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| 'We're facing unprecedented cuts yer know, and money doesn't grow on trees!" |
So now its official, Tameside council is the meanest council
in the land!
Not content with portraying the entire borough as a rat
infested, food poisoning, fly tipping road
to perdition by allowing the BBC to film a second series of sensationalist
twaddle featuring the worst parts of our towns by repeatedly focusing their ‘Call
the Council’ cameras on cockroach infestations and squalid conditions; Bosses
at Tameside council have now gone one better by being named on the National
television News and in the country’s daily papers as "the worst in
Britain" after planting pathetic excuses for ‘Christmas Trees’ in two of
our most picturesque and historical villages!
Just as the name Ebenezer Scrooge has become synonymous with
miserliness, greed, grumpiness… Tameside’s Labour run council has become synonymous
with avariciousness.
When confronted by the nations cameras, a spokesman for Tameside Council said: “The recently planted
‘living’ Christmas trees at Micklehurst and Mottram are sustainable and
therefore designed to provide a tree for the many years to come for the local
community.
He then jumped on that tired old hobby-horse and set to
blaming the planting of the tiny twigs by announcing “the council are facing huge cuts to their
budgets’ therefore we are continually under pressure to find more innovative
ways of working!”
He then tried to justify their ‘innovative way of working,
by saying, “By providing living trees as a one-off cost, the trees can be
re-used year-on-year without the additional costs attached to erecting and
taking down a new tree every Christmas.”
(Strange he didn't mention the on-going costs
involved to set-up and remove the festive lights used to decorate the said tree! Or in
fact that the very same ‘one-off costs’ could have been achieved with far better
results, if their collective innovative minds had hit on the idea of purchasing display
sized, artificial trees!)
Obviously not one who subscribes to the theory of ‘ if you
find yourself in a hole, stop digging!’ he went on to explain to the assembled news
crews, “Because they are recently planted they are small, but will obviously
grow into Christmas trees the whole community can enjoy.”
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| It might grow if its not dragged away by a rat! |
However, the Douglas fir claims a medium rate of growth;
between 13 and 24 inches in height annually. Which means, should they not die of
shame or fall subject to the thousands of vehicles that pour toxic exhaust
fumes over them on a daily basis, it will take 10-12 years before the villagers
of Mottram and Micklehurst can have a traditional Christmas tree to be proud of!
Last week we read how Ashton’s Christmas Market will be a
spectacular celebration of the season and will including a lantern parade and
fireworks, 30 traditional wooden cabin stalls, a bar, ferris wheel, family
entertainment, special events and much more.
With the usual last word going to the poster boy for what
passes for financial acumen within Tameside Council; Deputy Executive Leader
Cllr John Taylor, (who is also responsible for what's left of the boroughs markets), said: “This event is a
community celebration for the whole of Tameside to enjoy while also boosting
the local economy by encouraging shoppers from both within the borough and
beyond. I would encourage everyone to come along and soak up the wonderful,
festive atmosphere while enjoying the entertainment and activities and
supporting local businesses.”
Well, that's as maybe, but it would seem by the ‘generous gift of a couple of veritable
twigs’ from the council to the villages of Micklehurst and Mottram, the councils Christmas spirit
ground to a screaming halt on the border of Ashton.
If I may offer a word of advice for our smug career councillors; Christmas time
is a time that is supposed to bring joy and generosity to otherwise mundane
times. If you could all try a little harder to find ways to harness that
attitude toward all the people of the borough (not just Ashton) you’ll be better men for it.
They can afford to be smug with the plankton-like electorate of most of Tameside. No thinking or patriotic person would even contemplate voting Labour. Maybe they'll give us and certain local 'eternal' councillors a shock next May by THINKING before they put their cross in the box.
ReplyDeleteCouncillor Taylor needs some beating for sheer hypocrisy!On Facebook recently he posted on Facebook a picture headline of Tameside Food banks crisis ,and shortly afterwards posted a picture of his Spanish Villa ,and mentioned his gardener ,and cook!! Talk about two faced!
ReplyDelete'Food banks crisis'. That's right if the food banks were taken away Tameside would be full of starving, emaciated people wouldn't it, because there are NO grossly overweight people in the borough are there.
ReplyDeleteStalybridge tree blew over three times last year
ReplyDeleteI went up yesterday and it god it was dead and the people most milling around were just immigrants.
ReplyDeleteI hate what they done to Ashton I used to love this place but now I loathe it and who are these f***ing people that keep voting for them, everbody that I know are going to vote UKIP, even the the old boys at work hate labour now.
They really do make me sick to the pit of my stomach.
Only immigrants, the 'community', cranks, the public sector/self-seekers, traitors and cretins would vote for a party like 'New Internationalist Labour'. They are a vile organisation utterly divorced from their own founding principles.
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