http://www.daveluckett.co.uk Local and National Politics as seen through the eyes of a Reading Borough Conservative Councillor Thu, 06 May 2010 12:09:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2010/05/06/vote-conservative-today/ I'm finally back home after a hectic day. I was up at 7am this (yesterday) morning, then caught a very rare sight, a relatively empty rush-hour train to London, and relatively empty tube to Westminster - loads of spare seats for once! Then it was a quick walk over to ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2010/04/07/roll-on-6th-may/ The Corrigan Brothers of "There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama" fame have created a new (and rather amusing) video about David Cameron. According to Guido Fawkes Dorothy Jordan, an Irish actor, is David's great, great, great, great, great grandmother. http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2010/02/17/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-david-cameron/ 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 ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/12/29/cameron-direct-to-be-held-in-reading-west/ Last week the BBC quietly launched a new service called Democracy Live. It includes live and archived feeds from Parliament, the Lords, Select Committees, European Parliament and many more, as well as the ability to look up your local MP and MEP. I had a demonstration of the site at Conservative ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/11/03/a-new-political-service-from-the-bbc/ The Home Office has sent David Cameron this letter asking how to do things better... you couldn't make it up! Click to view the full letter: http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/11/02/you-couldnt-make-it-up/ Reading Buses are experimenting with cut priced fares on the Number 27 which runs from Amersham Road to Reading Station. The fares will be reduced from £1.70 to £1.00 between Monday 2nd November through to January 24th 2010. http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/30/cheaper-fares-from-amersham-road/ This Saturday - 31st Oct - I will be holding my monthly ward surgery with my fellow Caversham Councillors in the Readibus in Montague Street (layby opposite the school) from 10am - 12 noon. If you've got any problems then feel free to pop on down and we will do our ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/29/ward-surgery-this-weekend/ 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 ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/28/dodgy-leaflets-part-2/ Reading Buses is conducting a consultation on proposed changes to routes that they intend to implement on January 11th 2010. The routes in Caversham that have changes are number 22, 24 and 27. You only have until the 4th November to send feedback and can find out more information on ... http://www.daveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/28/reading-buses-consultation/