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Curmudgeon: October 2014
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ARE THEY DROWNING, OR WAVING? When the going gets tough and the way ahead calls for judgements from council bosses; many of whom are obviously operating beyond the level of their ability; naturally it’s not surprising that councillors and managers, fearing the limited depth of their capabilities could possibly put their lucrative income in jeopardy, will look to set-up a fall-guy; - someone to blame when it all goes disastrously wrong. And it reads :. We have a number of ways that we can generate money&#...
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Curmudgeon: TAMESIDE - A 'wheelie stupid' council
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TAMESIDE - A 'wheelie stupid' council. Here we go again! Not content with turning our towns and villages into recycling slums by allowing multi-coloured wheelie bins to become permanent fixtures on the crowded pavements in most neighbourhoods, the ‘brains trust’ who inhabit Tameside council have now decided that following a trial scheme, it will be a jolly good wheeze to. Swap the colours and sizes of the recycling bins throughout the borough! In the councils own press release it claims:. The Standard ta...
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Curmudgeon: March 2015
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KIERAN PUTS ON AN EASTER PARADE. Vote for me, I've got a very expensive lifestyle to maintain! No sooner had the poster boy for markets hung up his best ‘day-glo’ after supervising the careful storage of the ‘Christmas Chalets’ than the call came through from Kieran Quinn, the Tameside council leader and beleaguered councillor for Droylsden who had hit on another populist event to show the Droylsden voters how sorry he was for raising their council tax. 8220;It’s Easter time! 8221; and explained that a c...
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Curmudgeon: August 2015
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EENY, MEENY, MINY, MO. Stuck behind the Black, Green, Brown and Blue, .Now I'm wheelie snookered! As the great Tameside ‘Bin Swap’ controversy rumbles on, we were treated this week to an image of our Deputy Leader, Cllr John Taylor, apparently deliberating which bin to use to deposit his weekly letters! Should it be the Blue Bin for waste paper or the Black, or is it now the Green Bin, for the recycled miasma of political garbage he regularly writes upon it? Previously, local authorities could take decis...
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Curmudgeon: COMEDY WAY BEYOND THE FRINGE
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COMEDY WAY BEYOND THE FRINGE. Eh, you've got to have a lot of bottle to dress up like this. You can always tell when summer has arrived in Tameside, because John Taylor’s weekly letters tend to comprise more of the predictable hackneyed and somewhat grating nonsense that would normally be found emanating from a stereotypical comedian from an end of the pier show, but without the comic timing. Titter ye not missus – no, no – titter ye not! He might well have nearly 32 years of civic experience; during whi...
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Curmudgeon: January 2015
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IF YOU'RE IN A HOLE, KIERAN, STOP DIGGING! Ef off, I know how use a f* * shovel! Talk about the ‘bleeding obvious’ Kieran Quinn, Chair of the Tameside Brains Trust and this year's holder of the GMPF Fergi-time calculator, now tells us in his blog that “.Social housing is in short supply due to lack of build and increasing waiting lists. …That’s why many residents opt for the private rented sector which can be both expensive and is inadequately regulated! No shit, Sherlock! Now let’s just think abou...
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Curmudgeon: August 2014
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Month after month, I wait with baited breath to see whether our esteemed leader has at last reached the point where he presents us with a credible money saving idea! And month after month, his blog disappoints! This month (August) he reveals the personal frustration he has with the fact that he cannot put used ‘yoghurt pots’ in his ‘green bin’ for recycling! For instance yoghurt pots and other plastic containers of all sizes and descriptions can be used for a variety of uses in the greenhouse and garden&...
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Stop the A57/A628 Bypass (Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth & Tintwistle Bypass): Local Tesco ructions, Local Elections and Local morons
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. Local Tesco ructions, Local Elections and Local morons. Regular readers may have noticed that some time has passed between the last post and this one. We can only apologise for that, but it’s obvious that posting to this blog has become occasional of late, so you know what to expect in future. Since we last reported on the Hattersley and Mottram Tesco. The traffic flowing through the area! Thankfully, that’s not the end of the matter. Because Tameside have effectiv...Or will...