Middlesbrough Council - News Forum - Setting a light to the News

Are letters posted in the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette a true reflection of life on Teessside. What views do you have what letter subjects would you send to be printed in the Gazette. Would the Gazette print your Letter in full.

I've written several times about the demolitions - firstly in regards to St Hildas and them in regards to my own circumstances.
The lack of information, the backtracking and changes, the outright lies.

People in the area will get a direct house swap - like for like. Dropped

No-one will be out of pocket - most certainly no longer the case

Then removal payments became "loans" - or some aspect of "part ownership", in any case some people most certainly will be out of pocket

Not a single plan for what comes after the demolition.

The statements that funding is in place - after nigh on six years the blatant untruth of those numerous statements is obvious to everyone except the EG.

The claim that funding was given by the government, but a plan needed to be submitted to get the funds, requests to see the plans were met with there are no plans finalised yet, then a story in the Eg that the funds were dependent on a more detailed plan being submitted, but I was told there was no finalised plan, so I asked to see the plan that was not detailed enough - and was told there wasn;t one. The left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing and the EG just towed the party/Mayoral line

The mystery of what will be built when the Gem streets area will be demoilished - the council apparently have no finalised plans and never have, they certainly have never been able to give anyone I know a statement of intent as to what will be built afterwards, yet in an application for a radio license from the government - a feted local retailer gives a short bio, included in it is claim of what he intends to build around a store, in the Gem streets area

From the application for a license for "TouchFM" - page 8. If anyone would like a copy of the full PDF - PM me

to transform a stretch of adjacent Garnet Street into an open café area with quality shops, bars and hairdressing salons that will bring European café culture to the city.

This in an application to the goverment, from a prospective director of a radio station applying for a licence...so what was the truth, no finalised plans or plans to build quality shops, bars and hairdressing salons that one chap claimed was so in a radio licence application ?. That they were not built is not the issue, that someone certainly with an ear to MBC, and I believe as a director of the Middlesbrpugh Town Centre Company most certainly claimed there was a plan for what wouod cme after demolition, yet the residents could never get any answer from the council.


Not once have I had a letter to the Editor published about any of these issues.

Though i did write a letter several years ago, praising Mallons work as mayor in championing the town - it was total bollocks and I made up a name and an address - an address that doesn;t actually exist, but it got past the vetting procedure and was published. Sums up the EG to me.

Hi Deckard,
Most of the current material, needs to get out into the local population, some kind of a free news sheet. It won't come out Via EG.

The potential material, also requires a similar approach, maybe if the electorate could see just what is really going on, the profile in MBC I think will change dramatically, and the allowanceschair and outside body reprentation and distribution in a similar manner.

Only one paper in Middlesbrough and the freebies are controlled by the same media, so getting facts and truth in front of the electorate, is somewhat skewed.
A . . . . . N.E.S.T.I. of --------------anyone care to fill a name in the space.

As I have said often, elsewhere, when folk start to dig holes, all sorts of things are dragged to the surface, and there has been a lot of holes dug!
And more of the spoils have to come out!

Tosha

Hi Inseriousity,
Again, keep them short, to the point and avoid personal aspects.

The letters pages are filtered, and there are a number of repeat persons getting their letters in.

I'm sure that others might be more successful, if they follow the first line of this post.

One of the problems mainly now is, it has become a information page a political platform or message board, with the obvious biases, for councillors, other connected persons and of course, some who are so obviously put up to posting a letter as to be almost 100% transparent, even some who don't appear on any of the voting lists of this town etc, but claim to live here.

Just keep plugging away.

Tosha

Evening gazette letters page. To whom it may concern!

Posting letters even in that paper and dodgy comments.
Middlesbrough might seem big to some, but really it is not all that big and often it is quite small when people take note of who is who!

Letter writer who referred to me as idolising McTigue, just so happens to be a resident of beechwood, and lives in the same little road as said councillor.
Now isn't that coincidence, has a little job as a glass collector in the (..........) pub.
Funny thing how folk know who is who and such, and take the time to tell me who is who.
And by a similar coincidence, it was not a McTigue who told me, but a patron of the pub. And I don't frequent pubs and that one in particular.

Tosha

So, if you know this, then why the need to ask me on another thread?

What difference does it make if said letter writer lives in the same road as McTigue or not?

What difference does it make what that person does for a living, or where he/she does it?

Fact is, when the letters from both yourself and this other respondent were reproduced on the EG forum, Predator_Drone - who isnt you, oh no! - quite quickly lost his cool.

Still no explanation as to why, as the obvious truth is difficult to admit.

While I have to admit that on the whole, I would agree with the basis of many of your letters to the EG, Tosha, when others, who appear to have no political alliegance (correct me if I'm wrong, after all, I set up a thread on the EG forum to identify those that write to the EG posing as residents when they clearly have a political axe to grind#) start to comment on your slavish idolisation of cllr McTigue, then maybe it's time to be a bit more objective.


# You will notice that at no point in that thread does 'A Warren' actually get a mention!

Hi RockR,

So, if you know this, then why the need to ask me on another thread?

What difference does it make if said letter writer lives in the same road as McTigue or not?

What difference does it make what that person does for a living, or where he/she does it?

The fact that he his known, and as to views and etc, kind of has some pertinence. However, why is it a problem for you, appears you are the only one who has some large degree of concern.

What was it another poster said, stalking!

Predator_Drone - who isnt you, oh no! - quite quickly lost his cool.

You're reading too much into things again, I'm afraid, a bit like the mistake you made as to my manipulating the views count in another post? Your flu bout is affecting your concentartion

start to comment on your slavish idolisation of cllr McTigue, then maybe it's time to be a bit more objective.

Again the fact that this person is known and noted, the use of the word (and it was not idolisation BTW or YOUR use of slavish either????? ) IDOL is just another form of abuse and a lie and false allegation, of which I wrote to the EG on the matter.

# You will notice that at no point in that thread does 'A Warren' actually get a mention!

But you toss in my name as an aside on here, as I have stated often enough, and unlike yourself, I have no anon, and as you admitted elesewhere, you would find great difficulty in posting without the protection of your ANON, says an awful lot, kind of fencing yourself in.

Tosha