Council Cock-Up Merchants

Why does nobody question the way local councils have become obsessed with advertising to outside investors to the detriment of the locals many of whom are council tax-payers who often disagree with the change. They waste money on updating signs with their 'brand' on it, silly logos and mottos e.g. 'It's all happening in Halton', 'St Helens-A place where Everyone Matters' etc.

All councils are interested in is money, the people in charge often live outside the boundaries and don't have to face the dreadful eyesores that developers throw up at their go ahead. They don't even negotiate with the companies to employ local labourers, infact Warrington Council bigged-up how many jobs would be created by building a new bus station but at the construction the contractor brought over all its own folk from the wrong side of the Pennines (Yorkshire) even down to the tea boys and ring-fenced the work away from Warringtonians.

Here in Widnes they are building yet another bridge so people can come and steal our jobs, block up our roads on the way to Liverpool and probably cause more unnecessary visits from southerners who become council leaders and work from the inside to destroy all our heritage and memories, backed-up by Tory-voting snobs who are easily bought for support by quotes of how many millions will be invested in the area, these figures are nonsense, anyone with any gumption would see that the cost goes on planning and building and very little if any money will trickle down to the people of Widnes or even Lancashire in general. Also many of the jobs will again go to outsiders and the snobs will still be shocked that there is local unemployment due to this.

We should have a jobs amnesty where people stop communiting and just swap jobs so people and live and work in their own town and be able to have a better chance of having their say locally of course it wouldn't happen coz very few companies like to train folk, they just want a gobshite with a piece of fancy bog-roll from university and so we would have to scrap further education and make everyone do proper jobs in factories and train the longest-serving workers gradually into better jobs.