Dodgy Dave's vision for the future - a black hole.Byline: Paul Routledge BRADFORD, home of the woollen woollen fabrics such as tweeds, felts, flannels, blankets, knitwear made of wool with a shorter fiber length than that used for worsted. industry and birthplace of JB Priestley, was always a proud Victorian metropolis. It hasn't got much to boast about these days. Under the incompetent rule of local Tories, the city centre is a great big hole in the ground, and looks like staying that way. Nicknamed "the Hopkins Hole", after Conservative council leader Kris Hopkins, this vast site occupies prime land where shoppers once thronged household-name stores. It's been like this for five years. A Berlin Wall-style barrier surrounds the 15-acre urban desert after Australian retail giant Westfield shelved plans for a pounds 320million shopping mall. Twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. after the real thing came down, the people of Bradford still have their wall. Angry locals daubed it with cartoons and poetry, just like Berliners. There could not be a more apt metaphor for the Tories. Dodgy dodgy - Synonym with flaky. Preferred outside the US Dave Cameron
Dave Cameron (born July 29, 1958 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada) is a retired ice hockey center. says: "If you want to know what a Conservative government would be like, see what we're doing in the cities where we now hold power." So, look no further than the Hopkins Hole! If the Tories do get into No.10 the whole country will be one big hole: the Cameron Crater, surrounded by a wall of laws to keep the workers under control. As bad luck would hav e i t , Hoppie the Hole is also the Conservative candidate for Keighley, a neighbouring seat being vacated by veteran campaigner Ann Cryer Constance Ann Cryer, known as Ann Cryer, JP (born December 14, 1939) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Keighley. Ann Cryer became a Justice of the Peace in 1996 and a member of the Bradford Cathedral Council from 2000. . Labour's candidate is Jane Thomas. I was on the panel of an Any Questions? with her in Haworth, home of the Brontes, last weekend. Jane is a tough lass, and she'll put up a terrific fight for this marginal constituency, a top target for the Tory big-money bulldozer. It's clear from her sound and thoughtful answers to the questions - ranging from Afghanistan to the economy - that she's a worthy successor. That's what the people of Keighley need, not the architect of the most embarrassing balls-up of civic enterprise this century. Hoppie the Hole's Bradford Centre Regeneration, a company set up to revitalise the city, is being disbanded after wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers' money over the last six years. If they can't sort out one provincial city, what hope do the Tories have of sorting out the national economy? The truth is, of course, that Dodgy Dave in Downing Street would be nothing more than a government of the people, by the toffs, for the toffs. The Tory leader slams Labour "spin", but the sight of him on a propaganda photoshoot among the crosses outside Westminster Abbey was sickening. Who's spinning now? |
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