You have to laugh... or you'd cry!

[Gayle]

Did anyone read the quote from Cllr Britcliffe in this week's Observer? He apparently said,


“Councillors do not have good records of running businesses which is why we are letting the professionals do it”. He was talking about the plans to let a large outside company run the Market Hall.

What is the Council if it is not a business with a £10million budget? What else is the Council elected for but to run the business of Hyndburn? Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why our Council run by the Conservatives is continually in debt, if it is run by people who are not professional enough to run it.

[Neil]

If he believes that Councillors including himself are no good at the job, he should be standing down and let someone who can run a business get on with it.
It always did appear stupid to me that any fool can be voted onto the Council and have input as to how HBC is run.

[fireman]

Is their no way the general public can have a vote of confidence in the council, I'm sure they would lose.

[Gayle]

No, we have to wait until May next year to do something about it.

[cashman]

as well as not being very good at running businesses,councillor britcliffe has displayed his stupidity to the people of the borough by making a quote like this to the media(beam me up scotty)lol

[Less]

Originally Posted by cashman

(beam me up scotty)lol

Scotty has just this week boldly gone where no man wants to go at anytime, (bless).

[Acrylic-bob]

There is also a letter following up an article in last weeks edition complaining about the Idiot-in-Chief pumping money into Oswaldtwistle at the expense of other areas of the borough. The correspondant thinks that it is unfair that one area gets preference over another, which it is. But fails to ask the question why the I-i-C is using Ossy as the target of HBC's largesse. Could it possibly have something to do with the fact that, as Gayle helpfully points out, Britcliffe's seat is up for election next year and he is turning himself inside out doing everything that he can think of to secure another term for himself?

What do you think?

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[Debbie J]

The problem is that by the time elections come round the voters will have forgotten what PB said and there wont be any business to run anyway as it will have been sold off

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Less

Scotty has just this week boldly gone where no man wants to go at anytime, (bless).

i know less but though hes gone the quote lives.

[garinda]

Councillor Britcliffe, unless l am very much mistaken, owns and has run a successful frock shop in Accrington for at least the last twenty years.

Obviously he's better with his own business than he is with ours.

No, l don't know this because l shop there!!!!

[grego]

Which shop is that Garinda?
Bit of a stupid thing for PB to say but nothing surprises me!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by cashman

as well as not being very good at running businesses,councillor britcliffe has displayed his stupidity to the people of the borough by making a quote like this to the media(beam me up scotty)lol

Reminds me of Gerald Ratner. It was Gerald wasn't it?

[Margaret Pilkington]

There is a fancy name for putting your foot in your mouth......PB has gone one better with this quote........he got both feet in there.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by garinda

Councillor Britcliffe, unless l am very much mistaken, owns and has run a successful frock shop in Accrington for at least the last twenty years.

Obviously he's better with his own business than he is with ours.

No, l don't know this because l shop there!!!!

i was just referring to DUMBOS quote that councillers dont have good records at running businesses,he said it not me lol

[chav1]

i dont think it takes a buisness degree to see that most of HBC's ideas are a waste of money