LOCAL COUNCILLOR'S ARE THERE TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITY

CAVEN VINES
Helping at a local community fund raising Gala Day

A key role for any local councillor is to help local the community. With individual personel problems, or group community activity's such as fund raising, giving help and advice on how to improve the local environment and local issue's. Being their to represent the Local Community in the Town Hall Raising awareness to local issue's working for the the local community and all the people in the ward. Not being a puppet to some faceless political master who is there to enforce on the community what they want and not what

the community wants you the tax payer Your local councillor should be your voice and answer only to you.

HELPING AGE CONCERN

With our carring Labour Controlled Council withdrawing the much needed funding from our Old and Vunerable citizens and putting more and more on the already hard pressed Charity Age Concern They need all the help they can get.




CAVEN VINES HELPING

AGE CONCERN FUNDRAISE

WHAT ABOUT OUR OLD AND VULNERABLE

Roger Stone Leader of Rotherham Council Jets off to Nashville for a very nice Jolly.

Surely Roger when you are taking over £40,000 a year from the Tax Payers could you not afford to pay for your own holiday.

Then you come back with a £400,000 scheme funded by the Tax payer's to give all children in Rotherham a free book every month for five years, Most of the children targeted can't even read at that age. And then you all have a nice lunch with Dolly Parton, What a brilliant Idea what a brilliant way to spend our hard earned council tax.

But I thought they had provided our children with 21st century schools I thought the schools taught children to read. What do we have library's for don't they lend books out to the people I am sure last time I looked they had a childrens section.

But what about the Old and Vulnerable in our community the most who have worked and paid their due's and demands into the system but now they need our help what does Our Council Leader do? Withdraws the funding for the day centres puts the council tax up puts up their heating costs. Kick's them in the teeth.

£400,000 would go along way to improving the quality of life for some of our old and vulnerable they have paid their dues and demands now we should give a little back Roger don't you think.

So lets get your priorities right for once.

But of course this is New Labour at their best.

Perhaps Age Concern should have taken him and his cronies on a nice Jolly? I hear Barbados is nice this time of the year.

WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE IT FAIR FOR ALL

In many elections it is far too easy to go in for vote fraud.
On 18 March 2008, it was reported that a UK politician, Eshaq Khan, had been found guilty of involvement in vote fraud. (BBC NEWS UK England Berkshire Councillor guilty of voting ... / Postal voting cheats are threat to May elections - Times Online)In 2007, Eshaq Khan (Conservative) beat Lydia Simmons by 119 votes in Slough council's Central Ward. But Khan was 'incompetent' and too 'blatant' and got caught using fake postal votes.Khan and his Conservative team (1) created hundreds of false names and entered them on the electoral register. (2) Then made applications for postal votes for these "ghost voters".
Judge Richard Mawry QC said: "Despite the 2006 Act, the opportunities for easy and effective electoral fraud remain substantially as they were on 4 April, 2005."Mawrey said that postal voting on demand was “lethal to the democratic process”.
He said that the current system made “wholesale electoral fraud both easy and profitable.”
Mawrey concluded: “There is no reason to suppose that this is an isolated incident. Roll-stuffing [packing the electoral roll with fictitious voters] is childishly simple to commit and very difficult to detect. To ignore the probability that it is widespread, particularly in local elections, is a policy that even an ostrich would despise.”
It was in 2000 that postal voting on demand was introduced in the UK
In April 2005, Richard Mawrey, QC, said electoral fraud in Birmingham would “disgrace a banana republic.”

ELECTORAL SERVICES HAVE A DUTY TO CHECK ALL VOTES NOT JUST A FEW AND MAKE ELECTIONS FAIR FOR ALL

The Secret Council

This Labour Council claims to be open and listening the reality is somewhat different. Information is power so we are denied access to even the most basic information. Below is a list of questions that come to mind in our ward, it is not exhaustive.

• Why do they not keep is informed of developments in our area?
• What is going to happen to Kimberworth School?
• Why have we not been told of the South Yorkshire plans to build a waste incinerator and in who's back yard?.
• The Council is run more like a Masonic Lodge than a part of the Labour Party.
• What has happened to the Sports Centre proposed for West Hill?
• What greenbelt land do the council propose to use for development?

This Council does not accept that, in a democracy, disclosure of information is a fundamental part of democratic accountability. Indeed they now propose to publish a newspaper to keep us informed, no doubt, at our expense. There is little chance that it will be editorially independent they should call it Pravda.

I believe that a major part of the work of an Independent Councillor will be to ensure that all the information that should be made available is accessible for all to see.

Caven Vines says 'If elected, I pledge to do all I can to ensure that decisions of the council are made in the public spotlight'.