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TRANSFORMING SPACES, INSPIRING PLACES Fusing the best of the old and the new to make buildings to enjoy and endure Thursday 16th January 2020 Speaker Alex Coppock, RIBA, Director of the award winning local architects Communion, will talk about their work and how they strive to make Herefordshire a better place at the Kindle Centre adjacent to ASDA HR2 7JE Refreshments available from 7.00pm I hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you Members: FREE (included in your subscription) Guests and Non-Members: £3.

Following the revised timetables and to reduce overcrowding West Midlands Railways are bringing new trains into service allowing passengers to travel outside the carriages!

General Election results - Thursday 12 December 2019 North Herefordshire Chowns, Eleanor Elizabeth (Green Party) 4,769 Howells, Phillip Bernard (Liberal Democrats) 7,302 Wiggin, William David (The Conservative Party) 32,158 Wood, Joseph Rowan (Labour Party) 6,804 Hereford and South Herefordshire Coda, Anna-Marie (Labour Party) 10,704 Hurds, Lucy Ann (Liberal Democrats) 6,181 Norman, Alexander Jesse (The Conservative Party) 30,390 Toynbee, Diana Stella (Green Party) 2,371 The number of Ballot papers rejected was as follows a) Want of Official Mark - 1 b) Voting for more candidates than the voter was entitled to - 16 c) Writing or mark by which the voter could be identified - 1 d) Being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty - 189 e) Rejected in part - 0 Total spoilt votes 207 Percentage Turnout 69.2%

Time for a bit of humor to cheer us up on this miserable day. I am talking about the weather, but is this how are politics are going to end up?

Faux Facts - The disturbing Truth About fullfact.org It depends on which facts you want to believe. Personally I'll make my own mind up and leave others to decide themselves.

Posted from Brexit is finished: Earlier than this, in 1957, E F Schumacher's tutor Leopold Kohr’s published his most popular work "The Breakdown of Nations" “… there seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness. Oversimplified as this may seem, we shall find the idea more easily acceptable if we consider that bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem. It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation. Whenever something is wrong, something is too big. … And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutality, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. It is because human beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into over concentrated social units”. How true this is today where systems are side lining the individual for the pursuit of so called efficiencies when in reality all they do is hamper, frustrate and ignore that person creating a futile environment.

These catalogs of events reinforce my reason for leaving - Courtesy of Slog commentator Gulagirid. Notice the Brexit Party beginning to highlight EU military unification. The signing of the Treaty of Lisbon took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 13 December 2007. KNOWN OUTCOMES OF LISBON TREATY THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN AGREED AS TRUE BY ALL SIDES: 1: The UK along with all existing members of the EU lose their abstention veto in 2020 as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty when the system changes to that of majority acceptance with no abstentions or veto’s being allowed. 2: All member nations will become states of the new federal nation of the EU by 2022 as clearly laid out in the Lisbon treaty with no exceptions or veto’s. 3: All member states must adopt the Euro by 2022 and any new member state must do so within 2 years of joining the EU as laid down in the Lisbon treaty. 4: The London stock exchange will move to Frankfurt in 2020 and be integrated into the EU stock exchange resulting in a loss of 200,000 plus jobs in the UK because of the relocation. (This has already been pre-agreed and is only on a holding pattern due to the Brexit negotiations, which if Brexit does happen, the move is fully cancelled – but if not and the UK remains a member it’s full steam ahead for the move.) 5: The EU Parliament and ECJ become supreme over all legislative bodies of the UK 6: The UK will adopt 100% of whatever the EU Parliament and ECJ lays down without any means of abstention or veto, negating the need for the UK to have the Lords or even the Commons as we know it today. 7: The UK will NOT be able to make its own trade deals. 8: The UK will NOT be able to set its own trade tariffs. 9: The UK will NOT be able to set its own trade quotas. 10: The UK loses control of its fishing rights 11: The UK loses control of its oil and gas rights 12: The UK loses control of its borders and enters the Schengen region by 2022 – as clearly laid down in the Lisbon treaty 13: The UK loses control of its planning legislation 14: The UK loses control of its armed forces including its nuclear deterrent 15: The UK loses full control of its taxation policy 16: The UK loses the ability to create its own laws and to implement them 17: The UK loses its standing in the Commonwealths 18: The UK loses control of any provinces or affiliated nations e.g.: Falklands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar etc 19: The UK loses control of its judicial system 20: The UK loses control of its international policy 21: The UK loses full control of its national policy 22: The UK loses its right to call itself a nation in its own right. 23: The UK loses control of its space exploration program 24: The UK loses control of its Aviation and Sea lane jurisdiction 25: The UK loses its rebate in 2020 as laid down in the Lisbon treaty 26: The UK’s contribution to the EU is set to increase by an average of £1.2bn pa and by £2.3bn pa by 2020 With thanks to ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ and Professor Steve Peers for their help. Looks like we are going to go down the plug hole if we stay in.

Anyone had any canvassers on their doorstep yet?

Some good news for once about bringing past and used buildings back to life. A Rule of Tum began back in 2013 when the creative minds of Brothers Edwin and Dorian Kirk, along with their close friend Jon Stead decided to bring about a change in Herefordshire food culture and began the journey towards bringing great dining experiences to the people of Hereford and beyond. By raising £500,000 through crowd funding it shows the confidence people/customers have in this independent, local business. Best of luck to them when they reopen this Friday 22nd November plus they are giving away 100 free burgers.

Power to the people

Who Can I Vote For? This site has a wealth of information on the candidates standing. However not much to chose from. Most are remainers and not worth a walk to the polling station for.

Dictionary.com moron[ mawr-on, mohr- ] noun Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69. Moronic seems a good way to describe this repeat behaviour.

Here are the candidates for the forthcoming election - all leavers except Jesse Norman who follows his leader religiously, but can you trust him to get us out? Looks like I won't be voting as it is appears to be a second referendum with no real BREXIT leaver on the ballot paper. Always thought we lived in a banana republic. Shouldn't be long before we are shafted and annexed to the EU just in time to pay our next financial instalments to cover the creation of an EU army and when the financial crash returns, bailing out the EU Banks when they crash. Statement_of_Persons_Nominated___Hereford_and_South_Herefordshire.pdf

Thanks for the reply, but I have now cleaned up the area and there was no evidence in the rubbish as to who had dumped it. However the bags of cat litter behind the garage is a regular occurrence - roughly every couple of months. Look forward to meeting you as several issues and observations concerning the estate need to be addressed. I can be contacted on 01432 353971.

Nigel Farage says the Brexit Party will NOT stand against the Tories in the general election - but WILL target Labour-held seats. Not that it would of made much difference to the vote in Hereford and South Herefordshire seat. Although it would have been nice to vote BREXIT because all the others are a waste of time. I just hope Boris stands by his promise to get us out of the EU, although his BREXIT is not a no deal, but one with strings attached.

The Slog comments that: Owen Jones and Nigel Farage may well be sharing tears in their beers on December 13th The company Electoral Calculus has just produced this prediction of the likely outcome on 12th December.

Also information for Electoral Calculus for Hereford North seat Topics covered: * Hereford North: Seat, Ward and Prediction Details * Hereford North: Overview * Hereford North: Political and Demographic indicators * Hereford North: Map * Hereford North: Ward-by-ward More amusement.

Wealth of information about the election: whether it's turns out to be true will be seen. Electoral Calculus for Hereford and South Herefordshire seat Topics covered: * Hereford and South Herefordshire: Seat, Ward and Prediction Details * Hereford and South Herefordshire: Overview * Hereford and South Herefordshire : Political and Demographic indicators * Hereford and South Herefordshire: Map * Hereford and South Herefordshire: Ward-by-ward Should keep you amused.

Election period timetable 6 November - Parliament dissolved Parliament will be officially dissolved shortly after midnight and suspended from the start of the following day. This will trigger the five week campaign period before the polling date and, as dictated by election laws, MPs will not sit in the Commons for 25 working days in the lead-up to the vote. This also marks the beginning of "purdah", the pre-election period during which there are restrictions on what civil servants are allowed to do. They must continue to work but must avoid anything that could influence the election - such as by publishing a press release promoting the governing party - or that could call into question their impartiality. During this time the governing party should not make any long term plans or policy decisions for the country unless deemed necessary. 7 November - Receipt of writ The election writ - the legal documents authorise the holding of a general election or by-election - is issued declaring a vote will be held in each constituency. 11 November - Notice of election The publication of notice of election must be given in constituencies no later than 4pm 14 November - Candidates' deadline All candidates wishing to stand in the election must have submitted their nomination papers by 4pm in order to stand in the election. This is also the deadline for those withdrawing from the election race or for anyone wishing to make an objection to a candidate standing. 16 November - Candidate lists published Once all the nominations have been received and confirmed, the final lists of candidates will be published. You will be able to see the list of who is standing in your constituency by looking on your local authority website or on a noticeboard in their offices, where the names should be published. 26 November - Voter registration deadline The final deadline to register to vote for the election, which you can do by visiting the Government website, is at midnight. If you do not register to vote by this date you will not be able to vote in the election on 12 December. The deadline for those wishing to apply for postal voting for the first time, or for those wishing to change preferences for proxy voting, is at 5pm. 3 December - NATO Summit From 3 to 4 December the 2019 NATO Summit will take place in London. This will mean that the world's leaders - including US President Trump and European leaders - will descend on the capital whilst MPs are in full campaign flow and just a week before the final vote. 4 December - Proxy voting deadline The deadline for those wishing to apply to vote by proxy for the first time is 5pm. There is scope to vote by proxy if you have not applied by this date if you suffer from an emergency which will prevent you from voting. 12 December - Polling day The polls will open from 7.00 am to 10.00 pm. After they close at 10.00 pm exit polls will be published which will give the first indication as to what the final result will be. The results will then be published throughout the night and early hours of the morning. 13 December - Result By mid-morning the following day we will know what the next Parliament is going to look like. If no majority is won the leader of the biggest party will enter into talks with others about forming a coalition government or a confidence and supply arrangement.

Just returned home at 6pm and water back on at Muir Close.

Saving the planet? Somebody every couple of months deposits a bag of cat litter and other items behind the garages between Muir Close and Sherborne Close and expects somebody to dispose of their waste. This is usually done by myself on a regular weekly litter pick. However I can't be bothered to tidy this mess up after this waster left his rubbish again behind the garages and some other idiot thought it would be fun to kick the contents over the footpath for others to walk through. Don't these people have waste bins to dispose of their waste properly. . People (usually the younger generation) go on about saving the planet from pollution yet most of the litter I pick up is drink cans, fast food wrappings, scratch cards and sweet papers. A lot of the cans of drinks are labelled energy drinks, but obviously those drinking these have not got the strength to throw the items into waste bins. There are three bins in my area close to the local shop - why don't they use them? These plastic tops of drinks bottles are easily washed down the drains and need to be attached to the bottle. Another twist to recycling is the habit of some people putting a quantity of cans and bottles in black plastic bags. These are usually left by the waste bins or recycling bins. However the council will not recycle black plastic bags and leave the items on the footpath or behind outbuildings were they are dumped. The streets on our estates are now littered regularly, the drains blocked and kerbs overgrown with weeds. Slowly and surely this adds to the blighting of the area and our planet which the younger future generation couldn't care less about.

It's all down to tactical voting otherwise nothing's going to change.

Anyone for a weekend break in Barcelona this Autumn.

Things to come: Live video from Barcelona showing how the Spanish government deals with dissent. At least we had a referendum even though our politicians couldn't uphold the result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1BMLdkEmvY