Saturday, 5 July 2025

In Pictures: Heatons Bridge Car Boot was open when many others closed

With frequent rain showers and windy conditions some local car boot sales failed to go ahead.

However, organisers of the new Car Boot at Heatons Bridge in Scarisbrick gambled on the weather and were rewarded with an event enjoying humid and often sunny periods.

More info:

https://southport-crafts-arts-and-preloved-items-fayre-1.jimdosite.com/

Friday, 4 July 2025

CALLS 'AGAIN' TO RETURN SOUTHPORT’S LOST HOSPITAL SERVICES?

Many folks today do not know the real story behind the LOSS OF SOUTHPORT’S HOSPITAL SERVICES FOR KIDS AND MATERNITY

CARES (Coalition Against Removal of Kids Emergency & other Services) was formed at a public meeting in Holy Trinity Church Hall, Southport, on Wednesday 25th June 2003. This was presented by the Southport Party. The packed event was to oppose the outrageous, dangerous and dictatorial NHS cuts in our local health services. Over 150 concerned residents and leading members of various political parties attended.

The CARES campaign team received 14,365 names on petitions, which were presented to bosses from the NHS following the massive protest march (Sunday 17th August 2003) at Southport Hospital.

By 13 November 2003 CARES had received 18,532 petition signatures.

An estimated four thousand protesters took part in Southport's historical march on 17th August 2003, which was organised by CARES to show the NHS Trust just how strong public disgust was against these highly unpopular and autocratic changes.

A Cry of: “What do we want - our services back - when do we want them –now,” echoed through the lines of marchers.

These petitions were presented to number 10 Downing Street by CARES on Thursday 19th February 2004.

CARES members have never stopped over the years to highlight this issue.

More on the fight here…https://cathregan.blogspot.com/

Anybody taking on this torch today must be aware of the past and just how much hard work has already been done by the residents of this town, through meetings, marches, protests, gaining petition signatures involving immense personal time and effort.

CHECK THIS LINK FOR MORE BACKGROUND ON THE STORY.

https://www.otsnews.co.uk/cares-background-losing-childrens-ae-service/

Also see...

https://southportcares.yourwebsitespace.com/

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Outdoor car boot sale Heatons Bridge Inn

Southport Crafts & Events has an exciting new and beautiful venue organised, right by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal for an outdoor only car boot sale.

Saturday 5th July (weather permitting)

Open to the public from 11.00am to 2.30pm

Free public admission

Heatons Bridge Inn

2 Heatons Bridge Road,

Ormskirk L40 8JG

Sellers only- please turn up on the day at 10.00am.

No sellers admitted after 10.40am

£12 cars £20 vans

Customer and seller parking 'only' at the rear of the building

Check our Facebook & website for updated details the evening before if uncertain weather.

cregan192@yahoo.com

https://southport-crafts-arts-and-preloved-items-fayre-1.jimdosite.com/

https://www.facebook.com/southportcraftsartsandpreloveditemsfayre

WhatsApp 07548262061

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

THE TEARS OF A COLD – HEARTED AUTOCRAT

THE TEARS OF A COLD – HEARTED AUTOCRAT who thought she could sacrifice the disabled on the alter of her own financial blunders.

Do you think she is crying over (A) her potential job loss due to her own cruel incompetence (B); Out of guilt and sympathy over the DISABLED, who she planned to starve out; (C) Because of her inability to be an effective human shield to save her gaffer’s failing career; (D) Because she has seen the light and now finally realised the huge blackhole resides in her head alone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECU-Veuyaec

The body language and impression Reeves gave may be thus - she is like the naughty school girl sitting there weeping in the corner after the headmaster has just given her six of the best and a good telling off.

Alternatively, she was happy and motivated when she was about the starve the disabled though.

Seems like Starmer was quite content to stand there while she sobbed like a baby at his side and make an example of her, to bounce blame away from himself.

In doing so he showed the nation what a cold, self-seeking, monster he truly is.

Monday, 30 June 2025

WHY YOUR MP MUST STILL PROTEST ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT’S EVIL ACTIONS AGAINST THE UK’S DISABLED

The TRUTH the UK Goverment's regime would love to keep quiet

A few extracts to note here from the excellent Benefits and Work Publishing Ltd people…

LABOUR RESORT TO ONLINE SCAM TECHNIQUES TO FORCE PIP AND UC CUTS THROUGH

Labour ministers have resorted to online scam techniques to try to force their PIP and UC cuts through the Commons on Tuesday. And there’s a strong chance that their dubious promise to exempt current claimants from the cuts is, in reality, only a two year reprieve.

REASONS TO REBEL

If it’s wrong to push current claimants into poverty, why is it right to do so to hundreds of thousands of future claimants?

The Bill has become a confusing shambles. MPs will have at most a single day to study the proposed amendments protecting current claimants, the PIP review terms of reference and any other new documents before they vote.

Ministers are rushing the bill through with as little discussion and scrutiny as possible. They say it is urgent, but the PIP changes don’t come into force for another 16 months, so they could have been the subject of a separate bill next year.

Claimants have not been consulted on the changes in the current bill at all.

A committee process that should take weeks or even months, looking at amendments and getting advice from experts, will all be done in a single afternoon on 9 July, as the government rushes the bill through.

The government wants the bill to be certified as a money bill, preventing the House of lords from having any say over it.

MPs will be voting without seeing a formal impact assessment of the effect of the bill on health or care needs or the Office For Budget Responsibility assessment of how many people will move into work as a result of the changes.

The protection from the 4-point rule for current claimants may only last until 2028, when new PIP rules are due to be introduced.

Disability charities and trades unions are still very much against the bill, even with concessions.

The PIP exemption for current claimants may only be a temporary respite, as the rules for PIP eligibility are to be changed in 2028, with a view to cutting costs.

The UC protection may be only temporary for 600,000 current claimants who get the UC health element but don’t get PIP daily living component. They may not be protected once the work capability assessment is abolished and PIP daily living is the gateway to the UC health element in 2028.

TEN MAJOR CHARITIES JOINTLY CONDEMN THE FLAWED CUTS BILL

Ten major charities have issued a joint briefing condemning the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.

These charities are: Scope, Trussel, Mind, Citizens Advice, Sense, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, New Economics Foundation, Child Poverty Action Group, Z2K, Turn2Us.

More...

https://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=144836&f=2941&s=6745&m=1194213&t=9e9c98a7d9387eb5c584b7e81a15d03a3040ca2700682dadb514b7c01a8d57f0

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

“NEVER SURRENDER” was a term used in the 1940s and look how that ended!

Fundamentalism kills!

Governmental suicide missions (especially ones based on blind compliance to manmade fundamentalist religious doctrine) always end in tears.

At times, I cannot help thinking about the Piped Piper, reckless, lemmings rushing over a cliff and Zeros crashing into the Pacific when I see this strange old fanatic effortlessly manipulating his trusting, fully indoctrinated, flock of worshippers.

Of course, many of these alleged adherents seem to secretly want to escape his tyrannical regime and jump on the first dingy heading for Dover. Some however do so with a lifetime of concerning mental baggage, including psychotic holy wrath against the naive hand that may just welcome them in friendship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWSVAJPqmpE

Surely with potential terrorism risk factors at ultra high alert, we should all be asking one serious question...

Is the UK’s bumbling government 100% certain that turning an officialised ‘blind eye’ to flotillas of boats with thousands of unknown illegals landing on our shores each week now such a wonderful idea?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

Multiply such figures above over months and years, while recalling the fundamental hostility shown against the West, and it all marks serious security apprehensions for most sane folks who are not constrained with restrictive whiter - than- white notions of being open-armed and warm-hearted, to all and everyone who just happens to land on these green shores.

Time for our apathetic authorities to WAKE up perhaps...

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

THE MADNESS OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST MASK

Face concealment is not an obligatory religious decree within the oppressive Abrahamic faith systems – It does however stand as a very socially divisive custom beloved of political agitators posing as protectors of religious tradition.

Facial coverings do one thing very well; they kill individuality and create blind totalitarian conformity. Under such a restrictive regime, no one is allowed a personality so everyone must obey the theocratical decrees issued by the religious leaders in control.

Moreover, hiding the identity of the wearer heightens the risk of criminal activity because the person in question hiding behind the mask is anonymous and therefore free to act without accountability. Thieves and bank robbers cottoned onto this fact a long time ago, yet todays dippy masked religious fanatics have not quite grasped the implications of their own ill-concidered actions.

This clearly poses a great risk to public security and puts greater pressure of our security services when they urgently need to identify anyone at the scene of any crimes.

Religious fundamentalism is a great manmade danger to society and mankind as a whole.

Mother Nature spent millions of years creating our facial expression and ability to frown, smile, etc. Facial expression is an essential way of communicating with others. To deny or dismiss this wonderful evolutionary gift due to mental delusion, psychological disorder or indoctrinated religious illusions is a massive insult to our species.

Comically, some avid mask wearers claim that their face coverings make them feel ‘closer to God’. This claim however is the height of mental delusion and psychological imbalance.

Spitting in the face of their own god?

Surely, if their deity (natural evolutionary process) has spent eons developing facial expression as a means of vital human interaction then by hiding their expressions behind a mask these deluded devotes of unnatural face concealment are effectively spitting in the face of their god.

Delusion is one thing yet terminal daftness is quite another thing entirely!

Finally, opposing oppressive fundamentalist regimes does have its price…

Iranian woman whipped 74 times for refusing to wear hijab

33-year-old was charged with 'encouraging permissiveness' after several Tehran outings

An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for refusing to wear the hijab, defying the strict dress code even as she was taken to be whipped...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/07/iranian-woman-whipped-74-times-refusing-wear-hijab/

There are currently 18 states that have banned the burqa and niqab, both Muslim-majority countries and non-Muslim countries.

Face veiling has not been regarded as a religious requirement by most Islamic scholars, either in the past or the present.

Fundamentalism of all kinds divides societies and untimatley kills!

Sunday, 8 June 2025

SOUTHPORT FLEA MARKET/INDOOR CAR BOOT SALE

SUNDAY 15TH JUNE

11.00AM TO 2.00PM

Valhalla Building,

Adventure Coast Southport/Formerly Pleasureland

Marine Drive, Southport PR8 1RX.

Crafts, bakery, good quality table top, clothes, toys, antiques & collectibles all welcome.

One person's unwanted item is another person's greatest treasure.

As Father's Day approaches, it is a time to give a special thought to our dads, or the person in our lives who we consider is worthy of that special fatherly type bond we have with them.

Why not celebrate and come along to our Flea Market event before or after going out for lunch or a walk. Find some great bargains in the treasures our stallholders have for sale.

We also have some fantastic artisans there with their hand-made crafts.

Free public admission

STILL A FEW STALLHOLDER SPACES LEFT - BOOK NOW!

To book a selling space contact Cath on:

cregan192@yahoo.com

WhatsApp 07548262061

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

The REAL (civil) war is happening right in our midst today. UPDATED.

Evil is as Evil does… as the laughing millionaires running the UK rat race celebrate their VILE plans to starve millions of the UK’s worst off!

Where are all the caring politicians, where is the so-called compassion?

'In the UK, an astonishing one in 11 adults serves as unpaid carers, a role that extends far beyond mere assistance. These 5.7 million people constitute a vital segment of society, providing care for their loved ones. Yet Labour’s cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will cut nearly £650 million in support from around 150,000 carers. So, Carers UK has taken a stand.

Unpaid carers; saving the government £184 billion – yet the DWP will cut their benefits, anyway.

Even the Citizens Advice (CA) has exposed the outrageous stupidity of the UK Government's attack of its own residents with their latest paper.

I make no apologies for reiterating the CA stance...

“By refusing to properly consult on its plan to cut billions from disability benefits, the government is choosing not to ask questions it doesn’t want the answers to. The cuts will have a devastating impact on disabled people (and their children), sending hundreds of thousands into poverty, and many more into deeper poverty. This will result from a series of arbitrary reforms that have been designed around savings targets rather than improving outcomes, inflicting hardship on people in ways that the government doesn’t yet fully understand.”

The government used a dubious sleight of hand to reduce the number of people likely to be pushed into poverty. It counted people who would have been affected by the Tory WCA changes which never happened as having been lifted from poverty they were never actually put in. So, rather than 250,000 being pushed into relative poverty by Labour, CA thinks it could be as many as 400,000.
The Green Paper doesn’t attempt to work out how many people will lose both PIP and the UC health element as a result of the changes, or how much they will lose.
The government document doesn’t analyse how many people already in poverty will be more deeply entrenched in poverty as a result of the cuts, although an FoI request has suggested this will be 700,000 people.

Let's just digest this fact for a moment. Now we have a government - supported advice organisation (CA) that's so outraged at disability cuts that it's actually advising people that their own clueless government has lost the plot!

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/citizens-advice-condemn-green-paper-cuts-in-hard-hitting-report?

Without doubt, this is evidence that a case of 'no confidence' must surely be made against UK's current bumbling government.

Recent research has unveiled that the contribution of unpaid carers is valued at an eye-watering £184 billion annually. However, this figure may not fully encapsulate their true worth, as a significant 36% of carers take more than three years to acknowledge their caregiving role.

Despite their invaluable contributions, a staggering 55% of these individuals feel undervalued by society. Many are grappling with the heavy toll that caregiving takes on their mental and physical well-being.

A recent study highlighted that eight out of ten carers foresee worsening health impacts in the coming years. Such stark reveals underline the need for greater recognition and support for these unsung heroes – not lease from the DWP.'

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/31/dwp-pip-carers-cuts/

Governments do not get more evil than this one.

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Actually, how ‘many’ trees are found in “0.8% of NT Formby’s woodlands?”

I get a wee bit jittery when I see the typical authorised spin aimed at appeasing public anxieties over planned mass environmental destruction.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/liverpool-lancashire/formby/the-future-of-formby-project

Popular yet controversial discrimination against various species of tree is also a questionable concept prone to misinterpretation.

Treating some trees like gold and other like vermin may be fashionable, so let's delve into this issue a little further.

Any plant can get the hackles up of people who do not want a particular species in any given locality and especially in the more sterile, well-managed garden or largely manmade wildlife habitat.

Sycamore leaves are eaten by caterpillars of a number of moths, including the sycamore moth, plumed prominent and maple prominent, hence bats frequently feed around them. The flowers provide an excellent source of pollen and nectar for butterflies, bees and other insects, and the seeds are a valuable food source for birds and small mammals.

Sycamore can support a high range of certain taxa, such as lichens. Additionally, the aphids that feed on sycamore provide a resource for many animals, directly as prey and indirectly through their honeydew. Its great worth within the native ecosystem is far greater than many so-called ‘experts’ imagine.

In the right environment, sycamores may live hundreds of years and become majestic stately trees that give great beauty to the English landscape. In like fashion, the value of the birch tree for wildlife is high for most taxonomic groups. Birch woods are capable of increasing the fertility of some mineral soils This tree supports a large number of specialist and generalist phytophagous (generally those that feed on green plants) insects and a wide variety of woodland plants, birds and mammals. When mixed into conifers (like in Formby), it further increases the diversity considerably, especially for insects and wildbirds.

Of course, us arrogant humans like to think we know better than the gods, when it comes to interfering in the natural cycles of life, but things tend to be there for very good reason.

Moreover, so-called ‘scrub’ is a loose and somewhat dismissive term that covers many vital (yet officially unwanted) species of shrub, etc, which wildlife needs for survival. Scrub is also essential for creating dune stability.

Imperial swipes of the officialised pen through entire sections on a map of wild habitat may seem like a good idea to some, yet life is not always that simple.

More...

https://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2023/07/seftons-ongoing-war-against-nature.html