Jobs under threat at Clitheroe chemical plant (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Clitheroe is fast becoming the unemployment capital of Lancashire.
Ultraframe,3M,Castle Cement, and now Johnson Matthey
The council though in its infinate wisdom still sees fit to add to the unemployment figures by sanctioning the building of a few hundred more houses.
No jobs, No Schools for the kids to go to ( Ribblesdale is full )
I suppose it's only to be expected though with a tory government and a tory council.

Shytalk, I don't know which planet you have been living on, (and I am not defending the Tories in the slightest), but you should have noticed that unemployment is going up everywhere, and in every country. It's called paying back the money which the last government borrowed to pay the wages of government workers.
You are quite right about the stupidity and vandalism of building thousands more houses in the Ribble Valley.
Build them here on brown field sites in Gt Harwood.

Feel sorry for anyone who falls off the johnson matthey gravy train, but there is nothing but low paid work if any waiting for you in clitheroe.

eastlancslad wrote:
Shytalk, I don't know which planet you have been living on, (and I am not defending the Tories in the slightest), but you should have noticed that unemployment is going up everywhere, and in every country. It's called paying back the money which the last government borrowed to pay the wages of government workers. You are quite right about the stupidity and vandalism of building thousands more houses in the Ribble Valley. Build them here on brown field sites in Gt Harwood.

So are you saying the last British government caused the world wide recession eastlancslad because it borrowed money to pay government workers? Well i have been living on planet earth unlike you and this government. From where i am standing it looks like the recession in this country was caused by corrupt tory bankers speculating on poison American assets. The same tory bankers that pay themselves obscene bonuses whilst their tory government chums condem old age pensioners and others to a life living in poverty. Throwing people onto the old king cole and paying them benefits instead of them working and paying taxes seems a very strange way to pay off the national debt.
Until this government gets its head around the fact it needs to invest and support British owned manufacturing and not destroy it or sell it off to other countries, we will continue on a downward spiral until people are starving and we have civil unrest.
Getting rid of staff doesn't drive businesses forwards. It drives them backwards and the country also. Alternatives to redundancies should be found.

shytalk wrote:

eastlancslad wrote:
Shytalk, I don't know which planet you have been living on, (and I am not defending the Tories in the slightest), but you should have noticed that unemployment is going up everywhere, and in every country. It's called paying back the money which the last government borrowed to pay the wages of government workers. You are quite right about the stupidity and vandalism of building thousands more houses in the Ribble Valley. Build them here on brown field sites in Gt Harwood.

So are you saying the last British government caused the world wide recession eastlancslad because it borrowed money to pay government workers? Well i have been living on planet earth unlike you and this government. From where i am standing it looks like the recession in this country was caused by corrupt tory bankers speculating on poison American assets. The same tory bankers that pay themselves obscene bonuses whilst their tory government chums condem old age pensioners and others to a life living in poverty. Throwing people onto the old king cole and paying them benefits instead of them working and paying taxes seems a very strange way to pay off the national debt.
Until this government gets its head around the fact it needs to invest and support British owned manufacturing and not destroy it or sell it off to other countries, we will continue on a downward spiral until people are starving and we have civil unrest.
Getting rid of staff doesn't drive businesses forwards. It drives them backwards and the country also. Alternatives to redundancies should be found.

Yet the people will continue to label the unemployed as "lazy scroungers leeching off my taxes".There are very few jobs around and this governments solution , force people onto the workfare scheme,where they have to work at places like tesco for nothing

If you lazy scroungers leeching of my taxes would get of the damned internet and start looking for a job it would be a start.

shytalk wrote:

eastlancslad wrote:
Shytalk, I don't know which planet you have been living on, (and I am not defending the Tories in the slightest), but you should have noticed that unemployment is going up everywhere, and in every country. It's called paying back the money which the last government borrowed to pay the wages of government workers. You are quite right about the stupidity and vandalism of building thousands more houses in the Ribble Valley. Build them here on brown field sites in Gt Harwood.

So are you saying the last British government caused the world wide recession eastlancslad because it borrowed money to pay government workers? Well i have been living on planet earth unlike you and this government. From where i am standing it looks like the recession in this country was caused by corrupt tory bankers speculating on poison American assets. The same tory bankers that pay themselves obscene bonuses whilst their tory government chums condem old age pensioners and others to a life living in poverty. Throwing people onto the old king cole and paying them benefits instead of them working and paying taxes seems a very strange way to pay off the national debt.
Until this government gets its head around the fact it needs to invest and support British owned manufacturing and not destroy it or sell it off to other countries, we will continue on a downward spiral until people are starving and we have civil unrest.
Getting rid of staff doesn't drive businesses forwards. It drives them backwards and the country also. Alternatives to redundancies should be found.

Camerons Broken Britain, its been mended beyond repair.

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
If you lazy scroungers leeching of my taxes would get of the damned internet and start looking for a job it would be a start.

I don't leech of your taxes I run a business. I feel sorry for those that are unemployed and can't find a job.
Unlike you Michael i have sympathy for those who are unemployed or about to be such as those at Johnson Matthey.
If you ever find yourself on hard times then you will have the right to eat your own words and boy would i like to witness that.
Comments like yours are what the country has come to expect from greedy tory scumbags

shytalk wrote:
Clitheroe is fast becoming the unemployment capital of Lancashire. Ultraframe,3M,Castle Cement, and now Johnson Matthey The council though in its infinate wisdom still sees fit to add to the unemployment figures by sanctioning the building of a few hundred more houses. No jobs, No Schools for the kids to go to ( Ribblesdale is full ) I suppose it's only to be expected though with a tory government and a tory council.

Just a few bad management decisions made by bad management teams with it wont affect me attitude ! and not held accountable after.

shytalk wrote:

Michael@ClitheroeSin

ce58 wrote:
If you lazy scroungers leeching of my taxes would get of the damned internet and start looking for a job it would be a start.

I don't leech of your taxes I run a business. I feel sorry for those that are unemployed and can't find a job.
Unlike you Michael i have sympathy for those who are unemployed or about to be such as those at Johnson Matthey.
If you ever find yourself on hard times then you will have the right to eat your own words and boy would i like to witness that.
Comments like yours are what the country has come to expect from greedy tory scumbags

It's no wonder you can't get a job you need to work on your attitude lol if you actually read the posts above the one by Good call, you will see I was just being ironic, chill out

Shytalk.
Yep, ok I forgot. It's all the fault of the bankers.
Hope you had a good riot.

Now come on boys calm down. The important thing here is people will be made redundant which is never easy. It has happened to me 3 times so I know. Unfortunately as the first post says, all the main employers in Clitheroe are reducing their workforce and not taking on extra staff. So isn't it strange that our local council wants to build 4,000 extra houses in the Ribble Valley with 1,670 being sited in Clitheroe. Are they not aware of the current economic climate? Or are they obeying national Tory instructions to build, because heavy finances are ploughed into Tory coffers by building company bosses. But don't worry RVBC have done their homework and employment figures are included in the reasons for all the extra houses. Unfortunately the employment information used is from 2008 when things were much better!!!

Good call wrote:

shytalk wrote:

eastlancslad wrote:
Shytalk, I don't know which planet you have been living on, (and I am not defending the Tories in the slightest), but you should have noticed that unemployment is going up everywhere, and in every country. It's called paying back the money which the last government borrowed to pay the wages of government workers. You are quite right about the stupidity and vandalism of building thousands more houses in the Ribble Valley. Build them here on brown field sites in Gt Harwood.

So are you saying the last British government caused the world wide recession eastlancslad because it borrowed money to pay government workers? Well i have been living on planet earth unlike you and this government. From where i am standing it looks like the recession in this country was caused by corrupt tory bankers speculating on poison American assets. The same tory bankers that pay themselves obscene bonuses whilst their tory government chums condem old age pensioners and others to a life living in poverty. Throwing people onto the old king cole and paying them benefits instead of them working and paying taxes seems a very strange way to pay off the national debt.
Until this government gets its head around the fact it needs to invest and support British owned manufacturing and not destroy it or sell it off to other countries, we will continue on a downward spiral until people are starving and we have civil unrest.
Getting rid of staff doesn't drive businesses forwards. It drives them backwards and the country also. Alternatives to redundancies should be found.

Yet the people will continue to label the unemployed as "lazy scroungers leeching off my taxes".There are very few jobs around and this governments solution , force people onto the workfare scheme,where they have to work at places like tesco for nothing

There are very few jobs around and this governments solution , force people onto the workfare scheme,where they have to work at places like tesco for nothing
.

Too true and this is no more than slave labour,pure and simple.Then,they make their lives a misery as they further destroy them by reducing their benefits and abusing people already in a vunerable position by persecuting them about jobs that simply do not exist.