Bradford Degeneration Correct but not Politically Correct

Across at Beaman's World one of the unthinking sheep following the bankrupt neocon way is trying to present the usual view that 2 out of 3 abrahamic nutjob lifestyle guides and ways of life are more rational and peaceful than the third. As usual this view can only be presented by downright lying as in this response to my objection to his article:

Baht At: The Judeo-Christian scriptures have shaped the very cultures and values we must hold dear.

The Golden Rules - the ethic of reciprocity - (which is not found in Islam) has been vital to our social evolution..

Now I'm not a beardie in a dress but even I know that Islam says much the same as the other style guides when it comes to not pissing out of the tent in the direction of your neighbours and sure enough we have from the Last Sermon:

"Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you"

I suspect that the only version of the golden rule that Numpty Neocon follows are those listed for the Church of Satan or the Creativity Movement. I've nothing against neocons except for the fact they resort to lying to support their pisspoor philisophy.

I also like "we must hold dear" that would be the genocial nuclear weapons using US culture would it? I do so love it when people following a morally degenerate philosophy tell me what I must hold dear

I have received the following response:

FOI Reference No: FOI-2008127/26

Police forces providing information do not use generic systems, nor are the procedures used for capturing the data the same. It should be noted that for these reasons this forces response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

So they don't keep records of what the time-wasters at head office are up to - hardly surprising that, if they did the taxpayer might ask for them to be sacked. Fortunately wikipedia has an edit record that shows how many times they were altering the facts they seem to have used the handle webteam3 and later changed things unregistered using the IP 194.152.91.186, particularly amusing is the denial evident in the reason for the edit on 31/3/08.

Needless to say I'm not happy with the response and have sent back

The response is wholly unacceptable.

1. the server logs kept by your IT services department will clearly identify who accessed the site and when,
2. it contains a statement of opinion (in relation to the comment regarding press reports),
3. that statement of opinion contains a false statement (no paper alleged a single person was allocated to the the task, the reports were an entire team was given this responsibility.

that we are all paying for - it seems to have generated only one mention of Bradford in the press in the last week - from somebody promoting Newcastle who happened to study at Bradford Uni.

This link will show all you got for the half mill or so BCR spent on Cannes. (I'm assuming Maud wouldn't get out of bed for less).

They did announce a spectacularly ugly reincarnation of the old Broadway shopping centre as an "education eco-village" (that's eco because after paying the rent the students can't afford heating)

Oh dear the fat cats will be cowering in their Ilkley homes wondering what is going to hit them from this less-than-entirely-pro BCHT website - http://www.bcht.btik.com/

Don't all rush at once with your stories of how this rapacious organisation has left you living in rat and cockroach infested homes without any repairs yet tripled your rent to pay for the vast increase in salaries from when they were all jobworths and nobodiess at the council. Note that Jake "I hate Bradford City" is employed by this lot after "resigning" from the regeneration posts that were fouled up in a manner entirely unassociated with his excellent managerial abilities. Also one Russell "I can park my shitty Range Rover dick extension on double yellows because they don't have a terminating crossbar" Baker is a non-executive director giving advice on how to build a modern slum (see Stonegate House, Gatehaus and other developments of city centre living cells)

Or at least one of their more malignant manifestations you will note how the Toothless and Gutless has sneaked in the information that Bradfordvision was a simple device to syphon off £2m a year from rengeneration funding of £15m for the social services mafia.

I cannot confirm rumours that Konsumptive Kris (or Nero as we like to call him) reached this decision in a fit of pique after a romantic setback. However I can confirm that he will be buying a new fiddle to play while Bradford burns around him.

I presume that if we get the 31st October without ground being broken on Broadway Maud Marshall will be publically executed in Centenary Square.

Meanwhile council officials have confirmed that the much publicised Water feature on Darley street will in fact be an incontinent wino sat on a bench at the top of the street. In line with previous T&A reports this water feature will be removed each night to a local shelter and returned the following day with an ample supply of White Lightning to ensure a constant flow of "water".

Also in the "news" various idiot Bradfordians are getting all excited about the fact that the nerdy facebook doesn't recognise Bradford. The Toothless and Gutless having been contacted by one of these useless whingers reports this as news.

Facebook does have a Stuart McCall appreciation society - mostly for grateful supporters of other League Two teams that his inept management is giving them at least six points this season. The quality of the sort of losers who sign up for facebook can be easily seen from the fact it has no networks for Oxford University (or cambridge for that matter - it seems to be exclusively the lower sort of technical college, polytechnics and those awful modern universities built after the 1700s), Pembroke College or Heckmondwike Grammar School (similarly it seems to have an entry for the downmarket Harrow but not Eton). All in all facebook looks pretty much like a facepack so re-assuringly ugly that when you take it off you look better.

At last sense has prevailed and Bradfordvision is to be killed off. If only they'd listened to me at the beginning they'd have saved a couple of million quid a year. Now all the need to do is cull Maud Marshall et al and the place might start moving forward.

Details can be found in this report. According to the piece in the T&A all the staff of BradfordVision are on fixed contracts that end April 2008 and those will be honoured so in less than a year it will be gone. Sadly this doesn't mean an end to the makework stuff it does these are to be hidden within the council so that they won't be so exposed to scrutiny and criticism.

'scuse me I have to go dance on a grave!

The teen-angst sites myspace and utoob contain something funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrKWDPs8sc - not often enough mind to put up with all the crap teenage wank that they generate like happy slapping videos (or bus-bricking videos which seem to be popular in Bradford)

Yes at last the Toothless and Gutless is able to report truthfully what it has been reporting for several months or so. However anyone can get such an agreement if there is sufficient small print to let the tenant wriggle out. So what we need to know is a what point does it become binding on Debenhams (i.e what percentage of units have to be let before they are obliged to occupy their part of the completed development) and what are the other get-out clauses - there is usually a clause that lets them out if construction hasn't been completed by a certain date. Interestingly towards the end of his usual hagiographic editorial old Allegro-Hushpuppy bares his teeth "and an even better way to win over the city would be for Westfield to announce when construction work will finally begin on the site". Watch out Maud that poodle is turning vicious!

This article in the Sunday Times by Alan Milburn reflects all that is wrong with the regeneration efforts in Bradford. We have centralised and unworkable 2020 visions foisted on us by people who epitomise the Blind Smiley emblem in their inability to see the stark truth that imposed ideas by mad, bankrupt architects and social services control freaks will not work. We don't need some addled old Scot like Maud the Borg bent on destroying priceless local architecture so that one of her cronies can hoover up subsidies to build something utterly useless in its place. Before saying that can't happen just remember Aldermanbury House, jerry built without wall ties by one of the governments favourite and now failed outsourcing specialists.

The plan to demolish the Odeon has already swallowed vastly more money that it should have done and the moronic decision still hasn't been overturned. Personally I think there's a very good case for a public lynching of everyone in the Bradford Centre Regeneration regime, except of course for the inconvenient laws that prevent such expressions of public opinion.

Not that we are exactly surprised by that - it's easy not to worry about throwing a 79 year-old lady out in the cold when you are sitting on your fat well paid arse in Ilkley. The Toothless and Gutless reports. Incidently one of our favourite members of the social services mafia has found a job as Strategic Partnership Officer at BCHT - more when this project fails under the reverse-midas touch.

This article in The Times seems to suggest so .... finally an admission that things are going very slowly indeed and that Broadway isn't going to start in January 2007 as the T&A has maintained recently. I like the bit about there being no where people actually want to live despite all the hundreds of city-living prison cells that have been built and the thousands proposed, the fact is without decent shops, bars and restaurants city centre living is broadly comparable to a prison camp.

Never forget the symbol of the 2020 vision for Bradford is a BLIND smiley.

If you think I'm joking about prison cells the market for city centre buy to let pokey-holes is about to crash as the smart money rushes into building luxury nicks for the up-market blagger and blinged up dealers. Yep they've finally worked out what to do with the tax dodge old Gordon introduced last time round .... real estate investment trusts are just the thing for building more prisons. I can see some interesting dilemmas over whether an investor (because a not insignificant portion of the money now going into buy to let is the proceeds of drug dealing and similar vices) should be allowed to serve his term in the penthouse suite of his own jail.

Changes in the T&A archive mean that some links to stories about the regeneration disasters in Bradford have been lost. I'm trying to locate the original stories to pop up links but in the mean time we have:

The Manningham SRB - comments of the Manningham Housing Association in evidence to the select committee on the Office of Deputy Prime Minister link "Not successful because of the scale of the programme (£9m over seven years) and purely economic training and jobs. Little or no visible impact in the context of a poor physical environment and a lack of community and social facilities."

In addition there were numerous allegations of fraud along the way Link although the police investigation was ultimately dropped Link. In this context I have somewhere an exchange of emails with Margaret Eaton (then council leader) regarding the systems for reviewing grants which did not detect forged supporting documents. You will note the comment in the final paragraphs in this Link which refers to this matter.

and Regen 2000 which could be revived and extended following dismissal of the entire board. Link, Link2

The council report on the scrutiny of these various schemes can be found here

Unfortunately there is little I can do about the way newspapers periodically re-arrange their furniture, copying the stories verbatim would be breach of copyright.

A little harsh you may say but when was the last time we saw articles like this or this in the T&A which is rather surprising given all the money being squandered in the various Blind Smiley companies run by members of the Social Services Mafia. I bet, for example, they didn't complete a mileage form for the trip to Pakistan to get acts for the Mela (and visit the family) when there were similar acts available locally, and of course we have the widespread fraud at the Manningham SRB that somehow never got widely publicised.

I never thought that Bradford Uni was anything more than an overblown technical college and it looks like I'm right. If one of their "professors" thinks that indentifying 80% of the words in a novel with all the punctuation and spaces removed is a valid test for an algorithm to find things in the genetic code the brain hasn't spotted then it's even worse than I thought. Just to test this take the same text and give it to a ten year-old - I'll wager that they'll get more than an 80% hit rate. Sorry Si ... come back when your algorithm can do something a child can't eh?