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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.    |
During the last few days, the Lib Dems have been playing a clever PR game by trying to link electoral reform – by which they mean proportional representation’s introduction as our voting system – with “new”, post-expenses, politics. I’m not altogether against electoral reform. I think that the boundaries currently used for our first-past-the-post [...] 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. [...] Any Conservative voters who really believe that a vote for Nick Clegg will get them a sort of Labour-lite – avoiding the upheaval of a change of government, keeping the half-decent things that Labour has done while not having to put up with the “old party” of Gordon Brown or even Gordon Brown himself [...] “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 [...] I'd rather have the Royal Mail deliver for me than this lot I was stopped on the street the other day by someone who wanted to talk about the economy. “Do you know where the problem started?” he said. I started on about how the banks had mixed their High Street and investment [...] There’s nothing better than a bit of politics when the sun’s shining, people are in and willing to talk and the parliamentary candidate is getting greeted on the street by people who recognise him from literature. But so it was this morning when we held an Action Day in Horsell for my campaign along [...] Winning where, exactly? On the junction of Grange Road and Woodham Road, the Liberal Democrats have decided to put one of their large posters up. That’s okay, they are allowed to do that and it doesn’t bother me – while posters are good to keep up the morale of activists, I don’t believe [...] Firstly, it’s good to see that Ann-Marie Barker’s nomination as my Lib Dem opponent in Horsell West is now official (unlike her, I am happy to afford my opponent the courtesy of using her name!). Richard Sanderson has left big shoes for whoever replaces him to fill and I look forward to a good-tempered [...]
Now all I’m going to say is this; the sound of the Liberal Democrats moaning about graphs on Conservative literature and claiming unfairness/inaccuracy/irrelevance is sweeter than new spring lamb with mint sauce. How man dozens of dodgy Lib Dem graphs have we had to suffer? [...] During the past few weeks, I’ve encountered all sorts of nonsense about Jonathan Lord from Lib Dem campaigners and activists across the borough. It is quite normal that Lib Dem campaigns in areas where there is Conservative incumbency focus on current areas of discontent and supporting “Motherhood and Apple Pie” while at the same [...] |
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