Mid Yorks Hospital Trust Car Parking charges go up again.

Most expensive parking in Pontefract Parking charges to rise at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust - http://t.co/bcbEbnJX2p #GoogleAlerts
— Geoff Walsh (@Geoff_Walsh_npc) March 31, 2014

£2.2 billion pounds of taxpayers money and Wakefield Council are putting up council tax..

Billions of pounds of Taxpayers money in 4 years of Wakefield expenditure...and now they intend to take more.

Whilst the Wakefield Labour Group on WMDC have spent the last four years complaining about government cuts, annual council expenditure has been more than half a billion pounds for each of those years and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Still they say that they cannot make the numbers work and want more local taxpayer's money.

Next time you step out of your front door, look around you. Can you see where that money has gone?

The controlling Wakefield Labour Group need to learn the lesson that many other councils across the country, both Labour and Conservative have learned, that the hard earned cash they take off us should not just be spent, but well spent.

Do what you can

Post by The Optimism Revolution.

Bring him home to Yorkshire

Battle to bring king home gathers pace - Yorkshire Post: http://t.co/0b0yFQ5kF3
— Geoff Walsh (@Geoff_Walsh_npc) March 29, 2014

Time to fix the roads across Wakefield district.

In a freedom of information response Wakefield Council admit that the bill to put the district’s roads into proper order will be £68 million pounds.  If they had acted in 2007/8, they estimated  it would have cost half this amount. The shame of this is that the council uses a big part of its annual highways budget to pay a £1.4M insurance premium and settle legitimate claims made against it.

Meanwhile, they are spending £4.1M to fund the Northern Relief  Road, which some already label a “road to nowhere”.  When  less than £2.7M a year goes on actual road improvements  or repairs, that £4.1M  could have been better spent fix the roads..

The government is allocating further specific funds to help out, but our roads are still in an appalling state, due to years of lack of commitment  and council inaction. I wonder what the repair bill will be in 2018?

It is really time to fix the roads!.

Spring forward

Take care one and all.

The clocks go forward tonight. Remember to #TickTockTest your smoke alarms too! #FireKills http://t.co/krh7Njnjwv http://t.co/FWO5PNL7Z3
— Help to Buy (@helptobuy) March 29, 2014