MASTERMIND IT AIN'T!!!!

This from the Oldham Chronicle
Council Leader  HOWARD SYKES  to answer YOUR questions. Straight answers to straight questions he says!
Of course, when he says YOUR questions he really means the ones sent in by Libdems from Saddleworth and Shaw and specially selected by the fat bastard as being answerable without committing himself to anything. Do you wanna bet the corpulent bastard won't answer our questions.      Let's try him with a few, see if we get any answers, straight or otherwise, (our betting is on otherwise).

1. Are you going to accept any responsibility for the Vance Miller fiasco? Currently expected to cost US upward of £5M.

2. Is Charlie Chuckles, Great Pooh- Bah of the Council going to continue grinning his way through a job to which it is obvious he is unsuited?

3 . Will you continue to ignore the wishes of the people of this town whilst pursuing your policy of laying waste to the town?

4. Will you refund any of the money, our money, appropriated by you and your self opinionated partners in crime and wasted by you on meaningless jollies. (Est £30K+)

5. Will you stop trying to con us that Metrolink is the best thing ever to come to Oldham? You know fucking well there will be no regeneration. There is nothing left to regenerate or any place to achieve regeneration. The town centre is fragmented, derelict and divided by the badly thought out Spindles Centre which effectively cuts the town centre in two. We have two bus stations as a result of rushed and muddled thinking. Everything is in the wrong place. Sports centre where the multi storey car park should have been. That concrete monstrosity, The Tower of Babble, taking up premium town centre land and adding nothing to the Oldham Experience. A police station on a prime town centre site that should have been used to develop the retail centre which is now shrinking rapidly. The best market in the NW now reduced to a flapping mess of ex Bedouin tents strung along the streets. You and your predecessors have made a total fuck-up of the town. Will you ever listen to what WE want???

6. Will you tell us how big the black hole in the Local Govt. Pension pot is? (last reported figure £65.3M) 

7. How much of each household's council tax will be creamed straight off the top to try and fill this bottomless pit? (latest projected figure c£400 per household)

8. Why is no effort being made to provide an infrastructure to entice industry into the town? Our only growth industry is more and more bloody schools.

9. Which other town(s) of comparable size have no Rail connection, no cinema or other leisure facilities? We are cut off and stuffed. In fact we the people have very little to enjoy, but that won't worry you will it? You can jump into the £60k motor car you leased for yourself with OUR money and cruise off to somewhere more amenable.

10. Will you clean-up the cess pit that is Yorkshire St. and return a large portion of the town to law abiding citizens?

11. Will you listen to the people re Academies instead of pursuing your bloody minded pursuit of the unobtainable?

12. Will you stop all the chicanery regarding Oldham Athletic's new stadium?

13. Will you and the rest of the trough wallowers forgo all allowances until such time as you restore this town to some semblance of a cohesive unit? 

Will we get straight answers folks?.....What do you think?

When we say YOUR q

..ONE 'AND UP SUTTIE AND T'OTHER UP SWEEP.

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NONSULTATIONS!!!

NOT HERE - SURELY?
Imagine that you are a developer wanting to knock down a much-loved heritage structure in your town – a covered market, say – to replace it with a modern shopping centre and 100-bed hotel. You convene a "key stakeholders' consultation group" consisting largely of people who support the plan, and keep everyone else off it.
You allow these "key stakeholders" to make some cosmetic changes, so they feel flattered and involved. But responses such as "leave the market alone" or "go away and stop messing up our town" are not allowed.
You hold a public exhibition of your proposals, more than a year before you apply for planning permission, and display a scheme substantially different from the one you eventually propose. Your exhibition is only open to the public for a total of 14 hours across two days. At this exhibition, you hand out questionnaires that claim, falsely, that the market is run-down.
You then claim "widespread public backing" on the basis of these questionnaires, though only 333 people filled them out and of those only 79 – about 0.01 per cent of the local population – gave their full support.

From an article by Andrew Gilligan DT 20/8/10

This has all happened, exactly as described, in the battle being waged by OMBC in their underhand scheme to remove our  market from Tommyfield, string it in unspeakable bloody tents along our streets, then use the vacated land for yet another of their pet money grabbers, a car park.

What you have to realise is that these 'consultations' are really 'nonsultations': a cynical technique used by governments, local authorities and some businesses to provide spurious legitimacy or fake PR cover for a pre-determined decision.
All major decisions, and many minor ones – including planning applications – must now, by law, be consulted on. A vast industry has grown up to do it. The purpose of "nonsultation", however, is almost never to act on the public's views. It is to manage, manipulate, or suppress them.

DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED!

LORD PIECRUST OF MOUNT TEMPLE - ON - D' ESQUE

Citizen Steve presents a tribute to Johnny 'Two Shags' Prescott.

 

The fat, useless, lying, greedy, secretary shagging, pie faced, ignorant tub of fucking lard

MANY HAPPY RETURNS!

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THEY DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM!

THE FIRST CUT IS ............NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

SHOCK NEWS JUST IN:

  The fuckwits on Oldham Council have voted against taking a ten percent cut in allowances. Who'd'a thowt it. With the town skint, semi-derelict, pot-holed, filthy, disorganised, cut off from the outside world: with no leisure facilities, very few civic amenities, the highest council tax in the region, no industry, no jobs, no future, no ideas, our band of grasping, self-serving parasitic twats have stuck two fingers up to the people. We see exactly what their priorities are. Line their own pockets picking up every allowance, jolly and perk they can get their sticky thieving mitts on and fuck the town. The proposal for a ten percent reduction came from the hypocritical snatching twat Councillor Dim MadMan. Remember the greedy cunt last year, he wanted an extra £600 allowances for conducting 'interviews'. This on top of the £22,000 we were already shoveling into his ever more grasping paw. Not to mention the fact that this is his second 'part-time' job.  Sykes, Feeder of the council, who now has his greedy piggy eyes on his own corporate aircraft,  had his glove puppet 'Cons Hume' on hand (ha,ha, get it?) to insult all and sundry. Sykes of course has not taken a cut in anything for years.  A cut OF everything ,yes.
Liberal Democrat Councillor John Mc€ann said the 10 per cent cut was a superficially attractive idea but it would mean throwing away an independent body, and added: “Play politics with this and you will descend into the gutter.” Whoa! Wait a minute Mc€ann. For you and your corrupt brotherhood the gutter is an uphill climb and a fucking long one at that.
In a heated exchange, Councillor MadMan (pictured) told Cons Hume: “I will not be lectured on morals and responsibility by someone who has sold his soul by getting a seat on the Cabinet for £13,000 a year.”
 Pity that! It might have worked out pretty cheap. So, OK we'll have to employ someone, probably on a  lot more than £13,000 a year to lecture the shit-for-brains, talentless, trough stompin', party apparatchik on morals and responsibility. It could be a long hard task.
By the by. Cons Hume was supported in the move to reject the cuts by Cons Hume. Eh! Oh that's right Cons Hume and Cons Hume are an item. An item now drawing over £30,000 a year from the coffers of OMBC. That folks is you and me and Council Tax. £30,000 a year? For this shit!!! 

LOITERING WITHIN TENT!

Well this is it!  This is the eagerly anticipated first sighting of the wonderful new tented village that is to replace Tommyfield. OK, OK calm down everybody. I know, that like me, you are totally underwhelmed. What a paltry, flimsy poverty stricken image this is. That is going to replace Tommyfield?  Give me fucking strength! No, on second thoughts give the 'tents' strength. The first winter 'easterly' will have that lot over the Isle Of Man in no time. You're going to be a cold bugger if your stall is first in line, wind up Albion St comes direct from the Siberian Steppes. How long before erecting and dismantling these Ali Baba castoffs becomes too much trouble? The line of bollards alongside adds a nice touch. I suppose stall holders can always moor their business to them. Anyhow they are here. Let's see what we can expect them to offer for our delectation. Well bugger me just what we have been waiting for. First up is a fruit and veg stall. How we've managed without all this time stumps me. Anyone think these are an improvement on Tommyfield, which our council of nonces neglected and allowed to drift away. If you do, all I can say is; 'You're fucking barmy.' Put the fucking stalls back on Tommyfield. Demolish the Tower Of Babble, make it a car park and let the fuckwits go and do their councilling  in Th' Old Town Hall (as it stands).(just).

DOCTOR, DOCTOR!....... IT FEELS AS IF MY HEAD IS FULL OF AIR!!

 Oldham's own pint sized  Big Brother contestant Keeley Johnson has been injured in the house.Keeley, who has 'dated' SOME of Manchester's best footballers and actors and has been given awards, was taken to hospital suffering from severe carpet burns to both knees. She says she has great self belief and has achieved everything she has ever aimed for in life. Apart that is from position 23a. The Spider.
It was whilst attempting this, admittedly difficult manoeuvre with Corin and Rachel that they got all their legs crossed and they found themselves unable to connect to the web!

MORE WORLD NEWS AS IT HAPPENS!

WHO CARES IF THE CARERS DON'T??

This is Mrs Zofia Henry. Admitted to ward G2  at Royal Oldham Hospital with a viral infection she died five weeks later of pneumonia. During her spell in the hell-hole that is G2, Mrs Henry was not given the steroids she has been taking for twenty-five years to combat asthma, her diabetes was not controlled and a fracture in her back was not diagnosed. John Saxby who claims to be chief executive of PAT apologised profusely saying treatment was deficient in many aspects. A sister had been removed from the ward for intensive re-education and retraining, but he said the ultimate outcome was not likely to have been affected. The PAT stumped up  £5,000 in compensation to Mrs Henry's family.
 It may just be me, but I think treatment was deficient in all aspects. Disgraceful would be a better description.
Why has a sister been removed from the ward for intensive re-education and retraining? Why was the sister promoted to the post when obviously, and admittedly not up to the task? When one becomes a sister we, the public, expect that person to have already had extensive training and education. Presumably it will all be swept quietly under the carpet now and sister will be back in charge when on these facts she should not be in a job right now. What about the rest of the nursing staff on G2? They are all complicit in this litany of neglect and incompetency. Saxby's claim that the outcome was not likely to have been affected by Mrs Henry's treatment beggars belief. If any of you come across this obnoxious turd bleeding to death on the street, ignore him, it won't affect the outcome. Will it?
The sooner this paper shuffling, empire-building, know nothing bunch of placemen and tit-suckers are swept away, the better!

DUTY OF CARE .............MY ARSE!!!

CRIME FIGURES FALL! ........INCREDULITY RISES!

 David Gauke, the new Exchequer Secretary, travelled to Oldham Police station yesterday to talk to local officers about their new crime-fighting hub.  Sgt Rob Howarth tells  Treasury Minister David Gauke: 'The thieving bastards in this town will steal anything not nailed down, including this 32inch flat screen TV.'  Fuck me! where has it gone I had it in me 'and a moment ago.
Guess you'll need a crime number then, sarge!

Anyone able to help the police with their inquiries, please turn up Wednesday morning at about 10 or 11 o'clock. We'll go for a drive round town see if we can spot it.

Is the display on the wall similar to Countdown, i.e. one from the top row, one from the second row  and two from the third row?