'Fighting like rats in a sack': Hull and Grimsby councils in war of words that could put regeneration cash at risk

“Scroll down this page to just above the eyebrows of the enclosed images of Shaw and Ingllis and it looks like a pair of wrinkly old ****..the irony...!”

“by MG3AH

Hallelujah at long last the message is getting out! Keep spreading the gospel. ;)”

“This makes very sorry/cringe-worthy reading; what hope has this REGION got with such infantile short-sighted, power-mongering bafoons at the helm. They are inadvertently destroying what little credibility this region has as a commercial proposition, with their inexorable inability to see beyond the end of their own nose. As long as these idiotic crettings continue to "miss"-shape our future, with their juvenile squabbling, the vast latent potential in this city will continue to remain dormant for decades to come. The custodians of Hull and the Humber need to take a long hard look at themselves; or even better take a long hard look at Manchester, Leeds or Liverpool (a city which can be most closely paralleled with Hull and is now boasting the fastest growing economy in the UK) and work out why they are all light years ahead...? It's high time these "old school" parochial minded individuals stepped aside and made way for people with genuine altruism and fortitude lead the people of Hull and Humber to it's potentially prosperous and exciting future..!”

“This is a labour infighting,may be 2 strong personalities clashing,Colin Inglis maybe saying what many think ? on Chris Shaw,he didn't cover himself in glory,when nearly scuppering the Humber bridge tolls,when he couldn't see further than his own nose.
i think many labour councillors on both banks of the humber are not up to the job,of taking this area forward to be successful,they scare private investment away,but people on both banks vote labour in,which i don't understand,after decades of decline.
also i think it was a big mistake to abolish Humberside,it would be better for the Humber region.
Hull gets very little,everything goes to Leeds and Sheffield,I'm afraid the local dinosaur's couldn't move on.”

“@ allwaysred1 It was Labour however that sank Govt finances by adding tens of billions to the welfare bill, who sold sizeable chunks of the UK gold reserves off for ridiculous sums, who instigated virtually unaudited multi-million pound IT projects and haphazard multi-billion pound defence projects. Oh they sank the economy all right, international bank crisis or no. Unsustainable, pre-election welfare bribes, from your typical red who knows the attraction of amounts of money but nothing of its value.”

“Definitely rats in a sack, photo says it all, career stirrers who could do with leaving local politics and try getting a proper job. If they can find one. Sadly locals keep voting the vermin in though. Any Pied Piper for hire?”

“"KirstyandPhil" I wasn't "dragged out to go on air" anywhere at lunchtime, they might have repeated something from the Breakfast stuff, so get your facts right before you disappear up your own smartness!
20 sec BBC soundbites don't add much to any debate, I refused an invitation to do Look North to the annoyance no doubt of those claiming I just "want publicity"? Why would I, in the "twilight of my career" I can simply say what I really think, funny how such a fading unimportant backbencher seems so fascinating to journos and trolls! ;-)
Since Cllr. Shaw has apparently sworn to the Minister that he will behave himself in future, it seems Mission (at least partially) Accomplished!”

“I used to do a midweek Disco at the 'County' in Immingham. Rough place alright, the cops used to have an open van ready to load em in at the end of the night, every night. When they found out I was from this side of the river they made it known 'we don't like Yorkies'. The gaffer said "Hey don't let me down, no-one from this side will work here". I didn't do many more nights there. It seemed the right decision at the time!”

“by Colin Inglis Wednesday, January 9 2013, 9:34AM

"I've been up a while and no I won't be. I've said my piece up to others to sort it all out."

LOLs Appears Mr Inglis subsequently had a change of heart since he and Chris Shaw were seemingly dragged out to go on air at lunchtime for a blatantly obvious back peddling and damage limitation exercise!!

So by "others", I assume Colin Inglis must mean the Cities Minister, The Humber's MPs (even moreso Labour's Alan Johnson), Peter Levy and BBC Look North??!

Whatever or whoever! About time that someone got the ball rolling and started knocking some Humber council heads together!! ;-})”

“colin inglis WHO , a spent politition waste of space”