28th July 2010
Love Lane
In close proximity to the newly rebuilt school, where vulnerable young children will be at risk, there is one of the worst imaginable concentrations of dog fouling .
John recently secured the services of Streetscene to have the long neglected privet hedge cut back – but the result is a near-perfect opportuinity for utterly selfish dog owners (and we emphasise how tiny a minority they must be – most dog owners being highly responsible) to use the conveniently cut branches as ideal ‘coat-hangers’ on which to drape the bags of dog mess they are too selfish to dispose of hygenically. At a convenient spot just next to the school a rebuilt wall barely hides a huge accumulation of disposed of ‘poo-bags’ almost certainly deposited by the same culprit. And all along the hedge there are hideous examples of the same.
John says:
‘The dog fouling in Love Lane has been further highlighted over last weekend in conjunction with the new Anti dog-fouling team. The Labour Party initiated the establishment of this team to take Wirral residents’ concerns seriously. But will the CON-DEMS now commit the necessary funding? If not, will it be a case of “So much for listening to the people under the new banner “The Big Society”. Or should it read ”We may pay lip service to listening but won’t act.” Are they hell-bent on undoing all the achievements of Labour for schools, hospitals, Police, childrens’ services, and social services? Mrs Thatcher famously declared “There is no such thing as society” and the Tories all applauded her. Cameron is now saying “Let the ‘Big Society’ find volunteers for almost everything”. So we’ve gone from ‘no society’ under Mrs Thatcher to ‘Big Society’ under the ‘Broke-back’ ConDems. The prospects for Wirral don’t look too good under the Broke-backs coalition do they?’
In the hysteria over the general election result across the country the Tories avoid mentioning the uncomforting fact that in the Councils it was very different indeed. 17 local authorities fell out of Tory control and many hundreds of Tories lost their seats across the country. Those Tory council losses included two here in Wallasey alone. As well as that their general election candidate not only failed to unseat Labour’s ever-popular Angela Eagle, but also lost her Liscard Council seat. Whoever the organisers were who orchestrated the Wallasey Tories’ general election and council election strategies must be feeling pretty glum.
Across Wirral as a whole the Tories did not get a majority vote and it’s a certaintly that those Liberals who voted for their own candidates hardly expected them to change course once they were elected. But now loyal Liberal voters see Wirral’s Liberal Councillors doing everything this ’Broke-Back’ Tory-led collaboration wants the question must be “Do the Wirral Liberals really think they are ever going to be elected again?”
Surely the greatest hope for the people of Wirral must increasingly be that next May the Tories and Liberals will lose seats right across Wirral? But will that be accompanied by a ’scorched earth’ scenario of devastated services for Labour to pick up after the ‘Broke-Backs’ have been rejected by the electorate?
