Archive for: July, 2007

Right then, I’m off

Right then, I’m off

This is just a quick note from me to tell you that from now until August 4 I shall not be blogging.
I am off to an RAF station with the Air Cadets for our Annual Summer Camp (though I am reliably informed that the tents we were supposed to have been sleeping in were last [...]

Husien to remain in the UK

Husien to remain in the UK

AFTER two months of painful campaigning and three weeks of an agonising wait following an appeal hearing, Afghanistan-born Husien Panahi has discovered he will not be forced to return to Afghanistan.
As reported elsewhere on this blog, Husien Panahi had discovered that his visa would not be renewed in May, and appealed the decision three weeks [...]

Conservative Councillors go green with low-energy light bulbs

Conservative Councillors go green with low-energy light bulbs

RAINHAM North Councillors Vaughan Hewett and David Carr were so enthused by David Cameron’s efforts to make the Conservative Party and their Councils green, that they have bought all 33 Medway Conservative Councillors an energy saving light bulb so that they are the greenest group of councillors in Medway.
They gave bulbs as gifts to their [...]

Will Boris Johnson be good for London?

Will Boris Johnson be good for London?

BORIS Johnson finally revealed yesterday that he would enter his name into the race to become the Conservative Party’s London Mayoral candidate.
Johnson is notorious for his reputation as being “one of those rarest of politicians who seem to be able to get away with anything”, according to a senior Conservative Party source, with statements such [...]

Bob Marshall-Andrews will stand down at the next election

Bob Marshall-Andrews will stand down at the next election

AFTER weeks of speculation, Bob Marshall-Andrews today officially announced that he will not be standing again at the next General Election.
The serial Labour rebel – who famously announced that he had lost the last election and blamed Tony Blair and Iraq, just to discover he had won with a majority of 213 (the 11th smallest [...]

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