[jaysay]

Think it was in the 90s that Hyndburn had the chance to become a unitary authority like Blackburn, in other words opting out of the two tier system, I was quite in favour of that, but not with joining in with Blackburn, it always sounded good to me knowing that every penny raised in Hyndburn would be spent here where as at the moment on around 19p in every pound is guaranteed to be spent here, and that's HBCs 19%, but the county council waged a strong no campaign using council tax payers money to keep to county gravy train moving, still think being in charge of your own financial destiny is better, but doubt it will ever happen