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Neil	05-10-2010 07:37

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE (Post 849883)

.....maybe a straight answer on immigration policy could be a start, how long is this country just going to keep allowing people to extract the urine???

Not really something Peter Britcliffe has any control over, local parties can only work on local issues.

garinda

05-10-2010 07:38

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE (Post 849883)

...maybe a straight answer on immigration policy could be a start, how long is this country just going to keep allowing people to extract the urine???

Is that another hijack attempt on a thread?

:p

Accy Web in the 'old days', and what it is today, seem much the same to me.

Somethings interest me, and others I avoid, because they don't.

A lot of the silliness has stopped. Mainly because people can use other social networking sites, were it's easier to find more people of like minds.

There's nothing to stop people starting non-political threads.

Just as there's nothing to stop people from starting them.

If all talk ot politics was banned from pubs, it would probably have had a more devastating effect than the smoking ban.

Nearly everything can be seen as political.

Which neatly brings me back on thread, and therefore I don't run the risk of having some of my very considered posts consigned to the ether.

:D

garinda

05-10-2010 07:41

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 849901)

Not really something Peter Britcliffe has any control over, local parties can only work on local issues.

You obviously never lived under a loony left council, such as Lambeth, in the eighties.

We were a nuclear free borough.

:rolleyes:

:D

Neil	05-10-2010 07:50

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!

I suspect Hyndburn is a nuclear free borough as well

Ken Moss

05-10-2010 07:53

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Originally Posted by JCB (Post 849795)

I am not sure what you mean when you refer to a quick fix election promise .

More than two years ago the residents of the terrace in question in Pendle St had a meeting in Scaitcliffe House with three members of the Council staff .
The residents were told of the concern regarding the structure of this one terrace , one out of the four terraces in Pendle St . There were to be two independent surveys , one internal and one external , of the terrace , after which the Council would decide the appropriate action to take .

Both surveys took place . Both put the houses on the terrace into the category which meant that the Council had no option but to decide on demolition .
Some of the houses are still inhabited , but about three quarters are boarded up , the residents having sold them to the Council , and gone to live elsewhere .
When all the properties are empty I presume the terrace will be demolished .

I don't know the ins and outs of procedures for dealing with such circumstances . I don't know if the Council did anything wrong . It all seems above board to me , but I am eager for anyone to put me in the full picture if I am mistaken .

As far as I am aware, one section of those houses was built on land which was not deemed to be stable enough for housing. Lo and behold, some years later.....

Whatever the ins-and-outs of it, the council should not have taken those on as assets and demolition is not cheap. Even if they are demolished, what then? More open land which is an invitation to travellers or a demilitarised zone similar to the Esther Street area in Blackburn?

It was a very costly move and a mistake, in my opinion.

Ken Moss

05-10-2010 07:55

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 849907)

I suspect Hyndburn is a nuclear free borough as well

Certain areas always will be. Oswaldtwistle is ringfenced on Ordnance Survey maps as an area where dangerous installations are prohibited.

garinda

05-10-2010 07:58

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 849907)

I suspect Hyndburn is a nuclear free borough as well

Suspect.

We knew, because we had banners on buildings, and signs on every lamp post, telling it as fact.

;)

Ken Moss

05-10-2010 07:59

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 849731)

Maybe this is another mistake by the Council who must have had some involvement with this.

I am not convinced the money will be handled without bias to Prospects own agenda and can think of a group that would possibly be a better choice.

Possibly, but do tell us which group would have been a better choice.

Friends of Rhyddings Park?

It's a lot of money which will ultimately be filtered into every ward in the borough in a positive way to people who genuinely want to improve their towns and villages. Since it will be spent on things that the people actually want I suspect it will go much further than giving it to the council.

The things that the Rishton Prospects group have done with a pittance is a glowing credit to them and I am proud to be a small part of that.

BERNADETTE

05-10-2010 08:05

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 849901)

Not really something Peter Britcliffe has any control over, local parties can only work on local issues.

Of course what you say is true and I was only siting immigration as an example. The point I was trying to make is that when major issues have been raised in the past we have never had a clear answer from any of our councillors as to what their personal views are on such issues.

Ken Moss

05-10-2010 08:06

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE (Post 849916)

You've levelled this at us before, Bernadette. I've told you, ask away!

garinda

05-10-2010 08:12

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We've asked our M.P. in the past about national issues, and be given answers.

I wanted to know how Greg Pope was going to vote on a free vote on stem cell research.

I suspect our current M.P. would be similarly obliging.

cashman

05-10-2010 08:16

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our current M.P. will answer questions on any subject as i witnessed personally sat afternoon, when a friend was asking. n me mate aint one of his constituents either,

BERNADETTE

05-10-2010 08:20

Re: Cllr Britcliffe is doing things right!

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 849918)

You've levelled this at us before, Bernadette. I've told you, ask away!

Ken I have no issues to raise at the moment but rest assured if and when I do have anything to ask I will:)

jaysay

05-10-2010 08:52

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 849912)

Suspect.

We knew, because we had banners on buildings, and signs on every lamp post, telling it as fact.

;)

So what your saying is if there was a nuclear attack, Lambeth would have been protected in a bubble, :rolleyes: I can always remember back in the early 80s how much safer I felt when going to Manchester and I passed the signs Manchester a Nuclear Free City;)

jaysay

05-10-2010 08:57

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 849902)

If all talk to politics was banned from pubs, it would probably have had a more devastating effect than the smoking ban.

I only ever had two rules when I went out for a drink, don't talk about religion and politics:D

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