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'Oldham Community Leisure,' who are the organisation to blame responsible for running sports centres in Oldham have announced they are set to link up with 'Link4Life' a similar, but Oh so different, organisation responsible for the same services in neighbouring Rochdale.
OCL say the partnership would lead to cheaper prices and increased facilities across the two towns. The one problem with this is that all the sports facilities are in Rochdale, with new ones about to open this year. Sports facilities in Oldham, having been neglected for years, are being closed indiscriminately to satisfy the cronyism rife among our dear councillors.
On Saturday 'Link4Life' will be hosting a jobs fair in Rochdale to recruit staff for the planned NEW Rochdale Leisure Centre' opening later this year. They are recruiting duty officers, lifeguards, leisure attendants,swimming teachers, fitness instructors and assistants and receptionists. Fuck me! Get in there quick if you're qualified. If you are waiting for similar posts to become available in Oldham. Hah! Tubby Sykes will have exploded and Fibber Hibbert will have shrunk to a white dwarf before then.(Mind you Diddy Dave Hasn't really all that far to go. Has he?)
Since 2007, Link4Life has been responsible for delivering a £34million investment programme for Rochdale sports and leisure. This programme includes Heywood Sports Village and Middleton Arena. Opening in June this year is Rochdale Leisure Centre. Costing £10.8 million, the centre will comprise swimming pools, a sports hall, fitness and dance studios and a thermal suite.
That is almost £45million invested in sports and leisure in Rochdale over the last four years.
What have we to crow about in Oldham? Well, nearly all the goalposts on council football pitches received a super new coat of emulsion and changing facilities were given a good coat of looking at. It looks like we are may be getting a new swimming pool, (in Royton), but three others are closing to pay for it. Mind you, we still have the open air swimming pool at Churchill Playing Fields. We have sports pitches, receiving the barest minimum upkeep, with the most primitive, if any, changing facilities. Our two professional sports clubs play in slums. What a great advert for the town. ORLFC,(The Roughyeds), gave up their ground at Watersheddings, (where it used be good, to see 'em feight for t'ball in t'mud), on the promise of being rehomed. Instead Battye et al, simply stole it. Where are they now?? A fucking allotment in Limeside!!
Where has this £45million come from? Where is our £45million? How come Rochdale have this go -ahead organisation Link4Life running their sports and leisure facilities while we have the moribund tossers OCL running ours, (into the ground that is!). Trust the clueless fuckers on Oldham Council to back the wrong horse. Nearly every fucking service that this council should be providing and running has been handed over to parasitic fucking failures. Fuck knows how much extra all this abrogation of responsibility and authority is costing US!
YOU! The sixty planks of wood in that goddamned ugly tower, daydreaming OUR lives away while awaiting YOUR allowance payments. WAKE UP YOU USELESS TWATS!!!!!! The modern world is fast disappearing into the distance whilst we slide unresistingly back into the swamp. Do your jobs run this town properly or fuck the fuck off!!!!
OCL --- OLDHAM COMES LAST!!!
YOU! The sixty planks of wood in that goddamned ugly tower, daydreaming OUR lives away while awaiting YOUR allowance payments. WAKE UP YOU USELESS TWATS!!!!!! The modern world is fast disappearing into the distance whilst we slide unresistingly back into the swamp. Do your jobs run this town properly or fuck the fuck off!!!! 
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Yep! see what you mean Anon. There seems to be a policy across the country for councils to allow any property or amenity they don't approve of, or can't, due to limited brain power, find a use for at the present time, to simply rot away. Eventually such properties either collapse or reach such a dangerous state that they have to be demolished. This inaction, they think, absolves them of any responsibility for the fate of said amenity. Now they have the perfect excuse for erecting the ugly, self aggrandising structures beloved of all politicians. WE neither wanted nor asked for these follies but for sure, we will end up paying through the nose for them. But what the hell! Our money is their money! It's too damned easy to spend other peoples money. Politicians are past masters at it. Councillors forget that these facilities are OUR facilities, paid from OUR tax contributions. WE pay for them and give them in trust to our local councils to operate, maintain and improve them for the benefit of us all.
DeleteWhat we must do is stop the parasitic pricks from getting away with it!
All of us, through whatever medium, must continue to expose the money-grabbing, self serving charlatans. We must display the results of their (mis)management to as wide an audience as possible. We should hold them up to ridicule and public censure via any media at our disposal, chipping away at the arrogant veneer of competence they like to think they have. Expose the fakes for what they are! We cannot continue to let the thieving incompetents get away with ruining every bloody city, town or village in the country. The whole place is going to hell in a handcart!
At one time, most of us paid reasonable general rates to councils that were run on very tight lines, (mainly by unpaid councillors, we should add) and we had services, second to none. So what happened??
Politicisation of councils meant that councils recruited more and more of their own supporters to pad out their voter base. Tasks that were once accomplished by half a dozen council employees now takes hundreds, with more management levels than you can shake a stick at:- Directors, assistant directors, deputy directors, under managers, over managers, assistant managers, deputy managers, deputy assistant managers and so on ad infinitum.
As a consequence of this a huge slice of council tax is swallowed up by salaries and that bottomless pit of local finance, The Local government Pension Scheme. There is little money left to do the mundane tasks of council or maintain and provide facilities.
Keep fighting! Keep exposing their uselessness!
The Wulfe