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• In Real Praise of Nick Clegg on the EU…

  I’m a Nick Clegg guy. It isn’t anything new and a big revelation but I am. I think he is the most intelligent of the party leaders. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• My Saturday as a Patient in the Acute Medical Unit at Southend Hospital

  Well Saturday didn’t go quite as planned. I was woken up at around 4:45 by my body coughing and eventually I was able to hack out a blood-ball from my throat.... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Andy Gray & Richard Keys Singing ‘Get Your Tits Out…’ to a Female Presenter...

  Andy Gray and Richard Keys are ‘lads’ as some people would say. They are also clearly immature pathetic individuals. They got their comeuppance when there were... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Mr Mark Steel – A Perfect Example of Why Labour Can Never Win a Grown-up Debate

  Ah Mr Mark Steel. A voice against Capitalism and a voice against the system. Allegedly a comedian but I support if Michael McIntyre can call himself a comedian... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• The Story of the West Leigh By-election is the Rise of UKIP

  So here we are. UKIP are four months away from having potentially several councillors on Southend Council. 410 votes in West Leigh was a staggering result but... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• A Very Close Second Place in West Leigh, So Close Yet So Far Away

  Losing an election by 55 votes is never ideal but when you considering the last time this seat was up for election we lost by 500 odd then you can see that... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• If Lord Rennard Truly Cared for the Party and Liberal Ideals Then He’d Stand...

  Oh boy. This is pretty darn ugly isn’t it? I will not sit here and type about what he did or didn’t do. I don’t know so I won’t comment on it. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Last Night I Nearly Downgraded from Lib Dem Activist to Just Lib Dem Member. I...

  This morning I saw that Ben Mitchell had left the Labour Party and wrote about the reasons over on SpeakersChair and the timing for me couldn’t have been more... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Calling a Southend v Pompey Game – a Surreal Experience

  This week I had a quite surreal but pretty damn good start to 2014. On Wednesday I did something I always wanted to do – call a Portsmouth Football Club match... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Bill O’Brien Walks out on Penn State for the Pros – Cue Meltdown

  Oh. Well this sucks. I was scrolling through my twitter as I couldn’t sleep and saw the report coming out from ESPN that the Houston Texans had come to terms... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Take Me Out Girls 2014

  

  In exactly 168 hours time (that is this time next week for those too lazy to work it out) at the time of publishing, the Take Me Out theme tune will be playing... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• More on Legalising Prostitution and Why the Lib Dems Should Take This Baton and...

  Just before I left for a long stroll to our local AGM last night, there was a bit of a furore on Twitter about a new piece up on Lib Dem Voice. The palaver... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• The Likelihood of a By-election in Richmond Park Just Keeps Growing…

  My learned colleague Richard Morris has been banging on about this for as long as I’ve been reading his work (well near enough) but what would be a very... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• The Bad Name of the Liberal Democrats

  Ah the Lib Dems. The sandal wearing, beard loving, irrelevance of a political party. When Millwall chanted ‘no-one likes us, no-one likes us, we don’t care’... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Guy Whittingham Sacked and the Innocence of Pompey Goes with Him out the Door

  So earlier this week Guy Whittingham was dismissed from his job as manager of Portsmouth Football Club. The former hero of the Fratton Park pitch has preceded... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• The West Wing Review…

  The blog has been pretty quiet for the past few weeks. This was surely either because I had nothing to write or I had suddenly got a social life. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Could (and Should) a Strong Commercial Shipbuilding Industry Save Portsmouth...

  For years there was obviously a Portsmouth fan working on South West Trains who ran the electronic timetable displays. Everytime you’d get on a train to... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Mike Hancock’s Major Opponent in 2015 – the Pompey Party?

  Last week came the announcement that basically the government have shafted the people of Portsmouth. The city of my birth (so I have a tonne of bias) has been... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• UEFA Stick Their Middle Finger up to UK Football Fans as BT Wins Champions Leagu...

  Head of UEFA Michel Platini is no doubt cackling to himself this morning. He is probably the happiest person in the world that UK football fans have been screwe... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Carisbrooke College Fails Ofsted and is Failing Their Pupils and They Failed Me

  This morning someone posted a screenshot of the Isle of Wight County Press about an article where a UKIP candidate forged signatures on their nomination form. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY