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News reaches me from inside a recent Orpington Conservative PPC selection meeting. Top Tory Turnip Cllr Julian Grainger was scuttling around the room putting notes on chairs that the vegetables should uproot and storm the citadels of CCHQ. Unfortunately for Cllr Grainger, the CCHQ man at the front of the room thought differently and declared "We've gone round in circles long enough, thats enough

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The Evening Standard on it's front page tonight has a story "Boris Deputy peddles story of his credit fraud shame". Apparently Ian Clement is trying to sell the story of his downfall to the highest bidder. I shall reserve comment, but have put a poll on the sidebar so you, dear readers, can decide. Has he paid the price, or should he not profit? You decide!

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Conservativehome report that Peter Hobbins has been suspended from the Conservative Party. Interestingly his Facebook profile is, for now, visible to the any Facebook member. Now he belongs to some very interesting groups, especially for a school teacher. There are two groups for Peter's ex-girlfriends. With only one member - him. But more interestingly there is an interestingly titled group -

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Racism is alive and kicking in Orpington Conservatives, as revealed in a couple of emails sent on the Bromley Council email system to their local councillors and constituency chairman in the early hours of this morning, and leaked to me today. The emails, from Orpington councillor Peter Hobbins, who had eyes on being the Tory Mayoral London Mayoral candidate and who used to be bag carrier to

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In May 2006 residents of Bickley ward in Bromley elected three Conservative councillors to represent them: Colin Bloom, Gordon Jenkins and Catherine Rideout. In August Colin Bloom announced on his blog that he was giving up being a councillor at the May 2010 elections to concentrate on getting elected as the MP for Erith and Thamesmead. So then there was 2 (although Cllr Bloom still gets paid his

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It isn't appearing on Lib Dem Blogs yet, but Qurban Hussain, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Luton South, has a new blog Qurban Hussain - Standing up for LutonAnd it is in the new Lib Dem web colours!

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The BNP leader said tonight to a black audience member on Question Time "I am very happy for you to stay here".Now the BNP have recently changed their website, or else I would post the words (not a link) -but their rules that say they will kick out all non British people. Whatever crap Griffin spouts.So I call on all BNP members to call for his expulsion from their party for breaking their

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Well, as I knew all along. After Chris Rennard's wife retired, and given Chris's health, they had quite a marked change in lifestyle and headed off for a new flat on the Eastbourne coast.Stockwell became the "London home" for Chris's work. Stories circulated, but totally founded on their years their from when they moved in to 2007, not post 2007.Well, the House of Lords have cleared Chris and the

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This blog was hidden. It is now open but frozen for the present. Nothing new will be posted in the forseeable future. Nothing to see. Move along now.

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Tomorrow the Quins Bloodgate hearing takes place. Just a few weeks before the start of the new season.With Dean Richards gone, the club that end of last season was riding a massive high is now on the brink of total devastation.Yesterday's Daily Telegraph carried the story "revealing" that Tom Williams was cut with a scalpel, though those of us who are members of Rucku have been aware of this for

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Below is the full text of an open letter from Mark Evans on the Quins website.Overall I am pleased with his openess. The one bit I do question (still) is:As a club, we felt it was important to wait until we received the written judgement, but before that we had begun conducting our own internal review with the evidence that was available to us.I really think the club should have acted much sooner

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So, following on from the Leinster Bloodgate affair, Dean Richards has quit.What an almighty Harlequins balls up. A club that has always prided itself on sportsmanship has dug itself a large hole, junped in, and filled in the top with soil from the Stoop.So what should have happened? Well Quins should have come clean, quickly. The ERC would then have been angry, but not totally livid. The club

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Esther did come down from the source of the River Lea and proclaim to the media 'the ego has spoken and told me that my children of Luton must have me and despite me saying I would only stand against the evil Moran, the ego has told me I am the only saviour, even though I have no policies. And the media did fall at her feet and pray, as she is their god. And she left them parting the waters of

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News reaches me from a good source of some turmoil in the ranks of Bromley Labour. Firstly Councillor Karen Roberts gets deselected in Penge and Cator. Then infamous Cray Valley West Councillor Colin Willetts, who has been under investigation by the Standards Board for 8 months, fails to fill in his application or cough up his Labour membership subs and has been replaced by ... Councillor Karen

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So the ERC have banned Tom Williams from playing for 12 months and fined Harlequins 250,000 euro for the blood subbing at the Leinster match in the Heineken Cup.I have seen various accusations that he "may have used a blood capsule", I would like to see the proof.Meanwhile Schalk Burger gets a Yellow card and an 8 week ban for this eye gouging incident against the Lions and Bakkies Botha got two

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I have a good readership in SW London. So...I have had two notices.Firstly... a job... EXP Support are looking for an intern. They do sponsorship for Harlequins based in Twickenham. Details here.Second free hot drink at Montezuma's chocolate in Kingston. Go to their Facebook group...

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I have said my piece about what the party owes Chris Rennard here:The Fox puts away his Cow GumLast night I was at the Lib Dem Federal Executive, when the new interim Chief Executive Chris Fox started in the job. It is slightly ironic that I had done teh word play on Chris Rennard's name, for him to be replaced with Chris Fox.Some people have reservations about Chris Fox, and his past as Chair of

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Andrew Gilligan in the Evening Standard reports (excerpts below, full story here):Police have questioned Boris Johnson's chief of staff, Sir Simon Milton, and his chief spin-doctor, Guto Harri, as part of their investigation into the Mayor's former deputy, Ian Clement...He has been accused of taking Ms Dowson on a hotel stay in Europe at public expense and of misusing a corporate credit card

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Not a lot to say about Children of Earth. Except I was glued to it for 5 hours. OK some of it stretched credibility too far, like the yellow digger thing carrying the large block of concrete containing Captain Jack at speed. But 5 hours of top, edge of seat, prime time scifi. You betcha (to quote Sarah Palin)

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I had always thought that among my occassional music posts, Eddie and the Hot Rods "Do Anything You Wanna Do" had to be one of them. But Jonathan Calder beat me to it.As I said in the comments on Jonathan's Liberal England:I saw them at the Marquee in their week long residency the week before Reading '77 and then at Reading. When the Island Story came out about 15 years ago I bought the vinyl

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After a bit of an enforced break from blogging. My first catch up is on the British and Irish Lions test matches against South Africa.I hate claiming moral victories, when the score line says something different. But in this case it is vindicated. The referee in the first match may aswell have worn a Springboks shirt.The scrum decisions were appalling (though we should have blood subbed Vickery

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Gossip that Ian Clement was using his corporate credit cards to hide an affair has been rife, but up to now to avoid a legal action I haven't commented on it in public.People have been asking why expenses were going onto a corporate card, rather than onto one where the bill would turn up at his home. People have been asking about some unusual expenditure that just didn't seem to quite fit with

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Here is my comment on the resignation of Ian Clement on my PPC website:In welcoming the resignation of Ian Clement as Deputy Mayor to Boris Johnson, Duncan Borrowman the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Old Bexley and Sidcup says: "I welcome his resignation. Those who said he had returned the money were missing the point. Just because a shoplifter gives the goods back doesn't mean you

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