[Boeing Guy]

To say we have a true level of poverty in Hyndburn is just ludicrous.
I returned last night from Libreville, Gabon in Sub Saharan Africa, having spent a few days there flying some clients in and out.
While there I had the 'pleasure' of going for a walk in a relatively safe part of Africa.
The Hotel, had a contingent of the WHO, Red Cross, UNICEF, The UN all giving basic medical aid, injections etc in the bar next to the lobby.
Outside the street was next to a open sewer, with the appropriate stench. Most of the houses were of authentic 'ghetto' construction.
Children and adults with no shoes, few dirty clothes and lets not discuss food.

Now in Accrington, I don't see any of the above. Recently at the A&E at Blackburn, with a relative I saw our underclass, they had fake designer clothes, ciggarette's, they complained as they wanted the hospital to take them home, seeing they don't have a car.

A friend has a shop on Abbey Street, they say it is becoming more and more a haven for our towns drug users and for those from outside the town, all using Miss McgGregor's hospitality. I know to some she is a new Mother Teresa, but in Accrington.....