Blackpool MP writes to the government

Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South, Labour)

Last year, Blackpool received from the Minister’s Department one of the worst funding settlements in the country—a cut of up to 14% on top of the area-based grant cuts. That meant that the new Labour council inherited a youth budget that had been slashed from £2 million to £1 million, which has created havoc in the co-ordinating work and activities of voluntary and third sector organisations in my constituency. If the Minister’s Department can dream up £500 million schemes like Growing Places on questionable formulae, surely it is not beyond the wit of the Department to dream up some extra funding for these organisations.

This sudden interest in all things social and regional is of interest to those with a geographical and historical perspective.  Lieber stole from the troops with their 1975 Social Security and Pensions Act, then from all the private pensions when Mugger Brown did his Robin BarStewards act on millions of pensioners who had saved for their retirements, and Gordon Marsden was conspicuous with his silence.  Yet it is strange that his home area is affluent compared with Blackpool.  Oh, and NOT a word about the looting of Heroes pensions, or ordinary working folks investments in that 14 year in office as the representative of all the folk of Blackpool!  Why the sudden interest in the youth, more suffering from the idiocy of 14 years of Lieber mathematical insanity?

Tessa Jowell has highlighted the Lunatic Lieber thinking on economics with her support of more money for next years Olympic Games with her reasoning that a loss of over £2 BILLION will be a gain to the economy. Yes, Tessa, but not in our household.  I suppose we could take another Lieber Pay-day loan out to cover the loss, at FOUR THOUSAND PERCENT INTEREST?  I suppose we'll find the answers in a Grecian Urn?