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Protests and pagents

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Another rambling post I’m afraid, very soon London will be over run for the sum by both the pageantry for the queens jubilee and then shortly after the Olympics. During this period I intend to avoid central London as much as possible, other people it seems plan to go into London not so much to enjoy the festivities (such as we’re told they’ll be) as to protest them. Yet again I wonder about the motives and intelligence of the people planning protests that I’ve read of so far, though at the same time I hope that they’ll be no arrests … Continue reading →

Why not Ken?

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Just for a change I shall start things off with a statement of bias, I don’t like Ken Livingstone much (from what I know of him), think he was a poor Mayor and really don’t want him back in any sort of power ever. I wouldn’t trust him as honorary mayor of a toy village consisting of 3 cereal boxes and some sticky back plastic, so this may all come across as a bit biased, so I’m really quite in the Not ken again camp. That said so far the only propaganda I’ve received for the mayoral election is from … Continue reading →

Spare a thought for Freddie

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“I suspect the quietude we are currently seeing on (the Fred Goodwin) front is down to neither side of the political debate being able to claim crowing rights in the matter…” Continue reading →