Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) 8 Clitkeroe Advertiser and Times, November llth, 19S2 Westminster Viewpoint
ON the night before the State Opening of Parliament we had the usual' eve-of-session dinner at 10 Downing Street — at our. own expense. The Cabinet wives entertained the non-Cabinet wives next door at the home of the Chancellor at much less cost to the family exchequer (£3 a head). At 11-30 the next morn
• When it was all over and the Queen retired to the robing room before being conducted to' the State Carriage by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal, I see from the printed in structions for the cere mony that the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, “having handed in their axes”, proceeded to the Normaii Porch (to be driven away in a mini bus). All th e pomp and
ing the Queen entered the Chamber of the House of Lords accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales and a message from Her Majesty was then delivered by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to th e Commons: “Mr S p eak e r , The
By David Wadding ton, QC, Clitheroe Division MP
pageantry never fail to thrill and it is hard to believe that with the Labour Party pledged to abolish the Lords it could be the last State Opening. What a disgraceful
shambling up the corridor to the other place, and the Queen then read the Gracious Speech from the throne, ending with the time-hallowed words: “My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may rest upon your councils.”
Queen commands this Honourable House to attend Her Majesty im mediately in the House of Peers.” The Commons obeyed,
Harman and asking her to pair with them before she had even been elected. If I had been the Con
piece of constitutional vandalism destruction of such an institution would • be. One really does not have to be a died-in-the- wool Conservative to see how important is a second chamber for the protec tion of our liberties and how valuable are glitter ing' occasions like the State Opening as expres sions of continuity in our national life and our love of Queen and country. •
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TWO Conservative MPs made fools of themselves by writing to Harriet
servative Candidate for Peckham I would have felt pretty sore. But the consequences of not having a regular pair — someone on the other side of the House who will agree to be away from the place when less important business is being taken and you want to be absent — are pretty uncomfort able, and I have a sneak ing sympathy for Sheila F a i th and Norman Lamont. It is not fun being stuck
when it is always you and a few others who are th e re and never two hundred or so lucky ones with regular pairs. It is certainly not fun
when you have to be at your desk for an impor tant • appointment at 9 a.m. I am one of the suf ferers and know what I am talking about.
in the House until two or three in the morning when divisions are unlike ly to take place but the Government must keep some troops on hand in case of an ambush. It certainly' is not fun
A WEEK or so ago we dealt with Lords Amend ments. to the Employment Bill. We finished at a reasonable time but then I had to stay on for some other business, before rep lying to an adjournment
debate. I got to bed at 2 a.m.
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the rest of us to make eccentric than
sented by Whalley Church Players. Yoii would have left the
on three sucessive Christ mas Eve s in the kitchens of three separate homes, each tenanted by a rather odd couple just that little
Parishioners* generosity is praised
PA R ISH IO N ER S in Pendleton have been given a pat on the back for “a remarkable story of fund-raising” for their church. An appeal to raise
£2,000 for restoration work has been met in just six weeks. In ’ fact, such has been
the generosity and work of local people that there is to be a rest from rais ing money — apart from the annual Christmas Fair on Saturday in the village hall. ■ Writing in the parish
HAVE you completed your arrangements for Christmas yet? If not, it
“Absurd Person" Singular” pre bit more
their activities interesting and amusing. The plot? There really isn’t any and the connecting links bet ween the acts are joined only by the slenderest of threads. Each scene could have
THE seventh annual ban quet and ball organised by the Ribble Valley LVA was a fitting occasion for one of Clitheroe’s longest serving mine hosts to say her farewells. After a quarter of a
LVA chairman Mr Brian Collis, of the Black Bull, Ribchester.
— members, wives and re p re s e n ta t iv e s from allied trades and bre weries — attended the function at the Swan and Royal Hotel, Clitheroe. During the evening,
stood on its own as a one. act play, but what starts as a gentle zephyr of laughter ; as the curtain rises becomes a tornado, almost a hurricane of mirth before the last line is spoken. • The six characters (if
one excludes the vora cious dog off-stage in act two) were admirably sus tained by Carole De- whurst, Doreen Grim- shaw, Mary Lehmann, Charles Price, Brian Slow and Eric Holden. Obviously w e l l - r e
Mrs Thome received gifts from the LVA and its ladies’ auxiliary.
Whitaker, chairman of Whitakers Chocolatiers, of Skipton, who proposed the toast to the LVA, the response coming from the
President was Mr John
century at the Dog and Partridge Hotel, Well- gate, Mrs Muriel Thorne • retires this month — and the banquet was her. last official gathering with her colleagues in the trade. More than 100 of them .
man, Mr Barry Housley, of the Hodder Bridge Hotel, proposed the toast to the guests. The reply was by Mr
The LVA’s vice-chair ’
and was up at 4-45 a.m. to fly to Brussels. I was to attend a meeting of the EEC Standing Committee on Employment which is composed of Employment Ministers, Members of the European Employers Or ganisations (UNICE) and the European TUC. Rumour had it that
pened. During the morn ing pretty girls walked around the tables collect ing claims for expenses and dishing out the Conti nental equivalent of lunc heon vouchers. ■ The whole show, which
to the holding of meetings of the kind I had the mis fortune to attend.
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IN June a number of people in Ribchester com plained to me that the County Council was about to carry out a road light ing scheme which no one wanted. The Parish Coun cil had not even been con sulted and I contacted the County Surveyor. The upshot was that it was de cided to defer the scheme pending a meeting of the Highways Committee in September. There had only been
must have cost a few thousand pounds to stage, was a complete waste of time. What I thought quite extraordinary was the issuing at the begin ning of the meeting of a draft of the statement to be made by the president at the end of the meeting! I am certainly not anti-
decision to close the Dis trict Education Office in
and learned that the lamp standards were al ready up. What a way to run a County Council! We are told that the
1 sure (no money there we are told to fritter on the equivalent of lamp stan dards!) How very strange then
Clitheroe has nothing to do with politics and is purely an economy mea-
EEC. With over 40 per cent of our exports going to the EEC the import ance of our remaining members is obvious. Withdrawal would put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk and make the task of encouraging fore ign investment in this country almost imposs ible. But our commitment to
ETUC was going to stage a walk-out, but not until after lunch, and so it hap-
one slight injury on this stretch of road since the lighting had first been proposed in 1978 and the locals could be forgiven for thinking th a t the money would be better spent on something that people actually wanted if money (of which the County Council is forever telling us they are so short) had to be spent at all.
were removed from where they had been dumped and we were confident that that would be the end of the . matter and sanity had prevailed., Certainly when Sep
The lamp standards
that when Ribble Valley said that if it was purely a matter of money they would make a contribution and help the County Council out of its difficul ties the reply was “no thank you”. I do not really believe
that Mrs Elman and her colleagues -have got it in for Ribble Valley because of our resistance to the County’s plans to do away with the grammar schools and their fury at the Sec retary of State reprieving B o l to n -b y -B ow la n d School, but it is their own fault if people are begin ning to think so.
Europe, while staunch, should certainly not be uncritical and I object strongly to the needless bureaucracy and to the proliferation of commit tees of doubtful value and
tember came and went I thought no news must be good news, and then on October 4th there arrived at the House of Commons an unsigned and undated letter from County Hall informing me that on Sep tember 15th the Commit tee had given the scheme
the go-ahead. I phoned someone at Ribchester
ABOUT 30 years ago I went off to take part in a brains trust in Padiham. On the platform with me was Alice Alston and I did not get many words in edgeways! Alice had a sensible down-to-earth answer to every question. I was left floundering. Now 83 and the holder of an MBE she still wins the arguments. Congratulations to Alice
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there was Mrs Edith Blake, who runs the Swan and Royal with her hus band. She had spent a lot of time organising the banquet and was thanked for her efforts by secret ary Mr David Kitson, of the Bay Horse, Barrow. Pictured during the
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magazine, the priest-in charge of All Saints’ Church, the Rev. John Cole, described the fund raising success as remark able. Gift Sunday raised
£1,202, a pate and punch party amassed £411 and a ploughman’s lunch added £326 to the total. Last year £3,000 was
was highly commendable, a tribute shared by the ingenious decor and set tings of Dorothy Duck worth. The near capacity audi
ence filed out of the hall after the first night still laughing, still giggling. Unquestionably they con sidered their evening very well spent indeed. Stage manager was David
raised for work to the church, which has recent ly been redecorated. Now rewiring is to be carried out and the outside stonework is being rer pointed. A weekly youth club for
Chambers, helped by Alistair Johnson, Andrew Day, Jim Chetham, Guy Lehmann and John Ireland, effects were by Andrew Day and Alistair John son and properties by Hilda Hughes and Diane Boothman. L e s le y Anderson was in
charge of m ak e -u p , Elaine Holden continuity, the Social Committee refreshments, 1J. J. Whitaker the booking office, Evelyn and Jim Chetham house management and. John Ireland programme design.
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