Sorry for not posting lately.. But.

My mother is now well on the way to recovery after brain surgery.

So normal stuff will start to apper here again soon.

NEW BUS SERVICE TO RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL FROM CARHARRACK, ST DAY AND CROFTHANDY COMMENCING FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009

The new bus service (number ‘920’) will be operated by First Devon and Cornwall on schooldays only as follows:

Carharrack                              0745

St Day                                     0749

Crofthandy                              0753

Chacewater, King’s Head       0800

Richard Lander School           0815

Richard Lander School           1535

Chacewater, King’s Head       1550

Crofthandy                              1555

St Day                                     1559

Carharrack                              1603

FARES (collected by the driver)
	Child Single	Child Return
Carharrack	£2.20	£3.05
St Day	£2.05	£2.95
Crofthandy	£2.05	£2.95

For further enquiries, please contact the Passenger Transport Unit, Cornwall Council

Tel 0300 1234 222

Harry Patch

The last of the last has gone.

Sorry chaps…

Not much in the way of posting at the moment…Lifes a bit full….

Brod crashes and burns.

I went down like a lead balloon in Camborne Central. But a big thanks to the 120 people who voted for me, and to congratulate to John Stoneman the Tory Who won.

Now thear’s a First.

Prior to the next 8/06/09 meeting there will be a public session attended by employees of First to discuss bus services. This will begin at 7 pm and the Parish Council will follow once this has finished.

How to get to Tescos….And back…If your lucky.

The erley bus …8.15.. goes all the way to Tescos redruth.

As as we all know the 47 terminates at Redruth station. But if you pickup the 44 it will take you on to Tescos Extra.  The 43 will bring you back to Redruth Station.

For Tescos Redruth go in to Redruth Station on the 47. Then the 43 to TescosRedruth the 44 will bring you back to Redruth Station.

OK It’s complex but it works…Have a look in the time tables and thay will give you the times . Also the new time table is small and can be carried in a pocket.

A political point.

The argument about whether to build an incinerator in Cornwall for our rubbish has been settled, at least temporarily: the county council planning committee voted against on 26 March. What happens now is much more problematical as EU landfill taxes loom and there appears to be no ready-to-go alternative to an incinerator or landfill and the company may appeal against the decision to reject the incinerator.

Amid the celebrations and gloom of the decision Matthew Taylor, Libdem MP for Truro and St Austell, which includes the area earmarked for the incinerator, said the decision to reject the incinerator proposal showed that “Liberal Democrats are all about listening and democracy…” What! “All about listening and democracy” is a leaping generalisation too far: mia gar chelidon ear ou poiei.

The Libdem-controlled Cornwall county council foisted the unitary council on us without engaging the people of Cornwall in full and open debate; refused to poll the voters of the whole county about it; was casually dismissive of the district polls that showed people didn’t want the particular unitary scheme; and obviously believed people in Cornwall shouldn’t be allowed to decide about their own local government. In short, in my view, about the unitary proposals over several months it was neither listening nor liberal nor democratic. And now, we are assured, Libdems here are the party that listens and chooses the democratic approach.

Yeah, right.

(And let me degeneralise and say that some Libdems in Cornwall did oppose the unitary and bulldozer approach to local government change.) __________________________________________________________ mia gar chelidon ear ou poiei (one swallow does not make a spring): Aristotle Nichomachean ethics.

From the as ever XL,unt Mudhook.

Topical stuff.

I can feel little sympathy for some MP’s who have pitched and filled their boots with the allowances to boost what is a good income. Most concerning is that only 2% of Voters think that MPs are “reasonably honest”. This is down to all the coverage being of those who have abused the system with not much coverage of those who haven’t.  The Telegraph has indeed had a classic scoop, and will run this for as long as they can.  It’s in their interests to do so.

But we need to think about this. Just who might benefit from undermining faith in parliamentary democracy? Its only a few month since the press cried fowl with the banks. Compared to the bankers bonuses issue, to say nothing of over 1 trillion pounds of underwriting by the public of possibly toxic debt, the expenses problem is small change in the grand scheme of things. If the media were to look at local government, large corporations, and public bodes the results would no doubt be similar.

It would be interesting to see just what is clamed as expenses by journalists a profession that has long used them to bolster there income. But journalists’ fiddling expenses?… Never! But the problem is larger than this, democracy is being undermined in a dangerous way. There has been a cynical editorial line in the BBC Television news, and this has been the case for some time now.

I am not saying their is an active conspiracy here.( Update. After the Mad Nad stuff this week, I’m given to wonder abought the conspericy thing.) I’m just asking the question. Who benefits from this? OK. I don’t think there an excusing the actions of some MPs. But follow the line here this is a attack on British democracy with a vast dose of cynicism and hubris. The body politic clearly needs reform. It need defending from inside as well as outside. We need to extend democracy not weaken it.

But who has done well out of this? Certainly not the Voter.  Thay are unhappy with the miscreants who have dipped in to the pot. The general election will sort the wheat from the chaff, but wheat will be lost too. And this will be a shame as its un-lightly that the new intake with more independent members will be better as their will be no party whip to lose.

But again. Who benefits. Maybe the wealthy and influential bankers who are out of pocket from the credit crunch. To have the focus of the media taken off their activates within the world economy would benefit them, certainly. would be happy to see a weakened parliamentary democracy, with much less regulation. To weaken Parliament’s ability to hold them to account and bring on the destruction of the welfare state must be very attractive to those on the far right. Beware – our democracy and state is in danger. We need more democracy not less.

This episode shows us that democracy is not transparent enough. Not democratic enough . Nor accountable enough. I think that the media has been hypocritical here as well. is it the case that journalists would publish all their expenses claims? I don’t think so. And I say agan we need more democracy not less.

Bus stuff.

The bus service at present is truly high farce. I have complained to VOSA (Richard Hollis traffic commission) and hope to here from him soon. It’s better to talk to the organ grinder rather than the monkey.