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Jimbo last won the day on June 13 2015

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  1. Is there any news when this place will be open?
  2. While some of the roads may of been resurfaced the stretch which is being used between Clehonger and Madley would be more suited to a mountain bike than the bikes they will be using, but in all seriousness it's good for the county to have these sort of events and I hope it's a success, there is also a marathon and half marathon on Sunday which I thought about entering but then decided my running days (if there were any) are way behind me.
  3. Well done Tracy, I know how hard you are working for your ward and the community centre.
  4. There is a saying "if you pay peanuts you get monkey's" unfortunately we don't pay peanuts but still get the monkey's.
  5. Yes I have sent 2 letter of objections, my first one isn't very good so sent a second much better letter in this week using my work address. If this SLR goes ahead then they have to 2032 to build the western relief road, in the meantime they will build a 1000 houses at kings Acre and the Grafton plus lower Bullingham is set to expand this will just turn Hereford into one big car park, at least the Belmont road will be a nice place to be stuck in your car with its new boulevard of trees while we wait for the 1000+ extra vehicles to come down Ross road and go around Asda roundabout. I've yet to find anyone who likes or wants this link road (apart from some idiots in the council) every business owner from Rotherwas I've spoke to wants a eastern bridge but it seems as if the powers to be are deaf to what the people of the county want, when I stood to be councillor I was under the belief that you did what the people wanted.
  6. Sharon Menghini also cut children's services in Stoke on Trent then got a nice pay out of £174000.
  7. Another problem is the people that take these top jobs in the council very often don't live in Herefordshire and only view the job as a way to improve their CV and the job as short term. Once they are given the job they decide they need to make their mark and get noticed so they change everything in their department costing even more money and disruption, it's a never ending cycle unfortunately.
  8. According to the Daily Express, France and Germany are going to try and set the corporation tax for the country's in the E.U, if that happens the corporation tax rate which is currently 20% in this country and a lot lower than France and Germany will rise dramatically resulting in a loss of jobs and growth. if this is true it will change the opinions of the voters that are at the moment undecided and give the No vote a massive boost.
  9. This is a topic which will hear lots about in the next 2 years or so, Im undecided as what I see as best for the UK, both camps make quite compleling reasons for either staying in or leaving, I'm not so conserned with the GDP that we would lose or gain or how big the national ecomony is, I'm more concerned about the quality of life and if having a couple less quid in my pocket means that I live in a safer country then I will happily vote to leave the E.U. I guess for me I will give David Cameron time to negotiate a better deal for us then make my decision.
  10. Shouldn't committees have relevant professionals on them anyway? These people should be able to advise, it surely doesn't matter if they are elected or not.
  11. I believe that at least half of these houses are reliant on the western bypass which is of course reliant on the southern link road, hence why the current council is pushing hard for the SLR.
  12. Dazza has some valid points and in some ways it maybe a blessing that the IOC didn't take control of the council, some of us were late or last minute candidates and although we might if had the very best of intentions we might not of been ready to take control. This gives the unlucky candidates 4 years to prepare and get ready. As I understand it deals were tried to be done but obviously not succesful, I myself was a candidate long before the Green Party decided to put one against me as if my ward wasn't hard enough, honestly you could walk a Labrador around my ward with a blue Rosette on it and it would pick up 500 votes, also in the case of Wormside I said at the time it was stupid to put a candidate against a sitting independent who was willing to work with the IOC. Lessons will be learned and the 'IOC want Hereford to go back to the dark ages' tag has to be lost, the party needs to change its ways and it will. There is a group of new good honest candidates that were unsuccessful this time and we have pointed out that standing in the city is totally different to standing in the countryside, you cannot stand against each other in the sticks it is basically like Lambs to the slaughter for us and I would refuse to stand again unless it was 1 against 1 as the Tory will pick up 40% of the vote for just being blue. I think the party thought it was bigger than it is and has had a bit of a hammering, but now is the time to start rebuilding and getting ready for the next election but in the meantime we have 12 very good very capable councillors let's support them.
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