I have just signed the on-line petition on the Royal British Legion website calling on the Government to honour the implicit covenant with members of the armed forces that they and their families will be properly looked after in terms of housing, medical care and pensions in view of the risks they undergo on behalf [...]
Entries from September 26th, 2007
Pass Go and collect
September 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
It’s a brilliant coup for St Albans to win top spot on the new Monopoly board. We were the only political party to support this campaign – on this website and also standing in the rain in St Albans market to draw people’s attention to the Monopoly voting website.
It’s a bit of fun, it puts [...]
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Musing on party democracy
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
I’m not the biggest fan of party conferences. I’ve being attending them for over 30 years and when I was Director of Public Affairs for BT and then for Transport for London, I had to attend all the major party conferences each year – and when I was really keen, the SNP conference too.
Three weeks [...]
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Conference gives St Albans Lib Dems a spring in the step
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Liberal Democrat campaigners have returned to St Albans from the party’s conference in Brighton with a spring in their step.
We had a considerable number of our members there and we all agreed that It was a great conference.
I spoke on the threat to the St Albans Green Belt and the
contemptuous response by Gordon Brown’s office [...]
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Northern Rock tip of iceberg?
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Bit of a mixed metaphor there! But as a saver with Northern Rock, of course I was anxious when I heard about its liquidity problems.
I think I am reassured enough by today’s news comments not to rush to pull my money out.
But we have been crazy about the way we have let people get [...]
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Gordon Brown’s ignorant and cynical response to Hands Off Herts e-petition
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Hands off Herts
I am outraged by the ignorant and cynical way in which the Government has purported to respond to the Hands Off Herts e-petition on the Downing Street website.
What we have received is an anonymous stream of Downing Street drivel. In Gordon Brown’s Brave
New World, it seems that the people of St Albans are viewed as [...]
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Tory agency to advise Labour
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
It gets more and more bewildering trying to work out the difference between the Labour and Conservative Parties.
Now Gordon Brown has appointed Saatchi and Saatchi to be Labour’s ad agency – they of course achieved fame by propelling Mrs Thatcher into power back in 1979 with the “Labour isn’t working” poster.
But then Mr Brown just [...]
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Lib Dems set the green standard
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments · What I Think
Why am I not surprised that the Liberal Democrats continue to set the green standard that other parties need to meet? A survey of party policies by all the different environmental campaign groups published today showed we are three times as green as the Labour Party, and streets ahead of the Tories.
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Keech Cottage garden party
September 11th, 2007 · No Comments · What I Think
Hats off to Wendy Berriman in Bricket Wood for organising today’s garden party at her home in aid of Keech Cottage Children’s Hospice. She even organised the weather! The food was brilliant and with the aid of scores of helpers young and old, hundreds of people really enjoyed the day, not least myself! They raised [...]
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Children short-changed by Herts County Council
September 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Young people in Herts get less than half the money per head spent on youth services that the Government recommends. And then we wonder why there are problems.
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