The past few days have delivered some good news for Blackpool and the country which helps to soften the blow of the considerable bad news of Gordon Marsden being re-elected in Blackpool South.
1. We have a Lib Dem-Conservative coaliton with a new Cabinet meaning Labour are out of power full stop. I couldn’t bare the thought of a Liebour-Lib coalition. The country cannot afford another Labour Government (literally).
2. Blackpool are off to Wembley to face Cardiff in the play-off finals. I am not normally a footie fan but when my home team is doing so well I have to back them, I need some good news.
3. JD Wetherspoon have committed to another new-build pub on Market St, no word on whether it is a Lloyds No.1 but my bet is it will be as JDW very rarely (if ever) build new pubs, they often like to take up existing historic buildings. The ex-Pricebusters branch has been named as ‘The Albert and The Lion’ after a famous poem. Something to look forward to for the Summer, I love JDW, its about time Blackpool got some decent town centre pubs (no offence Dave Daly!). I only wish other chains were as committed to Blackpool, Caffe Nero I am looking in your direction, among others.
Well that’s some good news for now, hopefully more to come, just a shame we are stuck with a useless uncommitted MP who lives 250 miles away in our rival seaside resort.
I do feel a lot more optimistic about things since the coalition was announced I must say. A Labour victory where the necessary cuts were avoided could have bankrupted the country – then we would all know just how terrible cuts can get.
I also feel a bit buoyed up that George Osborne will have some Lib Dem input as I really did doubt his capabilities despite his city experience – given his connections and background I doubt he had to be any good to get a job in the City.
Same here, I despaired at the thought of Labour forming a coalition and driving the country even further into the ground. But what annoys me now is that Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg and their respective parties will have to be brutal (for the right reasons) and people will whine and moan and vote Labour back in to bankrupt the country again. People have to accept the concept of ‘no pain no gain’.
There’s certainly a mood for optimism in Blackpool. Of course Marsden’s re-election was a disaster but the other two people didn’t campaign anything like enough to deserve the seat.
Blackpool’s surge into the play-off final could be a massive step in the history of the club, but it’s easy to get carried away. Cardiff and Blackpool were all-square at 1-1 in their last two meetings.
You might like to read a match report of the last game against Nottingham Forest that I (pretty much) wrote here:
http://blackpoolaloud.org.uk/magazine/2010/05/12/dj-campbell-fires-blackpool-in-to-the-play-off-final/
As for Cameron and Clegg they seem like an amusing double-act so far, and I look forward to see how things like PMQ’s pans out with Clegg afforded two questions to ask Dave. Will he ask them? I’m not sure how it’s going to work, since there can’t be much for him to ask that he doesn’t already know about, and its not in his interest to embarrass or humiliate Dave either.
I feel I must make a comment on this; something I saw in town today shocked me and made me laugh at the same time. I was walking through St Johns Square when a Stagecoach decorated in full PNE livery drove past, literally the whole bus was decked out in ‘Proud Preston’ etc etc. I thought to myself are the bus routers off their bloody heads especially considering the current situation!!!! Best of luck on Saturday BFC UP THE POOL!!!
lol. If it makes any difference I parked my car on Winckley Square in Preston the other week with two Blackpool FC flags attached to it.
They don’t like it up ‘em!
Well said Phil, but I think you made a very brave move, if you look at how childish and bitter PNE fans are on the LEP site they can get very nasty and very personal. Why can’t they see its just a game for god sake.