THE TWO FACES OF TAMESIDE COUNCIL

One of the greatest eye-openers one experiences when observing the antics of Tameside council, is the many ironies it throws up!

Watching a re-run of that BBC/Tameside Council’s relentless propaganda campaign ‘Call the Council’ where the resounding echo of the narrators dogmatic monologue precedes every other paragraph, drumming in the message of how our ‘heroic council workers; full of self-congratulatory spin, are toiling tirelessly to protect an ever grateful populous from Rats, Cockroaches, Fleas, rouge Taxi Drivers, the many Fast Food Joints who are breaching hygiene regulations and the odd Hairdresser who was allegedly knocking out a few ‘iffy’ handbags and the councils culling of pigeons, proves my point.

'There's only one winner, here!' 

It was the episode where this big brute of a man, sorry, ‘local hero’, was demonstrating how he despatches captured pigeons using a pair of electricians wire strippers (a method of culling which I’m sure is not one of those approved by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) or,as those recommended in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Tameside love Pigeons!

However, on the same day that we were subjected to this televised attack on the Town Centre's pigeon population, our gallant Leader, Cllr Kieran Quinn was pictured in the local press proudly presenting a plaque to Tameside’s finest pigeon racers – an event which is in fact financially sponsored by Tameside council!

So, on the one hand our council is paying a man to murder as many pigeons as he can catch whilst on the other they are giving money and presenting trophies to pigeon fanciers, who actually breed them!

…You can’t make it up!