Welcome “Tales from the West Lands”
Monday, October 5th, 2009Alan Bullen, who was West Lancs Labour Group leader for nearly twenty years until standing down a few years ago, has started his own blog – “Tales from the West Lands“.
Alan, as a Councillor, was one of the few who could raise a smile in both the Labour and Conservative ranks, and I expect that [...]
Supporting Post Office Workers
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009After hearing about Cllr Bob Pendleton’s recent threat of expulsion following “personal attacks” on Rosie Cooper, I thought I would dig out the original article that led to complaints. The article was about supporting Post Office workers in their fight against privatisation.
Apparently the Party’s action was because of comments in an article printed in the [...]
Threat of expulsion? It’s so much easier than picking up the phone
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009I was at the twinge conference fringe event last night, which was great fun, but I confess that all the talk of new media being used for political engagement rang a little false considering what happened to my wife, Jude, about two weeks ago.
Out of the blue she received a letter from the ‘National Compliance [...]
Conference ‘09 – pitchside reports – Sunday
Sunday, September 27th, 2009First things first. I’m not staying in Brighton this year. I booked my conference tickets late and affordable accommodation was hard to come by. I’d also set my heart on camping after a number of excellent camping holidays since we went to Glastonbury.
However… it turns out that one doesn’t camp in Brighton – obviously [...]
£30 million LSC investment confirmed for Skem College
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009It is reported that the Learning and Skills Council has confirmed that it will be investing £30 million of the £48 million needed for the Skelmersdale College redevelopment.
The Construction News article states:
The Learning and Skills Council has approved two more college construction projects in a shock move this morning.
As well as Manchester College [...]
Technical: Wordpress RSS hack – resolved
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009A couple of times this year I’ve had to deal with a website hack that injects “spam” into the RSS feed. Specifically there were generic viagra related links and keywords placed into the first RSS entry when picked up by the google reader spider.
To be honest, I’d quietly put up with it and clear [...]
I’m not just sorry… I’m M&S sorry
Sunday, September 13th, 2009On Friday night I came back from a family ‘do’ celebrating my cousin’s 10th wedding anniversary. It was a lovely occasion, but I had to leave early because I had the children with me. Not having eaten since breakfast I ordered a healthy chinese for home delivery.
Much to my amazement, the delivery man recognised [...]
Ormskirk roads – a review, but any public involvement?
Saturday, September 12th, 2009A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a Lancashire County press release regarding another road study for Ormskirk. I’ve been completely remiss in not posting this earlier.
Anyhow the press release states:
Lancashire County Council has drawn up a brief for transport consultants who are being asked to assess options and prioritise a range of schemes [...]
National Debt vs GDP – Tories show Britain well placed for recovery
Saturday, September 12th, 2009An excellent piece at Left Foot Forward drawing from research by the Tories shows that Britain’s debt to GDP ratio was relatively low going into the recession in comparision to other G7 countries.
Yes, a lot of debt has been taken on by taking the banks into national ownership – to protect the economy – but [...]
Skelmersdale College redevelopment – a positive step forward, questions remain
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009It was reported over the weekend that the LSC has been able to support the Skelmersdale College redevelopment. If it works out, then this is quite simply excellent news for Skelmersdale – promising the first set of redevelopment in the town centre since the Asda was built nearly ten years ago.
The LSC had managed to [...]
