Hello Peter,

If anything is giving the young people the motivation to get up and attack the CAP, it is the CAP's stupid and frankly prejudicial stance regarding the skate park.

It really does surprise me that you approve of this tactic on the skate park, as despite our disagreements, your posts always seem to suggest that one thing you are not is conservative (and I mean that with a small 'c'). But it seems that's what you and your party are being over this skate park.

Do you really think so little of Ashton's youth that any attempt by them to lobby for their wishes must be a New Labour fix? Do you not think they are capable of thinking and speaking for themselves? You still haven't answered my question about how you can justify the assumption that tennis players are less prone to trouble causing than skaters. Please, tell me, how did you work that one out?

And as for New Labour's other failed petitions, I have no idea about them. Being a socialist myself, I have absolutely no time for New Labour. But there you go again, dodging the issue of YOUR PARTY and YOUR COUNCILLORS' actions, and reverting it to an attack on Labour. You are behaving in exactly the same way as Teflon Tony Blair would.

Hi Matt
If you really want to progress a skateboard park for the young people of Ashton and Bryn then telephone me on 01942 776303 or 01942 706600 or email me on peter.franzen@community-action.com

Town: peter.franzen@community-action.com

Peter, thanks for the invitation to call. But why aren't you willing to answer the perfectly reasonable questions I have put to you in public?