Today (Friday 19th June) is Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th Birthday and as suggested in my previous post, Woking Borough Council is flying its flag at half mast.  For further details please see http://www.woking.gov.uk/news?item=00004A3B55A4.C0A801BA.00002BB9.0033

On Friday 19th June it is the 64th Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi.  She has remained under house arrest for of 13 years following the refusal of the Burmese military to accept the victory of the National League for Democracy in the 1990 general election.  She is now facing a futher 3 – 5 […]

The cost of replacing trident is estimated at between £20bn and £30bn or 3% of the annual defence budget.  Is the cost really worth it? Even in the best of times for the treasury there were still cuts requiring local hospitals to be closed, people not given medication as it was too expensive and British […]

I am disappointed with the response that Woking Borough Council has received from the government in reply to the letters sent belatedly in December. While I accept that the EU is making efforts and has recently extended the scale of sanctions, it is not enough. The government has missed an opportunity to allow local people […]

At the last full council meeting I asked a question of the council to find out if there had been any replies to the letters sent regarding Zimbabwe.  The shocking reply was that the letters had not been sent.  Below is a copy of the Press release we sent out on Monday highlighting this very disappointing […]

On Thursday 24th July Woking Council took the first steps by a local council, led by the opposition liberal democrat group, but with cross party support, against the despicable human rights abuses perpetrated by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.  It is great that the local MDC group turned out in force to support the motion. It […]

A few weeks back, I went to the cinema in Taiwan, while I was over there visiting family and a link school for Westminster Academy.  I was amazed that at the end of the film, everyone took their litter with them and on the way out put all of it into different recycling bins ready […]

I have been thinking about how I should speak up on behalf of the residents of Knaphill regarding international issues that affect their daily lives either economically or morally.  As a local representative I was initially reluctant to ask the council to speak out internationally.  I am beginning to feel my way as a councillor […]