Wigan MP 'Hustings' tomorrow 21st April at 7:30pm - Newtown Working Mens Club, WN5 0TT.

Don't forget if you're free tomorrow....

After the recent cancellation of the Pemberton Churches hustings, UKIP MP candidate for Wigan Mark Bradley working with Independent MP candidate Gareth Fairhurst has re-arranged the event. This will give the people of Wigan the opportunity they deserve to question their parliamentary candidates. All candidates have been invited to attend with Mark Bradley (UKIP), Gareth Fairhurst (Independent) and Will Patterson (Green Party) already confirming attendance.

The hustings will now be held tomorrow 21st April at 7:30pm and the venue will be Newtown Working Mens Club, WN5 0TT.

The format which has been agreed will be:

Audience questions will be submitted on entry to the venue. This is to prevent duplication.

Candidates will have 8 minutes each for an opening speech. 

Members of the audience will then be asked to present their pre-submitted question.

Each candidate will then have one minute to reply to the question

Thereafter the candidates will debate the question in point. Audience participation during this process will be invited by the chair identifying individuals who wish to comment.

It is envisaged that this process for each question will take around 15 minutes. It is hoped to cover six subjects on the evening.

Labour get cold feat over Wigan MP Hustings?

Candidates vying to be the next MP for Wigan (and hundreds of voters) have been left out in the cold when the organisers cancelled a ‘hustings’ meeting due to take place today at St John's Church.

We know the following were due to attend; Mark Bradley (UKIP), Richard Clayton (Lib Dem), Gareth Fairhurst (Wigan Independents), Caroline Kerswell (Conservative), Brian Parr (Independent) and Will Patterson (Green Party).

But no confirmation from the Labour candidate Lisa Nandy? Cold feet we suspect! But the organisers were unprepared to give their reasons for cancelling.

2014's local election statistics

When UKIP stood candidates in the 2014 location elections we scored nearly double the Conservative and nearly 3 times the independent vote.

Lancashire or Greater Manchester?

There's no contest when you look at this map of the NHS.

Wigan Labour will have us join with Greater Manchester (7) with a -£15 Million deficit compared to Lancashire (5) being +£3 Million in surplus.

Cuts will remain whoever wins elections says Labour run Wigan Council

In a clear example that Labour and the Conservatives are one and the same part of the establishment , Deputy chief executive of Labour run Wigan council Paul McKevitt warned the borough will need to keep tightening its belt for at least three years to come regardless of who is in Downing Street at the end of May.

It seems apparent that whatever government is elected, more years of shrinking resources lie ahead and the plan is reflective of this.

Watching all that pornography on taxpayer provided IT may have clouded Councillors judgements as the only cost that was reduced in the Council's budget was Sex shop licenses by a whopping 75%...

'reduced costs from the following: Sex Shop New Licence – £5,177 recalculated at £1,745 Sexual Entertainment Venue New Licence – £3,800 recalculated at £2,023 Sexual Entertainment Venue Renewed Licence – £1,800 recalculated at £870'

Andy Burnham finds patient willing to have a picture taken

Staff track down patient willing to have their picture taken with Andy Burnham...

Labour accused of using 'inappropriate' election poster image of potential 'victim of child abuse'

Clearly local MP Andy Burnham aiming to be Health Minister doesn't know much about broken bones....

Daily Telegraph 24/03/2015 Labour accused of using 'inappropriate' election poster image of potential 'victim of child abuse'

'Paediatric experts said that the X-ray shows the bone of a three to five-year-old with multiple fractures to the lower leg and looks as though the child has been “repeatedly submitted to violence”.

Prof Christopher Colton, emeritus consultant in orthopaedic and accident surgery, Nottingham University Hospital, said: “If that X-ray presented itself at a hospital, all the alarm bells would ring for possible non-accidental injury.

“There are absolutely clear two episodes of violence and possibly the bone bruise is a third."

Prof Colton explained: “There is a fresh fracture in the middle of the leg, which is less than ten days old. Above the ankle there is a healed fracture consistent with a blow to the outer side of the leg, which is at least three to four weeks old.

“On the knee side of the main fracture, there is a slight white haze in the centre of the bone suggesting a healed bone bruise or a healed green stick fracture, about five to six weeks old.”

Prof Colton said there are other possibilities, such as the child having brittle bone disease, however he said he is “90 per cent certain” it is non-accidental injury.

"I have run it past a couple of paediatric colleagues are they both recognised this to be very likely non-accidental injury," he said.

Prof Colton said he contacted the Labour campaign office as well as his local MP over the weekend to raise his concerns, but his calls were not returned'.