One can hardly forget the Blairist mantra with the cacophonous D-Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better wailing away in the background. It was like a hammer hitting an anvil and the hammer of Blairism was the presupposed force of educational change; however if one looks carefully, it’s the anvil that is the harder than the [...more]
THE GASJET has an article entitled ‘Youth crime costs Blackpool £1m a year’ which explains that the cost to prosecute youths that commit crimes in Blackpool has topped £1m. You’d think, therefore, that the article was about the high cost of putting these kids through the courts. But it isn’t. After the second paragraph, the [...more]
When Austin Molloy woke up on the 13th of May and prepared for his magistrate duty at Blackburn Magistrates Court, little did he realise that he’d woken into a politically correct nightmare. Four days later and Mr Molloy has had his position as bench chairman revoked as the Judicial Office of Communications conduct an investigation [...more]
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? And where else would it be, but Blackpool! A proud town with many fine people has been corrupted by [...more]
Whilst the UAF have every right to protest against the British National Party, they have no right to prevent freedom of speech. The recent reports about the activities of Unite Against Fascism in Fleetwood come as no surprise, though. The real loser here is the electorate and that is not democratic. Instead of allowing a [...more]
Whilst building another computer this morning, I heard the customary clank of the letter box which interrupted me, so I decided stop work and pick up the post. As it happened, it was a large envelope containing a supplement/brochure from my union, the PCS (Public and Commercial Services). Guess what? They too are having elections [...more]
Just what is a conservative and what is conservatism? I wager that conservatism is more of an attitude/instinct to question and resist change and also to preserve, i.e conserve what is considered good, than a precise prescriptive ideology.So is the current Conservative party actually conservative? I would say most certainly not, especially under PC liberal [...more]
10 years ago, if you asked me if I would ever vote for the British National Party, I would have cracked up laughing amongst a stream of expletives in retort; but how the times change, along with my own views. 10 years on, and still under a Labour government, I have seen and become aware [...more]