Not a fashion parade.... but

I was interested in Hunter and Shooter's blog about events at the Tottenham Remembrance Service on Sunday gone to share my views about the Wood Green service.

Once again, and I am really sorry to say, we did not have the service in St. Michael's Church, which is a real shame, but hey they want to be political correct I guess, but it leaves a sad feeling especially for members of the Royal British Legion. By the way, I was Christened at St. Michael's and have gone there for services on a number of occasions in recent years.

However, moving on and of course it was nice to see a couple of hundred people turn up, the cadets, different associations from the forces and voluntary and community groups and of course, we politicians were there. For the record, I have been attending the Wood Green service since around the age of 12 when my Nan first took me. Nuff moving away, what I was taken aback over, and I know that this is not a fashion parade, was the decision of our MP to wear as short a dress, or was it a skirt, possible, with high-heel shoes and what can only be described as a tea cosy on her head! A number of people, and not all Labour or politicians made comments about this.

It just seemed as if the MP was going to a private function afterwards and didn't want to change. I'm sorry if this seems a personal attack and it really isn't meant to be, but it did not look respectful and I hope that next year she'll think about what she is wearing and where she is wearing it.

Now the attacks begin

Interesting that not long after writing that so far the Lib Dems have not got nasty about the defection to Labour of Councillor Catherine Harris and now we have negative comments about her.

All to be expected, especially from a party that dumped two leaders because of drink and age.

However, I'm waiting to see what Lynne Featherstone has to say. Usually quick to blog, she is somewhat slow here, probably because she seems to busy being nasty about Nick Clegg.

Still, we wait for more....


HOWEVER...... Lynne has finally mentioned something on her blog, an almost in passing blog remark, but left the spiteful remarks to one of the Lib Dem councillors with his letter in the Journal. But that is the trouble with the Lib Dems, no policies, but nasty attacks. It's what they're good at.

No to ID Cards - at all

Actually not my comments, but that of Nick Clegg who aspires to be the next leader of the Liberal Democrats at Westminster.

It seems that whilst Nick Clegg does not want ID cards he is also calling on Lib Dem Councils "to ensure that no local public services require an identity card".

Erm, no identity cards, at all? Does that mean that council staff in Lib Dem councils are no longer wearing ID cards? I guess any Lib Dem councillor visiting a school, a children's centre, a home, are not going to wear ID cards, that council workers calling on the elderly to do repairs will not be wearing or producing ID cards? And of course, I presume at the Lib Dem gatherings that their members at the conferences will no longer be wanting to wear ID badges?

And this idea of a people's veto and referendums? How two-faced can you get?

Both Clegg and Chris Hulme have come out against a referendum on Europe. And, much as we may agree on areas of civil liberties, given some of the views of people after 9/11 and the London Transport bombings, the Lib Dems will find themselves having to enact policies that some of them would find hard to accept. And how about a referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty and leaving Europe, both of which the Lib Dem, because if there were referendums we'd have hanging back and be out of Europe.

This shows why the Lib Dems cannot be trusted to be in power and why they will not win power. You can't have it both ways, well unless you're a Lib Dem I suppose...