I am not religious. I do not believe in the supernatural. For me the essence of a ‘God’ is entirely socially constructed often by people who I would otherwise expect to know better. I do not deny that for many it brings order and perhaps harmony to an otherwise...
For a couple of years now there has been a deep seated perception amongst many local people that their local newspaper is less than neutral. Soon after the 2010 General Election the new South Dorset MP Richard Drax was ‘invited’ to write a weekly column. Following the 2001 election...
Last week many Tory voters veered further to the right and voted for the UKIP. This was not a surprise! Perhaps the biggest surprise was that more did not join them. An economy in crisis; political double speak that has become almost entirely transparent (especially to those who afford regular...
The Dorset County Council elections on Thursday 2nd May once more reveal distortions arising from the use of the current First Past The Post system. It took an average of 815 votes to elect each Conservative Councillor, 1,936 to elect each Liberal Democrat, 3,015 for each Labour and a massive...
If you want to know more about who represents you or what they stand for... see below. List of all the county and local borough councillors in Dorset
He holds his regular surgeries for his 'flock' , presses the flesh, smiles and grins at photoshoots and gives the impression of holding a genuine interest in North Dorset snd it's constituents. Look a little deeper at the contempt behind the smiles and you may see the real agenda. How does the...
Bedroom tax protestors have hit the homes of Poole councillors with 'eviction notices' and police tape. Only Conservative members of Borough of Poole Council were targeted in the protest, which is being investigated by the police. Protestors strung police crime incident tape across driveways and posted fake eviction notices...
Someone once said 98% of all statistics are made up, which might explain why the Dorset public seems to support the government's welfare changes, even though seven million working families will hit by cuts. This week saw the scrapping of the Disability Living Allowance as well as, for the...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
13-10-1925 to 08-04-2013
After a long and debilitating old-age, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is dead.
Easily the most divisive and controversial Prime Minister the UK has ever seen, the reactions to her death, as one might expect, have been extreme. The daughter of middle-class parents from Grantham, the...
Here are just a few of the millionaire government ministers who gave themselves a tax cut today (Let Dorset Eye know if I missed any or contact me via link below): Lord Strathclyde worth £10mPhilip Hammond worth £7.5mGeorge Osborne worth £4.6mJeremy Hunt worth £4.5mDavid Cameron worth £4mDominic Grieve worth £3mFrancis...
