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POPSMP's watchdog! What most reports have omitted is that Mr Curry is on another committee which is to rule on the future of MP's expenses and behaviour. Small wonder there is no trust in MP's!!!
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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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POPSOut of the mouths of Babes - and odd fellows One poof and he ought to be gone, but life is not that simple. If he thinks living on £64k per year is miserly, then he ought to be a former SBS veteran existing on less than £5k - but we should not forget private incomes, expenses, now watered down and proposed receipt free...No, not the veteran you morons, this parasite little odd fellow.
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POPSFact or Fiction If you vote labour then you are responsible for this fiasco. If you vote Conservative you are incapable of finding a solution. If you vote Lib Dem you are just incapable. There must be someone who you can trust, but obviously none of the above.
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POPSLabour - latest act of betrayal Had anyone watched the debate, seen the angst and vitriol poured out by some Labour MP's there was little doubt that the Conservative motion would have won the day. They did not and it must surely be the last act of a wholly discredited administration. For everyone's sake, go now Brown.
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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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POPSMichael Savage - banned from Britiain And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. "And where would the ordinary simple folk - the common people, as they like to call them in America - where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?" Winston Churchill, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, June 4, 1945.
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POPSMichael Savage - banned from Britiain "And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. "And where would the ordinary simple folk - the common people, as they like to call them in America - where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?" Winston Churchill, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, June 4, 1945.
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POPSAnother Westminster disgrace I have just the club for most of them, it's the ex offenders club, run by local probation officers. Stop feeling sorry for them and stop swallowing this lie that it was all an accident. Everyone has had an inkling of their duplicity, now we have the truth accept that it is our judgment that should be questioned. If you are prepared to accept the self interests of both the activist Socialist and the staunch Conservative it is yours, and mine, responsibility. Accept it and do something about it. Get involved.
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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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POPSThe Gravy Train exposed On TV First Shown April 2009 19:00 Channel 4 Next On Date Time Channel Tuesday 21 April 2009 02:25 Channel 4 Switch off your Corrie and East Benders and watch reality. Twelve years of inept Labour mismanagement is far too much. Conservative self interest is an anathema to all decent people. There has to be an alternative to the two party system and it is up to British people to decide, not Europeans, immigrants or the inmates of Broadmoor and Dartmoor.
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POPSClueless Cameron on MP's expenses The simplest solution is to put the 'pigs' before twelve men and true. Naturally Labour would be happy with twelve immigrants, a good proportion of which would undoubtedly be illegal anyway, and all of which have kept this immoral government in office.
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POPSLongshanks wasting police time The Conservative have gone from the Corrupt Party to the Idiot Party. Instead of gloating as the envelopes get opened in Labour Lords, the tallest man in the Commons makes a complete idiot of himself. Was the bar open?
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POPSSpelman to be cleared Conservative, Labour, Liberal. God how they all stink. Will someone write and tell me why they are worth the most valuable thing I have----my vote?
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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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POPSParliamentary Privilege again Remember Clive Pontin? If Christopher Galley is taken to Court it will not stand because the man on the Clapham omnibus will not tolerate political duplicity. There is video evidence of Gordon Brown bragging he used civil servants information to embarrass the Conservatives. Was he every arrested? No scrutiny of Parliament, no vetting of heinous regulation and idiotic legislation except by the fuddy duddies of the Lords, and thank heavens they do a decent job. Grooming????? That is conspiracy and should never be brought unto after a charge has been laid. Labour has destroyed every vestige of decency in this country – with wonderful exceptions and Mr Winnick is that exception.
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POPSLabour kills Parliamentary Privilege In 1938 Duncan Sandys asked questions in the House of Commons on matters of national security. He was subsequently approached by two unidentified men, presumably representing the secret services, and threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Sandys reported the matter to the Committee of Privileges who held that the disclosures of Parliament were not subject to the legislation though an MP could be disciplined by the House. I have just witness one of the most pathetic government defences of what I perceive an illegal act, the arrest and detention of an MP doing his duty. Having endured an MP whose only real concern has been homosexual rights, the full scope of responsibility is alien to him, although he is now responsible for Veteran Matters (I nearly said affairs but the double take on that expression is not funny). Since 1979 we have witness an appaling death of democracy, regulations and laws being passed with Labour denying most sensible scrutiny of the passage
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POPSBritish terrorist killed? Why is it most free thinking Britons are incensed by the cacophony of abuse aimed at a legal political party, the BNP, but shy away from recognising that their attitudes give credibility to mass murders? On this weeks Question Time, BBC 1, Thursday evening, every single contributor castigated the English electorate for the growing support for the BNP. Not one actually said that - and I am a lifetime Conservative - the BNP is asking the questions, and probably giving an answer, to many of the fears that they have.
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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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POPSScottish Tory linked to Russian oligarch. There is an absolute fear in telling the truth about dealings with the mega rich Russians. They are steeped in the blood of their competitors, reign over a nation that has no concept of legal or moral justice, act like Czars in their own right...but the Russians are worse. Had anyone with a minute particle of a brain watched Labour destroy the last vestiges of democracy this week, their humiliation of all Parliamentary process, their complete denial of Parliament to debate whilst they GOVERN - is something that ought to send fear through the veins of every Briton. Now we are to believe that MI6 is working for the Master Party? They are all working for themselves and thanks to the Academic Idiot Osbourne, we can all see it for ourself.
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POPSConservative attitudes abroad. After watching Channel 4 expose of Cameron's Millions, even their sister/brother political party in Canada appear to be getting on the 'avoiding answering questions' bandwagon. Dispatches reporter Antony Barnett investigates the funding of the Tories under Cameron and examines how the party is using its newfound resources to ensure its leader becomes the next Prime Minister. Barnett examines how funds are being ploughed into marginal seats that hold the key to a Cameron victory and his investigation raises fresh questions about some of the party's largest backers. Barnett also scrutinises David Cameron's promises of "openness and transparency," with the methods the Tory leader is using to attract donations. It just goes on and on and on and on...this selectivity of sleaze.
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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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POPSHave Conservative principals permeated North? With this level of impropriety suggested at Conservative HQ, how can the electorate of this region be reassured that the local party is free of such graft? Do local treasurers have the power to rein in over enthusiastic local politicians? Everyone can see that London Labour is so corrupt that their leading treasury personnel have no control over Labour finances. Labour Ministers flaunt their disregard for ethics whilst their spouses deny every single misdeeds of their partners. There is one ancient English metaphor...shit stinks!!! It is perfuming over both the major parties with equal stench.
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POPSBroon modelling for Michaelangelo. Put maer Gin in yer tonic, Gordin. Labour Cullodened in Glasgow east. Within the next eighteen months that will be the same in Blackpool. Why? Last night I talked to a young man who echoed the derision of youth and the enthusiasm of not having lived through past Labour miseries on the late 60's and mid 70's. With prospective Conservatives swanning it in deepest Rwanda, now is an ideal time for the youth of the region to kick these fossils in the dangly bits. Go for it Ben. If you can't find a decent Party to adopt you, follow the lead of the Independent Doctor in the Forest of Dean and go it alone. I think the Conservatives have dropped a clanger with their nominee and I will be doing everything in my power to explain why to the electorate. Already the hierarchy of the local CP(Conservative Party) refuse to debate their situation with anyone not in their local party. Where was that article that say it takes £20K to get a nomination as a CP prospective candidate?
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POPSIn the Heart of Darkest Africa... I hold no animosity to the proposed Conservative candidate and his brother, we all wish them well. The sentiments of notyeyavet I endorse. What is concerning is that if Mr R. Bell is such a concerned citizen, why is it that he demanded that one of his members of the Blackpool branch of the Royal Marine Association had to endure the time and cost of a 700 mile round journey, just to have access to the minutes of the Association meetings? If Mr Bell could not cope with the needs of 50 members, how will he cope, if he is elected, with the harrowing demands of 75,000 constituents? In the words of the Commando march ...In the heart of darkest Africa, Where no Yank has ever been, Lies... Well nothing changes!!!
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POPSThe festering boil in the Conservative Party The Conservatives will become Spellbound if they do not lance the boil of illegal expenses. If the Cameron Cabal have any decency they would sack her and every other MP who cannot account for every penny claimed from the PUBLIC. But that will never happen.
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POPSFlint proves to be Labour loudmouth When Yorkshire wakes up and realise that this odious woman is their mouthpiece, they will understand how Nu LieBer can send us into illegal wars, undermine your, and mine RIGHTS. Allow gun culture to run rampant; 19 year olds seem to be able to get guns easier then an education; they do not have the courage to debate Human Right through the one choice they - the Yorkshire Tykes - have, the ballot box. If you will elected hung monkeys, you deserve the Caroline Flints of the world. On the Daily Politics today, this awful woman must have done much to add to Conservative recruitment figures. For those of us who really believe in freedom of speech, woman - shut up.
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