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I received a Tory leaflet this morning. You know one of those that go straight into the recycle bag. I opened it and noticed this statement "Housing Can Be Improved". I have attached the leaflet below, sorry it is a little large. Another statement says "As a Conservative MP, I will fight for our housing in Hyndburn to be improved and brought up to a decent modern standard". Read the whole thing for yourself so I cant be accused of just quoting bits of it like the newspapers do.

What I want to know is, when did the up keep of residential/comercial property become the responsibility of the government and/or council? Is it not the responsibility of the property owner to keep his property in a well maintained condition. Take the Phoenix Project as an example. The owners who have neglected there homes get paid above market value for them. Is this the way we encourage people to maintain property. These rewarded home owners will now move elsewhere and neglect another property. That area will become run down and we are back to square one. The government/council should be pro-active for a change. Fine people for the state of there homes not reward. If the property is unsafe/uninhabitable it should be taken from them, not bought from them. Punish not reward is the only answer.

What next? Get stopped by the police for driving a dangerous car and be given a nice new one as a reward!

Reading the rest of James's leaflet he appears to be a very decent person who is prepared to stand up for his beliefs. I think he needs to think about what is right and not what will win votes for his next leaflet. He may be surprised and find the two things will go together.

Read it and post your comments.

I suspect a Labour one will appear soon as well - lets see what bull they will try and woo us with. No doubt plenty of Tory bashing etc etc

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It's going to be an interesting election...An ex-jailbird up against the sitting member who puts the welfare of goldfish above that of his constituents. God help us all.

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Puts a new slant on the term "Conviction Politics". This is going to be a very dirty election.

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I agree. I don't think he had a wash all the time he was locked up.

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Please explain this further it sounds interesting.

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>> Perhaps politicians truly are the same worldwide regardless of location or party affiliation.<<

Was there ever any doubt about that?

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I'd be interested in knowing exactly what he intends to do as an MP about these issues:

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Is abortion really an "election" issue?

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I didn't realise that there were a million old people in Hyndburn, or 800,000 fatherless children. Perhaps this accounts for the terrible state of the borough.

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It seems a bit harsh to blame our 1,000,000 elderly & 800,000 Fatherless children for the poor state of the borough!

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I like the last paragraph myself. I was going to pull it to bits but thought I would leave some of the fun to others.

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I think he'll introduce a hard hitting initiative of sending the fatherless kids round to visit the lonely old folks who will spend the afternoon instructing the kids on the correct use of a condom thus reducing the abortion rate.

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I think I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you mate. We've heard it all before anyway.

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There's nowt within his website that tells us where he's from. Interestingly, he left University without taking his degree....I wonder what the story is behind that? It seems he's got Burma on his mind.

What a choice. An MP for the Far East or a MP for Goldfish.

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He also has a dual Australian/British citizenship, is this a sign of a fence sitter? Unable to make his mind up one way or the other.

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Oh, An Aussie convict! Sounds suspiciously like chickens coming home to roost.

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:lol:

I like a good generalisation. We sent all the convicts to Australia and the God squad to America. We have a few new types of people that need sending elsewhere.

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How do they know that 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in abortion? The correct term is actually termination (as Lettie will tell you). Abortion simply refers to the ending of a pregnancy, whether by miscarriage or intervention. I thought it was supposed to be a private issue, anyway?

And if they know that 1 million old people never get a visit, surely they must have visited them to find out that??

Also, the 800,000 children may well not be from one-parent families, but the result of divorces.

I do like a good argument.

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What makes him so sure that they want a visitor. If he is that worried he could always visit himself. Maybe he is going to get the local vicar to visit. Maybe the last one will make them think its almost time up - scratch that last idea.