Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
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Please note however, that The Labour Party is not responsible for the content of this website or individual posts as, unless specifically stated, I am writing solely in a personal and individual capacity.
When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through... » Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Via The Guardian Letters Page:
Re the Damian Green affair (Politics, December 9): "Now all the authorities they just stand around and boast/ How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post ... " (Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Bob Dylan).
Chris Mortimer
Hove, East Sussex
Also in The Guardian Society, a good piece about Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors.... Redemption Songs You can visit the Jail Guitar Doors website here.
On the subject of redemption, Skipper has a post about a man who has found his own.
It seems perhaps ironic that it takes a spell in chokey for a Conservative to realise the emptiness of their attitudes and policies on social policy but one is enthused to suggest that all of his erstwhile colleagues, presently serving in the Commons, should also be consigned to Her Majesty's prison accommodation for six months to improve their education on how life is led by those at the wrong end of society's social spectrum.
December 10, 2008 2:17 PM | permalink
Never forget:
"No one is smarter than their criteria."
Psalm 25:12 kjv
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