Thanks to Danivon for pointing out the Worthing Liberal Democrats website. I shouldn’t really be praising the opposition, but I quite like the Worthing Lib Dems – quite a few of them I have met only joined when Thatcher was in power and thought the Lib Dems were the most likely party to beat the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Lib Dems'
Worthing
May 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Worthing · Politics
Tags: Elections·Internet·Lib Dems·Links·Statistics
Defections
January 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
The recent move of a Tory councillor to the Liberal Democrats has resulted in a lot of the usual calls for her to resign her seat and re-stand for her new party in a by-election, or to at least declare herself as an independent instead. Predictable, and not entirely without merit, but how often does […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Lib Dems·Tories
Twins Basil!
December 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics
Has the BBC News website fallen victim to hackers, or is this story actually true? Flamboyant MP Lembit Opik has announced he is dating one of pop duo the Cheeky Girls, after confirming he and weather presenter Sian Lloyd have split up. I think it is true. No hacker could possibly invent the wonderful detail […]
Defection reaction
December 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
The reactions to Councillor Marcella Head’s defection from the Tories to the Lib Dems have been interesting and varied. First of all there is the local Tory website which, a whole week later, is still listing her as my Conservative councillor in Broadfield South. They seem to have either forgotten that they have a website, […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Labour Party·Lib Dems·Local Papers·Tories
Tories lose their majority
December 9th, 2006 · 12 Comments · Politics
Today a letter came through our door from our councillor, Marcella Head, to tell us that she has left the Tory party and joined the Liberal Democrats. This was unexpected but not a huge shock. I knew she was not entirely happy in the the Tory party, which was why I gave her a membership […]
Consultation
July 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
I have recently finished a book called The Tyranny of Numbers by David Boyle, sub-titled ‘why counting can’t make us happy’. Its an interesting book, but possibly less than the sum of its parts, by which I mean there are lots of specific parts which are fascinating but I am not sure about the overall […]
Croydon Council
July 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
Just like Crawley, Croydon council changed hands from Labour to Conservative. Just like in Crawley, the Labour party is worried about possible cuts to services and facilities. On Saturday I was at the Croydon World Party in Lloyd Park. This event was started off while the council was Labour-controlled and has grown to be quite […]
Dull Council Meeting
April 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Dull Council Meeting · Politics
I know council meetings are supposed to be dull, but last night's was extremely pedestrian compared to the last one I went to. By the end of it I really wished I had gone to see Spizzenergi at the 100 Club instead. (Interesting fact – since leaving the council I have been to more Spizzenergi […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Labour Party·Lib Dems·Local Government·Photos·Spizzenergi·Tories
The perils of advertising
March 9th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics
Over at Bloggers4Labour Andrew has Google advertising on the site to raise a few pennies. One of the dangers of doing this in a partisan political site is that if you mention the ‘enemy’ you could end up with that being used as a key word to give you ads like this… …or the one […]
Chris Who?
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Chris Who? · Politics
Last week on Question Time, the camera panned round the panel and alighted on Chris Huhne sitting at the end. Before they said who he was, my immediate reaction was to wonder why Crawley Tory councillor Bob Lanzer was on Question Time. These pictures don’t really do the comparison justice. Who-he looked much greyer on […]
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