Internationalist approach at H.B.C.

garinda · 13-11-2011, 10:00

Good to know the council are spending their valuable time, trying to sort out the problems we have here in Hyndburn.

UK City Council supports â€˜Kashmiris' Right to Self determinationâ€™ | GroundReport

Perhaps at the next full meeting of the council, we'll be declared a nuclear free zone, or it's decided that we're going to be sponsoring a Save The Whale programme in Nicaragua.

Nice to note we've been awarded city status though.

Still, as long as they have their priorities in order, that's all that matters.

cashman · 13-11-2011, 10:02

Yeh can't expect tory councillors to know the difference.

jaysay · 13-11-2011, 10:06

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Originally Posted by cashman

Yeh can't expect tory councillors to know the difference.

Would appear its been approved by full council, let me see, Hyndburn a Labour Council, isn't it

jaysay · 13-11-2011, 10:08

No doubt, as a gesture, HBC will provide benches in some city centres so the poor impoverished citizen can lest their weary legs while out shopping

gynn · 13-11-2011, 10:13

Was there a rider to the HBC resolution supporting Kashmiri independence, to the effect that it doesn't apply on Wednesday afternoons?

garinda · 13-11-2011, 10:20

Yes, sod the abundance of empty shops in Hyndburn, and alcoholics being allowed to carry on supping in a drinks free zone, where do we stand on the defeat of the Tamil Tigers' fight for an independent state in Sri Lanka?

These are the sort of issues upmost on most residents' minds. That we'd much prefer our local councillors were busy addressing.

garinda · 13-11-2011, 10:28

Shoulder pads, Jason Donovan, ra-ra skirts, loony left councils.

Yes, the eighties are back.

lancsdave · 13-11-2011, 10:33

We should all be concerned about the reasons for this

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“The people of Jammu and Kashmir want to live peacefully with their neighbouring countries

I share Cllr Dad's views that the Welsh and Scots should behave themselves

mobertol · 13-11-2011, 10:35

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Originally Posted by jaysay

No doubt, as a gesture, HBC will provide benches in some city centres so the poor impoverished citizen can lest their weary legs while out shopping

As a cultural exchange in thanks for the support of HBC they will be sending a selection of comfy armchairs to be dotted around the town center, and people be will wearing garlands to replace the flower towers...

lancsdave · 13-11-2011, 10:37

Ironically Rule Brittania is now being played at the Cenotaph.

Margaret Pilkington · 13-11-2011, 10:40

I think they should change the word to 'Fool Britannia'....because I think that is what the world really thinks of us.

garinda · 13-11-2011, 10:43

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

We should all be concerned about the reasons for this

I share Cllr Dad's views that the Welsh and Scots should behave themselves

Yes, it's not very nice, or friendly, when they stand on Offa's Dyke, and Hadrian's Wall, shouting taunts, and showing off about their free prescriptions, no tuition fees, and free care for the elderly etc., is it?

When are Hyndburn Borough councillors going to broker a peace deal, between the various warring factions?

Tealeaf · 13-11-2011, 11:19

This is the full text of the motion submitted to and passed by the council on 10th November:

"..That this Council supports the Kashmir community here in Hyndburn in condemning the
atrocities committed and acts of barbaric violence by Indian Forces in Indian occupied
Kashmir which has resulted in women been gang raped, children lined up and shot dead in
front of their parents, people been torched and set on fire in their jail cells. Over one
hundred thousand people have been killed since 1989 and very recently Amnesty
International has found a number of mass graves in Kashmir. All this is because the
people of Kashmir want their right of self determination, the right which was recognised by
the United Nations in 1948.
To be moved by: Councillor Allah Dad
To be seconded by: Councillor Peter Britcliffe
3. Dog.."

Can anyone please point to any evidence of atrocities committed by Indian Forces in Kashmir? The only atrocities that I am aware of committed in that region over the last few years are those committed by Pakistani and Afgan nationals. So exactly what are the members of HBC doing passing motions such as this? It is ignorant, ill conceived and ill thought out and is no more than an electoral sop the local Pakistanis for their votes.

I do wonder, though now that HBC has a foreign policy, will we get an army? We may well certainly need some nuclear weapons because I am quite certain that Accy's name is now dirt in the corridors of power in New Delhi and you never know, some of those Indian nukes may well be aimed at us as well as Pakistan

jaysay · 13-11-2011, 11:23

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

This is the full text of the motion submitted to and passed by the council on 10th November:

"..That this Council supports the Kashmir community here in Hyndburn in condemning the
atrocities committed and acts of barbaric violence by Indian Forces in Indian occupied
Kashmir which has resulted in women been gang raped, children lined up and shot dead in
front of their parents, people been torched and set on fire in their jail cells. Over one
hundred thousand people have been killed since 1989 and very recently Amnesty
International has found a number of mass graves in Kashmir. All this is because the
people of Kashmir want their right of self determination, the right which was recognised by
the United Nations in 1948.
To be moved by: Councillor Allah Dad
To be seconded by: Councillor Peter Britcliffe
3. Dog.."

Can anyone please point to any evidence of atrocities committed by Indian Forces in Kashmir? The only atrocities that I am aware of committed in that region over the last few years are those committed by Pakistani and Afgan nationals. So exactly what are the members of HBC doing passing motions such as this? It is ignorant, ill conceived and ill thought out and is no more than an electoral sop the local Pakistanis for their votes.

I do wonder, though now that HBC has a foreign policy, will we get an army? We may well certainly need some nuclear weapons because I am quite certain that Accy's name is now dirt in the corridors of power in New Delhi and you never know, some of those Indian nukes may well be aimed at us as well as Pakistan

I know thats not all true T, the 3rd woudn't be a dog as asians don't like dogs they think they're unclean

Tealeaf · 13-11-2011, 11:31

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I know thats not all true T, the 3rd woudn't be a dog as asians don't like dogs they think they're unclean

That's a reference to the third motion about dog fouling - another load of chyte.