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Originally Posted by Graham Hartley
Ken describes the dilemma of politics - that any action will be thought wrong, often even by one's allies. I expect builders, teachers, doctors, lawyers, musicians and the rest to have particular, useful skill in their work and that politicians will be on the list. Ken appears to have no such way to avoid or resolve this dilemma save that of asking for others' comment. I find this honest but distressing.
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Not exactly, Graham. What I have found in the past four years is that straight answers can be given in public with written evidence to back it up and still people will cling to a myth. The only trouble with myths and rumours is that if they're peddled often enough then they become the accepted truth.
The online community (not just Accyweb) is keen as mustard to emphasise what a hole Accrington is when it actually has plenty going for it. I've always thought this, even under the Conservative administration, it's just that shopping habits are changing and so are high streets on a national level.
Myself and my partner have been visiting a few towns over the past six months and to be quite honest, with the exception of Bury, nowhere has really struck me as being massively different from Accy. All this talk of pound stores and charity shops applies just as much to Manchester, Southport, Preston, Chester and Liverpool as it does to us.
I take the points raised about moving the bus station but to be honest it makes better sense to have a proper actual building and will uncover quite a few shops on Peel Street which are currently hidden by shelters. Of all the streets in Accy that is probably the one which I personally have greatest trouble naming many shops on.
It's also interesting to read views that although an out of town shopping centre with direct competition won't do any harm to Accrington because there's nothing there anyway, but moving the bus station two hundred yards will kill it stone dead.
Figure that one out.