Cllr. Gavin Ayling

1. I have slightly modified my blog’s name to stop people from thinking it says “Gay Politics” - it doesn’t!

2. I have made a Freedom of Information request. I’ll keep you posted about its progress and, if I get something useful, I’ll share that with you.

3. Greenie Watch kindly linked to me yesterday about a piece I wrote on Clarkson and I would like to extend the courtesy of linking back to him. He writes on the environmental movement in a sensible way — embracing change in order to protect our planet, but not at the expense of disproportionate response. A couple of choice quotes from the inimitable Jeremy Clarkson that he provides, raise Clarkson in my estimations even more:

“Plainly he doesn’t mind if all the Africans die of disease and hunger, because like all socialists, he wants to help the poor only about half as much as he wants to hurt the rich.”; and
“I love filling my dining room with social workers and foxhunters so everyone can roll up their sleeves and have a damn good row. That’s because I believe in freedom of speech. Plainly the honourable member for Morley & Rothwell does not.”; and
“And I believe that western governments are in the process of spending billions of pounds trying to stem something over which we have no control. I believe that this money could be used to make the world a fairer, more peaceful place. I would much rather bring clean drinking water to an impoverished village in Sudan than bring a wind farm to the shores of Scotland.”
(Source)

Sorry, that turned into three quotes. Suffice to say Greenie Watch is one to read and is on the BlogRoll.

4. (And that’ll be four) I’ve added a few more to the BlogRoll so do a bit of navigating!