PETER CALLOW’S ruling Tories have been sensationally swamped out of power by Simon Blackburn’s marauding socialist steamroller. Here are the results.
THE MANIFESTOS are out and the candidate lists are in, here’s my preview and predictions for Blackpool’s 2011 local election.
May 062010
In 2 hours the count will begin. The odds are suggesting a hung parliament or the narrowest of Conservative victories. Locally the Tory in Blackpool South has out-leafletted his competitors by a factor of 8 but still has to overturn a large Labour lead. In Blackpool North the Labour candidate Penny Martin has gone into [...more]
May 042010
Got my first UKIP flyer through the post today, and I never thought I would say this but it’s actually pretty good and I don’t disagree with any of it. The front page is fairly plain with the three main UKIP selling points (pull out of Europe, pull out of Europe and pull out of [...more]
May 032010
This month we have seen more growth in visits, with 5958 individual visits compared with 5020 last month: a rise of 18.7%. There were 24,313 pages viewed by 2081 unique visitors. Up there on the list of phrases through which people found the site is “hamish howitt is a twat”… That’s it for this stats [...more]
Apr 042010
This article caught my attention on BBC News tonight. It makes me laugh that Labour are still using such desperate and underhand tactics. But what infuriates me is that there are people who are gullible enough to buy into this shite. But yet again Labour is banging on about ‘fairness’ a concept which is completely [...more]
Mar 272010
I know this is very similar to my earlier post Blackpool South Roll Call but I feel in election mood. Blackpool South has suffered 13 years of Labour neglect and incompetence at the hands of Brighton (and sometimes Blackpool) MP Gordon Marsden. The bottom line is we need CHANGE. But there are still legions of [...more]
I’m pleased to announce what will hopefully become a regular feature, and that is a Fylde Community Radio update. You may have heard of Fylde FM before, indeed I have written about it, but Fylde Community Radio is nothing to do with it. It is the freedom-unlocked brainchild of none other than Steven Bate, and [...more]