The nominations closed today for the council elections which means two important things: It will all be over in four weeks, one way or another We all know who we are standing against The full lists are not yet on the crawley council website as I write, but I’m sure they will be soon. Before […]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Runners and riders in Crawley
April 25th, 2014 · Comments Off on Runners and riders in Crawley · Politics
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections
Being a pioneer
April 20th, 2014 · 3 Comments · Life, Politics
I don’t usually join the Daily Mail/UKIP rant about political correctness gone mad or nanny state health & safetyism. As Stewart Lee says, political correctness is basically just being polite and respectful, and as far as H&S complaints are concerned I always want to ask the complainer whether it is safety or health that they […]
Tags: Language
The Gatwick problem
April 6th, 2014 · Comments Off on The Gatwick problem · Politics
I popped down to the Hawth theatre today for the exhibition by Gatwick Airport Ltd. about possible expansion at the airport. As I arrived I could see that there was actually a queue to get in, and not a small one either – it must have been at least 10 metres. My immediate naive thought […]
Tags: Gatwick
A Govial evening
April 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on A Govial evening · Politics
We had a Labour constituency meeting tonight, and given recent news stories I couldn’t resist proposing, under any other business, that we invite Michael Gove to Crawley and then leave the minutes with those remarks on a Town Hall photocopier. It would be incorrect to say that we are not enjoying all this, but I […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Tories
Putting Crawley on the map. Unfortunately.
March 27th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Politics
Crawley news doesn’t usually travel much further than the Crawley News. Or Crawley Observer. So it is good that the opinions of one of our local councillors is getting into national/international news channels right? Well maybe not if it is Southgate councillor Liam Marshall-Ascough who has made it into the Huffington Post with his twisted […]
Your views?
March 25th, 2014 · Comments Off on Your views? · Politics
Does nobody in Crawley have anything to say? I find that hard to believe, but the Crawley News has a page entitled “Your Views”, which is probably what a focus group or media consultant told them to call the letters to the editor page. Much of the page is taken up by a reader’s photograph, […]
Tags: Local Papers
A logic-free zone
March 24th, 2014 · Comments Off on A logic-free zone · Politics
The Crawley News has a story this week about a Tory councillor’s reasons for not going to many meetings that he is supposed to be part of. He says that the reason for his poor attendance is that he stopped going to development control committee meetings because they are “a logic-free zone”. He said: I […]
Tony Benn
March 15th, 2014 · Comments Off on Tony Benn · Politics
Though he had been ill for some time, I think Tony Benn’s death was more of a shock than Bob Crow’s, possibly because he has been a fixture for so long I just sort of assumed he would always be around. I saw him speak a few times but only met him once, at a […]
Tags: Labour Party·Photos
Bob Crow again
March 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Bob Crow again · Politics
I think this is a better picture of Bob Crow than the one I put here yesterday. I took this one at the 2009 Tolpuddle festival which, by the way, is an event well worth seeing.
Tags: Photos
Bob Crow
March 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Bob Crow · Politics
The news about Bob Crow came as a bit of a shock today, and I’ll admit that a large part of that is the normal reaction of any 51-year-old hearing about a 52-year-old’s sudden death. I was never in Bob’s union, but I have plenty to thank him for. When I worked for the railways […]
Tags: Photos·Trade Unions
