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Continue reading →: Local Tories getting desperate.A few snippets from the local political rounds in Rugby: 1) 38 Degrees were in town on Saturday to collect signatures for their petition to Save the NHS – which you can sign here by the way. Three local parliamentary candidates were there to support them: Claire Edwards (Labour), Ed…
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Continue reading →: Rugby BC in Private EyeWhen Craig Humphrey was the leader, Private Eye often had a story about him in their “Rotten Boroughs” section. Having left for a nice sinecure in the quango sector (conveniently as a director for a body he was involved in setting up as a council leader), I was hoping our…
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Continue reading →: Yes, the Tories are guilty of fly-posting
After I wrote this entry – Tories flyposting? – I was able to find out that the owners of the land where the old College was are now Bellway Homes. Bellway Homes have just replied to my email query: Hi, I believe that Bellway East Midlands is the owner of…
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Continue reading →: Tories flyposting? And stupidly!
Rugby seems to have developed a rash of Tory banners – expensive looking durable ones – put up on road junctions and the like. But should they be there? Nearest to me is the one on the gates to the old Rugby College site: As can be seen, someone has…
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Continue reading →: Third successive year of Council Tax increases from RBC
Rugby Tories are celebrating what they claim is the sixth successive year of no increase of Council Tax. They are obfuscating the truth: most households in Rugby will be paying more in Council Tax than they were 6 years ago. Now, because Warwickshire County Council, and the Police & Crime…
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Continue reading →: This is familiar (Tory fiddling expenses)
I saw this today – Tory MP Made 734 Wrong Expenses Claims Bob Blackman reminds me of someone a little closer to home: Martin Heatley. Neither is fit to wipe Bert Crane’s shoes.
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Continue reading →: Farewell, Bert
Yesterday one of the first things I saw was a status on facebook to tell me that Bert Crane had died on Tuesday. Local paper reports are here – Crawley Observer and Crawley News I knew Bert from when I was very little – he was a friend of the…
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Continue reading →: Vote counting…
Another year, another set of local elections and so another exciting* round-up of the local scene on this blog (*warning: may not actually be very exciting) The main headlines are that the Tories lost two seats, with the Liberal Democrats and Independents gained taking one each. Otherwise no seats changed…
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Continue reading →: Paddox Lights
I got a mention in the Rugby Advertiser this week, on page 3. There was a picture, but it was not of me, so there is a relief for all… What happened was that there were some works going on at the Paddox end of Ashlawn Road, and Severn Trent…
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Continue reading →: Rugby BC elections rollcall
So, in less than 4 weeks’ time we will have another set of elections. The European Parliamentary ones (which I will vote in, and vote Labour, but are not the point of this post), and local ones. Here it is Rugby Borough Council up in thirds, with the first elections…
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I’m Owen (aka Danivon)
A blog that ran from 2009 – 2015 on the town of Rugby, local politics and other stuff that caught my eye.
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