Archive for the 'Watford' Category
Watford’s Labour Party really don’t understand how elections work
Yazan: Sara | 06 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, Watford
The Watford Labour Party has published a members’ newsletter and placed a copy online. In the report of May’s local elections it reads: ‘In the Mayoral election, Nigel Bell came a close second’. Which is strange. Because in the vote for Watford’s elected mayor, won for the third time by Lib Dem Dorothy Thornhill, Labour’s [...]
Herfordshire families at risk from poor ante-natal screening
Yazan: Sara | 01 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Abbots Langley, health, Watford
The Telegraph carries a report into the postcode lottery of screening for Down’s syndrome, which is putting the pregnancies of many local women at needless risk. Other hospitals are using methods which falsely identify too many pregnant women as “high risk,” putting thousands under needless pressure to undergo invasive procedures which increase their risk of miscarriage. [...]
For the sake of the MP's children
Yazan: sarabedford | 28 April 2009 | 15 Comments
Categories: Claire Ward, expenses, MPs, Watford
I’m getting increasingly worried that my MP Claire Ward is losing track of her life. Under pressure for claiming the maximum in second home allowances since at least 2002, Ms Ward has come up with a number of justifications as to why she needs the allowance, despite being just a 16 minute train journey from [...]
McBride, Draper and the Ian Oakley link
Yazan: sarabedford | 14 April 2009 | 11 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Ian Oakley, Watford
I know exactly the day on which Gordon Brown should comment on the shameful antics of Damian McBride and Derek Draper – 8th Spetember 2009. That’s exactly 150 days from the date of McBride’s resignation from the Prime Minister’s office. Why 150 days? Well that’s how long it took for David Cameron to mumble a half-hearted apology of sorts [...]
How our MP takes more for her second home than most of her constituents earn in a year
Yazan: sarabedford | 31 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Claire Ward, expenses, Watford
In 2007-08, Watford’s Labour MP claimed the maximum £23,083 for her second home, despite living well under an hour’s journey from Westminster, a commute carried out by many local residents every day. This amount is paid free of tax and National Insurance, meaning that it is equal to a gross salary of £39,124. According to [...]
I don't really live in Watford because it's a long way from London, says town's MP
Yazan: sarabedford | 31 March 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: expenses, MPs, Watford
Even I was surprised at the speed at which Claire Ward went to the local paper in an attempt to justify her second home allowance.You can see that her constituents don’t agree with her from the long list of comments (I’m the one using my real name, BTW). The paper reports Ms Ward as saying: [...]
Lord Ashcroft and his ties to Watford
Yazan: sarabedford | 22 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Watford
The news that the Electoral Commission has launched an inquiry into Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is well overdue to many. The man does of course have a number of connections with Watford. Firstly he is a major shareholder of Watford FC, with 37% of the shares. But his company Bearwood, also donated £5,000to Watford Conservatives [...]
Surprise, surprise as MP goes in for self-flagellation
Yazan: sarabedford | 29 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Claire Ward, environment, Watford
Yesterday’s vote on the third runway was supported not only by LibDem and Conservative MPs, but also 28 Labour MPs, according to Greenpeace, the biggest rebellion on an opposition motion since Labour came to power. Sadly, the Labour MP for Watford, Claire Ward, was not amongst the brave 28. Not that I expected her to [...]
Conservatives admit that they didn't do enough to stop Ian Oakley
Yazan: sarabedford | 08 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Ian Oakley, Watford
It appears that the shock waves that reverberated around Watford, after then Conservative parliamentary candidate Ian Oakley pleaded guilty to a vile hate campaign against his LibDem opponents, has hit Conservative Central Office. Newsnight’s political editor Michael Crick has obtained a copy of the minutes of a top level meeting at CCHQ which demonstrates some real nervousness [...]
It's official: Cameron's one-dimensional Watford whitewash
Yazan: sarabedford | 12 August 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, David Cameron, Ian Oakley, Watford
Following Ian Oakley’sconviction for a vile campaign of criminal damage, harassment and vile abuse, LibDem spokesman Ed Davey called upon David Cameronto hold an inquiry into the procedures and activities of the Watford Conservative Party. Today we got Cameron’s answer. Asked what action he was taking to ensure such people could not be selected as [...]
