[Ken Moss]

I've been talking to someone from West Lancashire Council tonight who knows me well and has ribbed me about this 'night vision goggles' story, telling me that it is doing the rounds all over the net and a quick Google search brought up an Accyweb thread as one of the options.

I have to tell you all that it's a load of rubbish, no one on the Labour side has a clue where it has come from and although we're making a concerted effort to tackle the dog fouling problem we certainly aren't spending thousands on night vision glasses.

I would urge any resident to keep examining council decisions no matter who is running it but just bear in mind that the newspapers only give you a version of the truth. The LT is generally a pretty good paper and The Accrington Observer has improved no end recently by shifting back to reporting more on what communities are doing rather than simply politicians but mistakes are still going to slip through.


I've always maintained that I'll answer any question as factually as I can and anything I don't know can be found out for you. However, when after two years of posting those facts are suddenly distrusted purely because my party is running the council I'm inclined to think that most people in my situation would probably give up trying with Accyweb as well.

For those of you who have had a pop at me in this thread, my absence from Accyweb is a matter of losing interest in debating with members who have suddenly turned on me because I'm now part of the controlling group. As I've said before, repeatedly reporting the facts only to have them spun into something else wears thin fairly quickly.

It's a great forum, I've tried to get more people using it since I first stumbled across it, but most of you now seem to doubt what I'm saying for some reason and so the enjoyment has been kicked out of it for me. No one has ordered me or any of the other Labour members to stay away but I don't want to be part of a forum where I am made out to be something I'm not.

Put simply, it's stopped being fun.