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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
From what I can gather, Cllr Britcliffe wins in Ossy time and again through raping all the other wards to feather his own nest. The official figures from the HBC website demonstrate just how much money has been spent on facilities that are already there in Oswaldtwistle and yet nothing is spent in other wards where there is nothing.
Spare a thought for poor Clayton-le-Moors which raises enormous amounts in tax revenue and gets virtually nothing back.
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That's come up a lot on here, accusations of a heavy Ossy bias, which those outside the town resent.
The party acolytes always retort with the answer that he's been a councillor for umpteen years, so he must be doing something right.
Right yes...for the people of Oswaldtwistle. As the vast majority of people in the borough seem to see it.
The blue faithful haven't realised yet that the people of the whole borough didn't elect the Leader of the Council, his fellow Tory councillors did.
When he could have claimed a mandate from the people of Hyndburn, that they wanted him to lead them, in two different General Elections, they decided against him..twice.
Which perhaps is some sort of a mandate from the electorate, after all.