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I believe Herns do a good line in butties Neil:rolleyes:

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He will cope - he loves himself enough to redress the balance.:rolleyes:

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A cutback of £22,000 on a service that is to end is finding funding?

I ask again, why did the Britcliffe administration not simply end the service themselves?

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It is a council service, no one is encouraging anyone to move out of the town centre.

Out of interest, how many of those who are now 'discriminated against' used it before?

It has been open to the public for some little time....

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See previous post, re: two wrongs not making a right.

I'll ask again. Why are the council funding organisations that discriminate against people because of race and ethnicity?

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Maybe they could get a good deal ;)


I do like to lighten the atmosphere a little when needed :D

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Don't know.

Could it be the use of the term Black & Ethnic Minority?

Or perhaps the staffing at the centre, which make people think it's not inclusive of all residents?

Scaitcliffe Community Centre

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And I'll say again that they aren't.

The advice service is being moved to the Scaitcliffe Centre, something which is open to all and always has been. The 'funding' as it has been called is to pay for a part time member of staff to run the service, just as it always has been at Cannon Street. In just over two years it will cease as it will have no practical function.

Let me put it this way, a recent idea to cut a service which helped around 55 people per month was blasted as unfair. A decision now to phase out a service that helps over 1,500 per year is also unfair.

We all pay for services that we don't personally use, should we stop them all?

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As he's listed as a member of staff at the centre, did Cllr. Dad support the relocation?

:rolleyes:

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The only people bringing the term BME to the table are those who feel that they are being discriminated against somehow. The same argument could be levelled at Scaitcliffe House, staffed predominantly by caucasians although it doesn't seem to stop residents of all creeds coming to the building.

I also note that the well-known BME resident Doreen Pollitt is Chair of the Scaitcliffe Centre.

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Sorry, you might as well talk to a brick wall.

You will never convince me that tax payers' money should be spent funding any organisation, that by it's name and nature, is both discriminatory, and divisive.

Be that gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or whatever else the trendy liberal elite think would benefit from positive discrimination.

We have laws that protect against discrimination.

Positive discrimination stinks.

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The website could do with updating then. As came out during the Scrutiny process, Cllr Dad is not a member of the Scaitcliffe Centre staff any more.

Cllr Dobson is paid a healthy management fee for his co-consultancy at the Hyndburn Community Resource Centre on Cannon Street and yet the O&S Committee (of which I am Chair) found that the work he does is cost efficient.

One thing I have learned is that anything can look suspicious if you don't have all the facts.

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Nuff said

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Er...according to the council's download, regarding the relocation, the term B.M.E. was raised when H.B.C. consulted the Hyndburn Black & Ethnic Minority Forum, who apparently gave the proposal their full support.

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na won't know about it, its only us that have to read the crap over and over and over and over again;)