Curly's Corner Shop, the blog!

Blog pressure vindicated

This is good and welcome news indeed from South Tyneside Council, car parking is to be made cheaper and easier in South Shields, it’s a reasonable compromise and offers a better deal for short stay trips into the town centre for shoppers. I thank those on South Tyneside who have been responsible for responding to local concerns expressed both here and in the local press.

I’ve been posting my comments about attracting visitors and shoppers to South Shields for a long time here, here, here, here, and here for just a few examples from the many. It’s good know that these thoughts and ideas are being listened to and acted upon.

South Tyneside Council’s leader Iain Malcom said:

“We have listened to what local people and the local business community had to say about parking and I believe this will be a huge help to them.”

I hope we are not about to read some inane comments from certain Independent councillors in South Tyneside who plagiarised my words and jumped on this bandwagon recently.  I made the point in this post:

Devoid of policies I said, and with good reason, having already spouted about special parking schemes for South Shields shoppers, an idea first proposed here, today with recession biting hard, with job losses rising fast, with credit and loans for new schemes difficult to come by, with council budgets about to be formulated for the next year, with the council tax base being decided this week, with a council tax increase looking likely again, just what strategic and important issue do you think the Independent Alliance chose to attack the Labour Party about? Graveyards and cups of tea!  Local readers will note that the Alliance does not appear to have tripped over the headstone issue before, I wonder where they read about it? However tea and biscuits was much more up their street, even though my blog post of 5th. January was only meant to ask some questions comparing South Tyneside to other local councils, I guess Curly’s Corner Shop must be a favourite read for Alliance councillors. Please though dear reader, please be aware that I am not in any way the author of Independent Alliance policies in these parts, but they are more than willing to feed off the efforts of others.

Rather like Gordon Brown and his attempts to rekindle “Old Labour”, when short of a policy or two, it’s easier to steal ideas than think them up yourself.

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