Steve Batkin - Tuesday. 27.2.2018: Media Unwilling To Give Stoke-on-Trent's Budget Proper Scrutiny! This Website Created To Give People Honest Account Of Events. As normal the British media (The Sentinel) sent a reporter to Stoke-on-Trent City Council's (Staffordshire, England) 2018/19 annual budget setting meeting (Thursday.22. 2. 2018): was it an honest, fair report? Of course not I've never known an honest fair report yet! I was an elected city councillor for eight years and some of the reporting and censorship I've witnessed over the years was and still is an utter disgrace; the political party I represented in years gone by did not have the money and assets to get the truth out and the public and voters still have no idea to this day about all the past censorship which has taken place. Hopefully this website can reach a few people who are genuinely interested in their world, country and city. Although I'm not an elected Stoke-on-Trent City Council councillor anymore I'm entitled to attend the budget meeting as a member of the public /observer but I'm not allowed to speak; this is the case for any member of the public if they wish to attend but apart from myself and three other people nobody attended! Even the local British Broadcasting Company (BBC) Radio Stoke didn't appear to send a reporter and when I put Radio Stoke on the next day there was no mention of the budget meeting in their news reports. So what did the The Sentinel have to say about the meeting? I did notice their reporter being present but I already knew what The Sentinel's report would contain before it was even written and printed but more importantly what it would not contain. So let me decode the report by putting it in a form which enables the general public to know what's really going on. Let's have a look at a few excerpts from the report: "deputy council leader and finance cabinet member Abi Brown, who introduced the budget at yesterday's full council meeting, said the authority's investments in new housing and the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone were paying off". Secondly: "if we want to continue providing the services that our residents want, growing our economy is our only answer". Thirdly: "but it would be disingenuous not to say that we are facing significant issues around social care provision and additional investment is required". Like I've already said I was not allowed to speak and even if I had been my comments would've not got reported. The censorship in the report comes from not just Abi Brown who refuses to state that many thousands of people in Stoke-on-Trent are classed as 'sick' when they clearly are not and then the reporter deliberately fails to pick up on councillor Brown's failings; the 'sickness' farce is then compounded by mass immigration cheap labour which we obviously don't need because the 'sick' are capable of working! Again councillor Brown and the reporter don't mention this reality. In the new budget there was a four per cent hike in council tax to help pay for social care: in my opinion some of the 'sick' don't even want to look after their own children because they would rather spend their benefits on alcohol/legal and illegal drugs; so therefore the council tax payers have got to pay for someone else to look after their kids. The City Council's council tax for a band D household is £1,533.81, with the city population being 250/60 thousand; basically all of the City Council's capital programme (£471 million) will be spent on more houses and roads: obviously an increase in population growth requires more houses and roads; again this fact was put under censorship like it always has been in any City Council or media report -- it's all about controlling the mind of the public/voters and getting political establishment councillors elected or re-elected!
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