A KEPT WOMAN - Well she kept all the benefits she wasn't entitled to!

Here she is! This is the fragrant Rebecca McGladdery who pleaded guilty at Oldham Magistrates Court to three charges brought by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
She was claiming benefits, including incapacity benefit  (see how easy it is to get that?) and job seeker’s allowance, while working between January, 2008, and April, 2009.
The fraudulent payments totalled £6,413.
Now hear this The 44-year-old, a part-time cleaner  is training to be a teaching assistant.
She appeared on TV and in newspapers before last year’s General Election claiming Liberal Democrat candidate Elwyn Watkins was paying staff £2.80 less than the minimum wage when she worked for the party in 2009.
He was reported to HM Revenue and Customs but an investigation found they were working as volunteers and not employees and the matter was dropped.
McGladdery had gone to work for the Labour Party under the control of Battye and Fitzpatrick two of the less savoury characters in the Oldham political scene when she made the allegations. These two evil pieces of shite were employed by then Oldham MP Phil Woolyarse to run his re-election campaign. The fucker Battye used her to try and smear the Lib-Dem candidate even writing letters to the local press in her name. The actions of these three twats resulted in Woolyarse losing his seat.
At Oldham Magistrates Court yesterday , Michelle Mann, defending, said the claim was not fraudulent from the outset. It had arisen when McGladdery was asked to undertake overtime but failed to declare it. Bollocks! If she was asked to do overtime then she was ALREADY working and claiming incapacity benefit and job seekers allowance.  So Michelle Mann, tell us what is not fraudulent about that?
McGladdery was given a 12 month community order, which includes 60 hours unpaid work and a probation course. She was also ordered to pay £150 costs. A question here. She was being employed by Fitzpatrick and Battye, they should have known her circumstances. How come they are not charged with aiding and abetting the crooked bitch. Where are they now? Well, Battye's ont' fucking council again scraping his snout in the trough. Fitzpatrick? We have no doubt he is keeping a low profile sucking on the public tit, courtesy of his Lie-bour pals in the Council chamber. Thieves always stick together. By the way did you notice the 44-year-old slapper, a part-time cleaner  is training to be a teaching assistant. What!! Would you want this bent thieving fucker involved with your kids? What values would she bring to the job? What lessons in life would she impart to the impressionable minds of YOUR kids? That we should even contemplate such a thing shows the depths to which we have sunk!  What a shitehole town this is!!

SAY FUCKING .... NO!  IT'S THE ONE WORD THEY HATE

OLDHAM TEACHERS ON STRIKE - Exam results improve dramatically!

 The ideological pillocks in the NUT and ALT are prancing about with joy at the news that every school in Oldham is set to be hit by a series of walkouts after furious teachers backed strike action in a row over pensions.
About 1,400 teachers are aiming to strike on June 30, closing all 109 schools in the borough with unions saying further action could follow — though the walkout will be called off if the Government backs down. That's fucking magnanimous of the unfit for purpose tossers. Bet it would be called off quicker if the Government stood firm and said you're all sacked.
Now for the boring statistical bits. Try and stay with us folks.
There are 2,500 teachers in Oldham with 1,100 National Union of Teachers (NUT) members and up to 300 Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) members.
In the ATL’s  ballot, turnout was 35 per cent (105) with 83 per cent of those (87) in favour. 213 were obviously not in favour.
The NUT's turnout was 40 per cent (440) with 92 per cent (405) members  in favour. This leaves 695 agin it or too thick or idle to make the effort.

So, out of 1,400 teachers 492 vote to strike. With the remaining 1,100 non NUTs or ATLs, this means 2,008 teachers in Oldham did not vote for strike action. Over-fucking-whelming, innit?
Secretary of the Oldham NUTs Tony Harrison said: “The NUTs in Oldham tend to be stronger than the national average on strike action. Really? 40% turnout?  Teachers are really angry. They stand to lose in some cases over £100,000 during their lifetime. Show us the figures wanker! It's a pity they are not really angry about the illiterate and innumerate youngsters they are turning out year upon year! It's a pity they don't cease the ideological bilge they stuff into the heads of kids, who are too thick to realise what is happening. 
The workshy fucker then goes on to say, “The attack on us is three-pronged. If the plans go ahead we will have to pay more in contributions, work longer and receive less. It’s a massive issue."  The only three pronged attack we'd like to make on you idle turds is with a pitchfork. You will have to pay more in contributions? Tough titty! Join the outside fucking world! Work longer! Work fucking longer??? We'd make you work until your pupils could read, write add up and converse in the English language and had maybe, some sort of future after schooling other than becoming another turnip on the NEETs pile! You think you will receive less? Most of us think you've been overpaid for years judging by the results we see each year and don't give us any of your 'look how exam results have improved' bullshit. The exams are so fucking easy I bet even some of your teachers could pass them.
He says, “People talk about teachers and other public-sector workers having gold-plated pensions but this is a nonsense as teachers, on average, retire with a pension of less than £10,000-a-year.” Again show us the bastard figures! Hands up all those that know a skint ex-teacher. Hands up all those that know ex-teachers who've taken 'retirement' at 50 to waltz off into another job. Or spend their fucking time annoying the shit out of us as councillors (oooh big pay days there) and other sinecures. Look at that fucking Suttie for one, retired after a 'lifetime' of abusing the minds of our kids,  at about eleven years of age and has since devoted his time to arse licking one of our MPs (I'll leave you to guess which), and pontificating on matters about this town about which he knows and always has known, nowt!
ATL secretary Iain Windeatt said: “We don’t take this sort of action lightly. Members are taking action with a very heavy heart. We want the Government to negotiate with us.”  We want your fucking teachers to teach. We want you to turn out kids with the basic abilities to get a job other than street wandering but it seems to be a forlorn hope when all your heads are stuffed with semi-political garbage.
A third teaching union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), will decide later this week whether to ballot members on strike action. Didn't you use to think folks that headteachers were appointed because of their superior abilities and flair to improve schools which they led? Forget that folks. They are all tarred with the same brush. Nobody gives a shit about anything only number one.
ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said: “This is a warning shot across the bows of the Government. When even the least militant education union and teachers working in private schools vote to strike, the Government would be wrong to ignore it.”  Why are teachers in private schools striking? Why do the financial and pension arrangements of these people concern the Government?  Or, though we very much doubt it, are they gleefully jumping on the strike bandwagon, in order to get even more days off?
How sad to see these irresponsible workshy wankers more interested in strikes and union action than providing a proper education to the youth of this blighted town to perhaps enable them to escape the quagmire of a jobless future in a washed up town. The two fat twats of the local teaching union Tony Harrison and that eminence grise of the Oldham teaching scene Bryan 'Striker' Beckingham have a lot to answer for. It's about time we told 'em to fuck off, put our house in order and tried to improve the education provided in this town!!!!

JUST TELL THEM ....NO! THEY DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT!

DO YOU DO WHITEWASH IN OTHER COLOURS?

A little item slyly slipped into news accounts to-day
'Award-winning' policewoman Leanne Murphy (26), from Middleton who was arrested after being found off-duty in a suspected drugs den in Oldham has been released without charge.
PC Murphy (26),  and three other people were arrested in November at the house on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.  Following an investigation the case against her was dropped.
More questions than answers here.  Has the case against the other three been dropped?  If not, does GMP now condone off-duty cops consorting with drug dealers? Is the house a drug den or not? If yes, does GMP now condone off-duty cops frequenting drug dens?  What reason had PC Murphy to be in such a parlous situation? Why was she in the company of such people? Is this another item swept under the carpet by GMP?  Not at all! What size brush do you need for that whitewash, Pete?

CAN I BE MILK MONITOR SIR? - No, sit down Alcock - you'd drink it all.

See! The aggrandising bastards are at it again. Defeated Liberal Democrats on Oldham Council have unveiled their Shadow Cabinet. Eleven of the workshy talentless bastards are swanning around calling themselves shadow this or shadow that. Fuck all this preening and posing! you're supposedly representing our interests in the council chamber, not pretending you are a bunch of movers and shakers in the governments of the world. If they had spent less time dreaming up nonsense titles for each other and more time attending to constituency matters things might have been a lot better in this town. Every fucking thing about councils in this town is SELF first, fuck the people! You are all clowns.Amateur fucking clowns at that! 

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY CHILDREN? - Then let's cheat!

An investigation is to be carried out into SAT tests at Chadderton Hall Junior School. It has been alleged that pupils were told answers in the tests sat by 11-year-olds across the country earlier this month. Heaven help us! Are the pupils so thick they couldn't complete tests which have now become so easy a nematode worm could pass 'summa cum laude.'?  Or is it that the teachers are so incapable they are covering their backs to avoid the disgrace of their pupils failing? Education, education, education! Bollocks!

CATASTROPHE! - EVERYONE DEAD IN OLDHAM - Knowless made Mayor!

The new Mayor of Oldham, Greenfield village idiot, Richard Knowless, has pledged to be a “good news ambassador” for the borough.  The only good news we would welcome from the moron is that he had decided to up sticks and emigrate to Christmas Island. Somehow he has a job at Salford University — where he is a professor with an international reputation for transport geography. But knows absolutely fuck all about what WE want here in Oldham. This is the guy who has been pushing all the metrolink crap down our throat for years. SELF FUCKING AGGRANDISEMENT yet again! Did the knobhead  consider asking us what we wanted before destroying a perfectly good rail system, forever cutting us off from the rest of the world, (ok maybe it's no bad thing protecting the rest of the world from the blight) and bringing disruption to most of the town? Like all his arrogant ilk. Did he fuck! And they make the prick Mayor. God help us! The lunatics really have taken over the asylum!

STONY BROKE AT STONELEIGH! - Read all abaht it!

How now Mr Chronicle editor? Another blow to the benighted Derker!  Refurbishment of Stoneleigh School appears to have been abandoned. There are fears work has been abandoned due to falling pupil numbers. Well, there will be falling numbers won't there? All the fucking houses have been demolished or are boarded up. Nobody lives there anymore! The few residents remaining have been left surrounded with vast empty spaces and rows of derelict properties.
There are understood to be concerns about  the number of houses for families in the wake of the Government’s decision to halt the multi-million Housing Market Renewal programme in Derker. This was meant to demolish, rebuild and refurbish hundreds of properties, but not all of the new houses promised materialised. Excuse me asking, but how many, exactlt, is 'not all'?  Last month Bellway pulled out of plans to build 148 homes. Some people seem more aware of conditions in this town than our beloved Councillors and the editor of our local paper.
 Councillor Hugh McDonald, cabinet member for children, young people and families (God help us!), said, "We will continue to give Stoneleigh Primary School its full support so the children fulfil their potential and receive the best start in life.”(Translation: Closure is imminent).  Asked if closure was an option, Councillor McDonald said: “Everything is an option.” (Translation: It's official).
 Jackie Stanton, former deputy council leader and gypsy fortune teller, said: “We identified £1 million to be spent on this school to enhance teaching and learning and to provide community facilities in an area where there are none. There are no facilities? What a surprise! There are no fucking houses or people either! So look how much we have saved on uneeded community facilities.
She added,“We will be looking for a meeting with Councillor McDonald as soon as possible because this uncertainty for staff and parents is completely unfair.”  Give me fucking strength! Was the uncertainty for residents caught up in the council's ill thought-out scheme fair then?
Does Editor Whaley consider them 'Whingers and moaners' without legitimate complaint? Or is everything in the town still all hunky-dory?
We suggest he peruses the article on this matter in his paper, this date. Read the first two words, David. "TROUBLED DERKER" - Nuff said?

CHINESE LAUNDRY DO IRONY!

The saga of the whingers and moaners continues. In the letters page of our esteemed local paper, the Chron, a the reader RB  has written of the hypocrisy of editor David Whaley in devoting a column to moaning about the moaners and whingers who write to his newspaper, saying the irony of the piece was clearly lost on the writer. Nah! The Chron don't do irony.

This is Whaley's studied response:

There is also a marked difference between those with a legitimate complaint who are ignored at every turn, insulted and fobbed off with every excuse known to man and those like himself who, for commercial and job security reasons, are happy to wave through the ill considered vandalism inflicted upon the town by his cronies up on West St. He mentions those who moan about everything that goes on in Oldham without offering a constructive alternative.

Here, in another photo-op for the paper we see our intrepid editor at the scene of one of OMBC's greatest triumphs, The Derker Levels. He is in earnest planning talks with an old gypsy fortune teller and peg seller Counc Stanton. He later said he was totally impressed with the way Derker had turned out nice and flat after all those nasty little houses had been removed. When asked about all the people forced out of their homes, despite the majority wanting to stay, he replied. "They're all whingers and moaners with no legitimate complaints. There's none of them come up with a constructive alternative have they?"

Photo © OEC  Copies available from the Chronicle Office price £3.50 + p&p

Strewth! does the fool not even read his own paper? For the past few years the letters page of the Chron has been regularly filled with complaints about one hare-brained scheme or another, complete with suggestions for better solutions. Have the jellyfish brains in the Tower listened?  Have they ever altered any plan to fit in with what we want? Do they care what we think? Hah! take a guess. In the last few years we have had many examples of the council riding roughshod over the wishes of the people. To name a few: Derker- Werneth - Metrolink - Academies - Tommyfield - The Old Town Hall - Yorkshire St. Need we go on?  In all these and many more cases there has been a vociferous response from our citizens against  the plans put forward by the Council brain cell. Has ought come of these pleas for common sense? Nope! The council response is usually to decide the outcome - call a public nonsultation - then announce a unanimous verdict in favour. So do us a favour David. Stop insulting our intelligence. We know. You know. We know you know, we are pissing against the wind trying to divert the party political sheep from their chosen path. Sometimes though, we have minor victories such as the local election result in Waterhead. Opportunity Knox was repeatedly told the Academy scheme was flawed, but self aggrandisement and the hubristic belief that only I know what's best for you, led her to the exit door. (Mind you look what the poor bastards in Waterhead got in her place: Peter Dean the well known free thinker and visionary.)

RB's closing sentence solves the editors's dilemma:  ".....if the Chron really is fed up of people complaining then their answer is simple. Don't print the letters."

Ah, but there's the rub. Don't print the letters. Nothing to fill the space only more ads and photo sales. Nothing left to edit.

VERILY OUR POT UNDERFLOWETH - Who knows where the money goeth?

 

 Have you all, like the good little brainwashed trolls you are, paid your Council Tax? Oh, goody! Did you know that approx the first four hundred pounds (£ 400) of every household's tax extortion drops straight into the Local Government Pension Pot? Do you wonder why we have no services, amenities, facilities?  That's four hundred quid (maybe more) of your hard earned, going toward the twilight years of some incompetent middle manager in his Tenerife time share, after taking early retirement. Don't you feel good seeing these worthy causes getting something back for their years of selfless toil? Or, like us, do you want to grab them by the scrotum and drag them screaming, back to the dump they created, to serve out the rest of their days?
The reason so much of your moolah is dropping into the bottomless pit is that successive juntas have,  sort of, spent it instead of saving it and now we are just a tad short. 'What's a tad?'  I hear you ask. Well the last concrete figures published two years ago showed that the tad was a midges over £63M. Estimates now put it at probably over £100M. 'Who's going to make good the deficit?'  I hear you ask as well. Hah! Did you really need to ask?  The next time you find yourself engaged in cheerful banter with your local councillor  ask him or her to explain the esoteric workings of the Local Government Pension Scheme. they will be only too pleased to explain where the loot funding has been deployed.
Anyone with firm figures on the current deficit in the LGPS?  Do let us know.

TAKE ONE EVERY NIGHT - IT WILL SOOTHE THE PAIN.

About a week ago this editorial appeared in the Oldham Evening Chronicle:-

 

We suppose editor David Whaley has our good selves in mind when he makes his ill-informed remarks. Somebody has to stand up to the talentless megalomaniacs in the Ivory Tower and it sure ain't the Oldham Chronicle. What should be the voice of the people is now nothing more than the official organ of Oldham Council. Perhaps if the Chron had been more vociferous  in the past, about the shortcomings and failed grandiose plans of the council, we might not be in the sorry state we are to-day.  How dare  Whaley criticise anyone who doesn't agree with his biased view. We have as much right to harry council members as he has to praise and buff them up like gold turds. No criticism of councillors, council plans, expenses inflation, the ability of certain members, the intelligence of certain members is allowed in the columns of the Council Gazette. The great moderator has spoken. Well, here's the news: You won't say it so we must. 

All Whaley seems interested in is getting in as many photo ops as possible, posing with his new masters. Still he is little more than a photograph salesman anyhow.  The impartiality, free spirit and occasional irreverence of past editors has been ditched and replaced with a forelock tugging yes man in charge of  the turgid, so called, 'Last Newspaper In Oldham.' Wrong, David. The paper now contains little or no 'News.' What bit there is, is usually days out of date, is gleaned from other publications and is given to us in handy bite size pieces about the size of a postage stamp. Half the time, the news is not even about the local area. Who wants to read about a chimney fire in Westhoughton or a bicycle stolen in Wythenshawe? At a rough estimate over 60% of the available space each evening is given over to adverts. Roughly 20% of these are adverts advertising the Oldham Chronicle or adverts selling photos from the myriad schemes set up by the Chron, purely to sell more photos. What are even more weird are the ads throughout the paper advertising what we can look forward to reading in the next couple of pages. Left to our own devices I'm sure we can all learn to lick our thumbs, turn the pages and stumble delightedly upon the unforeseen delights. There is more news in the Advertiser. He berates us for knocking Sunny Jim. It matters not, to us that he has been in power only a matter of days. We remember him from last time. Jim ' Can I Have More Expenses On Top Of The 22 grand I'm fleecing you out of already,' cos I've got to do an interview,' McMahon.  Mr Do Nowt, like all his Lie-bour cronies. How many years of this have we had? These are basically the same sad, clueless, placemen we have had for the past thirty years.  The editor castigates us for, 'rubbishing the priorities he has set out for the first period of the administration.'  Where was Whaley during the last twenty periods of previous Lie-bour administrations when the blowhards were creating 'Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land'?  Look around you man! The town is more like Dresden after the blitz. You're living in a dream world. The rest of us meanwhile are living a nightmare. 'It's a good job that all is not happy and sorted in the borough,' he bleats. 'What would we find to moan about otherwise.' You arrogant stupid bastard. Can you not see the shitehole this town has become? Do your rose-tinted Lie-bour specs so blind you to the derelict, squalid, dirt-ridden, cut off from the world, town that Oldham has become, that YOU have forgotten who brought us to this sorry state? Day after day your readers complain about the shortcomings of the numpties in the tower. Do we hear a howl of protest from the Chron in support?  Not likely. They don't want to lose their only news item.

'Some are poor political losers.'  Aye lad, we're all losers and a lot of us are a lot poorer thanks to the political shenanigans of people whom we elected to serve the borough not dance like puppets for their masters down in London.

'Many in the borough are sick and tired of the negative influence that this vocal minority seek to wield.' Yes you're right David. We are all sick and tired of the negative influence that you and the sixty teat-suckers on the council have foisted upon us for years.

The editor's conclusions? - 'Yes there are problems.'  There's the understatement of the year. We are assailed on all sides by problems. Problems that no-one in the Tower of Babble has a clue how to solve.

'Not every decision taken turns out to be the right one.'  No! very few of them do. It's the cost, monetary and in human misery of all the wrong decisions accumulating over the years that pisses us off.

'We have to give the people elected the opportunity to try to move the town forward.' Are you having a laff? These are the same bunch of numbskulls that we had last time Lie-bour were in power. They did nowt then. They'll do nowt now. They are bereft of ideas. They have no money for any of these 'schemes' and self interest will, as usual, take over from common sense. They haven't the faintest clue how to move this town forward. We'll still be waiting come the next election 

Whatever it is that we have to offer Mr Whaley, it is designed to get people interested. To ask questions. To not blindly accept all the pap spewing from the council chamber, to get involved. At one time we would have expected the Oldham Chronicle and it's editor to have been the voice of the people. We would have expected harsh criticism of the way this town is and has been run for years. But no! We mustn't disturb the equilibrium. The Oldham Chronicle has become the Mogadon Chronicle, gently ironing the creases out of the fabric of life.  We are now so stupefied we are seemingly incapable of resistance. We, the whingers and moaners intend to change that. Whaley! Grow a pair. Stop your brown nosin.' and posin.'  Try and be of some use to this town other than as a photographic model.