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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
and it is Accrington - not Hyndburn
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With six words and a hyphen, Margaret encapsulates what is the root of EVERYTHING that has gone wrong over the past 40 years.
A silly council with silly boundaries. A collection of townships with a mutual hatred and mistrust of each other bound together by the name of a stream nobody has ever heard of or used. Totally irrelevant as an entity to most citizens. Totally anonymous to anyone outside the area.
40 years of blurred thinking, confused corporate vision, and zero political investment in the future. Two party squabbling over the minutiae of local point scoring, and an area left out in the cold when the serious money is distributed.
And a Hyndburn town centre (Hyndburn, Margaret, not Accrington - that is what we were saddled with in 1974, and where on earth is the town centre of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton or Huncoat?) that is paying the price of 40 years befuddlement.