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Welcome to my blog. I am a former local journalist who now works in PR and a Conservative and community activist in Woking and Horsell. This blog will keep updated on local issues as well as my interests and quirky news stories.

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Woking News Farce

I have found an outrageous website to entertain anyone interested in Woking and Horsell news. It’s called Woking News Farce and it has clearly caught the attention of the finer stitches of Woking’s civic fabric considering who pointed it out to me.

However, I would like to say that contrary to a number of questions [...]

Life after Lisbon

Well, that’s it. The Czechs have signed and the Lisbon Treaty becomes law soon. DC has outlined his response, no doubt hoping to kick this into the long grass until after the election.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that will convince some of the more strident Eurosceptics, who will continue to call for a referendum [...]

Shoulder to shoulder no more

It's all gone a bit wrong for Brown

Following America is what Labour has done best throughout its tenure – in Iraq, Kosovo, Iraq again, Afghanistan and finally Iraq yet again. On each occasion we’ve gone in with America and been the last ally to exit ahead of them. What a shame that [...]

Green papers

Sir Thomas Legg about to send out letters

A slightly lightweight but nevertheless poignantly acerbic little morsel on ConservativeHome.

I understand the anger about expenses but really, isn’t reforming the system enough? My father says that there are four motivating emotions for humans – greed, fear, lust and jealousy. It’s clear to me [...]

Comparing the speeches

An interesting analysis over at Tim Dodds’s Lightwater blog on the leaders’ speeches. I’ve commented.

The blog of Olly Wells

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, [...]

Opening the Upper House

Packed with cronies or open for applications?

It’s a quiet Friday today, not much new in the papers – I’m waiting for the documentation for the October 1 Woking Borough Council meeting to be available.

Looking through some of my recommended blogs, I return to Tim Dodds’s post earlier today about Labour’s Baronesses. [...]

View from the conference

Cllr Denzil Coulson is at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth. He and I disagree on some of the finer points but I think his musings are well worth a read!

They don't like it up 'em

Up until three months ago, there was no regularly updated blog putting forward the Conservative view in Woking and the Lib Dems quite wisely ran amok, posting stories about Conservative councillors and taking political credit wherever possible.

In the last couple of months, they’ve not had it all there own way, as I’ve been [...]

First thoughts

I’ve just moved this blog from Blogspot because everything’s just a bit more polished here. This weekend is the selection panel for the next Conservative PPC for Woking. Obviously I won’t be allowed to discuss details of this process but we are following the open primary model, with the executive panel meeting after the [...]