Tag Archives: Martin Linton
The final Battersea list
The council have published the final list of candidates for the Battersea parliamentary seat. I know I shouldn’t say this but I’m a little disappointed, the field has narrowed, and we are now down to seven candidates, the major parties are there, obviously, with the Conservatives Jane Ellison challenging Labour’s Martin Linton for the seat. [...]
Balls to education
Yesterday, I commented that the ‘free schools’ idea had cross party support. I was wrong and shouldn’t have said that. The Conservatives, locally and nationally support the concept of free schools. Indeed, there have been a number of meetings between the local and national Conservative frontbenchers and the local campaign to set up a school [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 27 November
Campaigning I’m not sure why but it seems like campaigning seems to be taking up more and more time, although looking through the diary we’ve been keeping up a fairly stiff pace through the summer months. It is perhaps the onset of darker and considerably colder nights makes an evening on the doorstep seem a [...]
Majorities, polls and the election
For those that like symbolism today is just 164 days until the (or a) likely date of the general election. While Brown could wait until 3 June next year – and there have been rumours that 25 March might be the date – for a long time the main betting seems to have been on [...]
Lobby your MP for public spending accountability
Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees an opposition day debate on ‘local spending reports’. These were introduced by the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 and were intended to detail all the public spending in a borough. You might think that already exists. For example it’s easy to identify what the council is spending in Wandsworth, everything the council spends [...]
What Norwich North means in Wandsworth
First of all I must congratulate Chloe Smith everyone involved in the Norwich North by-election on their victory. It is no mean achievement to see a 16.5% swing, which would be more than enough, if repeated across the country to see a Conservative government. The numbers geek in me wondered what this would mean for [...]
A bi-partisan approach to surgeries?
If I have wittered on enough about surgeries the South London Press have prompted me to witter on even more by publishing a story sparked off from the original blog post. They don’t seem to have it on their website, but it essentially restates my belief that they are a waste of time – under [...]
How politics are done: Lesson 3 – Have official events
Later today Battersea will be blessed with not one, but two, ministerial visits. My own ward of Shaftesbury will be blessed by the Home Secretary visiting Battersea Arts Centre to give a keynote speech on crime and anti-social behaviour – so look forward to the latest government initiative there – and just down the road [...]
Has Linton forgotten how he voted?
The April edition of Martin Linton’s Bugle dropped through my door this morning. The newsletter, funded by his Parliamentary communications allowance always makes interesting reading. One of the stories is on his successful campaigning against the third runway, to which he is “opposed… on environmental grounds.” Apparently he “has voted against the third runway twice [...]
Martin Linton supports Heathrow expansion, or doesn’t. Does he?
We all make mistakes. It is human nature. But I cannot help but wonder what Battersea’s MP is up to when he posts his explanation for his Heathrow vote on his website.* Apparently he voted FOR the third runway because he was trying to vote AGAINST it. Got that? The reason he made that mistake? [...]
