The beginning of the end of political correctness - The Telegraph

StevieJ

bendix wrote: »

Ahhhh . the traditional Labour reprise.

We'll give you what you want, dear votes, so long as our middle class sensibilities thinks its good for you. We know best for you, after all.

Patronising to the nth degree, as always.

Could you explain the public good of spending £80,000 a year to be twinned to several obscure towns on mainland Europe? I'm genuinely curious.

Wouldn't really know, then again I would need to see the whole picture

bendix

Weak. Very weak.

kennyboy66_2

Andy_L wrote: »

I wonder how much "pink pound" a gay pride event brings into the town's hotels, pubs & resturants?

Interestingly when this guy was asked on Radio Sheffield how much this festival was worth to Doncaster (8000 people attended), he had no idea - and didn't actually care.

The councils contribution was about 10% of the budget for the event.

StevieJ

bendix wrote: »

Weak. Very weak.

If you say so

JayScottGreenspan

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes, he does sound like a BNP loving git, and a sexist bigot too.

I'm sure that's how his opponents will try to paint him, so probably best not to jump to conclusions:

He is a retired state employee who spent 30 years teaching religious studies. He hates the cult of 'diversity', but says he took his pupils to mosques, synagogues and temples to help them understand other faiths.

'Going on about diversity causes racial tension, it doesn't improve it,' he says. 'The Government has just admitted that gipsies should be given special treatment and that only makes people angry. I want every citizen of Doncaster to be equal.'

Doncaster is home to 80 per cent of the travellers in South Yorkshire and so the town is obliged to build 51 sites for them.
'There's nothing we can do about that because it's a government decree, but that shouldn't stop us from seeing whether there are people on those gipsy sites who aren't paying council tax or are working while on benefit.'

kennyboy66_2

bendix wrote: »

Ahhhh . the traditional Labour reprise.

We'll give you what you want, dear votes, so long as our middle class sensibilities thinks its good for you. We know best for you, after all.

Patronising to the nth degree, as always.

Could you explain the public good of spending £80,000 a year to be twinned to several obscure towns on mainland Europe? I'm genuinely curious.

Where does it say it costs £80k a year ?

Are you getting confused with this -

"Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit"

JayScottGreenspan

kennyboy66 wrote: »

However, I can't be the only one who thing that stopping funding £3k towards a Gay Pride event and not providing funding for black history month, is more about showing his bigot friends that he is "showing those qu**rs and blacks, whose boss".

Council tax = money you are forced to pay, backed up with various threats

Is it just me or should this just be spent on things that are either essential, or justifiable as sufficiently beneficial versus the cost? Basically, he's done the right thing.

Do you think taxpayers money should be just handed out like candy to any group who ask for it? That would be a great way to guarantee high council tax bills, lots of waste, and lots of corruption too.

boyse7en

bendix wrote: »

Could you explain the public good of spending £80,000 a year to be twinned to several obscure towns on mainland Europe? I'm genuinely curious.

I can't comment on Doncaster arrangements, but the village I grew up in (back in those racist 1970s) organised a Twinning relationship with a similar-sized French village.
As well as providing life-long friendships across the channel, it has provided hundreds of Primary school children with the opportunity to travel and stay with French families and children. Many of these children would have had little opportunity or inclination, to do this with their own families.
It has improved language skills and understanding of foreign cultures for many people at a formative age, as well as disabusing those with more trenchant views of those from other cultures.
My only regret of Twinning is that the town I now live in does not have a strong relationship with any European town, and therefore my children will not be afforded the same opportunities that I was able to take advantage of as I was growing up.

StevieJ

JayScottGreenspan wrote: »

Council tax = money you are forced to pay, backed up with various threats

Is it just me or should this just be spent on things that are either essential, or justifiable as sufficiently beneficial versus the cost? Basically, he's done the right thing.

Do you think taxpayers money should be just handed out like candy to any group who ask for it? That would be a great way to guarantee high council tax bills, lots of waste, and lots of corruption too.

If he is participating in a cost/benefit excercise across the whole spectrum, great I am all for it, the savings he has made so far are very interesting though.
I note Slapper and Tramp will not be very happy when they pick up that he has a public sector pension

bendix

boyse7en wrote: »

My only regret of Twinning is that the town I now live in does not have a strong relationship with any European town, and therefore my children will not be afforded the same opportunities that I was able to take advantage of as I was growing up.

Ummmm . don't they have passports or something?

Are they banned from travelling abroad? I know, I know. They're on some sort of terrorism watchlist, right?

Because for the life of me I can't understand why they can't go abroad, learn new languages, experience new cultures and make foreign friends on your money, rather than the taxpayers.