The Devil's Own Blog From God's Own County

To learn from Maud and the Demolition men how to rebuild the heart of a city (put a pile of rubble in one corner, ask for £17m of lottery funds to put a slime filled mosquito trap in another and demolish the only building most people want to keep) and from Kris Hopkins how not to complete the Three Peaks or any other demanding challenge (like keeping a popular free music event going*). Still stood next to the ailing Hezza Kris might for once look healthy.

No doubt as is the fashion these days in Bradford everything will be suitably blessed by church, mosque, temple and the social services mafia.

David Fotherington-Cameroon the noted fop visited the famous city centre bombsite experience and afterwards almost commented "you are lucky that people are the key to regeneration because you can't build for toffee"

Something also needs to be said about the current tendency for politicians to sneak into towns and be gone before anyone realises they are there - are they frightened that they are so unpopular they might be shot?

Coming soon the further adventures of the Blue Pimpernel (which interestingly is described as a mild sedative) in his secret mission to rescue the tories from doom.

* This incompetence has made the national press albeit courtesy of the notorious Lib Dem Martin Wainright whose car is so old it always breaks-down on the journey to Manchester.