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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 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.    |
It's no good looking down on Woking – people want a dialogue! I went along to the Community Question Time held at HG Wells on Wednesday night, which promised to allow residents the chance to quiz members of a panel including WBC chief executive Ray Morgan on matters of interest within Woking. It [...] I received a letter when I got back from work this evening with some very exciting news – Jack Straw has confirmed my appointment to the Commission of the Peace for England and Wales and – subject to some induction and training days – I will begin sitting as a magistrate in Woking from [...] Earlier today, Woking Borough Council officially announced that it had purchased Wolsey Place Shopping Centre following a decision on February 2 to become sole owners. The cost is £68million, which has been financed by the Public Works Loan Board. The aim of the purchase is twofold – to invest in an asset that will [...] There may still be two months to go before an election is called but already the Liberal Democrats are beginning to show that they are far more comfortable talking about personalities than policies. The latest attempt to smear our excellent parliamentary candidate Jonathan Lord comes from Spiderplant Land, where a load of hackneyed drivel [...] Has the Icesave money been flushed down the waterfall? Iceland is apparently a startling beautiful place. And up until quite recently, it was an attractive place to deposit money if you were a local authority. Indeed, the treasury included it on a list of, ahem, approved destinations for local authorities to save, such [...] The nation's favourite bean-counter – pity his idealogy isn't as good as his maths I wouldn’t like to buy a mansion from the Liberal Democrats because they only seem to price them in increments of £1million. Back in conference season, just after Nick Clegg promised “savage cuts” to assauge the thirst of the [...] An interesting story in The Times today about the relationship between UKIP and the Conservative Party, which threatens to become even more bitter than that between the Tories and the parties of the left. The story says that UKIP offered to not fight the general election if the Conservatives gave a written guarantee (as [...] John Redwood addresses the Woking Conservative dinner I have just got back from a superb Annual Grand Dinner for Woking Conservatives that was not only fantastically well-attended by councillors and party members alike but where there were some star turns too. Obviously none of them were on the record so it would be [...] I have found an outrageous website to entertain anyone interested in Woking and Horsell news. It’s called Woking News Farce and it has clearly caught the attention of the finer stitches of Woking’s civic fabric considering who pointed it out to me. However, I would like to say that contrary to a number of questions [...] |
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