Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Yesterday's Men Recycle Yesterdays News

There are times I think I have borrowed the little blue home of the green arrow and set the gear lever in reverse. There really are.

A comment left on on one of my earlier posts led me to an Unofficial Wigan and Leigh BNP page where I doff my hat to them for finding this little gem

Hundreds of manufacturing jobs heading to Newport

"Four hundred and sixty manufacturing jobs will be created at Newport, where one of Ireland’s leading companies has purchased the former LG Philips building from the Welsh Assembly Government. The Quinn Group is making a £133 million investment to consolidate and expand its domestic radiator manufacturing operations."

Sounds Good. Until you realise that in order to "relocate" the company destroyed the lives of several hundred workers in its former site at Leigh.

But NOW things get wierd. I decided to see if google would be my friend and dish the dirt on this little number, and star billing in my search went to this page on the Welsh Assembly Government site

It won't take you very long to realise the Welsh Assembly Government page is a word for word clone of the Newport Burghers effort. Even down to quoting "Councillor Erryl Heath, Newport City Council cabinet member for development and employment".

Well so what ? It's merely one arm of government recycling the lies and spin created by another, the gordon brown "say it often enough and the fools will believe it" approach. And maybe it is. But that Welsh Assembly Government Press Release is in the ARCHIVE section of their site and is dated AUGUST 16TH 2005.

And it doesn;'t take much playing with Newport's Find My Councillor page to discover no councillor named Erryl Heath.

We had two momentous local elections in Newport. New Liebour were reduced to scrabbling for scraps from the waste bucket on May 1st, and only last week we hammered the last nail in the coffin by electing three lib dems as the only effective way not to give New Liebour back overall control of tis rotten borough that became a jumped up johnny come lately city a short while ago.

I think Yesterday's men have recycled yesteryear's news

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