Burnley News
Jan 27 2005 12:51
HOT PRESS P U S S Y NEWS
Gonzo, king of the tenaments and top local p u s s media guru from Nelson, has been out and about interviewing local celebrities in Burnley.
He fleetingly caught Kitty Ussher on one of her rare visits to one of her houses around the country, in the 'Healeywood area of Burnley'. (that means posh Rosegrove by the way). Here's a segment from Gonzo's hot off the press interview with part-time Turf Moor enthusiast Kitty,
Kitty: "Well, I don't think about things that, that I don't think about".
Gonzo: "Oh, well, do you ever think about things that you do think about?".
Kitty Ussher is Burnley's New Labour figurehead, working hard to spread the 'New Labour carrot' bringing in tasty bits of funding welcomed by local councillors and community groups keen to look busy and produce more booklets and wot not, and to tell us in Burnley that New Labour policy will bring us more supermarkets, and more investment so we can have ample supply of boring, mindless meaningless jobs to replace all those lost in our dying engineering companies. Any job will do, she doesn't give two hoots whether it's casual work, or homework, casual contracts, no employment rights - rock on says Kitty!
Kitty says: "My priorities are f u c k w i t jobs and thrown up housing. I want to see a prosperous, confident, 21st century Burnley where communities are crushed, and our children and our grandchildren are pissed that I can leave Burnley anytime I want, whereas we have to live permanently in this s h i t! ."
In February 2004 Kitty was selected by a clear majority of Burnley Labour Party, local councillors love the fact that Kitty has high up New Labour contacts that she can pull on for more money they can play with - pay rises, more booklets and duff courses, lots of slogans - better Burnley says Kitty all round.
Previously she had worked as political adviser to Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry so she knows how government works, and is very ambitious. "Burnley is a strategic part of my career development", says Kitty as she rushes out the door to see the Clarets at home, very fetchin in her Turf Moor strip!
Kitty has also been a New Labour councillor for four years during which time she held regular surgeries (she wears a white coat for these to look more official, and just in case a Burnley resident spits on her). Kitty lists her achievements in Burnley:
saved the local library in the face of council opposition (told um there'd be a cessation of New Labour funding, and a pay cut if they didn't do what they were told),
built a new football pitch in the local park (shoved two goal posts on a bit of green - unfortunately it's covered in dog s h i t so can't be used!)
got cash from the Home Office for CCTV surveillence cameras (with hearty endorsements from Burnley Police and Burnley CPS),
introduced road traffic calming in residential streets and helped to get more police to beat the s h i t out of us on the beat.
Kitty wants to see cleaner streets, and has been seen recently hoovering the top end of Colne Road.
She says: "Because I've been a local councillor, I know how to work councillors in Burnley, who are as thick as pig s h i t anyway, and to lean on council staff to screw the local community for council tax they can't afford.
'If they don't pay, evict the b a s t a r d s", says Kitty with her fist in the air.
NEXT WEEK - Gonzo interviews Peter Pike on his two faces and ten chins, and he catches up with Lord Greaves at the Dunkehalgh Hotel where they serve a mean smoked salmon.
Mar 5 2005 14:42
#2
whats this about P U S.....
Apr 7 2005 10:53
#3
Post by Francis Duckett/ 6th April 2005
http://oogleboogle.proboards23.com
ELECTION LITERATURE. BNP Publication.5.4.05.
"BNP Local People Working for Local People."
The fascists present themselves as something new. BUT, this leaflet shows (amongst other things) that they are, indeed, just the same as the other political parties. "LOCAL PEOPLE WORKING FOR OTHER PEOPLE."
This world is full of good natured people wanting to work for the betterment of mankind. For instance Bush and Blair invaded Iraq not for Oil as the American general alleged,but for the betterment of the iraqi people. Only the unkind would suggest that it was for the American Oil companies.That they have killed or caused the death of 100.000 Iraqi civilians doesn't really count, they, Bush and Blair, were people working for others. The Burnley Labour Councillors who have presided over the destruction of Burnley and the reduction of what was a plain town in to a tip, who watched Burnley rot over some fifty years and said,'nowt' were definitely "Local People Working for Local People".All the fascists want is to join them on the gravy train. When we hear that councillors can get £12.000 per year for wrecking the town and at least one of them gets £20.000 for the privilige of being their Leader, why should not they have their share? That the fascists batten on the woes of the poor and the sick, that they differentiate between people of different colour and race is nothing, all the other political parties do the same. The trouble is that the local monsters give way to regional and national horrors.
The fascists have an idea, they call it repatriation. A member of the party described it as everyone with mixed blood should be returned to the country of his parents origin. Children born in the comparative luxury of the NHS and Welfare System are to be returned to the poverty of a third world country. That's fascism in its better mood, of course they are too late, the mainstream political parties are already practicing this course. Men, women and children who are refugees and whose lives are in danger in their country of origin, are being returned to face the despots abroad. One woman, with 6 children born in England, was threatened with deportation when she went to enquire about a passport. The BNP have left it too late .
What we want is a different system where we can govern ourselves collectively, through neighbourhood councils , ward councils and street committees. Where our views can get an airing and where they can be heard. It will mean that we have to get off our backsides and PARTICIPATE, take an interest. Along side and in parallel to these comittees we will have workers councils in industry and trades, schools councils where teachers, children and parents will work together. Transport councils to run integrated road and rail and air journeys .We have to take command of our own neighbourhoods and we have to run them ourselves, an integrated whole. This world is divided in to haves and have nots, into order givers and order takers. We are at the mercy of the greedy, the power hungry industrialists and the want wit politicians. The Earth is being used up for the profit of the few, there is no real attempt to renew the ecology, profit and power are the catchwords of industy and politics.
The BNP are the enemy true enough, but so are all the political parties.Why? Because they want to perpetuate the past.They want to keep us in subjection as helots, to work and serve. To do this they are willing to sacrifice the well being of future generations and condemn them to a wasted and cruel future. The fascists offer no alternative except to extend the nightmare, to vent their spite on people worse off than themselves they want their share of the power and glory. No matter what the costis to others
Apr 7 2005 10:56
#4
Reply to Francis Duckett from Mitch, 7th April 2005
http://oogleboogle.proboards23.com
Sharp, and well said with clarity Monsieur Duckett.
The clarity is in the clear message that the BNP are fascist swines, and the sharpness is in the highlighting of those who feed off the BNP to perpetuate their own power. In Burnley particularly over the years it has been Labour councillors - but there have been others too, the do-gooders who shout 'racist' at the tops of their voices, yet provide and facilitate a platform for the BNP to wield their filth.
Let me give you an example, for I am through mincing my words and it is this platform that needs a hard hitting attack.
Last week I rang Peter Pike to ask his help (stupid idea!) to do a Justice for Christopher Alder stand inside Burnley Mechanics in conjunction with the superb Asian Dub Foundation who were doing a concert there Saturday night.
The only reason I rang him is because he has, albeit ploddingly and with much nagging from Janet, taken an interest in her campaign and in the past raised an Early Day Motion around her case - so naturally I thought he would not hesitate in assisting.
I got through to him in his office, much to my surprise, as I've held as suspicion in his wind-down from office that a stuffed dummy of him was sitting in Burnley Borough Council and that he was sunning his 10 chins, and two faces in the south of France?!
The man talks like he has 10 marbles in his mouth, and speaks to you like you're a piece of annoying and inconvenient s h i t - local democracy in action! His response to my request for help was that he did not think the stand was a good idea and that he did not want to stir up trouble with the BNP. He told me to ring Stuart Caddy, but I didn't bother as I fully expected the same response. There is no working through or with these people, only around!
The Asian Dub Foundation concert was superb at Burnley Mechanics last Saturday night, a pumping vibe of celebration of people united against racism, fascism and the crushing misery of capitalism- but let me tell you this, the Mechanics was only half full for this celebration of unity. I could tell Asian Dub were disappointed, but I wasn't surprised.
The publicity for this event had been next to nothing, hushed up, smothered and buried. I link this fear of confronting the BNP and cowardly lack of publicity around one of the best events to hit Burnley in recent years right back to those Labour councillors and do-gooders - as I did when they pulled the Jeremy Hardy event and when they said no to a university in Burnley.
We've got to be sharp, and attack equally the fascist BNP, but also the platform which facilitates their ability to act, those that feed off the BNP to perpetuate their own power aka the main political parties. It is both of these that keeps us divided and down in Burnley and Pendle.
In love, peace and thanks to Asian Dub for coming to Burnley. "There is no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal Governments ..
Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line".
******
Colour Line Featuring Ambalavaner Sivanandan by
Asian Dub Foundation on the album 'Community Music' (2000)
"Today the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line
Racism and imperialism work in tandem
And poverty is their handmaiden
Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western
Third World.
Poverty and powerlessness are intertwined in colour in race
Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today under
Global Capitalism..
We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale
Only this time the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert
Advice and underpinned by programmes and policies that perpetuate dependency
The IMF, the World Bank, structural adjustment programmes,
General agreement on tariffs and trade - GATT
Are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projects
Which under the guise of developing the Third World, plunder it.
Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents and intellectual property rights,
They lock them into paralytic dependency.
There is no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal Governments ..
Black is not just the colour of our skins
It's the colour of our politics ..
There is no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal Governments ..
Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line."
Apr 8 2005 21:12
#5
Are we going to move out of cut and paste mode? 
Apr 9 2005 16:18
#6
as I did when they pulled the Jeremy Hardy event and when they said no to a university in Burnley.
Thank fuck for that,i would not wish hardy on any one.Weedy flappy sideparting southerner.And the unfunny rectum face is threating to come to keighley,thats 100 more votes for the cyclops then.
Heres my radical lyrics.
Atomosphere i love a party with a bit of atmosphere
"Atmosphere" by Russ Abbott
Apr 20 2005 09:38
#7
Yo Lustbather you won't mind me borrowing those radical lyrics me hopes. As for you Dr Lost, I'll cut and waste you when I see you next.
Apr 21 2005 17:41
#8
I dont know about cut, but waste sounds good
Apr 21 2005 17:50
#9
Mitch wrote:
Yo Lustbather you won't mind me borrowing those radical lyrics me hopes. As for you Dr Lost, I'll cut and waste you when I see you next.
Do what ever you want,ive got russ,s hair thatch if you want extra radicalness.
Apr 22 2005 16:52
#10
The flags are beginning to come up already in Burnley and Nelson aka St George's Day. Round 'ere it takes on urr a rather sinister edge, and when I say flags, I mean on 23rd they're gonna be everywhere in Burnley and Nelson.
I'm on the hunt for a giant pair of greying Y-fronts - can anyone help. Planning to fly them on me beat up car aerial on 23rd.
http://www.burnleyweb.com/forum
Check out the St Georges' Day thread on this Burnley Web forum. Urr am I imagining it, or are there fascists on this local forum. Wouldn't surprise me, it's how they work - burrowing into communities with their poison.
Apr 22 2005 17:06
#11
Mitch wrote:
The flags are beginning to come up already in Burnley and Nelson aka St George's Day. Round 'ere it takes on urr a rather sinister edge, and when I say flags, I mean on 23rd they're gonna be everywhere in Burnley and Nelson.I'm on the hunt for a giant pair of greying Y-fronts - can anyone help. Planning to fly them on me beat up car aerial on 23rd.
http://www.burnleyweb.com/forum
Check out the St Georges' Day thread on this Burnley Web forum. Urr am I imagining it, or are there fascists on this local forum. Wouldn't surprise me, it's how they work - burrowing into communities with their poison.
Why do you take it so seroiusly you lot and the flying of the st gorges flag. i am not to fussed about any saints days mainly cos i hate saints and any religous paraphnilia.But leftys get bulges in the necks when the english flag gos up.What are you going to do, grab them down and put in there place some obscure latin amrican flags on. You take it far more seroiusly than those who put it up now and again,theys far more important things to have hernias about
You love it in keighley there everywere.
Apr 22 2005 20:29
#12
Well, I'm glad that I wasn't persuaded to join the Burnleyweb.com forum a while ago...I sort of suspected some 'right wing' types were on it from some other stuff posted there...
I don't think flying flags in itself should be a problem, no matter what the flag is...however, the St.George's flag and the Union Jack have been associated with the NF and BNP for so long now, it isn't surprising when some people see the flying of them as intimidating...I suppose it would be the same if the Nazi flag was flown!
Apr 23 2005 08:47
#13
pushka wrote:
Well, I'm glad that I wasn't persuaded to join the Burnleyweb.com forum a while ago...I sort of suspected some 'right wing' types were on it from some other stuff posted there...I don't think flying flags in itself should be a problem, no matter what the flag is...however, the St.George's flag and the Union Jack have been associated with the NF and BNP for so long now, it isn't surprising when some people see the flying of them as intimidating...I suppose it would be the same if the Nazi flag was flown!
Name these people who feel intimaterd by the english flag.I never come across any one who has say they threted.The union jack i dont like, that signifys snobs,lords and pretorain colonists.You come across as a spiffing socail worker concerne that people might cry at a image.
Apr 23 2005 09:18
#14
i'm intimidated not by the flag, but by people who choose to wave it/display it. And i'm a young white male.
Apr 23 2005 09:48
#15
ftony wrote:
i'm intimidated not by the flag, but by people who choose to wave it/display it. And i'm a young white male.
Well thats your problem,yer soft fucker.So the old biddy who lives down the street from me who flysit does she make you shit yer pants.
Apr 23 2005 10:52
#16
i'm so glad i'm not on the U-75 forums
Apr 23 2005 10:53
#17
yer only worth yer amusing pictures, and even then they're only titter-worthy.
Apr 23 2005 12:14
#18
ftony wrote:
i'm so glad i'm not on the U-75 forums
I am not on there anymore got booted out.
Apr 23 2005 12:15
#19
ftony wrote:
yer only worth yer amusing pictures, and even then they're only titter-worthy.
Titter ye not. Better to be titter then never to be titterd.
Apr 23 2005 13:11
#20
hehe okay you've redeemed yourself with that lovely word-play 8)
Apr 25 2005 15:00
#21
Couldn't get me hands on a grubby pair of greying Y-fronts so attached the largest pair of me black knickers I could find to me car aerial.
Unfortunately they blew off on the way to dropping a few people off at the Rovers game. Hopefully they landed on a Manc City supporter's head.
KNICKERS TO ST GEORGE'S DAY.
Apr 25 2005 22:25
#22
LOL Mitch...and what would be the largest size knickers YOU could possibly have...size 8! you should have asked me for a pair...teehee
Apr 26 2005 08:20
#23
Mitch wrote:
Couldn't get me hands on a grubby pair of greying Y-fronts so attached the largest pair of me black knickers I could find to me car aerial.Unfortunately they blew off on the way to dropping a few people off at the Rovers game. Hopefully they landed on a Manc City supporter's head.
KNICKERS TO ST GEORGE'S DAY.
It sounds like a students rag week to me, not excatly petrol bombs at dawn is it. And wasting all your RADDY energy for one day which in the long run will mean nothing.
Anyroad i am making a documentry about my girlfreinds bum circa 1985 -1995 do you want to give us a hand?.
Apr 26 2005 10:28
#24
"It sounds like a students rag week to me, not excatly petrol bombs at dawn is it. And wasting all your RADDY energy for one day which in the long run will mean nothing.
Anyroad i am making a documentry about my girlfreinds bum circa 1985 -1995 do you want to give us a hand?."
Keep ya thatch on, ya red arsed baboon. I want nothing to do with your girlfriend's bum. Sounds like a much more worthwhile way of spending your time.
You're right about Searchlight - it's a piece of shit this special East Lancs edition they've done, and as it goes I'm wondering if it would do more harm than good posting it through people's doors. It's come more and more under the Swerp influence that rag.
Had a BNP leaflet through me door this morning with a St George's on it. Shoddy piece of shit, but I hardly got a bulge in me neck. Bloody ridiculous. Luke Smith had his face in my space once, and I just thought to meself urr I think you're on drugs. Does that count as radical confrontation. Didn't have me black knickers on me that day. Offered him a glass of ginger beer though, which he took and then cracked over me head.
Really, i didn't exert that much energy tying me knickers on me car aerial. Gave 76 year old Margorie two doors down a bit of a laff though. She's been spreading vile rumours on my street that I'm a prostitute and monitoring my 'gentleman callers'.
You're a barking dog, but there's some ideas in the bark which make sense and fit with what I see. Stop scaring the shit out of me with talk of petrol bombs.
Apr 26 2005 11:53
#25
Mitch wrote:
"It sounds like a students rag week to me, not excatly petrol bombs at dawn is it. And wasting all your RADDY energy for one day which in the long run will mean nothing.Anyroad i am making a documentry about my girlfreinds bum circa 1985 -1995 do you want to give us a hand?."
Keep ya thatch on, ya red arsed baboon. I want nothing to do with your girlfriend's bum. Sounds like a much more worthwhile way of spending your time.
You're right about Searchlight - it's a piece of shit this special East Lancs edition they've done, and as it goes I'm wondering if it would do more harm than good posting it through people's doors. It's come more and more under the Swerp influence that rag.
Had a BNP leaflet through me door this morning with a St George's on it. Shoddy piece of shit, but I hardly got a bulge in me neck. Bloody ridiculous. Luke Smith had his face in my space once, and I just thought to meself urr I think you're on drugs. Does that count as radical confrontation. Didn't have me black knickers on me that day. Offered him a glass of ginger beer though, which he took and then cracked over me head.
Really, i didn't exert that much energy tying me knickers on me car aerial. Gave 76 year old Margorie two doors down a bit of a laff though. She's been spreading vile rumours on my street that I'm a prostitute and monitoring my 'gentleman callers'.
You're a barking dog, but there's some ideas in the bark which make sense and fit with what I see. Stop scaring the shit out of me with talk of petrol bombs.
I
I got a sarchlight tabliod and a bnp leaflet shoved throu the door on the same day.The searchlight one was well glossy and done in "the sun" "daily mirror" foremat,obvisely trying to reach the same market (young white and working class). It was full of the same old guff about griffos lot,the court apperances,links with gaddaffi, etc.Old news ,will make not a jot of difference to keiglyites, basicllly scaring the shit out of people about these " scarey bootboys".But no real poltical meat about why the bnp is filling the radical vacum.
The bnp one was a hamfisted, shoddy, looking leaflet,with obliatary moans about asain rapists,crime out of control etc. Also a piece about angala clark getting her windows smashed in,and how the law are sitting back.
And portaring them selfs as the defenders of the white working class (which the cobbers have let them do,due to fact the cobbers left have other proletarins to think of)
Well, the docomentry about my girlfrinds bum will have to wait a bit longer,it going to be a cracker thou when it comes out!!!.
Apr 27 2005 09:07
#26
GENARAL LUSTBATHER SAYS "DONT FAFF AROUND WITH THE LIBARAL REVRANCE OF TOKONISM VIS A VIS HANGING YER GRUNDYS ON YOUR CAR".
Apr 27 2005 12:12
#27
Titter, Bruno Brooks was scarier. Find us a picture of Lord Butterworth from Cliffe Castle up your neck of the woods - he's one scary fucker!
Forget Bruno Brooks, we're on 'Joker's Wild' here in Burnley. I'm convinced the BNP here in Burnley and Pendle have entered a phase of sending themselves up?! You could wipe your arse with their latest offering in Pendle - leaflet was thin and cheap enough. Actually, I just ave.
BNP runner in Pendle is, urr, Thomas Boocock. Mr Boocock thinks that immigrants are stealing his clothes. The poor man's got nothing on on the front of the leaflet. I'd lend him me knickers but they're long gone?
Oh, and there's the wife beating BNP councillor Brian Turner from Cliviger. He's earned a badge of pride in Burnley BNP networks for that, and Luke Smith will probs be another figure in Burnley drugs related deaths soon, and his relative Steven Smith has been seen wandering around Burnley muttering to himself with a billboard.
But never fear, Searchlight is on the case -
EAST LANCS IS BOUNCING BACK. DON'T LET THE BNP WRECK IT!
There's a picture of a town crier on the front and centre spread is toy town East Lancs.
I'd suggest the fascists/BNP and the Leninists/Swerps, nicely feeding off each other, have had their day in Burnley. Madness exposed, and they pretty much did it on their own.
Enter centre stage - swoop/swarm - do-gooders/Liberals or 'Better Burnley' New Labour bandwagoners aka unions like the GMB which used to be big round here, community groups loving that funding and all the other do-gooding twats on some top down mission in the community, trying to patch up their own guilt. Most of these fuckwits are off their trolly as well.
I'm off down Burnley Miners to get pissed.
Apr 27 2005 12:40
#28
Its lord butterfield m,lady.
The last famous keighleite was this fella micheal sams
Kidnapper of eastate agents and murderer of prostitues.
And seeing as you have a fetish for mens sweaty grundys heres a pair of mine
Apr 27 2005 13:04
#29
yawn!
Apr 27 2005 13:14
#30
Mitch wrote:
yawn!
Is that a sarky yawn or a boredom yawn???.
OH MY GOD - HERE COMES THAT NEW LABOUR CARROT
HANDS UP IF YOU THINK BURNLEY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (BAP) IS A LOAD OF MARKETING C R A P!
http://www.burnleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=12&ArticleID=931813
http://www.burnleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=12&ArticleID=931837
Private money, private business influence and control coming to Burnley big time.
One of their 'A brighter future is in the pipeline" bullet points is, guess what,
EXPANSION OF TESCO SUPERSTORE - fantastic, more low paid jobs, excellent.
Another one is:
NEW HOMEBASE SUPERSTORE
Another one is:
NEW TECHNOLOGY CENTRE ON MICHELIN SITE
(that'll be another throw-up IT centre to replace the one they've just pulled out of at Shuttleworth Mead, Padiham).
Peter Pike says, 'We are at an exciting time in Burnley...'.
Hype, bollocks, vomit vomit.
Who will bite the carrot - community groups? local government councillors and workers, left groups (mentioning no names!?).
Watch out, a second part of the phase - 'Better Burnley - a new view' is an invasion of an 'army of ambassadors'. Have Burnley Council representatives been taking lessons from Bush and his warmongering lingo?
They create the problems, then come in top down to our communities to save the day and sort the problems out. Oh dear, I recognise a few faces in the photo on the front page of the Burnley Express today. I hope they all choke on the carrot. They are biting hard and looking rather busy! Meanwhile, many in Burnley and Nelson are on casual contracts and low pay struggling to make ends meet.