Blackpool Aloud has managed to coax an interview out of Blackpool Labour group leader Simon Blackburn who reflects on his previous life in a squalid junkie infested council estate in Edinburgh, his family’s unionist background and the policies that he hopes will revitalize the flattened Labour party and propel him into the council chamber hot-seat.
On Thursday last week the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government confirmed that the Government’s financial input into the council’s acquisition of Blackpool Tower and Winter Gardens was not going to be withdrawn. Robert Neill put it bluntly;
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In a desperate attempt to buy votes, it’s been revealed today that Labour forced through last minute spending in key marginals despite opposition from civil service mandarins.
One of the most recent cases that has come under scrutiny is the acquisition of Blackpool Tower and Winter Gardens from Leisure Parcs by Blackpool Council, a project to which £25m has been contributed through various Government channels (£15m from the North West Development Agency, £10m from Blackpool Council). There’s also a £10m plan to refurbish the Tower, but I’m not sure who’s paying for that: if it’s the NWDA then add another £10m to the government funding.
Read more on Finance boffins tried to block Leisure Parcs deal…
Since the election result and Call me Dave offered a deal to the Liberal Democrats, the two parties have been negotiating the terms for a coalition government. Today in a remarkable U-turn, Nick Clegg has requested formal talks with Labour as Gordon Brown announces he will stand down once a replacement is found. Maybe the man in the chicken suit stood next to him yesterday when he was interviewed was a sign of things to come from Clegg.
Read more on Brown out as Lib Dems open formal talks with Labour…
I’ve been browsing through the UK Polling Report website and it seems the consensus there is that the Liberal Democrat surge will only be serving to assist Ron Bell in his quest to become a member of Parliament.
Read more on Holt to crush Marsden vote and pave way for Bell…
Gordon Marsden has been the MP for Blackpool South since 1997 following the huge disillusioned swing to New Labour. Previously, the constituency was a safe Tory seat with corporate lawyer Nick Hawkins winning in 1992 and before him Sir Peter Blaker successfully renewing his occupation of the seat at every election from 1964 until his retirement.
Uncouth ship’s steward John Prescott arrived in Blackpool this evening by train and is currently holed up in the Big Blue hotel, no doubt propping up the bar with filthy anecdotes.
Forget the nuclear family. BOOM! Here is Nulabour’s finest creation.
Flush the toilet of Nulabour’s policy machine and see what rises to the top: The Stokes. It couldn’t get any worse could it, or could it?
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