According to Guido Fawkes Dorothy Jordan, an Irish actor, is David’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother.

Unusually for politicians there are no scripts and no planted questions or planted audience members, and David Cameron usually makes the point that he takes the questions one at a time, rather than the usual politician trick of taking three at a time and not answering a difficult one.

The meetings are open to anyone of any political persuasion, although seats will obviously be constrained to the size of the venue, for information on booking visit the Cameron Direct page on the Reading West Conservatives website. If you are unable to attend, or want to watch previous ones they are available here.

And just to prove there are no planted questions, take a look at this one:

I had a demonstration of the site at Conservative Spring Forum earlier this year and was very impressed. At first glance it looks like just a set of video feeds amalgamating what is going on in various political locations. However the power is in it’s voice-to-text search engine, enabling you to search for what was spoken rather than having to sit through hours of video to find the bit you want.

Click to view the full letter:

If you’ve got any problems then feel free to pop on down and we will do our best to help you out. If you can’t make it then feel free to hit the contact button at the top of this page.

The most ridiculous is this one:

Shocking, what nasty Tories. One slight problem the vast majority of the article is factually incorrect. Extremely worrying since there have been Lib Dem Councillors at every meeting involving this.

Lets look into two of the claims:

• “… Reading Conservatives withdrew their support from a community campaign and instead backed Labour plans to hand the site over to a tall hotel development by the Thames” - False. Labour recommended to Cabinet the hotel option, however this decision was “called in” by Conservatives forcing Labour to rethink it’s plans. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details)
• “Labour have backed the hotel plans throughout”. No they haven’t - thanks to the Conservative call in Labour did a u-turn at a later Cabinet meeting and now back the community option. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details).

The Liberal Democrats have yet to learn that people respond to positive articles about what they would do if they were to get into power, rather than pointless attacks against Conservatives and Labour.

This lovely Liberal Democrat bar chart has been doing the rounds in Caversham (and no doubt in the rest of Reading and Wokingham as well). It quite clearly tells us that the Liberal Democrats are in with a chance being economical with the truth.

A couple of questions come out of this chart:

• The bar chart quite clearly says 40%,  29%, 21%, so why is it that the Lib Dem bar appears to be completely out of proportion with the Conservative and Labour ones?
• Why are they using 2007 local election results? I can understand not using the 2009 European election results as the Libs scraped in with 4th place just beating UKIP and being squeezed significantly by the Conservatives in wards where they have Councillors. But we did have local elections in 2008 did we not, or is my memory deceiving me?

It all reminds me of this bar chart (based on on a selected house in Reading, not my own!):

Update: The Lib Dems have now admitted the bar chart was a “cartoon representation”. So that’s alright then, I wonder if they’ll admit the articles are also a “cartoon representation”.

The maps shows the Caversham Lower area shows we are average on all crime types compared to the Thames Valley region, but above the England and Wales average on robbery and burglary.

You can also click on ‘Find out more’ to see who are local policing team are as well as details of where you can meet them if you have any concerns.