Well well, there it was, just sitting on Salusbury Road in Queen's Park "GREEN & EDWARDS FURNITURE DEPOSITS" As wall paintings/murals go this is a pretty good one - but still not competing with the triumph on Kilburn High Road. 
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Tonight, the Hertsmere Liberal Democrats selected me as their candidate for Cowley Hill Ward in Borehamwood for the May 2008 Hertsmere Borough Council elections. The ward is historically solid Labour, but the party have been in serious decline in recent years - going from running the Council in the late ’90s down to third place [...]
The Lib Dem MP for Leeds North West is quoted in the Bradford Telegraph & Argus regretting the closure of community pubs and talking good sense: "People, including Government Ministers, keep saying we need to move to some kind of continental cafe culture in this country when what we really need is to support traditional pub culture. "Real community pubs, where people meet to socialise with friends and neighbours, provide an environment in which people can and do enjoy alcohol responsibly. "If there was more emphasis on this genuine pub culture in this country, we would not have many of ...
A special waggle of the tail to the new readers who have come to this blog via internet searches for "Symantec Customer service", "Symantec Customer service problems blog" and "Symantec Customer server is just quite simply the most wondrous creation on this heavenly planet of ours". Woof! New readers I may have. But decent service from Symantec Customer Service I don't yet. Grrrrrrrrowl. I tried the Symantec Live Chat support service again. The one that promises "Little or no wait time". After 15 minutes wait (I guess a little time on the Chairman Mao - let's not rush to a ...
Today I got a surprise pressie, dropped into my inbox from an unlikely source. No...........it wasn't a belated Valentine............it was a message from James Graham to inform me that along with fellow women bloggers Meral Ece, Alix Mortimer, Charlotte Gore and Lynne Featherstone, I had been nominated for the Gender Balance Best Lib Dem Blog! Now, included in the message was a request for me to add the button to my blog with a link to the Gender Balance Campaign - this I am unable to do, so this is the temporary compromise until I find out what I need ...
A friend has told me about their experience buying stamps in a newsagent in Crouch End - the newsagent added a mark-up and was selling first class stamps for 40p each.Generally I'd be happy for shops to choose what to charge, but I think stamps are something a little different. In particular, because people expect them to be the same everywhere - and because you don't pick them up off a shelf where you can see the price they are being sold at in that outlet - it's too easy for people to be fooled into paying more without realising ...
Good line in tonight's Torchwood. As the team desperately try to defeat death one of them is busy looking on the internet for clues. "I am trying to find the phrase 'I have searched the earth my hunger knows no bounds' but I keep being redirected to weightwatchers', he says.
‘Liberals’ who advocate authoritarian policies. Especially when its ‘for their own good’ or the worst ‘because they’re stupid’. Conservative ‘libertarians’ - just because you don’t like the actions of the state it doesn’t mean that people will choose your preferred situation if they’re free. And there was never some great age of liberalism and freedom. We [...]
There is no doubt, Northern Rock was a crisis waiting to happen. As was noted in a really great profile of Vince by Michael White in today's Guardian, it is he who has been warning for years of the consequences of overindebtedness. "When Northern Rock went belly up and went to the Bank of England for help in September, Cable immediately urged nationalisation as the course for the Treasury to adopt. Voters may not notice the nuances, though some will remember that puritan Cable had been warning against Britain's growing personal credit card debt for several years. Now Cable's early ...
This morning I had a mid-review meeting to discuss how we're getting on with the scrutiny of waste management. The results of the questionnaire have been very good - more than 2300 sent back so far, so we're going to be over the level needed to give us the comfort of a valid consultation. The answers are proving really interesting - it seems that people are divided over the questions about
Michael White reinforces The Cult of Cable in this morning's Guardian: Vince remains a Big Story around Westminster and - more surprising - a presence on Facebook and rival sites, where the kids seem to like him.When in December he noted "the prime minister's remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean, creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos," they laughed. They may not have heard of Mr Brown, but they know all about Mr Bean. It was his best quip since November, when he warned that the government was propping up ...
A resident in my ward recently contacted me about pushing the Council to provide bays for a car sharing scheme. The scheme he mentioned was www.streetcars.co.uk, but I know there are also other groups providing the same service. The idea is simple - a car that members of the group can book out for half an hour, couple of hours, half a day, a day. The Fortis Green resident who contacted me uses these cars, but the nearest one is based in Highgate, which limits its convenience for him. The problem is that these cars of course need a dedicated ...
Should you be a night owl, tonight there is a total eclipse of the moon... viewable in UK from about 3.00 am onwards. No internet links for this one - would suggest just try looking out the window....
All the polls carried out in the last seven days in Wisconsin, scene of barack Obama's latest victory in the Democratic primaries showed, with one exception, a small Obama lead, but in each and every case they undervalued Obama's support. So does this have a messge for what will happen in Texas and Ohio next week The Wisonsim Polls showed, on average, 52% for Obama, and 42% for Clinton, with about 6% undecideds. Yet in the real primary in Wisconsin Obama polled 59% to Clinton's 41%. So the opinion polls under represent Obama by 7% and over rate Clinton by ... 
Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision on the B4465 Wapley Road near Dodington Ash on Friday (February 15), shortly before 8pm. A Fiat was travelling along the B4465 towards the A46 at Tormarton when it collided with a Hyundai travelling in the opposite direction. The driver of the Fiat, a man aged in his 20s, sustained serious injuries and died at the scene. Anyone who witnessed the collision is urged to contact the police collision investigation unit on 0845 4567000. (Thanks to Avon and Somerset Constabulary local website for the details)
Following Kosovo’s declaration of independence on Sunday, those who refuse to recognise the province’s new status have argued that such a recognition would be a violation of Serbia’s sovereignty. Ilana Bet-El, writing yesterday on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site, endorses this view, arguing that "while the UN Charter effectively enshrined three rights: of state [...]
When it’s Ken Livingstone it would seem. The story so far: Ken Livingstone says he’s called in the police to investigate allegations against Lee Jasper and, as a result, has suspended him. He also says the allegations against Jasper are nonsense, which did cause a few people to ask the question of why he was reporting [...]
After last weeks half-term break, there were few surprises at todays Prime Ministers Questions: the Lib Dems Nick Clegg was able confidently to lead with Labours mishandling of the Northern Rock collapse (thanks to Vince Cables far-sighted statements), while Tory leader David Cameron (who, with George Osbourne, has been all over the place on the [...]
Vince Cable is all over the Times website at the moment. Their main story is Northern Rock, and the partial nationalisation deal. And Vicne is the man at the centre of the story. Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, has today written to the Chancellor asking why it appeared that Granite held Northern Rocks best mortgages, saddling the taxpayer with the worst. He likened the arrangement to "asset-stripping". "In simple terms, what seems to have happened is that (Granite's) bond holders, who have the benefit of the best security the bank can offer, are being elevated above the taxpayer," ... 
I did some photos and video for the Brian Paddick campaign yesterday. He's running the London Marathon and was out training - and challenging Ken and Boris to do the Marathon as well! So here are a few of the pics.
Early on in these primaries it seemed quite clear cut, Hillary had the women’s vote and because there were enough women, she was winning the race to the Democratic nomination. All the US commentators are now saying that one reason that Barack Obama is pulling ahead from Hillary is that the women’s vote is abandoning her and has gone to vote for Obama. Now, I know women don’t vote as a block etc, etc but there are significant amounts of movement in voter’s demographics to see a trend that aligns women and voting intentions. This new development does ...
The Times features a long, colourful portrait of Lembit. Mention is made of a forthcoming "tell all" book from his ex-girlfriend Sian Lloyd: He veers between panic and self-reassurance about this: what more can she reveal other than their sex life What more indeed.
It turns out someone does read my blog after all. My regular six readers sometimes get bored of watching eastenders & multiply by ten...which I assume is why I've been nominated by them for the Campaign for Gender Balance Blog Awards, the result of which is to be announced at Spring Conference. 8pm in the Crowne Plaza on the Saturday night to be exact. Three women need your help as they have only been nominated once...for the best posting on a Lib Dem blog. They are Mary Reid, Jo Christie-Smith and me. Several issues have cropped up since I wrote ...
The new edition of Private Eye lists some 39 people or bodies implicated in the "conspiracy to assasinate Princess Diana" by Mohammed Al Fayed at the inquest into her death on Monday. ...And that was just before lunch time. Private Eye wryly observes: Despite Mr Fayed's claim that "I got all the proofs. Basically not the proofs, but all the circumstances and the cover-ups", there is still a
It had to happen sooner or later. I have, I think, managed to write an avowedly Liberal Democrat blog for some six months now without once mentioning Land Value Tax, but the day has finally dawned. Naturally, I don’t intend to discuss LVT in any detail. I certainly approve the principle of taxing wealth rather than income, plus lots of [...]
Why should Londers not vote for Boris Because he is a buffoon Or because he's been sacked (Twice - once from the shadow cabinet and once from the Times) Or said lots of mad things Well, Ryan Cullen on Liberal Democrat Voice has trawled through the hundreds of Boris videos on You Tube and selected the cream of the crop. You can view them and vote on why Londoners shouldn't choose Boris here.
Yesterday's Courier followed up on Monday's story about my concerns (and those of many local residents) about some HGVs ignoring the 3 tonne weight limit on the bridge at Riverside Drive south of the Botanic Gardens. I also spoke on Radio Tay and Wave 102 news about the concerns and action taken by the City Council and Tayside Police. The issue was also covered in the Press & Journal today. Yesterday was a really busy day with Mike Galloway (City Council Director of Planning & Transportation) and myself (in my role as Planning & Transport Convener) selecting the winner of ...
Wednesday morning usually means I'm off to Westminster early to attend my Select Committee on Communications. This morning however, I had to miss the planned trip to Google having woken up with a ferocious headache. Some strong painkillers and a couple more hours of sleep and I felt able to meet my promise to deliver blue letters in Highgate. I met up with my friend, and Haringey stalwart, Julia Glenn, and trudged off in the hazy sunshine. Kingsbury, where Mark lives, is homogenous 1930s metroland housing with, frankly, little character. Highgate, where there is a hotly contested by-election, on the ...
Well done to Tobias Ellwood, a Tory MP who whilst out in his constituency chose not to accept that some teenagers were acting in a anti social way and went to speak to them about their behaviour. Of course, he was met with verbal abuse and was pelted with stones. However, if more people had the nerve to do it and knew the police would be on their side if they did (and not take the easy option of arresting the adult as they do so often when the teens run home to their parents and complain), then there would ...
Parking in Wycombe Marsh is becoming a nightmare! {parking marsh} There are serious parking issues in Wycombe Marsh - parking provision must be improved. Lib Dems say YES! Tories say NO! At a recent Development Control Committee meeting the new St James development was approved by the Tory controlled committee. The required parking provision level was passed with minimum. parking provision for the estate. An area set aside for affordable homes will be faced with a “first come first served” fight for parking.The rest of the estate could see dispersed parking onto the roads around the Marsh and surrounding areas. ...
Well it's looking like Obama is well on his way to winning the Democratic Party presidential nomination. He won the latest round of primaries in Wisconsin and Hawaii.
After being consulted by a number of constituents recently about alleged breaches of the planning system North East Fife Liberal Democrat MP Menzies Campbell has written to Ronnie Hinds the Chief Executive of Fife Council to establish the position with regard to the Councils record on planning enforcement. Commenting Menzies Campbell said: “I appreciate that planning enforcement issues are very often far from straight forward, but it is a matter about which there is significant public interest. I have therefore written to Mr Hinds to establish the current position with regard to this matter. Ends Follows is Menzies Campbells letter ...
We have just passed Leeds City Council's £506 million budget by 6 votes. I have got bored and slipped away to catch up on some email upstairs in a Civic Hall office. Despite being over 2.5 hours long only a handful of the 99 City Councillors are allowed to speak in the budget debate and all of them front benchers. While this makes it one of the premier events in the political calendar in debating terms it does make you feel like lobby fodder. The chamber began to empty after the vote and a wave of backbenchers began making "in ...
The typical British family is more than £1300 a year worse off following sharp rises in tax, mortgage and energy bills over the past four years a report by the Centre for Policy Studies has shown. The study says that millions of households are “very exposed” to the expected economic slow-down with the average family burdened with more debt than their annual income as they struggle to pay higher bills. Commenting Menzies Campbell said “Gordon Brown claims to have presided over a remarkable decade of growth. But the truth is the living standards of large numbers of families have only ...
My friend Ben Judah is writing a series of posts on the unique mindset and art of the revolutionary Russian-Jewish poets. The introduction can be found here, and the first post is on Isaac Babel. Very interesting and surprisingly accessible. I invite you all to take a look.
When the majority of books were all hand written manuscripts, a curse would sometimes be lettered into a book to prevent it's theft. Some monasteries like the one at San Pedro, Barcelona would even go so far as to put a blanket curse on it's entire library. The curse would often go something like this: "For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be ...
Commenting on Alan Johnsons speech today in which he set out plans to change Britains sick note culture into a well note culture, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary for England, Norman Lamb said: This serious issue deserves a more sophisticated approach, but we should be wary of moving to a system where doctors find themselves policing the benefits system rather than treating the sick. If Alan Johnson is serious about helping the large number of people on long term sick leave back to work, he should focus on providing better access to effective treatment for the huge numbers of people ...
Along with Dominic Grieve I went to meet the campaigners about Keran Henderson today. There was another SBS case which went the right way last week. The problem with this system is it is essential random, but the outcomes for the people concerned are quite serious. The link is the campaign link.
The person chosen to be the next Mayor of Bath will be; click HERE to reveal their identity.
Being a high profile celebrity has helped Boris Johnson’s name recognition during the London Mayor contest. But being well known comes with its downside too, as it means that your past failings or blunders are likely to be well known too. The large collection of films about Boris on YouTube demonstrate this well, he’s a [...]
Nearly 300 casinos could soon be operating in Britain - despite Government promises that the total would not rise beyond 150. It seems the recent row over the supercasino and the delay of ...
Working in Glasgow City centre, indeed within the Merchant City area, can have the odd entetaining distraction especially as George Square sits beneath the office window. Today is a Champions League matchday and Celtic are home to Barcelona in the 1st leg of the First knockout round (round of 16) and the streets are hoaching with Catalunians sporting their colours and singing their football and "National" songs. George Square has been playing host to numerous impromtu games of football and pubs are packed with noisy and friendly visitors. All in all on a grey and gloomy Glasgow February day the ...
Apparently existing British citizens like myself will be exempt, but under plans announced today, people coming to the UK who then decide to settle permanently on our fair isle will need to pass more tests to "prove their worth". The new measures include: Raising visa fees for a special "transitional impact" fund More English language testing [...]
You pour coffee, fix hair, you work the night shift at the local hospital. You're often overworked, underpaid, and sometimes overlooked. But not by everyone. One candidate has put forth an American family agenda to make things easier for everyone who works so hard. Universal healthcare. Increased daycare. And help with elder care. She understands. She's worked the night shift, too.
The Liberal Democrat Campaign for Gender Balance has published the shortlist for its blog awards for female bloggers. Wales gets a mention twice in the category of best blog by a female non-Liberal Democrat. They are Bethan Jenkins and Betsan Powys. The award ceremony takes place at our Spring Conference in Liverpool on Saturday 8th March 2008, between 8.00 pm and 9.30 pm, at Canada Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel. I will post further if one of them win.
Hillary, it’s time to call the whole thing off! What Hillary supporters forget is that there can only be one candidate and in a Presidential system the Presidential candidate is going to be a frontman/woman. Right now Barack Obama is that frontman - the best frontman they’ve had for 16 years. Wisconsin is a `purple` state - [...]
South East England Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has been expelled from the right-of-centre European Peoples Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament after making a speech in which he compared the Parliament's rules to those of Nazi Germany. Back in January Hannan made a speech complaining about the rules enforced by Parliament's president Hans-Gert Poettring which prevented a number of right-wing MEPs from continually disrupting business in the chamber. He said that only his respect for the German Poettring prevented him from comparing moves to curb disruption in the chamber with powers seized by Adolf Hitler in 1933. The spineless ...
Yesterday saw both Barack Obama and John McCain win in two contests, Obama in Wisconsin and Hawaii and McCain in Wisconsin and Washington. McCain is now if not mathematically almost certainly assured of the Republican nomination. The Democrat nomination could still go either way but Obama must now be favourite and I suspect would be virtually guaranteed if he beats Clinton in either Ohio and Texas. Obama has now won all ten of the last contests (even better than I predicted).
In a move which, whilst its perfectly legal, promises to make a mockery of the whole primary process, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has declared that it will seek to persuade (aka bribe) pledged delegates from Obama if she doesn’t have enough to win. This completely goes against what most see as the idea of primaries and caucuses [...]
I work as parish clerk in my village and the job tends towards the crushingly dull. I am, however, blessed with some very active and committed parish councillors who want to do things for our community and put a lot of time into doing so. Over the past few years plans have been developed for more play facilities for young people and children and a lot of work has gone into meeting with suppliers, sourcing different models, putting in planning applications and consulting with residents in the village, not to mention a full survey of over 200 children to see ...
A guest feature by Edmund In Tokyo Right around the time we all started getting mobile phones, people often used to comment that they were losing the ability to remember phone numbers. As we get used to having Google on-demand, people are starting to say that they're using the ability to remember anything. Much as it may upset the Daily Telegraph, this is a rational response to the acquision of our new information super-powers. When information was hard to get, you needed to spend your time hoarding knowledge that you might need. Now that we can pull up all the ...
Last night proved another good one for Barack Obama, as he extended his winning streak over Hillary Clinton to 10 with victories in the Hawaii caucus and Wisconsin primary.Hillary Clinton has now failed to win a single state since Super Tuesday, and her campaign now rests on the March 4th states of Ohio and Texas. Both states favour her demographically - but so did Wisconsin, where nearly six-in-ten voters were women; nine in ten were white; forty percent earned $50,000 or less; and 58 percent had no college degree. In each of those categories - key blocs in the Clinton coalition ...
Just when you thought you couldn’t be surprised, the Labour government have displayed their ingenuity and previously untapped skill at losing or misplacing data once again, this time by ignoring a Dutch DNA data disc sent to them a year ago, only running checks on it against the UK DNA database this month and finding [...]
Great news for those of us who think Barack Obama is a strong voice for change in the USA and subsequently the rest of the world. He has won Hawaii, as expected - being born there, with 76% of the vote. The greater excitement is that he also won Wisconsin, beating Clinton by 58% to 41%. According to the BBC he now has 1319 delegates to Hilary's 1245, these being delegates won in elections and not "Superdelegates". It is also cheering that barack has made great inroads in the traditional "lunch pail" working class Democrats and polled equally with Hilary ...
Last October Cadbury announced the closure of its Somerfield factory in Keynsham. At the time it was thought the decision would rip the heart out of the town. But news out this week appears to indicate that not all is lost. Bath & NE Somerset Council are to consider a move whereby all its main council offices would relocate to the town. Sadly, rather than concentrate on implementing the idea there would appear to be more discussion taking place on who thought of the idea than there does on making it happen. North East Somerset MP, Dan Morris (Labour) seems ...
Well I never thought I'd find myself saying this, but I'm becoming a happy teetotaler :) I first tried the no alcohol experiment during Lent last year and it was, quite frankly, one of the most psychologically horrendous experiences of my entire life. Counting the days and hours to go before I could next indulge in my preferred tipple, I wound myself up to the extent that I was conscious 24/7 of what I was missing out on. Then I'd fall off the wagon, have a couple, feel guilty, and fantasise some more about the day there'd be no arbitrary ...
Great meeting last night of the Youth Communications management committee. Youth Communications exists, among other things, to produce Youth Live magazine - which his written and edited by and for young people. Edition three will be out soon and there are loads of ideas for number four. We're also putting more effort into the business side of the magazine - thinking about how to increase the print run and the advertising, and how to get bulk copies taken. A group at New Heys school in Garston and working on a project to help us with these plans - so maybe ...
Ok, ok. I know I'm a dog with high standards. But really. So their live online support chat keeps you waiting for 45 minutes to move from 7th to 5th in the queue. I then tried their online support form. Pawed away with the details of my case. Checked the text. Hit send. And what happens A day latter an email comes back from Symantec saying they've only had part of my message, because the email generated by their website truncated the last part of my message. Bless. Good think they're not selling themselves as computer experts really isn't it ...
It appears the People's Party will emerge as winners in the Pakistan election. Latest figures put them on 87 seats, with the PML-N on 66 and the PML-Q on 39, the MQM on 19, the ANP on 10, the MMA on 3 and others on 34.
Tonight is the Council meeting where the budget is set for the coming year, including the Council Tax level. There is sure to be some heated debate before an agreeemtn is reached, as once again a poor financial settlement for Bury from the government has meant some tough choices. It is sure to be an interesting meeting, and of course it is open to the public, if you would like to attend Bury Town Hall from 7pm. Rick
Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised by the news that - as this blog has been shortlisted for another award - I'm now expecting to be runner-up yet again! However, you can help break this tradition - by voting here (where the excellent Alix - one of my constituents - is also shortlisted, so you can make it a Haringey 1,2!).
Yesterday was the Northern Rock debate. The obvious thing to do is has been for some time to nationalise the bank to give it stability whilst aiming to return it to the private sector as a going concern. Northern Rock faces some key challenges in that it is paying a penal interest rate to the Bank of England so it may not be cash flow positive. This is something the tories have ignored in
The Campaign for Gender Balance has announced the shortlists for its Blog Awards, with the winners to be announced at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Liverpool (7th-9th March). The shortlists are as follows: BEST BLOG BY A FEMALE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT: * Charlotte Gore * Linda Jack’s Lindyloo’s Muze [...]
Yesterday Ofcom announced that Lincs FM has won the licence for the Lincolnshire DAB multiplex (with MuxCo). Ok there was only one bid, and as the only countywide FM broadcaster it would have been hard for them to lose. I’ve looked at the stations which they are going to run: Lincs FM 102.2 (Lincs FM Group Ltd) Compass FM (Lincs FM Group Ltd) Lincs Country (Lincs FM Group Ltd) Easy Radio (Easy Radio Limited) Shuffle (MuxCo Lincolnshire Ltd) UCB UK (United Christian Broadcasters Ltd) Traffic Radio (Highways Agency) and I’m pretty sure that I wont bother with any of them ...
Set the budget for the year ahead last night. A surprisingly entertaining meeting, the bottom line being that we kept the Council Tax increase to 2.5%. There was some controversy and disscussion over a proposed one off grant of £100,000 to the Hall for Cornwall. A Conservative Member objected strongly, saying that if people want to go to the theatre they should pay for it themselves, and not be subsidised. It was demonstrated that the Hall brings a great many people into Truro, bringing many benefits to shops, bars etc. In the end only 3 Councillors voted against the grant. ...
Having highlighted Emily Thornberry’s fib to Friends of the Earth (she told a public meeting she had signed Susan Kramer’s EDM against Heathrow expansion, when she hadn’t), I should point out that nearly two weeks on, her signature has finally appeared. I don’t know why she didn’t just say she was going to sign it, rather [...]
David Cameron's ambition to redress the balance so that the English might enjoy some of the benefits of devolution have hit the rocks after the man tasked with finding a solution for the Tories dismissed the idea of an English-only committee at Westminster. The Western Mail reports that former Chancellor Ken Clarke believes that there is a more straightforward solution. Unfortunately, his plan to allow only English MPs to vote on English-only legislation is not as straightforward as it might seem. Mr. Clarke appears to have missed the fact that just because a clause in a bill purports to only ...
As Barrack Obama's campaign goes from strength to strength, another man's Presidential ambitions have seemingly hit the rocks. The Guardian reports that Tony Blair's hopes of becoming Europe's first president are running into mounting opposition across the EU, with Germany determined to stymie the former prime minister. They tell us that a "Stop Blair" website run by pro-Europeans has launched a petition against him; a transnational, cross-party caucus in the European parliament is forming to campaign against a Blair presidency; senior officials in Brussels are privately dismissive about the new post going to a Britain; and senior diplomats in European ...
It seems not. Not if this week is anything to go by there certainly isn't. First he's here, there and everywhere, giving what I consider to be very polished and impressive interviews on the subject of Northern Rock and today I find he has made the Somerset Gazette yet again, for doing something meaningful in the constituency. It just goes to show what hard work and dedication gets you. Jeremy is an excellent MP and an even better Lib Dem Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Mind you I would say that - he;s my MP. Keep up the good ...
I thought it was time we entered the sphere of the engraved foundation stone - there are quite a few around so this should be a fairly rich vein. Judging by the number of people I see stopping to read them I guess I'm not the only one who takes an interest in these. This is West Hampstead Branch Library (obscured by the handrail!): This stone was laid on 17th July 1954 His Worship The Mayor Councillor Emmanuel Snowman JP Councillor Geoffrey Finsberg Chairman of the Public Libraries Committee S.J. Butcher F.L.A. Chief Librarian P.H. Harrold O.B.E. Town Clerk Of ... | < | February 2008 | > | ||||
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