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Originally Posted by andrewb
Not that I particularly enjoy constantly talking about Peter Britcliffe, I have enough talking on his psychic hotline. Nevertheless.. as I said in that long, long thread about him before he even registered here I see no reason why he should come on in the first place. I predicted that if he did he'd just get insult after insult from individuals who are not interested in ringing him up or going to see him face to face for genuine issues. When he did come on he got exactly that. He barely received debate or feedback - just personal insults. Now whether it was a good idea to come on with a pretentious name, I'd suggest not. It however does not really deserve the backlash it got, a gentle hint would have been a much better way of ensuring he stay apart of our community, which is after all what you all want right, for him to stay apart of our community so you can discuss things with him. Must of course point out that if you had anything important to discuss you could e-mail or phone him. I've had a much better response from him than I have from Graham Jones and Bernard Dawson. One refused to give me a Labour budget figure missing from council minutes that I needed for my research project, the other declined to respond. I got a brilliant response from Malcolm Prichard however.  |
Rather than being too afraid of any slings and arrows that might come his way on here, and which are sadly just part and parcel of life in public office, perhap he's just not over confident in impressing us, and fears he is more likely to make us smirk.
Let's examine the evidence.
Cllr. Britcliffe made this post, in April of this year. Written in the third person, which oddly makes it sound as if he dictated it.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post701192
Then there was his last post to date, made in March of this year, made by TheLeadersOfficeHBC. Which all sounds very grand, and like he is offically proclaiming to us the people, via Accy Web.
In this post he forgot about where commas and full stops go, when writing out those confusingly big figures. Which is a little worrying, when millions sudenly disappear, and become thousands.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post691676
The only other evidence of his prowess with a keyboard comes from the details supplied to the B.B.C. for his C.V., when he stood in the 2001 General Election, here in
'Accriwoton/Hywdburn' (sic).
BBC NEWS | VOTE 2001 | CANDIDATES
So perhaps if you all promise to treat him with kid gloves, he might feel able to share his views with us once again here on Accy Web.
As he's declared his interest in standing for Parliament yet again, in the next General Election, it would be a great pity if whoever does become our next M.P. doesn't feel able to communicate freely with the people of Hyndburn, by using this forum, like Greg Pope, the outgoing M.P., felt competent enough to do.
Anymore public howlers from him would purely be just a bonus.