David Cameron will be travelling to Reading West to conduct a special health version of one of his town hall style meetings on 8th January.
Unusually for politicians there are no scripts and no planted questions or planted audience members, and David Cameron usually makes the point that he takes the questions one at a time, [...]
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After yesterdays post on dodgy bar charts, it’s time to look into one of the articles of the lovely Lib Dem leaflet.
The most ridiculous is this one:
Shocking, what nasty Tories. One slight problem the vast majority of the article is factually incorrect. Extremely worrying since there have been Lib Dem Councillors at every meeting involving [...]
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This lovely Liberal Democrat bar chart has been doing the rounds in Caversham (and no doubt in the rest of Reading and Wokingham as well). It quite clearly tells us that the Liberal Democrats are in with a chance being economical with the truth.
A couple of questions come out of this chart:
The bar chart quite [...]
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Rob Wilson (Reading East) and Alok Sharma (Reading West) are now both on the beta of myconservatives.com
If you’re interested in helping out in either campaign in the run up to the general election or attending fundraising events please sign on up.
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It’s been quite a while since my last blog post, mainly due to work and Council commitments so I thought I’d kick off again for with a review of the highlights of this evenings Full Council meeting.
The meeting started off on a light hearted note with the Mayor of Reading announcing a competition to name [...]
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The Reading Post have a video of Labour MP for Reading West, Martin Salter, hard at work during the election for the new speaker this afternoon, it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it:
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Today the Government announced new rules on the rights of Gurkhas to settle in this country. I’d been looking forward to this day, sadly I was shocked and bitterly disappointed by the Governments announcement that means that some 90% will not be able to settle.
Gurkhas have proudly fought for the rights of this country, most [...]
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Dan Hannan, MEP for the South East including Reading, has topped todays YouTube charts with his speech ripping into Gordon Brown gaining over 300,000 views, despite it being up less than 24 hours. An absolutely superb speech and well worth watching…
Dan has been a great supporter of Reading, I’ve had the great fortune to listen [...]
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Earlier this month the Local Government Assocication (LGA) produced a list of 200 words that Councils should avoid using. I decided to take a look at last months Council meeting, in particular the questions and answers from Councillors and members of the public.
The results of how often these words were used are as follows *, [...]
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I’ve just been taking a closer look at Rob Wilson’s new website; he has decided to be as open as possible by including details on his expenses and staff members he employs so residents can easily find them. A very welcome move, particularly considering the recent bad press all sides have received over the past [...]
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