This is the saddest day of my political life.    My country has turned its back on everything I believe in and opted for insular, narrow-minded isolation. Goodness knows, Lib Dems are accustomed to losing elections.  But when you lose an election, there is always the chance that you can win next time, because there always […]

This is a very different post to what I usually write.  It’s longer and possibly a bit rambling.  But it comes from the heart. I haven’t posted anything on this site for a while – mainly because I have been far too busy doing politics to have time to write about what’s going on.   But […]

If you see work going on next week to cut down 3-4 trees on the boundary between The Paddocks car park and Elms Field, please do not panic!  It isn’t work starting on the development of Elms Field! So what IS happening? You may know that Network Rail and Southwest Trains have decided to turn […]

Reading Road will be closed between the crossroads and the M4 motorway bridge by Woodward Close from 8 pm – 6 am every night from the evening of Wednesday 3rd February to the morning of Friday 19th February. This is so that the road can be resurfaced for the new cycleway. The diversion will be […]

What with one thing and another, updating this site has not been a priority in the last few months.   I have been active online – but just not here!  I will try to do better in 2016. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas everyone and if you are looking for a good cause to support at this time […]

Wokingham Borough’s schools receive the lowest level of funding from the government in the country.   £4151 per pupil. For years they have managed to deliver high quality education while juggling the money to make sure they have good teachers and support staff and enough teaching materials, and that the condition of the buildings doesn’t deteriorate […]

Wokingham Borough Council is running a budget consultation with the public!   Hooray!  After years of Lib Dems asking them to do it, they finally are.   I don’t think they are doing it entirely because we asked or because it is right to involve the public in the decisions that affect them.   It’s more that […]

Last night the council debated what it could do in response to the refugee crisis.   Unanimity broke out, I am pleased to say.  We all agreed that we would welcome our fair share of refugees and do what we could to help them, including by providing information for residents on what they could do. Churches […]

and it isn’t Route B.   Despite all the promises made on behalf of the council by Conservative councillors. It is a version of Route C.  I expect it to be confirmed at the Wokingham Borough Executive meeting on 24h September. A presentation was given to the North Wokingham Forum last week and it has now […]

If you live in Bluebell Meadow or Primrose Lane, SSE will be digging up the road at some point in the next few weeks, starting 7th September, which will mean there will be a brief interruption to the electricity supply.