THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

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Rather than comment on Morgan's blog I would prefer to state my opinions on this matter.

First, I AM OVER THE MOON THAT THE CONGESTION CHARGE HAS BEEN REJECTED, for these reasons.

1 It demonstrates the will of the people.

2 It shows how out of touch Wigan Metro is from the people's views. Remember they voted for this, but no doubt senior members of the council would not have to pay or be reimbursed if they did.

3 The people realise it is just another tax which would cost millions to collect.

4 It would penalise business and commuters who have to use their cars to get to work. Everybody does not live near to a bus stop or station.

The proponents of the scheme state there is no "plan B". Why not? They thought it would just be nodded through without dissent. Well they were wrong and I hope it brings them down to size. The people are sick of being taken for granted.

Any sensible person knows there is an obvious "plan B". Gordon Brown, in an effort to stimulate the economy reduced VAT "to encourage spending in the High Street" ie on cheap foreign "tat" to the benefit of China and the big store companies who contribute to the Labour Party funds. Would it not have been better if he had not reduced VAT by a marginal extent at great cost and had put the money into improved transport and other infrastructure thus providing BRITISH JOBS and something to show for it afterwards?

People , when asked what they want always say "job security". What better way of bringing us out of recession could there be than improving our transport links?

Instead of subsidising banks and countries such as India which has a space programme and several billionaires some of whom own large parts of our industry, how about some money to improve the North West who built this country's wealth through coal and cotton and which has been over the years been sucked away to the City of London?

We want better public transport. We have already paid for it by the efforts of our ancestors.

Now it's pay back time. WE WANT IT!

WE DERSERVE IT!

NOW REPAY YOUR DEBTS! and give us a proper public transport system! YOU OWE IT TO US!

"NO" IT IS

http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Voters-say-39No39-to-congestion.4789210.jp

I wonder whether they'll pretend they don't understand the "N" ... or the "O"?

And when do we get the second pop at it a la Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum?

These people really are arrogant enough to think they know better than you do.

Morg

THE DEMISE OF THE POST OFFICE

I went to ASDA today and saw one of the reasons for the demise of our communities.
I always buy my meat ,fish and most of my veg locally to help local specialist shops (where the food is better in any case)and visit ASDA for the non specialist items.

Coming out I noticed queues waiting for the Post Office there. This I think is one of the reasons for the demise of local Post Offices, the supermarkets are taking over making the local post offices uneconomical.
The slight convenience of using the office at supermarkets carries a cost in community life. People wanting to visit their local post office to post a parcel will find in the future they have to visit a large supermarket often several miles away at the cost of convenience and traffic increase.

I think there is a hidden agenda here. They have shown that they encourage foreign firms to cherry pick the best postal business and are all to willing to encourage post offices to close. The major parties receive donations from the supermarkets and are thus prepared for the smaller businesses go to the wall with all the disadvantage that entails for communities. They can then get on with road pricing, which is another tax as people will have to travel to visit a post office.

The government has too cosy a relationship with big business when it should be thinking of what the people want.
What they do not want is for local businesses to close, communities to die and big business to control everything, but when did they ever listen to the people?
As Peter Mandelson said "I SEE NOTHING WRONG IN SOME PEOPLE BECOMING FILTHY RICH".
Says it all doesn't it?

THE SHAME OF IT ... MR TURNER

This was published today by a Ugandan journalist in a Ugandan newspaper … in UGANDA.

See for yourselves how low the Labour Party and its political police has brought the reputation of OUR country in the world’s estimation. To be struck dumb with red-faced SHAME by a newspaper article from sub-Saharan Africa … the shame of it … the shame ...

“ … the opposition Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Asford and Shadow Home Office Minister, Mr Damian Green, was arrested and interrogated for nine hours by Counter-Terrorism Command of The New Scotland Yard. It was this officers from this group, it must be noted, that shot and killed an innocent Brazilian, Mr Charles de Menzes on July 22, 2005, because he looked like a terrorist!

Mr Green’s Parliamentary office and residence were also raided by other groups of counter-terrorism officers who took away his files and computers. And by the stroke of a pen, some 300 years of British parliamentary democracy was reduced to Uganda’s level.

[ … ]

However, while the arrest by armed police of opposition politicians is common practice in Uganda, Mr Green’s arrest is unprecedented in recent British history. The last time the British Parliament was invaded by armed soldiers was in 1642 when King Charles I attempted to arrest five troublesome MPs.

That raid led to a civil war, following which King Charles was beheaded, a bloody incident which restored the supremacy of Parliament which the UK has enjoyed until last week.

Just like the Movement government are routinely misusing the police to silence the Opposition, the arrest by Counter-Terrorism Command Police of an opposition politician illustrates the determination by the New Labour government to misuse state institutions to prevent its critics from disclosing vote-losing information to the British people.

This development raises many disturbing questions for Ugandans, Africans and the British people. Has Mr Gordon Brown been publicly criticising Mr Robert Mugabe in the British Parliament, European Union, G8 and the United Nations while privately admiring the ways he deals with the opposition?

[ … ]

Hasn’t New Labour brought down the UK to the level of the DRC, Ethiopia, Uganda and Zimbabwe where armed police are routinely used to silence the Opposition?
What moral authority has Mr Gordon Brown and his New Labour government got to criticise Robert Mugabe and other African dictators for terrorising the Opposition?

Read it all:

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sam_akaki/Hasn_t_the_British_premier_become_like_our_Museveni_76362.shtml

ARRESTS IN NOTTINGHAM

Just a few comments on the arrests in Nottingham.

Firstly, I think we should refrain from judging now, as the accused (we know who they are) have not been proved guilty.

Secondly, I can hardly believe that they released the list but then again I may be naive. But someone did release it and the person had obviously access to it and was therefore a trusted Party member.

I always thought the two accused were decent people and I am sure good nationalists, but have in my opinion been foolish and reckless from the start last year. To give access to our enemies of this sensitive information is the ultimate betrayal.

Personality clashes should NEVER be considered more important than Party unity, ie the Party and its future progress must ALWAYS come first.
If we have issues we should promote them from within and not in a destructive manner.

If the intention in publishing the list was to embarrass the Party hierarchy the collateral damage to some members in sensitive jobs was not considered, and must be seen as a betrayal of former friends who are still working for the nationalist cause but whose jobs could now be put at risk.
If the intention was to hinder the progress of the Party it can only be seen as treachery to the Party and country, as without our Party's progress our country is lost.
No petty disagreement is worth that,and I condemn absolutely this leak.

However if the latter reason has been the intent of the leaker it has backfired spectacularly as membership and support has increased as a result but I am saddened it has come to this.

MORE BENEFITS OF ENRICHMENT!

I had some interesting news this evening. The explosion which devastated the flats at Worsley Mesnes was caused it seems by Kosovan immigrants tampering with the gas supply.
There are several questions here.

1 Why are these people here when their country is supposedly safe?

2 Who pays for their accomodation?

3 Why was it not reported fully in the press including the gas tampering allegations and nationality of the alleged perpetrators stated?

Once again we are not being told the whole truth with the papers in collusion with the fascist State.
The reporting of news and its reliability are reminiscent of Pravda in the Soviet Union. State propaganda.

SO MUCH FOR THE DELUSION OF A FREE PRESS!

A WIGAN GEM

Yesterday I was fortunate to visit with a group of Wigan engineering enthusiasts the great Trencherfield Mill engine which was put through its paces at a private viewing. This steam engine, the largest in the world has been restored using lottery money (one of the few useful things it has funded) and can be visited on Sundays.

Made in Bolton it is just 100 years old and ran almost continuously for 70 years powering the mill where 400 people worked. It required 500 tons of coal per week to keep going and at the time was at the forefront of modern technology. The design and engineering skills required to produce so magnificant a machine must have been considerable and the workmanship superb.

Nowadays with electric motors and computers it looks old fashioned but at the time when many people abroad were still in the horse age or living in mud huts it shows how powerful our region and country were and how advanced.

Sadly we have lost our lead and in recent years with the collapse of proper education and apprenticeships we are falling further behind. Dance, Drama , Media Studies and the history of slavery are deemed more important, while Maths, Physics and Engineering don't seem to matter.
The fact that we make so little is at the root of many of our present troubles coupled with bad financial management by this government.

One must not forget to feed this monster would have required 80 miners with men toiling to transport it and attend the boilers not to mention the 400 workers whose machines the engine drove.
King Coal and King Cotton together with the hard graft of British workers built this country and not exploitation of foreign countries, let alone slavery.

To regain the greatness symbolised by this machine will be hard but we must still try.
Yesterday was for me an opportunity to forget modern decadence for a couple of hours and to immerse myself in a time when we were truly--

GREAT BRITAIN.