I believe that what the four Liberals achieved in the county during the period 1985-9 was worth the sacrifice. In particular, I am proud of my contribution to the overhaul of the education system in Grimsby in 1988-9. Continue reading Monday Memories: Decisions and Consequences – #4 Dabbling in Politics
I knew that my days there were numbered and began searching the situations vacant pages of the Yorkshire Post and Daily Telegraph for suitable jobs. Continue reading Monday Memories – Back in the Real World, Pt.#1
The Thatcher government was returned with a marginally reduced majority in Parliament Continue reading Monday Memories – Another Election (or three)
everyone thinks they can do better than the current crop of politicians at all levels of government. . . It was not long before I [discovered] that it is not as simple as it seems from what you read in the papers. Continue reading Monday Memories – Finding a Middle Way
Liberals held the balance of power – effectively the casting vote – and thoughts immediately centred on how we could best use this power in the interests of the County. Continue reading Monday Memories – Election Success
there was increasing polarisation between those on the right who believed the government had a duty to stand up to what they saw as too much power in the hands of the Unions, and those on the left who saw the government’s action as an attack on the working classes. Continue reading Monday Memories – Twin Towns and Striking Miners
The pattern of local elections in that part of the country at that time was as follows: in Grimsby one third of the councillors stood down in each of three successive years, in Cleethorpes the whole council was re-elected every four years as was the whole of the county council. Cleethorpes elections took place midway between county elections, which occurred on the year without a Grimsby council election. In case that’s difficult to follow: County Council elections took place in 1981, 1985 and 1989. Cleethorpes Borough Council elections in 1983 and 1987, Grimsby Borough Council elections occurred in 1982, 1983 … Continue reading Monday Memories – Campaigning Begins
I suppose it is a truism that the most of these one can have is nine. I just reached my seventh. Seems like a good time to look back at the others and see what I was doing. My first, … Continue reading Double Digit Birthdays
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