I SAID I’d keep you up to date on the progress of the removal of the posts at the side of the Kes statue – so here goes...
‘They’re on it’. Good news. Now the bad news… is the council taking the absolute p because for the past six months if you go into town on Saturday you can’t see the statue anyway because there has been a ‘Simpler Law’ gazebo totally obscuring it.
They were asked if they’d shift it please so people could see the statue and they did, but the week after it was back in its old spot and that was because the ‘Town Centre Manager’ had told them to put it back because it was their ‘designated spot’.
What is it with Barnsley Council that they feel the need to undermine the project and have done since the off despite them being quite happy to soak up all the positive spin that the press gave it for Barnsley?
It didn’t cost them a brass fart – is that it? Would they be more inclined to respect it if they’d thrown a load of their own money at it?
The number of people who have contacted me to say they’ve come to Barnsley for a day out to see the statue and the market: their top two draws. For god’s sake BMBC, what is your beef with our Kes?
I was delighted to see that Stella’s hair salon in Poggy had been nominated for a Proud of Barnsley award this year.
I used to take my mum there and they always gave her a lovely do and looked after her so well, as they did all the fragile ladies who go there because they know they’ll treated with kid gloves.
They are a community support, not just a salon and I smiled to read they were named best hair and beauty salon in the region at the recent England Business Awards. Way to go, girls. Way to go.
What’s the expression – those in glass houses shouldn’t have naked parties? Okay, I made that up but it still stands true.
I’m just waiting for someone in the Labour Party to actually do that because they’re on course. A Homelessness Minister who evicted her own tenants so she could hike up her rent prices, a chancellor who faked her own CV, let’s not even mention ‘Two-Tier, Free-Gear Keir’ and now a Minister for Housing who thought she’d got away with a canny tax dodge, another who has developed a ‘Bathsheba syndrome’ – the over-inflated belief in one’s own invincibility until they invariably fall.
The really revolting thing about this is blaming the conveyancer. Also a wee bit crafty because when it all went sour, she could plead ignorance.
Even though, as a Housing Minister, you would have thought a complicated multi-house (nice for some) situation would warrant extra checking that all had been completed properly.
But no, she has to throw this poor firm under the bus as incompetent, when they acted on the information she gave them.
Shame on Angela Rayner for trying to hold herself up as a decent working-class person when she’s nobbut a snivelling chancer who got caught out. Not decent at all. But real decent working-class people all over this country are wondering what the hell they voted for.
So many die-hard Labour voters are done with their own party and are lost. I’m surprised we can’t hear all the bodies in Cemetery Road graveyard turning in their caskets with disappointment at what Labour has become. And there’s more to come, folks, you can guarantee that.
