• The Messiah of Sleaze;

• Conservative County Councillor P. Britcliffe Lancashire Combined Fire Authority.

• ‘Inappropriate’ Filth;

•  Britcliffe ~ “You did it to us now we are going to do it to you ~ just give us the opportunity”;

•  Pigs ~ troughs ~ truffles ~ MIlly’s sausages.

His Worshipful the Mayor of Hyndburn Borough Council Councillor P Britcliffe; Local Government Information Unit Member(The Democracy Think Tank); Trustee ~ Hyndburn Leisure Trust; Valuation Tribunal England; Chairman Oswaldtwistle Area Forum; Moore End CP Governors; Board Member – Hyndburn Homes;

Lancashire County Council Conservative Councillor Peter Britcliffe; Combined Fire Authority Elected Member;

LCC Employment Appeals Committee(Chair); Health Scrutiny Committee (Chair) ; Hyndburn Three Tier Forum ; District Community Safety Partnership – Hyndburn.

Oswaldtwistle Conservative Club – Member and Trustee; Hyndburn Conservative Association – Member
Chairman – County Conservative Group of Councillors

Owner/Manager Milly’s Balcony Cafe Market Street Accrington

(Quality Latte and Sausage sandwiches guaranteed.).

Tory Mayor QUITS to ‘clear his name’ after three men aged between 18 and 19 accuse him of ‘awful’ sex offences:

• Peter Britcliffe, the Mayor of Hyndburn, accused of sexual offences by three men

• The men aged between 18 and 19 complained to police in January and July 2017

• Mr Britcliffe has stood to be a Conservative MP twice both times unsuccessfully 

• 67-year-old father of three and veteran Tory councillor plans to ‘clear his name’ .

A veteran Tory councillor has resigned from mayoral duties to ‘clear his name’ after police received ‘awful’ sex offence allegations against him from three young men.

Cllr Peter Britcliffe, the Mayor of Hyndburn, in Lancashire, strongly denied the ‘awful’ claims and said he had ‘every confidence’ the investigation will prove his innocence.

Police said the offences were alleged to have been committed in Oswaldtwistle between January and July last year with men understood to be between 18-19. 

No arrests or charges have been made against the former Hyndburn Borough Council leader, who represents St Andrews ward in Oswaldtwistle.

Cllr Britcliffe, a 67-year-old father-of-three who also sits on Lancashire County Council, said in a statement: ‘I am stepping aside from mayoral duties in the interest of the borough of Hyndburn and the mayoralty.

‘I am doing this because of police inquiries into allegations made against me.

‘I have fully cooperated with the police, the allegations are not true and I have every confidence that the investigation will prove my innocence.

‘It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time in order not to prejudice the police inquiries.

‘There are no charges, court proceedings and the CPS which considers if charges are to be brought, has not been consulted.

‘Although I have thoroughly enjoyed my year as Mayor of Hyndburn, these awful allegations have put a terrible strain on my family and myself and I will therefore be stepping aside from mayoral duties whilst my name is cleared.

‘I am confident that this will be the outcome and the sooner this is done the better.

‘Over the last few weeks I have received tremendous support from family and friends and I cannot thank them enough.’

Cllr Britcliffe, from Oswaldtwistle, is a former teacher and was leader of Hyndburn Borough Council between 1999 and May 2011.

He stood twice as the Conservatives’ General Election candidate in Hyndburn, in 1997 and 2001, having worked as a parliamentary assistant for former MP Ken Hargreaves.

Hyndburn Council leader, Labour’s Miles Parkinson another flamboyant character, said the town hall will look to make ‘alternative arrangements’ with organisers of forthcoming mayoral engagements.

In a statement, Cllr Parkinson said: ‘Whilst we are not able to comment on matters relating to any ongoing police investigation, we can confirm that Cllr Britcliffe has agreed to stand aside from his mayoral duties and that he has made a personal statement setting out his reasons for this decision.

‘Over the next couple of days the council will be looking at any mayoral engagements that have been booked and getting in touch with the organisers to discuss alternative arrangements.

We very much want to continue supporting local organisations and charities at their events, and we are confident that alternative arrangements can be put in place very shortly.’

Lancashire Police said the offences were alleged to have been committed in Oswaldtwistle against three men between January and July 2017.

A police spokesman: ‘A 67-year old man from Hyndburn in Lancashire attended a police station by appointment on Monday, January 15, to be interviewed about complaints of sexual offences.

‘The man was spoken to at the police station in Lancashire.

‘He has not been arrested.’…

YET!…adds the Bugler…Go Here.

At a recent informal social gathering a disabled FSV was heard to say “You did it to us now we are going to do it to you with interest; all you have to do is give us the opportunity”, though in observing the sensitivities of expletive deletion it was not quite put like that.

One of the modern idioms regularly used by criminals caught in the act is the word ‘inappropriate’.

This is usually prefaced in their usual brass necked statement of declared innocence that it would be ‘inappropriate’  to comment further and whilst we may all, other than politicians, be  imbued with the spirit of the great and goodly sense of  English  ‘fair play’, or  we ought to be,  the farm yard rules still apply.

If it looks like a duck, and it waddles heavily borne down with self-evident guilt ; and it plaintively squawks like  a spluttering duck; then it is self-evidently a guilty duck…why is Life so unfair they whine?

It is a fact of political history that the Tory Party, before being booted out of office, has regularly melted down into the old oblivion familiar sleaze party.

The rot which always starts at the top and which  meets the rot on the way up always occurs because the Tory Party fails to take action to stop the suppuration as it inevitably works it way through every root, branch, leaf, and fruit, as once more the ‘nazty’ part, as Prime Minister May herself christened it, implodes in a jangling heap of self-excoriating blood letting and finger pointing accusations.

Once more Lancashire rises to the top of this steaming stinking midden as the Tory Party sets its usual tone and ‘standards’ locally  for all the World and the Electorate to see.

Right now it will fail again, in this latest Britcliffe case, to take firm action, other than to sigh weary acceptance because the Tories have put themselves in the unenviable position that it is publicly right for the Tory leader in Lancashire County, CC Driver their Leader, to continue in daily threatening office (continually supported publicly as ever by the Lancashire Evening Post silence) whilst still under continuing bail (to be renewed on the 23rd February 2018~almost a year on) for ‘perverting the course of justice’ and ‘intimidation of witnesses’.

This raises the most intriguing, nay amusing question, of how the Leader of the Lancashire Conservatives CC Driver, a corrupt and corrupting influence himself, is going to contemplate  how, or if, he is going to suspend CC Britcliffe not only from the County Council but  from his position on the Combined Fire Authority where said Driver put him.

Whilst all the while considering that Britcliffe is actually his political boss as the Chairman of the Lancashire Conservative Party?

One can always count on Driver getting it spectacularly wrong and now he is joined by another moronic assistant in Britcliffe.

Surely there must a collective noun for morons because that is certainly what we have here.

Now at this point we must endeavour not to mention stun guns and halal meat in the same breath because if either of them  can  actually  identify  a stun  gun  or better still have the opportunity to use one on each other the Bugler might actually run out of relevant superlatives for this politically expedient idiocy of Laurel and Hardy though the word Hardy might  be  misconstrued   in   Britcliffe’s  

steamy adventures…

We must not forget fact that Britcliffe sits on the beleaguered, supine, and mordant Lancashire Combined Fire Authority and on the ‘Performance’  sub-committee no less; and on the LCC Health Committee.

Well all this is quite a ‘performance’ is not?

One wonders how Britcliffe will mark himself on the Strictly Dancing Scale of Decency whilst waddling and waltzing  through the putrescent political corridors of Lancashire County Hall?

Perhaps we can all foreseen the time when the full LCC Council Meeting will be held at HMPrison Wymott, or if they are choosey, at HMP Garth for the really accomplished criminals….

Maybe to rescue some of his dwindling income from his politically inert activities at the LCFA, Britcliffe is not going to offer to resign, where he continues to find himself in the corrupt company of the criminals CC DeMolfetta(Lab) the LCFA Chairman; the expenses fiddler O’Toole(Con) ~ the Lancashire Tory Whip who reports to Britcliffe as his Conservative Chair ; whilst being linked with another CFA member the Vice Chairman, the ‘flamboyant’ CC Miles Parkinson(Lab) of surprise, surprise,  Hyndburn Council, Britcliffe’s alma mater?

Are they all part of the ‘Hole in the Wall’ gang of suppurating cowboy politicians where it seems rampant homosexuality is linked to predatorial pathological paedophilia?

It is deeply touching but  one wonders why would a Labour Councillor rush to the aid of a discomforted Tory Councillor?

Is it just because they are chum pigs in the same trough at the Combined Fire Authority, or because they are colluding County Councillors at County Hall, or Hyndburn, or in other  fascinating  community building development endeavours ?

How exactly does CC Parkinson earn his living? From where does he source this carnation generating income?

A study of Companies House returns should prove fruitful in understanding a little more of these curious and mysterious activities.

Unfortunately for the Electorate these ‘little mysteries’ tend to be the usual cover up for more corrupt practices.

No doubt the good Councillor will understand, as a Fire Brigades Union card holding member(which calls in question his impartiality on the Combined Fire Authority) that wisps of smoke from a ‘Bull’s Eye’ generally identifies more serious conflagrations/corruption in the darker recesses.

Perhaps he too visits Milly’s recruiting ground for his share of the lattes and the sausage sandwiches?

Picture this sylvan setting the next time you have the misfortune to walk past County Hall.

Oft in the stilly night you will hear the sounds floating across the ether of snuffling and grunting as these wonderful creatures  exchange ‘ruminations’  as they munch the truffles sweetening their flesh for the political stun gunners as they head off  to provide the succulent contents for Milly’s sausages.

Such an enchanting rustic rural scene one thinks?…

Perhaps some may care to think that this country has politically gone leaderless to Hell and back…well it is the Bugler’s view that it is still on its way there on the first part of this journey to perdition.

The sleazy Britcliffe’s make it so…