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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.    |
Vince Cable deep in thought Up until today, I thought the Liberal Democrats had some good ideas about fair taxation, even if I disagreed about the end result of implementing them. They had argued to replace council tax with a local income tax because they didn’t believe the rich were paying enough and [...] There is one Labour MP whose media profile is being inflated by a concerted PR effort and that is Kerry McCarthy, the highly prolific Twitterer who in between tweets is also MP for Bristol East. Having managed 4,555 updates in 36 weeks – that’s 126 a week, or an average of 18 each day [...] If you are ever unfortunate enough to entertain Lib Dems to tea, make sure you bake two cakes – one for them to have and one to eat. Having moaned for ages that Woking parking charges were too high, they are now moaning that the action the Conservatives have taken to reduce charges at [...] Yes, Minister had an apt quotation for Alan Duncan’s little mishap earlier in the week and it seems only right to furnish Daniel Hannan with one too. “You know what it’s like with politicians – after a while they start to believe their own speeches” says Sir Humphrey to a similarly [...] From the BBC’s reaction to Alan Duncan’s admittedly fruity comments that MPs had to “live on rations” and were “treated like shit”, you’d think that he’d gone to war with France. One also can’t help but wonder whether, on the day that Mervyn King gave a stark warning about the economy and where unemployment [...] Yes, they’ve done it again. The Home Office, or whatever components it has now been split into, has managed to make another decision that will play badly with voters. First they tell the Gurkhas to shove off back to Nepal in the belief that getting tough on immigrants will be popular. Wrong – not [...] Releasing “news” time and time again is not something that is unheard of with the Labour government and it seems that even the BBC is not trying to hide it for them anymore. We heard today (well, actually it was leaked to the NoW yesterday) from the Home Office that a brilliant “new” scheme [...] Well, here’s the thing. DC went on Absolute Radio this morning and – presumably completely on purpose – used the words “twat” and “piss” (the latter as a verb) to get his point across. Swearing doesn’t really bother me much; having worked in a newsroom for the former part of my career I got [...] |
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