Nonsense plan for market (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Nonsense plan for market

12:40pm Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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I AM duty bound to reply to the LT article “Live lobsters can add theatre to market” (LT, March 12) Fifty years ago, Blackburn was a thriving, pleasant Lancshire market town until consecutive Blackburn councils, with their atrocious ideas on design for a new town centre, appalling road routing, abysmal pieces of art strewn here and there, ultimately ruined the town.

Council bosses state that they want a continental style market; they wish to “create a sense of theatre” which will encourage “viveur” type display.

To top all this nonsense they have the arrogance to state on their website that “stallholders shall be neatly dressed and well presented”.

I am certain that a lot of stallholders will be more than annoyed with this statement, particularly in my case when I was invited by a Conservative councillor to a meeting a couple of years ago and witnessed how some of those councillors were dressed and evidenced the almost non-existent etiquette.

Because of the atrocious state of Blackburn which I believe is beyond redemption, I cannot think of a finer, more illustrative phrase than this: “You will never ever, ever make a silk purse of this particular sow’s ear.”

Chris Eggleston, Quebec Road, Blackburn.