Get involved

With so much happening in politics at the moment people are sick of the main parties and are being turned off by them. The Labour Party is, if not already, been taken over by the far left of the party. They are so far left they communists now! The Tory Party, well does anyone know what the Tory stands for these days. In fighting as usual and they are all waiting for the Local Elections to be over so they can do what they do best - sack their leader and get another one in.

The Wigan Independents are made up of local independents from each area, ie Standish Independents and the Shevington Independents. These two groups are all local and want to work for their areas but then feed into something larger when in the Council Chamber. They all know they want the best for the areas but then want to work with other similar mind people when in there. Unlike the main parties who just work for their parties.

So this May why not get involved with your local Independents, whether that be in Standish, Shevington, Wigan, Bryn, Hindley Green are other areas in Wigan.

There are a number of ways to get involved from simply saying you will post a poster in your window in the election in Period in May. Or you can help go out with our teams delivering leaflets. you may even want to stand as a candidate yourself in your area.

So what ever you want to do to help you can. and don't think it is all work as we all have a good time too.

To get in touch email me at garethfairhurst@gmail.com

Standish voice the truth

So lets go back to the beginning when we had all these houses being proposed for Standish and the residents fighting the council's proposals. Where was this so called Standish Voice? No where it hadn't been formed. Where was the guy behind setting up Standish Voice - Paul Ogden? Nowhere. The reason was he lives on Pepper Lane  and he wasn't bothered about all the houses and mess it would cause as he is a Labour support and didn't think he would be effected.

Now then we fast forward to the bit when the housing sites are set and then a link road comes into the frame. This link road comes out at the side of his house on pepper Lane. Mr Ogden now sets up SABLR - Stop Almond Brook Link Rd. You may have seen the signs on Pepper Lane. Then when that didn't work he came up with this idea of a Neighbourhood plan to try and move the road. Reason many said he was only bothered about the link rd and not about Standish. He even told me at the Foresters where we were meeting and he said that this link road would effect the value and sale-ability of his house now. True!

So we have this Labour Quango Standish Voice and here he is saying he wants to stop the houses but it's all a front. If you look at this planning application on Wigan Council Website - A/18/85091/CU -you will see his houses is getting more land and having a bigger garden and also a garage built. Guess who is the applicant -Bloor Homes. Mr Ogden has also just had his drive done by them and a new kitchen has also popped along - so \I am told. Now then if Mr Ogden truly wanted to run this Standish Voice for the benefit of residents of Standish and stop housing developments why his he getting things from a developer? Truth is he is only bothered about himself. In fact this so called neighbourhood plan that they keep harping on about will show more sites for houses to come into Standish - they don't tell you about that.

Mr Ogden and his wife should immediately stand down from Standish Voice and the committee as it is clear they do not have the interest of Standish at heart only themselves.

What is also interesting about this guy is he is some deputy editor or something at the Manchester Evening News and they didn't even cover the Bryn By Election and the dramatic story that stopped it. I am sure he wouldn't have wanted to upset his mates at Labour Wigan Council with the huge embarrassment that it caused them!
  

Shevington Community school to be flattened

I can exclusively reveal that I have been informed that the bulldozers have been booked to come and knock down the old Shevington Community School that Labour closed last year. The date that they have been booked for is 7th April 2018.

They have plans to get the developers in ASAP once they have sold the site off.

80 new homes being proposed on pepper Lane

.....BREAKING NEWS.....

So a few months ago I got an email from a resident of Pepper Lane Standish saying that a developer had bought a house on Pepper Lane and land. I presumed that it was the one next to the new link road into new housing estate. However that same resident has said developer are looking to build on the land when I have looked into it I can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that a developer has bought the house on bend of Hyatt Crescent It used to be Mr and Mrs Marsh bungalow and it is on the corner of Hyatt Crescent.

Now the developer has had talks with the Council about building 80, yes that's right another 80 new houses. That will be at least 160 cars on that bad bend. Plus that will be nearly another hundred on top of the 600 already there on the old line. That will then take the total of housing into Standish to over 2000 houses. Remember what the council said our plan will keep it at 1000 and I said no it won't. Now we have another 80 houses coming.

Standish Independents will be campaigning hard to stop these houses for a number of reasons. |Standish can't cope, ie roads, infrastructure etc. We have been over developed and enough is enough and finally it will be dangerous on that road.

Standish Independent Cllr, Debbie Fairhurst said, "These developer only care for one thing -money. I and Cllr George Fairhurst care for the residents and community of Standish. These new houses will present a very dangerous hazard on the bend. It will over kill that area with houses and we have simply had enough."

Local Tory voting Fraud

Have a look here at the Vblog I have done one the matter.



This is where Local Tory Cllr voted illegally in the Town Hall. How many more illegal scandals do we have to put up with? Opposition Cllrs getting paid out of court settlement to the tune of 00.000's of thousands of poinds for libel by the council, High Court rulings against the council to say their Chief Executive acted illegally and now this. Over £1.5 million pounds on trying to get rid of opposition Cllrs. How much do we have to put up with?

Here is Wigan Council video don't forget 2 hours and 18 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz3swZH0II

Ombudsman Complaint

Here is an update with the complaint to the Local Ombudsman. Bit different this time as it is a Vlog.

Donna Hall ordered to pay legal cost.

So after last weeks High Court rulings we can look the admin stuff and start looking at issues on costs. I always said right at the beginning in January if the Council went down the path of this illegal election then it would cost the tax payers of Wugan vast sums of money. What we have learnt today is very interesting.

Before I go onto what we have learnt we have to just cover a legal technical point that the council made in the first hearing that as soon as their barrister knew he had lost he then moved on to a technical point. He argued that the Court could not stop the election because it was being run by Donna Hall in her capacity of Returning Officer and we had only named Wigan Council on the summons. They argued that as Returning Officer she doesn't work for the Council.Therefore she could ignore the injunction, if that was ordered on them grounds. The judge said if that was Wigan Council's argument then it was up to them that they add Donna Hall on the summons as an interested party. That is why we went back the following week - we added her on to the summons personally as returning officer. We all know what happened there.

But at the end costs were award to Steve Legal team - another words the losers had to pay his fees. But when - and we got it today - the judge ordered costs he meant the Returning officer to pay Steve's legal bill. We all know that Cllr Peter Smith Labour Leader on Wigan council will tell her don't worry we will pay it for you but then it will bring him and the Council into disrepute again because they will be paying something that the tax payers shouldn't be paying for.As soon as that bill is paid and we have it confirmed an official complaint will be going into Wigan Council asking on what legal grounds have they got to use our money for her liability?

Donna Hall supporters will be saying leave Donna Hall alone. Did she leave Cllr Steve Jones alone when she was leaking false and libellous stories to the local paper? No! Did she leave Cllr Steve Jones when yet again she got her friends in the local cop shop to go and try and get him again? No! Did she leave him alone when he entered the Council chamber and he was kicked out  by her and the Police? No! Cllr Peter Smith says that he wants people to be held accountable - isn't that funny he only want that for opposition Cllrs but not for him, his lot and his Chief Executive who wastes millions on political games. She should be held accountable and that is what we will be doing now, in future including the local elections and after until she is held accountable and I will make no apology for it.

So it is official DONNA HALL is ORDERED to PAY THE BILL so PAY UP DONNA!!!!

And just for Donna Hall here is a song for you