Archive for August, 2004
Long day and sign off for a break
I’m signing off for a few days. Taking a holiday till next weekend with the family so ‘maybe’ no blogs but keep the comments coming and I will catch up on my return. See how the internet access goes. Sure lots will happen next week so some good blogs to come. Long day with a [...]
Crime and Punishment (Except if your a Lib Dem!)
My son came to work with me today. He is 5 and we do this a couple of days a year. Changes the office actually although he insists on a long lunch!! We have had quite a lot from the Conservatives on local crime in the last few days. We firstly had Theresa May announcing [...]
School Playing Fields
You really get fed up with this Government. Year on year the same policy is being announced again and again as if it was new. They hope that the public will forget they announced it the first time. The latest is the apparent ending of the sale of school playing fields. Now I expect a [...]
Charging for Personal Care
A few weeks ago I ran a blog item on the Lib Dem Council charging for personal care. I have a bit of an update on the hypocrisy that exists within the LibDems on this matter. The proposal they are making is that those who currently receive personal care for very small charges would in [...]
Pensioners in distress after failure of pension payments
This is really depressing. There seems to be hardly a person in the land, who is not in the Labour Government, who really wants to scrap pension books if pensioners want to retain them. I accept that it may well be an outdated way of paying benefits to people but if pensioners are happier collecting [...]
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