Sick of Callow? Tired of Taylor? Fed up of Fowler?
I have said a lot about the ills of the town, but it’s easy to pick faults. We’ve commented and discussed the corruption in our politics, both local and national, but are helpless to offer a solution.
We know that Blackpool Council are a laughing stock, a gaggle of headless cash-magnets; a bunch of dinosaurs with no conviction and no sense of what the town really needs. An elected mayor is desperately needed.
Blackpool First Alliance has proposed to begin some action. No, not hiding behind a keyboard making faceless rants like I do, but real action in order to promote independent candidates for the 2011 local elections including the concept of an executive mayor.
His new web site, www.bispham.info, is to be promoted with leaflets in the Ingthorpe ward and he is offering to assist prospective independent councillors with the setting up of similar sites for self promotion.
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This sounds excellent I would like to see an independent executive mayor and I feel the post of Chief Executive should be elected by the public also. We should be able to call a vote of no confidence on jobsworth Weaver and select someone new and cut the huge salary to a more reasonable amount. I would like to see some young fresh blood in the council more in tune with the 21st century and future Blackpool, not this obsession with ‘reliving the glory days’. A Council that will flatten eyesores like Talbot Rd bus station.
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and a council that stops the new council offices, and puts in something of public use instead!
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What would a councillor have to subscribe to in order to win your vote?
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Readers wives?
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I suppose I asked for that lol.
What would Alan Vincent have to do in order for you to vote for him, and I don’t mean jump off a bridge or anything!
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Well cancel, all further house building and seek improvements on the infrastructure, ie roads, rail etc.
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Brilliant – the more people in politics who vote with their consciences rather than along party lines the better we’ll all be.
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I think we need new young candidates standing to finally boot out the old guard in Blackpool Council and inject some new energy and life back into Blackpool.
This Council idea of new fresh ideas for Blackpool in a wedding stand on the prom!!!! There is nothing except the bards in the centre for young people and then they complain about kids on the streets!!!
We need to make sure all this government money being invested isnt wasted on daft old fashioned projects and on things that will benifit Blackpool long after there long gone!
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I totally agree regards the stupid wedding chapel and all of the other cash wastage. I also agree that the dinosaurs making up the Council at the moment need to be made extinct pretty rapidly. 2011 cannot come soon enough.
If you were a councillor and there was, say, 5 million quid to spend, what sort of projects would you pump cash into?
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sorting the roads ie potholes, pavements
cleaning the streets,more bins etc
buying empty properties to bulldoze them for regeneration
the basics really, the stuff thats been ignored.
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My thoughts exactly Harold, also sort out the bloody public footpaths around Blackpool. I made a complaint about a footpath on Chapel Road in June and got an email from the Council technical services dept saying they will sort it. To this day nothing has been done. The footpath I speak of is covered at the Chapel Road end with rubbish from flytippers, the path is overgrown and inaccesible and the other end at Whalley Lane doesn’t even exist; no signage or access.
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Chapel Road doesn’t converge into Whalley Lane, it goes off towards the VW garage at the M55 roundabout.
Maybe they didn’t know where you meant?
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I know where you mean but I wasn’t actually referring to the road I meant a public footpath. They know full well where it is because I marked the exact pinpoint location on an OS map. Where I actually mean is as you are going along Chapel Road toward the VW garage and caravan site just before you pass under the bridge at Yeadon Way there is a public footpath marked by a public footpath sign that runs along side Yeadon Way. By the fence there is a load of rubbish that has been there for months and the footpath itself is inaccesible. The footpath (according to OS maps) joins up with Whalley Lane. When I ventured down Whalley Lane once a resident denied existence of the footpath, so something isn’t right there. But the Council dept promised to investigate but nothing appears to have been done. Several other footpaths I have reported have also been left untouched.
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Ah fair enough, maybe take your mobile and send them some pics!
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I have considered that and I may just do it, because I am not impressed by the way they said they would sort it and have just done nothing.
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try fixmystreet.com
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That’s where I made the complaints and I actually recieved personal replies from the Council and I was very impressed. But my delight turned sour when months after the e-mails I have revisited the sites and nothing has been done.
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But you loyaly support this Tory Council come hell or high water.
Gee your one hell of a joke
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Don’t you dare speak to me like that I am not a joke, there is no need to be so abrupt. It is not the councillors themselves who I got the email from, it was the technical services department who deal with such matters. Yes I do support our Conservative council because while like any council they have their flaws they are doing a damn well better job than Fisher and Liebour ever were.
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Oh I forgot, 50 pence severance pay for Steve Weaver.
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Pay someone to torch the new council offices as part of the Tatbot gateway?
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lol, you reckon that piece of shit will ever get built?
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I hope not but fear it will,bring back Guy Fawkes!
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Vote for mEEEeEeEEE!
I promise:
- to do very little – hence keeping damage to a minimum
- not to keep on making pointless promises
- not to spend other people’s money on my own vanity projects – I already have my own Audi R8, thanks. And I get to drive it. And nobody else gets to piss on it in the town centre.
- chicks for free and cash for nothing. Unless you’re cashing in on every benefit going.
I also promise not to patronise you, but I will tell you when you’re being a total fucking idiot.
Don’t like it?
Enjoy the Town Hall Taliban…
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Seems like BFA may have fallen at the first hurdle: his website no longer works properly.
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