Senior Stoke-on-Trent Labour councillor quits party over pay cuts for workers

“Councillor resigns – Unison withholds funding. Labour meltdown in Stoke-on-Trent continues!

http://tinyurl.com/ayh5dzb”

“While I think the decision to reduce or removed the terms & conditions that are currently paid is being made by senior officals in the City Council, the Councillors who represent Stoke-on-Trent get the final say on whether to accept these proposals.
I do have to congratulate Andrew Lilley for bringing this to the attention of The Sentinel readers, as he says it is the lower paid workers that are affected by these changes. Why should someone who works shifts, weekends, Christmas Day and through the night be paid the same as someone who works in the Civic Centre working Monday to Friday 9 til 5.
It's ok for Mr Van Der Laarshot and his other executives to sit in their offices and say that they need to save money by removing shift allowance etc while they work 9 - 5 on over-inflated wages. Why dont they reduce their salaries to save £2m which will be a lower percentage reduction in income compared to someone working at the lower end of the pay scale.”

“Mr Lilley, you honestly think that you should be rewarded with what is drastic failure of your job? What a clown. Hope his pension also gets removed.”

“"Mr Pervez ,

Come on do the decent thing and resign taking the rest of the crazy gang with you , were you running a busines the adinistrators would have been in long ago . By paying my council tax I am a shareholder in this city and I cannot afford you or your band anymore .
Reference to your acolytes twitter , I am not a Trotskyite , Luddite , Marmite or any other ite I am a resident of Stoke on Trent who is sick and tired of your draconian attitudes and economic suicidal policies"


Pezzer and his grubby gang are not going anywhere while their is money to be had be realistic”

“these idiots are not Labour , or radical socialists , they are a load of grasping chancers why when they lose a seat do they scurry to the next available seat that comes vacant ( several ex lord mayors included ) not out of any civic responsibilty or a genuine desire to serve the people of Stoke on Trent but purely out of greed for the comfortable expenses available . How many of these parasites actually lose income by their actions , very few , but how many gain and why is it important to them to get back onto the gravy train once they have been kicked off ..

Roll on May”

“IT'S GOOD TO TALK TALK- BUT NOT TO LISTEN.”

“Shotton on Radio Stoke earlier, what a load of bull He believes he is in office to represent the people. Oh sorry, he is isn't he . The sad thing is, he thinks he is, how dumb is that. So we all want the move to Hanley, costing an arm and a leg. Then being left disabled, they want to cut the care services and close St Michaels. Then he goes on to say when questioned over Andrew Lilley, reading from the page, it is the governments fault, the same old. Trying to smokescreen who is going to take the hit on the cuts, on pay and conditions. We know, the bottom end as usual.
Come clean and propose something that people can understand, never mind reduced hours, less holidays and the like. Put up a percentage figure that will effect top to bottom, contract or not. Take more off people that can afford it. Especially when he starts to bring the living wage into the discussion. Mr Lilley was taking a stand through principal, being a union member, and their are other union members amongst the councillors, shame on them. We can all wear the coat, but it is what is underneath. The cupboard is bare so to speak. But if people are having doubts, Shotton says to to him or Mr PERVEZ. Hmmmm. These so called union members should be frog marching out of the Civic Centre, but we know they won't. WHY ? Because they are in it for themselves and not the people. Any terms and condition changes should be done on a national basis so it would be fair across the board and out of the hands of the local incompetents. Also the issue of the unions withdrawing funding to the Local Labour Party, It's right that they should do that, even nationally, they don't deserve the funding. As for the politics, it's the people that count and who is best to SERVE THEM.”

“Mr Pervez ,

Come on do the decent thing and resign taking the rest of the crazy gang with you , were you running a busines the adinistrators would have been in long ago . By paying my council tax I am a shareholder in this city and I cannot afford you or your band anymore .
Reference to your acolytes twitter , I am not a Trotskyite , Luddite , Marmite or any other ite I am a resident of Stoke on Trent who is sick and tired of your draconian attitudes and economic suicidal policies”

“I see the usual suspects, the ever present vocal minority are jumping with joy over this article. What they seem to be missing (because they are, by nature, slow) is that Andrew Liley has left Stoke Labour group because they are sham socialists.

I applaud him for this. I will also be joining the March on Stoke. Don't think for one minute this means I want the Tories or their Fib Dem poodles running our city. If their record on mis-managing the country is anything to go by they'd be an even bigger disaster.

I want a Labour council... not a Tory Agent council. Let's march to serve notice on this shower - after that, we're back to the trenches.”

“by Robnoxious
"At last, someone who can think for themselves. Better late than never. Now the real work does begin". -Unquote.

He's not the first to 'stand up to this rotten lot -led by Pervez. Didn't his Finance Director, Labour Councillor for Trent Vale and Harpfields Sarah Hill -challenge him for the leadership last year? A vote of 'no confidence' I think.
Ok, she was defeated -by the Pervez Toadies, but she had the last laugh; -when Pervez shoved in one of his 'coteries of admirers from Bucknal to stand as the Labour Candidate -that Labour Party member of his was defeated by a local Trent Vale Independent lady.
If Labour can lose a 'safe seat' in Trent Vegas -they can lose one anywhere -including Burslem or wherever it is Pervez sits.
As Bob Dylan sang... 'The Times They Are A Changin'... Watch out for the 23rd.”