http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk Local and National Politics as seen through the eyes of a Reading Borough Conservative Councillor Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:12:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Corrigan Brothers of "There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama" fame have created a new (and rather amusing) video about David Cameron. According to Guido Fawkes Dorothy Jordan, an Irish actor, is David's great, great, great, great, great grandmother. http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2010/02/17/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-david-cameron/ David Cameron will be travelling to Reading West to conduct a special health version of one of his town hall style meetings on 8th January. 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 ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/12/29/cameron-direct-to-be-held-in-reading-west/ Last week the BBC quietly launched a new service called Democracy Live. It includes live and archived feeds from Parliament, the Lords, Select Committees, European Parliament and many more, as well as the ability to look up your local MP and MEP. I had a demonstration of the site at Conservative ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/11/03/a-new-political-service-from-the-bbc/ The Home Office has sent David Cameron this letter asking how to do things better... you couldn't make it up! Click to view the full letter: http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/11/02/you-couldnt-make-it-up/ Reading Buses are experimenting with cut priced fares on the Number 27 which runs from Amersham Road to Reading Station. The fares will be reduced from £1.70 to £1.00 between Monday 2nd November through to January 24th 2010. http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/30/cheaper-fares-from-amersham-road/ This Saturday - 31st Oct - I will be holding my monthly ward surgery with my fellow Caversham Councillors in the Readibus in Montague Street (layby opposite the school) from 10am - 12 noon. If you've got any problems then feel free to pop on down and we will do our ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/29/ward-surgery-this-weekend/ After yesterdays post on dodgy bar charts, it's time to look into one of the articles of the lovely Lib Dem leaflet. 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 ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/28/dodgy-leaflets-part-2/ Reading Buses is conducting a consultation on proposed changes to routes that they intend to implement on January 11th 2010. The routes in Caversham that have changes are number 22, 24 and 27. You only have until the 4th November to send feedback and can find out more information on ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/28/reading-buses-consultation/ 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 ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/27/dodgy-leaflets-part-1/ The police have launched a new national website, http://maps.police.uk, that enables you to look up crime statistics. Caversham Ward can be found under 'Caversham Lower' and can be compared to other areas of Reading or beyond. The maps shows the Caversham Lower area shows we are average on all crime types ... http://www.cllrdaveluckett.co.uk/2009/10/24/crime-mapping/