The Horsell's Mouth Politics, pedantry and personal interests

I don’t think there’s anyone who’s going to argue that ensuring good youth provision across Woking isn’t important. It is clearly in everyone’s interest that outside of schools hours there should be enough capacity to cater for any young people who want to become involved in structured activities. But the executive took a very dim [Read More →]

I did promise that I wouldn’t be blogging on individual Lib Dems unless they blogged on individual Conservatives or executive decisions in a new spirit of shared common purpose. So imagine my delight when Olly Wells mentioned my name in his latest offering on the parking charges in Woking. Despite my lack of imagination, I [Read More →]

Another post from Cllr Olly Wells, although to be fair at least this one is about Knaphill rather than Burma or the Imperial plunder of British museums. What readers of his blog might not be aware of is the revisions this posting had to go through in order to make it, well, accurate. Portfolio holder [Read More →]

Another classic blog post from Cllr Olly Wells, who seems intent on talking about anything apart from Knaphill. This time, he’s hand-wringing about the return of foreign artefacts from British museums and having a good old Liberal self-flagellation session about the lingering wrongs of the Empire. Snore. On the bright side though, he does have [Read More →]

If you are ever unfortunate enough to entertain Lib Dems to tea, make sure you bake two cakes – one for them to have and one to eat. Having moaned for ages that Woking parking charges were too high, they are now moaning that the action the Conservatives have taken to reduce charges at commercially [Read More →]

One of the differences between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives is that Conservatives want to transform the country whereas Lib Dems always seem to want to change the world. That’s fine but it does rather beg the question of where the focus of that party and its members lies. Take Cllr Olly Wells of [Read More →]