A Tax by any other name

clipped from www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk Blackpool Airport introduces £10 charge PASSENGERS will be charged £10 to use Blackpool International Airport – but will be able to park for free in return. The £10 charge, which will be introduced on January 5 for passengers aged 16 and over, is expected to raise £400,000 in its first year. As Blackpool degenerates into a world of gobbledegook, spin and down right ridiculous proposals, it is fast becoming a laughing stock. First, the Councillors want to prevent pensioners coming to the resort who take advantage of their bus passes. Let's get facts straight. If you travel to Blackpool from say Wigan, the journey can take you up to three hours. The ten pounds saved on fares is then spent in the cafes and eateries on the Coast, benefiting the whole of the Fylde on not just Blackpool Beirut. A walk through Fleetwood last Tuesday was a stroll through a ghost town. If St Annes Airport - the map says it is within the boundary of the borough - is a liability and non-commercial, let it close. A message for Peter Callow, leader of the increasingly inept Conservative regime, the No 7 is the ghost bus you can't see on St Annes Road. Put your hand out and it will get soaked as you wait for the worst scheduled run in Blackpool. The No's 14 and 5 are so filled with prams that disabled veterans sometimes have to wait hours for a carriage. So not only can your own disabled supporters not get into your sinecures at Tyldesley Conservative Club, but they can't get to get to the venue in the first place. Suggestions, put a local tax on veterans in wheel-chairs to keep them out of sight. More taxes on locals who use the Airport, even if they do not have a car??? Now that one beats me. I could imagine Jackie Spliff coming up with such an idiotic suggestion, but not sensible tax reducing Conservatives? Surely not!!!