Month of May

Originally posted @ 11:47 pm, Sun 31st May 2009

The month of May has been intense and very wet for canvassers. Loads to say, but so little time to write it out.

So let's start with the football. Oh yes.

And after all those years of superlatives about the Premier League, it transpires the Champions can win with a midfield (including the player of the year), who can't even start to compete with Barcelona. Something wrong there. All that energy generated by Radio 5 - wasted.

This year has been the most difficult for following my own team, Shrewsbury Town; jusy haven't had the time. They got to the play-offs and for the second-time in 3 years, the play-off semi-finals were some of the most intense and compelling games of football I've seen - albeit this year, I had to watch thme on TV (couldn't get tickets). The final was a great day out, but I suspect the manager played a key player - our winger - who wasn't fit - and we didn't play to our capability.

What next? Britain;'s Got Talent.

Don't watch that either, but I did catch the 10 year old Holly breaking down whilst singing "Eidelweiss" in one of the semi-finals. A significnat story, not cos she got a re-run, but because i thought the audience ought to have known the cultural history of the song, performed during a talent show called "Austria's Got Talent, despite the Nazis". When the singer broke down in that competition, the audience took over and sang the song. No such joy from the TV audience.

ANYWAY, LOADS MORE TO WRITE UP.

Well dressing

“Votes for Women” display. Transpires one of the group’s grandmother had been a suffragette.

Charles Darwin display.

Derby Silk Mill Rally

The May Day ish rally commemorates the struggle and sacrifice of hundreds of workers who in 1834 were locked out of their places of work for 8 months because they’d joined a trade union.

As Glenis Willmott MEP put it, hard to imagine their world, or to imagine how they’d react if they saw the progress we’ve made.

Always more to do, but is the event pertinent to today’s world? Maybe, maybe not, but we should remember. More is made of the Tolpuddle martyrs who were from the same era.

Anyway why not take the reason for a party? Well I say party; the vim had kinda gone after 2 ultras had taken up 40 minutes with pretty dull speeches.

Derby Fabians

A welcome opportunity to rehearse my aims and aspirations for what I hope to achieve in Parliament on Friday, May 1st.

Tory PPCs are out of step

So it seems Tory PPCs are more out of step with public opinion than might have been expected.

South Derbyshire Tories are getting even deeper into the mire over their cover story for selling off council houses to a housing association.

This party that want to “keep their tenants” now say they’d do so if the contribution for the construction of the council houses in the first place was waived.

This after the initial fear expressed was only that the figure was set to go up.

In all this, they charge that the scheme is a Labour scheme.

It’s not.

The payback scheme was introduced by the Tories in the 1980’s.

Not like the South Derbyshire Tories to disown anything from the Thatcherite era.

Trip to school

Fingers crossed for another set of record results by the year 11s of our school. Pertinent for me to remember how many hundreds of people would be leader their adult lives with better opportunities if the investment and reforms in education had been brought in 18 years earlier.

Newhall Sure Start

A quick trip around the Children’s centre and a chance to rehearse the debate over such provision.

The Tories don't support Children's Centres.