At Sheffield City Councils budget meeting Labour councillors voted down a Lib Dem proposal to save weekly bin collections, free citywide garden waste collections and dementia care homes under threat of closure. A proposal to reduce the pay of the top 25% of council earners would help save dozens of low paid jobs, including care workers [...]
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Shaffaq Mohammed writes: Labour councillors should listen and reverse decision
This isn’t the first time the issue of fortnightly bin collections has been on the local political agenda. I remember just before polling day in May 2008, the year Lib Dems took control of the Council from Labour, I was accosted by an angry local resident. They were frantically waving a leaflet at me, asking why [...]
Shaffaq’s New Year message
I hope, like me, people in Sheffield are looking forward to 2012 – the year that we all hope will see Jessica Ennis pick up gold in London, England lift the Euro 2012 trophy, and at least one Sheffield team promoted up the football league (preferably Wednesday, but I’m biased!). Despite this I know that the [...]
Use £405,000 strike cash for jobs
Lib Dems on Sheffield City Council have revealed that local taxpayers saved £405,000 from unpaid wages when 45% of the Council’s workforce went out on strike last month. Lib Dems are calling for the windfall to be used to create extra job placements for local young people. Under the Lib Dem plan the £405,000 would [...]
Shaffaq Mohammed writes: From a boy in Kashmir to Leader of the Sheffield Lib Dems
On election night in Sheffield, we had a painful evening, losing hard-working local councillors and good friends. They were defeated by a protest vote against the tough decisions forced upon the Government by the financial mess they inherited from Labour. When we entered the general election, we understood the seriousness of the financial crisis the [...]
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Local Elections 2012
