Council created Eastwood problem

Following the article I took a drive around the area today, August 1, just to ensure that I was not jumping on the bandwagon, and counted a up to ten settees and chairs dumped at the side of the road. The whole area was subsumed in litter, I don’t believe that I have ever encountered so much. All this mess, despite the fact that this area of the borough has had in excess of £5m spent on it under the heading of cohesion, whatever that is supposed to mean, in recent years. I believe this money has been distributed by Labour councillors, but what have we got in return? There is no accountability and no reporting back, surely it is time for both. And I believe time for zero tolerance.

Why should this area constantly receive special treatment? I learned from the article that every household had been given an additional bin for domestic waste, why is this and who authorised this action? So if each household has two bins it must be twice the cost to collect refuse in this ward. UKIP has requested the cost for waste collection in Eastwood both year to date and in total,, this information has not been supplied. If you or I, council tax payers, asked for an extra bin we would be charged for it. And just how many of these residents actually pay council tax?

The real problem is that Labour flooded the country, without asking, with low skilled poorly educated low wage people from all over Eastern Europe to produce a low wage economy. The difficulty is overcoming this problem once created. Locally, too many people arrived too quickly for us to absorb and fully integrate, thus Eastwood has been allowed to develop. This is a dreadful scenario for  long time residents who rightly complain that their lives have become intolerable, their houses are worthless, but there is no escape. The police can only do so much, the council brought them in, the council needs to sort it out; don’t keep passing the buck to the residents that live there,

Nationally the Labour leadership makes comments to the effect that they got it wrong and that this policy has had a detrimental effect on the working class. Only last week in a letter to The Times newspaper, the Labour MP Frank Field, not noted for making headlines, called for the reintroduction of border controls. And also Dan Jarvis, the Barnsley MP, in his recent report “Reconnecting Labour”, following the general election, has also acknowledged  the impact that mass immigration has had on the working class and infrastructure, so why cannot our local Labour politicians grasp the problem? Unfortunately our local Labour councillors do not keep up to speed with such events, it seems they are far more interested in collecting the rents they receive from the properties they own in the area.  

Cllr Kath Reeder, Rotherham