YOUR LETTERS - 2nd MARCH 2018

Week ending 2nd March 2018

High School Misery

The state of Blackpool’s high schools really is shocking. Only one high school in the whole town is rated “Good” by Ofsted! I attended Montgomery back in the day, and it is sad to see how much it has fallen into decline. When I was there we had regular hoax bomb alerts, and a sexual health clinic on site handing out rubber johnnies and doing chlamydia tests. Now I hear they have axed the clinic and introduced discipline – no wonder the kids are miserable and not learning anything! Thanks to my experience there I am now a fully qualified bomb disposal expert and have only had chlamydia once.

Bryce Chaverton

Cleveleys

KFSence

It is unbelievable that someone would call 999 to report that KFC had run out of chicken. Don’t these idiots know that by wasting their time they are preventing them from helping real people in need? I’d laugh if one of these morons had a genuine emergency such as discovering McDonalds had run out of McFlurries and the emergency services were unable to do anything about it because they’d been called out on a whim because of no KFC chicken!

Ronaldo McDervish

Little Thornton

Stone me!

I used to think that old fashioned proverbs were just a load of nonsense, until this week. You’ve heard the saying that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones? Well last Friday I went to upscale Cleveleys bistro ‘Glasshouse’ and after throwing a stone (which broke a window) I was promptly asked to leave. So I suppose there is something in these sayings after all.

Yvonne Rooftile

Thornton

Something fishy

I watched BBC’s ‘Question Time’ in Blackpool this week with interest and heard Nigel Farage say that Brexit would give us back the fish in our waters, and that this would be good news for coastal economies like ours. Well, it isn’t really good news for Fleetwood which used to have a fishing industry but has since had all its port facilities demolished. For them it would be more of a kick in the teeth – rather like giving a football back to a former footballer who has now had both legs amputated.

Craig Scarewilly

Cleveleys

Talking about regeneration

There’s lots of talk about the regeneration of Blackpool at the moment, with a new hotel, a new tram connection to the railway station and an extension to the Blackpool Resort Pass. Councillors say it will be good for the town’s economy and the people that live here.

Poppycock.

Blackpool Council want visitors to arrive in the town by train, get straight on a tram which will take them to the newly built hotel, bypassing all the decaying B&Bs which have since been turned into bedsit land, spend their money on attractions which are owned and run by Merlin Entertainments (the world’s second largest leisure group and who are based in Dorset), eat at chains like McDonalds and Wetherspoons, then go home and write on Trip Advisor how brilliant Blackpool is.

The bulk of that money goes out of Blackpool to these national and international companies. Any local jobs created by these chains are not really high paid, unless I am massively underestimating the salaries commanded by a Tower lift attendant or someone dressed as a medieval jester in the Dungeon. The Blackpool that the rest of the world sees is just one big theme park, meanwhile the rest of the town just rots in its own filth.

Anon

Blackpool

Organ Donation

I just heard about the government’s plans to change organ donation to an opt-out scheme, meaning they can take someone’s organ without their express permission. I hope this doesn’t put the wonderful organ in Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer at risk. Perhaps that is why they hide it inside the stage?

Marjorie Wigglebott

Cleveleys