Well, Mr Pendle isn't moving for one.

He doesn't feel trapped living in Pendle.

He has everything – well nearly everything – he needs here.

His family. His friends. His job. His house.

Why should he be somewhere where he has none of these simply because so-called experts who he has never heard of advise him to do so?

Will this think tank be giving grants to people who do move to help them buy homes in the far more expensive south?

Thankfully, most people dismissed the report as a crackpot idea – for there is no doubt that is it what it was.


TALKING of crackpot ideas, here's another one. Some previously unheard of Government department has come up with the suggestion councillors should be excused from town hall meetings and allowed to debate vital issues while watching television or having a pint in the pub.

Just how the debates would be conducted, how the Press would be able to cover them and members of the public involved, was not made clear.

What is clear, however, is the idea is a total non-starter – for Mr Pendle cannot see any councillors passing up their attendance allowance just so they can watch the latest episode of "Coronation Street".


WELL done to Pendle Council for backing the call to allow all Gurkhas and their families to come to live in this country if they so wish.

For the Government to try to restrict the numbers coming here to those who have served in the Army for at least four years and to have been discharged in the last 11 years is, as Coun. George Askew told last week's full council meeting, an insult.

When one considers the Gurkhas have served this country for more than 200 years, with 45,000 being killed or wounded while in the Army, they have more right to be here than the terrorist activists who seem intent on destroying the British way of life and yet who the Government cannot, or does not, take any action to deport.

Mr Pendle had assumed the British Government was here to support this country, and uphold the right of those who had served this country to live here.

But when he reads of the restrictions placed on those who have served alongside British servicemen and who wish to come here, yet those who wish to do us harm are allowed to preach their messages of hatred of the Western way of life, he sometimes wonders if he has got it wrong.