I have been reading about Worthing today. I saw a headline in the Argus at the station this morning and decided to check out their website to find out what it was about. The headline was “Is this any way for a councillor to behave?” The councillor in question is a Mark McCarthy of Worthing […]
Entries Tagged as 'Scandals'
End of the road?
November 1st, 2006 · Comments Off on End of the road? · Life
Is it the end of the road for Crawley Town FC? This week the owners sacked the manager, John Hollins, and have missed their deadline for paying off their creditors. Meanwhile two parties are interested in paying out £70m to buy West Ham. I wonder if either of them could be persuaded to take an […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Scandals·West Ham
School transport
September 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
I recently heard about something which has really annoyed me. Our girl has a friend whose sister goes to Manor Green College as a year 9 pupil. Manor Green is a brilliant school. Our boy goes there and has benefitted greatly from it. The school is for children with learning disabilities and is the result […]
Tags: Broadfield·Ifield·Scandals·Tories·Trade Unions·Traffic·WSCC
Child poverty in Crawley
August 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The other day Antonia wrote about some statistics released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with particular emphasis (obviously) on how they apply to Oxford. Just as obviously I could not resist looking them up to see how the JRF think we are doing in Crawley. It is worth mentioning something first about how the figures […]
Tags: Bewbush·Broadfield·Crawley·Family·Furnace Green·Ifield·Langley Green·Maidenbower·Maths·Pound Hill·Scandals·Southgate·Statistics·Sure Start·Three Bridges·Tilgate
Dirty Tricks – part two
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The second dirty trick I heard about is one which will not be in the newspapers and which I should probably not talk about. It makes me angry, and I am always prone to respond a bit, shall we say, robustly when I am angry. Also it concerns a document which I have not actually […]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections·Racism·Scandals·Tories·Travellers
Dirty tricks – part one
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
here are two things going on at the moment which leave a nasty taste in the mouth – quite apart from the outbreaks of violence when the BNP launched their campaign on Sunday. First of all there is one story which will be in all the papers. It is already in the Argus today (and […]
Tags: Elections·Newspapers·Scandals
Postal votes confusion
April 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Postal votes confusion · Politics
This is an example of a postal vote ballot form, correctly delivered (and correctly filled out). It could be a bit of a rarity in Crawley. Its also proof that I did vote for the Mrs. Apparently there have been reports of postal votes being sent out with no ballot paper in, two ballot papers […]
Councillors’ allowances
April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Councillors’ allowances · Politics
I already wrote about my strong opinions on attempts to introduce extra allowances for shadow executives on the borough council, but tonight I heard something extraordinary about the whole thing. I'm pretty sure I'm givng away any secrets here because, although this was raised in a Labour group meeting, the details were in a letter […]
Jack Dromey
March 17th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Politics
I am actually quite encouraged by Jack Dromey’s public comments about this loans business. I find the whole thing hard to understand as I really can’t get my head round why someone would want to be a Lord or even a Sir, let alone want it enough to try buying the title. I can’t see […]
Tags: Heroes·Honours·Labour Party·Scandals·Tories
Tessa Jowell
March 6th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Politics
I normally have little or no sympathy with politicians who are even remotely associated with sleaze, but then I do have a bit of a puritanical streak when it comes to that sort of thing. With the whole Tessa Jowell thing I am a lot more sympathetic, as I have been in a similar situation. […]
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