Just penned this one as an Echo letter, but not sure if they’ll print it (despite my 100% success rate so far, I’m sure at some point they’ll think something is too controversial to print…) “I was greatly concerned to… Read More ›
Archive for June 2012
How To ACTUALLY Reduce The Housing Benefit Bill
Sometimes I wonder what planet that tight-faced Tory tit in charge of running our country is actually living on. Or is Chipping Norton so far removed from the gritty real world that instead of being scheming and heartless, he’s just… Read More ›
Firefighters Suspension: Echo Letter
Seemingly unable to have an actual holiday, I received a message from a friend this morning telling me that I had had a letter published in the Echo following my post previously on the Essex Fire officers removing life saving… Read More ›
Gay Marriage Is Going To End The World.
Fire. Brimstone. Locusts. A plague a both your houses. Daub a bit of lambs blood on your front doors and your first born sons will be spared, because Gay Marriage is coming to get you. Call Ghostbusters, call your mum,… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Helen Constantine
When I was a child, I spent my summers at a large and sprawling house in Plymouth, and these are some of my earliest memories. Playing hide and seek in three gardens, watching baby chicks bathe in a sink of… Read More ›
Council Tax Benefit To Be Cut By 10%
During the next year, Southend Borough Council is going to have to decide whether they will make up the 10% cuts proposed to Council Tax Benefit from other sources, or whether they will cut Council Tax Benefit for the unemployed,… Read More ›
Market-ing.
Last Wednesday, the 30th of May, the Echo reported that a fledgling antiques market in Leigh on Sea looks set to close. I read this with interest, and an interest that I will declare; two of my friends have a… Read More ›
