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O/T Should Keighley breakaway from Bradford. : Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:26 pm  
I keep reading, about how we should break away from Bradford.
If it were to happen and we were left to run our own council. Would it be better for the town?
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With what I've been hearing about a couple of local councilors (court cases pending :SILENCE: ) I'm reminded of an old saying of my mothers which - paraphrased - suggests that they all urinate in the same receptacle.

My answer to the question is a resounding NO, we'd be no better off, in fact I think we will be worse off with another tier of useless twa.... sorry politicians, squabbling and falling out over minor inconsequential matters in order to feed their individual ego's.

Let's keep the species to a minimum.
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Re: O/T Should Keighley breakaway from Bradford. : Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:06 am  
Yes we should, how can we be worse off, one of the worst things to happen for Keighley was being engulfed into Bradford.

What I am suprised about is our MP Kris Hopkins seemingly favouring a breakaway or at least taking some power back from Bradford when as leader of Bradford Council he was instrumental in favouring Bradford at our expense.

Leopards and spots spring to mind.

One thing should we ever get away from Bradfords control is not to have a mayor elected or otherwise as I cannot see any benefit to this role at all, only time they are seen is at events wearing a glorified toilet chain, an expense we can manage without.
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Re: O/T Should Keighley breakaway from Bradford. : Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:21 pm  
goosey wrote:
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What's a notorious porn film got to do with politics? :wink:
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Re: O/T Should Keighley breakaway from Bradford. : Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:31 pm  
I'm just bumping this as it has been mentioned in the local press again.

I for one think it would be a great thing if all council tax was going directly in to our area as opposed to being spread out across the Bradford Council area.

I'm not sure exactly how this is working and which areas would be used here. Apparently my area, The Worth Valley is planned to merge with an area of Calderdale in terms of voting areas and will be removed from the Keighley and Ilkley seat which has been unaffected in decades. That seems like quite a moronic idea. The Keighley seat will also include Bingley now, possibly removing Ilkley from what I remember.

I'm not sure how this affects the talked about breakaway.

I'd happily support an independent Keighley Council using the area boundaries that are in place for the Keighley MP currently. It is debatable what impact it would have on Ilkley however and I think it may be fairer for them to merge in to a nearer by area.
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The planned constituency boundary changes, officially, will/should not have any effect on the Keighley breakaway, however I believe that, the boundaries commission in their infinite wisdom would take that into consideration, and therefore, should the constituency changes go ahead as recommended, then that would greatly affect the breakaway. I can see the Worth Valley area etc. being ruled by Calderdale and not Bradford and the rest of Keighley and Ilkley still being governed by Bradford.
If Keighley were to breakaway from Bradford, the sooner the better IMO, then that would effectively remove a tier of goverment as Keighley would not have to go via Bradford in any decisions and like a previous poster suggested, funds raised in Keighley and district would be spent in Keighley and district.
I would suggest that everybody lobby our MP, Kris Hopkins, by mail, email, text, telephone or any other method you can think of with ideas and advantages for a breakaway, to give him more ammunition to fire at those people hiding away in Westminster to block the Constituency changes and to push forward the breakaway.
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Would the daft idea to absorb parts of Keighley district into Calderdale have no impact at all on any breakaway? If not then I'd say why not go it alone. However I wouldn't trust Kris Hopkins as far as I could throw him, also don't assume Keighley councillors would be any better than Bradford ones. I often read in the Keighley News a letters page dominated by town councillors bickering at each other.
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Bullseye wrote:
I often read in the Keighley News a letters page dominated by town councillors bickering at each other.


That is a very good point.
Also one of them is a convicted thief.

I wouldn't trust them to look after the finances of Keighley.
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