their version of their Matriculation system the Baccalaureate

Even now a few hours after the announcement that the old system is coming back, we hear the boo hoo politics start

Charlemont blogger said
If the old way was good enough for the politicians who rule us now , why don't they want it to come back?

Sir Winston Churchill, once said "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery". how correct he was

Don't forget 146 out of 151 

Traffic News

The Government is Helping Sandwell make 20MPH zones easier , surly there can be no reason
for leaving some of our roads at 30 MPH

 http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/dft-2012-32/

http://assets.dft.gov.uk/consultations/dft-2012-32/setting-local-speed-limits.pdf


Lets see what happens now?

What's going on?

A reader from our Sandwell site has sent in some photo's of parts of Charlemont, this is a road with no street lamps, no footpaths and no drains yet the council have refused to change the speed limit from 30MPH down to 20MPH

                                                    Wigmore Lane

Your local Conservative team requested 3 times that the speed on the road be changed, including that of Charlemont Road were there have been a number of accidents, only to be ignored but buses and lorries use these roads 

Miraculously in West Bromwich a 20MPH zone as appeared, Ahh its by the park with the buses and lorries I hear you say? Well no,  is the simple answer the 20MPH Zone starts on the Bridge and finishes by Herbert street traffic lights

 just so you can a see a little better

the new 20MPH zone is in an area with 3 sets of traffic lights and one road island


The next time you walk down Wigmore Lane , Thank Labour

and please send in your gripes and photo's

New Conservative site for Charlemont & Grove Vale

This site will shortly be operating giving the people of Charlemont & Grove Vale ward in Sandwell  a Conservative view of what is actually going on in our area

see you all soon