was every one gassed on election day!

he looks alot like that half wit darling!

hes the pudding that shelved the power station! and lost a load of jobs for the north east!

Look he's got an AOL e-mail address so he must know what he's doing!

And, when he quotes from good old socialist Norman Tebbit on his website he must be for the workers, so I'm going to vote for him!

Unless... unless... by some fluke the Tories win the next election. Now if that were to happen they'd just ignore Bedlington like the Labour/NuLabour alliance always has - because we'd be beyond the pale, and there'd be no votes/new votes to be had here. So we'd end up shafted once again! Then - yes, then - a vote for war veteran Simon really would be a wasted vote - like he tells us one for the Tories would.

So, how to use our heads and get this place out of its historic bind? Needs more thinking on... maybe I should ask Malcolm?

'off' would be the second word GGG!

I am in enough trouble trying to lobby and get us out of the prospect of paying 'double taxation' on the parochial devolved services the town councils will soon supply!

On top of that questioning county on their budget proposals has almost left me speechless at the way that is heading. One thing is for sure we are going to be paying a lot more in for a lot longer than anyone is thinking, or admitting, about!

Given the thread title is it just me who thinks there might be a correlation between all these 'deferred' decisions, parking charges, leisure centre closures etc and the date of the soon to be election?