Alternative York

The Press “journalists” are striking for more money as they feel Newsquest don’t value their “skills” as highly as writers for other newspapers they own.

Leading York newshound Charlotte Percival has set up a Facebook group which is allegedly open to everyone to join. Unless, of course, you are me! In which case you are banned and deleted within 15 minutes of joining and asking a few questions.

I only asked why there is no investigative journalism and why nobody had investigated what Paul Blanchard jnr knew about his father’s criminal activities, and if they felt management were affecting their ability to do their jobs and THWACK! I’m gone! There you have democracy and freedom of speech in action!

Oh well never mind. I’ll stick up for Newsquest instead. They are quite right if they feel that Press journalists aren’t worth a pay rise. In fact a pay cut for most of them would reflect their journalistic abilities.

Why not join Charlotte’s Facebook group and ask some questions yourselves? We can have a contest to see who lasts longest before being deleted.

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Nu-Labour are are always harping on about their commitment to tackling the social evil that is “child poverty”. Well that’s all well and good in principle, but in my opinion child poverty doesn’t really exist and therefore doesn’t need to be tackled. What does need to be tackled is educating the largely imbecilic parents (mainly single mothers), who haven’t the foggiest idea how to raise a child or a family, in what is quite a simple task bearing in mind the large amount of taxpayers money that is already being thrown at them.

According to leftist propaganda website End Child Poverty, 3.8 million children are currently living in poverty in the UK. This is a blatant lie. It is entirely conceivable that 3.8 million children are suffering because their parent(s) - if they are lucky enough to have two! - spend their Income Support and Child Tax Credit on McDonald’s meals, White Lightning, cigarettes and Lotto tickets. This doesn’t, in my eyes, constitute a problem that is the fault of society that taxpayers should subsidise.

I calculated last night - after cooking a fish pie that would have easily fed four people instead of the two greedy gits that ate it! - that it is entirely feasible to feed your average nuclear family with very healthy food on the Income Support and Child Tax Credits given to an average non-working woman with two randomly fathered kids. Fish is cheap. Meat can be bought cheaply and vegetables cost pennies. Jamie Oliver and Sainsbury’s “Feed Your Family For A Fiver” campaign is fantastic because it is achievable and can easily be done.

But what do the government do? Do they support educating these people in nutrition and cooking? No, they throw money at them to try and win votes. An extra £5 was added to Income Support payments for kids in April. That means that single mum Chantelle can afford an extra twenty Mayfair every week. She’s hardly gonna waste the bonus cash on healthy food for little Britney is she?

When will this appallingly incompetent government realise that throwing money at problems doesn’t solve them? The money that some families get on benefits is outrageous and way beyond Beveridge’s original ideas of welfare. You can give some people a grand a week and their kids will still eat Rustlers and wear Kappa.

If there is so much child poverty then why are the government still telling us that most kids are fat?

It’s either one or the other and frankly I think it’s all a load of bollocks.

There is no child poverty, only ignorance.

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Whilst walking my dogs up near the Millennium Bridge this morning I discovered the remains of what must have been a very big riverside party last night. What a pity that the teenage scrotes who decided to destroy a tree, and burn it, didn’t think it necessary to take away all the rubbish they created.

Instead they clearly thought it more exciting to smash all the alcopop bottles and make as much mess as possible. Of course, the teenagers aren’t to blame for this mindless vandalism - it is society’s fault for not providing them with anything better to do. Well now there is something to do. Instead of pointless ASBO’s and probation orders for these wayward youths; get them marching up to Fulford pronto with some black bags and a shovel!

Incidentally I tried ringing York Pride’s Action Line to report this incident. It seems there isn’t any York Pride at weekends as I got an answerphone message telling me to ring back on Monday morning. Oh well, I shouldn’t have expected too much!

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We are Leeds!

We’re going to Wembley!

The good days are coming back again!

Regular readers of my blog will know that I don’t skirt issues for fear of offending someone. I say what I think, and potentially offending people who choose to associate themselves with any individual or group that I discuss is a hazard that I live with and can handle.

I am quite aware that certain people despise everything I say and stand for. I am also aware, by checking IP addresses, that these same people read everything I write religiously, probably in order to store up hatred and vitriol (because they certainly don’t oppose me in public), and wallow in their own liberal world of niceness, where everyone loves their neighbours and welcomes Britain becoming a European parody of a country.

I have today become persona non-gratis on a website that is frequented by people who share a common interest with me. Why? Because I had the balls to say that gypsies have an unhealthy interest in my dogs and have repeatedly tried to buy/steal them. Apparently I am racist (despite gypsies being a way of life rather than a race) because I objected to their behaviour.

In retrospect I realise I was wrong to air my concerns in public. What I should have done was conduct a qualitative research project on travellers and dogs and concluded that it was only natural to expect them to want my lurchers, and accept it as part of their culture, which, as we all know, brings so many benefits to us all.

The ironic thing is that the website where I am now unwelcome purports to be full of dog lovers. I wonder what will happen if I post a question that is important to my dogs welfare? Will I be answered or judged by the moral guardians who frequent the site?

Having strong political views doesn’t automatically make someone an arsehole… (unless your name is Blair or Brown)

I often wonder if some people want to live in a democracy or some state where there is a moral judge who decides what views anyone can hold.

To be fair I should have expected the reaction I got on a site frequented mostly by housewives?

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I almost had a heart attack this morning when I got a text telling me that Paul Blanchard had been sent to prison for six years for fraud.

As it happens it wasn’t my favourite raving loony councillor but his father, Paul Blanchard snr, who conspired with two others in a failed bid to try and steal £4.3 million from a Dublin bank. What I find most disturbing is that Daddy Blanchard looks very similar to ex-Krypton Factor presenter Gordon Burns, of whom I was scared as a child.

You may be surprised to learn that I’m glad it wasn’t Paul jnr who is now going to have to be careful when picking up the soap for the next few years as, despite thinking the guy to be an utter pillock, he at least gives me something to write about every now and then.

Will this affect his burgeoning political career though? It will probably enhance it to be honest! The Labour Party is full of liars, cheats and crooks. Being related to a multi-million pound international criminal is a positive boon!

Let’s hope Paul jnr looks at it from the “right angles” and rockets up the Labour Party hierarchy! Perhaps he can take the Ronnie O’Sullivan stance and mention his banged up old man at every available opportunity?

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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?

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(* 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.

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