“Too many people aren’t saying what they believe and it makes us worse off as a country.”
Katherine Birbalsingh, Headteacher.
A few weeks ago the abysmal Bradford On Duty featured a so-called good news story. Except, the reality was quite different.
The BBC clowns had featured a trendy flower and coffee shop situated at what is known as the top (aka arse) end of town; they had offered this up as a sign of better things to come. Coffee and culture?
Had the shop been located in any number of fancy suburbs, it would still have had to work hard for business. Positioned where it was, survival was always going to be hopeful.
Unfortunately, the shop had announced its closure way back in April – see here: It opened in the city in May 2019, initially in Upper Millergate and is now set to concentrate on its online offering.
So a business that chose a very poor location with a customer base with as much potential as Kabul market has retrenched to an online offering with the owner bemoaning her luck.
Sky News featured this last Friday (29/7) as another sign of carnage on the High Street. Talk about making the news fit.
They then went on to use the examples of several other closures in the retail desert otherwise known as Bradford centre; this despite the fact that it has been like this for years.
How lucky they are living in tv land where real decisions matter so little.
The South Asian Money Tree
Back to the continuation of money poured into local areas based on decisions made hundreds of miles away determined by demographics and political correctness.
The local paper published its own fake news and, sadly, refused to publish my letter pointing out the inaccuracies.
I have some sympathy for editors and journalists as Brainless Britain reads less and less each day, certainly so far as the news goes. The stark reality is that truly independent newspapers are dying and this is bad news not fake news.
Re the article – see here – there were several inaccuracies concerning the opening of new cricket nets at a local money pit known as Myra Shay. The plan is to spend millions converting this to a sporting village; we’ve been here before only fifteen years ago.
There is mention of a non-turf-pitch (ntp) being created; this is not the case as the last – in a long line – was laid circa 2018 along with three others in the district which are now destroyed beyond repair.
Bradford Council is paying for the repairs to the other three despite the clear evidence that this is money down the drain. This from a council that continually pleads poverty?
In the case of Myra Shay, the investment in the three-lane facility and re-laying of the ntp will be, conservatively, £100k. Had anybody led the ECB across the road to a nearby ground where a similar charitable facility lays in ruins? Truth hurts.
I confidently predict that this facility will also be in tatters in a few years; high-quality facilities like this need ownership, management and maintenance. The laying of seven more public space ntps will only end in a similar fashion.
The paper also incorrectly stated the investment at Bradford Park Avenue. But why let the truth get in the way of a nice picture shoot?
Football In July
I confess to watching none of the Women’s Euros. Congratulations to all involved; if this encourages people to get active and pursue a sporting passion then great. Dare I mention the best goal celebration in living memory; Gazza eat your heart out.
For me a bit that went largely unnoticed at the end, defined sport as I have always cherished it. Calmly leading her team, the German manager walked between the England players and clapped each and every one.
It was a class act from Martina Voss-Tecklenburg
Fake Promises
The local paper has recently featured a few pieces on the scourge of fireworks across Bradford. Should you be reading this somewhere afar, you will possibly not understand the cretinous behaviour of some of our residents.
Despite shocking levels of poverty we still have plenty affluent – and brainless – enough to pepper the skies on a nightly basis anywhere into the early hours.
And now the authorities talk tough despite the reality that their don’t go there policies have created this.
This is not a city based on culture, more tarred by ignorance and anarchy.
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