Blackpool South by-election ?

bollieboy

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Looks like Scott Benton is going to be suspended from Parliament for longer than 10 days which will allow a recall petition to be called which will most likely end in a by-election.
 
I hope so.

Benton is a slippery crook and it’s been frustrating it has taken this long for the disciplinary process to conclude.

Blackpool South has some of the poorest wards in the country, we need an MP to help drive meaningful investment and opportunities for people in the area — not an odious little gremlin selling himself to the gambling lobby to line his own pockets.
 
Benton engages his mouth before his brain (assuming that is there). He is a loose cannon and lacks in so many areas, but (I can be fair) Blackpool has faired well from this Government, probably more than any other Labour Council of its size, because someone has been lobbying well.
 
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Benton engages his mouth before his brain (assuming that is there). He is a loose cannon and lacks in so many areas, but (I can be fair) Blackpool has faired well from this Government, probably more than any other Labour Council of its size, because someone has been lobbying well.
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Johnson was particularly keen on favouring red wall seats. Sunak quite simply isn't interested.
 
A despicable individual, only interested in what's in it for himself.

Benton by name, Bent-one by nature.

I'll drive the bastard back to Yorkshire myself.
 
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I'm not disagreeing with Rishi Sunak being a technocrat who is Treasury through and through; but today they announced £20m for 54 towns on an endowment basis with community decision making at its heart - which is of course about removing some power from Local Authorities . It speaks some of the language of Levelling Up, which is what I was referring to in my response.

HS2, was never going beyond the 53rd Parallel to begin with, which is all fine and dandy for the Merseyside, Manchester, Greater Leeds communities, but absolutely pointless for the rest of the North beyond it.

If the billions which was going to be spent on it improves local transport, it won't be that much of a loss - and that's from someone who uses the East Coast Main Line an awful lot more than I'd like to have to. From experience, we don't have as many people using that line as we did, whether it's permanent in a post-Covid online meeting world, or a passing trend as people avoid rail travel due to strike disruption we need to wait and see.
 
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I'm not disagreeing with Rishi Sunak being a technocrat who is Treasury through and through; but today they announced £20m for 54 towns on an endowment basis with community decision making at its heart - which is of course about removing some power from Local Authorities . It speaks some of the language of Levelling Up, which is what I was referring to in my response.

HS2, was never going beyond the 53rd Parallel to begin with, which is all fine and dandy for the Merseyside, Manchester, Greater Leeds communities, but absolutely pointless for the rest of the North beyond it.

If the billions which was going to be spent on it improves local transport, it won't be that much of a loss - and that's from someone who uses the East Coast Main Line an awful lot more than I'd like to have to. From experience, we don't have as many people using that line as we did, whether it's permanent in a post-Covid online meeting world, or a passing trend as people avoid rail travel due to strike disruption we need to wait and see.
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Rail numbers are back up to pre pandemic numbers round us and across most of the North, tbf. Capacity is a massive issue around Manchester in particular and HS2 was to help that, not journey times.

I'm on the train now from Leeds to Blackpool. It takes 15 minutes longer than it will down to King's Cross on Saturday. A complete joke. Plus I'm on the 14.57 because they're all cancelled after that until 18.00, a regular midweek peak time occurrence.
 
TSSeasider said:
I'm not disagreeing with Rishi Sunak being a technocrat who is Treasury through and through; but today they announced £20m for 54 towns on an endowment basis with community decision making at its heart - which is of course about removing some power from Local Authorities . It speaks some of the language of Levelling Up, which is what I was referring to in my response.

HS2, was never going beyond the 53rd Parallel to begin with, which is all fine and dandy for the Merseyside, Manchester, Greater Leeds communities, but absolutely pointless for the rest of the North beyond it.

If the billions which was going to be spent on it improves local transport, it won't be that much of a loss - and that's from someone who uses the East Coast Main Line an awful lot more than I'd like to have to. From experience, we don't have as many people using that line as we did, whether it's permanent in a post-Covid online meeting world, or a passing trend as people avoid rail travel due to strike disruption we need to wait and see.
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Wow £20 MILLION

This is from the Government which has reduced their grants by hundreds of millions of pounds over the last 13 years.

I asked my youngest grandson whether he'd be happy with having his pocket money reduced by a pound a week, but he'd get £5 at the end of the year. Even he saw the flaw in that.
 
I was most amused to read about the money being spent on Scottish towns. Some was going to places in central belt which certainly do need investment, liie Coatbridge. However, Elgin, a lovely thriving town with a new retail park and house building, alongside RAF Lossiemouth, was also on the list. Why? I'm sure it is total coincidence that it is the Scottish Tory Leader's constituency.
 
You have to wonder how Scotty Betfred passed the local Tory party selection process really, it's almost as if they're a bunch of ** idiots or something.
 
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