I missed all the fun of the Scotish referendum the other week because I was away on holiday, which for me means no internet news sites, no newspapers, no Facebook, no TV news, no Twitter, not even any RSS feeds. I did actually find out the result on the Saturday afterwards when I suddenly remembered […]
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The Scottish referendum result: a correction
October 2nd, 2014 · Comments Off on The Scottish referendum result: a correction · Politics
Tags: Scotland
A great success story?
September 30th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Politics
Remember this story back in May? William Hague was visiting L-3 in Crawley with Henry Smith MP and Howard Bloom, leader of Crawley council. At the time Henry said that L-3 was “a great success story for Crawley industry and a great success story in terms of employment and exports as well”. What was not […]
Tags: Local Papers
Can’t stand me now
September 5th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Politics
The required number of Southgate voters have called for an election and so there will be a byelection on October 9th. Which is a shame. Southgate was the first place in Crawley where I lived, and where I usually find myself on election days doing knocking up so I might have fancied putting my name […]
Another one bites the dust
September 1st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Politics
It appears that Crawley is now a UKIP-free zone, as our only UKIP councillor resigned on Friday. To be honest, it doesn’t sound like it will make a big difference as he was rarely spotted in the town hall. I suppose he should be congratulated on doing the right thing, eventually. Having spent several years […]
The circus comes to Clacton
August 28th, 2014 · Comments Off on The circus comes to Clacton · Politics
Today’s ‘shock’ announcement of a Tory MP defecting to UKIP has been a bit of fun for all the non-Tories, but not entirely a shock in some respects. OK, so it wasn’t expected or even hinted at, but once you saw the headline, the identity of the MP in question was far from a shock. […]
My favourite Robin Williams line
August 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite Robin Williams line · Life, Politics
One reason why I like comedy is the way that a comedian can often manage to sum up a whole social issue in a one-liner that makes its point better than a politician could in an entire speech, and still make you laugh When politicians try humour it is cringeworthy at best, but when comedians […]
Tags: Funny
Will the last minister to leave the Foreign Office please turn out the lights
August 12th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Politics
I have never really taken to Baroness Warsi, but at least she resigned on a matter of principle, unlike Mark Simmonds. I don’t think that being unable to scrape by on many times the average wage really counts as a principle. When I see him complaining that MPs’ expenses can’t pay for him to rent […]
Laffer spotting
August 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Laffer spotting · Politics
I had a real surprise the other day. I was watching Sky News and they had an interview with Arthur Laffer, the bloke who has that curve named after him. For some reason I had always just assumed that the Laffer curve, and by implication Laffer himsef, were a lot less recent than that. I […]
Health & Safety Gone Mad
June 24th, 2014 · Comments Off on Health & Safety Gone Mad · Politics
Here is an idea. I would like to propose a change to H&S regulations to the effect that any politician who complains about health & safety regulations in the workplace is not only exempt from all such regulations themselves, but if they ever go on a photo opportunity visit to a construction site, factory, warehouse, […]
Tags: Health and Safety
The Boys Are Back In Town
June 18th, 2014 · 4 Comments · Politics
Guess who just got back today? Them wild eyed boys that had been away Haven’t changed, haven’t much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy So, I went to the town hall on Friday for the annual council meeting, to see my Labour colleagues take their places back in charge and […]
Tags: Crawley Council
