The Labour Party was in power for 13 years, its reasons and decision to take us into war with Iraq and Afghanistan has been proved to be questionable to say the least.

Gordon Browns deliberate theft of the money deposited in the working person’s pension’s pot was wrong and has left the workers in this country in desperate poverty.

Under Labour Government, our service personnel, who have been killed or seriously maimed, are just discarded as nothing more that canon fodder after they have served their purpose.

Our schools and infrastructure has decayed to such an extent that Britain is fast becoming a clone of a Third World Country, Labours open door policy on Immigration has bankrupted the country to the extent that they have had to borrow billions of pounds just to keep us afloat, the interest payment on those loans would have put us in a worse state than countries like Greece.

The Labour Government said to the banking industry, “you do what you want and there will be no retribution no matter how illegal it is” and they did!!!! They loaned money out that they didn’t have in order to pay themselves telephone number bonuses, then that same Labour Government took more money off the bankrupted workers in this country and made good the money lost through the greed of those same bankers, and who was left to foot the bill for the Labour Governments disastrous actions, the working class.

Sandwell’s Labour Council is exactly the same, the schools in the borough didn’t deteriorate overnight, it happened over at least the last 13 years when the Blair / Brown government ruled the country, how strange people like Elaine Costigan didn’t feel inclined to raise their heads above the parapets then.

Regards the state of our education system, why didn’t Elaine Costigan complain in April 2006, when Gordon Brown pledged to give poor countries £8.5 billion to improve education in countries like Africa, India, Pakistan?

India recently declared to the world that it now had its own nuclear submarine, it also has it own space rockets!!!!! Its been fighting a war with Pakistan for years, it should also be remembered that Mumbai has more millionaires than New York, so why didn’t Elaine Costigan make a fuss then??

Elaine Costigan you have stood by and watched as Sandwell’s Labour Council poured £76 million down the drain on that monstrous white elephant “The Public” you have watched them spend £450.000 on rocks and plants for Birchley Traffic Island and another huge £30,000 on a sign saying ‘Welcome To Sandwell’ for that same traffic island.
Councillor Mahboob Hussain has a plan to spend £36 million on replacing every one of 30,000 lamp posts in the borough, because he says that are 50 per cent brighter and it is claimed the move will save £1.5 million a year in maintenance and energy costs, so he wants to spend £36 million on replacing 30,000 lamp posts because it will save £1.5 million a year????????

Elaine Costigan doesn’t that tell you that even if Sandwell’s Labour Council were given money by the Coalition, it wouldn’t be spent on the schools in the borough? of course if you think that statement is untrue please tell me why these schools are in such a state now and why Sandwell’s Labour Council didn’t spend money on them before, could it be that this Labour Council doesn’t give a damn about the schools or the pupils in the borough??????????

Elaine Costigan, why should Michael Gove have to apologise for the outcome of the policies of a previous government? Did Gordon Brown apologise for the bankers who bankrupted the country? Did Blair apologise for the illegal wars he took us into? Or did either of them apologise for the state of our schools or education system??????

Personally I think we are better off without councillors like this if they don’t have the backbone or intelligence to face up to proven facts like those above.

Elaine Costigan before I go I leave you with one thought about us the “Workers” and this is a proven fact:

“Labour’s betrayal of British workers” “Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created since 1997 has gone to a foreigner”

Jim of Bearwood.

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Well what a suprise, the government have no choice in making cut back’s and any half decent person knows in their hearts that this is the only way forward because of the last bunch of half wits. Well because the going gets tough she jumps ship because it suits her (what about the people who voted for you?) Well i suppose the sandwell council has another loyal member to add to it’s long old gravy train!!!!!

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The Green Party better stand a candidate in Wednesbury North then – and capitalise on those Labour voters not wanting to vote for a closet Tory…

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An increasing number of people are warming to the realization that there is no no left and right – that there is no real choice. The system is wrong..it does not represent the people’s wishes and it’s run by private interests that can create and destroy economies and cultures at the drop of a hat. Open your minds.

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Elaine if you have integrity, you must resign now!!!!!

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