tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post3137457963986416691..comments2023-07-09T11:04:50.150+01:00Comments on Mike Barker: Lib Dem politics in a northern market town: Ray of light in bad tempered Council meetingMike Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453607421766177229noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-27986176317081710162009-11-29T23:19:29.984+00:002009-11-29T23:19:29.984+00:00I though the local authority funded the LSP, so I&...I though the local authority funded the LSP, so I'm at a loss to see how it's a cost saving (the internal market in committee rooms, perhaps?)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443724356434212172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-78547653024054521572009-11-29T17:10:54.156+00:002009-11-29T17:10:54.156+00:00John Williams was in a bad mood about the named vo...John Williams was in a bad mood about the named vote. It was time people in the town knew how there ward councillors voted on issues of high importance.<br />For the record they all voted against the amendment I raised suggesting that Some consultation would be of benefit before disbanding 3 forums!<br />Williams said the same old about the Lib Dems voting with us, when in fact they voted for theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-91695528468437688782009-11-28T13:06:33.407+00:002009-11-28T13:06:33.407+00:00You and Bill Dixon had an argument about statistic...You and Bill Dixon had an argument about statistics. I still don't understand what it was all about. As you established in your recent blog post we're up against the might of the drinks industry which promotes binge culture - how do you tackle that with free-market policies at a national level?<br /><br />I'll ignore the fact that joining the SDP in the 80s and sticking round in the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443724356434212172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-30966624531182515592009-11-28T08:34:05.557+00:002009-11-28T08:34:05.557+00:00Oh, yes. I don't think "upset" is th...Oh, yes. I don't think "upset" is the word I would use. I think "angry" would be better.<br /><br />Here we had the senior Labour politician in the town, who is responsible for taking the political lead against the problems caused both to individuals and society by excessive consumption of alcohol among the under-18s in the town, denying in public, in the face of all the Mike Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453607421766177229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-48731927489204956062009-11-28T08:21:08.710+00:002009-11-28T08:21:08.710+00:00Hi James,
Join the Tories???
There are some thi...Hi James, <br /><br />Join the Tories???<br /><br />There are some things which sit deep in one's soul: <br /><br />one is having nothing to do with Barclay's Bank - everyone with any liberal or left leaning tendencies who was at University in the seventies will know why; <br /><br />another, from a working class lad who made it to a Grammar School in the sixties, is an antipathy towards Mike Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453607421766177229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-74761331855439539082009-11-27T22:53:25.542+00:002009-11-27T22:53:25.542+00:00You've done a lot of work on the environment t...You've done a lot of work on the environment this week, Mike. <br /><br />The talking together event went well, your fellow liberals were quite taken with my suggestion of returning bus services to council control... Centralising socialist tendencies within Darlo's liberals! How shocking...<br /><br />I don't think that Nick was ever opposed to signing the council up to 10:10, it'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443724356434212172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565935975551949363.post-29841765549746613252009-11-27T09:34:41.713+00:002009-11-27T09:34:41.713+00:00Does this mean that a small tractor won't spen...Does this mean that a small tractor won't spend 2 days driving backward and forward across Stanhope Park with a leaf blower attachment, before a third day spent with a diesel-powered leaf 'vacuum cleaner'? Assuming this 3 days in a small park is multiplied across all the parks in town, that's a lot of CO2 just to remove nutrients from the park!<br /><br />You should try to push Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05308666493490068369noreply@blogger.com