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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tories'
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 […]
Civil war in Crawley
February 25th, 2014 · Comments Off on Civil war in Crawley · Politics
I see that the local Tories are continuing to lay into each other in the local press. This time it is all about a spat between current Tory Duncan Crow and his erstwhile colleague Karl Williamson who defected to UKIP. It really is like watching a football game between Argentina and Germany (or between Spurs […]
Some thoughts about flooding
February 11th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
I’ve always had a sort of morbid fascination with floods. Wherever I have lived I have always found myself at some point trying to mentally work out contours and relative heights to reassure myself that I am on high enough ground to not be likely to have my house flooded. I can remember even as […]
Lenny walks
February 12th, 2013 · 4 Comments · Politics
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 […]
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 · Comments Off on PPVPM · 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 · Comments Off on The Eurovote · 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 […]
