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Originally Posted by g jones
I don't believe the arguments are worthless or simply mere bickering. Trivialisation is unacceptable. Look at the real issues around us. Woodnook is a boarded up ghetto. One party wants to do something serious, one admits they do not really want to do anything about it. People are playing with (poor) people's lives and that important fact is being forgotten all to easy.
I think when you represent a poor area, or live in one, these matters are important. When you can drive past these issues, they don't seem as important.
Whilst no longer a council member after Wednesday, I feel for the honest person who is going to see £millions miss spent by The Leader and their lives blighted. (I could also include the incompetence of Spring St. in Rishton). This money won't be available again so it is imperative that every argument is exhausted so that ordinary people get a fair deal.
And that is just one issue amongst many.
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I never said the arguments were worthless, I said that the bickering didn't do any parties any favours or show any in a good light.
All the things you mentioned above are valid issues and I'm sure that they would receive attention if Labour got into power BUT this thread wasn't about the many issues that Labour would stand up for - it was about the argument surrounding when the AGM should be.
Let's face it, you were fighting to keep it on a day when you knew that two Conservative Councillors would be unable to attend - Paul Barton because he's been in a crash and another one who's name I forget right now but it said she was unable to be there. If those two had failed to turn up then Labour would have taken control.
The battle on this thread isn't about who would deal best with the issues but who would win the vote.