A Short Post On The Possible Death Of Bridgend Town Because Of Ford And Corona........And Why Welsh Labour Is To Blame

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well.

I should have gone to Bridgend Town at the end of last month. As I normally do now I would have gone to the dentist and then spent a few hours wandering around and subsequently chatting about it before going to work just outside.

Of course I didn't because of Corona, the dentist having cancelled the appointment, but I'm still working in the borough.

Now Bridgend Town is a place at serious danger of being the first urban victim of Corona but the marker needs to be laid down here. Should the town die whilst it receive outside body blows the real killer will be Welsh Labour.

As you will see from putting Bridgend Town on the blog search engine I have chatted on many occasions about the town's decline which has been mainly caused by the incompetence of the local Labour council. Just to give four examples here there was the botched pedstrianisation, the agreement to have the Macarthur Glen discount operation almost literally down the road and the closure of the public toilets and the moving of the town centre public library away from the town centre.

All of this and many more meant that there are swathes of empty shops in the town centre it is literally a ghost town in the way that you could see from some of it's buildings the glories of the past hiding in shadows from the tragedy of the present.

The point is that was the situation before Corona.

And let's not forget that in just over four months Ford, the biggest employer in the area, will close it's nearby engine plant. Thus many people will find themselves without a job and unsure what their future will be. So outside of the supermarkets will these people be spending their redundancy money in the town? Of course not.

Who knows what the future will bring when Corona is defeated. But what is clear is that people are unlikely to go to the town unless absolutely necessary. Thus the strong possibility that a weakened town's decline becomes permanent. And whilst Welsh Labour would not have killed the town by weakening it through their incompetence they are just as culpable for it's potential death.

Until the next time.