Councillor Stephen Burrell, the council’s cabinet member for children and young people, said:

“We have great ambition for our schools and the potential for new schools to raise aspirations and to attract others to live in the borough.

“We are building learning environments for the future and these buildings are for the whole community. It’s about improving services and improving reputation.

“Campus Telford and Wrekin will act as a major catalyst for regeneration.”

Oh that’s alright then – the Conservative administration at Telford & Wrekin aren’t following the plans of their Labour predecessors and knocking down schools, rebuilding them on their own playing fields or public open space, then flogging the original site off for housing?

Well, they are actually – how else could they rebuild the Lord Silkin School?

Labour/Tory – it makes no difference – they still obey the senior officers, who are paid 3 to 4 times as much as any councillor but don’t have to face the electorate.

Recently a popular local councillor (Denis Allen from Wellington) was “sacked” (to use this newspaper’s own words). Your reporters know that senior council officers have made stupid and expensive mistakes – why don’t you ask why they’re not sacked?”

It’s since been announced that Three Oaks and Stirchley Primaries are to be replaced – presumably alongside the new Lord Silkin School on the playing fields near grange Avenue.

So we lose open space and recreation ground, an already densely-packed estate gains even more houses, and Cllr Burrell witters on about “Campus Telford & Wrekin”.

Get real – Telford has some of the worst-performing secondary schools in the country – that’s not because of inadequate buildings but an underperforming education department. What next – blow a few tens of thousands on “launching” a new logo?

This council, just like their Labour predecessors, haven’t got the bottle to admit that their senior officers are a pile of poo who have succeeded in little other than turning our town into a laughing stock. Their response? – sack a councillor.

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