Wigan…the town….(Quite frankly,Embarrassing!)

Well move to Frinton on Sea :mrgreen:

Don’t usually agree with what you say but….Yep

Its a society problem that has not just been created since 1997 – its been creeping in since the late 1980s. How will changing the council make Wayne & Waynetta Slob dress better when walking round town with their sextuplet slobs wondering how to spend their latest Giro?

Get the lazy single mothers out working in the community, even if its just for a few hours whilst their multiple offspring are at school. Get the idle blokes clearing the cr@p from the River Douglas, and leaves from Haigh Hall. Norman Tebbitt was laughed at for suggesting the unemployed should “get on their bikes”, but it pains me to say he was right.

Give secondary school heads the power to cane unruly teenagers, with no fear of legal action, so they grow up to be adults who respect authority, and will instill that respect in their offspring.

Its taken half a generation to go wrong – it will take a whole generation to put right.

That’s not just Wigan, it just about sums up most of the North West.

Had a holiday down in Dorset last summer. Different world. Bournemouth was almost like being abroad….and I don’t mean because of all the Poles and Czechs, etc! (can’t recall seeing any. Just a really top British holiday resort) The beach was on a par with anything I have seen in Europe, and wasn’t far behind the one we were on in Jamaica. Just a totally different attitude and feeling about the place.

But even nearer to home, in Lancaster, there is definitely more optimism. Visit the place quite a lot, as the wife hails from up there. New businesses, new buildings being thrown up all the time, just a good ‘get up and go’ vibe about the place. A small city, that hasn’t been stereotyped as everywhere else with just the ‘same old, same old’ shops and chains. Still an air of individuality about the place. Lived up there for 2 years, and it was boss.

I have to admit, parts of Wigan DO resemble something from the blitz, at the moment. That old run-down building near Franco’s Italian, is a disgrace. Either flatten it, or renovate it, for pete’s sake! And they also bring out ‘Free swimming for all’…..just as they are demolishing the baths! :shock:

Some bright sparks about, eh?

Personally i think that Walking into Wigan from the Pagefield up Park Road and Parsons Walk is one of the nicest walks into a town centre anywhere in the country, nice Victorian Park on one side and nice houses on the other.

Agreed vat tis beautiful one down point the bloody wasps do your head in :roll: