Further to my Tweet I wanted to add a bit more about Transition/Peak Oil so thought I'd add in Graham Truscott's statement
Once again the Ladies, and their partners, held a successful, fun event at the Hilton House Hotel, in the old part of Hilton village, this lunchtime.
These ladies month in month out raise funds for our campaigns and the Association. You may read a lot of stuff about high profile business people supporting the campaign but these ladies go about the issue in a no fuss way and are the back bone of our fund raising, for which I am extremely grateful.
Thank you ladies.
Tonight at the District Council the Chief Executive Mr McArdle, who is the Electoral Returning Officer, announced he had made his decision about when the votes for the General Election would be counted.
He announced the Count would start on the Thursday night.
This is very good news for democracy as waiting until Friday afternoon to hear the result would have left the Country in limbo, without knowing who was going to run the Country.
Thank goodness that is one decison out the way. Now we just have to wait for Gordon Brown to call the General Election. I can't wait!
The Royal British Legion are rightly pushing for everyone to step up and show their allegiance and support for our armed forces and those who have left and are in need.
This is a great cause and one I am happy to sign up to.
I was invited to speak at Woodville WI on Tuesday 2nd March.
Everyone knows the rules 'no politics' with the ladies from the WI. I did not want to fall into the trap of the previous PM and get slow hand clapped.
I passed the test. I spoke, with questions, for just under an hour about how things are changing in South Derbyshire and how many new innovative things are coming along the pipeline.
The ladies were very kind, asked very intelligent and perceptive questions.
I did enjoy my experience and hopefully they did too, I think they did as the next day this lovely bouquet was delivered to me at my home in Bretby.
Thanks ladies, perhaps I could visit you again in a years time?
Today we said a heartfelt good by to Barry Gadson who had worked for the Council for over 30 years. Our Market stalls were never straighter and the Town Hall on the Delph never tidier than when Barry was in charge.
I was so proud that colleagues came and showed their respects outside the Council building when the cortege went passed and stopped for a few minutes and at the Delph too.
At Bretby Crematorium we heard that he felt he had his dream job.
He was a wonderful servant to South Derbyshire.
our love goes out to Sandra.
As everyone feels the financial pinch as a result of Gordon Brown's recession, Conservative controlled South Derbyshire District Council has delivered the lowest Council tax increase on record. At just 1.5% this is below inflation and delivers on the manifesto pledge of keeping Council tax low. Meanwhile at the budget setting meeting of Derbyshire County Council the controlling Conservative group proposed a similar 1.5% increase. This maintains the downward trend on Council Tax increases delivered by the Conservatives over the last few years since the days of Labour control where increases were as much as 13% in a single year !
Team Marbrow held a hugely successful Coffee Morning to raise money for the charity Help for Heroes. Their grandson is out on tour in Afghanistan right now and to show solidarity with his injured colleagues Team Marbrow decided not only to have a coffee morning but also his brother, Scott, will be undertaking a sponsored bike ride to Arnhem too.
Thursday saw folk raise £860 for this great cause.
Well done Marbrows and well done Rosliston and surrounding villages, rallying to this good cause.
Photos of Heather and Mrs Marbrow and then Team Marbrow with the Help for Heroes banners
At an event in Bretby on Friday 21st August I got talking to a group of people who worked for the NHS. What struck me was not only their contempt for New Labour but also their Old politics and the way they felt that Labour treated the NHS.
Interestingly recently there have been attacks by Labour, attempting to misrepresent the Conservatives NHS policies. I think to cover up their massive failures.
In fact the last few days have seen a concerted media campaign to discredit our Party and our policies on the NHS. The fact that so many people who work for the NHS attended this event proves the lie in their words.
Let us remind ourselves what the Conservatives will do better.
We pledge to:
The people’s taxes will continue to support a free at source NHS – the Conservatives however will make sure that patients needs are put first in all aspects of health care. At the next election the choice is clear: Labour‘s centralised, target led and over bureaucratic approach.....closing local facilities OR David CAMERON’S practical vision of a patient first ‘People’s Health Service’
In Etwall on Sunday 16th August I attended a Conservative event where the main topic of conversation was the state of the economy and what Gordon Brown had done to it.
It’s time to call time on Brown’s Binge, Bonus and Borrow Economy.
Economies in Europe – notably Germany and France - are now out of recession. Their recession has been shorter and less deep because their economies were not based upon over borrowing and a government-endorsed speculative approach to banking, borrowing and our public finances.
Britain is experiencing a deeper recession due to Brown and Darling’s mismanagement and borrowings of over £1 trillion. Skilfully hidden until now, the result will be Brown’s legacy of misery.
The so called “Boom Years” were nothing more than unsustainable growth based upon government borrowing and dodgy banking with the next 3 generations picking up the bill - rather a contrast to the Golden legacy left by Ken Clarke in 1997 of falling unemployment, low inflation and low government borrowing with consistent real increased spending on front line public services.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that this Government is doing everything possible to hide the depth of Britain’s debt and refuses to come clean about the cuts in public spending that must be made because it fears the electoral consequences. Brown continues to act like the undiagnosed alcoholic: he is in complete public denial as he borrows and borrows to hide his economic failures.
Conservatives, in contrast, have made their position both crystal clear and fully transparent:
We will:
It is vital that we end Brown’s policy of the ‘Binge, Bonus culture’ and stop banks and Financial Institutions, at risk, from paying their employees obscene bonus payments which encourage the high risk finance that led to the near collapse of our banking structure.
You might be interested in the UseYourLocal parcel delivery initiative which is trying to revitalise our pubs and clubs. With rural enterprise needing all the support it can get, and Post Offices threatened, this is a refreshingly straightforward way of utilising what we already have.
The website reads: "UseYourLocal Limited was founded in 2008 in conjunction with Scottish & Newcastle UK, the country's leading brewer. It is an initiative to help consumers get more from their local by:
The site creators at UseYourLocal believe that local pubs & clubs can be a real force for good in our local villages, towns and cities and hope that this is just the first in a series of great ideas aimed at finding creative solutions to help breathe life back into local communities.”
I have just put in my own South Derbyshire Post Code DE15 0PT and I would be spoilt for choice as there are so many outlets handy, not least In Newton Solney where we suffer from the Post Office being closed in the last round of cuts.
Try clicking on the link at the top of the page and see how you can help bring business to our rural pubs.
Friday morning I popped into the Collingwood Centre in Swadlincote. This is an excellent ‘drop in’ centre run by volunteers for Age Concern.
They were holding a joint event/Open Day with the volunteers that help run the Age Concern Charity shop on the High Street.
The place was buzzing and what was even better as the event was held in the school holidays all ages were there.
I am sure they will have raised hundreds for the charity but also, hopefully, enticed some more good people to come and be volunteers for this worthwhile cause.
Well done everyone.
Photo of the Chairman’s wife Mrs Bottomley and other Age Concern Volunteers Friday 14th August 2009
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