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Blatant begging

January 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics

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Hotting up

December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

Must be an election on the horizon or something.   I have started to get a flurry of messages, calls and emails asking for contact details from the party and from people wanting to make sure they can arrange hustings at short notice.  Also a request for volunteers for a live phone-in politics show that wanted [...]

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A good day for Labour

October 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics

A couple of good by-election results yesterday which have lifted morale in Sussex and Yorkshire.

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Local paper hilarity

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Politics

The Crawley Observer was very popular at work today.
One colleague thought that the headline was a classic, deserving of some sort of headline of the year award.
Another colleague scanned the story and asked why the traffic police were rescuing people from a toilet…   a fair amount of hilarity ensued bfore we could explain that it [...]

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Labour desperate in Northgate?

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

The local Tories are so predictable.   The latest edition of their ironically-named newsletter, Insight, has been going through doors in Northgate this week and it says just what I expected.  They are saying that Labour is flooding the area with activists because we are desperate to win.

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Northgate byelection – five days to go

October 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

I was back in Northgate again this morning.  There were so many of us that, after two of the older members took a load of leaflets to deliver to one area, the rest of us had to split into three groups for canvassing.   No doubt this will be spun as Labour getting desperate.  I think [...]

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Northgate byelection

October 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

Next week there is a byelection in the Northgate ward of Crawley, following the resignation of a councillor.  It could be interesting.  The area used to be 100% Labour, but for the past 15(?) years it has had Lib Dem borough councillors and Labour county councillors, and earlier this year elected its first Tory to [...]

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Unintended consequence of election

June 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics

This letter in the local paper after the election results attracted a few replies last week.  I’ll be surprised if there is not more reaction this week.  When it first appeared I read it a couple of times and I am still not 100% sure what point the writers were trying to make.

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Moan

June 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life

I have been far too content lately.  I think its time for a moan.  I don’t know why I am so chipper: the election results were not good – personally I lost heavily (not unexpected) and the Labour party got almost wiped out to the extent that our share of the number of councillors in [...]

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Silver linings

June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

I find it is good for the nerves to not get too wound up about stuff, to try and remain sanguine in the face of adversity, and to look on the bright side.  It is something I have been trying to do for some time now, hence the appearance of being semi-detached at times.
In the [...]

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