Last week I went along to the full council meeting at the town hall. It is not something I do very often, maybe once or twice in the last five years, but last week was a very special meeting – the last one ever to feature Bert Crane as a councillor. He has been a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Tories'
Tory wordcloud
April 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Politics
I couldn’t resist it for my first attempt at a wordcloud…
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PPVPM
March 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Politics
In the aftermath of the story about the Tory treasurer trying to sell dinner with the PM I very much enjoyed Charlie Brooker’s description of David Cameron as the pay-per-view prime minister. Of course other PMs, probably all of them, must have done the same or similar but I always assumed it would be done [...]
The Eurovote
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics
What a good evening it has been this evening. In the early evening Jayne and I watched Cop Out on DVD (v. amusing. Both enjoyed it, and it only cost three quid) then I listened to the end of the West Ham game on Radio Five Live Extra (One-nil to the Hammers) and rounded it [...]
Is this the big society?
October 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Politics
When Cameron and Maude started going on about the big society the closest we could get to working out what they meant was that some functions of the public sector would be done by ordinary citizens and/or charities. We presumed it meant things like parents running the after-school club at the local primary. It turns [...]
The magic of Henry Smith
August 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Politics
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little about our MP, Henry Smith, and his ‘hyperactive abstention’. One of the local papers mentioned this and managed to get a response from Henry which was a masterpiece of political answers, showing a level of misdirection that a stage conjuror would be proud of.
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Henry Smith and his hyperactive abstention
July 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics
Does our MP, Henry Smith, support the increase in IMF lending capacity? Well the answer is yes. And no. At the vote in Parliament he voted for it and also voted against, effectively abstaining. Personally I don’t have a problem with abstention as such. If you don’t have enough knowledge of an issue to form [...]
Thin ends of the wedge
May 12th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Politics
Just how many thin ends can a wedge have?  In one day we have two examples of how the Tories are starting their attack on what few certainties there are in life as they try to reverse all the positive things achieved by the Labour party and indeed the Labour movement that Thatcher never quite [...]
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The inevitable Mark Hammond announcement
September 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
According to the County Times the county council has announced that the chief executive is ‘formally leaving the post’. It goes on to say that the council say Mr. Hammond is leaving on ‘amicable terms’.  Everything about this is a bit vague - necessarily, since the council leader forbade any of the councillors from talking [...]
At last: a chance to agree with the Lib Dems
August 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Since the elction in May, or rather since the formation of the coalition I have been increasingly disenchanted with the Liberal Democrats, though many of my colleagues in the Labour party will say I was foolish to be giving them the benefit of the doubt in the first place.
Have you heard of the categorisation of political activists into...