Anyone think houchen will get back in?

When Chris McEwan is door-stepping voters I wonder how often he or the voter mention the freeport and the corruption taking place there. Or is free car parking the main concern?
 
Sadly i think houchan will win, but he will be isolated and hopefully exposed under a labour government and teesside labour mps
 
h_m_boro said:
You could be right.

But when Labour get in, one of the first things they should do is get the National Audit Office in to give Teessworks a proper look over - why do you think Gove refused to do this if everything was fully documented and above board?

He may win the election but long term ......he's toast.
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Won’t this scare away investment tho
 
Omega said:
Won’t this scare away investment tho
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Not necessarily.

If investors are looking at Teessworks at present, see the dodgy dealings, the lack of transparency, the failed legal battle v PD Ports .....the list goes on.

Would you invest your millions in this sh*t show?
 
fmttmadmin said:
Therefore we must do our bit to make our presence felt on social media. We all do ir. Make it work.
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You can do more than anyone on here to promote Chris’s campaign… if you want to.

Leeds edition of the fanzine, make it a special edition and state why Houchen needs to go and Chris needs to be in.

Print flyers hand them out at the game again spelling out why.

Use your platform on twitter, Facebook etc. actively promote Chris’s campaign.

This forum is an echo chamber and stating it here and allowing others too isn’t going to change anyone’s mind as they already bought in.

You have the ability to reach others who aren’t on this forum, more than anyone else.

Will you use it?
 
Geoff_B said:
You can do more than anyone on here to promote Chris’s campaign… if you want to.

Leeds edition of the fanzine, make it a special edition and state why Houchen needs to go and Chris needs to be in.

Print flyers hand them out at the game again spelling out why.

Use your platform on twitter, Facebook etc. actively promote Chris’s campaign.

This forum is an echo chamber and stating it here and allowing others too isn’t going to change anyone’s mind as they already bought in.

You have the ability to reach others who aren’t on this forum, more than anyone else.

Will you use it?
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Do it Rob
 
h_m_boro said:
Not necessarily.

If investors are looking at Teessworks at present, see the dodgy dealings, the lack of transparency, the failed legal battle v PD Ports .....the list goes on.

Would you invest your millions in this sh*t show?
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Not sure it would. I would say not all but most companies, businesses are very open to tax avoidance and happy to after their mates (shareholders) at the expense of the majority
 
Omega said:
Not sure it would. I would say not all but most companies, businesses are very open to tax avoidance and happy to after their mates (shareholders) at the expense of the majority
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I think a lot of companies, especially big companies, are risk adverse and the evidence is that these sorts of schemes just move money around within participating countries. It's not like Teesside has the only Freeport.
 
The Conservative brand at the moment is toxic so both Houchen and Turner are trying to distance themselves from central government, both have said ignore Westminster and concentrate on local issues, which is a cowardly and disingenuous tactic given that neither have resigned from the Party who they are trying to disassociate themselves from and the part, especially in Houchen's case, they have played in creating the mistrust and toxicity surrounding the Tories.

Houchen's campaign is based around the twin misconception's that the airport and freeport are essential and that Labour have done nothing for the area, both of which are blatantly untrue.

I've yet to read a coherent defence of Houchen's time as Mayor, as every metric he relies on shows failure or mismanagement, he talks of job creation yet there are slightly fewer jobs in DTV than when he took over, he has a budget almost double that of the combined local Council's in his area and has borrowed half a billion pounds during his tenure but says that Council's cannot be trusted with managing finance, the Airport is subsidised to the tune of millions a year whilst bus routes that many people rely upon daily are axed due to being 'unaffordable', and on top of that you have the absolute shambles that is the Freeport, built on a lie and continuing through dishonesty, secrecy and cronyism.

The problem is that the truth is called talking the area down, if Houchen doesn't get re-elected he has threatened to take his ball away in an act of typical childlike petulance, and many of his supporters are now cultists who believe he can do no wrong, other Parties need to be more proactive in promoting their candidates and be clear on what they are going to do for the area, to show that politicians are not all the same, sure be critical of Houchen's many mistakes but offer something irresistible in return.
 
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American_Mary said:
The Conservative brand at the moment is toxic so both Houchen and Turner are trying to distance themselves from central government, both have said ignore Westminster and concentrate on local issues, which is a cowardly and disingenuous tactic given that neither have resigned from the Party who they are trying to disassociate themselves from and the part, especially in Houchen's case, they have played in creating the mistrust and toxicity surrounding the Tories.

Houchen's campaign is based around the twin misconception's that the airport and freeport are essential and that Labour have done nothing for the area, both of which are blatantly untrue.

I've yet to read a coherent defence of Houchen's time as Mayor, as every metric he relies on shows failure or mismanagement, he talks of job creation yet there are slightly fewer jobs in DTV than when he took over, he has a budget almost double that of the local Council's in his area and has borrowed half a billion pounds during his tenure but says that Council's cannot be trusted with managing finance, the Airport is subsidised to the tune of millions a year whilst bus routes that many people rely upon daily are axed due to being 'unaffordable', and on top of that you have the absolute shambles that is the Freeport, built on a lie and continuing through dishonesty, secrecy and cronyism.

The problem is that the truth is called talking the area down, if Houchen doesn't get re-elected he has threatened to take his ball away in an act of typical childlike petulance, and many of his supporters are now cultists who believe he can do no wrong, other Parties need to be more proactive in promoting their candidates and be clear on what they are going to do for the area, to show that politicians are not all the same, sure be critical of Houchen's many mistakes but offer something irresistible in return.
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100% this (y)
 
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