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perhaps it should be T.H. Thug Hayes pmsl.

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perhaps it should be T.H. Thug Hayes pmsl:D

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:D Thanks for tip Willow the pennys just dropped, you'r a cagey customer i'll be bound, upstairs for thinking etc cheers. ;)

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Well, it now looks like Ossy is going to lose it's last post office; this is getting to be exciting stuff. I trust we can look forward to another motion being proposed at the next council meeting, followed by lots of punching, head-butting, eye-gouging, kicks in the goolies, etc, etc. Do we have a firm date for this next meeting? How many tickets are available for the public gallery -and are they available in advance, possibly on the net? I think I shall make plans to be in Accy that night.

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I had a phone call this morning from an ex Council Officer I know, I told her this story as she will know both of them. I thought she was going to wet herself at the thought of Cllr Hayes fighting. :D :D :D

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..'Owd on. I don't think Cllr Hayes was appointed Crime Tsar for nowt. Rumour at the time had it he was a closet hard man - and surely it is no coincidence that since this incident last week we have heard nothing from Graham. Is Cllr Jones cowering away somewhere?

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I think you'll find that Cllr Jones is a bit busy this week - as are a number of the Labour party - little thing called a conference going on.

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:) Cagey? me? Heaven forfend!!!!

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:engsmil: I'm glad you said it was a little thing, Tony Blair on Tony Blair, sure is a 'little' thing. :rolleyes: :engsmil:

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wrong i think ianto.w he was big enough to take us to war.:(

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:mad: My lips are sealed another anonomous removal for having an opinion!:mad:

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Tensions seem to be running high in the Conservative Party locally. I am sure Doug didn't really mean it though he was involved in an unsavoury incident with Stan Horne in the Ossy Con a couple of years back. Stan gave Doug a backeye, a Tory Councillor present at the time told us later. Stan Horne (Conservative) is standing for the Rishton by-election next month as a matter of interest.

Quite honestly it is deplorable that Councillors behave this way. When I got elected Stan Horne went to a relative of mine and in their opinion, spent the whole conversation 'fishing for any dirt' on me. With parts of the Government being perceived the way they are it is hard for members of the public in Hyndburn to fully appreciate that The Council is further away from progress than when the Conservatives first took over. It's quite sad people don't vote on local issues.

The Conservatives have been unable to run the Council to be truthful, relying on an awful lot of mis-information and an avalanche of 'good news' press releases from Peter Britcliffe (and more recently 'potential' Tory Candidate for MP, Tony Dobson).

The constitution has been rigged at the Council to give the opposition very little opportunity to speak. The opposition is allowed 2 debates a year. However they can only propose them and speak during the debate. Peter Britcliffe insisted that he must be able to sum up the opposition debate and changed the constitution accordingly.

This does not prevent us putting motions forward but this always results in Conservatives using their bigger block vote to always seek to humble Labour Councillors irrespective of the issue.

I was frank on the night (and if you read the resolution), realistic about the situation but, as always, the Conservatives turned it into a playground argument which was disapointing.

I believe that if more people sat in the gallery we would have a more honest debate which is what the Borough desperatly needs instead of the monopoly axis of PB and the OB.

Anyone can attend Full Council meetings. There is a public gallery that hold about 40-50. The next meeting is this Wednesday at 7pm to try and have one last effort to save our Crown Post Office. Or ring 388111 and ask when future meetings are.

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Its still such a pity that Peter Britcliffe doesn't fancy a bit of banter or verbal fistycuffs with us here at Accy Web, even though he must read it as he's quoted things we've said here.


Sadly we'll have to make do reading his column in the Observer, which as Graham points out, is just a vehicle for political spin. This week he tells us that Hyndburn is a property hot-spot. Hardly good news if you are a young couple trying to get on the housing chain. He also says it was featured on 'Kirsty and Phil's 'Location, location' programme'. It wasn't. It was a programme hosted by the said duo, but was called 'Top Ten Places to Buy', and was aired five months ago.

Come on Peter, keep it accurate and topical.;)

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Did you stop there just to see if people actually read your posts before they go on to give you abuse?:D

Come on what H did he tell us about?
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well how strange after I'd posted this the rest of your post appeared!:confused:

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Lol, I don't know what happened there.

I'll blame my shakey hand hitting a send button.:D