Blair on YouTube. Sorry, but I think this is neat
Monday, May 7th, 2007I’m bound to get some criticism for this, but I’ve just been watching Blair’s message to Sarkozy on YouTube. It’s neat. The whole Downing Street channel is a good idea.
Yeah yeah, this technology and YouTube have been around for ages, and yes, Cameron has been doing it for ever and, yawn, the Labour Party has [...]
Rosie’s site
Monday, May 7th, 2007I’ve added Rosie Cooper’s website to the blogroll on the right. I realised that I’d only mentioned District Councillors, and Rosie and the County Councillors deserve a mention. If there are any other west lancashire politics related websites I’ll happily namecheck them here – so long as they’re not bashing Labour (too much!)
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Local Tory website
Monday, May 7th, 2007Derby Councillor, Adrian Owens, has been dipping a toe into the online world. His website has all sorts of fascinating facts and press releases about what he’s been up to.
Nothing much there about the council which he is a leading figure on. Instead it’s all directed at the County Council and the Government. Something tells [...]
What happened to my rosette on Thursday??
Monday, May 7th, 2007Found my rosette on the floor in the kitchen on Thursday… a bit crumpled and un-wearable. Amazing what you find when you check the pictures on your camera.
Lily’s spots are due to a bout of chickenpox at the start of last week, just before the election. Timing, as ever, was perfect.
Election results – Bumping along the bottom
Sunday, May 6th, 2007The results from Thursday’s election suggest that Labour, locally, hasn’t moved in the past twelve months. One good councillor, with a strong personal vote (in Wrightington) stood down, and we gained another good councillor with a strong personal vote in Bickerstaffe.
To move forward in West Lancs, we need to see a bigger swing than 0.38%. [...]
Election results – a reality check
Friday, May 4th, 2007Just got back from the count – not a great night for Labour in West Lancs. I overhead someone say that we’d “turned the corner” which, with a net loss of one seat, is perhaps over-egging the result a bit.
Paul Cotterill did brilliantly in Bickerstaffe and showed how hard work over a long period of [...]
Scarisbrick 2007 and Skelmersdale North 2004
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Speculation around that there might be an upset in Scarisbrick. I’m willing to bet that we won’t see any surprises there – I expect the Conservative candidate to win there by a healthy majority.
Some have cited the Skelmersdale North election a couple of years ago when an independent stood against the, then Labour group leader, [...]
Hot, Live Blogging – Addy Style
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007David Sudworth, from the Addy, will be live blogging at the local election count tomorrow night. Should make interesting reading. We’ll all be there checking the counts are running correctly, and listening in to the results from around the country. It’ll make a change to catch up on the local newspaper’s viewpoint as it happens.
Shame [...]
Interesting couple of weeks ahead
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Some nuggets of info picked up over the past couple of days which could make the next few weeks very interesting.
Firstly, it looks like the extraordinary meeting of the council which was first scheduled for the 24th has been put back to the 31st. Not sure why yet, but I’m hearing that the meeting is [...]
Fourth Option for Council Housing Petition
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007This petition on the PM’s website calls on the government to provide the “Fourth Option”:
Petition to: provide the Fourth Option of direct investment in council housing as an alternative to privatisation by stock transfer, PFI or ALMO, to enable local authorities to respect the choice of their tenants and bring all homes up to at [...]
