Benefit To Sheffield Of Having A Labour Council?

[Consheff 0]

Seems my other one was removed I wonder if it crashed because there were no benefits in having a labour council so I ask again please help me out and tell me what benefits Sheffield has received by sticking with labour 

[cfandtwalker 10]

Absolutely none, zero, diddly-squat, zilch, nada.

[Consheff 0]

I remember cheap bus fares but we lost those seats no benefit 

Fright night used to be good we lost that

Free parking in town we lost that

[butlers 261]

Why did we lose the subsidized fares?

[Consheff 0]

Is there any benefit to the amey contract massively overpriced cost to tax payers shoddy workmanship councilors mouthing off on twitter over it compensation paid out bigger losses to tax payers #nobenefit

3 minutes ago, butlers said:

Why did we lose the subsidized fares?

They privatised it if I remember first took over and the council got a brown envelope 

Edited May 5, 2021 by Consheff

[butlers 261]

You certain they privatized it ,sounds very unlike the People's Republic ?

[Anna B 1,414]

3 minutes ago, butlers said:

Why did we lose the subsidized fares?

6 minutes ago, butlers said:

Why did we lose the subsidized fares?

Because richer people objected. They didn't get any benefit from it because they didn't use buses.

8 minutes ago, Consheff said:

Is there any benefit to the amey contract massively overpriced cost to tax payers shoddy workmanship councilors mouthing off on twitter over it competition paid out bigger losses to tax payers #nobenefit

They privatised it if I remember first took over and the council got a brown envelope 

I think they were more or less forced into it by Conservative government's drive to privatise everything. 

[monzaman 324]

WARNING WARNING ,There now follows a party political broadcast on behalf of the tory party by conservativesheffield sorry consheff where they will ask questions and when they get answers move onto other subjects or move the goalposts LOL but mods don't remove it or they won't get paid from tory HQ !!!!!!

[ECCOnoob 1,040]

1 hour ago, Consheff said:

I remember cheap bus fares but we lost those seats no benefit 

Fright night used to be good we lost that

Free parking in town we lost that

Seriously???   This sort of trivial guff is the crux of your primary local issue decision making.... no wonder this city is stagnating and we get the incompetent morons of a council we have.

 

Deregulation of local bus services started from around 1979 at which time are very own council was majority controlled by........ Labour.

 

As for fright night....it was an event that was devised and operated by a private events marketing company. Why you are whining about the council boggles my mind.  Given said private events company put up the majority of the cash to run the event any decisions to cancel it would have been primarily economic on their part and it was automatically replaced by something else deemed more profit-making.   

 

Ask for the stock ridiculous moan about free parking..... the obvious fact that no city centres  offer "free parking".  Goodness sake there's been the existence of chargeable car parks and these things called parking meters since the black and white days.  Hardly some new fangled concept brought in by the evil Tories.

 

What a ridiculous excuse for a bit of tory bashing your post, in fact the majority, of this thread is

 

People need to get a grip and remember these are local elections.   Enough with this horse crap about brexit, NHS budgets, covid vaccines and Track and Trace systems. This is supposed to be about OUR issues affecting OUR city.

 

Enough with this constant red and blue cheerleading.  Actually bother to study candidates properly and make informed vote for the ones who are going to best represent the city.  That is all that should matter - not blindly following some colour choice or getting sidetracked by a load of pathetic backwards rose tinted nonsense.  

Edited May 5, 2021 by ECCOnoob

[monzaman 324]

6 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

Seriously???   This sort of trivial guff is the crux of your primary local issue decision making.... no wonder this city is stagnating and we get the incompetent morons of a council we have.

 

Deregulation of local bus services started from around 1979 at which time are very own council was majority controlled by........ Labour.

 

As for fright night....it was an event that was devised and operated by a private events marketing company. Why you are whining about the council boggles my mind.  Given said private events company put up the majority of the cash to run the event any decisions to cancel it would have been primarily economic on their part and it was automatically replaced by something else deemed more profit-making.   

 

Ask for the stock ridiculous moan about free parking..... the obvious fact that no city centres  offer "free parking".  Goodness sake there's been the existence of chargeable car parks and these things called parking meters since the black and white days.  Hardly some new fangled concept brought in by the evil Tories.

 

What a ridiculous excuse for a bit of tory bashing your post, in fact the majority, of this thread is

 

People need to get a grip and remember these are local elections.   Enough with this horse crap about brexit, NHS budgets, covid vaccines and Track and Trace systems. This is supposed to be about OUR issues affecting OUR city.

 

Enough with this constant red and blue cheerleading.  Actually bother to study candidates properly and make informed vote for the ones who are going to best represent the city.  That is all that should matter - not blindly following some colour choice or getting sidetracked by a load of pathetic backwards rose tinted nonsense.  

ERRR you do realise the post you quoted is from a tory poster slagging labour off, have you got a bit mixed up,just thought I would tell you before I trundle off to bed!!!!

[Longcol 600]

9 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

Seriously???   This sort of trivial guff is the crux of your primary local issue decision making.... no wonder this city is stagnating and we get the incompetent morons of a council we have.

 

Deregulation of local bus services started from around 1979 at which time are very own council was majority controlled by........ Labour.

 

As for fright night....it was an event that was devised and operated by a private events marketing company. Why you are whining about the council boggles my mind.  Given said private events company put up the majority of the cash to run the event any decisions to cancel it would have been primarily economic on their part and it was automatically replaced by something else deemed more profit-making.   

 

Ask for the stock ridiculous moan about free parking..... the obvious fact that no city centres  offer "free parking".  Goodness sake there's been the existence of chargeable car parks and these things called parking meters since the black and white days.  Hardly some new fangled concept brought in by the evil Tories.

 

What a ridiculous excuse for a bit of tory bashing your post, in fact the majority, of this thread is

 

People need to get a grip and remember these are local elections.   Enough with this horse crap about brexit, NHS budgets, covid vaccines and Track and Trace systems. This is supposed to be about OUR issues affecting OUR city.

 

Enough with this constant red and blue cheerleading.  Actually bother to study candidates properly and make informed vote for the ones who are going to best represent the city.  That is all that should matter - not blindly following some colour choice or getting sidetracked by a load of pathetic backwards rose tinted nonsense.  

It's Labour bashing 😎

[butlers 261]

The poster who decries the council removing low bus fares seems unaware it was due to the 1985  Transport Act brought in by the Conservative Gov., to deregulate services.

 

Followed the year later abolishing the 6 Metropolitan Councils all of  which were Labour run

 

 

Edited May 5, 2021 by butlers