Archive for the 'crime' Category
What message should we send, Mr Oakley?
Yazan: sarabedford | 06 August 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, Ian Oakley, LibDems
Yesterday Ian Oakley was warned by the Chair of Magistrates of the seriousness of the offences that he had committed. Mr Barry Northrop said that the offences were so serious that ‘custody is an option’. These remarks drew gasps from several people in the public gallery. I can only assume that these people were not [...]
Nothing to do with us, mate
Yazan: sarabedford | 05 August 2008 | 10 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, Ian Oakley, Watford
From the comments on various web sites, it appears that the Conservatives have decided to pretend that Ian Oakley was never anything to do with them. They take offence at his description as a Conservative candidate – a post that he clearly held when he committed the offences and are seeking to remove every trace [...]
And there's more …
Yazan: sarabedford | 05 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, Ian Oakley
Trying to save your fingers, bandwidth and the forests of Scandinavia, here are the latest comments on the Ian Oakley case: the Watford Observer have covered it here and here. Liberal Democrat Voice has an article with comments from a wider LibDem membership and some Tories. Cllr Iain Sharpe has his thoughts. Sal Brinton has written a [...]
Removing the cancer from Watford's politics
Yazan: sarabedford | 05 August 2008 | 9 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, Ian Oakley, LibDems, Watford
Over the past three years, members of the Watford constituency LibDems (of which I am a member) have suffered from a sustained campaign of harassment, intimidation and hate. Today the Conservatives’ parliamentary candidate Ian Oakley, who stepped down only after he arrested and then charged two weeks ago, pleaded guilty to seven specimen offences and asked for a [...]
Soft on the causes of crime
Yazan: sarabedford | 25 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime
So David Cameron has had his bike stolen. According to The Independent, it was chanined to a metre high bollard outside his local supermarket. So all the thieves had to do was lift the bike up and remove it from the bollard and walk off with it. This time, it appeares that Dave had ventured out [...]
