Alternative York

I have mixed feelings today. Joy in the knowledge that the incompetent and arrogant crook, Steve Galloway, has resigned as leader of City of York Council, but a feeling of despondency as it has been announced that “Mr Piggy”, AKA Andrew Waller, is taking his place. This man is just as big a clown as Galloway and therefore our city will continue on it’s downward spiral.

Resignations in politics are often pre-cursors for some sort of scandal emerging. I wonder if there is something lurking in Galloway’s cupboard just waiting to come out and haunt him. Did he jump before he was pushed?

Anyway let’s look at Galloway’s achievements since he came to power in 2003.

• Selling the Barbican Centre, causing leisure facilities to be taken away from thousands of council tax payers, at a price far lower than originally offered. Great business acumen!
• Pushing through the destruction of greenfields at Osbaldwick and Fulford, despite the availability of many brownfield sites across the city, in order to line his own pockets as the brown envelopes came in from Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Encouraging thousands of immigrants into York by supporting housing schemes that are unaffordable to native Britons*
• Introducing unpopular fortnightly refuse collections while leaving many council-tax payers with no recycling facilities
• An increase in anti-social behaviour and yobbishness on the streets of York
• Turning York into a magnet for beggars and homeless drug addicts and street drinkers by showing a complete disregard for decent folk and supporting the Arclight Centre and various other futile projects for wasters and scrotes
• Dirty streets as York Pride has been a complete failure
• Evening parking charges which caused hardship for many city centre traders
• No municipal firework display to commemorate Guy Fawkes in the city of his birth
• Ordering the demolition of The Peasholme Centre just so councillors don’t have the homeless on the doorstep of their new offices
• The hideous design of the new offices on Hungate
• Wasting public money to such an extent that council tax was almost capped in 2006

Please feel free to add any more “achievements” if you think I’ve missed something out.
Waller will bring nothing new to York, despite his blustering.

If there was any justice there would be a full election where the Lib-Dems could be booted out once and for all and probably be replaced with Labour and idiots like Blanchard.

God is there no hope?

See you soon…

(* story to follow shortly)

We all know the history of the Rowntree family, and their importance to York over the years, but I wonder how many of you would agree with me when I say that Joseph and Seebohm would be spinning in their graves if they knew what is about to be done in their name in eastern York.

Here are some photographs I took this morning while out walking my dogs. I found it very sad to be out there in the morning sunshine, as summer approaches, knowing that the time will soon arrive for the sound of the cuckoo to be replaced with the roar of the JCB.

Please pay particular attention to the shots of the hedgerows that were wilfully destroyed, on the instructions of City of York Council, before the decision not to award village green status had been announced. It further demonstrates the arrogance of these bullies for whom the pound sign is king.

Eerily “Post apocalyptic” hedgerows vandalised by City of York Council

A view of the vandalism from Sustrans, looking towards Osbaldwick

How many more times will the dogs be able to run free?

Do we really need to destroy this beautiful meadow?

Supporters of “Disasterthorpe” describe this as scrubland?

Do CoYC have no shame?

I hope these pictures fully demonstrate that the council’s motto, “If it’s green, build on it” is disgraceful, immoral and utterly shameful.

York needs Disasterthorpe like it needs another Lib-Dem run council. It’s all about green fields for brown envelopes.

Scandalous.

See you soon…

Check out this story about a man threatening a woman and then following her home and then tell me if you feel justice has been done.

According to my old friend Judge Stephen Ashurst, John Taylor was not justified in defending his wife. It is interesting to note that there is no mention of the aggressor, Barry Smithson, facing any charges for his disgraceful behaviour.

The sad thing is that this story isn’t a one-off in Britain today.

More rights for criminals than victims. It stinks.

See you soon…