Excellent attendance last night at Kingston and Surbiton Conservatives’ annual dinner.
Apart from a great meal we were treated to an amusing after dinner speech by Justine Greening MP, just coming to the end of her first term as MP for Putney. It was very appropriate as she and Helen Whately have much in common and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Politics’
October 31, 2009
Association dinner
October 31, 2009
Sunset for ‘NuLabour’ – please!!
Readers of this blog must be wondering where I’ve got to. Real devotees will realise that I’ve been very much tied up with http://surbitonhillcllr.com and some may even have spotted me on Ellerton and Bond Road.
I must say that I had hoped that by now we would have had the general election the country is [...]
June 8, 2009
So now we know……..
Philip Johnston (no relation, to my knowledge) in this morning’s Telegraph claims that the Euro election results were people saying ‘a plague on both your houses’ to the Tories and Labour. It might be worth pointing out to users of this tired Shakespearianism that the same electors at the same time, voted the Conservatives overwhelmingly [...]
May 30, 2009
Election advice from the Telegraph
There’s a long editorial this morning, advising readers that ‘a vote for Ukip is a wasted vote’. I think I’ve made it fairly clear that I agree with that sentiment and the Editor’s stated reasons for holding it. Some people might think it a bit odd, though, when it has often seemed throughout 23 days [...]
May 27, 2009
Euro-elections 2009 Part IV: Conservatives
The Conservative literature arrived only yesterday, some five days after my postal ballot paper. This was disappointing and might have cost the party some votes as many postal voters will have returned their papers already, without having read much from the Tories. This is a shame because, as a presentation, it’s the best and most [...]
May 25, 2009
The last refuge………….
It used to be said that the last refige of a scoundrel was patriotism. Now it is fast becoming Proportional Representation.
We are now told that Alan Johnson, who presides on behalf of G. Brown over an unreformed Health Service, is now proferring the prospect of PR as part of a constitutional ‘reform’ package. For ‘reform [...]
