Stop the tidal wave of new housing
The Government has upped the development allocation for South Gloucestershire to 32,800 new houses. Yes, we need affordable housing. No, we don't need this many houses - especially without the infrastructure to support them. They're planning to shut our major hospital, Frenchay. They're planning to cut the number of hospital beds. The roads are beginning to seize up already. And the Government has deleted public transport proposals like the Yate rail turnback from their consultation (this is vital to get more trains to stop at Yate Station) THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT... (1) Tell the Government what you ... (more)
Our police must be freed from Government bureaucracy
Plans to free local police forces from the grip of central government bureaucracy and targets have been welcomed by Liberal Democrats in Hastings & Rye. The proposals have been launched by Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne MP and will be debated at the party's conference in Bournemouth next week. Nick Perry, Lib Dem parliamentary campaigner, [...] (more)
Whoops
I just discovered that anonymous comments were disabled by default on this blog. I would never knowingly have stopped them, so as of now anonymous comments are now active. Thanks. (more)
Lost Data "Has Not Fallen Into The Wrong Hands"
Title from the headline of this story in the Independent. Oh, I'm sorry, and there I was worrying about yet another massive loss of personal data. Silly me. I thought 'lost' meant that you couldn't possibly know where something was or who had it. Are this government working with a different definition of the word 'lost' to the rest of us? I couldn't really blame them, I suppose. When I look at the the entry on dictionary.com for 'lost', there are no fewer than twelve definitions. Let's see if any of them could be Jack Straw's, eh? 1. no longer ... (more)
Facebook Diplomacy: turning us to the dark side?
Diplomacy has replaced Scrabble a Facebook's most fun game. I had neither played Diplomacy before. Basically, you control one European country at the start of the twentieth century and compete with the others to conquer half of Europe. I think there is as dark side to it though. In Srabble you become a better player by improving your vocabulary, [...] (more)
Clegg goes bonkers. Again.
I'm struggling to work out what on Earth the Nick Clegg line on tax cuts actually is. Since the launch of the Make it Happen, I've assumed that this is down to poor communication on his part. As I summed it up on Lib Dem Voice last week: My big concern is that we currently appear to be talking about two different piles of £20bn. The £20bn that we will shift from low and middle income earners and onto the wealthy and polluting, and another £20bn that we are looking to cut from existing government spending. Most of the latter ... (more)
Cameron the Critic
Cameron is asking the Labour Party to either Sack Brown or Support him! Cameron is more then comfortable in his own home thinking he is gonna become the next Prime Minister. He probably will but will he do a better job then Brown, I think not! Cameron doesn't even have the experience as Brown. We are gonna suffer through Hell if Cameron and the Conservatives come into Power. (more)
Snap General Election Called..
...in Canada. For those who don't follow Canadian politics, this has been on the cards for a while. The ruling Conservatives are a minority government who have had to really on the support of the two oppostion parties, the Liberals and Bloc Quebecois for some time. In recent months, this situation hasn't been working and several [...] (more)
Canada Liberals Launch Election Campaign
Barack Obama is not the only liberal with a good chance of replacing a conservative government in the next couple of months. The UK Liberal Democrats' sister party in Canada have launched their general election campaign under the slogan "Richer, Fairer, Greener." The Grits (as the Canadian Liberals are known, much as UK Conservatives are called Tories) have [...] (more)
The Bourne threesome?
According to the Sunday Mirror two Wolverhampton Conservative Councillors - Councillor Carol Bourne and Councillor David Bourne are running a brothel at their house. (more)