northampton town

  • Northampton’s Road To Nowhere

    Take a walk through my town Down the dark and dirty paths We got no money for street lights There are no wages for street cleaners Peer from the lofty lift tower heights Drink in the run down derelict sights Hear the dereliction of council duty Drunk on their neoliberal counsel booty We have been

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  • Depression Path

    Depression Path

    Losing interest in your interests It’s a warning sign you no longer feel fine Empty and numb got you feeling dumb Depression may have you under the thumb Self hating continually cries out in the night Dabble in drink and drugs with silent shrugs Self medicating trying to keep it out of sight Struggles the

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  • Should the homeless pay? Open letter to the Hope Centre.

    On the 24th of July the CEO of the Hope Centre wrote on his blog an article entitled: “Why Hope charges for items like food and clothes.” In this article the CEO seeks to justify charging for these items, as well as selling donations on eBay and furthermore attacks organisations that give away things for

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  • County Council: Death By A Thousand Cuts

    Lingchi was an an ancient Chinese torture method which is more widely known in the west as death by a thousand cuts, a torture method this council seems to have adopted as its model for local government policy. Make no mistake that sooner or later people will die because of the butchering of our local

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  • You should be angry, you should be blood boiling red mist descending mad because of your council, they have shown us just how much contempt we are held in by the ruling Conservatives. What controversial issue am I talking about? What hot-topic must I be approaching? Why the very controversial issue of child poverty, you

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  • This week we have heard how Sally Keeble turned down a nice little one thousand pound gift from ex-pm Tony Blair, though not the only one to turn down the money, we would be fooling ourselves if we thought this had anything to do with a principled stance of the ex-pm. Sally Keeble was elected

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  • Northampton Borough Council has shown complete and utter contempt for the chamber, the position and most importantly the people of Northampton, as they spend their last full meeting before the elections patting themselves on the back and electioneering. They seem to have forgotten the problems facing the administration, and will face up until the time

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