DO YOU DO WHITEWASH IN OTHER COLOURS?

A little item slyly slipped into news accounts to-day
'Award-winning' policewoman Leanne Murphy (26), from Middleton who was arrested after being found off-duty in a suspected drugs den in Oldham has been released without charge.
PC Murphy (26),  and three other people were arrested in November at the house on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.  Following an investigation the case against her was dropped.
More questions than answers here.  Has the case against the other three been dropped?  If not, does GMP now condone off-duty cops consorting with drug dealers? Is the house a drug den or not? If yes, does GMP now condone off-duty cops frequenting drug dens?  What reason had PC Murphy to be in such a parlous situation? Why was she in the company of such people? Is this another item swept under the carpet by GMP?  Not at all! What size brush do you need for that whitewash, Pete?

CAN I BE MILK MONITOR SIR? - No, sit down Alcock - you'd drink it all.

See! The aggrandising bastards are at it again. Defeated Liberal Democrats on Oldham Council have unveiled their Shadow Cabinet. Eleven of the workshy talentless bastards are swanning around calling themselves shadow this or shadow that. Fuck all this preening and posing! you're supposedly representing our interests in the council chamber, not pretending you are a bunch of movers and shakers in the governments of the world. If they had spent less time dreaming up nonsense titles for each other and more time attending to constituency matters things might have been a lot better in this town. Every fucking thing about councils in this town is SELF first, fuck the people! You are all clowns.Amateur fucking clowns at that! 

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY CHILDREN? - Then let's cheat!

An investigation is to be carried out into SAT tests at Chadderton Hall Junior School. It has been alleged that pupils were told answers in the tests sat by 11-year-olds across the country earlier this month. Heaven help us! Are the pupils so thick they couldn't complete tests which have now become so easy a nematode worm could pass 'summa cum laude.'?  Or is it that the teachers are so incapable they are covering their backs to avoid the disgrace of their pupils failing? Education, education, education! Bollocks!

CATASTROPHE! - EVERYONE DEAD IN OLDHAM - Knowless made Mayor!

The new Mayor of Oldham, Greenfield village idiot, Richard Knowless, has pledged to be a “good news ambassador” for the borough.  The only good news we would welcome from the moron is that he had decided to up sticks and emigrate to Christmas Island. Somehow he has a job at Salford University — where he is a professor with an international reputation for transport geography. But knows absolutely fuck all about what WE want here in Oldham. This is the guy who has been pushing all the metrolink crap down our throat for years. SELF FUCKING AGGRANDISEMENT yet again! Did the knobhead  consider asking us what we wanted before destroying a perfectly good rail system, forever cutting us off from the rest of the world, (ok maybe it's no bad thing protecting the rest of the world from the blight) and bringing disruption to most of the town? Like all his arrogant ilk. Did he fuck! And they make the prick Mayor. God help us! The lunatics really have taken over the asylum!

STONY BROKE AT STONELEIGH! - Read all abaht it!

How now Mr Chronicle editor? Another blow to the benighted Derker!  Refurbishment of Stoneleigh School appears to have been abandoned. There are fears work has been abandoned due to falling pupil numbers. Well, there will be falling numbers won't there? All the fucking houses have been demolished or are boarded up. Nobody lives there anymore! The few residents remaining have been left surrounded with vast empty spaces and rows of derelict properties.
There are understood to be concerns about  the number of houses for families in the wake of the Government’s decision to halt the multi-million Housing Market Renewal programme in Derker. This was meant to demolish, rebuild and refurbish hundreds of properties, but not all of the new houses promised materialised. Excuse me asking, but how many, exactlt, is 'not all'?  Last month Bellway pulled out of plans to build 148 homes. Some people seem more aware of conditions in this town than our beloved Councillors and the editor of our local paper.
 Councillor Hugh McDonald, cabinet member for children, young people and families (God help us!), said, "We will continue to give Stoneleigh Primary School its full support so the children fulfil their potential and receive the best start in life.”(Translation: Closure is imminent).  Asked if closure was an option, Councillor McDonald said: “Everything is an option.” (Translation: It's official).
 Jackie Stanton, former deputy council leader and gypsy fortune teller, said: “We identified £1 million to be spent on this school to enhance teaching and learning and to provide community facilities in an area where there are none. There are no facilities? What a surprise! There are no fucking houses or people either! So look how much we have saved on uneeded community facilities.
She added,“We will be looking for a meeting with Councillor McDonald as soon as possible because this uncertainty for staff and parents is completely unfair.”  Give me fucking strength! Was the uncertainty for residents caught up in the council's ill thought-out scheme fair then?
Does Editor Whaley consider them 'Whingers and moaners' without legitimate complaint? Or is everything in the town still all hunky-dory?
We suggest he peruses the article on this matter in his paper, this date. Read the first two words, David. "TROUBLED DERKER" - Nuff said?

CHINESE LAUNDRY DO IRONY!

The saga of the whingers and moaners continues. In the letters page of our esteemed local paper, the Chron, a the reader RB  has written of the hypocrisy of editor David Whaley in devoting a column to moaning about the moaners and whingers who write to his newspaper, saying the irony of the piece was clearly lost on the writer. Nah! The Chron don't do irony.

This is Whaley's studied response:

There is also a marked difference between those with a legitimate complaint who are ignored at every turn, insulted and fobbed off with every excuse known to man and those like himself who, for commercial and job security reasons, are happy to wave through the ill considered vandalism inflicted upon the town by his cronies up on West St. He mentions those who moan about everything that goes on in Oldham without offering a constructive alternative.

Here, in another photo-op for the paper we see our intrepid editor at the scene of one of OMBC's greatest triumphs, The Derker Levels. He is in earnest planning talks with an old gypsy fortune teller and peg seller Counc Stanton. He later said he was totally impressed with the way Derker had turned out nice and flat after all those nasty little houses had been removed. When asked about all the people forced out of their homes, despite the majority wanting to stay, he replied. "They're all whingers and moaners with no legitimate complaints. There's none of them come up with a constructive alternative have they?"

Photo © OEC  Copies available from the Chronicle Office price £3.50 + p&p

Strewth! does the fool not even read his own paper? For the past few years the letters page of the Chron has been regularly filled with complaints about one hare-brained scheme or another, complete with suggestions for better solutions. Have the jellyfish brains in the Tower listened?  Have they ever altered any plan to fit in with what we want? Do they care what we think? Hah! take a guess. In the last few years we have had many examples of the council riding roughshod over the wishes of the people. To name a few: Derker- Werneth - Metrolink - Academies - Tommyfield - The Old Town Hall - Yorkshire St. Need we go on?  In all these and many more cases there has been a vociferous response from our citizens against  the plans put forward by the Council brain cell. Has ought come of these pleas for common sense? Nope! The council response is usually to decide the outcome - call a public nonsultation - then announce a unanimous verdict in favour. So do us a favour David. Stop insulting our intelligence. We know. You know. We know you know, we are pissing against the wind trying to divert the party political sheep from their chosen path. Sometimes though, we have minor victories such as the local election result in Waterhead. Opportunity Knox was repeatedly told the Academy scheme was flawed, but self aggrandisement and the hubristic belief that only I know what's best for you, led her to the exit door. (Mind you look what the poor bastards in Waterhead got in her place: Peter Dean the well known free thinker and visionary.)

RB's closing sentence solves the editors's dilemma:  ".....if the Chron really is fed up of people complaining then their answer is simple. Don't print the letters."

Ah, but there's the rub. Don't print the letters. Nothing to fill the space only more ads and photo sales. Nothing left to edit.

VERILY OUR POT UNDERFLOWETH - Who knows where the money goeth?

 

 Have you all, like the good little brainwashed trolls you are, paid your Council Tax? Oh, goody! Did you know that approx the first four hundred pounds (£ 400) of every household's tax extortion drops straight into the Local Government Pension Pot? Do you wonder why we have no services, amenities, facilities?  That's four hundred quid (maybe more) of your hard earned, going toward the twilight years of some incompetent middle manager in his Tenerife time share, after taking early retirement. Don't you feel good seeing these worthy causes getting something back for their years of selfless toil? Or, like us, do you want to grab them by the scrotum and drag them screaming, back to the dump they created, to serve out the rest of their days?
The reason so much of your moolah is dropping into the bottomless pit is that successive juntas have,  sort of, spent it instead of saving it and now we are just a tad short. 'What's a tad?'  I hear you ask. Well the last concrete figures published two years ago showed that the tad was a midges over £63M. Estimates now put it at probably over £100M. 'Who's going to make good the deficit?'  I hear you ask as well. Hah! Did you really need to ask?  The next time you find yourself engaged in cheerful banter with your local councillor  ask him or her to explain the esoteric workings of the Local Government Pension Scheme. they will be only too pleased to explain where the loot funding has been deployed.
Anyone with firm figures on the current deficit in the LGPS?  Do let us know.

TAKE ONE EVERY NIGHT - IT WILL SOOTHE THE PAIN.

About a week ago this editorial appeared in the Oldham Evening Chronicle:-

 

We suppose editor David Whaley has our good selves in mind when he makes his ill-informed remarks. Somebody has to stand up to the talentless megalomaniacs in the Ivory Tower and it sure ain't the Oldham Chronicle. What should be the voice of the people is now nothing more than the official organ of Oldham Council. Perhaps if the Chron had been more vociferous  in the past, about the shortcomings and failed grandiose plans of the council, we might not be in the sorry state we are to-day.  How dare  Whaley criticise anyone who doesn't agree with his biased view. We have as much right to harry council members as he has to praise and buff them up like gold turds. No criticism of councillors, council plans, expenses inflation, the ability of certain members, the intelligence of certain members is allowed in the columns of the Council Gazette. The great moderator has spoken. Well, here's the news: You won't say it so we must. 

All Whaley seems interested in is getting in as many photo ops as possible, posing with his new masters. Still he is little more than a photograph salesman anyhow.  The impartiality, free spirit and occasional irreverence of past editors has been ditched and replaced with a forelock tugging yes man in charge of  the turgid, so called, 'Last Newspaper In Oldham.' Wrong, David. The paper now contains little or no 'News.' What bit there is, is usually days out of date, is gleaned from other publications and is given to us in handy bite size pieces about the size of a postage stamp. Half the time, the news is not even about the local area. Who wants to read about a chimney fire in Westhoughton or a bicycle stolen in Wythenshawe? At a rough estimate over 60% of the available space each evening is given over to adverts. Roughly 20% of these are adverts advertising the Oldham Chronicle or adverts selling photos from the myriad schemes set up by the Chron, purely to sell more photos. What are even more weird are the ads throughout the paper advertising what we can look forward to reading in the next couple of pages. Left to our own devices I'm sure we can all learn to lick our thumbs, turn the pages and stumble delightedly upon the unforeseen delights. There is more news in the Advertiser. He berates us for knocking Sunny Jim. It matters not, to us that he has been in power only a matter of days. We remember him from last time. Jim ' Can I Have More Expenses On Top Of The 22 grand I'm fleecing you out of already,' cos I've got to do an interview,' McMahon.  Mr Do Nowt, like all his Lie-bour cronies. How many years of this have we had? These are basically the same sad, clueless, placemen we have had for the past thirty years.  The editor castigates us for, 'rubbishing the priorities he has set out for the first period of the administration.'  Where was Whaley during the last twenty periods of previous Lie-bour administrations when the blowhards were creating 'Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land'?  Look around you man! The town is more like Dresden after the blitz. You're living in a dream world. The rest of us meanwhile are living a nightmare. 'It's a good job that all is not happy and sorted in the borough,' he bleats. 'What would we find to moan about otherwise.' You arrogant stupid bastard. Can you not see the shitehole this town has become? Do your rose-tinted Lie-bour specs so blind you to the derelict, squalid, dirt-ridden, cut off from the world, town that Oldham has become, that YOU have forgotten who brought us to this sorry state? Day after day your readers complain about the shortcomings of the numpties in the tower. Do we hear a howl of protest from the Chron in support?  Not likely. They don't want to lose their only news item.

'Some are poor political losers.'  Aye lad, we're all losers and a lot of us are a lot poorer thanks to the political shenanigans of people whom we elected to serve the borough not dance like puppets for their masters down in London.

'Many in the borough are sick and tired of the negative influence that this vocal minority seek to wield.' Yes you're right David. We are all sick and tired of the negative influence that you and the sixty teat-suckers on the council have foisted upon us for years.

The editor's conclusions? - 'Yes there are problems.'  There's the understatement of the year. We are assailed on all sides by problems. Problems that no-one in the Tower of Babble has a clue how to solve.

'Not every decision taken turns out to be the right one.'  No! very few of them do. It's the cost, monetary and in human misery of all the wrong decisions accumulating over the years that pisses us off.

'We have to give the people elected the opportunity to try to move the town forward.' Are you having a laff? These are the same bunch of numbskulls that we had last time Lie-bour were in power. They did nowt then. They'll do nowt now. They are bereft of ideas. They have no money for any of these 'schemes' and self interest will, as usual, take over from common sense. They haven't the faintest clue how to move this town forward. We'll still be waiting come the next election 

Whatever it is that we have to offer Mr Whaley, it is designed to get people interested. To ask questions. To not blindly accept all the pap spewing from the council chamber, to get involved. At one time we would have expected the Oldham Chronicle and it's editor to have been the voice of the people. We would have expected harsh criticism of the way this town is and has been run for years. But no! We mustn't disturb the equilibrium. The Oldham Chronicle has become the Mogadon Chronicle, gently ironing the creases out of the fabric of life.  We are now so stupefied we are seemingly incapable of resistance. We, the whingers and moaners intend to change that. Whaley! Grow a pair. Stop your brown nosin.' and posin.'  Try and be of some use to this town other than as a photographic model.

THEM AS CAN, DO - THEM AS CAN'T..........!

You will have noticed that teachers at Crompton House School went on strike last Thursday. This action was ostensibly because they fear the proposal of the school to become an academy would: "Harm the school and education in Oldham."  Brother Tony Harrison, scretary of Oldham NUT,  said "We asked to meet the full governing body to make our case against the plans."  Not, you will note, to discuss the plans. Oh no! We are agin 'em on principle (if indeed they had any and knew what they were.) He continued,"This is a perfectly reasonable request."  Oh, really! I have worked for several organisations and companies over the years. Not once during that time have I ever been consulted on policy changes, board-room appointments or future business plans. What business is it of the teachers and the NUT how the school is governed, the future direction of the school or the decisions of the governors. They are, like I was, employees. If they don't like it they can always do what I was often told, that if you don't like it you can always take your labour elsewhere. 
Listen to this piece of union drivel straight from the Lie-bour book of fun quotes: "The vast majority of teachers oppose becoming an academy which would give the Church Of England secondary more freedoms. Bullshit! " The big fear of the NUT and it's teachers is that they are well aware that come a changeover to academies many of the under-performing, under-qualified, unsuited to the job, ideologically brainwashed, so-called teachers will be found out, found wanting  and will be out of a job. Look at the figures to see how good they are. Over a third of secondary pupils leave school unable to read and write sufficiently well to apply for jobs and to satisfy prospective employer's levels of education. Who is to blame? The Government? The Teacher Training Colleges? The Unions? The Teachers? All of them it would appear. The Government has made exams so ludicrously easy over the years that a gerbil could pass with honours.  Teacher Training Colleges have been weighted down for years with ideological claptrap. Teachers qualify and pass on this tripe to new students who then go on to become teachers in their own right and the whole sordid cycle repeats itself endlessly. Unions need no explaining. It's all about maintaining your power base. Teachers? Well teachers are in the job for one of two reasons. A real desire to impart learning to new minds, or it's better than working. Unfortunately there are too many of the latter and the end results of their indifference can be seen wandering the streets of most towns. No jobs. No abilities. No qualifications. No life! 
Can any of the principled oafs tell us what message going on strike gives to their pupils? Are they proud of the fact that after approx eleven years of education pupils leave school still unable to read and write. What chance do these disadvantaged souls have in the labour market. Successive Governments have been complicit in this state of afairs. An illiterate, innumerate, jobless population is easier to control. Just give them regular handouts it's as good as a tranquiliser.
Finally: Tony Harrison (again). "....becoming an academy will effectively privatise the school and concentrate power in the hands of just a few people."  Aaah! There we have it P-O-W-E-R  and none if it will be ours.  Never mind if any unsuitable teachers lose their posts they can always get a job with Ofsted.

OLDHAM - - Round and round went the bloody big wheel!

 Well then! What's been happening in the mighty metropolis in our absence?  Fuck me! we've had a bleedin' election and the parasitic Lie-bour bastards, led by Jim (Give me more expenses) McMahon,  have been re-elected by the bovine fucking electorate who still have not realised what a state of shit and dereliction the tossers leave the town.
Anyhow, for those of you don't know what the vapid faced fucker now leading us into the potholes of oblivion, looks like, here he is on election night having just received the leaders regalia from outgoing council leader and fast food ace Coun Sykes. This ancient symbol signifies the relationship between the council and the citizens of the borough.
It's not all bad news however. Word reaches us that Shaw chippy will be saved from closure. Sykes will not be away on all them free jollys in the council our Audi, so will be free to resume his thrice daily visits to his favourite shopping outlet. The owners stated that the doubling of trade should enable them to retire in a couple of years. An outcome we have been wishing on the eating machine for some time.