Spending others money

Holiday season in Blackpool and many of the lately common faces have disappeared. Gay Gordon is so busy annoying the Speaker with his endless prattle he will have to spend the next three months on Brighton bitch – is that how you spell seashore?- getting over his latest handbagging.

The Kenilworth Clanger has convenienced himself by not attending any of the controversial forums, signing over rate payers money to Conservative benefactors. It is rumoured that he is parked on Westminster Green bewailing the fact that they wont let him in. The last act of a vindictive government was to send a Marstons bailiff out to remove him to the nearest hole in the wall, so that he could return some of his electioneering donations to Blackpool magistrates’ court. It is not true that he died because he had to use his own money, otherwise Philtheone would have blogged it on Blackpool Aloud and the bogus Royal Marine Major would have resurrected himself on his own petard. He died at the hands of the electorate who were not convinced at his soporific outburst at his colleagues’ expenses extravagances. It is the same as generations of MP’s who ignored the theft from public purse by their fellow MP's and did nothing. It is all too easy to admonish the benefit cheat, but to sit, eat and play with those who do real damage to morals is contemptuous.

Word on the Promenade is that Councillor Clanger was advised to go bent. What was meant was for him to emulate Basil Newby – a thoroughly decent egg - and not the First Class travellers of the MeMeMeMe brigade in Pink Hall. When I asked a former SBS man camped by the George if he was impressed with all the shenanigans going on in Town, he just bemoaned the loss of the local post office and slithered off growlin’ “them’s not real ****ing Bootnecks.” No wonder he wasn’t impressed as one of the 4 million pensioners who do not get their rightful entitlements, he would rather stay in penury than submit to Means Testing. Shame of it all is that part of the 5 million pounds sterling loaned to the Blackpool Pleasure Beach Company belongs to this former SBS man, yet there are so few who go out of their way to ensure that he gets what is due to him; certainly not amongst the councillors or MP’s, the highly paid social workers or senior executives of the council. When he has another stroke and succumbs to the inevitable he will be but another statistic and just another idiot who wasted his youth in service of others.

If that does happen, Royal, I will invite Ted Tandy in Morecambe to dip his Royal Marine Association standard for a forgotten hero, one comrade to another.