Pay and Display Madness

Right now I am trying to stop the invasion of pay and display (P&D) machines in one of our small and friendly car parks.

There is a mad plan to put P&D machines in the car park next to the Chemist on the clockhouse roundabout. This is a small car park used mostly by local residents to visit the Doctor, Dentist and Chemist. I am objecting for the following reasons.

1. Parents with small children and the elderly should not visit these local services and have to fumble around for change in order to park.
2. The machines will displace cars into residential areas which we are against - we have enough parking problems in these areas already.
3. This is a "backdoor" tax on residents.

Tell me your thoughts.

Gareth Lyon selected to fight Empress Ward

Gareth Lyon and local MP Gerald Howarth

Today at our Conservative Association AGM Gareth Lyon was officially adopted as our candidate to fight Empress Ward. Gareth is going to be a great member of the team. He was educated at Oxford, has worked in Parliament as a researcher, speaks French and Turkish, works for a large local company and lives in the Ward.

Has he any bad qualities I hear you all asking - just the one. He's not as good looking as Cllr Parker and myself. Although, I grant he is better looking than the MP Gerald Howarth. All of which will not stop him being a first class councillor for Farnborough.

Gareth is keen to see progress on the Town Centre, more facilities for young people and is keen to get to work with us to make Empress a great place to live.

What issues would you like to see Gareth getting involved with?

Tyre Slasher in Pierrefondes Avenue

Several vehicles had their tyres slashed in Pierrefondes Avenue on 14/3/08 sometime between 9am and 7pm. These vehicles were parked on the road but are residents of Pierrefondes Farnbrough
If anyone has any information that could assist the police Please either ring 08450454545 or inform your local neighbourhood watch coordinator.

US Democrat Governor Lamm Speech 2003

This has been as controversial in America as Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech here in Britain. According to his claims - we in Britain have gone a long way down his "road to destruction" already. Read it and tell me what you think.

Transcript of a Five-Minute Speech given in Washington, D. C. in 2004 by Richard D. Lamm Governor of Colorado, 1975 to 1987

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, lets destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." here is my plan:

I. We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way:
The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon ---- all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.

II. I would then invent "multiculturalism" and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the black and hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.

III. We can make the united states a "hispanic Quebec" without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently:
... the apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the mominance that once dictated ethnocentrically, and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together. I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than Americans, emphasizing their similarities.

IV. Having done all this, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated — I would add a second underclass, un-assimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% drop out rate from school.

V. I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of Victimology. I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority - I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

VI. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would "Celebrate diversity." "Diversity” is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other-that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse,” peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf ’s world history tells us:
The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the olympic games in honor of Zeus and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors . . . (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions . . .) If we can put the emphasis on the “pluribus,” instead of the “unum,” we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

VII. Then I would place all these subjects off limits - make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like “racist”, “xenophobe” that halts argument and conversation. Having made america a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “Victimology”, I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra - “that because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.” I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.

VIII. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book “Mexifornia.” This book is dangerous — it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please — if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed — please, please — don’t buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the Spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that Spectrum.” — Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US Media and Foreign Policy critic.

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A great company to work for.

My thanks again to the resident that sent this into me.

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics?

• 29 have been accused of spouse abuse
• 7 have been arrested for fraud
• 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
• 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
• 3 have done time for assault
• 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
• 4 have been arrested on drug-related charges
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
• 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
• 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year

Which organisation is this?

It is the US Congress!! Seems they are getting similar flak to our House of Commons.

I must make it crystal clear that, despite the appalling press some members of parliament are getting, our MP Gerald Howarth is a fine upstanding member, and has my full support. I think Parliament needs scrutinising by an independent body and needs to change to represent a modern society. In local Government we have become accustom to change imposed from Parliament, which ironically is extremely slow to change and adapt. In this respect it could learn much from local Councils.