While nothing I have heard about him makes me inclined to like him, I don’t think the news of Lenny Walker getting the sack as a cabinet member of Crawley council is a good thing. Specifically, it is not a good thing for potential whistleblowers out there. There are two possibilities – either Mr Walker [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Tories'
The planning problem
October 11th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Politics
Earlier today I came across something that quoted from the Tory plans to relax planning regulations and save the country by building conservatories, and a thought struck me. Cameron (and Clegg) were talking about legislation to make it harder for residents to hold up development and for building to go ahead on the green belt [...]
Tags: Tories·Town Planning
Bert Crane
April 10th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Politics
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 [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Tories
Tory wordcloud
April 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Politics
I couldn’t resist it for my first attempt at a wordcloud…
Tags: Tories
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.
Tags: Idiots·Local Papers·Tories
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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