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POPSBent Labour all over the show.
I don't often publish anything derogatory, but after listening to Eddie Izzard, supposed comedian, waxing on about the wonderful Labour Party, let me add my pennyworth. If there is a hell on Earth, Labour has put us through it in the past decade. The Blackpool South Arse Licker extraordinary, MP Gordon Marsden, has already started campaigning and is using Parliamentary funds to circulate his constituents with a letter containing nothing but a whitewash of the facts to suit Labour hounds. The letters are illegal as they come out of Parliamentary funds and cannot be used for electioneering. Will Gordon be taken to task let alone charge with improper use of funds? NO. Even though he is well aware of the Misfeasance in Public Office laws and has just ignored them. Just like so many politicians... And Labour supporters wil keep voting for them because of DOGMA and becausethey have not the brains or the will to tell their corrupt masters they are wrong. Happy New Year
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POPSBirds first, not your pesky moggie. It will never be enforced. Blackpool Council withdrew the mandate for Fishers Field in South Shore where it was said to have been left for children to play football - if there are any Americans reading this, that is the gentlemans game played by overpaid children, sorry soccer. I bumped into a former professional footballer who was taking his little boy and their dog on the field for exercise. Well not really! The child would get his exercise and the dog would have a shit. Okay, perhaps picked up by the intelligent soccer player. But the Parvo Virus cannot be picked up in a plassie bag!!! There are few dog owners who actually carry cleaning fluid along with all the accessories for cleaning up after their pets. Unfortunately they are so few, and the irrepsonsible so many.
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POPSHumbled she ought to be Other sites of local interest have realised that Mssrs Humble is not the angel her Labour supporters make her out to be. She is in fact dangerous. The reasons? Too numerous to count, but I will give you one. 1 It is the responsibility and duty of a local MP to hold the Executive to account. Now look at her voting record. With this corrupt, inept legislative assembly probable the worst in British political history, she has never once voted against the plethora of bad law, rules and regulations pouring out of Westminster. If she is not doing her job, then what the f**k is she doing taking her £67k plus expenses plus perks plus plus plus for none representation of her electorates problems?
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POPSHey diddle didlle - they're still on the fiddle Yet the Blackpool Labour stalwart has no problems of getting all the freebies he is entitled to, under his own rules, whilst former public servants drift away in silence. To add insult to injury, a former labour government removed the safety net of pension, paid for by his own donations, by changing the rules by which serviceman's pensions were calculated DOWNWARDS. To gain a full pension pre 1975 Social Security and Pensions Act one had to complete a full 22 years of the 22 year contract, which only came into force once you are eighteen years of age. That meant all those who gained medals before their 18th birthdays got NOWT, NOTHING, ZILTS, KISS YOU POLITICIANS FAT ARSE for service served and lives lost. Then all contributions to your own pension was arbitrarily cut from a 22 full part to 36. That is to say that if you did 21 years six months, instead of getting 21.5 of 22, ie, almost a full pension once your entitlement kicked in, you got 21.5 of a 36 full part. A third of your cont
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POPSWealth on Health The report by healthcare analysts Dr Foster found that 12 trusts are putting patients at serious risk because of life-threatening errors and 'systemic' safety failings - even though eight of them were praised as 'good' or 'excellent' by the Care Quality Commission health watchdog only last month. It also found that 27 trusts - a fifth of the total - have unusually high death rates - equating to almost 5,000 excess deaths. More than half of the 27 are supposedly elite foundation trusts. The joint-tenth-worst, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, is said by Dr Foster to have a death rate 15 per cent higher than the national average. Yet its chief executive, Julian Hartley, saw his pay rise by 32 per cent from £125,000 to £165,000 when his trust attained foundation status in December 2007. He has now left to join South Manchester, another of the least-safe trusts on the list.
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POPSBlackpool Conservatives accused. The sweet smell of hypocrisy wafts round Blackpool like a ruptured effluent pipe out into the Irish Sea. For years the public have ignored the murmurings of ‘irregularity’ in local politics because not a single body appeared to have the stomach or authority to confront dubious activities. The imagination with which politicians interpret rules to suit themselves is farcical and responsible for the moral cesspit that governs public perception. Where are simple ethics of Right and Wrong? Definitely not in Westminster and the country might say, not in many council offices. It is this perception that prevents perfectly decent people from entering politics and playing an active role in society. When Steve Flanigan resigned as Treasurer of the Blackpool South Conservatives, there was not a murmur. The fact that a leading councillor had received donations of £250 from the late George Thompson of the Pleasure Beach and had chosen not to immediately declare it to the Treasurer is and was
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POPSTessa Jowell's rich, corrupt husband What is better for the nation, this corrupt man with his complicity spouse, or a wanker who charges the nation for his porn whilst his wife walks around with a police escort and anti-stab jacket? That's Labour all over. Labour in Ashton in Makersfield willl be losing one of the most inept, lazy self promotional MP's in Lancashire and then have no say on his replacement. That's Labour. Blackpool MP Gordon Marden has not a word of encouragement for the family of Andy Miller who died in rge hands of a bailiff as he was demanding payment for a challenged fine for speeding. The evidence of They Work for You shows where Gay Gordon's priorities lie, and it appears not to be in the interest of the ordinary English voter.
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POPSPerfect Blackpool politics Prospective MP Bell of the Conservative Party was unavailable for comment; as he has on every issue of worth ofr several decades. Peter Callous continues to irritated pensioners whilst his colleagues in Council travel First Class to meeting they probably do not need to attend, and others to countries they need not visit. Not that the Labour dross are any better. Their prostate glands would be fine if they were left for their natural functions.
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POPSWhite scum not at work Ill educated, ill mannered, anti-social and that's me. Compared to this dross I'm a paragon of all the virtues.
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POPSBritish injustice continues Member of Parliament for blackpool promised to resist the American extradition of this man, then promptly fell into his cowardly shell as this immoral and illegal government put the pressure on. you want Brits to fight your illegal wars but you are not prepared to fight for our legitimate rights. Your silence, Gordon Marsden, on the Andy Miller situation only emphisise the fact that you are unfit to represent anyone except your odd - queer (sic) - associates.
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POPSModel killing. His mother was a police officer and has been cleared of attempting to pervert the course of justice. What is the fascination for a young white woman to have a black man in her bed, let alone in her life? I retell the tale of a 15 year old boy who was viciously attacked by a gang on Blackpool promenade. He was but the third of a procession of victims who was attacked with lead pipes and heavy glass pint pots. Had that attack occurred today the victim would be charged with a racist outburst because he kept ranting "he's dead the Black bastard" as the surgeon put 60 plus stitches and a dozen clips in the lacerated face. Even to this day he gets cold sweats whenever a gang appears with a peroxide pussy and a gorilla swapping phlegm. Not fear for himself, but with the knowledge that he cannot say, do or seem to do anything because the law prohibits truth and history. Is this the legacy the future holds for the English? No room for English men; they are in foreign parts defending cor
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POPSBlackpool newspaper's terribly poor reporting Army representatives said a lone bugler played The Last Post and six gunmen fired three symbolic shots in a touching graveside ceremony at Park Cemetery in Lytham as the family, mum Diane, step-dad Malcolm, Daniel, and auntie Rosalyn said their final goodbye. "I'm a friend of Jed and his son. This was a real ceremony by the Army with a firing party and Full Honours and not gunmen from the IRA. If you want the respect of we professionals give the respect by reporting accurately and with dignity."
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POPSCheap fares? Not in Blackpool? Councillor Ian Fowler has to travel first class by train because he cannot tell any interloper to get out of his seat. Something fishy about this former sailor? You can complain to him at cllr.ian.fowler@blackpool.gov.uk The lazy sod will not respond to you either.
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POPSBlackpool Veteran Major speaks -but never for me. What is Houldsworth a veteran of? Choir services? Bad singing? Idiotic parades? Ignoring the real vets? Self promotion? As a former Gunner, a veteran and a professional soldier, the further the likes of Bell and Houldsworth are away from any organisation for me and my fellow former injured regulars, the better. If you think my ire is not well founded, then perhaps you ought to read the letter sent by Houldsworth to Bell that had a former regular Royal Marine disciplined for telling the truth about Houldsworth and the inept Ex-Services Liaison Committee of Blackpool. Both Bell and Houldsworth should stick to their choirs and leave soldiering to soldiers.
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POPSA former lib-dem councillor I would have liked to see more of this around the country until I remember Blackpool. Given the choice the Tory hyenas or Councillor Dougie Green Lib Dem, then I would have to change a conviction of a lifetime and ditch the dross that calls it Blackpool Conservatives
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POPSBlackpool Gazette cannot control email debate I have blogged this page not to highlight the BNP but the sad consequence of Blackpool's Gazette not being able to monitor decent and valid debate. All it has taken is one moron with a fat anti-democratic finger to delete pages of contribution from concerned readers. If Guido Fawkes can controlthe thousands of salacious hit he get, why cannot JPres put in place a decent electronic arbiter.
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POPSBlackpool Conservatives choice 3. Finally, our elected representatives should demonstrate leadership and refuse to travel First Class. Not only would this result in significant savings it would more importantly acknowledge that they understand the concerns of the electorate regarding public spending and the need to “tighten our belts” something that they seem well able to preach yet unable to practice. At the end of the day what all elected representatives, and I obviously count myself in this number, must acknowledge is that we exist to serve the people that voted for us, they are our true bosses and they are most certainly not here to serve us. Unfortunately, I sometimes feel that this important fact is often forgotten or worse conveniently ignored. I bet he never cleared this piece with Councillor Ian Fowler. And there is a whole group of former regular Royal Marines who would dispute the last statement. As both a Bootneck and a devout Conservative, I find this choice of candidate worrying. Needless to say I
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POPSBlackpool's Conservative prospective MP speaks I almost wrote - with forked tongue. Here is a man who refused to allow members of his own organisation, I use the expression very selectively, access to minutes of meetings for which he was secretary. He wanted a member to travel all the way from his home in Exmouth so that minutes could be perused. I don’t know what you would call it, but it is not the actions of a public figure that I would condone. My literary relationships with several MP’s include Tony Benn, Paddy Ashdown and several local councillors. It is only Blackpool’s Conservatives who fail the manners test as it is only recently that they have discovered the power of electronic communication. If Blackpool RMA members were denied access to Minutes because Mr Bell would not publish them on Email, what trust can an electorate make of his assertions that his political party will be more forthcoming with them, the electorate? I have and will publish in full the letter from this member requesting access to the minutes a
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POPSD-Day veteran not going back to the beaches First the Vets were being subsidised by the Heroes Return Charity, costs to cover a carer and one immediate family relative. Then a Blackpool Councillor Julian Mineur – sorry folk I ain’t making this up - gets involved and it all turns to doggee poo. The last time I saw Councillor Manure in action was in Rhyl where he was insulting a rather eloquent, distinguished former Women’s Army veteran who promised if that if he called her girlie once more she would smack his face. She was prevented from assaulting him by a former Royal Marine who was only too willing to do the lady’s bidding. The Councillor was trying to sell the Veterans Badge to the veteran and was getting a hostile reception along with the Labour MP for North Wales. It is amazing how these political types do not understand community or service unless it is wrapped in a wonder financial package for themselves. Expenses! Don’t mention expenses! Not only will some of the vets not be going, but Association heads with no affil
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POPSI did nothing wrong This is a person with some responsibility for Veteran Affairs. Not in my name. It is muted amongst veterans that she is obstructive to their ultimate desires which are equity and representation. Veterans need and deserve a Khrushchev, someone who will bang the table and say NO! No! No! That backhander, £10,000, is more than is being offering to injured soldiers.
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POPSPensioner bus pass doubts This is in Scotland. In Blackpool there is not doubt. If Peter Callow had his way he would abolish it today. That £15K that's fifteen thousand pounds stirling - he and his wife claimed for expenses would go a long way to easing disabled riders and pensioners dilemmas.
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POPSWhy Blackpool South MP must go. It has been twelve years since the Labour brigade slipped this professional politician under the toilet door and into Blackpool. The electorate knew nothing of this researcher from Brighton, but the demographic and the complete emancipation of the Blackpool South electorate ought to have given some hint. Conservatism in Blackpool was a shambles and has not progressed an inch – centimetre to the Poles – in the intervening years. With the changing demographics, the public apathy, the frustration of generation after generation of political figurehead achieving absolutely nothing for a declining super town, it was with little wonder that the surge in immigrants with their socialist heritage brought with it this fresh faced figure to suit all needs (sic). In those heady days of New Labour the voters were lured into the fantasy of a new political era under that gleaming new god, Tony Blair and the hubris of an untested deity. History is a great teacher and we now all know what a connivi
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POPSMargaret Moran caught on the make If you are a member of Labour's scrutiny committee in Luton, you ought to be rethinking your future. It also illustrates the problem with Party system and executives in local areas. I have no idea how Blackpool chose it prospective candidate for the Conservatives. I would have loved to have been invited and I would have produced several letters that would have more than embarrassed the executive, some past and present office holders. Least to say that Blackpool Conservative have proven to me they are not worth £15 a year subscription. I'd hate t see the mire the Labour shower are in.
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POPSPriority for injured soldiers? I will believe this when I see it. Seven years ago I was the sole voice screaming at the inequities of council decisions made in Blackpool. The Council had issued an edict which placed former servicemen in 17th place on page two of their discussion paper on housing. When I raised this issue with the Ex Servicemen’s Association and the Royal Marines Association I was told I was out of order and out of line. Now sense has prevailed and these worthless bodies realised that it is the serving man (and woman) who is always the priority and not their self indulgent selves, I would like to say I told you. The facts are that the majority of former service associations are not worth a fart in moral and ethical standards- in my opinion- says it all. When political association takes priority over the camaraderie of old pals it shows the depths that society has sunk. Well done Help for Heroes. The tragedy is that you have to exist at all.
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POPSFamour Blackpool Pub closes It just goes to tell when everything is taken into consideration it is price that matters. People are skint and can't afford the London class pricing that these property holding companies think the average drinker can maintain or punter can pay. This philosophy is killing the Social Clubs as well as the PUB.
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POPSNew crime in Blackpool. They are obviously learning from their masters in Westminster. If the police are as bad in Blackpool, and any legitimate complainant will vouch they are, as their colleagues in London, then these crimes will never be detected or perpetrators charged.
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POPSGhost train or gravy train Ghost train, easy money, unaccounted hand-outs, unaccountable councillors, pink rags over the Town Hall, ex servicemen living on the street while non-contributory lesbians play the system for all its worth. Molyneux Drive has a mixture of decent retirees, alcoholics who brag they have spent a lifetime playing the system and stroll their dogs whilst former soldiers don't claim their legal entitlements and scrat for their next meal. Who voted these people into the Council? AND WHY?
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POPSBlackpool Teachers Message. If the message has not already reached the Council, let me put it in English. Your town is a dump thanks to consecutive councils. Don't believe me! Walk down Bolton Street, Bond Street, Little Beirut, around the Clarendon Road district, or just go hunting for a decent dress shop, a class restaurant or a promenade that is not ankle deep in doggy parcels.
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POPSAnother step towards totalitarianism Prime Minister Gordon Brown has effectively shot the concerned electorate in the back of the head. Blackpool MP Gordon Marsden has voiced his support to deny the paying public a right to see exactly how our hard earned pennies, pounds are being wasted.
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POPSIs Blackpool an Offending Council? To watch and listen to Peter Callow the answer has to be yes. Just about every utterance seems to be anti-pensioner, propaganda, spin and listen to me. When the Conservative council can tell me exactly how many former soldiers are in need of housing, why they have done nothing to improve the once Golden Mile in the past 60 years, why they are chasing small business out of town and have allowed Beirut to flourish in the back streets, then I might just start listening to them.
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POPSA Tax by any other name As Blackpool degenerates into a world of gobbledegook, spin and down right ridiculous proposals, it is fast becoming a laughing stock. First, the Councillors want to prevent pensioners coming to the resort who take advantage of their bus passes. Let's get facts straight. If you travel to Blackpool from say Wigan, the journey can take you up to three hours. The ten pounds saved on fares is then spent in the cafes and eateries on the Coast, benefiting the whole of the Fylde on not just Blackpool Beirut. A walk through Fleetwood last Tuesday was a stroll through a ghost town. If St Annes Airport - the map says it is within the boundary of the borough - is a liability and non-commercial, let it close. A message for Peter Callow, leader of the increasingly inept Conservative regime, the No 7 is the ghost bus you can't see on St Annes Road. Put your hand out and it will get soaked as you wait for the worst scheduled run in Blackpool. The No's 14 and 5 are so filled with prams that d
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POPSSAS chief resigns Gordon Marsden MP for Blackpool South has been in receipt of this complaint since he was elected into Parliament in 1997. He seems to have done nothing except get himself a jog looking after Veterans Affairs
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POPSAnother veteran being ignored For all those who accept verbatim, the meaningless drivel from worthy charities, perhaps should take heed of what charity workers are saying. High powered executive with their enormous salaries and mammoth pensions, and comfortable offices in London, are completely out of touch with the realities of modern Britain and the strains on disabled veterans. Eddie Rawlinson is a honorary member of Blackpool Royal Marines Association and I can lay ever pfennig I ever had that not a single person from that Charity has been in touch with his family. So much for being a CHARITY. I bet their secretary does not miss a photo call on his way to becoming another toothless member of parliament.
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POPSLabour rotting away? The only person I have heard eulogising over this pathetic British Government was a former artilleryman, a Labour Councillor on Blackpool's council, in a so-called debate on selecting 12 Rgt RA as Blackpool's adopted regiment. He made me want to vomit. Had his 9 years service not taught him to think for himself? From that performance it appears very unlikely. The debate was an insult to intelligent oratory . It culminated in the heroic Major of the Conservative Party giving the worst two minute speech ever heard. The soporific mutterings were almost intelligible because the Chambers seemed to be engrossed in the fact that they may get more expenses as fresh legislation had just been introduced, requiring the Council to form a fresh licensing committee. If you think Westminster stinks, take a night off and go and visit your local council chamber. The great pity is that too few people attend these public events. You can also speak, if you apply to do so. try it, you cannot do a
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POPSLabour's respect for the Forces How many other people have the courage to say to this Liberal effetism that it is not the dykes and the shirtlifters who are fighting Labour's wars, but family people, men and women with children and a sense of responsibility. When you have an MP, as in Blackpool South, whose record is clearly biased towards efforts to promote homosexuals, then what chance have ordinary folk got? Not a lot. In a world where there have to be priorities, the broadening of division between straights and gay can only lead to resentment on behalf of the majority. The widening of society is being brought about by an over zealot majority in Parliament who actively appear to be promoting everything homosexual, against the normality of human relations. Beware, it is these same misguided groups who want and promote the bringing down of laws which have been put in place to protect children, by advocating the bringing down of the age of sexual consent for children. No doubt Gary Glitter would approve.
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POPSDo corrupt workers infest Blackpool council? If you work for the deprived of Blackpool, this article comes of little surprise. The ease with which Blackpool council castigate and humiliate the elderly, the ill-educated and the vulnerable is better than legend. There is something drastically wrong within the system if vulnerable people are harangued in the way they are, while insiders hide their evil duplicity under a welter of needless accusations against innocent residents. £6000.000 tells the truth. The mass majority of council workers are conscientious and honest individuals. This situation can only arise because the average, decent employee cannot use their common sense. They are hen-pecked with stupid regulations and abeyance of political correctness. If the top hierarchy of the Finance Department were really held accountable and dismissed, the position replaced by a competent clerk on a reasonable salary, then the problem would be solved
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POPSLytham St Annes not cyclist friendly These few pictures tell only part of a stupidity act that would not go amiss in the circus at Blackpool Tower. The lanes run all the way from the Blackpool border, through the metropolis, but the only ones who cannot use them are cyclists. Why? Because parking is permitted on/in them. Strange or what? And this is a council who can only close things down, like the public swimming baths, the boating pool, the cycle lanes. I wonder who votes for these far sighted geniuses? Stalin, Goerbels, Mussolini or the morons who have never done a days work in their lives?
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