Cllr. Gavin Ayling

On Friday (21 October) I wrote to the two candidates with e-mails similar to the following:

Dear Mr Cameron

Congratulations on making it to the last two.

As a Conservative member I am to choose between yourself and David Davis. I wonder, with that in mind, if you could answer a couple of questions:

1) Will you consider proposing that the English are consulted about devolution?
2) Will you denounce positive discrimination?
3) Could you countenance compulsion in pension savings?

Yours sincerely
Gavin Ayling

I am yet to receive a reply from David Davis and, frankly, I do not expect one as he has ignored my e-mails in the past.

However, I have received a reply from David Cameron. I was referred to the Frequently Asked Questions on his campaign website and provided no direct answers. The FAQ contains only a response to the third, and least important question.

I have asked for a more complete reply.

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Those opposed to life have, again, attacked the only democracy in the Middle East even while the withdrawal from Gaza was being tested by a brave Sharon.

How can the Israeli government, which has to balance withdrawal from the occupied territories with the electorates understandable distrust of the Palestianians, convince that electorate that the West Bank should be given up in order to make peace if the nut-cases in the West Bank continue to explode themselves in order to remove people’s limbs and end (five at the moment) people’s lives?

The Israeli conflict is not simple, but there are people who can do something about resolving it. Those are, primarily at the moment, the Palestinian people. If Gaza citizens could be shown to survive without feeling the need to murder their neighbour’s people and, indeed, thrive, there is every chance the Israelis would do what they should and withdraw.

While they continue to commit these mass murders, though, the electorate (who control the government in any healthy democracy) will not accept what they see as concessions for nothing.

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The BBC, it seems, has lost interest in the new republics of Eastern Europe. It is cutting television in several languages and in several countries that were set up during the cold war. Currently the BBC caters for 43 languages - this will be cut to 33. All this in order to create a news channel in Arabic.

But the real travesty, what really makes me hang my head in shame, is that this channel will be publicly funded. This is the first international television station that license fee payers will be asked to fund.

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A while ago I considered designing and building a windmill to create a little free electricity. With a combined lack of skill and time it never got blowing.

This news article shows what can be done, though, and may get me back to work… (to save the £2,000 cost). Just a shame that there is a tendency among people to object to applications for the sake of objecting.