PM in Ilminster
Under worked and over paid
House prices going up and going down
Scrapping helicopters could devastate Yeovil
Who wins Westminster on 600 seats and new boundaries?
When email goes bad
Black cabs; smelly, expensive, but still the best
Get a bigger house in Yeovil and the state pays
Going without
The word on the streets of Yeovil about David Laws
New schools, without BSF
Looking back to the London Bombings
Fewer Prisoners means fewer Police?Conservatives»
PM in Ilminster (0)
It was very good news to hear that the Prime Minister stopped off in Ilminster for a coffee whilst on his way to his holiday in Cornwall. It was even better to see that Jane Morgan had the foresight to get a photo with him and some of the kids who work in her excellent [...]
Crime»
Are new gun laws the answer? (0)
Image via Wikipedia The mayhem on the streets and in the fields of Cumbria is a shocking jolt. Britain is not used to this type of crime partly because we do not have the same gun culture as places like the US. I know Whitehaven quite well as many years ago I used to work [...]
Defence»
Scrapping helicopters could devastate Yeovil (0)
Image via Wikipedia I hope that others, like me, will be alarmed at the reports in the papers about the potential scrapping of large chunks of the Westland helicopter production as part of the drive to reduce the public debt. I am opposed to this for two reasons. The first reason is that this will [...]
Economy»
House prices going up and going down (0)
House prices are one of those things that vey many of us take an interest in. Whenever there is a recession we see the price of our main asset plummet and invariably soar again once the recession is over and the economy grows. However, this recession appears to have been like very few others. In [...]
Education»
New schools, without BSF (1)
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I have some experience of Building Schools for the Future and I can tell you that is an over bureaucratic and expensive way of building new schools. I worked on community engagement programmes in some of the early first wave schemes. In fact if you wanted a reason why [...]
Environment»
Dreams of new oil (0)
The attitude of President Obama to what is happening in the gulf of Mexico has puzzled me. Few can doubt that the environmental disaster is a reason to act but the President’s bashing of BP seems to have gone beyond that which can possibly be helpful. Wrecking the finances of BP by letting its share [...]
General Interest»
Black cabs; smelly, expensive, but still the best (2)
Image by ShedBOy^ via Flickr I had a couple of very strange news items drop in to my inbox this mroning. The first was from Reuters which claims that a survey of taxis in major global cities placed London taxis as the best in the world. They do say they are the most expensive, but [...]
International»
Mapping the concerns of the world community (0)
When you are a Parliamentary candidate your junk mail (both paper and electronic) goes through the roof. I am currently getting a minimum of five requests a day from pressure groups and others trying to have me to sign up to their own personal manifesto or campaign. However, now and again you get some fascinating [...]
National News»
Government report on young leaving the countryside (1)
I listened this morning to the Government’s rural advocate (!) who has written a report. The headline of this report is that about 30,000 young people leave the countryside every year and do not return. Am I bonkers or is this so blindingly obvious that it says a lot about this Government’s total disregard, and [...]
National Politics»
Under worked and over paid (0)
Image via Wikipedia There is a report that has been carried out by a research company that claims that if local councils were to have staff that were as productive as those in the private sector then they could immediately lose 500,000 people. There are two issues that interest me in this report. The first [...]
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