Archive for: March, 2007

Not something I created, but…

Not something I created, but…

Charles Clarke’s wannabe leader David Miliband wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph today, saying he’s in tune with the ‘I can’ generation.
Reading through the website’s comments feature, I came accross a highly amusing and worryingly true response:
The era of “I can”.
I can – knife someone and get away with it.
I can – shoot someone [...]

Bitterness, fighting and games of politics with people’s lives; I smell an election in the air

Bitterness, fighting and games of politics with people’s lives; I smell an election in the air

Today is an important day. No, not because I have just 17 days until I fly over to Florida for two weeks. It is in fact the beginning of a 5-week (or, to be more precise, 37-day) local election campaign. Officially.
I say that because the dial (ranging from one to ten) on the pre-election spin [...]

Councillor Chishti runs the Reading half marathon to raise money for charity and Gillingham & Rainham Conservatives

Councillor Chishti runs the Reading half marathon to raise money for charity and Gillingham & Rainham Conservatives

Conservative Cllr Rehman Chishti is celebrating his successful running of the Reading Half Marathon, which took place on the 24th of March to raise money for good causes in Rainham and Gillingham and for the victims of the tragic Kashmir Earthquake.The Gillingham and Rainham Councillor ran a total of 13.1 miles in 2 Hours 20 [...]

Diary: an opinion poll and change of home for Alan Collins’ Political Opinions

Diary: an opinion poll and change of home for Alan Collins’ Political Opinions

Friday 23rd March, 2007
It seems as though my diary is becoming more frequent on this blog than my opinions, but my diary entries are normally shorter. I am about to start writing a post on the local elections, and my post about party funding will be completed sometime this weekend. In the mean time, I [...]

Stale and under Brown, Labour are heading for an avoidable electoral catastrophe

Stale and under Brown, Labour are heading for an avoidable electoral catastrophe

Lord Turnbull, his former Permanent Secretary, described him as being “cynical, insulting and as ruthless as Stalin”. 72% of voters would not vote for him, according to an ICM/Guardian opinion poll published yesterday. He is a Chancellor who has managed to cut the average gross annual pension by £15,900 (or 77.5%) since 1997, when he [...]

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