Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

[Margaret Pilkington]

You are perfectly right Neil..there are no principles in politics...either local or national.
And it WAS a cut and dried decision...and no amount of consultation was ever going to change anything...a bit like the bus station.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Neil

Principals will have nothing to do with it and the county election in May everything to do with it. No way the Tories wouldn't have agreed to bringing HLF funding to Accrington centre if they had been in power. Peter spent 11 years working with the Friends of Rhyddings Park to get HLF funding only to turn against the group putting the whole project at risk to keep a few voters happy and attack the Labour party.

It's just politics. He used Labour deselecting Clare Pritchard as a way of attacking the Labour party at a full county council meeting this afternoon. He was praising Clare and how hard she has worked for Hyndburn.

That demonstrates perfectly that hes the slimy get i always said he was,

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Neil

No way the Tories wouldn't have agreed to bringing HLF funding to Accrington centre if they had been in power.

Neil, there is absolutely no way you can know what they would have done(anymore that I can), you can guess, you can assume, you can surmise, but you will never really KNOW...and it will never be tested now anyway.

That Peter Britcliffe spent 11 years fighting for HLF money for the park is irrelevant.
Fighting for funds for a development in a Park is something entirely different to spending 1.2 million of OUR money(Not HLF money) on something that will do nothing at all to benefit the town.
It will not bring either businesses in or people from out of town.

The 1.2 million of our money could be spent on something better than what is is going to be spent on.