New council HQ approved

“When will the people of this city start to think about what the Labour Party and successive Council Officers have given us. We have one of the worst performing councils in the country yet one of the highest with regard to salaries and allowances paid. We have Councillors and Officers who are lacking in the basic skills in economics and fiscal strategy and they are taking this city deeper and deeper into deprivation and poverty.
Yet these same people ask us to trust them in securing our and our children's futures. That would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again. These Councillors and Officers are not part of the solution - THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

Alan Lear, Lightwood.”

“When will the people of this city start to think about what the Labour Party and successive Council Officers have given us. We have one of the worst performing councils in the country yet one of the highest with regard to salaries and allowances paid. We have Councillors and Officers who are lacking in the basic skills in economics and fiscal strategy and they are taking this city deeper and deeper into deprivation and poverty.

Yet these same people ask us to trust them in securing our and our children's futures. That would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again. These Councillors and Officers are not part of the solution - THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

Alan Lear, Lightwood.”

“That's it then, the death of Stoke is to be announced soon to be followed by the destruction of Hanley! The civic move will not regenerate our city, it will DESTROY it! Meanwhile Pervez will be up there with the other historic leaders.... Hitler, Gaddafi, Mussolini, Bin Ladin... Despots one and all! Shame on you all for letting Pervez the puppet master pull your strings!!!!”

“biggest waste of money yet but all us fools with foot the bill as usual even people on benefits now with paying council tax and the new bedroom tax his country is the biggest load of **** there is nowt wrong with the council building in stoke”

“I've just heard that Britsh Gas, JCB, Amazon, Ebay, Virgin, Bentley, British Rail, Argos, Royal Mail, Dyson and others are all moving their HQs to the CBD, now the Council is moving there.

Only kidding; No-one's coming.

But at least JVL got his surf board out at the ready.”

“Just NINE elected members involved in this decision ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !”

“Labour's gift to the city, a huge millstone of debt just like the one they left the whole country. Do councils pay rates? No I don't think they do so the idea that the scheme will generate income is a joke. Even IF you find other tenants, the payback will take many, many years by which time the councillors will be long gone.

I have no problem with spending to invest but it must be affordable and represent good value to the tax payer. This not only represents poor value to the tax payer who must bankroll the scheme but at a time when councils are having to watch their spending taking on a massive loan cannot be affordable in the long term without having an adverse affect on other services in the years to come.

No private company wants to invest in this scheme because they can see it's a poor proposition in terms of infrastructure and location in comparison to other locations in the city. They can see the council are trying to flog a dead horse and they're keeping well away. The whole site will just become one great big public sector employment park with no new jobs and a plethora of abandoned old public sector buildings lying in its wake.”

“The costs of all this include a number of empty buildings across the City, including public community buildings, actually and not just potentially 'iconic'. There are a range of costs to keeping these buildings empty, the most important being the long-term damage done to community spirit, service and enterprise. Ed Milliband said after Labour's disastrous election result in Bradford last year: "there is a deep, deep cynicism about politicians and political parties".
Somebody should maybe tell Ed about the huge support Stoke Labour councillors are giving to this deadly cynicism.

Captain Swing”

“Think you all need to have close look at how voted

Cllr follows and Cllr Brereton have also voted for this application.

Shame on them all”

“Janine Bridges "Iconic building"!!! oh my days! Iconic is most certainly something it will not be love”