NewBeaconside.

[proactive]

Is there any chance that the whole thing is really one bloke with a briefcase and a few vague qualifications?

That's the new heart consultant at North Staffs isn't it.

 

[Thehooperman]

Is there any chance that the whole thing is really one bloke with a briefcase and a few vague qualifications?

Shouldn't this be in the Brexit thread?

 

[Sir BoD]

Is there any chance that the whole thing is really one bloke with a briefcase and a few vague qualifications?

Quite.

 

[Cue]

So where is this place at now then?

They couldn’t open a uni, they couldn’t open a college. The land has a ruling on it that it has to be used for education and the current offering is about to pull out.

I’ve not heard good things about the office offerings

The event space in the bottom of the Octagon is apparently a half-assed mess

And their main bit of signage by the roundabout is now an advert for someone’s valet service, who got their 8 year old to make the sign in MSPaint.

Not a good look all around, really. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s up for sale again in a few years

 

[gilesjuk]

I've seen cars flooding out of the place at rush hour. So is it being used for conferences?

 

[Wormella]

I know people who have attended conferences there, and I know people with office space there but it's usage appears to be all over the place.

When I had a tour for an event a few years ago there was lots of talk of a Burger King, other amenities etc, also which have come to nothing.

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

Jim Davidson is booked... Business must be booming

 

[Mudgie]

They couldn’t open a uni, they couldn’t open a college. The land has a ruling on it that it has to be used for education and the current offering is about to pull out.

2024 - Vacant
2025 - Derelict
2026 - Arson attacks
2027 - Council 'reluctantly' agrees to change of use for 1500 houses
2028 - Building site
2029 - Beaconside and Weston Road at a standstill

 

[joshua]

Jim Davidson is booked... Business must be booming

Oh great, a washed up ex-alchoholic, misogynistic tory racist good to see staffords attracting quality acts

 

[Cue]

Jim Davidson is booked... Business must be booming

Nobody is more oppressed than the middle aged white man who just wants to say racially insensitive things.

Perfect for True Blue Stafford I suppose. I guarantee he only meets capacity because he does tiny venues.

 

[proactive]

Oh great, a washed up ex-alchoholic, misogynistic tory racist good to see staffords attracting quality acts

Yes but you forget he voted for Brexit, so can he really be that bad?

 

[Theresa Green]

Oh great, a washed up ex-alchoholic, misogynistic tory racist good to see staffords attracting quality acts

Reflecting the local community

A Sound business move

They walk amongst us

 

[tek-monkey]

Oh great, a washed up ex-alchoholic, misogynistic tory racist good to see staffords attracting quality acts

I've been told on facebook that anyone who thinks he's not fit to grace our fine town is pandering to the wokist left agenda of cancel culture! Being shit doesn't exist, if he fails it must be because of the woke lefties. Did I say woke yet? WOKE!

 

[gilesjuk]

Oh great, a washed up ex-alchoholic, misogynistic tory racist good to see staffords attracting quality acts

Yet he was on BBC 1 in a prime time Saturday evening slot for 11 years. But then the BBC have a blind spot for things their stars did in the 1970s

 

[EasMid]

But so was Alf Garnet before him.
Well, maybe not Saturday (was it Thursday? I can’t remember to many finer details from the sixties)

 

[Cue]

I can only assume that New Beacon is the only place willing to host him - possibly due to ignorance, but who knows. Most entertainment venues are staffed with quite a few “woke” folk (read: can feel empathy) and those that would be target to his right wing abuse.

I’ve seen a venue lose half its staff overnight when they decided to host a GBeebies presenter.

 

[Mudgie]

But so was Alf Garnet before him.
Well, maybe not Saturday (was it Thursday? I can’t remember to many finer details from the sixties)

Johnny Speight created Alf Garnet believing that TV viewers would ridicule such a bigot not identify with him.

 

[tek-monkey]

I’ve seen a venue lose half its staff overnight when they decided to host a GBeebies presenter.

If you're going to host someone who makes their money belittling exactly the people you employ, then expect to fill your venue with likeminded people, then yeah you can stuff your NMW job up your arse!