Sunday, May 31, 2009

Vote for a Change

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Campaign web-site for that long-overdue referendum on the voting system now up and running - do have a quick look . It's a pretty stra...

Border's sunshine ...

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St. Mary's Loch , in the Scottish Borders, as walked around (and photographed) yesterday! Managed a few hours escape - to celebrate that...
Friday, May 29, 2009

No text needed :-)

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Just click on the picture for a closer look at all that veg !
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Positive local response ...

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Local blog readers will have noted the serious vandalism problems at the Phoenix Centre, on Harrison Place/Gardens, in recent days ... not ...

20-years today!

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My better-half and I have been living together for 20-years this very day! We moved into our first rented-house, in Stoke-on-Trent, on 29 th...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Emergency over!

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Just got back from the Council Meeting to catch the last-ever episode of ER ... ... can't believe that there will never be any more (n...

"Instep" no more ...

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Well, it was a pretty lengthy meeting - didn't finish until close on 8pm ... and yes, the vast majority of the time was taken up by Depu...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Round-in-circles?

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Full Council Meeting tomorrow - main agenda can be found here ... ... most of the contentious items are in Section 7 (Reports from Committ...
Monday, May 25, 2009

UK Cabinet support ...

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UK Cabinet support today for a referendum on the voting system at the earliest opportunity ... lets hope this is translated into some defi...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Allotment-mania

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Thoroughly enjoyable visit to the Bridgend Community Allotment open-day, yesterday afternoon - inspired us to spend most of the late morni...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Question Time

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All the Council Party Group Leaders (5 in total) took part in a BBC-style 'Question Time' earlier this morning, organised by the Edi...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Expenses

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'Edinburgh Labour' Group Expenses Unless you've been on the dark-side of the moon for the last few weeks, its hard to believe th...
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Race for life ...

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My better-half is doing a 5K run in a few weeks time ... first time she'll have ever completed (hopefully!) such a run, and in a moment...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

all-things European

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Sticking with the European theme ... ... my local Constituency Labour Party had Hugh McMahon (who was a Labour MEP for Strathclyde West f...

European Elections on 4th June

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I mentioned the ongoing European Election campaigning, briefly, a few days ago ... ... well, late this afternoon I attended a short offici...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

A New Politics?

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Good to see that the Guardian has today launched a campaign for a complete over-haul of the constitution ... full details can be found here...
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Part1 AGM completed!

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Relieved to report that I survived the 'Part1 Labour Group AGM' last night and remain as Edinburgh Labour Group Leader ;-) --- ac...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

COMMONS IN CRISIS - it's time for real change

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Regular blog readers will know of my (very) long-term commitment to electoral reform, and to STV -PR in particular --- indeed, you could sa...
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