Hi guys and gals. As a proud Accringtonian I'm starting a campaign to pressure for improvement in our Town Centre. We are a week old but gathering momentum at a fast pace. We have, twitter and Facebook pages and today I have launched a website. Catch Front Page content will be added shortly. I would appreciate it if you could spare a few minutes to peruse our pages to find out a little bit more about what we are trying to achieve. LET articles (today) and an Observer article next week are generating a buzz around the Town and I hope that more of you will Join us in lobbying,engaging and helping to raise standards and aspirations in the town. Thanks.
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O.K. So you wish to improve our town, please excuse our lack of response, perhaps it's down to suspicion, we have heard similar before.
What seems strange is your short history but extensive publicity.
If you really are the person you claim to be, why only one post?
It seems as if you have been invented, in hopes that a cascade of followers will welcome you.
Not happened so far has it?
If however, you aren't part of some Council publicity stunt, please PM me, many on AccyWeb and within the community would welcome a chinwag.
http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/campaigner-gains-support-bid-revive-5145080
I really do like the idea, just find it strange how a mere mortal could manage the publicity???
I really do like the idea, just find it strange how a mere mortal could manage the publicity???
Some of the biggest problems are shops like Wilkinsons, they now sell under one roof goods which could be bought in 1/2 dozen shops before it was built. Tesco's, folk can now park next to the store, walk a few yards for a trolley, get in the lift, and every thing they need is there. I recently bought an inflatable cushion on line, 12 quid post free, at a local pharmacy for the exact same cushion it was 29.99d, which would you buy. Just look back 50 years there was a Co-op within walking distance where ever you lived in Accy, where is the Co-op now. That bloke is just a publicity hunter, if he's so bothered why doesn't he open a shop in the Arndale, then again how many people want to buy bullshine.
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Had anyone heard of this initiative before it became front page news in the Observer?
No i have asked a few,
Yes. He is on Facebook talking about people he has been meeting including Councillors and Officers.
I am sure they will be the first to comment if they haven't actually met him and he says he has.
Why are they all on facebook?
seems its the in place CashyWhy are they all on facebook?
well all the councilors are on there
they don't get the same flak as they do on here
seems its the in place Cashy
What are you trying to say?
Is politician baiting being kept in one place now?
Oh, whoa, whoa and thrice whoa, the end of AccyWeb as we know it!
Name the last time Mossy showed his face on here, by that I mean posted, I know he takes a peep most days but says nout these days, maybe if his lot lose control he'll be back using the site as his own personal propaganda machine againWhat are you trying to say?
Is politician baiting being kept in one place now?
Oh, whoa, whoa and thrice whoa, the end of AccyWeb as we know it!
Why are they all on facebook?
Probably because it's easy to be in contact with a very large number of people either directly as friends or group members or because you see your friends comment on there comments etc.
Suppose thats easy to understand, They can delude themselves wi many friends on yon.
Suppose thats easy to understand, They can delude themselves wi many friends on yon.
Many do that yes but many peoples facebook friends are not real friends but old acquaintances, work colleagues etc. I only have a few people on my facebook that I have not actually met.
Same here Neil. I like it for the sharing of photos and keeping up with people I don't see very often -friends and family all scattered all over the world. I have a sister in NZ, parents in the Canaries, cousins in Thailand, Oz and Canada and I even have a cousin in Katmandu (wish it was Timbuktu!)
Oops forgot to mention I friends in Hyndburn too!
Got to admit, I haven't many friends on there, but then I'm suspiscious about the two that I have got.
Are they that lonely they need me as a friend?
Got to admit, I haven't many friends on there, but then I'm suspiscious about the two that I have got.
Are they that lonely they need me as a friend?
Mr.Burke & Mr.Hare by any chance?
Mr.Burke & Mr.Hare by any chance?
Thought you had perhaps been down the Reeperbahn or Charlottenburg and the body snatchers had got you.
Good on you mate..hope you have better luck than we've had...plugging away, lobbying and engaging for almost 10 years and watching the town go from weakness to weakness, to a point where you couldn't tell the difference between Accrington and Beirut except for the weather conditions.
Councillors who speak when they want your votes, then vanish when they have their two years, MP's who are high profile until they actually become an MP then run to the hills posting 'look what I'm doing pictures' on twitter (without really doing anything but grabbing free lunches at local businesses)
We've pointed out ways to raise standards, posted photos of grotspots, some have even attended council meetings. We've argued policy, procedure, dog fouling, bench removal, pound shops, party political bickering, maundy, bus stations, pennine reach etc..etc.. and got absolutely nowhere!
We are jaded, cynical and mistrustful. I'm glad someone is there to pick up the banner because we've all carried it at one point and retired to the pub in abject defeat