Community Safety

Yesterday Wednesday Oct 25th I attended the once a month Plas Madoc Community Safety meeting. The meeting is held on the last Wednesday every month, at the Opportunity Centre, Hampden Way at 2pm

The meeting involves residents, police, fire brigade, & council employees and discusses all things to do with community safety and the general environment of Plas Madoc. At wednesdays meeting we discussed aspects of the 'Safer Living Better Living' action plan. As well as drugs, Youth service, & the road system around Plas Madoc including drivers speeding, with a new initiative being launched soon which includes school children handeling a speed gun with the police and thus hoping to shame speeding drivers.

All residents are welcome to attend.

The week ahead !

Below is what's in my diary for the week October 16th - 20th

Monday
Meeting at 6.30 at the Guildhall of Wrexham labour group, where we discuss what is going on behind the scenes on the Council, and our strategies for the week ahead.

Tuesday
My surgery at 6.30pm at the Opportunity Centre, hampden way. Any resident of Plas Madoc is welcome to come along for advice asisstance regarding the Council.

Wednesday
Children & Young People Scrutiny Committee 6.00pm at the Guildhall. This week the committee will be interviewing the headteacher of Ysgol Clwyedog, and discussing the folowing reports - Update on strategy to transform achievement in secondary schools, review of primary school provision, flying start initiative, and secondary schools reorganisation.

Thursday
An extrordinary meeting of the full council, in the council chamber, Guildhall 6.30pm to discuss the Neighbourhood warden scheme - this meeting has been called by the labour group.All members of the public are welcome to attend.

Friday
A meeting of the Fabian Society 7.30pm The fabian society is a political think-tank, our meetings consist of a nice meal followed by a guest speaker !

The General Is Right !

Having listened to the head of the British army, General Sir Richard Donnatt i could not agree more with his comments. Sir Richard said 'We have got to get out of Iraq soon, because our presence exacerbates the security problems' I have been against this war in Iraq from the start, why? because anyone who has been taught foreign politics will understand that for various reasons some countries are run by dictators. and others by democracy. The reason Iraq was run by dictatorship was because it is a false country, invented by the British after the second world war. The country was originaly three seperate states, the only way to hold this religious divided country together was by force, now that force has gone we have chaos.

So what will happen when we pull out? There will no doubt be a civil war, and after that? the country will go back to three seperate states. The south will be run by a Shite religious government - modelled on Iran, the centre will be run by a sunni religious government - modelled on Saudi Arabia, and the North will be the only part where we have any hope of democracy, that as is now will be run by the Kurds.

Llys Madoc

I Just want to state two things regarding Llys Madoc home. First i am completely opposed to any closure of this home, and what i see as the privatisation of residential care in Wrexham by this Lib-Dem run Council. I have been opposed to the closure of Llys Madoc sine the proposal first reared it ugly head two years ago on the principle that by evicting frail & elderly people from their home it will in some cases cause death, this has happened in other parts of the U.K where a home has closed. I think the staff have done an excellent job, especially recently and deserve our praise, not re-location or a potential redundancy notice.

Secondly,As far as the extra care home facility which may replace Llys Madoc if the home was to close, because i have a responsibility towards Plas Madoc and do not wish to see a derelict building which could be used by squatters & drug addicts, I reluctantly support the application for extra care housing and the facilities that would come with it.

All Talk & No Action !!

The Liberal Democrats pride themselves on their Environmental Policies, Claiming to have the most environment freindly policies of any of the mainstream political parties.

The closest the Lib - Dems have had of gaining power since Lloyd George's time is the control of local councils, so it is there that they can put these Environment policies into action. The Lib-Dems control Liverpool City Council, so why is it they have one of the worst household recycling rates of any Council in England, a Woeful six percent! The minister of state for the Environment Ian Pearson M.P has agreed that Liverpool is massively underachieving on its recycling targets and has given them six million pounds to sort it out. So what do the Lib-Dems in liverpool do, they send their waste on large lorrys to Hafod, using thousands of litres of dirty diesel, hundreds of litres of engine oil, and loads of tyres.I wonder what they have done with that £6 million of tax payers money.

The same all talk no action on the environment happens here in Wrexham. The so called environment champions who control Wrexham Council - yes you have gussed it! the Lib -Dems have also the worst recycling rate of any Council in the whole of Wales.

As per ussual the Lib-Dems are all talk and no action!!

Neighbourhood Warden

Whilst this post is a little late, with the decision to scrap the Neighbourhood Warden system being taken a few weeks ago by this Lib-Dem / Indi run council. I wish to pay tribute to our Warden Alan. Alan has been an asset to Plas Madoc. Anti-social behaviour is down, people are more confident in reporting anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping, abbandoned cars ect The appearance of the estate has also improved with the removal of graffiti from the electric sub-stations, and now the painting of the garages. Work which the council would not have done had the levels of anti-social behavour not de-creased. Alan will be a huge loss to the estate.

By putting all their faith in Police community support officers the rulling lib-dem group on the council is removing one of its key responsibilities,to make Wrexham a safer place to live & work,if it can fund £25.000 for a one day minority welsh festival in Rhos then it can afford a neighbourhood warden system, as i have said before 'the lib-dems know the cost of everything but the value of nothing'

Sorry !

Hello All

I am very sorry for not posting blogs on this site for a long time. This was due to the council stopping me from using their broadband connection to post blogs. But now it seems i can, for how long i do not know ?

So hopefuly you will once again have an insight into what is happening in Plas Madoc, the council & the world in general !