Burnley

What do the railways at Rose Grove, Whittlesea and Huish have in common? The answer is that the names of the railway infrastructure have different spellings from the town or village where they're found.

So Rosegrove in Burnley is two separate words in a railway context, but it's one word locally elsewhere.

Whittlesea in Cambridgeshire is S-E-Y in the town, but it's C-S-E-A as in ocean.

for the railway and huish on the Bristol to Exeter route is spelt with an EW when on a railway context and just with a U when you're talking about the village.

And I tell you what, if we get to that point, we're still doing this podcast and I recovered, I'll come do Clash of Kings UK.

Because my girlfriend's from Burnley from the UK.

So she wants to go back over and do all that stuff.

So we'll lock that in.

But I thought, actually, I need to reach out a bit more in the east side and get a nice smart hotel and invite our guest speakers, etc., etc.

update in eight will be quite a nice chunky project we're delivering training to do with child criminal exploitation we're doing the child sexual exploitation January February I've got three new trainers well yeah two are new two aren't four trainers delivering the child sexual exploitation CPD course for the University of Lancashire at Preston and Burnley sites and then there's other things in the pipeline to do with further reach with missing from people and the police that I want to develop and And so it goes on and we've just got two new volunteers, one who's a wonderful PhD student from the University of Lancashire who's really keen and wants to do more with us and we need to grow our website and we need to do more resources and we need to grow.

We need to do everything, don't

we? So hopefully this will help with visibility and obviously we'll be sharing this and we'll share the links to No Whisper CIC as well.

And there's a lot of people complain about the UK electoral system, as there will be in lots of other countries, I have no doubt.

But I think what our system manages to do is it tells politicians, if you want to get elected, you have to build a broad church that appeals to people in Burnley, in the north of England, as much as it does to people in Kensington, the middle of London.

and the Highlands of Scotland and the sort of beautiful coastal towns of Cornwall.

And when we got Labour elected in 24, that's what we managed to do.

You know, Westminster votes Labour as much as Burnley votes Labour, as much as the Highlands of Scotland in some parts vote Labour and parts of Cornwall vote Labour.

You have to build that coalition.

What do I think we could probably learn or what I think we have to learn is, as I say, I'm a believer in progressive politics, but a politics that respects voters and sort of meets them where they are.

I think he's a man that has Britain's best interests at heart.

So you look about the kind of left behind town type of narrative.

Well, I can think of Lancashire, for example, places like Burnley, Blackburn, Blackpool.

They've had a very, very difficult time.

last 40 or 50 years, they have been left behind.

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in the bay he had at Prairie Sports Village in Burnley.

Did three and then sacked it off.

Okay?