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SALFORD CITY COUNCIL WINS GREEN FINGERS AWARD

Star date: 28th December 2016

THE SALFORD STAR MARY BURNS AWARDS 2016:

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL GRABS GREEN FINGERS GONG

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the tenth annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past twelve months.

This special gardening award goes to a cash-strapped council that sheds no tears when it comes to raking the £s on flower shows. So, ladies and gentlemen, please plant a smile on your social care cuts, call a spade a spade and sing `to-marrow belongs to me' for the winner of the Green Fingers Award...Salford City C-o-o-o-u-u-u-ncil!!!

Full award details here...

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GREEN FINGERS AWARD

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SALFORD CITY COUNCIL

Yes, after wheelbarrowing £19million last year to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Garden in Worsley, including £9million to Peel Holdings (see here), Salford City Council this year managed to fork out almost £27,000 on the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park – for a five day exhibit of a garden shed.

The Council handed designer, Tim Denton, the bulk of the £26,841 budget to come up with a "custom made and innovatively decorated haven" that referenced "the sights and experiences of the canal environment".

The designer shed was exhibited at Tatton in July, where visitor tickets cost £32, and was part of the Blooming Bridgewater project which is, in turn, part of a £3.6million Heritage Lottery Fund scheme, with £1.9million in match funding from the Council (see previous Salford Star article for details - click here).

The massive amounts of public money are being used to tart up the Peel Holdings-owned Bridgewater Canal and its environments. And the designer shed was built to echo "the industrious and inventive spirit of 1761 that sparked a period of growth and transformation".

Salford Council knows all about the "industrious and inventive spirit" of gardening, having also ploughed £300,000 into the hopelessly failed Biospheric Project `urban growing centre' in Blackfriars which is now a weed garden (see here).

So, ladies and gentlemen, please put on your rose-tinted glasses, mow your meadow of community health cuts and fondle your man-cave for the winner of the Salford Star Mary Burns Green Fingers Award...

Salford City Council!

If anyone from Salford Council would like to make an acceptance speech please use the comments box below...

Winners of the 2016 Salford Star Mary Burns Awards

* Nice Work If You Can Get It Award - Hazel Blears - click here

* Ethical Hypocrisy Award – Co-operative Group - click here

* George Bush Read My Lips Award – Hazel Blears, Phil Mayall and Councillor Derek Antrobus - click here

* Services To Salford Heritage Destruction - Fred Done - click here

* Pimp My Poverty Award - Salford City Council - click here

* Feed The Rich Award - Peel Holdings - click here

* International Award - Manchester City Council - click here

* `How The Fuck Did You Manage To Ignore Almost 3 Million People?' Award - Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) - click here

* Services To Social Housing - Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett – click here

* Affordable Housing Hypocrisy Revolving Door Award – Councillor Paul Longshaw – click here

* Uncle Joe Stalin Award for Open and Democratic Government – Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett – click here

* Gary Neville Finger In Pies Award - Salford City Council - click here

Tahir Chakotai (Independent Housing Advocate) wrote
at 08:11:20 on 29 December 2016

@Part Time Socialist Retired. I completely agree with everything you have said. Every year the Labour lead Salford Council make inexcusable and unacceptable cuts to Social Care, Mental Health Services, Disabled Transport Schemes, and even Homeless Hostels, but always has enough cash to spend on frivolous ventures such as a Garden Shed at the flower show. It really does show where the Salford Council priorities lie. Once again I hear myself saying "Three Cheers To The Salford Star", for giving the "Salford Council" yet another well deserved "Mary Burns Award". Kindest Regards, Tahir Chakotai, (Independent Housing Advocate).

Part time Socialist retired wrote
at 10:43:57 on 28 December 2016

it's funny since the inception of this online mag I have read every article, the Mary Burns sections makes you smile at first with Steve's take on the issues, but then you sit back and think, and then the anger takes over, why? simple we have allowed this we have allowed it because we have grown apathetic to the issues that Salford Labour get away with, they sit and denounce the Tories yes I agree the Tories have devastated Council funding but Labour yes Labour are guilty for the disgraceful waste of the limited cash we have, and while this goes on the real people those in need suffer. Today I got out of my warm bed and made a coffee simple things? no many don't have the luxury leaving on the streets, many don't have the cash to eat, the elderly, the sick those suffering with chronic illness and those we have seem with problems of drugs and alcohol and not forgetting mental issues all dropping out of the loop because of misspent tax payers cash, yes we can all see peels media city their gardens that will cost us more cash and Merrie's white elephant but is that what we want? I don't think so. Time to wake up Salford and smell the Bulls-it.

Michael James Felse wrote
at 10:41:23 on 28 December 2016

Congratulations Salford Council but if it's true please plant snowdrops, daffodils and lavenders in every ward. Salford certainly need to build happy communities in 2017 and go full steam to attract bees, butterflies and birds into greener wards that say no to destructive building in our green belt lands.

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