So out of touch
TIME to go Mr Mitchell.
It is becoming more obvious by the week Mr Mitchell is totally out of touch and almost out of time.
Firstly, his support for the ex-speaker, father of the house Mr Meacher, who spent millions of tax payers' money trying to stop the investigation into the MPs' expenses. Mr Mitchell paid back £10,500.
Secondly, Mr Mitchell's support for Elliot Morley, MP for Scunthorpe, who accidently claimed £163,500 for a mortgage that had already been paid off? It was a simple mistake I feel sorry for him, Mr Mitchell was quoted saying.
Thirdly, in my opinion, very flippant comments regarding Mr Mitchell's other expenses, examples being, alcohol, biscuits etc. No, Mr Mitchell, laughing and joking about these issues is misguided at best.
Fourthly, I can assure Mr Mitchell we have some very good upholsters here in Grimsby, you don't have to take your old sofa to be recovered in Yorkshire. Perhaps if you spent a bit more of your time in Grimsby, rather than in one of your residencies in London, Yorkshire, New Zealand and who knows what other properties you own. You should know this, especially as you have been MP for Grimsby for 33 years (You seem to have done very well out of the people of this recession-battered town).
Fifth, in your time as serving MP for Grimsby we have seen the near collapse of our fishing, food processing, chemical and petroleum industries and still our ex-fishermen wait for compensation year after year only to be told by Mr Mitchell he is on the case (it seems a very long case). What a pity they weren't miners down the pits like your fellow Yorkshire men, Mr Mitchell.
Sixthly, at 72 years old with a poorly wife, who I am very sorry to hear has cancer (my wife had cancer), a large family, several properties and other nice little earner part time jobs, I would say it's time to take a good look at yourself, if only to watch yourself on the TV documentary series which, please believe me makes you look remote, out of date, out of place, arrogant and ill prepared for living with us common people.
We can't all afford to eat in the Othello restaurant, in Top Town, every evening whilst visiting from time to time the town that pays for your services.
Whilst I think it a little late to try to make yourself look like our local caring MP, examples being the sudden leaflets dropped through our letter boxes, photos in the paper, the advertisements of your local surgery etc, you would be better off spending the time planning your luxurious retirement while the rest of us try to survive in a town which I know for a fact has one of the worst unemployment and poverty situations in all of the UK.
Come and spend a week with me, Mr Mitchell, and I will show you the real Grimsby and what's really going on in this town. You don't need to go to Hull, it's all here under your own nose to see, though I very much doubt you will.
Finally, I was born here, live here and am just managing to survive here, I really don't think you understand the situation here anymore.
There is more I could say but you are not listening, Mr Mitchell. I don't care if the national Labour executive endorses your candidacies for Grimsby, it will be the people of the town who will say whether you keep your job as MP, not them, and if your record is anything to go by, especially recently, then you have lost another Labour supporter in me.
To quote the papers you just don't get it. So much has changed so quickly. Let someone younger, local and fresh take Labour on to win the election. If not, I think Labour may lose and that ridiculous poster at the A16 junction near Tollbar (cheer up the Tories are coming may come true for the Tories that is). Mr Mitchell it's time to go.
Mr Howard, Yarbrough Road, Grimsby.
The Telegraph says
Support him or not, Mr Mitchell will stand again and, while should be open to justified criticism, is not entirely responsible for everything this letter contains – he has fought hard on the fishermen's compensation issue, for instance. However, if it is time for a change, that will only happen if people USE their vote.
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by Bernard, Sth Killingholme.
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 11:45AM
“Walt A Meattie.
The article refered to was GT Sat 13th March,bearing the headline.
"Rudest town laid bare by Google".
Not too sure about the word BARE if they did visit the said street.
I shall now check it out and report back.”
by Walt. A. Meattie, grimland the rude in places
Monday, March 15 2010, 5:20PM
“"call me what you will" stop it! u dont arf mek me laff.
if google did do that street i'll bet they got a bent ear from cloth-ears.
which leads me to ask, wot GT page was that on?
also grimlander diddernt get HIS ref right.
the ps lincoln castle trust lead address is on GT's
'Don't knock the docks down' page
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 06:30”
by Call me what you will,, You allways do.
Monday, March 15 2010, 4:21PM
“On another thread it says Google have named Grimsby the rudest town they have ever been to.
Did they only visit Clark Street?
Bernard. Elder Berry. keeping away from the source of Global warming.”
by A. Grimlander, Elder, GRIMLAND getting warmer all the time
Monday, March 15 2010, 11:14AM
“Bernard Elder, me old Berry! I'd been wondering where you'd got to. You'd have gathered from Walt. A. Meattie that he's 'one and the same'? I wonder who Fruit Cake, or whatever, is? Or maybe I shouldn't.
By the way, I think we've found the ultimate source of global warming -- a gynormous (hope I got that right, Roget) hot flush hovers over Grimland. A propos 'hysteria', I note the tumult continues. I was going to say in response to that outburst, 'if the cap fits...', but sadly thought better of it in the context.
We're way 'off thread' now so I might as well try to make Neil's day with a bit archy-english:
Hysteria -- a psychoneurosis in which repressed complexes become split off and dissociated from personality. That's what the book says, but as a mere retired publisher (no, not a lawyer... publishers employ lawyers, at their right hand!) I'm inclined to disagree with the 'split from the personality' bit. The full definition's a somewhat long but it comes from the Greek 'hystera' -- for a portion of female anatomy formerly thought to be the origin of hysteria. The 'gyn' in gynormous might have some similar connexion? Incidentally the flogging of the secrecy bit comes from a disinclination to reveal the detail of a local project.which may initially be contacted via (Latin!) the GT page re the GY Ice House, currently receiving comment.
Back on thread -- Yes. They should all go! Have you noticed how everything calms down during the summer recess when they all away in their second homes?
Yrs aye...”
by josephine white, Grimsby
Monday, March 15 2010, 10:31AM
“GL wrote: "The vast majority of us chaps would need only one!"
I'm staggered that you'd even need *one* GL .. With the strings on your busy-busy bow increasing by the day, it's a wonder that you haven't owned to being a Law Lord at *least*, at some stage in your life!
Or a Barrister perhaps?
Ah, I've got it .. you lectured on law at one of the more prestigious of our universities, *and* you've written numerous books on the subject, and would send me one .. only the postage is *so* expensive .. right?
Anythings possible with you.”
by Bernard, Sth Killingholme.
Monday, March 15 2010, 10:28AM
“A. Grimlander.
You may have noticed the absense of one of your ELDER brotherhood. " ELDER BERRY" recently.
Well I must confess it is I. And Miss menopause never quessed at all.
Crackers and Utterly pathetic now, perhaps each name called needs a separate lawyer hence the need for "a whole army" of them. To be quite honest a solicitors clerk would be good enough to sort out any problems you have with JW.
No i am not "Walt A Meattie" either.
Jo. Keep taking the pills.
ELDER BERRY. (The cat's well out of the bag)”
by A.. Grimlander, Elder, GRIMLAND of fair distribution
Monday, March 15 2010, 9:42AM
“If I may quote (research and non-profitable use):
¿If I sued every time I was insulted, vilified, ridiculed and otherwise maligned for my views and comments - I'd had to employ an army of lawyers!¿
What a succinct reflection on mentality, attitude and situation.
The vast majority of us chaps would need only one!”
by josephine white, Grimsby
Monday, March 15 2010, 9:01AM
“So, for lack of anything else to defend your ignorance, you finally resort to flippantly dismissing my every posting merely as the rants of a menopasual female.
Utterly Pathetic.”
by A. Grimlander, Elder, GRIMLAND, still in hysteria
Sunday, March 14 2010, 5:26PM
“See wot I meen?
I'm mindful of a reelly, reeellly top class meeting (it's the Walter Mitty in me) where the esteemed technical directer was having a fit about something or other and the head of industrial development said, "Calm down, 'Joe', they give wimmin tablets for that!"”
by josephine white, Grimsby
Sunday, March 14 2010, 5:11PM
“Grimlanders posting containing his ridiculous threat has now been removed.
Grimlander .. this is a *public forum*, and as such you must expect a certain amount of derision and criticism for your views and comments.
If I sued every time I was insulted, vilified, ridiculed and otherwise maligned for *my* views and comments - I'd had to employ an army of lawyers!
And I repeat ..how can a case of defamation be made against an anonymous pseudonym??
Crackers!”