The Clown of the Year Moral fibre is no longer optional. Courage is no longer negotiable. And silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity. Welcome to Great Britain — Now With 22 Beds Per Room and No Questions Asked You there — yes, you with the mortgage, the council tax bill, and the quaint belief that localContinue reading “From Dinghy to Dormitory: How our Government and Councils Sold Us Out”
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Rubber Dinghy Diplomacy: Britain’s New National Pastime
Rubber Dinghy Diplomacy: Britain’s New National Pastime
Lest we forget: Moral fibre is no longer optional. Courage is no longer negotiable. And silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity. Welcome, one and all, to the United Kingdom — the only country on earth where illegal entry comes with complimentary room service, a welcome pack, and a taxpayer-funded smartphone. You see, some people — let’sContinue reading “Rubber Dinghy Diplomacy: Britain’s New National Pastime”
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
Moral fibre is no longer optional. Courage is no longer negotiable. And silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity. Introduction If silence were a policy, Oswestry Town Council would be leading the nation in delivery. If avoidance were an Olympic sport, Shropshire Council would be bringing home the gold. And if cowardice could be bottled, Helen MorganContinue reading “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t”
Smithfield Hotel: 22 Beds, One Big Red Flag
Once upon a pandemic, the government—bless their optimistic hearts—decided that handing out billions in Bounce Back Loans on the basis of nothing more than good intentions and a mildly convincing email address was a fine idea. And lo! A thousand pop-up “businesses” were born, many with names as imaginative as “ABC 2020 Ltd” or—wait forContinue reading “Smithfield Hotel: 22 Beds, One Big Red Flag”
No More Excuses. No More HMOs
It’s Time for Section 4 – and It’s Time Our Councillors Grew a Spine It’s not complicated. Oswestry doesn’t need more HMOs. It doesn’t need absentee landlords stuffing vulnerable or unknown individuals into former family homes. And it certainly doesn’t need councillors who’ve chosen careerism and cowardice over public safety and common sense. Where IsContinue reading “No More Excuses. No More HMOs”
Oswestry for Lease
How the Lib Dems Turned a Market Town into a Migrant Hostel Once upon a time, Oswestry was a market town—now it’s a market brand, traded like a cheap stock among absentee landlords and watched over by a Liberal Democrat hierarchy so detached you’d think they were governing by astral projection. We used to beContinue reading “Oswestry for Lease”
Oswestry for Rent: 22 Rooms and No Shame
Sold Out by the Lib DemsOswestry for Rent: 22 Rooms and No ShameIs this town now the HMO Capital of Shropshire? There was a time—quaint and barely remembered—when The Smithfield Hotel in Oswestry offered weary travellers a soft pillow and a cooked breakfast. Now? It’s about to offer 22 lockable doors, each one a taxpayer-fundedContinue reading “Oswestry for Rent: 22 Rooms and No Shame”
From Market Town to Migrant Dump: The Great Oswestry Betrayal
Welcome to Oswestry, once a proud market town — now the showroom floor for Britain’s finest scams, deceptively registered developers, and councillors so neutral they could be used in a pH test. This isn’t satire. It’s Shropshire Council and Oswestry Town Council in action — or more accurately, inaction. And like all modern policy disasters,Continue reading “From Market Town to Migrant Dump: The Great Oswestry Betrayal”
Oswestry for Sale: One HMO at a Time – No Locals Need Apply
Welcome to Oswestry – market town, heritage site, and now, apparently, an investment hotspot for property entrepreneurs with a penchant for overleveraged shell companies, complex corporate structures, and the irresistible scent of government housing contracts. Some towns get a railway station. Some get a regeneration fund. Oswestry gets HMOs. Cross Street: The Foot in theContinue reading “Oswestry for Sale: One HMO at a Time – No Locals Need Apply”
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