Well it’s been a busy week for me after a week doing nothing but lazing about.
A few meetings and lots of running around in the lead up to my Stepdaughters wedding on Friday. This was held at The Blazing Donkey near Sandwich and we were treated to an overnight stay at the hotel. Apart from the fact that Stepdaughter and new Son-in-Law were very happy and it all went well I will gloss over the value for money or the lack of it at a venue that is supposed to be one of the best.
Saturday saw me at a celebration of ten years of Richard Nicholson’s leadership of the Labour Group on TDC. Members of the Group past and present were in attendance to celebrate the past ten years. We reminded ourselves of some of our achievements, who for example remembers York Street in Ramsgate as it was? We were told that it was not possible to do anything about it but we did under Richards’s leadership, Christchurch University was another thing that was achieved under him, we started the process that led to Westwood Cross including a new road layout that was promptly abandoned by the Tories in 2003, then when the Sally line left it was Labour under Richard Nicholson who had the replacement ferry company in place the next day these and many other things have been forgotten in the furore over MP’s expenses that have resulted in the bad showing and awful results for Labour in the Elections.
Meanwhile over on Michael Child’s blog he accuses Labour Bloggers of not talking politics so I will say that sadly the real issues have been overshadowed by this scandal and the very real achievements of the Labour Government have been forgotten.

Consider the following real issues.

* David Cameron's Conservatives do nothing but talk Britain down and would cut support for families during these tough economic times.
Labour is investing now so we are best placed to take advantage of the upturn when it comes. Labour believe that we should grow our way out of recession not cut our way out of recession.

* David Cameron and George Osborne are alone in believing that we should not grow our way out of recession but cut our way out of recession. Their approach is isolated, incoherent and unfair - they would cut help for families.

* At a time of recession the Conservatives have said they would:

* Cut Labour's guarantee that all people under the age of 25 who are unemployed for a year will receive either a job or training.

* Cut this year's £60 cash boost for pensioners while threatening to do away with free TV licenses and free bus passes for the elderly.

* Cut support for families under real pressure who need to defer interest payments so they don't lose their homes.
* Scrap the right for every patient to see a cancer specialist within two weeks if they are suspected of having cancer.

* Cut £160m from crime-fighting budgets - the equivalent of losing three and half thousand police officers.

I wont even mention the Ramsgate Town Council election results other than to say that already the maneuvering and skullduggery to be appointed Mayor has started.