I am no longer a politician and that brings a new freedom. It means that whatever I say now, has little or no impact, can only be my personal opinion and I am not bound by any rules, save the law, good manners (possibly) and common sense. It also means I don’t have to tolerate Read more

In order to get the A14 back on the governments agenda the government wanted tolling of the A14. Nobody wanted tolls but that was the deal on the table. Now it seems, the government is reconsidering tolling. This is fantastic news. We now need to wait for the official announcement. Read more

In a previous post I commented on me being scammed when buying some kit through Gumtree. I made the necessary claim through Paypal, which was easy and only took a few minutes. The process gave the scammer a chance to put things right, in case of a “misunderstanding”, and then was investigated. All this involved Read more

All local authorities are in the middle of a funding crisis. The issue is that government, through DCLG, are reducing funding to help reduce the national deficit. This makes some sense but is now hurting the old, young, infirm and frail disproportionately. But that is not the full story. Whilst DCLG hands out the main Read more

In a blog entry on 11th Nov 2013 I suggested the time is now right for a single council for most of Cambridgeshire. Peterborough already has this type of council and would probably benefit from growing perhaps by adding the northern parts of Cambridgeshire. I was told last night, over a very fine curry in Read more

I understand that moving the sewage works is technically a challenge but surely something will need to be done if the land is to be developed. The obvious place would be to relocate it to Waterbeach in prepetration for the development of the barracks. A new non smelly treatment plant on the brown field site, Read more