Genius, Pure Genius…

The common thread through the ‘Coalition’s’ actions and proposals so far, has been a petty and spiteful revenge attack on what it calls ‘Political Correctness’. PC, shorthand for most everything that Labour did and stands for - that the State has the essential role in administering the standards and setting the targets that will not be achieved by individuals, or organisations, acting on their own. Or in other words, “They’ve been bossing us about for 13 years, now we’re going to trash the Nursery”.A sort of dirty protest from the infants. 

Sink me! Those Dem’ Cons are cutting….

It’s widely accepted, even in the Dem’ Con circles, that the Thatcher government’s disastrous economic experiments laid waste to Britain’s manufacturing and set the scene for today’s catastrophic recession. It’s disposal of social housing, the notoriously abused ‘right to buy’, and the privatisation of national assets at knockdown prices, led to huge windfall profits, the housing bubble and the crazy financial engineering that has now brought world economies to their knees.

It’s not about cash, it’s about honesty…

So, David Laws lied to save embarrassment to his loved ones! And it didn’t cost the taxpayer a penny! He was right about one thing:  reputation is a most valuable asset. 

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RickyStartrek

1 month ago, Ricky wrote:

Far be it for me to parrot Dave Cameron, but he hit the button, oh, lordy, lord. Did you see the pretenders do their thing with Jeremy Paxman? I haven’t seen anything so extra-terrestrial since John Redwood and gang challenged John Major. We ALL look a bit iffy, if caught in our off moments, but the cumulative effect of the hustings implied malice aforethought by the BBC. Alastair Campbell would have gutted the incompetents and mischief makers who set up the candidates. For the very first time in my life, I feel sorry for Diane Abbot.

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RickyAprès Election, yet more….

1 month ago, Ricky wrote:

Yes, Comrades, Members, Friends, Sympathisers, Ex-Liberals, Fellow Travellers, democracy is an endless process, and now there’s a ton of Party elections to decide on. AND they’re really important. We will vote as individual members, of course, but the CLP has also its recommendations to make.  PDFs of the documents, requests for nominations etc will be available for reading or download in the Members’ Area. Just log in.

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RickyPush me, pull you, one down, lots to go…..

Saturday, May 29, 2010, Ricky wrote:

It didn’t take long for the make-up to run, did it? Matthew Parish wrings his withers about ‘good Cam’ and bad Cam’, blames it all on Alistair Campbell, Phony Tony - yawn, yawn. ‘Fact is, David Laws was a creep and a coward, greedy for power and recognition, who got caught on his back story. There’s lots where that came from.

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RickyDream on..

Tuesday, May 11, 2010, Ricky wrote:

This is really ‘crunch time’, as they say, for the Liberal Democrats. One can’t but feel sympathy - mixed with a sense of just-desserts. They’re having to grow up politically, in the space of a few hours, to a maturity that usually takes years. Their manifesto was cruelly exposed during the campaign for its fantasy politics - they just weren’t prepared for the real world scrutiny precipitated by the Televised Debates. Sadly, though, I feel that a coalition with Labour, though right in principle, would founder on the unpreparedness of the Labour Party and the Unions to make the necessary compromises. 

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RickyThe Tories are afraid, very afraid…

Saturday, May 08, 2010, Ricky wrote:

Matthew Parris’s column in the Times shows just how afraid the Tories are. His party threw the kitchen sink at the campaign(not an Ikea sink either); they got the Press baying like pack hounds; they spent months at relentless, personal vilification of Gordon Brown; they peddled the bromide of a ‘Big Society’ as an elixir of a better life; they conjured mirages of savings; they promised everyone everything plus economic rigour. Snake Oil. If you can’t fool enough people at least some of the time, you’re toast. Most people emphatically did not, do not, and never will want the Conservative Party in sole charge of the country again.

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Fishersgate’s Sure Start Children’s Centre

West Sussex County Council opened the completed ‘Stepping Stones’ Sure Start Children’s Centre at the start of the year. St Peter’s Church, in Gardner Road, was converted into this much needed community resource as part of the DCSF’s Every Child Matters framework.

The beautifully renovated and adapted church provides integrated early years care and education, as well as family support and outreach to parents. Families can access health services, and there are links to Jobcentre Plus.

More information about the Every Child Matters agenda can be found on the DCSF website.
The Fishersgate Children & Family Centre is located on Gardner Road, Portslade, Brighton, E Sussex, BN41 1PN.


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