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Entries from May 10th, 2009

Business as usual

May 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Business as usual · Politics

Undeterred by all the doom and gloom, we had a busy weekend in Horsham, delivering European election material, and we are all pleased with our efforts. We took a large pile of newspapers and worried that we were being over-ambitious, but with delivering sessions on Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon we got through […]

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un-Seat-ed

May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life

On Friday afternoon I got the phone call I had been half-expecting: the insurance company called to say that my car is not worth repairing. A shame really.  With the very few miles I actually need to drive it is hardly worth having a car, but I got used to having this.

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Decapitate your mate

May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Music

This should fit in nicely with Jams’ current current spate of zombie-related posts… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The new video from The Streets is unlikely to pop up on mainstream TV as it features a montage of clips from various zombie films, including some quite gory ones.

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Is de-selection the answer?

May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

A lot of normal Labour party members have been talking about whether de-selection is the answer for MPs caught with their fingers in the till, and I think Snowflake puts it very well, to the point of making further comment superfluous. ((but that won’t stop me adding a little))

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We are all Europeans now

May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics

At the moment I am reading a history of the 1970s and enjoying it a lot more than I expected to.   Last night I was at the section covering Britain’s entry to the Common Market and there was an interesting poll about attitudes at the time.

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