As I am sure many of you have realised, certainly from the mails I have been getting, I have not kept up with posts to the blog of late.

There is a very good reason for this, which will for those that know me, will become apparent in good time.

So for the moment, let’s just say that I am going to be suspending my political musings via this media but must leave you with one final thought from one, shall we say prominent citizen of Reading on my efforts to date.

“Reading your blog is a bit like visiting a dirty book shop. No one will ever admit to going there but many do & many of those that don’t would love to take a peek.”

Take care my oppressed comrades.

Tyler

They're Under Starters Orders And !!!!!!

After reading Friday’s edition of the Reading Labour Pravda, it would seem that our local politicians have been very busy beating one another up & supporting worthy causes.

The Fat Controller jibe about Andrew Cumpsty was a bit rich coming from a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Rasputin the Mad Monk.

Meanwhile, Rob Wilson, Isobel Ballsdon and Richard Willis are all regulars in the news for working on behalf of the people who voted for them and of late new boy Jamie Chowdhary has been making his presence felt, to the great discomfort of Mrs Doubtfire & the rest of the Stalinist cult down at Redinski Square.

However, this week we see a full column in the letters section from Abbey Ward Labour Councillor Mohammed Ayub (better known as the invisible man) on the
NI 35 issue.

Of course my first question is: who helped write this letter? Damien McBride? Or maybe they called in good old Mr Kim from Pyongyang to advise on this one.

In any case, this letter proves my point. Our little red friends down at the Stalin Centre are hell bent on stirring up racial tensions in this town so as to have an excuse for the creation of their very own Stasi (for the uninformed: name of the former East German Secret Police ).

And if this was not enough, good old Cllr Ayub appears once again in the same edition of the Pravda. This time in a photograph with a local residents group trying to reopen the Jolly Anglers Pub.

Wow!! Signing a letter, being photographed and all this in the same week! He’ll need a well earned rest after that!

However, Mohammed was not the only one trying to latch on to the sad plight of the Jolly Anglers. It would seem that Cllr Bet Tickner also got out her map of Reading, located Abbey ward and managed to find the pub just in time for the photo opportunity. Except for a bit of shopping at the Oracle, I think it’s the first time she has been seen in Abbey all year.

Another absentee politician trying to attract votes on the back of this now famous Newtown pub is Labour PPC Anneliese ( Dodgy ) Dodds. Now Martin Salter is standing down, I understand that Dodgy may well be allowed to pay a visit to Reading on the strict understanding that she doesn’t open her mouth.

Finally we cannot forget ( falling around in laughter as he writes ) Reading’s best political joke, Cllr Epps. Yes, he too made the Jolly Angler’s photo shoot and has now decided to conduct a pub survey, which looks like being this week’s project for the Liberals. As with most Epps inspired ideas , he will soon realise that this will still not get him the votes he needs to beat Rob Wilson and he will try and latch on to some other cause in the hope of at least retaining his deposit. Has he ever thought of another career, like being captain of the Titanic?

Well unless the Prime Mentalist does a Bob Mugabe on us, both General & Local Elections are less than a year away, looks like we are in for the usual fun and games.

Ian Dale Comes To Reading

Guess who is coming to town!

Leading political commentator Ian Dale will be the guest speaker at a dinner to be held at Sonning Golf Club by Reading East Conservatives on 16th July

Ian appears regularly on TV & Radio, writes for the Daily Telegraph and is best known for his political blog, Ian Dale’s Diary. http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/

This is a great opportunity to get up close & personal with a real heavyweight in the world of British political journalism and here is just a taste of the cutting wit & wisdom, entitled:
A preview of next weeks PMQ’s:

DC: What day is it today?

GB: Typical. Can't ask a question about policy. I'll tell you what Tory policy is on days of the week. They want to cut them. They want to cut Thursdays now and if they get in power, they will cut Saturdays as well.

DC: What colour is the sky?

GB: The Tory party is the only party in the world that wants to cut the sky. We have invested in the sky. We have brought forward spending on the sky and increased it by 0% whereas he would cut it by 0% year on year adjusted for real capital spending inflation.

DC: What time is it?

GB: That is up to the Chancellor to decide. I had nothing to do with it.

DC: Should Freddie Flintoff open the bowling at Cardiff tomorrow?

GB: If the pitch, if the pitch, if the pitch takes off cutters and that is the Tory policy. To bowl off cutters, 10% off cutters, from Mr 10%. Yes, you may laugh, but it is his policy. And I ask him, would he prefer to have Ryan Sidebottom bowling his left arm swing up the hill and into the wind?

DC: Do bears crap in the woods?

GB: Bear crapping has risen under this Labour government year on year where it fell under the previous Tory administration. We have invested in crap while they cut it. The previous government, of which he was an advisor, cut crap year on year while we have increased crap year on year in real terms since 1997. The party opposite is the only serious party in the world that is opposed to us increasing crap.

DC: Are you a liar?

GB: Of course I am. Can't think why you didn't just ask that question in the first place.

If you are interested in going to hear more of that, hurry and buy a ticket from:
Reading East Conservative Association
Tel 0118 967 5797
E Mail: office@readingeastconservatives.com

I hear they are going like hot cakes!

All work, No Benefits & One Busted Flush

Firstly apologies for not keeping the output up over the past few days, but I have been working like a dog & too knackered to write a single line by the time I finished.

For the benefit of any local Labour councillors reading this, work is something that many of us do as a means to make money. It’s a bit like being on benefits but actually helping the economy as well.

If you work really hard, the Government have a special reward scheme whereby you can contribute 40% of whatever you earn in tax.

If you actually become successful and maybe launch your own company or become a director of the company for which you work, you are then allowed to pay 50% tax.

And where does all this tax go?

Yes you’ve guessed it, it pays for all the benefits that Labour like to dole out so as to keep more & more people in the poverty trap & voting labour.

Anyway many thanks to Jane Griffiths and her excellent Blog for keeping laggards like me amused & entertained with the current goings on down at Redinski Square.

It would seem that Comrade Doubtfire ( Cllr Lovelock to her friends ) has been well & truly rattled by Tory new boy Jamie Chowdhary after he brought to the attention of one and all that the handing over of land for the new Mosque to the local Muslim community was finally sanctioned just before the recent European elections.

Well, I suppose we have had Cash for Questions, Cash for Honours, why not Votes for Mosques. It’s certainly not sound policies and a record of good government that’s going to get our little band of reds under the bed re-elected.

I also loved the piece on CRB checks for Councillors, far from keeping it private why not publish the details on the council web sight next to each councillor’s profile. Although I can think of at least one current member of the Labour Cabinet who would not see this as being publicly convenient, if you get my drift.

Anyway it’s good to be back in the old Stalinist Republic again, almost forgotten that great feeling of being persecuted.

Labour's Racist Agenda

So the mask has finally slipped and Labour have come clean, they are what many of us have always known them to be, Institutionally Racist.

NI35 Document has many parallels with dictates issued by Hitlers Nazi’s during the 1930’s regarding the targeting of Jews and Reading Conservative Cllr Chowdhary is rightly worried when a document such as this goes hand in hand with funding and falls into the remit of willing local servants.

To the best of my knowledge, the Muslim community in Reading represent the moderate face of Islam, with many of it’s members playing leading roles in local business and public life.

Be assured that execution of the actions recommended in this document will only serve to create the very environment that they purport to prevent.

The problem that we face here in Reading is that in the ruling Labour Group, we have a body without the political spine to stand up to their lords & masters in Westminster and prevent the execution of this odious document.

That duty now falls to Cllr Chowdhary & his colleagues and we can only hope they are successful.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2053043_muslims_target_of_government_plan

Time to Call Time on Enterprise Inn's

I was very sad to hear that the Jolly Anglers Pub on the River Kennet in Newtown is to close. Particularly as a result of apparent shear greed on the part of its Brewery owners.

The Jolly Anglers is more that just a run of the mill Pub, it acts as a real community hub in Newtown and is also a popular spot for many in the Reading due to it’s fine selection of real ale.

Perhaps, Enterprise Inn’s would think twice about damaging our local communities if they faced having all of their licenses in Reading revoked by the Council.

Any of our local councilors prepared to grasp the nettle?????

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2052825_homeless_to__move_into_jolly_angler

Hogwharts Comes To Reading West

I couldn’t help thinking that I had seen the character in one of the Reading Pravda Video interviews somewhere before.

The tag line told me that it was an interview with Reading West’s new Labour parliamentary candidate, but after watching, I honestly thought that it was some sort of clip with one of those failed contestants on Britain’s Got Talent, who had been given his marching orders by Simon Cowell.

But then it all fell into place, I had seen this guy before. It was Dobby the House Elf from the Harry Potter movies.

Basically, he turns up totally unwanted, screws everything up, then at the first sign of trouble disappears.

Just keep living & breathing Alok, for god’s sake.

The Cradle Of Democracy?

Like many of you, I have been watching the public outrage manifest itself in massive street demonstrations following the hotly disputed elections in Iran.

If you believe the propaganda in the British Press, Iran is supposed to be a violently suppressed society hell bent on supporting terrorism. Having been fortunate enough to visit Tehran during the Rafsanjani Government some years ago, I know that this impression is misguided and the current demonstrations give lie to the western generated media.

Hence, they have a President who the people believe was returned to office as a result of electoral fraud and are not having any of it. They are taking to the street and challenging the establishment.

We have a Prime Minister who has never been elected, presided over the biggest scandal involving this country’s Parliament. and brought us to the brink of economic disaster. And what are we doing about it???

A simple question, who lives in a democracy and who has a greater interest in their political future? Makes you think doesn’t it…..

Reading Job's For Reading Workers

So, after a good number of years, Britain’s biggest rabbit sanctuary finally has the chance of housing a major corporate HQ. The purpose, as I understand it, for which it was built.

If you believe our friends at the Reading Pravda, Green Park is one of the potential locations for the new ICI HQ, with both Slough & Bracknell also in the running.

I think it hardly needs me to say that getting ICI to move to Reading would create badly needed jobs in the area after so many high profile firms have either moved away or downsized in recent years.

But interestingly enough the Pravda give no details as to what anybody in RBC is doing to maximize the chances of securing ICI for Reading. I know that it is a little removed from attracting the unemployed who will vote Labour, but for those of us who want to see this town thrive it’s kind of important!

Sounds like a job for Rob Wilson & Andrew Cumpsty…

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2052356_ici_eyeing_up_green_park_move

One Hand Tied Behind Their Back

I read with some concern in the Reading Pravda that nearly 40% of criminal offences committed in Reading were done so by people on already on Police bail for another offence.

From what our local Superintendent Steve Kirk said, the majority were committed by a well known hard core group of offenders to whom arrest matters little.

Hence, I have to ask the question why our Magistrates are letting down the local community in this way, by not locking these people up?

As a Senior Police Officer, Supt Kirk is obviously prevented from saying in plain words what he clearly feels if one reads between the lines of the diplomatically worded quotations in the article.

Basically, that the PC driven social do-gooders that pollute our Magistrates Courts are doing nothing to support the Police in reducing crime. In fact they are one of the primary causes of its perpetuation.

There you are Steve, I’ve said it for you, I know you can’t agree publicly but at least you know that you do have some supporters.

If our Chief of Police has identified a core group of offenders who are responsible for the vast majority of 40% of the crime committed in this area, a zero tolerance policy should be adopted by all concerned agencies:

Magistrates should do there job & send them to Jail, bail should never be an option for recidivists regardless of the offence.

In the case of recidivist offenders, get Social Services out of the picture, we are not interested in mitigating circumstances. They are criminals and need to be taken out of circulation until such time as they realize that crime does not pay.

If they are on any form of state handout (as many of them are ) stop it. Give them a simple message, get an honest job, commit a crime & go to jail, or starve. Believe me they will soon see which way the wind is blowing.

As they say in Monopoly, ‘Go to jail, go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200.’

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2052405_crime_sprees_of_people_out_on_bail

My Home Is My Castle

According to today’s, Reading Pravda Web page, it would seem that our little red friends down at Redinski Square have extracted £1.6 Million from their comrades & masters in Westminster so as the borough housing stock can be improved.

If you believe the publicity in the Pravda ( which I don’t ) this little scam is going to create 23 jobs and the money will be used as follows:

£270,000 – Electrical Checks
( Whatever that means )

£600,000 – Kitchen & Bathroom Improvements
( As a Council Tax payer of some 10 years standing is there any chance I can have mine done? No, thought not. )

£240,000 – Central Heating
( Do we really have council houses without central heating )

£200,000 – Home Insulation

£256,000 – Home Improvements for the disabled.

Now a few questions.

Why should this money only be available to people who live in council property, any home improvement funds should be available to all.

If this money is to be spent on council property, can we ensure that priority is given to tenants who are either registered disabled, pensioners or those in employment. Reading‘s “cant work won’t work” collection of Labour voters should be last in the queue.

Finally, RBC gets £1.6 Million, by my calculations £1,566,000 is accounted for in the budget. So what is happening to the remaining £34,000? Or shouldn’t we ask.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2052164_facelift_for_more_council_homes

Europe - Are They Getting The Message ?

It may seem a little obvious to some of you, but the British People have tried to send all of the Political Parties a message through the ballot box last night:

I am not talking about the fact they are disgusted by the MPs expenses scandal, or that this present Labour Government has gone past its sell by date. We know that indeed.

The real message which people in this country, have been trying to get across for some time is simply that they object to our current direction of travel on Europe and expect our politicians to do something about it.

I will not dwell on the European policies of the present Government or their refusal to live up to their pledge and give the British people a voice over the Lisbon Treaty.

The European baton has now been passed to David Cameron, who unlike Nigel Farage or the utterly objectionable Nick Griffin, will become the next Prime Minister. He must accept that Europe is an important issue and simply not talking about it is not an option.

The European, elections have proved that the Conservatives have got a policy which the people of this country support:

‘In Europe but not Governed by Europe.’

Cameron must pursue this course with vigour and not be dissuaded by those in his party who would beg to differ.

Reading - The Caring Council

Once again the true face of Labour is reflected in the policies of Reading borough Council.

As I am sure many of you read, gleefully reported in the Reading Pravda of 4th June, rather than give support to a woman so blighted with HIV that it effects her brain functions causing severe disabilities, our heroes in Redinski Square decide to hide behind the law in a quest to save money and absolve themselves from their duty of care to a disabled person in this borough.

‘A one off case,’ I hear you say.

Not a bit of it, when it comes to members of our community with disabilities, RBC keeps our learned friends very busy. I for one would love to see how much they are spending every year on ensuring that our most vulnerable citizens do not get the care to which that are entitled based on a point of Law.

‘We haven’t got the budget,’ comes the cry.

Of course they haven’t got the budget, it’s all spent of housing & supporting the 'can’t work, won’t work,' brigade.

But they vote Labour, don’t they!

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2051979_disabled_woman_loses_court_bid_for_home_help

Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man

With today’s incredible local Government election results and Cabinet Ministers deserting the Government like rats from the sinking ship. The time has come for opposition parties locally to act.

I see no reason the good people of Reading not to join the rest of the country in it’s universal rejection of socialism. I would therefore call on the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal groups to propose & second a motion at the next full Council meeting which dissolves the present Council and brings forward the Local Government elections to this Autumn.

It's Over For Labour

The letter from James Purnell said it all, but I think I could have penned a slightly shorter version signed by the whole country:

‘IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO .’ as Cromwell said

There is no doubt that this Labour government is on its knees and I predict that an Autumn election is now very much on the cards.

Locally, this is having a profound effect on our little red friends down at Redinski Square. They are acutely aware, that from the point of view of the electorate they are looking like the last of the Dinosaurs, now choking on the poisonous gases of the wretched little world that they created.

Unfortunately, the local elections scheduled for next May cannot be bought forward and so this most loathsome example of a Socialist Council will be with us for a few months to come.

But the message to Jo Lovelock & company is the same as to Gordon Brown:

‘ IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO.’

BNP in Reading

For the first time since coming to live in this town over 10 years ago, I came home today & found some BNP electoral literature had been posted through my letter box.

To the best of my knowledge, the far right had never had a great foothold in Reading and I do not recall ever having seen a BNP candidate standing in any of our wards in the local council elections.

I may be accused of bashing the local Labour group on occasion and anyone who reads my blog knows that Socialism in all its guises is not really my cup of tea. I’ve had a few labour supporters comment on my blog and disagree with what I say, that’s fine it’s what a healthy political debate is all about.

However, when it comes to political views based on the colour of a man’s skin, this can have no basis for debate or any role in our democratic system of Government. No matter how they try to dress it up we are dealing here with the politics of racial hatred and the literature which came through my door has only one place, the rubbish bin.

Lets send these people a clear message through the ballot box, ‘you’re not welcome in Reading so don’t bother coming back.

Teachers Leaving? Its The Children Stupid!

How the resignation of 95 teachers from Reading Schools can be explained by the bad behaviour of pupils is beyond belief.

For years now, the education of our children in this borough has been a subject at the bottom of the priority list for the Labour administration and fully in line with the apparent policy of ignoring those who need the most from our council in terms of support.

Bad behaviour by children in a school classroom is not new, it has been going on since schooling as we know it began. What has changed, is that teachers are no longer given the support to deal with bad behaviour by those that manage them or, it must be said, by parents.

In addition, it should be noted that this borough has been very keen to foist children with special educational needs on the mainstream school system, without giving the teaching staff the necessary training and facilities to meet the child’s needs.

Rather than trying to blame the children, lets look at how education and all of the council children’s services are managed. More to the point who is managing them.

It’s like everything else in life, change needs to start from the top.

Meanwhile Back In The Real World

I think that Gordon Brown must be enjoying the furore surrounding MP’s expenses as the real news on how the current Labour administration continues to mismanage the economy is kicked into the long grass.

Well just to bring one & all up to date:

Tribunal appeals, by people trying to claim additional benefits are costing you & I, the tax payer over £150 Million per year. Claimants win their cases simply because Government & Local Council Officials fail to appear at the tribunals to contest the cases.

Private Rail companies are set to receive over £100 Million in 2009 & £300 Million in 2010 of tax payers money, because this Government agreed to cover their operating shortfalls in the event of lower passenger numbers.

And finally, if this was not enough. Good old Gordon & the boys at No10 are thinking up even more ways of taxing us. Current ideas in vogue are taxes on currency transactions and additional levies on mobile phone calls. I should point out that this is being couched as an international effort to help developing economies.

Go on Gordon, pull the other one it’s got bells on.

Clearing the Decks

Bracknell Conservative MP Andrew MacKay has announced that he is to stand down at the next general election.

Whilst there can be no excuses for claiming the second home allowance at the same time as his MP wife, at least Mackay has recognised that for the good of British Politics, he had to go.

It is a great shame that the likes of Hazel Blears cannot come to the same conclusion.

Getting The Message To Gordon

Well it looks like the allegation from the local Liberals, that Labour & the Tories enjoy a cosy relationship is not manifesting itself on the doorstep at least.

Tyler understands that Reading East Conservatives, have heeded their leaders call and started a local petition demanding that Gordon Brown dissolves Parliament and holds a general election.

The petition first appeared last night in Thames ward, where the Tories were campaigning for the European Elections and apparently got over 100 signatures of support in less than 2 hours.

Maybe we could organise one for Comrade Lovelock & the rest of the Politburo down in Redinski Square.

The Magnificent 6.5

They came riding into the council chamber all guns blazing to run the bad guys outa town.

Whilst I do admire the spirit of Kirsten Bayes and the rest of the Liberal Magnificent Six and a bit, the execution leaves a little to be desired.

It’s the ballot box that’s going to send this bunch of bad guys up to Boot Hill, not a publicity shootout for the papers.

Labour Reaches Its Sell By Date

About the only true thing that Tony Blair ever said was that, ‘every Politician has a shelf life.’

After recent events, I believe that is true for the 640 or so that currently inhabit the Palace of Westminster. That does not mean that they should all go & never come back, but it does mean a reselection process is an essential element in restoring the credibility of the governing chamber in this country.

Despite his increasingly futile attempts at today’s Prime Ministers question time to sound the credible leader of a credible Government, he must now accept the fact that the British People have in effect withdrawn their support for the current Parliament and it has lost its mandate to govern.

Although it can be said of opposition leaders, that they will always be looking for opportunities to call a general election, in this case David Cameron is entirely justified and is acting as the voice of the people.

In many ways what we see now is the culmination of Labour misrule for over a decade. When Tony Blair stood aside for his Chancellor, it was only a matter of time before the New Labour mask slipped and the hard Left re-emerged to tax this country into oblivion.

But the plan never worked, because the new master lacked the required skills of a leader, the new government lacked political ability and the train hit the buffers. What the expense scandal has done is to bring this into sharper focus.

Gordon Brown knows nothing can save him as Prime Minister and every Labour MP knows that they will not form the next Government. For once, Brown must put ego & self interest aside. For the good of democracy he must call the election that will see David Cameron become the next Leader of this country and the Conservative Party the next Government.

Shreddergate - The Bad Smell Lingers

This is one running sore with RBC that I for one intend to see opened into a festering wound.

As you will all no doubt recall, two officers in the Children’s Services Dept were placed on; lets call it administrative leave, over the bullying scandal which the Peoples Republic Party has been trying to hush up.

Then of course, the same suspended dynamic duo, covertly enter the Kremlin offices one weekend and indulge in a little file destruction, which became known to one & all as Shreddergate.

In the ensuing fallout, all Councillors have been effectively banned from discussing the subject publicly, under threat of at least 15 years in the Gulags from the Standards Board, ( I think that the Standards that the Board uphold by the way come straight from the local Labour Party handbook, in other words the standards of the gutter. )

If this was not enough, our esteemed Director of Children’s Services has had to deal with some adverse publicity relating to her previous role with Surrey County Council & some pretty damming comments from a High Court Judge.

All gleefully reported to the good citizens of Reading by yours truly.

I can now tell you that Tyler has been having some very interesting conversations with disgruntled insiders at RBC and whilst I would in no way wish to make allegations against our highly regarded Council based of hearsay, Tyler would like the answer to a few questions:

1/ Is it true that the two suspended employees where offered cash settlements to resign from their posts.

2/ Is it true that, the first cash settlement offer made to the foregoing two was in fact rejected and a higher figure agreed by the Council.

3/ If question 2 is true what were the circumstances surrounding this.

4/ Is it true that two versions of the so called independent report into the bullying allegations within Children’s Services exist and that our councillors have only had access to a watered down version.

As I said, far be it from Tyler to question the integrity of the ruling junta, but can anyone else see from my questions where this all just might be going?

Not so much, ‘cash for questions,’ but cash for silence?

We’re Leaving On A Jet Plane, Don’t Know When We’ll Be Back Again.

Tyler has learnt that our friends down at the Civic Centre are having a spot of bother recruiting Social Workers. With such well publicised, great leadership & superb management, I can’t think why.

However, in a gargantuan effort to ensure that our most vulnerable members of society are protected, it would seem that a group of RBC officials went on a recruiting drive. IN CALIFORNIA.

Now, good people of Reading - steady on. Before we all stand up together and demand to know why this little jolly was organised at our expense, we must accept one undoubted truth:

Simply, that owing to the professional reputation of our little Stalinist enclave, no Social Worker in their right mind would want Reading Borough Council on their CV or be subjected to the daily bullying which appears to be part of the culture.

Having said that, if any Councillor is reading this, I would like answers to a few questions:

1/ How many trips to California where made during this recruitment drive.

2/ How many employees of RBC travelled to California.

3/ Did any Councillors travel to California as part of this exercise.

4/ What was the duration of each visit.

5/ What class of air travel was used, Economy, Business or First.

6/ What was the total cost to RBC for this exercise. Including, Airfare, Accommodation, Car Hire, Subsistence and fee’s for any recruitment organisation retained in the United States.

7/ How many Social Workers were recruited as a result of this exercise.

Having said that, their is one type of airline ticket which I believe all the current Labour Coucillors should be able to obtain at public expense. A one way ticket, anywhere they like as long as they never come comeback.

Good OLD Labour

It would seem that leopards never do change their spots and when it comes to our little Red Friends down at the Civic Centre, the old Trade Union ways are very much back in favour.

As many of you may know, at a recent full Council meeting it was decided that all Councillors should take a pay cut in view of the current state of the budget. At the time, the only squealing & squawking came from the Labour benches in opposition to this Conservative motion.

However, not to let matters rest, it now appears that certain Labour councillors are now refusing to attend meetings where they serve on scrutiny panels as they feel that they are no longer paid enough for the effort.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is part of their job, it’s one of the reasons that we have local councillors.

So having finally got confirmation of something that some of us have known for years: that the local Stalinists are only in it for the money, Tyler thinks it’s about time we have our own local expenses investigation.

I just wonder what we would find!!!!

Reading the Travellers Rest.

Once again our friends at the Reading Politburo prove that if drinking sessions in Breweries need organising, Lovelock, Page and the rest of the team are not the people to call.

Having got a court injunction to ban travellers from 33 open spaces in our wonderful little Stalinist State, they miss the oldest trick the Pikies book which is to use the grass verges.

User of the collective Labour brain for the day, Tony Page then states: “The present injunction only refers to the council’s parks and open spaces but it doesn’t preclude us from looking at the same exercise for other open spaces and verges in the borough. Obviously that might involve a longer list.”

Wow Tony that is brilliant, it’s taken you god knows how many years to get the present set of injunctions in place despite the repeatedly high profile of this problem. So I guess with the urgency that surrounds the Southcote issue we could even see injunctions in place by 2020? Or is that asking a little too much from our caring council.

But while you are thinking that one over, why not try a few wooden stakes along the Roadside edge of the verges. It would most probably cost a whole lot less that the legal fees associated with court injunctions and would keep the travelers out. If they remove the stakes, that is Criminal Damage and the Police could take action against the offenders.

I know Tony, you had already thought of it and just weren’t going to tell us yet.

Labour Expense claims the best is yet to come!

Yes thats right folks, watch out for the Sunday Teleghraph this weekend. So Tyler is told, a major Labour couple are going to get it right in the Balls, so to speak.

Apparently, they tried to get a High Court gagging order against the DT yesterday & failed. Two claims for just one mortgage, or maybe no morgage but still two claims.

Can't wait.

Time for Reading Labour Coucillors to find a real job