You might like to read this by Gilligan in the ES. It should make your blood boil. Remember Livingstone and his buddies are a charge on OUR Council Tax - and he pays this Advisor £117,000 a year of our money.

Readers struggling to pay their Council Tax may rightly feel aggrieved. I do.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23425661-details/Ken%27s+aide+and+lost+millions/article.do

Remember these two?

Hand in hand they ran Britain through the last ten years - TB/GB joined at the hip - inseparable like Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, but the laugh was on us. Now one pretends the last 10 years had nothing to do with him. Are we really going to let him get away with it?

It seems that the Labour conference didn't have much to say about the environment. GB hardly mentioned it. Hillary Benn was seen not using his 'bag for life' and London Community Recycling Network's latest communique suggests some interesting reading:-

"Labour-ious fixation on green light for election

 

This week the Labour party had their Bournemouth conference and Hilary Benn was spotted forgetting to use his ‘bag for life'. Environmental policies were sparse, however and the focus remained on whether there would be a snap election:

 

- Hilary Benn phases out traditional lightbulbs (read the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' speech here)http://www.labour.org.uk/conference/hillary_benn"

If you read it please note the blue, white and red masthead - part of the famous 'Britishness' no doubt.

Meanwhile, back at home I have been contacted by a Berrylands resident who has had a visitation from the Trial Recycling Enforcers who seemed unable to decipher the word 'biodegradable' on a biodegradable composting bag he had used to avoid the plague of maggots in his food recycling bin.

I am also trying to find out more about the Kingston Permaculture Centre.....

Should have gone to Blackpool, I suppose. 

One of the most outrageous comments made in GB's conference sermon was his attempt to harness the Gospel in support of his attack on the Tory policy to encourage marriage and stable family life. A 'son of the Manse' ought to know better and I can only think that he must have mislaid his famous 'moral compass' for a while.

If he's looking for a scriptural text I earnestly recommend him to meditate upon Matthew 23; vv25 & 26, which begins, 'Woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!' (RSV)

And yet the opinion polls continue to suggest that the British people would vote for another 5 years of this kind of thing........Can that really be true?

The man who has helped more than any other apart from Blair himself to weaken the 300 year-old United Kingdom through the botched policy of devolution is now very keen on 'Britishness'. He wants to distract attention from the fact that, as a Scottish MP, thanks to devolution, his writ scarcely runs in his own constituency but it does run here in England. The same goes for his Chancellor, Mr. Darling and any number of other ministers. We have a huge democratic deficit in this part of Britain, created by him and his friends and he hopes we won't notice.

He also promises that foreign criminals will be deported, yet his own government's policies have made that ever more difficult to achieve. His government has not lost control of our borders, it has deliberately thrown it away. And yet it appears from the opinion polls that sensible British people are prepared to vote him in for another term of years. Can this really be the case???