LibDems are not part of the central Government!? It presupposes, that the local community will be allowed to vote at every committee meeting. The Whigs are still stuck in the past. Listen to the rhetoric three months down the line it blames New Light Blue Labour. Be patient and wait for Julius Caesar because tjhere is very little the Dems amongstt the Cons will be able to do about the Future Shape of Britain.

Sadly,the Condems leader is flying out to the “Jewel in the Crown” that we lost, offering them a say in our immigration policy. That’s how contempteous you are of the electorate’s benevolence

I am so shocked and surprised that you did not get in for another term.

You have done a brilliant job working as our ward councillor.

As Chairman of the High Barnet Community Action Panel, working with the police and residents, you have been invaluable, you have always strived to get things done for the residents, and worked so efficiently and effectively. You were one we could definitely count on.

We will miss you and High Barnet will certainly be worse off without your help and support.

Good Luck for the future

Regards

Simone

You are one of the good guys – keep at it

Rog

http://www.barnetbugle.com/journal/2010/4/21/chipping-barnet-ukip-candidate-james-g-fluss-in-gurkha-contr.html

A bit of both I think. Many of the people who mention Europe are tories who are only likely to switch to UKIP. They wouldn’t vote Lib Dem anyway. The change us happening amongst the floating voter not the hardline supporters.

Duncan

I appreciate you will be somewhat biased, but do you really think that people are switching to the LibDems because they believe in your policies or simply as a protest against Labour and the Conservatives?

Opinion polls consistently show that the public is opposed to the Euro and greater European integration – yet these are two of the mainstays of LibDem policy.

Nick Clegg’s antipathy towards Israel, and in particular his comments about a nuclear Iran, are not likely to be well received in large parts of Barnet.

Clegg clearly understands how fed up the public are with the political classes and the whole rotten political system and has cleverly positioned himself as something new, even though he isn’t. But if his policies were subjected to forensic scrutiny, I suspect people would not be quite so enthusiastic. I have often argued that most people vote “against” rather than “for” and this is probably what is happening now.

Whether the Clegg bounce will translate into seats, time will tell. My gut feeling is that come the day of the election, the Conservatives will win a majority because of the fear that voting for the LibDems in protest will simply help Labour more than the Tories, and Cameron is a more palatable option that five more years of Brown.

The winter maintenance budget is used to repair damage done to roads by ice. snow etc. Cutting this means that repairs take longer or are only done as temporary repairs. We think that this approach is flawed.

Regards

Duncan

This incident was as avoidable as it is embarrassing for the council, but it is a situation which is repeated up and down the country on an all too regular basis. How many more times do people in the state sector need to be told to encrypt personal and sensitive data?

Perhaps a more pertinent issue, however, is why this data needed to be held in a council worker’s home.

The state holds far too much unnecessary information on its citizens and rather than concentrate too much on the security angle, I would rather we question whether so much data needs to be collected at all.