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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.    |
We have had our differences but Spiderplant certainly has a knack of being in the right place at the right time. There are some good pics on her site of the events that unfolded today in Whitehall. As we are now officially coalition partners, I hope that we’ll be able to move forward in [...] Nick Clegg will be Deputy PM in the new government and it is reward for the courage he has shown in leading his reluctant party to sharing power with the Conservatives. Around mid-afternoon, he began to run the risk that people were going to get pretty hacked off with him if he kept them [...] The need for electoral reform has indeed been highlighted by the result of the general election. Despite the electoral map turning its bluest since the 1992 election, Labour’s many small inner-city seats, the over-representation of Scotland and in-built majority of 90 have helped Gordon Brown stay in Downing Street three days longer than he [...] What a shame that some Lib Dems can’t distinguish the difference between what is politics and what is personal. I was pretty shocked at Spiderplant’s bileous, hateful and defamatory post on me after the elections, it seems that she must have had a very bad night if the only thing that comforts her is [...] No question about it – the most important thing about last night was ensuring that Woking retained the services of a Conservative MP. All the work that we have been doing in Horsell West and Horsell East was geared to ensuring that Jonathan Lord became the next MP for Woking and that we fought [...] Not particularly unexpectedly, the papers continue to turn on Gordon Brown as Labour heads for utter wipeout at the election. The Times, which has backed Labour for the past three elections, returns to the Conservatives along with the Sunday Express but interestingly the Grauniad and its sister The Observer is backing the Liberal Democrats, [...] We’ve all heard about how local the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate is. She’s been variously “at the heart of our community for thirty years“, “helping people for over twenty years” and has “a strong record of local action” according to Lib Dem literature. Certainly, if the election is a “localness” competition, she would fare well. [...] After knocking on a few doors over the weekend and speaking to those who manned at our very successful Town Square stall on Saturday, feedback from voters is very clear. They want an MP in Woking who: 1) Has local interests at heart 2) Is an effective advocate for Woking residents 3) Is an effective champion for [...] “The two old parties” – that is how Nick Clegg described both the Conservatives and Labour in his manifesto and the media has been quick to latch onto this descriptive. It’s the usual bare-faced Liberal trick – to claim the exact opposite of what you really stand for or really are on the basis [...] |
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