tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850857012612332062024-03-15T07:29:13.515+00:00Living on words alone"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them."
Adlai StevensonDan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.comBlogger844125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-68093770334794221142018-08-17T21:59:00.000+01:002018-08-17T21:59:16.322+01:00Kingston Lib Dems lose a councillor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today saw the departure of one of Kingston's 39 Lib Dem councillors. More <a href="https://surbitonnews.blogspot.com/2018/08/100-days-and-counting-update.html">here</a> - but it doesn't make good reading for the current leadership who are political pygmies in comparison with earlier Lib Dem leaders of the Royal Borough.<br />
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I moved to Kingston in the 1990s when the party was a bastion of liberal and radical thought. I was mentored by people like John Tilley and Roger Hayes - campaigners who understood and developed community politics and made it relevant to the well heeled, middle class streets of Kingston, Richmond and Surbiton.<br />
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People like John and Roger and the recently sadly departed Brian Bennett - who got 70% of the vote in white working class Chessington by being openly liberal - knew how to both explain the reality of ever increasing centralisation of government (particularly under Labour) but still be creative and radical in local administration. They introduced neighbourhoods - devolving budgets and opening up decisions to local people - bringing government closer to those it affected most and continuing the radical tradition of the sadly maligned Tower Hamlet Liberals, Eric Flounders and Peter Hughes.<br />
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The current administration's pledge to plant 500 trees is a pale shadow of this radical tradition.</div>
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-78715864547445256512017-06-07T00:27:00.000+01:002017-06-07T00:33:03.831+01:00Zac Goldsmith claims credit for something that doesn't exist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>I always enjoy receiving an
occasional email from my former MP Zac Goldsmith. He has managed to
maintain seamless email communication through various guises - Cameroon Liberal
Tory, May loyalist Tory, Independent airport campaigner and finally 'Strong and
Stable' Brexit Tory - without appearing to trouble those pesky data protection
rules at any time. (Or indeed his own sense of self awareness).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>But regardless of this (no doubt
Brussels inspired) pettyfogging data protection bureaucracy - I was intrigued
to read his claim that: "Here in Canbury, I have worked hard for
local residents over the past six years... I campaigned with the Council to
deliver free 30 minute parking to help our small shops..."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The thing is there aren't any 30
minute free parking zones in Canbury. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now I'm sure this is an honest
mistake and not deliberate misinformation on Goldsmith junior's behalf.
Because someone once said, "Deliberately misinforming people is worse than
anything that happened in the expenses scandal, because it goes to the heart of
democracy. When you're prepared to trick people two weeks before they go to the
polls, that is the very lowest kind of politics."<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>That someone being er... Zac
Goldsmith. </span></span></span></div>
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-16097409135653738802017-05-27T02:38:00.000+01:002017-05-27T02:38:08.000+01:00Hibs give up the Scottish Cup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a bit of a blast winning football trophies - particularly when it was 114 years between victories. But as Aberdeen or Celtic will become the 2017 winners later today I thought it would be good to show just how much Hibs win meant to the fans and has transformed the club's future.<br />
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This bit of sillyness sums up that day in May 2016. I give you Sir David Gray.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-54795775143919466612017-03-04T00:11:00.000+00:002017-03-04T00:31:04.116+00:00The Friday favourite to end all Friday favourites...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RT is Russia Today and they and their acolytes in UKIP and the White House will be mortified by this:<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-73122710490857849412017-01-11T01:09:00.001+00:002017-01-11T10:07:36.900+00:00Merryl Streep's speech sums up why liberal America lost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Merryl Streep predictably got both barrels on twitter from US president elect, Donald Trump, for her speech at the Golden Globes. But I get the sense the more the liberal elite in America whinge about Trump and his supporters the more they strengthen him - just like those on this side of the pond who denigrate supporters of Brexit. <br />
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The rich elites both sides of the Atlantic who enjoy highbrow culture, foreign travel and an international outlook have never been more remote from the people they claim to look out for. <br />
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<a href="https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/meryl-streep-scores-goal-anti-sport-prejudice/">Kevin Garside in the Independent</a> nails this elitism far better than I could saying of Streep that she,<br />
"flagged the kind of
detached, contemptuous attitude of the elites towards blue collar
America that allowed Trump through the White House door"<br />
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It's well worth a read. <br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-11464670219936537232016-12-11T01:12:00.002+00:002016-12-11T01:12:57.882+00:00Two by-elections summed up in two victory speeches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been meaning to blog on the Richmond Park by-election and some of the nonsense talked about the Lib Dem victory being a result of a putative 'Progressive Alliance' - whatever that is. But as usual the estimable <a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/why-i-am-sceptic-about-idea-of.html">Jonathan Calder </a>got there before me.<br />
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So instead I thought I'd share the declarations and acceptance speeches of the Richmond Park and Sleaford and North Hykeham by-elections which I think sum up both campaigns and the qualities of the new MPs for both seats.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-3226160144154439842016-11-06T01:33:00.001+00:002016-11-06T01:33:45.147+00:00Bob Roberts is Donald Trunp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Trump is rushed off the stage in a possible assassination attempt, three days out from polling day. Now where have I heard that before...<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-15029584762759256042016-10-25T20:28:00.001+01:002016-10-25T20:28:19.866+01:00Three questions for Zac Goldsmith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span><span> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>In what appears to be a series of orchestrated announcements between Zac Goldsmith and the Conservative heirarchy we now have a by-election in Richmond Park without an official Tory candidate. Goldsmith has been installed as the bookies favourite standing as an independent on a straight anti-Heathrow expansion ticket.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>But despite his frequent assertation that he is an independently minded MP <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/40890&showall=yes#divisions">he votes with the Tories more than nine times out of ten</a>. In fact since we had a full blooded right wing majority Tory government in 2015 he has rebelled just five times out of 146 votes - less than 3.5% of the time.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>So, I have three straightforward questions to ask:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>1. If he wins the by-election will he take the Tory whip and, if not, will he caucus
with his pal UKIP MP Douglas Carswell?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>2. Will he seek the Tory nomination in 2020? </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>3. Will he
back Theresa May in a confidence vote?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-52369427203738496232016-10-22T01:35:00.000+01:002016-10-22T01:35:12.655+01:00A roasting of Trump from the archive...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the US presidential election a few weeks away I thought it might be time to dig out of the <a href="http://livingonwords.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/jonathan-meades-on-trump.html">archive</a> Jonathan Meades's excellent evisceration of Donald Trump from 2011.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-70463845318989393372016-10-20T00:09:00.000+01:002016-10-20T00:09:58.897+01:00Whither Witney?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some photos from a visit to Witney earlier in the week on a glorious autumnal day.<br />
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A busy weekday morning in the Lib Dem HQ in Corn Street, Witney.<br />
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The sort of street that Bob and Thelma from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Likely_Lads">Likely Lads</a> would live in if it was 250 miles North.<br />
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A military transport plane heads towards RAF Fairford (or possibly Brize Norton?)<br />
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The sort of idylic rural home that makes producers of TV lifestyle programmes swoon. <br />
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So how are the Lib Dems going to do? The truth is I have no inside information and what follows is hunch and supposition.<br />
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Witney is the sort of rock solid seat that always returns Conservatives so given the state of the various opposition parties a comfortable hold should be on the cards. But the Lib Dems have fought a vigorous campaign from fourth place and are likely to leapfrog Labour and the Greens as a result. But from my (albeit) brief visit both reds and greens maintain significant pockets of support which means they are unlikely to be squeezed down to the sort of levels that hand the anti-Tory mantle solely to the Lib Dems. How well the Lib Dems do - and there is some talk that they may even challenge to win - will inevitably depend on how many Green and Labour voters lend their votes to the Lib Dems later today.<br />
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But the Tories are sufficently entrenched that how the opposition parties line up shouldn't matter to their prospects of defending the seat. And in that the election feels very much like another recent high profile Oxfordshire by-election - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_by-election,_2008">Henley in 2008</a>. That saw another vigorous Lib Dem campaign (and a Labour lost deposit) and certain over-excited talk in the Lib Dems of snatching the seat from the Tories. And there I remember the sense of disappointment when the result came in that the Lib Dems had marginally increased their share to 28%.<br />
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However - given the party's collapse in the Clegg years - 28% now would be (and would be seen as) something of a victory. Mark Pack has <a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/143942/witney-by-election-what-will-count-as-a-good-result/">a useful guide </a>to judge the Lib Dem performance. <br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-75628061118448750012016-09-30T00:34:00.000+01:002016-09-30T00:34:07.222+01:00Plans for second (fourth) Forth rail bridge <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37506251">The Beeb </a>reports that plans - dating from 1945 - for a second rail bridge over the Firth of Forth have been recently uncovered in a Glasgow office. Their provenance remains a mystery and Network Rail is asking for help.<br />
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But it shouldn't be described as a 'fourth Forth' bridge - given it dates from a time 18 years before the second one opened. </div>
Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-30005865265666124042016-09-23T07:00:00.000+01:002016-09-23T07:00:48.617+01:00Kingston Council consultation farce<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Conservative run Kingston Council likes to consult its residents. So much so it launched more than a dozen important consultations <a href="http://www.kingstonlibdems.org/summer_council_consultations">over the summer holidays</a>. This of course has the advantage of making it as difficult as possible for residents to participate. And when your council leader enjoys a symbiotic relationship with some of the biggest property developers in the country, local residents just get in the way of maximising corporate profits. <br />
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So I was somewhat surprised to receive the other day a letter from the council asking for my views about a local housing issue.<br />
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The letter however includes a bizarre explanation of council incompetence, "A consultation process took place during April and May this year...Unfortunately residents in two roads, did not receive consultation letters... While this was rectified in August where 140 residents received a consultation pack, unfortunately 20 residents in York Road were still missed ...This has come to light very recently. We appreciate that this is an unsatisfactory situation..."<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-39753241286081588162016-08-25T00:35:00.001+01:002016-08-25T00:35:49.384+01:00Farewell Sam Martinez<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sam Martinez - Hibs's oldest fan died today aged 106. Sam came to Edinburgh during the second world war from Honduras (now Belize) to help with the war effort and stayed ever since.<br />
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style="height: 168px; margin-top: 0px; width: 252px;" width="320" /></a>Sam was born just eight years after Hibs won the cup for a second time in 1902 and was delighted to be treated to a complimentary ticket by the club for its third triumph in the competition on 21st May 2016.<br />
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STV news has <a href="http://stv.tv/news/east-central/1365047-hibernian-s-oldest-fan-dies-months-after-scottish-cup-win/">more</a>.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-20969695680806840852016-07-29T23:33:00.000+01:002016-07-29T23:33:02.234+01:00Friday favourite 143<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Newsnight is carrying an interview with a now 60 year old John Lydon. So just to make you feel old here is a 30 year old John with Rise...<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-66521091569292396132016-07-25T00:05:00.000+01:002016-07-25T00:05:58.337+01:00Paddy's MoreUnited lesson from non league football<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Paddy Ashdown - along with several other Westminster luvvies - have launched <a href="http://www.moreunited.uk/">MoreUnited</a> a 'new movement setting out to change British politics'. Using the power of the internet and social media it will crowd fund and provide volunteers for certain candidates that agree with its rather fuzzy centrist -yet progressive - values.<br />
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Caron Lindsay on Lib Dem Voice asks some <a href="http://www.libdemvoice.org/some-questions-for-more-united-51413.html">pertinent questions</a> about this project which Paddy and his ilk need to answer quite quickly if many Lib Dems aren't to think this is just a vanity project for an out of touch elite trying to 'get with it'.<br />
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But there are also some very interesting parallels with another crowd sourcing project that set out on a similar change prospectus. That was <a href="http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/">MyFootballClub </a>- complete with the same annoying mid compound word capitalisation. <br />
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In November 2007 MyFootballClub - which had recruited 32,000 online members - took over Conference side Ebbsfleet United with the stated aim of transferring decision making from the traditional management to its membership. Teams would be chosen by an on-line vote and transfer and financial deals were similarly subject to crowd sourcing.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbsfleet_United_F.C.">Wikipedia reports</a>, however, when the membership came up for renewal people lost interest with just 9,500 renewing for a second year and by 2010, just 3,500 were left and the club was relegated from the conference. Although they were promoted back to the conference the following season, by 2013 MyFC had sold up to actual supporters of Ebbsfleet. The 950 current remaining members now sponsor Slough Town FC.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-34436195543289192762016-07-14T22:55:00.000+01:002016-07-14T22:55:08.164+01:00This week's most honourable departure...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
... goes to Liverpool supporting DJ and sports pundit Colin Murray who <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36786882">refuses to work for the Sun's owner Rupert Murdoch</a>. Murdoch's News Corp has just bought Talk Sport.<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-79817443609649931262016-06-21T23:27:00.002+01:002016-06-21T23:27:21.663+01:00Kid's last minute home made Euro plea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Seen in a north Kingston window this afternoon. However, I'm still not sure it isn't about the European football...<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-64027800694997208812016-06-17T00:18:00.003+01:002016-06-17T00:18:52.749+01:00On guns and murder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While the murder of Jo Cox is deeply shocking, our thoughts should be with her young family. But we shouldn't forget that this is not a unique event. Stephen Timms was seriously assaulted at an advice surgery in 2010 as was Cheltenham Lib Dem MP, Nigel Jones in 2000 - where his assistant Andy Pennington was killed.<br />
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Andy was also an elected representive - a local councillor for Hester's Way ward - which has somewhat been forgotten in all the outpouring of grief in the Westminster bubble. <br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-67087420070425992172016-06-07T12:38:00.000+01:002016-06-07T21:28:03.828+01:00Kingston Tory leader's Cannes flight mystery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kingston's Tory Council Leader, Kevin Davis is determined to change the face of the Royal Borough with a series of developments of increasing scale, height and numbers of luxury home and decreasing numbers of affordable homes for local people. <br />
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While cutting youth centres and old folks' homes and putting up the council tax he has set up a £4m fund to encourage even more of his developer friends into the borough. So it was of little surprise that he swanned off to Cannes in March for the annual property and booze fest that is MIPIM spending more than £4,000 of taxpayer's cash in the process.<br />
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So what did he get up to during his three day, four night Riviera junket?<br />
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According to my <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/330240/response/816226/attach/html/3/FOI%20response%20Falchikov%20MIPIM%2018.05.16.pdf.html">FoI request</a> Cllr Davis attended three dinners courtesy of Scape Group, Countryside and the City of London Corporation. He had drinks with the President of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a 'think tank' (whatever that may be) with the Mayor followed by lunch, drinks courtesy of Barrett and half an hour with ex England centre half Rio Ferdinand - who was apparently doing some sort of a double act with Housing Minister Brandon Lewis. Strangely, Ferdinand appears to have no connection with property development whatsoever, so one can only imagine what the purpose of that meeting might have been.<br />
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To be fair to Cllr Davis, it wasn't all pleasure he also packed in a large number of meetings with the great and the good of the UK property scene including:<br />
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<li>Countryside Properties - based in Brentwood, Essex</li>
<li>Berkeley Group - based in Cobham (one junction on the A3 from Kingston)</li>
<li>Tellon Capital - based in London W1</li>
<li>British Land - based in London W1 (and currently redeveloping a shopping centre 50 yards from Kingston's Guildhall)</li>
<li>Atkins Global - based in Chelmsford, Essex</li>
<li>Public Sector Plc - based in London N3</li>
<li>Hadley Property Group - based in Covent Garden</li>
<li>Bouygues Development - based in Canning Town</li>
<li>Thinking Place - based in Hull</li>
<li>St William Homes (Berkley) - based in SW8</li>
<li>Barratt London - based in Tower Hill</li>
<li>Transport for London - based in Victoria</li>
<li>U + I - based in Victoria </li>
<li>Anthology - based in London WC2</li>
<li>Buro Happold - based in London W1</li>
<li>Ktesius - based in London W1</li>
<li>Downing - based in Liverpool</li>
<li>Lend Lease - based in London NW1</li>
<li>Ocean Village - appears to be a marina in Southampton</li>
<li>Scape Group - based in Nottingham</li>
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One has to ask whether the same could have been achieved with a couple of zone 1-6 travel cards and a day return or two?<br />
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Which brings me neatly on to the most curious revelation - Cllr Davis appears to have forked out (from the public purse) £458.07 for a Nice to Cannes return flight. Now Cannes is a mere 17.5 miles from Nice airport and Cannes airport has no scheduled flights. However there is a half-hourly helicopter service.<br />
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<a href="http://www.azurhelico.com/en/helicopter-transfers-cannes.html">Azure Helicopter </a>offer just such a service stating gushingly: <br />
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"Have you always wanted to make an entry in Cannes like a star? How about
to land on the Croisette in a helicopter ? To mark the 2016 Film
Festival and other events in Cannes ( MIPIM, CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL
YACHTING, etc) AZUR HELICOPTER airline offers flights between Nice
and Cannes in just 7 minutes, comfortably, and with stunning views on
the Croisette!" </blockquote>
And at 160 Euro (+50 for a hold bag) each way the bill is spookily close to £458.07 once converted to good old British pounds.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://cannes-or-bust.com/2013/01/the-fastest-way-from-nice-airport-to-cannes-by-helicopter/">Cannes or Bust website</a> the express bus takes less than an hour from Nice airport to Cannes and costs just 33 Euro return (or about 20 quid).<br />
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So did Cllr Davis <i>'make an entry in Cannes like a star'</i>? And did the poor old council tax payer stump up for it? I think we should be told...<br />
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<i>Edit - the kind people at the Kingston's Residents Alliance Facebook page have pointed out Ferdinand does indeed have a property connection through his initiative called the <a href="http://www.cityam.com/237048/mipim-former-england-football-captain-rio-ferdinand-and-housing-minister-brandon-lewis-team-up-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-homes-through-new-charity-legacy">Legacy Foundation</a>. </i></div>
Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-65333590552683317312016-06-03T23:51:00.000+01:002016-06-03T23:51:23.939+01:00Friday favourite 142<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a while - but not as long as it has taken Hibs to win the Scottish Cup (which is the oldest football trophy in the world, by the way), so it's definitely time for a tune.<br />
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So here's some football fans celebrating winning it after 114 years. It is of course the Friday favourite to end all Friday favourites...<br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-89594141442299516952015-11-25T13:28:00.000+00:002015-11-25T13:28:29.954+00:00Kingston Council seeks illiterate communications chief<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The benighted burgers of Kingston, who already stump up the highest Council Tax in London, are soon to stump up a further £60k for a <a href="http://www.prweekjobs.co.uk/job/392269/head-of-communications/?LinkSource=PremiumListing">new spin doctor</a> for the Tory administration.<br />
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The gushing language declares they are 'looking for someone who is fully conversant with the full range
of communications tools' but with four typos in just six sentences proof reading is clearly not one of them...<br />
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Here's the full text: <br />
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There has rarely been a more challenging or opportune time to work in
local government communications. Seismic changes in the way local
government is operating means that it is no longer sufficient to simply
tell local people and others what the council is doing - we need to
really engage and win peoples support for a shared vision for the local
area.<br />
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Kingston council has created a new role of Head of Communications to
work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and leading members to
ensure that the council not only tells it's story but builds real
engagement with residents, staff and key partners.<br />
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We are looking for someone who is fully conversant with the full range
of communications tools from excellent media skills and campaigning
ability to the latest digital techniques and innovative ideas on
community engagement, but that just gets you to, first base.<br />
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To be successful in this role you will be a leader, bridge builder, strategist and true innovator.<br />
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Above all you will have an absolute passion for public service and it's ability to improve lives.<br />
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If this sounds like you and you ready for the challenge of building the
best corporate communication service in local government we would like
to hear from you.</blockquote>
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-40725434905975401252015-11-09T07:30:00.000+00:002015-11-09T07:30:03.261+00:00Is this the UK's most sexist school?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you can't read the text (taken from a poster on the rear end of a speeding bus in Kingston) it says:<br />
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Above the picture of a boy and pilot "Speed on the wing. For a life in the air."<br />
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Above the picture of a girl and woman "Testing materials. For a life in fashion."<br />
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You can presumably find out more about their equal opportunities policy at <a href="http://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/">www.stgeorgesweybridge.com</a><br />
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Dan Falchikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202541499332901648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685085701261233206.post-57614827172303033962015-11-06T22:42:00.000+00:002015-11-06T22:42:13.357+00:00Balgreen Halt reborn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The ever excellent <a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/">Liberal England</a> - possibly overstretching his geographical remit - dug out some <a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/disused-railway-stations-in-edinburgh.html">excellent footage</a> of disused railways in Edinburgh, including footage of Balgreen Halt on the Corstophine branch line.<br />
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But Balgreen Halt is not really disused anymore with a tramstop of the same name on the increasingly successful Edinburgh tramline. And my visit to Edinburgh last week wouldn't have been complete without a ride on the tram coincidently to Balgreen:<br />
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