Perne Road has another addition to its collection of unwanted Latin words.
Impetigo.
We also now know that it's a virus that's at work on the pharyngitis sufferer.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Fix the Mess, Don’t Refight the Past
If the contractors are making these mistakes for a bus way, imagine what they could have done with a rail connection?
I am sure Cast.Iron/Flat.Earth will join me in criticising the handling of the contract … but they really should stop going back a decade to refight the whole bus versus rail debate. Personally, I’d like to go back to 1997 to refight the General Election to see a Tory win, because the country would have been better off. Neither of things are possible. We lost the arguments then. Time to move on.
You can't change history by shouting at it. You can, however, work for a better future.
I am sure Cast.Iron/Flat.Earth will join me in criticising the handling of the contract … but they really should stop going back a decade to refight the whole bus versus rail debate. Personally, I’d like to go back to 1997 to refight the General Election to see a Tory win, because the country would have been better off. Neither of things are possible. We lost the arguments then. Time to move on.
You can't change history by shouting at it. You can, however, work for a better future.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Getting the Notice in Time
Iain Dale has an interesting piece on how it is normal practice to give a month's notice of the budget date.
He points out that last year the budget date of April 22 was announced on 12 February and in 2008 the budget date of March 12 was announced on 1 February.
He says, “It's difficult to see how that will happen this year.” Is it a conspiracy to avoid an embarrassing occasion by hiding it in the General Election campaign? Maybe. Or it could just be incompetence by 'Chairman, Comrade' Gordon Brown and his useless deputy in getting the notice out in time…
He points out that last year the budget date of April 22 was announced on 12 February and in 2008 the budget date of March 12 was announced on 1 February.
He says, “It's difficult to see how that will happen this year.” Is it a conspiracy to avoid an embarrassing occasion by hiding it in the General Election campaign? Maybe. Or it could just be incompetence by 'Chairman, Comrade' Gordon Brown and his useless deputy in getting the notice out in time…
Monday, March 8, 2010
Canvassing...
is fun for all ages! This team was out in Coleridge yesterday with Nick Hillman (PPC for Cambridge, my successor, holding the 'tree' clipboard). Master Normington saw his sister was allowed to go to the candidates' hustings to support Nick's selection, so he's out in his own supporting role this time.
Mixed Messages
The city council turned down the Tesco in Mill Road's application to sell alcohol.
The city council approved of the Strawberry Fair and its drink, drugs and petty crime.
Perhaps Tesco staff should dress in old fatigues, grow their hair long and offer 'legal highs' to passing punters instead?
(I hope the new fish and chip shop in Mill Road gets the go-ahead to sell alcohol to the people eating in).
The city council approved of the Strawberry Fair and its drink, drugs and petty crime.
Perhaps Tesco staff should dress in old fatigues, grow their hair long and offer 'legal highs' to passing punters instead?
(I hope the new fish and chip shop in Mill Road gets the go-ahead to sell alcohol to the people eating in).
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Iraq Votes Today…
... and if the allies had cut and run in 2005 as the Lib Dems and Greens demanded, not a single Iraqi citizen would be able to cast a free vote today.
Whatever your view of the invasion itself, abandoning Iraq to the insurgents - Mullahs, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and assorted Saddamists - would not have been the right thing to do.
Whatever your view of the invasion itself, abandoning Iraq to the insurgents - Mullahs, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and assorted Saddamists - would not have been the right thing to do.
The cause of Liberal Democracy in Iraq was betrayed by the Lib Dems of the UK.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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