About Me

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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Candidate for Horsell West

Jonathan and I this morning in the Red Lion car park

Last night, I had the honour of being selected as the Conservative candidate for Horsell West at the next local elections, broadly expected to be on the same day as the general election.

Ever since I was a reporter sitting in the [...]

Nine percent isn’t good enough

Chloe Smith is Tory female MP number 18, but we need more!

While we were selecting Jonathan Lord as our PPC in Woking, there were some misgivings about the at least 50% rule for female candidates, which stated that out of any given shortlist, at least 50% of the candidates had to be [...]

Supporting Jonathan Lord

Jonathan addresses Horsell Conservatives last week

Jonathan Lord’s core campaign team met today formally for the first time, although the campaign has already begun. Although it was by no means the only thing that we discussed, social media is going to be an important focus for me and a new Facebook campaign has [...]

Press release: Executive supports Woking Hospice

Woking Borough Council’s executive has decided to support Woking Hospice following the council meeting last night. A grant of nearly £60,000 was approved for the hospice to fund its home-based palliative-care nursing service.

The hospice on Hill View Road has been in discussion with the council about securing financial assistance since April as the [...]

Voice of experience

Jonathan Lord

Last week, my post on Jonathan Lord’s selection was taken down by someone hacking into my WordPress account. Very petty. It also raised hackles that I appeared to “forget” that there was an election for us to fight if he was to become the next MP for Woking. No, I haven’t [...]

How strange…

I logged on this morning to find yesterday’s posts disappeared following the highest amount of daily traffic to my blog yet. Not sure why, I have contacted WordPress about it.

Will try to re-post these later.

Update: It appears that someone logged in using my password and deleted these posts. I think whoever that [...]