The Pothole Challenge
Thank you to all the very large number of Labour supporters who went out on Saturday 18th January to find and report potholes throughout the Burntwood and Lichfield region. Wow, did we find some!
Potholes are almost always a matter for the County Council. In Staffordshire the Tory County Council has outsourced the pot hole repair work, and many would say it has not been a great success. The new Labour government has provided ring fenced funding to repair potholes so we are beginning to see a difference with many repairs taking place. However years of neglect means that there is still an awful lot to do.

Everywhere our volunteers went they found holes, and reported them. Our task now is to see how many are repaired within the next few weeks.
It is nice that some of the Conservative Councillors clearly felt we had touched a nerve as they rushed out to find holes that they claimed that they had filled. Nice try – but we know how many have not been filled!
We have the County Council Elections in May – we need every Labour vote that we can to stop the madness that has been the outsourcing of so many skills from County Hall. Please do volunteer to help Labour get the best result possible.