Archive | August, 2011

Postscript to last blog re: Conference insecurity

It should be made clear that the quotes in my last blog about the Liberal Democrat Conference insecurity regime were actually not mine, but taken from a quote by a respected Manchester Lib Dem colleague. (the quotes about the Newbury event with Nick Clegg, however, were). Unfortunately it does seem likely that there will be [...]

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Lib Dem Conference Insecurity Arrangements: An Update

Way back in June I posted about the waste of money being imposed on this year’s Liberal Democrat Federal Conference to exploit fears about insecurity. (If it was anything to do with security, then why was I able to walk into a members-only Question and Answer session with Nick Clegg in Newbury, a couple of [...]

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Tax debate: taxing mansions and tax evasion

Today’s media has seen the opening salvoes in a battle that may define the very definition of this Government. With Tories on ConservativeHome and elsewhere complaining about the degree of effectiveness and influence of Liberal Democrats in Government, the battle lines are now about tax – on three fronts; income, evasion and property. The iconic [...]

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Stop Reading Council Excluding Disabled People from the Town Centre!

There is a petition set up by disabled residents who have used Reading’s town centre, but for 3 months have been presented from doing so by an arbitrary decision of Reading’s discredited transport bosses:- http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/allow-disabled-people-access-to-all-on-street-parking-b.html I will have more to say on this issue shortly. Let’s for now just reiterate that Cllr Page is (as [...]

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Cross-Party Working – Labour Style

Means banning political opponents from ‘community’ meetings, and saying to the public that you are working cross-party when you are doing nothing of the sort. It could be, of course, that this is the ‘brainchild’ of one Jon Hartley, who has temporarily been listed as being of ‘Katesgrove Ward’ on the Reading Labour website (I [...]

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