The Liverpool Times

Cllr Michael Kearns – new labour Longview Huyton – has been blocked from standing as a new labour candidate in next years Knowsley Council Election’s.

Credit is due to the Liverpool Echo’s Crime Correspondent, Ben Rossington.

He was following in the tradition of some of the Echo’s sharpest investigators who always flushed the bad apples out of the barrel.

In this instance Ben was allowed to report the facts.

Facts, that if left to new labour in Knowsley; would have been buried deep by the sleaze ridden new labour party.

Was it the Councils deputy leader Cllr George Morgan, who dismissively called Kearns’s conviction for drink driving “a private matter”?

Morgan makes no comment on his chums fall from grace. He may well be scheming to reintroduce him back as a Councillor after a suitable sabbatical. We will be keeping a close eye on this in the future.

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Over the past six months, the Kirkby Community have seen at close quarter how the citizens of the old Soviet Union were controlled and governed.

Those enslaved people were governed in secret, and fed a constant stream of propaganda by the faceless people who controlled their lives.

In a copy cat approach the new labour Councillors on Knowsley Council apply the same treatment to their residents.

On the Kirkby/ Tesco/ Everton plan not a single one of the 51 labour Councillors has had the courage or intelligence to meet the Kirkby residents face to face to hear concerns and fears about putting a football stadium in the middle Kirkby.

Not even the prospects of vulnerable people losing their homes can stir these political impostors into representing the people who put them on the Council.

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This beautiful yet tragic poem was written by Rhys’s father Stephen and published in the local and national media.

We’ve made a video, setting the poem to some Irish music and using some images as a backdrop to the poem itself. It also has the police phone number at the end - because the poem itself is obviously an appeal for Justice.

The video is up on YouTube.

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From the book The Night the Police went on strike.

Hope people find this part of Liverpool’s history interesting. It’s just a scan of a book, nothing added (apart from an image) or taken away.

Gunboats up the Mersey

`If the police of Manchester or Liverpool or Glasgow go wrong today,’ Macready had said in March, ‘it would be very uncomfortable for those particular towns, but it would not shake the Empire.’

Half of the Liverpool police ‘went wrong’ during the August Bank Holiday week-end of 1919. The immediate result was the worst outbreak of mob violence, looting and burning which even Liverpool, with its long history of similar troubles, had ever experienced. Before the Liverpool police strike was over, a battleship and two destroyers had raced at full steam from Scapa Flow to train their searchlights on both banks of the Mersey (for the riots in Birkenhead as a result of the strike in that force were equally serious).

Scarcely a shop window remained unbroken in Scotland Road and London Road, the two major thoroughfares bordering the Liverpool dock area. More than three hundred prisoners were sentenced for their part in the week-end debauchery, and one man lay dead in the mortuary, shot by one of the hundreds of soldiers drafted into the city to protect property and prevent the trouble from extending to the whole of Liverpool.

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The major land owner in Kirkby Town Centre has launched plans to bring Asda back to Kirkby.

Development Securities purchased a huge swathe of Kirkby Town Centre for £63 million pounds earlier this year.

They have now decided to exercise their power by challenging the Tesco/ Council plan to build a 150.000 sqr ft superstore next to a 55,000 seated stadium on a site behind the Golden Eagle and in the middle of a residential area.

Development Securities reported overwhelming support for their alternative plans put on show over a three day period in the Town centre.

Meanwhile on a freezing cold dark rain lashed night, over 500 people attended a public meeting in St Chad’s Kirkby to hear an update from The Kirkby Residents Action Group – KRAG.

Not even Thursday late night shopping in Liverpool failed to deter the good people of Kirkby in their attempt to get some answers from the Council.

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As Merseyside Police threaten to go on strike we ask if history might be repeating itself

Anyone who might have been near Downing Street on Saturday the 31 August 1918 would have noticed a demonstration. That in itself was not unusual, but the lack of any uniformed officers was unusual.

In fact, the demonstrators were striking policemen who belonged to the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. It was the first strike by policemen in the UK since 1872 when a strike won concessions but the leadership was broken up afterwards.

In august of 1918 the end of WW1 was within sight and many troops had already returned home and were being lied to by the Liberal MP Lloyd George who informed everyone that Britain would be “a land fit for heroes” It would be November the 11th, 11.00pm when the ceasefire along the horrific killing grounds of the Western Front came into effect. The ‘Great’ War was in fact stupidity on a grand scale, with Europe ridding itself of the brilliant minds who might have saved us from WW2.

Though the police and prison officers were threatened with dismissal upon evidence of membership or association, the entire London Police Force was out on strike just as WW1 was ending.

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