But you'd have to go to Burnley to do it - they insist that people visit their office in person to sign up!

Please make sure you have an up to date passport and visa to gain access to Burnley

A little unfair I think.

Burnley is quite a quaint old English town. I doubt it would score less than 39 if asked to name a dead British town on Pointless.

Actually I never thought it was that bad a place, I lived about 7 miles away and we used to drive "over the tops" most Saturdays to do our shopping. The countryside just outside town is lovely. There was an article in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago saying that the aerospace industry there is doing really well, especially a firm called Aircelle, and a new engineering college is to open there shortly. Good luck to them!

Oh well, maybe I will open a bank down south If anyone wants to invest I'm offering 6%

BNP stronghold

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/8085392.stm

They won one seat, and don't have any as at May 2012. Hardly my definition of a stronghold.

There is a history in East Lancashire of a few BNP candidates doing well at elections then doing absolutely nothing (at best) once elected, not even turning up for meetings, and at worst being convicted of criminal offences and having to resign.

Since when has the up to date truth been necessary on this forum

The BBC link refers to County Councillor Sharon Wilkinson who is still on the council

http://council.lancashire.gov.uk/mgU...o.aspx?UID=122

It seems this thread has degenerated from having a dig at nice guy Dave who is simply trying to play the whiteman, into a full scale witch hunt to blacken the name of the good people of Burnley.
I've always found it to be quite a friendly civilised sort of place compared to a few of those much more desperate towns and cities a little further South in Lancashire.
I made some great friends from Burnley and thereabouts during my travels and anything further from the typical N.F. mentality I could hardly imagine.

I have some friends from Burnley staying Thursday on their way to their place in Alicante. Can't wait to show them this thread.

Remarkably, they prefer Burnley to Quesada.

So not on Burnley Borough Council.

This is one of her former colleagues on Burnley Council, just the sort of person one would want representing one's interests, no?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-landlord.html

I had, on numerous occasions, been delighted to escort a young lady home from the 'Cats Whiskers' in the 1970's....And more than once have frequented ' The Hop' in Padiham....Halcyon...And at times 'Dangerous days!'

Maybe my earlier post should have read

" Please make sure you have an up to date passport and visa to ensure you can get out of Burnley quickly"

your telling me you trust the banks as is ??
they have taken your money making promises, reneged on those promises, lost you money, taken your pension and taken all the profits before telling you there wasn't enough to pay you anything#
their friends have taken your pension and run off with that with gay abandon, spending it all over the place and telling you the money you have put in has shrunk "due to market conditions"

they run around underselling the £, the $, the €, to make a profit at the end of the week but its funny they used their money and never yours (or mine) so we only see the losses and not the profits.

haven't you noticed that the only people making money out of the money markets is those who are in those markets ??

and as to some upstart who comes along and takes them on in their own battlefield - well we can't have that so demand he be closed down instantly or sooner and give us all that lovely money to lose for those gullible idiots who want to make a (small) profit.