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BANNED SALFORD ANTI CUTS RALLY DRAWS HUNDREDS
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Star date: 18th May 2014
`LOW' AND `DISGUSTING' COUNCIL SLATED AS BEZ SAYS REVOLUTION STARTED IN SALFORD
Over three hundred people enjoyed the Rally On The Lawn yesterday, despite what anti-cuts campaigners called the `low' and `disgusting' Salford Council which used every dirty trick in the book to try and stop people from attending.
The Rally drew those directly affected by Council cuts including disabled people, children, people who work with the vulnerable and lots of families. 12 year old Keelan McNally wowed everyone with his stunning self penned acapella song Which Side Are You On?, while Bez told the crowd to remember that `the revolution started in Salford!'
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Neither the Salford Council's dirty tricks department, nor the media's anti-rally spin could stop around three hundred people attending the banned anti-cuts Rally On The Lawn yesterday.
Arrests and fines were threatened, as the Council and Mayor Ian Stewart went into overdrive trying to frighten organisers into cancelling the event and frighten people off from going to the lawn of Salford Civic Centre. But the sun shone, the home made cake stalls went up, the sound system arrived, the crowds came and, with legal observers and a solicitor standing by, not a single policeman or Council official tried to stop it.
This was the true `spirit of Salford', defying authority to try and defend the most vulnerable people in the city who are subject to horrific cuts in their services. Almost everyone present had a story to tell…
"We're here today to support drivers and escorts because they are trying to cut the transport, so these individuals can't get out at all to their day centres unless they pay ridiculous money" said Diane who had brought disabled people in her care to enjoy the day "What do I think of the Mayor and Council? They're absolutely terrible and disgusting."
From the stage, transport worker Colin told carers and parents, "No-one should be going through the stress of this fight, you have enough to do in your personal lives - but once again the Government and the Council are targeting the poor, the elderly and vulnerable people of Salford.
He explained that Salford Council was trying to remove as much transport as possible and remove passenger's assistants who help people in their journey to day care centres, "an essential part of social services"…
Salford Council has a consultation on its proposals which runs until May 26th (after the local election – see previous Salford Star article click here) but Colin said that before this is even finished the Council is "actively removing passengers from transport…by the time the consultation is finished there will be no service left to fight for. We think this is wrong and the Council should hold off their programme until the consultation is finished and the Salford people have spoken.
"What's the point of a consultation if they are not going to listen to what you say?" he asked "We've already got 2,000 signatures for our transport petition and, combined with the consultation that could reach 3,000. At what point will the Council listen and retract its decision, like Notts County Council did when it listened to its people?"
It's voices like this that Salford Council didn't want aired on its (publicly owned) lawn. Representatives from campaigns ranging from Save The Jam Butty Camp* to those opposing mental health services cuts, NHS cuts, welfare cuts and Childrens' Centre cuts attended or spoke - including campaigners trying to save the Lower Broughton Children's Centre who said the centre, due for closure, had over 2,000 people registered and how, last week alone, 242 low income families had used it.
"My name's Maverick and I've been going to Sure Start since I was a little kid and now my sister Phoenix goes there" said a young boy "I'll be heart broken if they shut it down."
The speeches were interspersed with trad rad music from Michael Burns, a popular acoustic set from Hanky Park's James `Shinny' Davenport, and some stunning acapella self penned songs from 12 year old Keelan McNally, including `Which Side Are You On?' which said it all and drew cheers from the crowd.
Keelan's mum, Mags, said she was at the Rally because she was worried for her son's future…
"It's about everything across the board and I'm just really concerned about how our community is going" she said "I'm against fracking, the mental health cuts, everything. Noreen, the lady who has organised this, has sons who rely on the transport to get out of the house, it's just shocking.
Mags had been publicising the event on social network sites and was shocked at the Council's response…
"I cannot believe the phone calls that Noreen's had and I've had from the Council saying that this can't go ahead" she told the Salford Star "I said `It can, it's our human right for free speech and assembly; it's a public space and when we leave it will be perfect' - but they've done everything to threaten us. They told us we would be arrested if we turned up today. They told us we're committing an offence, yet there's no offence to be committed.
"One of the ladies getting married at the registry office here today contacted me on Facebook and said `Please I'm getting married I don't want my wedding ruined' and I reassured her that it wouldn't be disrupted at all, that what we're trying to do is be positive and open people's eyes" she added "I'm disgusted that they then used wedding parties as a way to try and stop this. I found that really low and disgusting.
"That was their last shot of trying to stop this event – but nothing was going to stop this event. The BBC were also supposed to have done an interview with Noreen about the Rally but they never phoned. I'm not sure why, or whether they'd been told not to…
"This has been a beautiful peaceful day, raising money for a good purpose" she added "Yet the Mayor did everything in his power to stop it because he doesn't want us to bring his wrong doings to the people who have attended today."
Noreen herself said from the stage "I've never been so disgusted in all my life but I'm so proud of all the Salford people who have come here today…"
Meanwhile, to huge applause, Bez urged people to take control of their lives, as services that people's fathers and their fathers built and paid for, are now being snatched away…
"If we all stood together and stayed strong we can all make change - this is the time, now!" he said "This could be one of our last chances, because we're going to get fracked, they're taking your legal aid off you, the NHS off you, what else?
"We don't have to put up with it" he explained "If we all started living as a proper community, not for money but for love and the people, we can do it together, look after ourselves. The banking system is destroying us all. And these divide and rule policies – Christian brothers against Muslim brothers – what's that bollocks about? It's about money, it's about fucking the people.
"No-one is bad and nasty unless you're money orientated, and then greed and gluttony takes over and you become like a snidey, horrible person who doesn't care for anything except how fat your wallet is" he added "We've got to show these people that we can't be walked over, we can't have our human rights taken off us, and we're going to take care of our institutions ourselves.
"It should be that everyone's a valued member of our society" he concluded "It's power to the people. Spreading the love…The revolution started in Salford, remember that!"
Tammy, from the Barton Moss anti fracking campaign, urging people to support the latest camp in Crawberry Hill, Hull, linked the fight against fracking to the anti-cuts movement…
"The reason that they are going for shale gas is because Cameron and his corporate friends stand to make a quite a bit of money out of it…it's all about profit over people" she explained "There's cuts to public services and jobs, pensions…we're not even feeling the full effects of austerity yet, but I'd like you to ask yourselves `Why do we need this austerity when the banks are gambling on the stock exchange and David Cameron and his cronies are taking money out of our public services to give to the bankers? Why don't we do what Iceland did and stuff the banks?'
"Cuts are unnecessary and inhumane and it's important to fight them" she added "Everything the wealthy have has been got from the backs of the working classes, from our blood, sweat, labour and toil. And it's about time that we told them `You're not having it, we're taking it back'…"
Carmen was another person who attended the rally to oppose fracking and the cuts…
"I'm here to stand up to everything really that's not right at the moment" she said "We've obviously got the cuts which are massive, and the other issue is the fracking and the harm it will cause. But it's a lovely day, and it's all about coming together, that community spirit, and bringing the children out, talking to like minded people and having a good time."
And a good time was had by all. The home made cakes sold out, as did the tombola and the sweets, raising a total of £404.05p for the Macmillan cancer charity and Salford City Boys Football Club.
The successful Rally ended with a message from one of the organisers, Paul Gerrard, Chair of Salford Against The Cuts…
"The Council was prepared to diss and manipulate the media and try to frighten people off from coming" he said "There have been no complaints about the weddings today, in fact we left them some bottles of wine as a token of our goodwill…
"But the message from today is that we stand in defence of working class communities and working class people" he said "Salford Labour have lost their way and they need to learn that pretty fast to fight these cuts instead of implementing them…"
For more photos of the Rally see Salford Star picture stories - click here
See also previous Salford Star articles on the Rally - click here and click here
* The Save The Jam Butty Camp campaign is to hold its own protest on 31st May on the Civic Centre lawn - more details to follow...
Photos by Steven Speed
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David cameron wrote
at 18:39:51 on 27 May 2014 |
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| Bernard Brough wrote
at 4:45:54 AM on Saturday, May 24, 2014
Dave I do try looking into these things, you obviously do not. Your observations are always ill informed drivel. I have tried to explain things in a rational way, but you refuse to engage in a debate making it impossible to continue.////seems I got it right on the NF and on France, don't you think Bernard. If you want to know how it really is, just ask don't be embarrassed, just because your a socialist with little knowledge.
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 22:03:55 on 26 May 2014 |
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| As usual Moron you are looking the wrong way try to keep yor head out of the D mail.
They to backed the wrong horse with Hitler |
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David cameron wrote
at 14:37:04 on 26 May 2014 |
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| Ken must have eyes in the back of his head, because he spends most of his time backtracking. Ken keep your comments in German, we can understand it better. |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 08:45:28 on 26 May 2014 |
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| To look down on simply means anthing but condescending it simply means to help someone who has fell to the ground tripped or stumbled you have to look down to help them to their feet Savvy God Help Us |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 13:18:28 on 25 May 2014 |
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| Dave, the day I take advice from such a myopic, close minded individual I will be very concerned. I've had enough of reading your pathetic comments and will no longer post replies to any of your inane rubbish. |
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David cameron wrote
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| @bernard, bit of advice, when looking into something, open ones eyes, it do's help. To Clive well said, socialists are always putting there foot in it, they only stop, to change feet. |
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Clive Woodward wrote
at 20:46:00 on 24 May 2014 |
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| Kenneth w mckelvey wrote : "I was taught the only people you should look down on are those you are helping to get back up ". This comment could not be anymore condescending, are you saying those worse off that yourself should be looked down upon? Those that seek your help are scum are they? That's a disgusting attitude to take to your fellow man. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 14:48:46 on 24 May 2014 |
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| Moron to insult people like you is simplicity its self. Just leave you with your illusions of superiorority and grandeur. I was taught the only people you should look down on are those you are helping to get back up . |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 10:45:54 on 24 May 2014 |
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| Dave I do try looking into these things, you obviously do not. Your observations are always ill informed drivel. I have tried to explain things in a rational way, but you refuse to engage in a debate making it impossible to continue. |
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David cameron wrote
at 10:45:39 on 24 May 2014 |
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| @Ken (or, socialist light, let me know which you prefer) when your three cuckoo clocks go off, do you join in, love to be there, must sound like a socialist party convention. Ps. seems you've got a thing, about people having there dick out, we're not running out of insults are we. must be a socialist thing, the great socialist Cyril Smith was greatly into it, and 99% of the time it wasn't to piss up a wall, never mind each to there own. @bernard. Socialism, "hypocrisy", or as I like to say doing a ken and Bernard. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 08:23:53 on 24 May 2014 |
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| The moron is perplexed by the fact that people who adhere to the Socialist concept in politics is a phoney or a hypocrite or a complete fool. In hes opinionThey cannot be just law abiding citizens with an inborn sense of fair play. Who would like to change a system that allows the wealthiest to ride Dog on the Poorest.To have working people just for their financial benefit.It is sad really but what can you do . I think it might be best to just leave him in that world.Anybody who thinks he is better than anybody else deserves some compassion because they are sad people .For a freeloading Lord to state that the blind will just have to get use to their Predicament. Another said he is sick of poor
People cluttering up UK airports. And should the Government
Allow people on Benefits be allowed to Breed. We heard this rhetoric in the 1930 tys by a jumped up two hat with a funny
Moustache. And we know he got his just Desserts. |
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David cameron wrote
at 08:23:45 on 24 May 2014 |
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| No Bernard, i am talking about today's France , not the France of the 16 century your talking about. The France that is now so bad, that the NF is reportedly going to push the now socialist French government in to third place in the euro's. Bernard with that intellect of yours you need to go into your garden and talk to your plants, because you do know what the benefit of shite is to them. And where do you get the lower debt from, don't you remember the IMF reduced Frances credit rating a couple if years ago, meaning they are paying more for borrowing internationally, debt has gone up not down, but then again, you do have problems reading articles or it could be that other socialist infliction, a selective memory. And as for Frances poverty line, try the suburbs around Paris where they have been having riots because of the large immigrant population that is having a detrimental effect on France as it is having on this country, no poverty there then, hey Bernard |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 21:06:20 on 23 May 2014 |
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| Dave, look up socialism in a dictionary. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 21:06:15 on 23 May 2014 |
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| To the Moron you keep getting your head full out of Shit by reading the Nazi Backing Daily Mail. And keep playing with your Cuckoo Clock ETC |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 21:05:25 on 23 May 2014 |
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| Dave, the France you are droning on about. Is it the same France with lower debt, higher GDP and a lower percentage of it's population below the poverty line? |
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David cameron wrote
at 21:05:21 on 23 May 2014 |
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| Seems UKIP have done very well, considering the three main parties and the press threw everything but the kitchen sink at them, but the people of the country saw through the smoke and mirrors. The three main parties are worried. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 07:42:50 on 23 May 2014 |
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| Got your dick out again Moron Got Three cuckoo clocks Presents off my family who are German born and bred.Only my sister in law told me they were crafted in Germany Don't mention the War! |
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David cameron wrote
at 07:42:40 on 23 May 2014 |
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| To ken, keep writing in German, it's better than your English. Going back to the racist insults, I must be winning the argument, but then again, it's not that hard to, against part time socialists, is the French, pension, bank account, mortgage, private shares question keeping you both awake at knight, poor soles. Avoid the questions long enough you both might forget about them and be able to get a good nights sleep, dreaming of a perfect socialist world, well at least till the alarm clock goes off. There's only one thing better than winding up an old clock and listening to it's old chimes, and that's winding up an old socialist and listening to the last few brain cells going pop. |
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Les get it Wright wrote
at 18:30:42 on 22 May 2014 |
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| HELLO KEN please wake up, Cuckoo clocks actually come from the Black forest in Germany and not "Switzaland" or indeed Switzerland, you seem to have spelled it the Romany way for some reason? I don't know maybe you are a Roma who has tried to hi-jack the Cuckoo clock trade from indigenous Black forest Germanics? But Kenny lad surly you believe that ONLY Germans resident in the Black forest in Bavaria are allowed to make the Cuckoo clock, I mean after all that's what EU Protected geographical status is all about isn't it??? Or maybe PGI only applies to UK manufacturers and not our European "partners"? Because if it's British it seems not to matter, but if it's French, German or Spanish then EU rules don't seem to apply!!!! |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 16:59:47 on 22 May 2014 |
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| Moron did not think you would allow a foreign clock in your home. Cuckoo Clocks are usually made in Switzaland by German speaking Swiss I Didn't mention the WAR. = German = Nazi = Fascist = Racialist = Tory = Bigot = Rubber head = Working Class Tory )Gut an Tag aufweisdesen mein Komarad. |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 15:36:07 on 22 May 2014 |
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| Hey Davey boy, try reading some books. Far better than burning them. |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 15:36:02 on 22 May 2014 |
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| MORON every day you went to School Eton Harrow etc you paid the rest of the Human Race in the UK went to State Owned and Run School complemented the Socialist idea When you were born if in a State owned and run Hospital a Socialist Idea. IFyou have to go to the Dentist Optician
etc all brought about by Socialism.
So put it away and stop playing with it
and get real a salford born tory is an ODDITY I can do without
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David cameron wrote
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| Ken my wall clock has just broke, won't chime on the hour, prepared to employ yourself, Bernard, or any other socialist, all you you have to do is go " cuckoo, cuckoo. right up yours and Bernard's street, offered it to a immigrant but don't sound quite right, kept saying, asylum, asylum. Ps. Ken the NHS and education are't free we pay for them through tax's. On education thousands of kids under labour have left school without the ability to read, write or do arithmetic, once again the left making sure of there future voters, only the ability to think for yourself will provide you with a future and keep the country free, that's why socialists have dumbed down education for the last 60+ years, you don't see this problem in private education. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
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| To Mr Moron. Talking with your dick out again. Socialist are all for investment/ in Education /Health Care/ Social Justice etc/Unlike you an the rest of yourSelfServing free loading tax dodging LyingWork Dodging Spives) Who give massive pay rises to themselves and cut any Benefits to the poorest Blind and disabled.))So if at first you don't succeed I should think you know what to do tben |
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David Cameron wrote
at 09:10:01 on 22 May 2014 |
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| Calm down ken, you'll destroy the precious few brain cells you have left, don't throw your dummy out of the pram because you have been found out as a socialist light hypocrite and you've have had your socialist dream for the country ripped apart, you'll just have to come to terms you'll never see a socialist government again in this country. So keep reading the books on socialism, because that is the only place it will exist and in the small minds of insane socialists. |
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| @Cameron, how dare you have a go at Ken for supporting Indian sweatshops he believes in free trade. It's obviously morally right to exploit Indians for low wages but morally correct to exploit Eastern Europeans for cheap labour here in England and reduce the wage packet of the indigenous population. WTF can I have a bit of that two faced roll-up that Ken has been toking please. |
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Kenneth w mckelvey wrote
at 18:12:11 on 21 May 2014 |
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| To The MORON David Camoron /Boy is your head Ducked up .Keep reading your Daily Mail The acid that comes out of your gob is right out of that phoney iying newspaper /to arseholes like you who have a hatred of anything that is decent humane and honest /Socialist are all bomb throwers/ Immigrants are the downfall of the UK/ The Sick are all Malingerers/ Unemployed are all Lazy/Any or all Goodies Benefits etc belong to the Aristocrats the Lords Rich and the Royals. And to you must keep the plebs down at all costs ./ Cut the wages of the workers But give massive rises and tax cuts to the Wealthy Scroungers
But only give cuts to the workers by way of cuts to Access to The Law /Human Rights/ Legal Aid/ right of Appeal etc.
Me doing a Freudian on you and your ILK I find you people very sad. |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 18:11:53 on 21 May 2014 |
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| To apply the Morons logic The use of Public Transport makes a green an Hypocrite anyone who uses a bank is a ACapatilist / So that being the case a rubberhead like him a tory to use the NHS is a Traitor/ Because the NHS is Socilism in full Glory free health Care |
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David Cameron wrote
at 08:44:38 on 21 May 2014 |
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| Hey Kenneth, where's the money that you have in your bank account, pension, mortgage invested, that's right, all the things you socialists so hate, it's invested in things such as oil and gas exploration (fracking) especially your pension, this money also goes on exploiting third world countries that use sweat shops ie India, China, South American countries. Do you really believe that the money you've paid into your pension pays for your pension, no it invested in to what's known as a pension fund, that's invested around the world and makes interest that gets put into your pension to build it up. But then again I think you socialists know what happens with the above, but it's easier to stick your head in the sand when it comes to your standard of living. I think you socialists need to think before you jump in on these bandwagons you so love, I think you need to stand back and think of how you profit directly or indirectly about some of the things you jump up and down about and realise your just as much as part of the problem as everyone else. See you never mentioned France in your slating of me, you want a socialist government that taxes the rich, stifles investment and inspiration, France voted for and got a socialist government and the French economy now resembles a train crash. Taxes at over 80% people with money to invest left in their droves, but we in Briton don't need to looks at France to see socialist governments don't work, we only have to look at this country and see that every time we elect a labour government the British economy crashes, just look at salford council having to go cap in hand to Cameron because our socialist council has frivolously wasted our money. Welcome to hell, a socialist hell. Just got election leaflet from tusc candidates and this lot want my vote I would rather get all of salford tax payers money put it in a pile and burn it than put this bunch in charge of it, which amounts to the same, they'd make the present lot in this council seem competent. Ps ken, tell me ken do you think the quality of the people that are flooding into the country are better than the people who are unemployed because I don't, I believe in quality immigration not mass immigration and not immigrants from third world countries with 13 century religious views that don't fit in with our way of life, you only have to look at Birmingham council and the Trojan horse issue in there schools, immigrants who have come in to change and destroy our culture, rather than to fit into it. |
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| Looks like there was a good turnout on the day. Well done |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
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| To the moron camoron anybody who thinks he is better than an immigrant That a green who uses Public tranaport is a Hypocrit/ Anybody who draws a Pension is a Capitalist / And if you have a bank account you cannot have Socialist leanings. What can you say to the Twohat |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 08:42:26 on 20 May 2014 |
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| As a SalfordianI am extremely happy at the effort the people made to show these New Labour Torys that they are not having more cuts to saite the appetites of the wealthyist people at their expence Sorry I was not there But if this lot do not see how we feel about Salford Councillors doing the dirty work for these unelected filthy crooks who are running the Uk. Next law off them will be about unlawful assembly they do not like protests |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
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| Good bews for the anti frackers. Germany has just announced it is now getting 74% of its energy from renewables. |
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
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| Just read in the Star about the Anti Frackers in Hull. IF These Fracking polluters are going to compleatly foul up the Water supply that area is the place where it will happen it is surrounded by farmland is all about Water water everywhere The Broads are quite close the flat lands of Lincolnshire everywhere you look it is rivers and streams the river Humber runs right through the place
SO any duck up with their toxins and it
will be a Catastrophe. That they
Cannot lie their way out of |
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David cameron wrote
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| @tom. Where are the Tories cutting funding for vital services in salford, try this labour council spending our money on none vital items like salford reds, peel holdings, fountains, BBC orchestra's, bridges, the problem with this socialist labour council is they have no idea on how to balance the books, they're the economics of a madman and if Stewart gets to downing st Cameron is going to point out the above then show Ian Stewart and the Labour Party the door and quite rightly too. The Labour Party and Socialism, the illusion of making the masses believe you love and care about them, whilst screwing them from behind. |
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Patricia Glanville (was Stamford) wrote
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| Well done to all involved in this rally. I wonder if the Mayor and his cronies are listening and taking notice? I doubt it very much they are too involved in looking after themselves and sod the people who voted them in. I am a proud Salfordian...and will by flying back to UK from Spain to attend the rally for the JAM BUTTY CAMP on 31st May. They are trying to close a heritage belonging to CHILDREN.... The people of SALFORD are and always have been the salt of the earth...and woe betide any council who wants to take us on. Never mind threatening your voters...FEEL VERY THREATENED yourselves...you will NOT be on the council for long when the REAL people of Salford vote you scum bags off. |
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FEELING VERY FRUSTRATED!! wrote
at 14:09:41 on 19 May 2014 |
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Hoorah Ian Stewart is off to London today to fight Salfords corner!
Its a massive shame though that he hasnt taken at least one vulnerable service user from any of the services proposed to be cut, or a family member or even frontline staff who in my opinion can verbalise better than anyone how these cuts are going to MASSIVELY impact on the lives of the most vulnerable!!
Hears hoping the delegate going to Whitehall today have as much passion as the speakers from Saturdays rally!!
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Tom wrote
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| A grand gesture! Do something positive and consider signing the petition! Salford residents need another 250 names on-line,why not publicise the following link.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/david-cameron-a-fair-deal-for-salford
Under Mr Cameron's government, Salford city council is being forced to make £81m of cuts to its services over the next three years - on top of the £97m of cuts already imposed since 2010. At least 1,200 jobs have been lost so far, vital services will disappear and another £94m will have been taken each year from Salford's economy because of the Government's benefit cuts and welfare changes.
Please sign this petition to ask the Prime Minister to meet with us to discuss the impact of the cuts, how we can best protect the most vulnerable in our city and how we can continue to bring investment into Salford.
To:
David Cameron, British Prime Minister
I am asking you to meet an all-party delegation from Salford, including City Mayor Ian Stewart and the city's three MPs, to discuss the impact of cuts Salford's services, how to protect the most vulnerable in the city and how to bring investment into Salford.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
http://citymayor.salford.gov.uk/2014/01/city-mayor-petitions-pm-for-fair-deal/
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A proud Salfordian!!! wrote
at 21:14:59 on 18 May 2014 |
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| I was at the Rally yesterday, and I stood alongside some very very vulnerable people who had come out to support the services they recieve that will be gone if these cuts go through!!
One young man told me his mental health was so bad that he very rarely went out, let alone go to a busy rally but he turned up as he was so scared to loose services, he recieved more than one of those propsed to be cut.
I observed lots of families & elderly couples in the most peaceful rally I have ever been to! I am not sure what Ian Stewart expected??
Please Ian Stewart if you are reading this!! Sit down in a room with us, we can fight together!!
You Ian Stewart need to be Salfords voice to the goverment making these massive cuts to Salford, you and all the MP,s need to do more to fight Salfords corner!
You have lost my vote, am feeling let down that the services you are cutting have massive implications on such vulnerable people when other services seem untouched and yet more money seems to be constantly appearing for rugby clubs & expenses.
It all seems very unfair & this is why people are so passionate!! |
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Just wondering? wrote
at 21:14:54 on 18 May 2014 |
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| Have Salford Council ensured there are no wedding bookings during the event Ian Stewart frequently publices coming up on the Civic lawn on the 31st May?
This is an early evening event but I can imagine organisers will be all over the lawn during the day setting up and sound checking etc.
It would be very hypocrital if weddings were taking place after what Ian Stewart has had to say about this weekend. Hopefully this will have been taken into account by the organisers.
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kenneth mckelvey wrote
at 21:14:36 on 18 May 2014 |
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| TALKING ABOUT CUTS I AM ON THE STROKE REHAB WARD IN HOPE HOSPITAL APPERENTLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS GOT THE HOSPITal STAFF ON a 1% max pay increase Hospital managers getting £10OOs snd in bonuses and my ward has 1 Tv working between 30 ty of us THE NHS has GOT NO CHANCE with rhis filth we call a government |
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mary ferrer wrote
at 17:19:03 on 18 May 2014 |
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| Reading this story make me so proud of the people of this great city. |
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at 17:18:59 on 18 May 2014 |
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| A fine day for Democracy.
A term not understood by the despotic mayor and his vampires , as they continually suck the life-blood from this city.
Remember their treachery on voting day .
OUT OUT OUT .
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had enough wrote
at 17:18:51 on 18 May 2014 |
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| I know Mayor Greedy reads the Salford Star whilst hiding in his luxury camper van to avoid the justified wrath of the shafted Salford Electorate .
So -
GET THIS STEWART !
WE'RE HAVING NO MORE OF YOUR TREACHERY .
THE FIGHT AGAINST YOUR OBSCENE CUTS IS ON
AND YOUR GONE IN 2789 DAYS
OR SOONER IF YOU HAVE ANY DIGNITY AND RESIGN . |
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bob wrote
at 17:18:47 on 18 May 2014 |
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| Noreen it's a shame you did not record the threats, so we can here what bullies they are, who was it at the council, name names please. I have taken to recording all my conversations with the council and because they are in the habit of lying, especial the council tax team
Noreen you should stand next year, u have my vote |
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Alice Searle wrote
at 11:13:02 on 18 May 2014 |
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| Congratulations to the people of Salford. Glad you had a good day and got over the moral message. I wish I'd been there. Currently listening to the distressed Greek people contemplating their vote for Europe and whether to vote for a Mayor. They are interested in what is happening in UK and I shared the Salford experiences with them. So many similarities. All fighting the profit seekers. We in Salford are not alone in our anger. Great stuff Paul and Salford against the Cuts. |
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noreen wrote
at 11:12:58 on 18 May 2014 |
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| Steve thank you so much for your cover on the rally you are a gem everyone had a lovely day and I really do hope the council see our pictures and write up you have done, the only mistake Steve the lady that was to raise money for the Macmillan nurses never came whether it was because we did not have permission I don't know I have been in touch but she has not replied yet so will let you know
thank you again so much for your support Noreen x
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Jason royle wrote
at 11:12:35 on 18 May 2014 |
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| (Save the jam butty camp). The mayor keep tell us cutbacks got to be made.jam butty camp and kids play centres are main one being hit . If we look back 2 to 3 years ago when we was ask to vote for a mayor of salford. No one told us it would cost over £2m of tax payers money a year to pay for it. This money should be spend on the kids of salford not on a group of over payed failed M.P's . Mr Ian Stewart seem to make a cutback on a service in salford . On use the money to give a job to one of is friends . Would the be willing to let the salford people vote on if the want to keep the mayor or not . Before the end of summer |
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