BELIEVE IN OLDHAM - But now we come to the tragic bit…!

 New superbrain and council leader, Jim Mardarse has been finalising his cabinet. Seems like a good idea. If anybody needs finalizing it’s that bunch of has been, never were, and not a fucking chance of ever becoming, talent.

He says ‘With the right political leadership and passion for the town, we can do a lot.’  Too right Jiminy Cricket. So when they turn up give us a call and they can have your job. (or is it jobs?)

“Because of budget restraints,” he claims, “We can’t maintain the same number of jobs. BUT we can keep all the services.” Oh, Aye! In that case why the fuck didn’t your fucking wastrels stop all the overstaffing and client state recruitment last time round? We told you at the time there were too many people doing too few jobs.

Now consider his next two points:

‘It’s a case of reducing managers and shared working.’

‘New town halls will be created in Oldham’s six districts as a way of bringing the council to the residents.  A DESIGNATED MANAGER in each town hall will oversee the running of services, such as youth services and street cleaning, in their area.’

Now, there are no prizes for this competition, but, hands up anyone who can see any conflict of interest in those two statements.

District Partnerships will continue but with more  constitutional power and LARGER BUDGETS. Anything yet???

NOW HEAR THIS! NOW HEAR THIS!  Counc. Mardarse will carry out a two month review of ….wait for it….’DEMOCRACY IN OLDHAM.‘ Good God, the man is as mad as a box of frogs like all his predecessors . It’s a review of  DIRT, DERELICTION, DECAY and the DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION  of almost every worthwhile thing in the town, he should be carrying out. Stop wasting your and our fucking time with Lie-bour DOGMA.
We’ve enough of that shit from our friend Suttie and his endless mirthfull quotes from Lie-bours little red Book Of Quips!

He plans to make Oldham a “co-operative council’ (sic) with residents having a bigger say in the way money is spent. Can you really fucking imagine Lie-bour letting any residents loose with the council Cheque Book? The only bigger say will be from the ’Residents’ of 1 Cheapside clamouring for more troughing.

One of little Jimmy’s priorities (he says) is to sort out the retail economy in the Union Street corridor(sic). This will be sorted as follows Numbers 2 to 368 will be takeaways and numbers 1 to 411 will be bars, clubs and discos, apart from numbers 157 and 264 which will be sex shops. The Chronicle Office will become Lie-bour party headquarters. The old library will be demolished to make way for an ultra-modern, up-market, mini-mall housing Pound Stores, Charity Shops , the Ashby-de-la-Zouch supporters club shop and Butterworth’s Chippy(redux). Jim says ‘rents will be competitive’ Lie-bour speak for, ‘it’ll be a battle to get anybody to pay it.’

His parting shot, ‘Oldham needs to be confident in itself and stop beating itself up. We believe in Oldham. It’s time people got behind Odham.‘
Beating the town up? That is Lie-bour’s  prerogative They don’t need any help.’
When he said, ‘We believe in Oldham.’ Did he mean (‘We be leavin’ Oldham) nah! that’s just wishful thinking.

‘It’s time people got behind Odham.‘ Fucking right on there Jammie. Why not start with yerself and the rest of the tit-suckers up on West St?