Originally Posted by garinda (Post 883075)

your childhood bezzy.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 883082)

Par fer the coarse, then they scratch heads as to why so few vote these days.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 883094)

For what it's worth Cashy, I wouldn't spend a penny on it. But it's not my decision as you well know.

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 883094)

For what it's worth Cashy, I wouldn't spend a penny on it. But it's not my decision as you well know.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 882590)

It is an ideal time to book a flight abroad I found - there are more incoming tourists so outward (the return) flights are plentiful.

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod (Post 882643)

I'm no Royalist and I'd rather eat my own spleen with a rusty spoon than watch that pile of pants. ( But I'll take the day off though, thank you very much!)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 882998)

Some rude, judgemental people, might well say that some other people obviously have more money than sense.


;)

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 883060)

OK, Kate, I voted no because at a time of massive cuts in local government spending, to waste money on fripperies like this is farcical and an insult to cash-strapped council taxpayers, just as flashdance happenings and Victorian swimming on Broadway and all the other pseudo-artistic junk that has been inflicted on the town recently is.

Plain enough for you, Kate? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by katex (Post 883167)

This is not quite true, Margaret, paradoxically, it is working the other way. Thos. Cook are doing extremely well with their bookings of people wishing to get away from these celebrations, which more than makes up for their cancelled bookings to Tunisia and Egypt.



Perhaps we should have let people who are so concerned about councils spending money on such events, vote to work that day then .. would have been more of a statement.



That's not very gentlemanly, Garinda ... bringing that up ... I did do a U-turn on my prattish remark and apologised publicly. :p



That 'eyes to heaven' emoticon should not be aimed at me. I did not express a view that, whichever way people voted, they should explain themselves.

As I am in the middle of composing a 15,000 words reply (ok exaggeration), I may consider posting it later, however, knowing that it will be subject to heavy criticism, analysis of every word and general insults I may back down.

Seems to me though, there are a couple of issues going on in the minds of people who have voted 'No', not just the economy .. just the ones that dislike the monarchy anyway, and would vote this way no matter what the question was. Also, a couple that I suspect is politically biased against our Conservative council.

For instance, even though I am not overly fond of football, I would still vote a yes to the Council backing up our Accrington Stanley, a minority pleasure for some, even in the face of this gloomy economy if they decided to do so.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 883169)

Well Kate, I can tell you now, that my 'NO' is purely from the point I have already made.......I do not dislike the Royal family, but have no wish to participate in the pseudo celebrations around the wedding(have never been much of a one for big celebrations myself...and those who know me will confirm this).....I have no political axe to grind either.
I just cannot see the point of wasting money that could be otherwise used to enhance our local standard of living.

Originally Posted by katex (Post 883175)

Obviously you are one of the ones that voted irrespective of your thoughts on the Royal Family and just that money could be spent better elsewhere, so was not aimed at you.

Ok then, first point that grabs me on this is that we do not really know what budget is allowed for these celebrations. I speculate it will be a drop in the Ocean to the cuts that are being imposed on them. I don't quite know how the accounts are set out at HBC, but suspect will be coming out of some sort of Community Project's fund that covers things like art, flower towers, Christmas decorations .. anything that brightens up our surroundings. Would you wish this budget to be put back into the General Fund then, so that there will never be any 'cheer up' factors provided by our town ? The town will look lovely with flower displays and buntings in our national colours of Red, White and Blue .. people spend more in towns when they are feeling cheeria (is that a word ?),

There will be gains... the firework display, for instance, always brings plenty of people into town with their children and, providing the shops stay open will be of benefit. I don't see that the traders would object actually ... or the shop assistants, a chance to earn some overtime money; not easily available in this economic climate.

Again, not aimed at you Margaret .. just my initial thoughts on the financial side of it all.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 883179)

This thread is about whether local taxes should fund a civic celebration in Hyndburn.

Nothing else.

Whatever people's motives are for thinking it's wrong to do so, not one person has mentioned the actual cost of the wedding to us itself.

That is a totally different topic.

This poll and thread relates to the local funding costs.