Andrew Wiseman, the Chair of the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Conference Committee (FCC: and someone I like and respect), has announced on the Lib Dem Voice website the police’s instruction to impose the discriminatory and controversial accreditation process to decide who attends our Conference (the only party conference that actually decides anything, so the police potentially [...]
The Reading Chronicle has the story here: http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/reading/articles/2012/04/10/58618-tory-split-widens-as-another-councillor-quits/ Mark Ralph has always appeared to me to be a mainstream Conservative, and someone who I would not have classed as factional in any way. He was the first Conservative to win Peppard ward for some time, and it was his hard work that saw him re-elected [...]
‘When in a hole, stop digging’, they say. Advice Reading Labour would do well to take, in withdrawing their dog-whistle ‘one of us’ leaflet in Church Ward, apologising in the process. But they haven’t. Instead Labour candidate Tony Jones (someone who made some interesting comments about Labour during his two-year period as an independent councillor: [...]
“Dog-whistle” politics is something many parties do. Tories do it over things like Europe. Liberals do it over their signature issues – freedom and the environment. Reading Labour, however, do it in a far more sinister way. Check out the context of the leaflet below. The defending councillor in Reading’s Church Ward is Azam Janjua. [...]
I have posted before about the disgraceful deselection of Cllr Jamie Chowdhary, one of the most able and hardest-working councillors in a Conservative group short on strength in either department. Reports have now been confirmed that in a personal statement at this evening’s full Council meeting he announced his resignation from the party he has worked [...]
