Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

And boy did I get a swift one in the happy sac:

Ouch. Don’t pull your punches will you Borehamwood. The lesson for the Lib Dems in Hertsmere? This is a Tory Borough, and it will take a lot of hard work and patience to change that.
However, bloody fantastic results across the country for the […]

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Which makes a change from the Poles coming to us.
All across the country, polling stations are open in the battle for around 4,000 seats on 159 councils and for London mayor and the London Assembly. So if there’s an election in your area, make sure to have your voice heard, and as Robert Mugabe says
"Vote […]

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Hertsmere Borough Council* it would seem, who have retained Tribal Resourcing to help them find a new Chief Executive. The position has been vacant since October last year, when Eden Lee resigned following allegations of corruption for "personal/family reasons and to allow him to take his career in a different direction" (like away from gaol).
The […]

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And it’s me, in the upcoming Hertsmere Borough Council elections*. How do I know? Because the Borehamwood Times told me so:
In a surprise move, the Liberal Democrats will field a candidate in Hillside.
In February, 22-year-old Law student Gavin Whenman announced his intention to stand for the party in Cowley Hill against Ms Harrison, but […]

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TheyWorkForYou.com sends me a daily email update on the oral and written activity of my local MP, James Clappison (he of the Guantanamo Bay support), and I’ve noticed a certain trend developing. Not to put too fine a point on it, but all his written questions to ministers appear to revolve around one subject: Immigration […]

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My local MP, James Clappison, has responded to my recent fax regarding Guantanamo Bay (long story short, I asked him to support Amnesty’s campaign to close the facility, he didn’t want to, I told him why he should).
I disagree vastly with him, of course, but fair play to him for taking the time to respond, […]

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Here’s the fax I’ve sent off, via the invaluable WriteToThem, in response to the letter earlier this month from my MP in which he supported Guantanamo Bay:
Dear James Clappison,
Thank you for your letter dated 26th November 2007 regarding your decision not to support Amnesty International’s campaign to close Guantanamo Bay. I can appreciate that, as […]

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I sent a fax via WriteToThem to my local MP, James Clappison, a couple of weeks ago asking him to support Amnesty’s campaign to close down Guantanamo Bay. I received this rather disappointing response today:

So, by implication he supports torture, extraordinary rendition and the detention without trial of persons on severely questionable legal grounds waiting […]

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From Iran and the US to something just a bit more local: Hertsmere Borough Council, situated in the delightful commuter belt county of Hertfordshire. As one might expect, the council is run by the Conservative Party (28 seats), with the Liberal Democrats as the main opposition (7 seats), and Labour (4 seats) not too far […]

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