Why I feel the NHS direct should stay
Firstly please can you sign this petition if you can
http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/
To save the NHS direct service. It is a non emergency telephone number there to provide a way of taking the volume of 999 calls down. So if you have a query or a general medical question you can be diagnosed over the phone and helped without clogging up Accident and Emergency.
Now the Tories clearly feel this is a bad thing and blocking up accident and emergency is the way to go. But have they thought of the consequences that cutting this service will cause? A lot of people rely on an out of hour’s service like the NHS direct and I feel this should be saved. This will also mean loss of jobs and this wont come cheaply having to lay staff off. Just cutting wildly away at public sector organisations is a costly process. Lying off staff will cost them as the wont just go for nothing.
We hear that the con dems want to replace with a cheaper more efficient service. This is all well and good but it is no doubt going to be run by a tight budget and they will be running on a shoe string. No doubt there will be less people taking calls and as a result people not getting the help they need. So in the end this will end up costing the NHS as a whole more to deal wit extra patients that could otherwise de dealt with over the phone.
Just another example of the tories attempt to destroy the NHS in my view and we must oppose this.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
what kind of leader would David Milliband be ?
The labour leadership contest has interested me greatly and this is one of my first blog entries on the matter. As some of you may or may not know I am backing Ed balls for labour leader with David Milliband coming in as my second preference. I hear that the favourite to win this leadership contest will be David Milliband and I deem that to be correct. As much as I’d love Edballs to become leader i just don’t see him getting enough votes, it as the media suggest sadly a contest between the millibands unfortunately. I must state I have nothing against either of them Ed or David as it goes. I think they would make excellent leaders. David as the more senior and most experienced in a previous labour government and an excellent polititian. I am sure that David Milliband will win now but what kind of leader would he be.
I'd love labour people Members or supporters to comment on this blog post. We all know about his leadership campaign but what sort of leader would he be?
Being foreign sectary for the last labour government David did well and has excellent foreign contacts including Pakistan of late. The Pakistani prime minister has publicly been known to be in good contact with David and the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
I think although inevitable being involved with the last labour government will be thrown at David I think he is a new fresh leader that we so badly need. David has recruited thousands of local volunteers to help become new leaders in their own r light. Having raised the most amount of money David is the strongest by far.
I don’t think it can be over estimated having the majority support of the whole party. It is key to having a party to move forward and getting the party back on side. David will do this and hopefully rebuild the party as He Sea’s fit.
I only have gone for Ed Balls as he can take on the Tories well and hit them where it hurts. I think David Milliband will be a different opposition to the rest and David Cameron will find it hard to take on David Milliband in the commons as he is not a shouty shouty leader but a more reasonable politician. I firmly believe David Milliband will beat Cameron every time as he is more intelligent. David Cameron is well brought up but I think David Milliband will always have the edge on him having experienced life a lot more. I think David Milliband will connect better with voters and ordinary people. Although I will be voting David Milliband as my second preference as I don’t think he'll hit the Tories as hard, I think he will still just with a different more sneaky strategy. I am sure that David will get Ed balls heavily involved in tackling the condemns and he would be right to in my opinion as Ed has done some excellent things in taking on the Tories and the lib dems especially Michael Gove on the slashing of the building new schools projects .
I think the biggest task for any future labour leader, if it is to be David then it will be to unite the party and get it all focused on the donems as a whole. We all know the Lib dems have taken a huge plummet in the polls and the Tories still advance onwards. But to bring them both down we need to focus on attacking them both rather then just the Lib dems in my personal opinion. Never before in Labours history in opposition have we had to attack two parties instead of one but this time if we can overcome these two parties we will have done well.
I still feel 2015 is achievable with a strong opposition who stick to their clear message. Air on the side of the worried British public, - who are becoming increasingly alarmed with the rate and the extent of these cuts to public services.
Quite frankly the private sector will not be able to cope with the loss of jobs in the public sector and the condems have not realised this but the private sector is not strong enough to cope with this major loss of jobs in the public sector.
Next year mark my words will be an awful year, lots more people out of work, rising VAT and other rising taxes. As I’ve said before people get the government they deserve. If people are stupid enough to believe what the media was saying we needed change well this is what we have. A change in destroying public services and the good things the labour government did for you all. Now to have it all taken away.
Anyway that is all for another blog post
All I wanted to ask people and I hope I get a good response on this topic is what kind of leader would David Milliband be and how would he put labour back on the map. I would love to know how he would make labour re-electable as I feel with the Condems treading fine ground with a solid opposition and a good campaign we can win back power at the first time of asking. Although this will pan out long and hard I still think there is a lot of fight left in Labour to make this happen.
I am a bit concerned we need more time to regroup but if David Milliband and his army of volunteers and local leaders can work then there is no reason why we cant win back power in Westminster and get back into government.
I am visiting Harlow in Essex on Monday night attending a David Milliband event. I hope I can ask a question or hear his views for the future of the labour party and also a future labour government hopefully as that is what we must aim for I believe now. I believe it is achievable and certainly with the negative press the condems will pick up between now and 2015 there is no reason at all that we cannot shake off our Brown and Blair image and become a party for change and a party for the people again.
I'd love labour people Members or supporters to comment on this blog post. We all know about his leadership campaign but what sort of leader would he be?
Being foreign sectary for the last labour government David did well and has excellent foreign contacts including Pakistan of late. The Pakistani prime minister has publicly been known to be in good contact with David and the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
I think although inevitable being involved with the last labour government will be thrown at David I think he is a new fresh leader that we so badly need. David has recruited thousands of local volunteers to help become new leaders in their own r light. Having raised the most amount of money David is the strongest by far.
I don’t think it can be over estimated having the majority support of the whole party. It is key to having a party to move forward and getting the party back on side. David will do this and hopefully rebuild the party as He Sea’s fit.
I only have gone for Ed Balls as he can take on the Tories well and hit them where it hurts. I think David Milliband will be a different opposition to the rest and David Cameron will find it hard to take on David Milliband in the commons as he is not a shouty shouty leader but a more reasonable politician. I firmly believe David Milliband will beat Cameron every time as he is more intelligent. David Cameron is well brought up but I think David Milliband will always have the edge on him having experienced life a lot more. I think David Milliband will connect better with voters and ordinary people. Although I will be voting David Milliband as my second preference as I don’t think he'll hit the Tories as hard, I think he will still just with a different more sneaky strategy. I am sure that David will get Ed balls heavily involved in tackling the condemns and he would be right to in my opinion as Ed has done some excellent things in taking on the Tories and the lib dems especially Michael Gove on the slashing of the building new schools projects .
I think the biggest task for any future labour leader, if it is to be David then it will be to unite the party and get it all focused on the donems as a whole. We all know the Lib dems have taken a huge plummet in the polls and the Tories still advance onwards. But to bring them both down we need to focus on attacking them both rather then just the Lib dems in my personal opinion. Never before in Labours history in opposition have we had to attack two parties instead of one but this time if we can overcome these two parties we will have done well.
I still feel 2015 is achievable with a strong opposition who stick to their clear message. Air on the side of the worried British public, - who are becoming increasingly alarmed with the rate and the extent of these cuts to public services.
Quite frankly the private sector will not be able to cope with the loss of jobs in the public sector and the condems have not realised this but the private sector is not strong enough to cope with this major loss of jobs in the public sector.
Next year mark my words will be an awful year, lots more people out of work, rising VAT and other rising taxes. As I’ve said before people get the government they deserve. If people are stupid enough to believe what the media was saying we needed change well this is what we have. A change in destroying public services and the good things the labour government did for you all. Now to have it all taken away.
Anyway that is all for another blog post
All I wanted to ask people and I hope I get a good response on this topic is what kind of leader would David Milliband be and how would he put labour back on the map. I would love to know how he would make labour re-electable as I feel with the Condems treading fine ground with a solid opposition and a good campaign we can win back power at the first time of asking. Although this will pan out long and hard I still think there is a lot of fight left in Labour to make this happen.
I am a bit concerned we need more time to regroup but if David Milliband and his army of volunteers and local leaders can work then there is no reason why we cant win back power in Westminster and get back into government.
I am visiting Harlow in Essex on Monday night attending a David Milliband event. I hope I can ask a question or hear his views for the future of the labour party and also a future labour government hopefully as that is what we must aim for I believe now. I believe it is achievable and certainly with the negative press the condems will pick up between now and 2015 there is no reason at all that we cannot shake off our Brown and Blair image and become a party for change and a party for the people again.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
David Cameron and his war on benifits
As we read today the prime minister David Cameron has waged war on benifit frauds Let me make this point clear i have no problem with taking people off benifits who clearly should not be getting any benifits and are clearly cheating the system. that is not my issue.
As you may or may not know i'm registered blind and hope i will not be affected by these benifit cuts and tests and the like. I dont mind being medically assessed as long as its fair and does what it needs to do and doesnt chop anyone off who still needs help.
While its all well and good going on the offence trying to get people off benifits who should not be claiming any who clearly do not deserve this i feel that there is a bigger problem.
Hearingthe figures that even if the government manage to take people off benifits who should not be on them they will only recieve back 1 billion pounds. when you put that in context comparison to the bigger economic problem this doesnt really gain us enough money back. I feel the bigger problem and could yield us more money back is going after wealthy tax dodgers.
These are often multi millionaires who have silly amounts of money. tackling these wealthy criminals and bring more money back into the economey will be a far better way of helping our financial deficit.
As we all know this will be badly over looked by the con dems who are fronted by the lib dems but have the tories pushing them out in front of the media to defend their hard lined cuts.
Wealthy tax dodgers will never be properly clamped down on just like MP's will never seriously be dealt with over their expenses and everything as they are too much in league with the tories and other polititians. If the tories went after their wealthy benifactors and peers they would be upsetting their own so no wonder Cameron will carry on waging war on the public sector and the less well off. As these are his natural enemy and always have been.
As you may or may not know i'm registered blind and hope i will not be affected by these benifit cuts and tests and the like. I dont mind being medically assessed as long as its fair and does what it needs to do and doesnt chop anyone off who still needs help.
While its all well and good going on the offence trying to get people off benifits who should not be claiming any who clearly do not deserve this i feel that there is a bigger problem.
Hearingthe figures that even if the government manage to take people off benifits who should not be on them they will only recieve back 1 billion pounds. when you put that in context comparison to the bigger economic problem this doesnt really gain us enough money back. I feel the bigger problem and could yield us more money back is going after wealthy tax dodgers.
These are often multi millionaires who have silly amounts of money. tackling these wealthy criminals and bring more money back into the economey will be a far better way of helping our financial deficit.
As we all know this will be badly over looked by the con dems who are fronted by the lib dems but have the tories pushing them out in front of the media to defend their hard lined cuts.
Wealthy tax dodgers will never be properly clamped down on just like MP's will never seriously be dealt with over their expenses and everything as they are too much in league with the tories and other polititians. If the tories went after their wealthy benifactors and peers they would be upsetting their own so no wonder Cameron will carry on waging war on the public sector and the less well off. As these are his natural enemy and always have been.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Ian huntley
Huntley, 36, killed 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.
Would just like a good rant really. This guy who was convicted of killing two young girls a number of years ago has today lodged a compensation appeal against being attaked while in prison. I am goin to have to take a little bitof a right wing view on this really. In my opinion Ian huntley commited his offence and is serving time in jail. To me the prisons in this country are far too soft on offenders. People who commit serious crimes including murders and rapes and all sorts of things like that should not have their human rights once they have been found to have been guilty. I'm sorry but the best way we can reform our prisons is make them tougher. there is no deterent at the moment and i'm afraid that is one of the big reasons for our prisons being too full. If there was a real deterant and there was a real disadvantage to going in jail i am sure 80% + will not keep reoffending. The fact is our prison service in this country is far too soft. People get a easy ride in there and when i hear of news stories like this where the offender is complaining at how they are being treated i cant help but think this is all wrong. i just hope i never see the day where prisoners and offenders criminals etc have more rights than the actual victim, that will be the day this country goes to teh dogs. We need to stop listening to these wet liberal figures and do gooders and sort these criminals out, maybe then we wont have such high numbers in prisons if there was a real fear of going in there. If Ian huntley was attaked in prison firstly how did we even hear of this, surely all this should not become public knowledge, it creates a possible sympathy for him and he does not deserve that at all after waht he done. in my links section of this post i will post the news story this blog post is replying to. feel free to take a read, If you dont know the case or have forgotton take a read of what happened.
Would just like a good rant really. This guy who was convicted of killing two young girls a number of years ago has today lodged a compensation appeal against being attaked while in prison. I am goin to have to take a little bitof a right wing view on this really. In my opinion Ian huntley commited his offence and is serving time in jail. To me the prisons in this country are far too soft on offenders. People who commit serious crimes including murders and rapes and all sorts of things like that should not have their human rights once they have been found to have been guilty. I'm sorry but the best way we can reform our prisons is make them tougher. there is no deterent at the moment and i'm afraid that is one of the big reasons for our prisons being too full. If there was a real deterant and there was a real disadvantage to going in jail i am sure 80% + will not keep reoffending. The fact is our prison service in this country is far too soft. People get a easy ride in there and when i hear of news stories like this where the offender is complaining at how they are being treated i cant help but think this is all wrong. i just hope i never see the day where prisoners and offenders criminals etc have more rights than the actual victim, that will be the day this country goes to teh dogs. We need to stop listening to these wet liberal figures and do gooders and sort these criminals out, maybe then we wont have such high numbers in prisons if there was a real fear of going in there. If Ian huntley was attaked in prison firstly how did we even hear of this, surely all this should not become public knowledge, it creates a possible sympathy for him and he does not deserve that at all after waht he done. in my links section of this post i will post the news story this blog post is replying to. feel free to take a read, If you dont know the case or have forgotton take a read of what happened.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
the liberal democrats in the coalition
Hello and welcome to another blog post. This post may sound like a bit of a attak on the liberals and i'm sorry if you ar a supporter of such, i'd love to take you up on a debate about your principles and the future of your party.
From waht seems to me a lot of liberal voters and supporters are blinded by power and the chance to get their beloved party into government.
The main question i want to ask you from this post is, is it all worth it ?
I really do believe despite waht the liberals say they have well and truely sold themselves out to the conservatives.
I recieved a responce to my email to Simon Hughes MP earlier and he was saying why he thinks this budget is liberal and fair. well i'm sorry simon i think you are sorely mistaken, is a rise in VAT a good thing for all, is it fair to all ? no it isnt it is a regressive tax which hits the poorer in our society the hardest.They can blame labour all they want but at the end of the day these are just excuses shooting over your shoulder at the last government to make the public feel its right what you are doing. In reality the polls suggest the liberals have taken a right battering. In some polls it shows them with just 13 points and labour just 2 points behind the tories.
As labour are the only party truely national with seats and major representation in all parts of the United Kingdom i think they are right to stand by their principles and be the true party for fairness.
Yes we made a few mistakes here and there but the recession was caused by the banks and them lending too much which people couldnt pay back. There was a credit crunch and they had no idea how to get out of it so ended up coming to the government to ask for help.
Like any good government they tried to help as much as they can to avoid a complete collapse of the banking sector. So in affect the bankers are the luckiest proportion of people i stil think. Even today they are still giving eachother ridiculous bonus's even though it is frowned on now.
Vince cables idea of the carrot and the stick approach of threatening the banks to start lending again is just complete foolishness in my view. The banks have no confidence and feel that they are treading on egg shells all the time with customers. Untill they can see the econemy starting to grow again and people starting to spend its no use Vice having a pop at them over not spending when they are being heavily scrutinised.
In my view it was the banks that got us into this situation in the first place so should be the ones who should foot the majority of the bill for getting us out of this mess. It was not labours fault or Gordon browns fault at all as leading tories would have yuo believe. they only tried to remedy the problem. This is a global crisis started in America and swept around the globe, You simply cant pin all of this mess on labour and Gordon brown i'm sorry i rather think Gordon did a excellent job despite what people say, we could have been in a far worse position if he hadnt done waht he had done. Even today he still regrets not spotting the signs sooner but who in say 2005 could have seen this coming ? i know i certainly couldnt.
So please dont believe the tories old mantra that we are just as bad as greece and all this scare mongering tactics, which in my view is a very dirty ugly form of politics, to scare your electorat into voting you in to get these barbaric cuts through. If the lib dems have any form of principles left inside their weak wet souls i suggest they try harder and work closer with labour on certain things, i know this may upset the coalition apple cart slightly but would they rather stand up for true fairness and progressive futures in this country or hang on to their limo's and fancy job titles in the government where in my view they shouldnt even be with just 52 seats it still doesnt seem right to me.
From waht seems to me a lot of liberal voters and supporters are blinded by power and the chance to get their beloved party into government.
The main question i want to ask you from this post is, is it all worth it ?
I really do believe despite waht the liberals say they have well and truely sold themselves out to the conservatives.
I recieved a responce to my email to Simon Hughes MP earlier and he was saying why he thinks this budget is liberal and fair. well i'm sorry simon i think you are sorely mistaken, is a rise in VAT a good thing for all, is it fair to all ? no it isnt it is a regressive tax which hits the poorer in our society the hardest.They can blame labour all they want but at the end of the day these are just excuses shooting over your shoulder at the last government to make the public feel its right what you are doing. In reality the polls suggest the liberals have taken a right battering. In some polls it shows them with just 13 points and labour just 2 points behind the tories.
As labour are the only party truely national with seats and major representation in all parts of the United Kingdom i think they are right to stand by their principles and be the true party for fairness.
Yes we made a few mistakes here and there but the recession was caused by the banks and them lending too much which people couldnt pay back. There was a credit crunch and they had no idea how to get out of it so ended up coming to the government to ask for help.
Like any good government they tried to help as much as they can to avoid a complete collapse of the banking sector. So in affect the bankers are the luckiest proportion of people i stil think. Even today they are still giving eachother ridiculous bonus's even though it is frowned on now.
Vince cables idea of the carrot and the stick approach of threatening the banks to start lending again is just complete foolishness in my view. The banks have no confidence and feel that they are treading on egg shells all the time with customers. Untill they can see the econemy starting to grow again and people starting to spend its no use Vice having a pop at them over not spending when they are being heavily scrutinised.
In my view it was the banks that got us into this situation in the first place so should be the ones who should foot the majority of the bill for getting us out of this mess. It was not labours fault or Gordon browns fault at all as leading tories would have yuo believe. they only tried to remedy the problem. This is a global crisis started in America and swept around the globe, You simply cant pin all of this mess on labour and Gordon brown i'm sorry i rather think Gordon did a excellent job despite what people say, we could have been in a far worse position if he hadnt done waht he had done. Even today he still regrets not spotting the signs sooner but who in say 2005 could have seen this coming ? i know i certainly couldnt.
So please dont believe the tories old mantra that we are just as bad as greece and all this scare mongering tactics, which in my view is a very dirty ugly form of politics, to scare your electorat into voting you in to get these barbaric cuts through. If the lib dems have any form of principles left inside their weak wet souls i suggest they try harder and work closer with labour on certain things, i know this may upset the coalition apple cart slightly but would they rather stand up for true fairness and progressive futures in this country or hang on to their limo's and fancy job titles in the government where in my view they shouldnt even be with just 52 seats it still doesnt seem right to me.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Spin and Burn
Reading the political blogs and comments from today. I am still amazed at how the tories are getting away with the ruthless public sector cuts. Very deep and harsh. A few months ago this was just a fear, a fear has now grown into reality and this time next year our econemy will be half way to ruin i'm sure of it. With rising VAT and lowering of housing benifits amoungst some of the harsh cuts this country will see for decades.
The title of this entry, sping and burn is to highlight my phrase i read in a earlier blog. I dont remember its name but the way the tories are using the Liberal Democrats almost like human shields to get their hard hitting cuts through is just frankly sickening to see.
If i were a lib dem supporter i would feel very worried at the way my party is being manipulated by Nick Clegg and his high up right wing friends in the party. I really think for this coalition to last the full 5 years the liberals will want more out of the deal. At the moment they are being used by the tories and seem from what i can tell happy to go along with this.
What the lib dems should be worried about though is the current polls, they suggest they currently stand on 13 percent of the poll with labour jumping up to 36 percent. The tories meanhile continue to extend their lead somehow. I still dont think the true effect of these cuts and tax rises have been felt yet. Give it till next year and we will have alot moer unemployment, more people claiming unemployment benifit and the tories will be wondering where the money will be coming back into the econemy after they have taken so much out. The fact of the matter is that whilst cuts and cuts have been going on they have not stopped to think how they will bring the money and the jobs back into the econemy.
These are worrying times indeed for me. As a benifit claimer myself, on DLA i am worried that this will be cut to innocent people who had no dealings in the banking crisis. I ask people again, why should innocent good tax paying members of the public and public sector have to foot the brunt of the bankers crisis of which they had nothing to do with. This just doesnt seem fair.
The title of this entry, sping and burn is to highlight my phrase i read in a earlier blog. I dont remember its name but the way the tories are using the Liberal Democrats almost like human shields to get their hard hitting cuts through is just frankly sickening to see.
If i were a lib dem supporter i would feel very worried at the way my party is being manipulated by Nick Clegg and his high up right wing friends in the party. I really think for this coalition to last the full 5 years the liberals will want more out of the deal. At the moment they are being used by the tories and seem from what i can tell happy to go along with this.
What the lib dems should be worried about though is the current polls, they suggest they currently stand on 13 percent of the poll with labour jumping up to 36 percent. The tories meanhile continue to extend their lead somehow. I still dont think the true effect of these cuts and tax rises have been felt yet. Give it till next year and we will have alot moer unemployment, more people claiming unemployment benifit and the tories will be wondering where the money will be coming back into the econemy after they have taken so much out. The fact of the matter is that whilst cuts and cuts have been going on they have not stopped to think how they will bring the money and the jobs back into the econemy.
These are worrying times indeed for me. As a benifit claimer myself, on DLA i am worried that this will be cut to innocent people who had no dealings in the banking crisis. I ask people again, why should innocent good tax paying members of the public and public sector have to foot the brunt of the bankers crisis of which they had nothing to do with. This just doesnt seem fair.
Saturday, 24 July 2010
my trip to the houses of parliament
Hello and welcome to another edition of my blog, i hope by now people are enjoying this somewhat, it would suggest by my 1 follower this is not the case i hope i'm not boring you all. if i am please tell me and i'll blog about something else. This is my blog to take wherever i like really, i have focused in on my recent political life but it can litterally go anywhere.
This entry is not a political one as such, but does involved a political visit of sorts to the houses of parliament in London today. Westminster.
Today the 23rd of July was my first visit and hopefully not my last to the grandest building i feel that this country has to offer.
The houses of parliament for the United Kingdom in london Westminster. I have been looking forward to this t trip for a very long time. Finally it came today.
I went up with my friend Will and met my other friend Stephen Anderson up there already.
Will and myself had travalled up earlier in the day and had visited the old cabinet war rooms just behind downing street where Winston Churchill made all his key world war 2 decisions.
This in itself was very very interesting and i enjoyed this just as much i would say. gave me a real feel as to how the war would ahve felt for high up ranking officials at that time. scarey just like the rest of us would have felt i'm sure of it.
SO today i got to look down downing street and ask the police and securitya few questions there, sadly we werent allowed down there, maybe they knew i have it in for the coalition so i wouldnt be welcome down there i do not know lol.
But as for the tour of the houses of parliament we had a scotish tour guide guiding a tour party of about 20 people.
I had previously booked this trip with my local MP , Mr Mark Prisk MP for Hertford and Stortford. Mark's secterary was very helpful in this visit and arranging this that i will have to email her to say thank you i am sure.
As for the tour i enjoyed it. we got to visit the Lords and the commons and various other rooms of amazing importance. Just the grand scale of the building, despite my sight loss i really go ta great feeling for the place. The houses of parliament are steeped in history and everywhere you turned you got a real sense of waht it must have been like to work ther and carry out your daily duties in and out of offices there.
Sadly we never got to meet any MP's no labour ones either sadly but we asked some great questions on the toura nd i leartn a awful lot i must admit. My favourite part of the tour would be standing at the dispatch box in the commons and standing what would be facing the speaker and standing on both the opposition seats and the government seats, somewhere i hope my very own Labour party can return to one day.
All in all i really enjoyed this tripa nd is oen i will not forget in a long time. London as ever was busy and bustling, i always love going up there, even the undergound for me now is fascinating and not a fear at all anymore. I used to shit myself at the thought of the tube but now i relish it and find it all one big adventure.
I am glad i went and i hope i get to return one day to the commons.
Thank you for reading and i hope to blog more about this trip later over the weekend in further detail if i can. If i dont and am too busy i do apoligise in advance. I try to blog as much as i can but time this week has been at a premium
next week should be a little less busy
thanks for reading if yuo do.
Please dont forget to link this blog to other blogs you feel would link well to this if you do read this. if not why not ? i will be blogging about all sorts over the next couple of months so please stay tuned.
anyway bye for now
take care
mark
This entry is not a political one as such, but does involved a political visit of sorts to the houses of parliament in London today. Westminster.
Today the 23rd of July was my first visit and hopefully not my last to the grandest building i feel that this country has to offer.
The houses of parliament for the United Kingdom in london Westminster. I have been looking forward to this t trip for a very long time. Finally it came today.
I went up with my friend Will and met my other friend Stephen Anderson up there already.
Will and myself had travalled up earlier in the day and had visited the old cabinet war rooms just behind downing street where Winston Churchill made all his key world war 2 decisions.
This in itself was very very interesting and i enjoyed this just as much i would say. gave me a real feel as to how the war would ahve felt for high up ranking officials at that time. scarey just like the rest of us would have felt i'm sure of it.
SO today i got to look down downing street and ask the police and securitya few questions there, sadly we werent allowed down there, maybe they knew i have it in for the coalition so i wouldnt be welcome down there i do not know lol.
But as for the tour of the houses of parliament we had a scotish tour guide guiding a tour party of about 20 people.
I had previously booked this trip with my local MP , Mr Mark Prisk MP for Hertford and Stortford. Mark's secterary was very helpful in this visit and arranging this that i will have to email her to say thank you i am sure.
As for the tour i enjoyed it. we got to visit the Lords and the commons and various other rooms of amazing importance. Just the grand scale of the building, despite my sight loss i really go ta great feeling for the place. The houses of parliament are steeped in history and everywhere you turned you got a real sense of waht it must have been like to work ther and carry out your daily duties in and out of offices there.
Sadly we never got to meet any MP's no labour ones either sadly but we asked some great questions on the toura nd i leartn a awful lot i must admit. My favourite part of the tour would be standing at the dispatch box in the commons and standing what would be facing the speaker and standing on both the opposition seats and the government seats, somewhere i hope my very own Labour party can return to one day.
All in all i really enjoyed this tripa nd is oen i will not forget in a long time. London as ever was busy and bustling, i always love going up there, even the undergound for me now is fascinating and not a fear at all anymore. I used to shit myself at the thought of the tube but now i relish it and find it all one big adventure.
I am glad i went and i hope i get to return one day to the commons.
Thank you for reading and i hope to blog more about this trip later over the weekend in further detail if i can. If i dont and am too busy i do apoligise in advance. I try to blog as much as i can but time this week has been at a premium
next week should be a little less busy
thanks for reading if yuo do.
Please dont forget to link this blog to other blogs you feel would link well to this if you do read this. if not why not ? i will be blogging about all sorts over the next couple of months so please stay tuned.
anyway bye for now
take care
mark
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