Author Archives: Cllr Tim Cheetham

‘Time for the ship to leave the sinking rats’

08Jun09 – 08:30

If the Expenses crap has taught us anything, it is that the public take a simple and correct view, Duty comes before Personal Gain. Clearly it has taught some people nothing.
The political world is full of personality and that is by no means always a bad thing. But when it spills over as it has [...]

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Are they our fault too ?

07Jun09 – 20:07

I've long harboured the belief that the third way was a dangerous ideological course. Like many very sensible ideas, it is, in practice, flawed.
The current state of politics seems to bear that out.
Some time ago, for reasons that were misguided, campaigning became a science.
We all became obsessed with 'turning out our vote', profiling the electors, [...]

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