The Liverpool Times is a continuation of The Kirkby Times, another independent Liverpool website that set the example for local news reporting by and for working class people. We have an excellent pedigree in providing in depth news and views on the antics of the local political players and their nepotistic ways. We’ve shed a light into the dark corners of Liverpool politics and uncovered the rats scurrying about, greedily devouring the local funds that are meant to help the poor.
The Kirkby Times first hit the internet in 2002, and from the very start, the local council officials and dregs of local politics, plus those lying hypocritical ignorant councillors, decided that too much public information was ‘leaking out’ to the public. In other words, they read the truth for once in their miserable Godforsaken lives and realised that others were also reading it.
The proverbial dummy came hurtling out of the Knowsley council pram, and legal moves were made to close down The Kirkby Times which succeeded at the time thanks to tax-payers money covertly being used to fund some slick, but ultimately immoral solicitor to help close us down. Blueyonder, a well known ISP, actually deleted the entire content of the website, just to make sure anything untoward was taken off the internet. No explanation was ever given for what was actually said that caused all the upset.
The website then moved to a new internet service provider but a further campaign of victimisation of the webmaster and suspected contributors or ‘collaborators’ led to loss of employment for one suspect caught up in the witch hunt. Other general all round nastiness, led to a prolonged retreat into the trenches. The Kirkby Times experience leads to the conclusive proof that nothing can really be said in England unless you are kissing the backside of whoever might be a few rungs up the ladder in front of you. This is why we are now hosted in the U.S.A.
America might have its problems, but it has a constitution, which more than the supposed ‘cradle of democracy’ we live in.
England is a sickness waiting for the cure. Here in Liverpool, some us of think we have just the medicine to help. It’s called ‘the Truth’, and it is addictive, with side effects leading to high blood pressure when lying two bit councillors and dull fence sitting war pimping careerist MP’s and other preening peacocks of the Establishment get a dose of it. The truth can be likened to a wine which tastes sweet to the honest and bitter to the liars and hypocrites.
As of now, we can use The Liverpool Times to gradually include news from all the various districts of Liverpool, so any Kirkby Times news will be published here on The Liverpool Times. There is a massive backlog of material which will be published as it is sifted through so please be patient. There will also be ongoing work on the aesthetic side of the website, and the ‘working code’, so to speak, but none of this should affect any users.
The Liverpool Times will carry on the tradition of local news reporting, but we will deal with national and international issues also and whatever any of us feel like having a say on. We want to include as much Liverpool related news and history as possible, and to that end we appeal for any local writers to submit work on matters they are informed on or add comments to any articles which appear, if commenting is enabled for that article. It generally will be.
The website uses clever software (all with a free public licence) to enable users to posts comments on various articles or to submit articles in full. To post material up or leave comments to articles that appear, you will need to register with us via email first and you’ll receive a user name and password. Write this down somewhere.
Idiots and spammers will be banned. Some regular columnists will be selected to cover any various Liverpool topics that are part of our history and culture. You can use a non de plume to do this. Any inclusion of any material, including multimedia content, will not affect your own copyright. Please respect other peoples copyright also but feel free to use excerpts of articles, with sources, to add to the debate on any issues which arises.
The right of reply will be extended to any individual or organisation which might be mentioned in any article. Even the idiot councillors who banned The Kirkby Times will have a chance to explain why they thought treating local working class people like dirt is all well and good.
We respect the privacy of people who contribute to the website via email and will not publish names unless the author clearly expresses a wish to do so. Some people can lose jobs just for commenting or being suspected of commenting on a website, therefore, any politicians who moan about us being ‘secretive’, ought to try and remember that the sometimes sinister levels of intimidation suffered by whistle-blowers, forces many of us to be a ‘non be plume’ in the land of our birth.
The ruling classes in the U.K. have always had what you might call a ‘bully pulpit’ from which they impart carefully selected information and reach a wide audience to make sure that only the ‘acceptable’ ideas are in the mainstream media. For years there has been an information monopoly, and the people who own that monopoly, people like Rupert Murdoch and the various American owned global media interests; have never had the interests of the working class and poor at heart.
The information we do receive is carefully managed to manipulate us into backing the sham of this watered down shallow democracy that stifles freedom of expression and freedom of speech. There is a feeling the length and breadth of this nation, a whisper so far, that might be silenced here and there, but keeps growing in volume. Every country goes through cycles in which the people themselves need to rise up to make sure that the government and all elected bodies and those with power, fear us, the people, not the other way around.
We hope you enjoy The Liverpool Times, and that you bookmark us in your favourites. Not everything that we write here may be right, but we all have the right to be wrong sometimes, otherwise, how will we ever learn what is right?
Admin 14 Aug 2006.