FACEBOOK COMMENTS

WHAT you’ve been saying on our Facebook page:

COUNCIL set to offer ‘Welcome pack’ to firms (September 25):

Julie Bottomley:

The idea of a booklet is outdated, a waste of paper. If people need a paper booklet let them print it off. I can imagine this council printing loads of booklets only to gather dust in some office.

Sara Brown: Wouldn’t the Council be better looking at part of the Town centre that they do have control of -

“The Market”, which would increase footfall and in turn attract the big high street names? Nicholas Booth: Suspend all parking restrictions and fees on a Saturday and attract in more shoppers. How? One way would be to hold a decent Saturday external market which is made up of LOCAL independent traders selling their wares.

Sue Darmody: ‘This is one of the best motions that has come out of this council for a long long time.” Conservative councillor Marlene Haworth.’ It’s no wonder this town is dead!

James Cross: This is hilarious, you’d think it was April fool if it wasn’t September. The council leaders getting excited about what is effectively someone suggesting they make a pamphlet. People wonder why the town is in this state.

Dorothy Nicolson: What it needs is an injection of good well known shops, reduction of Arndale car park, that’s not helping, and listening to people’s opinions, then it might get back to a great town it once was.

LABOUR councillor Tim O’Kane brands the Eat out discount scheme ‘an insult to the poor’ (September 25):

Tony Grogan:

I understand these have been unprecedented times but for the Conservative leader, Cllr Howarth to describe it as a ‘fabulous job’ is bizarre. Exam result fiasco, testing track and trace failed, 3 million self employed left without support and increasing poverty across the North West.

In the words of Cllr Howarth this is ‘fabulous’.

Steven Hacking:

Pathetic. The government are trying to keep business alive so that money keeps coming in to pay for the NHS and the social care benefits.

Neil Munroe: Insult to the poor? If they couldn’t afford to eat out now they couldn’t have beforehand.

John Berresford: The government isn’t a friend. It’s a government, not a nanny state

Julie Jameson: Could you imagine if Labour were in charge, would they have done any better?

Damian Evans: Labour moaning again. Irrelevant party.