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Forum: General Chat 27-05-2012, 17:14

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot I'm sure we're all looking forward to it being rescheduled, now it's not so slushy, and cold. It was quite a few grand in funding, that had been secured to hire the non-swimming Yorkshire clowns....

Forum: General Chat 27-05-2012, 04:43

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot As I've already said, ol' ginger Bob certainly knows her fashion labels, and can knock up a good window display. Is she the saviour of western world's economy? Nah. Which makes the council,...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 22:47

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot A monkey could have been trained to do it. Without the li'l ape boasting, and thinking having a brand new, town centre Tesco, was a winning idea to be included in the bid. Ol' ginger Bob...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 22:26

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Why so defensive? Do all local government funding applications now fall under the community arts umbrella?

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 22:23

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot It's back up the Khyber Pass, for Carry On Kenny.

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 22:21

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot You said that so charmingly. You're booked. We'd like you for the voice-over, on the next film. :D

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 22:17

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Still, the council provided the press with a few headlines, whilst there was a small chance their bids might be successful. I've sold my story, which is being published next week. 'How I'm...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 19:55

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Yes. I even swallowed my gold tooth, before being brought down from my hidey-hole in the attic. ;)

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 18:46

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot I hope a fellow Labour councillor is a reliable enough source for you Kenneth? They wouldn't tell porkies.

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 18:40

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Er...yes, of course. Your little chum, the Deputy Leader of H.B.C. I was informed yes, I was correct, irreparable damage did occur, whilst the benches were removed, during this 'experiment',...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 10:16

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Don't start. Germany's a bit too far for the Deputy Leader of H.B.C. to travel to easily, to tell you to keep your gob shut, because the gypsies didn't make off with the benches that were removed,...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 10:01

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Don't worry. I'll summmarise the thread. Most people thought it was a load of old balls....of wool, and the project shouldn't have been part funded by the tax payer. Mind, it was slightly...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 09:46

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Oh we've been there, done that. http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f69/the-value-of-public-funded-art-55321.html Knitty Nora was paid to take up residency in Accrington Arts Centre, whoops,...

Forum: General Chat 26-05-2012, 06:48

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Well, Mary turns a blind eye to Hyndburn's bid, but it's a thumbs up for Nelson. High streets chosen for Mary Portas pilots - Telegraph...

Forum: General Chat 07-04-2012, 15:54

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot I agree. It wasn't clear in the Observer where this money had come from, or why we'd got it.

Forum: General Chat 07-04-2012, 10:25

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot That's nothing to do with the Portas Pilot bid. It's a different government initiative. Their High Street Innovation Fund. In which 100 ailing town's councils were given a £100,000., to try...

Forum: General Chat 06-04-2012, 19:46

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot The next time another numpty on the council decides it's a good idea to change the name of the borough...again, we'll proably find we're all suddenly living in Maundyington.

Forum: General Chat 06-04-2012, 19:43

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Let's hope mention of having a new Tesco was dropped from our bid, and they bigged up the success that is the ever expanding, Maundy Shopping Village.

Forum: General Chat 06-04-2012, 13:22

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot By the way, does anyone know if us having a brand new town centre Tesco, was mentioned in Accrington's bid to be one of the selected Portas Pilot towns? I'm rather hoping it wasn't.

Forum: General Chat 05-04-2012, 22:15

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot 'Bid to be a ‘Portas Pilot -' 'The recent improvements to Platts Lodge, the railway station/Tesco development and the Market Hall are clear evidence of this proactive and co-ordinated approach.' ...

Forum: General Chat 05-04-2012, 06:11

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot You mean like the anti-Indian contingent, who thanked Labour so gratefully, for their warm welcome to Hyndburn's council chamber? Yeah, agreed. All that gang raping of women and children was a...

Forum: General Chat 04-04-2012, 20:03

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Well happily for you, that's an impossibilty. Strict border control. Standards, to maintain. ;)

Forum: General Chat 04-04-2012, 19:24

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot I was merely pointing out what a hearty thank you the anti-Indian contingent gave ALL the Labour group, for affording them such a warm welcome in Hyndburn's council chambers, and for supporting their...

Forum: General Chat 04-04-2012, 19:21

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot I remember living under another loony-left council, Lambeth, in the 1980's. They involved us in all kinds of stupid, non-local nonsense, as a means to attack the government, whom they opposed. ...

Forum: General Chat 04-04-2012, 19:06

Replies: 173 Portas Pilot Views: 5,590 Posted By garinda Re: Portas Pilot Borough councils under the guise of local government, has no direct influence on policy decisions taken at Westminster. To pass meaningless, empty motions, is just political posturing. ...

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