tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92049662441053358282024-03-05T04:06:59.821+00:00Green ReadingNow on twitter more than blogger, '@adrianwindisch' .
"We can achieve a sustainable future, but we all must do our bit. We're all in this together, one people one planet"
Contact me at adrian 'at' windisch.co.uk replace 'at' with @ to reduce spamAdrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.comBlogger1692125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-77024459674011842562016-06-25T09:03:00.001+01:002016-06-25T09:03:21.914+01:00EU Referendum<div><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I think the #EUref was partly a mid term chance to kick Cameron for austerity. USA mid terms often go against incumbent.</span></div><div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The EU was never popular or properly understood in the UK. Many believe it to be corrupt bureaucratic and anti democratic, when it is not so different to the equivalent UK institutions. What's democratic about the monarch or the House of Lords? </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">People blamed traffic, housing shortages and lack of school places on the free movement of EU citizens when it was largely govt policy at fault. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">People are free to move around the UK as well, causing more strain on the SE and less on areas with fewer jobs. Sensible govts would encourage more jobs in these areas. The EU does this, the U.K. doesn't. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Some think 52% voted for racism, actually I think leave would have got more votes if they hadn't morphed towards UKIP.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">GE15 was won by clever targeting by the Tories, fraud and scaremongering. No surprise to see similar in #EUref</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Leave cleverly used a handful of Labour MPs to give the impression it was cross party when it was mostly Tories.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Remain should have allied with @UKLabour @LibDems @SNP and @TheGreenParty far more. Presented a true cross party alliance. </span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-20485857088831140162016-05-05T12:09:00.001+01:002016-05-05T12:09:19.537+01:00Vote Green 2016Election Day today. Polls close at 10 pm so get out there and vote. Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-3239435664489280992016-05-05T12:07:00.001+01:002016-05-05T23:55:08.346+01:00I support Sheeplands Garden Centre<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWcZ3qIcbxeJRJrXg38stxqbgPfQq4L1TURRMS2Zb7ggqHSl04DMbgDIUCmIUzb3xzvWFwWJu9lBNyVPXc38fBpNd4o32QKjP1qT3-TbvmDv03t4wKiXTetwUUrCfOcBMOy0XqQSfG9E/s640/blogger-image-622458876.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWcZ3qIcbxeJRJrXg38stxqbgPfQq4L1TURRMS2Zb7ggqHSl04DMbgDIUCmIUzb3xzvWFwWJu9lBNyVPXc38fBpNd4o32QKjP1qT3-TbvmDv03t4wKiXTetwUUrCfOcBMOy0XqQSfG9E/s640/blogger-image-622458876.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I support Sheeplands Garden Centre @HHSheeplands and ask Wokingham Council to treat them fairly #VoteGreen2016 </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sheeplands Website Petition: </span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.harehatchsheeplands.co.uk/sos">https://www.harehatchsheeplands.co.uk/sos</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Local Green Party Candidate blog </div><div><a href="http://davidworley.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/hare-hatch-sheeplands-garden-centre.html?m=1">http://davidworley.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/hare-hatch-sheeplands-garden-centre.html?m=1</a> </div></div></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-52731991635029995322016-03-03T12:30:00.001+00:002016-03-03T12:30:26.888+00:00Broad Street Cycle Path consultation<div>My email: </div><div>I urge you to allow cycling along the length of Broad Street. A path could be raised or otherwise marked to reduce pedestrians mingling with cyclists. Crossings could let people cross safely as with other roads, but more frequently. I have seen this do well in Europe. </div><div><br></div><div>Reading doesn’t have a cycle network just a series of fragments of cycling structure. Allowing cycling along the full length of Broad Street will join up more of the network. </div><div><br></div><div>See more here </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://reading.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/03/03/respond-to-broad-street-cycling-consultation/">https://reading.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/03/03/respond-to-broad-street-cycling-consultation/</a></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-56596716008243343492016-02-18T13:19:00.001+00:002016-02-18T13:19:43.934+00:00New tunnel in ReadingBefore and after pictures. I blogged about this in 2007! <a href="http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/new-cycle-route-from-kings-meadow-to.html?m=1">http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/new-cycle-route-from-kings-meadow-to.html?m=1</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGf8tnQcAsr6g0Mx9xRtp7JwvsR1vCGa3vixEKTHkxGwHZafpwSR2oa20xH2m1KijxRiEgcDQmIio3JJYaX_zeh79agA12cporXUY-rBB-L1SVsNILRw479zINkktL_QaIW2_H4mQoCWU/s640/blogger-image--1798015327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGf8tnQcAsr6g0Mx9xRtp7JwvsR1vCGa3vixEKTHkxGwHZafpwSR2oa20xH2m1KijxRiEgcDQmIio3JJYaX_zeh79agA12cporXUY-rBB-L1SVsNILRw479zINkktL_QaIW2_H4mQoCWU/s640/blogger-image--1798015327.jpg"></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgSz5InKeWrOpjPtroEh60kKAioBEhxGxqw-sk75dpVxr0bl3Xey8TQqZFwACRId2kK1ZG6HMCwB5xDZe83OROAdy4ubVb4AVdHGFKG9nOuYMMj5MTjj7cD8goNJZ5XeTqyFvgEJgrHg/s640/blogger-image-1679611357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgSz5InKeWrOpjPtroEh60kKAioBEhxGxqw-sk75dpVxr0bl3Xey8TQqZFwACRId2kK1ZG6HMCwB5xDZe83OROAdy4ubVb4AVdHGFKG9nOuYMMj5MTjj7cD8goNJZ5XeTqyFvgEJgrHg/s640/blogger-image-1679611357.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-6101110135970614332015-11-21T17:35:00.001+00:002015-11-21T17:35:02.985+00:00An Omnishambles of a Foreign Policy<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Adapted from a Facebook post by <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sebastian Budgen.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">1) Combat the bombing and random murder of civilians with the bombing and random murder of civilians;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">2) Combat the attacks on civil liberties and freedoms with attacks on civil liberties and freedoms;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">3) Combat the jihadists' attempts to promote the perception of two irreconcilable and antagonistic camps - Islam and the West - with the promotion of the perception that there are two irreconcilable and antagonistic camps - namely Islam and the West;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">4) Combat the jihadists' propaganda regarding the rampant Islamophobia in the West by promoting rampant Islamophobia in the West;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">5) Combat the propagation of a reactionary form of political Islam by doing business deals and constructing political alliances with those states most implicated in the propagation of the most reactionary forms of political Islam.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">6) Combat the perception that Western powers act like neocolonial and self-interested powers by supporting the most authoritarian, corrupt and venal states in a neocolonial and self-interested manner;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">7) Combat Daesh's projection of itself as a legitimate state that is at war with the western powers by declaring that the western powers are at war with a state known as ISIS;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">8) Combat Daesh's propaganda that the West is a decadent, soulless and projectless zone characterised only by its attachment to sybaritic and hedonist activities by putting forward the defence of sybaritic and hedonist activities as the characteristic feature that distinguishes the West from Daesh.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">9) Combat the jihadists' claim that reformist Islamist currents are naive if they believe they can come to power through elections, by supporting a coup against a reformist Islamist president who came to power through elections;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Put like that, what could possibly go wrong?</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">By </div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-26916088703635940482015-08-13T10:08:00.001+01:002015-08-13T10:08:52.307+01:00Inept Government Answer On Kids Company<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How much money have governments given kids company? </span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br><h2 class="debate-speech__speaker" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?p=11773" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)"><img src="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/images/mps/11773.jpg" alt="Photo of Rob Wilson" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; max-width: 50px; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><span class="debate-speech__speaker__name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rob Wilson</span><small class="debate-speech__speaker__position" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 5px;">The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office</small></font></a></h2><div class="debate-speech__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.66em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><div class="qna-result-correction-rubric" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An error has been identified in the written answer given on 08 June 2015.</span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The correct answer should have been:</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Government has given funding to Kids Company for a number of years across different administrations. The table below outlines the funding from 2007 onwards.</del></p><table style="box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.11111em; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">YEAR</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">AMOUNT <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAID" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">PAID</a></font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2007 / 08</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£3.52m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2008 / 09</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.35m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2009 / 10</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.48m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2010 / 11</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.66m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2011 / 12</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.85m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2012 / 13</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.69m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2013 / 14</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.5m</font></del></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£1m</font></del></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£0.25m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2014 / 15</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.5m.</font></del></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£1m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">2015/16</font></del></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">£4.265m</font></del></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></del></span></font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.55556em; direction: ltr; font-size: 0.77778em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 1em;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><del class="del" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></del></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2015-06-03.1062.h&s=speaker%3A11773#g1062.r1</div></div></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-11234783468316794412015-06-14T10:22:00.001+01:002015-06-14T10:22:55.500+01:00Penniless Peace Pilgrimage<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Partly in honour of the Dalai Lamas 80th birthday. </span><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.roadtopeacefilms.com/road-to-peace-pilgrimage/">http://www.roadtopeacefilms.com/road-to-peace-pilgrimage/</a> </span></font></div></div><div><br></div>The penniless peace pilgrimage comes to Reading Tuesday the 16th June on its way to Glastonbury. <div><br></div><div>I have taken part in similar walks in the past and it's a wonderful experience. To see the country in foot, with time to talk and think. </div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>In 2007 <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I joined a group walking from AWE to London, they had been across all of the UK. </span><a href="http://footprintsforpeace.footprintsforpeace.net/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">http://footprintsforpeace.footprintsforpeace.net/</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Happy memories. </span></div><div><a href="http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/footprints-for-peace.html?m=1">http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/footprints-for-peace.html?m=1</a> </div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-16425527177811166862015-06-13T19:48:00.001+01:002015-06-13T19:48:26.184+01:00Game of thrones influences<br><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Some thoughts on reading the book for the first time. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Influences from History:</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">King Robert Baratheon similar to Henry VIII; larger than life womaniser. Wife Anne Bolyn similar to Queen Cirsei Lannister, she was accused of having an affair with her brother and getting court jobs for her family. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Romans, praetorian guard choosing the new emperor. Valyrian might be ancient Greece or Rome </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ancient Egypt brother and sister marriages Pharos </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Influences from Fiction:</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">"Ser" Tales of King Arthur knights of the round table </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Khal Drogo of the Dothraki might be the desert from John Normans Gor series, perhaps Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom novels. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dune house clan war </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Zombies from many stories </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">LOTR obv </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Children of the forest = Elves </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Then I read this from the author George R R Martin, he cites many influences. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><a href="http://io9.com/10-sources-that-george-r-r-martin-borrowed-from-for-ic-511679817">http://io9.com/10-sources-that-george-r-r-martin-borrowed-from-for-ic-511679817</a> </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-23408878946128449252015-06-02T20:37:00.001+01:002015-06-02T20:37:01.188+01:00Letter on what the EU has done for us<div>From the Guardian last year </div><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/11/whats-eu-ever-done-us">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/11/whats-eu-ever-done-us</a> </div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At last we may get a debate on Britain's relationship with Europe (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/britain-eu-europe-lost-voices" title="" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style="cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important;">Leader</a>, 11 January). What did the EEC/EU ever do for us? Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade; structural funding to areas hit by industrial decline; clean beaches and rivers; cleaner air; lead free petrol; restrictions on landfill dumping; a recycling culture; cheaper mobile charges; cheaper air travel; improved consumer protection and food labelling; a ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives; better product safety; single market competition bringing quality improvements and better industrial performance; break up of monopolies; Europe-wide patent and copyright protection; no paperwork or customs for exports throughout the single market; price transparency and removal of commission on currency exchanges across the eurozone; freedom to travel, live and work across Europe; funded opportunities for young people to undertake study or work placements abroad; access to European health services; labour protection and enhanced social welfare; smoke-free workplaces; equal pay legislation; holiday entitlement; the right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime; strongest wildlife protection in the world; improved animal welfare in food production; EU-funded research and industrial collaboration; EU representation in international forums; bloc EEA negotiation at the WTO; EU diplomatic efforts to uphold the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; European arrest warrant; cross border policing to combat human trafficking, arms and drug smuggling; counter terrorism intelligence; European civil and military co-operation in post-conflict zones in Europe and Africa; support for democracy and human rights across Europe and beyond; investment across Europe contributing to better living standards and educational, social and cultural capital.</span></p><div id="dfp-ad--im" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--dfp ad-slot--im ad-slot--im" data-link-name="ad slot im" data-test-id="ad-slot-im" data-name="im" data-mobile="1,1|88,85" data-label="false" data-refresh="false" data-node-uid="12" style="z-index: 1000; overflow: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 50%; float: left;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/59666047/theguardian.com/world/article/ng_1__container__" class="ad-slot__content" style="border: 0pt none;"></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All of this is nothing compared with its greatest achievements: the EU has for 60 years been the foundation of peace between European neighbours after centuries of bloodshed. It furthermore assisted the extraordinary political, social and economic transformation of 13 former dictatorships, now EU members, since 1980. Now the union faces major challenges brought on by neoliberal economic globalisation, and worsened by its own systemic weaknesses. It is taking measures to overcome these. We in the UK should reflect on whether our net contribution of £7bn out of total government expenditure of £695bn is good value. We must play a full part in enabling the union to be a force for good in a multipolar global future.<br><strong>Simon Sweeney</strong><br><em>Lecturer in international political economy, University of York</em></span></p></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-15888532266491933102015-06-01T22:27:00.001+01:002015-06-01T22:29:10.370+01:00Wokingham Results GE2015The Green vote went up by around 3.7 times! Not enough to save our deposit but a good result, thanks to all who helped and all who voted Green. <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlh-fvg5cnhd6io2atrcs2NhAjzOHyMpE2dmKaVrEbOdWXSbsmPos8Kix5JKKZkxdoFlR1CAJiHoMNlFeucqZcsB8vTg3osjNKYy8clMAorI8k7AMDAXrUv-I40v9RRWmZPYbCFIHWeM/s640/blogger-image--1926698404.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlh-fvg5cnhd6io2atrcs2NhAjzOHyMpE2dmKaVrEbOdWXSbsmPos8Kix5JKKZkxdoFlR1CAJiHoMNlFeucqZcsB8vTg3osjNKYy8clMAorI8k7AMDAXrUv-I40v9RRWmZPYbCFIHWeM/s640/blogger-image--1926698404.jpg"></a></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-79408229145823965932015-05-11T22:21:00.001+01:002015-05-11T22:21:20.132+01:00Top Green results from GE 2015<br><div>Win<br><div>Brighton Pav 41.8% 22,871 1st<div>Caroline Lucas </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Second place </span><br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Bristol west 26.8% 17,227 2nd Darren Hall </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sheffield Cent 15.8% 6,999 2nd </span><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Jillian Creasy </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; text-align: right; widows: 1;">Liverpool Riverside 12.1% 5,372 2nd</span><span style="text-align: right;"> @MartinDobsonGP </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right;">Manchester Gorton 9.8% 4,108 2nd</span><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;"> Laura Bannister </span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hackney N a s w 14.6% 7281 3 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Norwich Sth 13.9% 6749 3rd </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Buckingham 13.8% 7400 3rd </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Isle of W 13.4% 9404 3rd </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Holborn and St Pancras 12.8% 3rd 7,013 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Lewisham Dep 12.5% 3 </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bath 11.9% 5634 4th</span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hackney S a S 11.6% 5519 3 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Oxford East 11.6% 5890 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bristol S 11.5% 5861 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Totnes 10.3% 4845 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Islington N 10.2% 5043 3rd </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Camberwell and P 10.1% 5187 3</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">York Cent 10.1% 4791 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Notts E 9.9% 3473 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Dulwich and w n 9.4% 4844 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bethnal gr and bow 9.3% 4906 3</span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Tottenham 9.2% 3931 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Somerton and F 9.0% 5434 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Cent Devon 8.9% 4866 </span></span><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Streatham 8.9% 4421 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Newcastle u T E 8.7% 3426 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Truro and F .. 8.7% 4483 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Lewisham W ... 8.5% 4077 3 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Manchester Cent 8.5% 3838 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Leeds W 8.4% 3217 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bristol East 8.3% 3827 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Manchester With.. 8.1% 4048 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cambridge 7.9% 4109 4th </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leeds Cent 7.9% 3558 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bury St ed 7.9% 4692 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Islington S 7.6% 3371 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vauxhall 7.6% 3658 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Portsmouth Sth 7.5% 3145 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bournemouth west 7.4% 3107 5 </span></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bournemouth East 7.3% 3263 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Leyton and W 7.3% 2974 3 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hereford and ... 7.2% 3415 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Plymouth Sutton... 7.1% 3401 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brighton kemp 7.0% 3187 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canterbury 7.0% 3746 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leeds NW 7.0% 3042 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">N Herts 7.0 % 3341 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Torridge and WDevon 6.9% 3941 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Henley 6.9% 3815 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Huddersfield 6.9% 2798 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hove 6.8% 3rd 3,569</span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reigate 6.7% 3434 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chichester 6.6% 3742 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exeter 6.5% 3491 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">N Somerset 6.5% 3806 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rushcliffe 6.5% 3559 </span></div><div><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">West Worcester 6.5% 3505 </span></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Arundel and Sth D 6.4% 3606 5th </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Cardiff c. 6.4% 2461 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); 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widows: 1;">Greenwich a W 6.4% 2991 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Wealden 6.4% 3623 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Sth Cambridgeshire 6.3% 3848 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">St Ives 6.3% 3051 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Glasgow North 6.2% 2284 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">East Hampshire 6.2% 3176 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Sheffield heeley 6.1% 2566 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Edinburgh E 6.0% 2809 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Richmond park 6.0% 3548 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Wycombe 6.0% 3086 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">City of Durham 5.9% 2687 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Suffolk Coastal 5.9% 3294 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Southampton Test 5.9% 2568 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Kingston u H North 5.9% 2066 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Devises 5.8% 2853 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">SW Wiltshire 5.8% 2985 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">North Devon 5.8% 3018 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">New Forest W 5.8% 2748 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Worthing West 5.8% 2938 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">North Dorset 5.7% 3038 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">West Dorset 5.7% 3242 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bristol NW 5.7% 2952 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Belfast Sth 5.7% 2238 6th</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lewisham E 5.7% 2429 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Camborne and r. 5.7% 2608 </span></span><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Skipton and Ripon 5.7% 3116 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Ceredigion 5.6% 2088 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hexham 5.6% 2445 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">North Down 5.5% 1958 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hitchin 5.5 % 3053 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Leicester Sth 5.5% 2533 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Lewis 5.5% 2784 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Chesham and a. 5.5% 2902 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">NE Somerset 5.5% 2802 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Salisbury 5.5% 2762 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Cities of Lond and W 5.4% 1953 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Notts S 5.4% 2345 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Mole Valley 5.4% 2979 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Edinburgh N a L 5.4% 3140 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Hornsby and ... 5.4% 3147 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">SE Cornwall 5.4% 2718 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">S Norfolk 5.4% 3090 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">SW Surrey 5.4% 3105 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">NE Herts 5.3% 2789 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Havant 5.3% 2352 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Shipley 5.3% 2657 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Leeds NE 5.3% 2541 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Penrith and .. 5.3% 2313 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Salford and Ecc.. 5.2% 2251 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">East Worthing and S 5.2% 2605 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Liverpool Wav.. 5.2% 2140 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Tunbridge Wells 5.2% 2659 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Ludlow 5.1% 2435 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Birmingham sel oak 5.1% 2301</span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Kensington 5.1% 1765 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Swansea West 5.1% 1784 </span></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Bexhill and battle 5.1% 2807</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Colchester 5.1% 2499 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">SE Cambridgeshire 5.1% 3047 </span><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Wantage 5.1% 2986 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Witney 5.1% 2970 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Lancaster and F... 5.0% 2093 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Cheltenham 5.0% 2689 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">West Ham 5.0% 2651 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="text-align: right; widows: 1;">Rockford and S... 5.0% 2195 </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-align: right; widows: 1;"><br></div></div></div></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-85037126371750713882015-05-02T09:02:00.001+01:002015-05-02T09:02:05.851+01:00Mock Election ResultsWhat a great time at St Crispins School, all the candidates were there and I think all spoke well. <div><br></div><div>Unlike the other hustings the school had borrowed the actual ballot boxes to give the students an experience as close to voting as possible. </div><div><br></div><div>I think we were all surprised at the results, what a close contest. <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC_yJk-hn_iVN-VKcmltrRmqM6PZp-yd2RhoqiS2DvglOR7pC_RavJU55agB2QLHV6JRxb0Ra-SEr8OXOfl8P7E2iy1EzHc9cJ6ocpLbhOYdvto9HHQmCAvATZSbv0yorEkkltaVCcZ4/s640/blogger-image--1415471231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC_yJk-hn_iVN-VKcmltrRmqM6PZp-yd2RhoqiS2DvglOR7pC_RavJU55agB2QLHV6JRxb0Ra-SEr8OXOfl8P7E2iy1EzHc9cJ6ocpLbhOYdvto9HHQmCAvATZSbv0yorEkkltaVCcZ4/s640/blogger-image--1415471231.jpg"></a></div></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-68374847460462328212015-05-02T08:54:00.001+01:002015-05-02T08:54:40.601+01:00Minimum Wage<ol style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><div class="srg mnr-c" style="box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><li class="g card-section" style="margin: 0px; padding: 11px 16px 0px; list-style: none; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; clear: both;"><br></li><li class="mod" data-md="61" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 16px 0px; list-style: none; clear: none;"><div class="_oDd" data-hveid="10"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="_Tgc">The Green Party of England and Wales is calling for the minimum wage to rise to <b>£10</b>an hour by 2020. In an address to Greens' autumn conference, party leader Natalie Bennett said Britain was a low-wage economy and people deserved "a decent return on their labour".</span></span></div></li><div class="srg mnr-c" style="box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><li class="g card-section" style="margin: 0px; padding: 11px 16px 0px; list-style: none; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1">http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1</a> </span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Green construction blog <a href="https://greenconstructionuk.wordpress.com/">https://greenconstructionuk.wordpress.com/</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter @adrianwindisch </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adrianwindisch.wokingham">https://www.facebook.com/adrianwindisch.wokingham</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></li></div></div></ol>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-64870517836768152282015-04-28T11:03:00.001+01:002015-04-28T11:03:08.708+01:00WokyHustings At Methodist Church<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">#WokyHustings was much last discussed last night on Twitter, see the hashtag. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It went very well, a good atmosphere, room packed full, well chaired and arranged by the Wokingham Methodist Church. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Questions about house prices, cost of withdrawal from the EU, 3500 children in poverty, what's important in Wokingham and the deficit. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It was filmed and will be on YouTube. It was live broadcast on periscope by jonnyvaughan <a href="https://www.periscope.tv/w/Vx_F6jkzOTQ0MHw3NTkwNTc1N1xcn43eF_PkeIusCWINTyhsFoV7_sgl6pptbFKRz5k=" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">https://www.periscope.tv/w/Vx_F6jkzOTQ0MHw3NTkwNTc1N1xcn43eF_PkeIusCWINTyhsFoV7_sgl6pptbFKRz5k=</a></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Here is a list of questions, mostly in tweets. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@wokinghamgreens: First question is on housing. @AdrianWindisch a radical change is needed. There are too many empty homes. Social homes needed #wokyhustings</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Also second homes, empty offices that can be converted. The Green Party would build half a million social homes. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Q2 cost of withdrawal from EU, some international companies built factories here to be within the EU, some may leave. Jobs will be lost. But we will still be able to trade. I want to stay in but improve it. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Q3 What is Wokinghams most important issue</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@WokinghamNews: #wokyhustings greens say biggest issue are the poor and those struggling to make ends meet.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> Others talked about traffic, so I said improve public transport to get people out of cars. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Q4 Government spending more than income. I said this is normally the case, mentioned the difference between deficit (one years income vs spending) and debt (what we owe). Said coalition cut tax collectors so I would hire more to improve collection, especially from huge corporations that seem to pay nothing. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Q5</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@Hayles_Blakeman: Qu from @e_r0se from@Firstdays_ asking about what the candidates plan to do about the 3500 children living in poverty in woky. #wokyhustings</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@Firstdays_: Both @WokinghamLabour and @wokinghamgreens highlighting real issue of hidden poverty in affluent Wokingham #wokyhustings</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I said raise benefits cut by coalition. I wish I had also said raise min wage to living wage, many people struggling are in poorly paid jobs. Real jobs needed, not just low paid thirsty ones like self employed or zero hours. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Q6 will you support the NHS </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@WokinghamNews: #wokyhustings greens would pay for free social care or elderly and dental to help the nhs</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I praised the post WW2 Labour government that built the NHS in a time of huge debt, they did it then, we can do it now. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIBP512wHAYCw91W72_vEa2j5uTT6aF44bkB2OOmUBbinfXkwNPevezbubjMGmYhNS5H81ym7HiDVwXy4cTnzfI3DQtwGbI41ojBY5LjmrStsc9kwLfpau2KYA7KMPJei0PGwiNto8Ac/s640/blogger-image-82505444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIBP512wHAYCw91W72_vEa2j5uTT6aF44bkB2OOmUBbinfXkwNPevezbubjMGmYhNS5H81ym7HiDVwXy4cTnzfI3DQtwGbI41ojBY5LjmrStsc9kwLfpau2KYA7KMPJei0PGwiNto8Ac/s640/blogger-image-82505444.jpg"></a></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">@wokinghamgreens: NHS created in the context of end of WW2 and massive debt. Dream big people; these cuts are needless #wokyhustings http://t.co/XgteNQFzzi </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">There was a 2 minute closing statement from everyone. I said it was a privilege to be there and urged everyone to vote. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Met quite a few people after who were very supportive, I sounded the most human apparently. </div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-68461593688844664002015-04-26T17:23:00.001+01:002015-04-26T17:23:22.535+01:00Great Email: Action For Renewables<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As one of your potential constituents, I wanted to get in touch ahead of the General Election to give you my views on what I think is a crucial issue for the country, the development of renewable electricity within the UK. Last year nearly 20% of our electricity came from different types of renewable energy such as wind and solar, and I believe that to meet our goals on energy security and climate change we need to increase that by at least half over the next Parliament.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am one of the Green Collar Workers working hard in an industry that makes a real difference. I chose this industry over other better paying ones. Twenty years ago I stayed on at University after my four-year engineering degree to study renewable energy. I knew I was taking a risk but wanted to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. I made the right choice. I am still making the right choice. I want us to decarbonise and I want to play my part in that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For us to succeed we need to make sure that the right conditions exist for investors to feel confident in bringing renewable energy projects forward. This means not arbitrarily ruling out different types of technologies such as onshore wind, backing new clean energy targets for 2030, and ensuring the financial conditions are right for both more mature technologies and those which are still developing. Essentially we need to make sure that we utilise all our renewable resources in development of our electricity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I would really appreciate a response back to hear that you will back all types of renewable energy in the next Parliament, and below follows some useful facts about wind and marine energies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wind power</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2014 onshore and offshore wind provided enough power for the equivalent of 6.7million homes annual needs. 9.3% of the UK’s total electricity supply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Direct and indirect jobs in the UK wind sector equated to over 31,000 in 2013, with the potential to reach 100,000 by 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wind power is popular – around 2/3 of the population support onshore wind, and 3/4 offshore wind, as polled by the Government , and a poll last year found that political parties lose more votes than they gain by opposing wind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wind power is vital to our climate and energy security goals. The current wind fleet leads to 12million tonnes reduction of CO2 each year, and without wind power in 2013 we would have had to import an extra 6.1 million tonnes of coal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marine power</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The UK currently leads the world in deployed marine power. There are currently more than 1600 people directly employed in the marine sector, with the potential to reach 23,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wave and tidal power is one of the most popular forms of energy with Government studies regularly showing three quarters support for the technology.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-42039154287826867532015-04-26T12:53:00.001+01:002015-04-26T12:53:41.349+01:00Media Ownership And Leveson<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">T</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">oo much of the media is in too few hands. Backing Leveson is a start to getting the media to behave, but that may not be the end of it. </span></div><div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Green Party welcomed many aspects of the Leveson report, while expressing disappointment that there was little in it to practically address the concentration of ownership in the press.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Green Party leader Natalie Bennett</strong> said the call from Lord Justice Leveson for a new independent self-regulatory body, with the majority of its board comprising non-industry representatives and no serving editors, was a step forward.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "We would welcome the creation of independent oversight with majority civil society involvement.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"But although there is the call for independent regulation here, the mechanism suggested is indirect, clunky and open to subversion, rather than the direct creation of an independent body along the lines of Ireland's Press Council. There's also no reference to union representation, which would provide an important expert, hands-on view within the new regulatory body."</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2012/11/29/bnb/#sthash.z4yjtUjO.dpuf<br><br>Regards Adrian Windisch</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">adrian@windisch.co.uk</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">@adrianwindisch </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Green Candidate for Wokingham </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br><blockquote type="cite" x-apple-mail="AppleTemporaryPresentationElement"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Adrian Windisch, <br><br>I'm concerned that media barons like Rupert Murdoch have too much power over our democracy. I want an MP who works for local voters, not newspaper owners.<br><br>Do you support tighter rules on media ownership? And will you commit to vote for legislation to ensure that the Leveson Report is fully implemented if they continue to reject proper regulation?</span><br></blockquote></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-56271706462239437982015-04-26T07:52:00.001+01:002015-04-26T07:52:34.765+01:00I support the five point MND Charter<p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">1. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">People with MND have the right to an early diagnosis and information</span></strong></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">2. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">People with MND have the right to access quality care and treatments</span></strong></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">3. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">People with MND have the right to be treated as individuals and with dignity and respect</span></strong></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">4. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">People with MND have the right to maximise their quality of life</span></strong></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">5. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Carers of people with MND have the right to be valued, respected, listened to and well-supported.</span></strong></span></p>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-27099381388690071832015-04-24T15:14:00.001+01:002015-04-24T15:14:30.535+01:00Ten Questions From School Children<div><br></div><div><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. What's your favourite place to go on holiday and why? Sunseed is an environmental and educational charity in Spain, set in a remote river valley in a semi desert. Beautiful and full of memories; I have been many times. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. What do you think about the new GCSE changes? Looks like a backward step, I don't think it will help. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. Why do you think it's important for young people to register to vote? It's like going out to eat, instead of ordering for yourself, you leave it for a stranger to choose for you. We are fortunate to have a choice, if you don't use it you have no say in who gets elected. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4. What's the most important issue that the next government needs to address? Poverty, food bank use has gone up; nearly a million people relied on them last year. Many people choosing to be warm in winter or to eat. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5. What’s your favourite book and why? I like hundreds of books, it's hard to name just one. Lord of the rings is an old favourite. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6. What are your qualifications for the job? As a campaigner to make things better for people for 10 years I have some experience. Indeed I think I can do a better job than most current MP, who just do what their party tells them. I have more experience of the real world than most politicians, having worked in construction for 20 years. I have also worked for charities, building a school in rural Tanzania, and in water treatment in South America. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7. How hard do you work for your campaign? I do as much as I can, but if you do too much you can burnt out. I get so any emails from voters with questions, just answering them is quite a job. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8. Why is it so important for you to be an MP? It's important to offer voters a choice, Greens are the only ones against austerity and fracking. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9. What's your favourite food? Porridge. Every Morning. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10. What's your favourite movie genre? Science fiction. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">11. Are you a dog or a cat person? Neither. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">12. What is your favourite Wokingham shop and why? I like Farm shops, but I don't really have a favourite. </span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-68020093030803817002015-04-23T21:08:00.001+01:002015-04-23T21:08:56.189+01:00Fair Fuel<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Subsidising fuel means more traffic, more congestion leading to gridlock. We would subsidise public transport, encourage cycling and walking. And electric cars and freight using rail or even canals. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This would result in less traffic and less air pollution. Also less wear and damage to roads. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I expect other parties hope to bribe motorists, but don't be fooled. <br><br>Regards Adrian Windisch</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">adrian@windisch.co.uk</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite" x-apple-mail="AppleTemporaryPresentationElement"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Dear Adrian Windisch,</span><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I, and 1.1m supporters of the <strong><a href="http://www.fairfueluk.com" target="_blank">FairFuelUK Campaign</a></strong>, simply do not know why your Party has not mentioned any positive policy news for 32m motorists in your Party's Manifesto. From your Party's silence, I can only assume your Party if elected will indeed be increasing Fuel Duty on top of the highest tax take in the EU that we already now pay to the Exchequer. <br><br>FairFuelUK has shown to the Treasury that stable pump prices, cutting duty and recent fortuitous lower global oil prices has put £10bn back into consumer spending power. Jobs are increasing, GDP is up and inflation almost zero. It's no coincidence that these welcome economic benefits have taken place with fuel prices considerably lower than 12 months ago and with Labour's previously planned fuel tax hikes being stopped. So, please tell me what is your Party's position on the future of Fuel Duty levels and also what is your own personal position when it comes to supporting motorists and commercial drivers in your constituency? <br><br>I also want to know why your Party has not supported <strong>FairFuelUK's</strong> call for a full and transparent CMA inquiry into pricing at the pumps. We continue to fleeced by unknown commercial bodies when oil price changes are not accurately reflected both in terms of timing and fair amounts. I really do appreciate your time to answer these questions. <br><br><strong>Please let me know your answers to my questions as soon as possible, as how you respond may well influence the way I vote on May 7th</strong>.</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks & kind regards</span></blockquote></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I found this article from a few years ago, I have updated it a little, but most of it stands. </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The Chair of Kent Green Party, Stuart Jeffery, rejects the the so-called 'Fair Fuel' Campaign. </span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: justify;">He says: "Reducing fuel prices as suggested by the so-called 'Fair Fuel' Campaign will add to traffic congestion and air pollution in the UK. Air pollution, mainly from traffic, kills about 24,000 people in the UK each year.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Traffic congestion in Kent and Medway is already atrocious in most areas during rush hours and in some places all day. The cost of motoring dropped by about 14% 1997-2009 whilst rail fares rose 13% in the same period.</span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">" The best way to cut traffic is to ensure fuel is expensive and forces hauliers to use rail, shipping and canal options wherever possible. The Coalition Government has still to introduce a Brit Disc to tax foreign hauliers whose lorries create gridlock around Dover.</span></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He should realise that we are importing more oil each year. We need to cut oil use, including introducing better non-road freight options for long distances and bringing more electric-powered vehicles into use."</span></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-79534660082980100352015-04-21T22:16:00.001+01:002015-04-21T22:16:33.817+01:00Sunday Trading<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I Support USDAWs SundayPledge to keep Sunday trading to 6 hours <br><blockquote type="cite" x-apple-mail="AppleTemporaryPresentationElement"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Candidate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the face of recent attempts to extend the 6 hours of Sunday opening for large retail stores in England and Wales, Usdaw the shopworkers’ union have asked all General Election candidates if they will support a pledge to keep Sundays special:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>“I believe that Sundays are a special day for families and for communities. I therefore pledge to help keep Sundays special by opposing any changes to the current limit on Sunday opening hours for large stores.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are prepared to make that commitment, please reply to this email to say ‘Signing’<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All candidates are listed as having signed or not signed on the independent website that Usdaw have set up with the campaign group Keep Sunday Special. According to our records we have yet to receive a response from you:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://sundaypledge2015.org.uk/">http://sundaypledge2015.org.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On 24<sup>th</sup> April, Usdaw and other organisations will be sending the website link to our members so that they can see whether the candidates in their own constituencies have signed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you support the current limit on Sunday opening hours for large stores, please sign now before the link is sent to your constituents.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For full reasons and more information about our campaign, please see the Why section of the website: <a href="http://sundaypledge2015.org.uk/why/">http://sundaypledge2015.org.uk/why/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sundays are very important to Usdaw’s members and to the 3 million people who work in retail, many of whom have to work all day on Saturdays, who would like a small part of the weekend to spend time with family and friends, especially if their children are at school during the week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The current Sunday trading laws represent a great British compromise – stores can open, customers get 6 hours to do their shopping, retail staff get some time away from work at weekends, and communities can come together for local events.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you have any further questions, please respond to this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Usdaw</span></p></div></blockquote>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-83367987949950244802015-04-20T22:42:00.001+01:002015-04-20T22:42:52.827+01:00Just Say Yes<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe the UK must keep its promises to the world’s poorest people. Throughout the next Parliament, I will do my part to help end extreme poverty and preventable disease in Africa, with most UK aid focused on countries that have the least, girls and women at the centre of development and all parts of government working together to build a better and safer world.</b></p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Regards Adrian Windisch</span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">adrian@windisch.co.uk</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Green Party Candidate For Wokingham </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">@adrianwindisch</span></div><div><a href="http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">http://greenreading.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1</font></a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/adrianwindisch.wokingham" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)">https://www.facebook.com/adrianwindisch.wokingham</font></a></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am a campaigner for <b>ONE </b>and I wanted to let you know about our latest campaign <a href="http://www.one.org/international/take-action/just-say-yes/" target="_blank">‘Just Say Yes’.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.one.org/international/" target="_blank">ONE</a> is an international campaigning and advocacy organisation of more than 6 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. <b>Over 185 of our members are in your constituency. </b> We have just launched our election 2015 campaign, <a href="http://www.one.org/international/take-action/just-say-yes/" target="_blank">’Just Say YES’</a>. We are asking all parliamentary candidates across the country to commit to keeping the UK’s promises to the world’s poorest by signing our pledge, that ask for the majority of UK aid to go to those who have the least, that women and girls are put at the heart of international development and that all parts of government work together to build a better and safer world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will you Just Say Yes and sign ONE’s pledge: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>‘I believe the UK must keep its promises to the world’s poorest people. Throughout the next Parliament, I will do my part to help end extreme poverty and preventable disease in Africa, with most UK aid focused on countries that have the least, girls and women at the centre of development and all parts of government working together to build a better and safer world.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2015 is an unprecedented year for international development and the UK. In an election year that will see world leaders meet in Germany in June for the G7 Summit, in Addis Ababa in July for the Financing for Development Summit, and in New York in September to agree the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the UK must continue to play a leading role in tackling extreme poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please do let me know if you will sign the pledge. Just Say Yes!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many Thanks</span></p></div>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-25084110795065790452015-04-20T21:03:00.001+01:002015-04-20T21:03:01.633+01:00Multiple Sclerosis<div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I would be honoured to stand up for people with MS. The last government has been a disaster for disabled people, Greens would reverse that. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If elected I would give MS a voice, meet up with local MS groups and do my best to make sure they are treated fairly. Greens would invest more than any of the bigger parties in the NHS, so there would be more resources. And meet with local authorities to do my best with social care for those with MS or any disability. <br><br>Regards Adrian Windisch</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">adrian@windisch.co.uk</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite" x-apple-mail="AppleTemporaryPresentationElement"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br></span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Mr Adrian Windisch <br>Wokingham <br>Green <br><br><br>Dear Mr Windisch,<br><br>My name is ...,, and I live in Lower Earley. <br><br>If you are elected in May, I need you to stand up for people with MS. <br><br>Over 100,000 people in the UK live with MS, a neurological condition that affects roughly three times as many women as men. It’s essential that they have timely access to the right treatment, care and support, no matter where they live. <br><br>Unfortunately, this is not happening. Awareness of the condition is abysmally low, and for people with MS, accessing the right support can be a daily battle.<br><br>75% of British adults admit they don’t feel they know enough about MS. In Europe, just Poland and Romania have lower access to disease modifying treatments for MS than the UK. Between 2008 and 2013, over 90,000 disabled people lost access to care and support. More than a third of people with MS have been incorrectly placed in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). People in this group receive less money, the threat of sanctions and many have this benefit removed after a year.<br><br>If you are elected, I need you to:<br><br>Give MS a voice<br><br>Establish a relationship with your local MS community, and make sure MS is recognised and understood by health and social care decision makers in your area. Challenge and change the way society talks about welfare and disability.<br>-----------------------------------------------<br>Ensure people with MS can access the right treatment at the right time<br><br>Call on health and care decision makers in your area to invest in MS specialists such as MS nurses, and make sure every person with MS has a dedicated care co-ordinator. Join the fight to ensure all licensed MS treatments should be accessible and available on the NHS to all eligible people with MS.<br>-----------------------------------------------<br>Make sure assessments for disability benefits work for people with MS - THEY DON'T CURRENTLY GET CLOSE!<br><br>Work to ensure that assessments for disability benefits recognise the hidden symptoms of MS and how the condition can fluctuate over time. People with MS must not be unnecessarily reassessed for disability benefits.<br>-----------------------------------------------<br>Fight for people with MS to access the care they need when they need it<br><br>Work with local authorities in your constituency to ensure the social care needs of people affected by MS are fully met, and that if you are in England that the national government allocates sufficient investment in social care.<br><br>Thank you</span><br></blockquote>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-58717357622326141812015-04-20T20:07:00.001+01:002015-04-20T20:07:44.981+01:0010 Questions<p class="s4" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">What We Care About – Questions </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">for C</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">andidates in the Wokingham Constituency</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">General Election – <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">May 7, 2015</a></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. The NHS</span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">The NHS is coming under increasing financial pressure. </span><span class="s2">The NHS chief executive has said it will need £8bn of extra funding each year going forward in order to deal with increasing demand. Meanwhile, privatisation of services continues to be expanded. If you are Wokingham’s MP, </span><span class="s2">how would you handle the NHS’s future?</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">We would increase NHS funding by £12 billion a year, increasing to £20 billion by 2020 </span></span><a href="http://nhsconfed.org/health-topics/general-election/green-party-policy">http://nhsconfed.org/health-topics/general-election/green-party-policy</a> </p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">2. The </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">TTI</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">P</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (</span><span class="s2">TTIP</span><span class="s2">) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA.</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">One provision would potentially allow for private companies to sue the government if services that have been privatised are then “repossessed” by the NHS. How would you advise your party to approach the TTIP? We are totally against TTIP, our MP and MEPs have been opposing it as much as they can. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">3. </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">Wokingham’s Unitary Grant</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wokingham receives the lowest Unitary Grant from central government of any Unitary Authority in the country. As Wokingham’s MP, what would you do about this, if anything? I would try and get a better grant on behalf of the people of Wokingham, so we won't see so many cuts to services. Or selling off of assets. </span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">4</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">. A green Wokingham</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">What, if anything, is your vision for a green, sustainable, </span><span class="s2">environmentally-friendly</span><span class="s2"> community in Wokingham? Friendly for cyclists and pedestrians, good cycle parking at strategic spots. All new buildings to have renewables eg solar if appropriate. Use land better for planting trees, grass verges etc. subsidise public transport if possible. Listen and talk to cycling & walking groups like Sustrans, Reading Cycle Club CTC, Ramblers Association etc. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">5</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">. Tax avoidance</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What measures would you propose, if you were Wokingham’s MP, to do to reduce corporate and individual tax avoidance? HMRC to employ more people, they were cut under the coalition. Seek advice from the tax avoiding experts who have left the industry. End non Dom status. </span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">6</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">. Inequality</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Over the past 20 years, the gap between what the best- and poorest-remunerated people in this country earn has grown enormously, as has the amount of the country’s wealth that is now in the hands of the richest 1% of its residents. Does this concern you? If it does, and you were our MP, what would you try to get your party to do to counter this? It concerns me greatly, inequality makes life worse for all of us. The Green Party would have a wealth tax of 60% for highest earners. And a ten to 1 ratio between the highest and lowest paid in a company. </span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">7</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">. Banking</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Many of the major banks continue to act in ways that are counter to the public interest (rigging rates, encouraging tax evasion, etc.) What would you do as our MP to improve </span><span class="s2">the banking system, restore trust in it and ensure it works for the good of the general population? Look into regulations that have been relaxed since Thatchers day, some were brought in to stop a crash. Robin Hood tax on financial transactions. More smaller banks rather than a small number of giants that can dominate the industry. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8. Education</span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Wokingham’s state schools have a very good reputation. Currently, more schools are being planned for Wokingham to meet the needs of our rapidly growing population. All of these are to be </span><span class="s2">academies/free schools. What would you do as Wokingham’s MP to maintain or improve educational standards in the Borough as this major expansion is undertaken? Remove the central control of schools make it local again. Integrate academy/free schools within local education authority. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9. Housing</span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">What will you do as Wokingham’s MP to ensure there is an adequate supply of housing affordable for nurses, </span><span class="s2">early career </span><span class="s2">teachers, carers and other low-paid but essential service workers in our community? Build half a million social rented homes by 2020. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10. Homelessness</span></p><p class="s2" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wokingham’s food bank has provided 659 food parcels to feed 1750 people from over 300 unique families in the past year, as well as helping the Salvation Army feed the homeless and Seaford Court feed struggling young people. Do you see this as a problem? If so, what would you do as our MP to solve it? It's a huge problem, mostly caused by delays in welfare. The last government has made benefits meaner and more difficult to claim and slower. As though to punish claimants. We would reverse that, speed things up. A living wage instead of the minimum wage would help reduce poverty. </span></p>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204966244105335828.post-27243022619774041002015-04-18T16:03:00.001+01:002015-04-20T20:21:58.878+01:00How Tough And Expensive It Is To Immigrate Here<blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I had a letter from a constituent explaining how tough things are for migrants. So much talk of open door immigration gives a false sense of how difficult and expensive it is to immigrate. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I deleted some personal information from the email. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Adrian,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm on a Tier 2 three-year visa, with my wife and 15 month old daughter as dependants.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm emailing you today despite myself not being eligible to vote, because if I don't I fear that our rights will continuously be violated with no one to stand for us.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Specifically, I am concerned about the new NHS surcharge that came into effect on 6 April. I'm sure you are aware but this surcharge is of a value of £200 per person per year payable upon application of a visa or upon extension of an existing visa; so this surcharge also applies to people like us, who are already in the UK on valid visas. For me and my family, when our current visa expires and it's time to extend it for another three years, then we will have to pay £200 per person per year = £200 x 3 x 3 = £1800 plus visa application fees £651 per person = £1953 + £1161=£3753. That's a very large amount of money to cough up in a single instalment. A definite financial strain on our family.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As tax paying workers, we're already contributing to the NHS, "just as families in the UK do through their taxes" (Health Minister Lord Howe). Therefore, this surcharge is unfair.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the argument is that, we or our families haven't paid long enough in backlogs of taxes as UK families have, then does this not extend to other public services funded through taxation, including police, fire brigades, roads, and even policy making?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm surprised that this clear unfairness have not been brought up widely yet, but I hope that you can. I sincerely hope that you can discuss this with your colleagues or even elevate it to a national discussion, where this unfair immigration policy can be subjected to further scrutiny and review. Ultimately, I want to see this surcharge abolished.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I really love the UK for it embraces ideals of human rights, fairness and democracy, while maintaining a healthy diverse society, and we wish to be a part of it. I hope that this country remains fair and open to all, not just migrants but other members of society who are in vulnerable positions such as those on benefits, pensioners, disabled or poor, and that everyone is fairly represented when discussing policies of great consequences to human lives and livelihood.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I look forward to hearing back from you, and good luck with the election (I can't vote but I do support the Greens).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">yours sincerely,</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">...</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Update:</font></div><div>At the request of the resident I made a change, the date was 6 April not August. He got the date wrong. </div></div></blockquote>Adrian Windischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16306364832746111534noreply@blogger.com0