Musa4UptonLea

This is an outrage. The site should be refurbished and reinstated as a bus station - not privatised. Time and time again the main stream parties are failing the town. Why are the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour Councillors not asking for the party political leaders to stop this? Why do they not have the spine or the back bone to tell their party political leaders to stop funding wars and start focusing on protecting our community assets?
If I am voted in as the ward councilor for Slough, I will oppose all attempts to make Slough residents pay for the financial mess caused by the obsession the 3 main parties have with funding wars while defunding Slough.

Workers Party of Britain

The council’s cabinet committee is set to decide the future of the site of the former bus station at their meeting on Thursday 15 January.

The bus station site has been derelict since a fire in October 2022 severely damaged the aluminium structure. Since then, the council has been in a protracted negotiation with the building’s insurers.

Now Cabinet Committee – a special committee which deals exclusively with matters relating to council assets – is being asked to consider declaring the site as surplus; paving the way for a brand new development which both reflects and enhances the regeneration planned for the former TVU site, the shopping centres and the High Street.

The council’s aspiration is to provide a new bus interchange within the town centre area which addresses the faults of the former station providing an improved experience for passengers and the bus operators and enhancing the public realm while enabling other development to come forward.

Councillor Wal Chahal, deputy leader of the council and lead member for assets, said: “The former bus station, though visually striking, did not provide the best experience for passengers or operators of the buses.

“Now the insurance issues have been dealt with, we are able to look at the site afresh and fully explore the options for providing the best possible transport interchange.

“We are committed to providing an effective, safe and sustainable bus interchange for residents in this, the heart of the town, and I am looking forward to our discussions on how we can make our vision a reality.”

It is estimated rebuilding the former bus station, to what it was, would cost in excess of £14 million a value far greater than the insurance payout received.

The current derelict site, thanks to business rates, capital costs and security required, is costing the council more than £200,000 a year as it is at present.

Leader of the council, councillor Dexter Smith, added: "We are not only trying to keep our options open as we decide what is best for the town in the 21st century, but we are also giving Cabinet some additional options to get this right for Slough's future needs".

The report and details of the meeting can be found on the council’s website. https://democracy.slough.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=710&MId=8941

What is the plan for social housing in Slough? London Boroughs are buying up tower blocks to house their residents here. Why is Slough Borough not doing the same for our residents? Why have the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats not set targets to house those on the housing register with in 1 year? If money is an issue, how much money have they spent on the never ending wars? How much money on bailing out the bankers so that they could enjoy their bonuses? How much money for the dodgy COVID contracts?
The main stream parties have shown that they are economically illiterate and incapable of managing the the local and national finances of the state.
Workers Party of Britain

A lack of affordable housing is one of the biggest challenges facing Britain. Renters face price increases that outpace the rate inflation and wage growth, new builds are often unaffordable and a generation of entrepreneurs see HMOs and buy-to-let’s as a route to financial freedom and success. Increasing numbers of billionaires also make their wealth from property and inheritance as per @theequalitytrust What do you think? Filmed, edited and produced by the talented @graeme_smith

The right to be judged by your peers is considered central to British democracy, which is why the @the_law_society, amongst others have cautioned about radical steps being proposed at the Ministry of Justice in order to reduce waiting times for trial. The proposals would restrict jury trial to the most severe crimes. What do you think?

Privatisation has failed Slough. Slough residents are paying sky high bills so that the fat cat CEOs and share holders of the big energy companies can line their pockets. This is the collective fault of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats who have allowed this system to continue. The mainstream councillors should be up speaking up to their party political leaders about this.
Workers Party of Britain

"The role of private equity is disgusting." Ash Sarkar returned to Question Time last night. She challenged the legacy of privatisation in public utilities like rail and highlighted the true cost of profit in social care. Ash pointed to the £200 billion in taxpayers money given to shareholders as evidence of why "everything is too expensive and nothing works."

MBDA is Europe’s largest missile consortium and it has been implicated, through the GBU-39 missile in several airstrikes that killed, for example Hanin Al-Wadiyya’s sibling and parents. It has a subsidiary in the UK, and escaped limits on weapon exports to the Israeli government. It also gave tens of thousands to a parliamentary group as recorded by @forceswatch

Solidarity to the NHS frontline staff and the junior doctors who are on strike. If elected as your ward councillor, I will not shy away from supporting trade union workers.
Workers Party of Britain

A Health Secretary who won’t meet #NHS patients…but will take £220k+ from private healthcare donors. So yes - we brought a puppet to Wes Streeting’s office to ask the question: who is really pulling Streeting’s strings?

This is what happens when you waste almost £10 billion in UK tax revenue on invading and occupying Iraq. Just imagine if that money was invested in Slough? How many well paid jobs could we have created? How many social housing units built? How many doctors could we have trained up?
Workers Party of Britain

2.8 million young people are “economically inactive”, whilst 735,000, aged 16-24 were unemployed from August to October 2025. The government have indicated that young people will be stripped of the right to claim benefits if they refuse a taxpayer-funded job. 900,000 young people are on Universal Credit. What do you think? For help getting employment: @apprenticeships.co.uk @the93percentclub @kingstrust @youthemploymentuk @linkedin @indeed.uk Filmed, edited, produced by @graeme_smith