What’s gone on?

  • Today is voting day, and, unless you’ve been hiding in a box or wilfully ignoring all information regarding politics, you should already know this. Ideally you should have gone out out and voted.     I learnt today that our modern, sacred and highly valued “DEMOCRACY” is an affront to the word democracy. It is

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  • Daventry Local Elections 2014

    Well, the day is at hand. Tomorrow is election day and I am still to receive any form of communication (other than the tweets from Emma Collins) from any of the candidates running tomorrow.   I was unable to write profiles on the Liberal Democrat candidate or the Trade Unionist. Purely because I couldn’t find

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  • STOP PRESS–DAVENTRY LOCAL ELECTIONS 2014

    Following on from yesterday’s twitter conversation with the Labour Candidate for Weedon Ward, Daventry, Northamptonshire in the Daventry Local Elections 2014. I received this tweet:         What does that mean? “We are not leafleting Weedon ward”? Well how are you going to get the electorate to know who you are and what

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  • Daventry Local Elections 2014–Emma Collins

    Continuing the insights into the candidates in the Weedon ward of the Daventry Local Elections 2014.

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  • Daventry Local Elections 2014–David Smith

    Continuing my insights into the local council elections in Daventry, covering the Weedon ward.   “Parliamentary politics do not belong in local government” – Mr Pritchard, Barnsley   Too true. And yet most local elections end up being a barney between central government sponsored councillors. It makes me wonder where all the funding put into

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  • Sunny Days

    As the sun gets stronger through the year and the days get warmer and brighter, our thoughts turn to outdoor pursuits. Walking, picnicing, nose picking, porn foraging and, most popular of all, barbecues. Now, I’ve got a thing about barbecues. I used to love ’em. Nuked meat Russian roulette. You either get a charcoal cinder

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  • Holidays

    While going through and updating old posts, I came across this one. I thought it apt seeing as I am off on my jollies soon. Please enjoy this entry from 2008 —- So there I am lapping up Council-by-Sea thinking to myself just how did the British seaside get into such an appalling state of

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  • Daventry Local Elections 2014–John Gale

    One of the differences with local elections that I have noticed here in Daventry is that the local candidates like to shove leaflets through the door. In Brierley, I think we only had one or two leaflets through the door with the majority of local political news coming from the Barnsley Chronicle. Here in Daventry,

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  • Local Elections 2014

    It’s the local elections in Daventry in May this year. As readers of my last post will recall I mentioned that I do something during election time. As long term readers will recall, every election time I offer the opportunity for all candidates to present their case as to why I should vote for them

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  • European Parliamentary Elections 2014

    2014 is the year of European elections in the UK. There are also local elections taking place, which I will discuss in another entry. The European Union is a fantastic idea on paper. Open borders, centralised law making, distributed wealth and a currency. In reality, as with all political things, its corrupt, bloated full of

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