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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.    |
Denzil’s next bright idea is to form a campaign against exploring the possibility of whether or not it would be feasible to tender out the services currently provided by Woking Leisure Centre and Pool in the Park to the private sector. I can understand why people might have concerns about tendering these services rather [...] It’s been a busy week for Denzil Coulson, Lib Dem councillor for Goldsworth West. Having not updated his blog since May 30, he’s been busy rattling off some nonsense about the Surrey Police rebilling, among other things.” “The Surrey Police Authority are (sic) faced with a potential £3 million financial holethanks to bungled political [...] Having referred to the death of Henry Allingham just a week ago, I cannot let the sad passing of Harry Patch go without comment. I said in my previous post that it could not be long before the final link to the First World War was broken and the whole terrible business passed out [...] The selection process to become Woking’s next Conservative parliamentary candidate is hotting up and I’m delighted to say that I’m on the selection panel, which is a great filip and I’m sure will be a valuable experience. We will be using a similar open primary method of selection that was piloted last week in [...] She’s done it – Chloe Smith is the next MP for Norwich North following her victory today, which has already been covered by others. I have to say that I didn’t expect the majority to be nearly 7,500 but neither did anyone else. This result was interesting to me purely because of the scale [...] I remember waking up 19 years ago next week to the news that the IRA had planted a bomb underneath the car of Conservative MP Ian Gow (right), killing him horribly as he attempted to drive away. It was shocking, of course, but we forget now how commonplace it was back then for the [...] No, really, there is none. Neither the Labour spin machine (aided by the BBC), nor John Prescott (aided by the BBC), nor the select committee, the Grauniad editorial team (aided by the BBC) or anyone else can produce evidence linking Andy Coulson with illegal phone tapping. Hmmm. Okay, that gives Labour and the Lib [...] Labour has never dealt with local government well – ever since the Local Government Bill 2000, the government’s intention to centralise and micro-manage was clearly visible. More recently, the government’s attitude towards councils under opposition control – and that’s most of them now – has changed to outright spitefulness and blatant political discrimination. There’s [...] England’s victory at the Lord’s test match (how sweet it is to write those words) is the product of the kind of spirit and hard work normally so closely associated with their Australian opponents. They also had a fair bit of luck – but you make that and so this shouldn’t detract from [...] Twenty-nine days – that was the length of time that Henry Allingham, who died this morning, was the oldest verified living man in the world. But his life meant so much more than that to so many. Even though he leaves behind one last remaining British First World War colleague Harry Patch, it [...] |
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