The Sheffield Fairness Commission

[eastbank 10]

when i was a kid burngreave was a much sought after area of sheffield...now it appears that they don't get their bins emptied....

blame the bin men...they seem to have tidied up ecclesall road...

[Womerry2 10]

Nice thoughts. Could I suggest that investing in rather than cutting library services would go some way to fulfilling some of these laudable aims?

[lil-minx92 10]

What a bunch of politically correct communist nonsense.

 

When will our bloody council get it through their thick heads that they're not paid to strive for a city where everyone earns the same working in Peoples Tractor Factory No 4. Some people are rich, some people are poor and most people just work hard and get by. Some people from poor backgrounds make loads of money, some people from wealthy backgrounds end up skint.

Looking at the actual recommendations most of them which could translate into policy are outside the councils control and loads of them are just pie in the sky "wouldn't it be lovely if everyone was loaded, healthy and happy".

 

Despite their claim to be able to influence a "fairer" economy looking at the list of organisations consulted they seem to have asked every minority pressure group in the city for their thoughts, but not consulted a single business.

 

Sheffield City Council at it's worst, and that takes some doing.

 

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The Star was all over this yesterday- in support of course! The most contrived article I ever read. It was quite amusing. Apparently the cold wind only blows in Burngreave.

 

One thought I had was how do you reconcile fairness with the other thing we strive for- multiculturalism. They want everybody to be in the same boat but like to celebrate how the differences make things interesting. Cant have it both ways.

 

This fairness commission is a 10 year plan. I suspect it will all be forgotten within a couple of years max. But some councillor got some publicity so its not all bad.

[Penistone999 10]

And i dare say a few consultants have already had a good earner from this during the "Ideas" process. This wont go anywhere purely because its complete codswallop , but it keeps some pen pusher in a job in the town hall thinking up Socialist rubbish like this.

[lobster 54]

sooner or later the council is going to do something that is unfair and they are going to get this thrown right back in their faces , can't wait

[PapaLazarou 747]

Born and bred English should always be given priority in social housing whether a foreign born person or family is/are needier or not. It is our city and our country and always will be.

 

Better kick the Welsh, Scottish & Irish spongers out of Sheffield then, eh.

 

Oh, and bring back all the English that are in other countries that are receiving any form of state benefits there.

 

Then we can all put the big fences up, lock the door, and pretend its the middle ages again.

[Penistone999 10]

Better kick the Welsh, Scottish & Irish spongers out of Sheffield then, eh.

 

Oh, and bring back all the English that are in other countries that are receiving any form of state benefits there.

 

Then we can all put the big fences up, lock the door, and pretend its the middle ages again.

 

I wouldnt take much notice of their racist rants , just ignore them and hopefully they will go away.

[Dozy 11]

It's not my fault that you are skint. I have lots of money because I made the correct decisions.:)

 

Who said I was skint? But I'm impressed you managed to make any decisions, let alone correct ones.

[irenewilde 10]

On the other hand we've got the council faffing around with a fairness policy that sounds like Sheffield is a primary school sports day and everyone gets a prize. It's like they want to make us stupid.

 

That's the best description I've seen so far of this whole bit of madness.

[Nagel 10]

The proposal to introduce a 20mph speed limit on Sheffield roads is one of the few proposals of the report that I can see the council following through, unfortunately. What that has to do with fairness eludes me, but the council could easily do it and say they are achieving their own targets.

 

It would mean a nightmare of new signage to impose this limit and more horrible street clutter. It would also probably blow the entire £1million fairness budget in one go.

[Penistone999 10]

 

It would mean a nightmare of new signage to impose this limit and more horrible street clutter. It would also probably blow the entire £1million fairness budget in one go.

 

Sheffield council have always been happy to waste money on pointless traffic calming schemes.

[Grappler 12]

The proposal to introduce a 20mph speed limit on Sheffield roads is one of the few proposals of the report that I can see the council following through, unfortunately. What that has to do with fairness eludes me, but the council could easily do it and say they are achieving their own targets.

 

It would mean a nightmare of new signage to impose this limit and more horrible street clutter. It would also probably blow the entire £1million fairness budget in one go.

 

You can't drive much faster than that anyway in Sheffield, as you have to dodge the pot holes everywhere........