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

Well the architect of the utterly useless and spectacularly expensive Bradfordvision and sometime love interest of Kris Hopkins (she dumped him having squeezed him dry of promotion opportunities) has jumped ship from Calderdale (after pouring public money into several useless schemes in "Community Services" - that is make work schemes for people even Social Services want to redeploy). Apparently she looks forward to spending the money of York council tax payers for a couple of years before she moves on before the chickens come home to roost - strange how some of these local government people never stay in one job long enough for their weaknesses to become apparent.

Presumably there a few disasters in Calderdale that will fester for a little while then burst like zits on the face of a supermodel. One piece of good news is that every move seems to be taking her further from Bradford!

This single mother's tenuous grasp on reality can be seen from her crashingly stupid claim that there are no ghettos in Bradford. Presumably she never actually visited Bradford while she worked there. Or perhaps it's just me that thinks that the fact there are some streets in the city where everyone can trace their origin to the same house in some Bangladeshi village and others where all the residents are knuckle-dragging, pitbull-owning BNP dimwits constitutes ghettoisation - nope I think the balance of evidence suggests that she is just too up her own arse not to use her own personal definition of ghetto rather than what everyone else thinks it is when she opens her mouth to indulge in a little auto-erotic tonguing (first of course having swallowed both feet).

Then again it could just be her "right on" approach to running down the white chappy (especially the chappy her being of the feminist tendency) that goes back to her tribute to the great Bob Mugabe ... "A Political Economy of Black Female Labour in Zimbabwe, 1900-1980" ..... her devotion to bending reality starts in the title (Zimbabwe as a political entity existed from c1250-c1450 and from early 1980 onwards, what she actually wanked on about was mostly Rhodesia but I guess that was far too emotive a name for a young leftie wanting to bash the evil white man). The good people of York will have to watch her like a hawk otherwise they'll soon find street signs going up for Eboracum (sometime capital of Britannia inferior a name that will obviously appeal to her distorted sense of Britain's place in the world).

Rather oddly her love of gentle walks in the countryside has become the much more CV-enhancing "mountain climbing" for this latest assault on the greasy pole of her race to stay one-step ahead of the consequences of her half-baked idealogy.

According to the Private Eye the Audit Commission is to enquire into the theft of Youth Opportunity Fund money (£220,000 thereof) by Bradford Council to refurbish two of their properties. Knowing Bradford Council they should also look at whose palms were greased and whose relatives got the contracts.

Needless to say this hasn't been mentioned in the local rag the Toothless and Gutless (aka the T&A). That's only to be expected given the editor's tendency to arselick anyone on the council.

the bribes have been paid and the fix is in, Bradford is the Unesco City of Film. Presumably because it has the pit to remake Quattermass and the Pit. Or perhaps because it has its very own Wicked Witch in the haggard and grasping Maud Marshall. One thing it does have is the thriving drugs industry that actors demand.

Well it is finally out in the open, the Toothless and Gutless is reporting Konsumptive Kris's latest folly (no not another attempt at romance you fool!), The Big Plan from a Little Man.

Of course it doesn't actually state his real plan which is to maximise good publicity for himself in Keighley while watching Bradford burn. Konsumptive Kris of course wants to replace that hammer of all things asian, Anne Cryer, as MP for the white chavurbs of Keighley.

The hilarious details of the council discussion in which even the dimwit councillors realised it was a steaming pile of bullshit can be found by clicking read more

But I never thought they would deliberately expose Bradford to ridicule at a major event like MIPIM (strangely in Cannes so champers and expenses all round please) by letting the nutjob Bjorn Lomborg onto the Bradford platform. This is what comes of having tory nutjobs and scots housing officers running the place.

For those who don't know Bjorn Lomborg is the favourite apologist of the climate change deniers and poster child of the oil companies. He's also completely utterly wrong and will give the impression that Bradford is under the control of people who can't see a nutjob when he froths at the mouth in front of them. Who is going to invest in a city that gives a platform to crazies?

Loonborg is too nuts for me even to bother refuting but others will.

The Toothless and Gutless describes this idiot as "high profile" well I suppose he's a high profile nutjob.

The other three speakers are some TV tart, the ex-chief commisar of the Soviet Republic of Sheffield and some loon from a long forgotten soviet-era fashion chain.

How else can you interpret their assumption that the fact Serco have lost track of 33 children means they have been dragged off into forced marriages (note there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest any of the 33 are from cultures that might occasionally arrange sensible marriages for their children rather than let them get pregnant at 11, married at 16, divorced at 17 and dead from congenital stupidity and being a white chav at 18)?

It is absolutely laughable to think Bradford Education is sufficiently competent to keep track of children in their schools - for a start they try to kill them annually with the winter vomiting virus, then they hide the under achievers somewhere they don't affect the league tables and use the disabled kiddies as excuses to demolish the Odeon.

Given that Kris Hopkins is more concerned about counting fat chavs visiting the gym to help him get elected in Keighley than anything else I would venture that these figures are more down to incompetence than the mythical forced marriages the right wing loonies keep ranting on about.

True there might be the odd bad 'un among the village people in Bradford's non-existent ghettos but do you think that Bradford Schools would manage to have the information to say so - I bloody well don't.

According to the T&A the Olympics are coming to Bradford with various locations being offered as training facilities.

Presumably freestyle stabbing throughout the city, relay races with the parcels of crack and heroin in all the usual places and car torching on Oak Lane are among the suggestions.

The new Local Strategic Partnership meets tomorrow to read the last rites over the body of the Bradfordvision* and will present the ever bumbling Kris with a dilemma - does he spend the money where it is needed or simply divert it all to Keighley to support his hopeless campaign to outflank the BNP on the right (something previously achieved by the ever lively Anne Cryer) and gain election as MP (no doubt he'll join the merry band employing his relatives)

* given that one of its supporters believes "there are no ghettos in Bradford" it was bound to live up to its Blind Smiley logo. This fatuous statement was made by Kersten England sometime Director of Policy

I wonder whether Kris shares this numbnut view with Kersten along with their mutual love of fellwalking

Another decades old council pie in the sky crashes in flames as Park Avenue decide that their future can't wait for a bunch of serial incompetents. They're to up sticks and move to Thornbury.

Add this to the Broadway disaster and apartment prices plummeting faster that the investors jumping off the balconies and it doesn't look good!

But Maud is still there and Kris is continues taking out his marital frustrations by wrecking the entire city.

over £100,000 a year for creating the "Hole at the Heart" (aka the Rubble Zone, aka Broadway undevelopment) then how much did this lot pay her to stay away from Scotland?

So really she's no a regeneration expert merely some jumped up council housing department official (bit like all the overpaid senior executives at BCHT I guess) with a taste for holidays in Cannes at the taxpayers' expense.

Yes the one that's closing next March. It seems that the workers are a little demob happy and are spending time writting skits on their position. A number of word documents are attached.....

I presume these are loosely based on BV .... or perhaps not . Whatever they are mildly amusing in the context of the meltdown of the social services rejects employment project.

....but admits it can do sweet fa about it due to incompetence in drawing up the deal. Not even take the site back without extensive legal action and enormous expense.

The sensible decision would be to surcharge all the councillors involved in this disaster, immediately terminate Maud Marshall with no compensation (grounds of gross negligence in relation to Broadway I would have thought) and move the City centre park to Broadway where it would have better surroundings than the downmarket drinking dens that border Centenary Square.

The T&A has an interesting editorial as it begins to sink in that if Broadway collapses so will the rest of the house of cards and no £4m from public funds will be forthcoming to finance the relocation to Leeds of the T&A printing operation.

We have a new image gallery Maud's Bane which in due course will contain all the images of the Odeon I have available - some patience will be necessary as uploading the original images (some are 4Mb in size) is a little slow.

On the rubble zone. This case gives some idea of the amounts sloshing about.

One might get that impression given the sudden activity from the usually comatose Kris Hopkins. In the space of a week he has killed off Bradfordvision (although I am told that the CE of that useless talking shop knows more about about frustrating his wishes than he knows about shutting it down), removed a number of senior council posts (no doubt as a result getting a horse's head from the Social Services mafia that has a stanglehold on anything worthwhile) and to add to the previous ditching of Party in the Park the Bradford Festival has also been put to the sword. It seems that all this activity has been prompted by loose cannons suggesting he might not have a job come 4th May.

How many I wonder of these useless staff will be foisted onto BCHT like the former head of the Manningham and Girlington Regeneration thing (you know the chap whose life's ambition was the demise of Bradford City Football Club).

The other views is that he simply needs to get rid of staff because the new payroll system can't cope with the concept of paying people.