Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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13 September 2010
07:2970202Just had this below in from our old forumite friend and former Libdem Candidate Antony Hook. Might be of interest to politicos..
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Dear Paul,
Chris Huhne MP, the Environment and Energy Secretary in the new government, will be visting our area on Saturday 9 October.
I believe this will be the first visit by a Cabinet Minister to Dover & Deal since the General Election.
The Liberal Democrats are organising a Dinner open to all, at which Chris will be the Guest Speaker, at the Landmark Community Centre and you and any Dover Forum readers are very welcome to come.
It's a bargain £20 for roast beef (or vegetarian option) followed by dessert. Dinner will be at 7pm.
Numbers are strictly restricted so please apply for tickets quickly by emailing
linrob@screaming.net.
Best wishes,
Antony Hook,
Chair, Dover & Deal Liberal Democrats
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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13 September 2010
08:4070224I went to an event earlier this year where Chris Huhne was on the guest list but didn't turn up.
We found out why in the Sunday papers next day
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 September 2010
08:4670226you may not be so lucky next time ray, mind you that way things are going with the yellows they may invite blue barry to be guest speaker.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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13 September 2010
09:1970231Im not sure...where's the Landmark Community Centre??
Yes Chris Huhne has had something of a turbulent personal year but now finds himself in government so it should or could be interesting. Far better a colourful politician than a grey one I suppose. Although on reflection...is Chris Huhne colourful?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 September 2010
09:3070235paul
landmark centre is actually in the high street in deal near to where the market is held.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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13 September 2010
09:4170236Ah yes have just had the info through now from Antony as well.
"It's in the High Street, on the corner of Union Street, near the car park that becomes Deal Market on Saturdays."
So there we are..all clear now.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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13 September 2010
09:5870239Remember my blog recently, a picture of Charles Hawtry who I said would had might as well have been Chancellor instead of Brown simply because we could have laughed while being driven onto the rocks....
The Landmark Centre used to be Hawtry's watering hole and was where I met him a year or so before his death!!!
This get quite surreal.....
#Fraid I wont be going along - there are limits to 'coalition' I am sure Philip (blog commentator) will go though seeing he thinks a lot of Huhne....
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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13 September 2010
11:1570263Oh tut! tut! BarryW wots this? Are you disillusioned with your Coalition partners already? Is this a split I see across the dinner table.. is not Chris Huhne the bedrock of liberal reform and an anchor man in driving these swingeing cuts forward? thought he would be lapped up like a saucer of sweet milk by the local Tories.
Keith Sansum1
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13 September 2010
11:2370265PAULB
The splits are there for all to see, and it's going to be a long 18 months for this cobbled together government.
Simon Hughes I think will cause a lot of damage to this cobbled together government, watch him hes already firing shots.
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Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
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13 September 2010
15:2270284Under the definition of coalition surely the last administration was one. The union of seperate persons(Blairites Brownites and true Labourites) or parties with a common interest. In their case, the destruction of the economy,national unity,public safety,pensions and removing the need to work of many who had the ability to do so by creating the culture of state dependancy.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 September 2010
15:2870286very little similarity ken, the present coalition is between the most right wing and most left wing of the main parties.
the common interests were not shared until nick and his pals got the whiff of power.
the factions in the last administration were mostly middle of the road groups, the differences were based on traditional and modern party views.
13 September 2010
17:1170301Ken, you missed out Communists, Militants and Unionists mate. A right dogs breakfast if you ask me.
Asked to describe the Blair/Brown years from a Brits point of view to an American, I used just three words, "dumb and dumber". The message got home immediately.
Those who hanker for a return to the politics of madness and the economics of 3 year olds clearly have their heads either buried in the sand, or stuck just as firmly up their posteriors.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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13 September 2010
17:2070304SID;
18 months will soon be here, and you wont find many militants in the labour party any more!!!
KEN;
I fully understand your hurting being rejected, and want to seek revenge on the party that won't have you back.
But move on boyo.
Theres more to life
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 September 2010
17:3170311keith
you will not stop sid using terminology from the seventies and eighties, though he did omit "looney left".
sid
the unionists were always allied with the blues and still usually vote with them.
13 September 2010
17:4370320Howard, you know I mean unionists as in Trades Unionists so please, you don't always have be so pedantic. Militants, Trots, Commies etc are all a coalition of the loony left, as almost everyone knows.
As for militants no longer being in the Labour party, (nice that you agree they are still in there Keith) that idiot who is now Shadow Transport Minister is definitely a throwback to those extremist days, and still has the mentality and language to match.
Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
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14 September 2010
11:0870525Keith I have moved on, its called evolution. Evolution is a the process by where nature leaves behind those that cannot accept change. Hence we lost the dodo and dinosaurs except it would seem in all political parties and trade unions where some still exist. You can still see them this week on the rostrum at the TUC conference roaring loudly to justify their amazing pensionable salaries and perks using the language of the mesozoic age from which they came.
14 September 2010
11:1270527Ah yes Ken, but let us not forget the palatial and sumptuous lifestyles of the top union brass. They try very hard to keep their large slice of luxury cake well hidden from the ordinary union members. The working man's merchant bankers it seems.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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14 September 2010
11:2070531KEN/SID
I have no more time than yourselves for these trade union leaders getting high salaries as I do big business.
But doesn't get us away from the fact of the desperate need for trade unions in general.
Without doubt the working person always suffers when we have these attacks on trade unions, we dont see the same clawing back on big business who are seriously failing and costing you and me millions.
And I know SID you have often been critical of some of them and I accept that.
But KEN i accept change and always have, Im a great believer in clause 4
but it went in a democratic vote, and like MAREK said I did when in the party fight from within.
I decided I wanted my life back after 25 years giving it up for others, that is and was my choice.
So now I can dip in and out of discussions as and when I want
far better
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14 September 2010
11:2270533Respect Keith
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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14 September 2010
11:2570536SID
You know im and out and out lefty
but Im happy to listen to other views
post if i disagree or even agree.
Although i'm a lefty there are some issues that im prob more right wing that barryw on.
It's good to talk
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