This is why vigilance is essential?

clipped from www.blackpooltoday.co.uk Homes cash hope MILLIONS of pounds could be ploughed into upgrading Blackpool's council houses. The Almo board would be made up of councillors, tenants and independent members. Coun Sue Wright, portfolio holder for social services, health and housing, said: "The news that we might be able to create an Almo after all has come as a surprise, but we are really pleased about it. "The council would still own the housing stock, but it would be managed in an arm's length way. "It would bring in much more investment from government, which would run into millions of pounds.

American we are behind you! You fought the insidious Spanish Colonialist, the spicks and the daygoes or what ever you called them and acquired a massive stretch of oil rich land...does that sound familiar(rhetorical)? The education system in Britain is now so bad that Council officials cannot spell or have been told to ration their output of letters - they seldom reply to mine - and set up the Alamo. Davy Crocket, Col Travers and the one with the knife Major Jim...we have them aplenty. So when letters were sent to them about the homeless and the insidious Homelessness Act, why did they all suddenly do a Tony Blair and take a holiday? One in three homeless are former service personnel and to date the politicians have done nothing for them. What evidence is there that the Alamo will do anything for them now? None. Especially as theyhave elected a chairman who expected a member of his esteemed Service Organisation to do a 350 mile round trip just to inspect the minutes of meetings, an exercise that would have taken 5 seconds on a computer. How are the illiterate, ill-informer, sick and disabled of Blackpool going to get action when history shows a chairman having past difficulties in similar situations? What chance the former soldier, homeless soul, then?