Is James Purnell Gay?

That is the question being asked by someone in James Purnell's Stalybridge & Hyde office this afternoon. The curious person went on to the fountain of knowledge that is known as Google to search for "is james purnell gay". See the screenshot below:




Tameside Eye is saying nothing!

For more info about the infamous IP address 83.104.50.161 - You can look at:
* Sean Parker-Perry's Online Dossier
*"Roadmunkey is Sean Parker-Perry - the evidence" - Source: No Mottram Bypass

So is James Purnell gay? I thought he was engaged to Lucy Walker in some on-off relationship. And why is his office questioning his sexuality. Hmmmmm....

WHERE TAMESIDE LEADS THE REST OF THE UK FOLLOWS

Hazel Blears, ZANU-Labour minister for Community Cohesion (sic!) has suggested "Tension Monitoring Committees" be set up in local Town Halls to monitor political activists and other "trouble makers"

In this move she emulates Tameside council which has long advocated spying on your neighbours. The Council, in association with "Tameside Pravdatiser" has issued "Community Diaries" for some time now to facilitate reporting on "Anti-social behaviour".

Now I have no problem with cracking down on CRIME, but what is "anti-social behaviour"? It seems to consist of sitting on Town Hall steps and dropping cigarette butts. I find plain-clothes snoops pouncing on poor smokers pretty anti-social.

One is reminded of the worst excesses of the former dictatorships where political activities were declared "Anti-social" and the activists persecuted. Like here with our own "Tameside Eye"

Yes, where Tameside leads Blears follows.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566007&in_page_id=1770

www.tameside.gov.uk/ehealth/new/communitydiary.pdf

Job Ad: Web Author @ Tameside Council

There is a job ad on Tameside Council for a "web author"; Tameside Eye would apply, but the money is crap. £16k for somone to write articles on the internet is fair, but TE would want more dough than that.

ict & transformational services
ict development & media services

web author (2 posts)

Post Funded until: There is currently an exceptionally high volume of work and this peak demand has led to the need for a 12 months fixed term contract
£15,153 to £16,217 per annum (Graded at:Scale 3) - Hours: 36 hours per week


Please Quote Ref. No: ICT11
Closing Date: 23rd May 2008

This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated and creative person to join busy Web Team.

Your duties will involve designing and creating web pages for the councils intranet and website inline with all accessibility guidelines. You will also be responsible for supporting and advising users on the creation of web pages and for reviewing and authorising web pages in advance to publication

You will be expected to be flexible and receptive to new ideas and changes along with an ability to prioritise and organise tasks using your own initiative.

Experience of web design, html and Microsoft word is essential along with excellent communication skills.

In turn we offer a competitive salary with modern well-equipped offices, flexible working and training opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to work in one of the few local authorities strong enough to turn exciting ideas into everyday reality. And with a 4 Star CPA Rating, we've quickly become the UK's No.1 Metropolitan Council.

View more details and apply!

Where is Dawson Lane?

No where to be found in Denton!


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No where to be found in Tameside either, but there is a Dawson Street.

Some of you may know already that there is a new Labour face in Denton West who replaced Cllr. Andrew Gwynne MP called Dawson Lane. What some of you may not be aware of is that he is the husband of Cllr. Jacqueline Lane in Dukinfield. Both live on 6 Chancel Close, Dukinfield, SK16 5RP. But Dawson, that isn't in Denton is it now? Where is the true representation eh?

But lets lay off Dawson for a minute and lets look at the two other councillors Mike Smith and Brenda Warrington. Mike lives in Droylsden and as for Brenda, she spends next to fuck all time in her constituency as her job is based in London working for the department for constitutional affairs which is also known as the deputy prime ministers office working for that lovely Harriet Hamster. She also used to work for ex Cllr. Andrew Gwynne MP who again spends the majority of his time in London as an MP.

You would of thought that the Denton Doughnuts would be a little fed up in Denton West and be seeking true representation from their councillors. It would appear so... On election night, Tory candidate, Joan Howarth did win by 6 votes, but Dawson Lane rightly requested a recount and when he did, he won by 14 votes. Smashing! Did Joan ask for another recount after learning the people at Tameside Council miscounted by 20 votes (that's nearly a full bundle)? No. Silly, silly, billy! It shows when you have candidates as thick as pig shit, they don't deserve to win, but then again, we wouldn't have many councillors now would we?

Oh well, Denton West is deffinately a ward to watch. We shall be doing so very closely from now on.

I can all hear you singing now "Dawson, Dawson, Who the fuck is Dawson?"

Audenshaw Labour Wasting YOUR Money

OK, I have held off this for a while, but I have held off due to my arrest. Anyway this post has been prompted from a post of Cllr. Iain Lindley in Salford where the leader of the Labour controlled council said that police officers should keep out of party political literature in case they are "compromised". It is right, it really does annoy me when I see police officers and council staff taking time out to pose with the "wonderful" Labour party.

And talking of compromises, who remembers that "undercover anti smoking police officer" from Tameside Patrollers. We named and shamed him, he moaned and funnily enough Cllr. John Taylor stuck an image of this officer on his website (since taken down) in a "busy" looking position. The borough solicitor was satisfied that there was no wrongdoing in a member of council staff going on a website to help promote the councillor up for re-election. And on our side, there was no sinister motive to putting up the picture, just to highlight the waste of money from Tameside Council. We are told Tameside Patrollers are there to "protect and serve the people of Tameside", wrong, they issue petty fines for the council where necessary. You can see the Tameside Patroller

Anyway, back to business. There is more from Audenshaw Labour. Look at this picture of Colin White "cleaning the streets" with a high pressure water jet cleaner.



But look at the Tameside Council street cleaning vehicle closely behind...

Something unrelated, but speculated, many political candidates opposing Labour have been turned away from old peoples homes. These have a very high percentage of returns in terms of postal votes. The problem is that Labour can canvass these homes, but other parties like the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, BNP and UKIP can not. It isn't really a fair game.



Many old peoples homes are now controlled by New Charter if my memory serves me correct, New Charter is the New Labour quango which controls the councils housing stock. Many of the directors are members of the Labour party or Labour party councillors.

Finally another is this little pose from Jean Brazil with a community support officer. You would of thought they had plenty of crime to attend to in Tameside. Sorry crime levels have fallen haven't they? No? Too busy finding out who are behind the blogs in Tameside. Seriously!



These photo shoots are clearly orchestrated to make those in or seeking power look good to the public - it is as if the council and the related organisations are endorsing the candidates because that is what the candidate wants to create an image for themself - a good relationship with the community. There are better ways of doing this and it is by taking things hands on rather than grabbing council staff or police to take time out and preventing them from doing their job. It is a complete waste of tax payers money and I am sure many of you will agree with me.

Stacey Knighton, the Audenshaw candidate has come under attack from a load of Labour lies. You can see her response to the claims in this blog post.

And before I love you and leave you, you maybe interested in this comparison between the existing Audenshaw Labour councillors. It ain't pretty!

Wishful Thinking

Hold your horses Tameside Council! Look what we have here! Click on the above image to enlarge, but if you look at the Sitemeter report, someone from Tameside Council went on to Google to search for "cllr paul martin dowthwaite". Except the Labour Ashton Hurst candidate isn't a councillor at all and there is no chance he will ever be in Hurst.

A bit on Paul Dowthwaite: He is a former DIRECTOR for Tameside Council. He applied for the cheif exec's position but FAILED. Do you think it is right to have Labour party members running the council through supposedly apolitical positions?

And this council claims it is neutral!

We are on Twitter!

Tameside Eye has set up a twitter account for this years elections. We have contacts up and down the wards which will be able to give Tameside Eye all the facts, figures and a bit of gossip thrown in for good measure. Bookmark the below address and stay tuned for updates:

http://twitter.com/TamesideEye

UKIP Tameside have invited myself to the electoral festivities as John Bell from Tameside Tories thinks I am a disgrace. Shock horror! And Tameside Council don't think a local blog is counted as press.

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Gone in 60 Seconds!

One feature which was launched on the Tameside Council website earlier this month was "60 Second News". Yes, earlier this month when the election was called. So nothing to do with the upcomming elections then? Hmmmmmm.... You can see why 60 Second News has raised a few eyebrows across many of the political parties.

On the page for 60 Second News it states:

"Each week, Sixty Second News will give you the council’s top stories in just one minute.

The bulletin has been set up in response to a demand for web-based information about the council and will be presented by council staff.".

I did a Freedom of Information request from Tameside Council asking for a breakdown of 60 Second News and today I recieved a reply from the Assistant Chief Executive and director for ICT and Transformational Services, Tim Rainey.

You could all joke now on "How many people does it take at Tameside Council to produce a one minute news item". Below I have included the response from the breakdown:

Writing Script (1 hour) - Est. £16.00
Filming and production (3 hours) - Est. £150.00
Presenter time (1 hour) - Est. £16.00

So it takes a total of five man hours to produce a one minute programme and at a total cost of £182 to the local tax payer. This £182 works out at £3.03 per second.

60 Second News goes out once a week so there is 4 weeks in a month, this would work out at £728 a month or if you do it over a year which there are 52 weeks and 60 Second News costs £9464.

It was revealed by Tameside Tories earlier in November 2007 that Tameside Council spent £803,000 on "communication" in 2006 a rise of £96,000 from the previous year.

Is it worth while keeping 60 Second News? Does it serve to rub the backs of smug council staff and Labour councillors? What would you spend £9464 a year on to benefit the people of Tameside? Discuss below.

Jobcentres advertise Internet porn jobs

From the Inq:

Jobcentres across Blighty feel it is their moral duty to advertise jobs for people who take their clothes off in front of webcams.

According to the Beeb, a student Anna Ellis-Jones was "amazed" and " disgusted" to find adverts for nude webcam operators at her Jobcentre Plus office in Llangefni, Anglesey. It appears she was also again shocked when she also saw the adverts at Bangor in Gwynedd.

She said that government agencies should not be doing that sort of thing. Government departments should never be doing things related to naughtiness and in her day, well actually it is her day, but they still shouldn't be doing it.

The Department of Work and Pensions told the Beeb that it had a moral obligation to allow all legal jobs to be advertised. Apparently in 2003 there was a legal ruling which meant it had to do it and there was no getting out of it.

These sorts of jobs are only 0.016 per cent of all vacancies and the whole thing is a storm in a teacup. After all it is not as if Jobcentres are demanding that people get their kit off or lose their benefits.

The job did not really seem to be worth the agro. You only got minimum wages for a four hour shift and you didn't even get a free uniform.

We wonder what James Purnell thinks of this!

Aide de Camp to The Leader

An aide-de-camp (French for camp assistant) is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state. The first aide-de-camp is typically the foremost personal aide.
In some countries, aide-de-camp is considered to be a title of honor (which confers the post-nominal letters ADC), and participates at ceremonial functions.
The badge of office for an aide-de-camp is usually the aiguillette, a braided cord in gold or other colours, worn with a uniform on the left (or sometimes right) shoulder. (Wikipedia).

So Council Leader Roy Oldham now has an ADC in the person of Councillor Martin (simple enough for a house-wife to understand) Wareing.
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/profile/aide-de-camp

What next on the pay-roll? Praise singer? Food taster? King's Champion?

(With acknowledgements to Tameside-citizen where this news was first posted)